The New Jerusalem - part 1
Congregation
sings "Only Believe".
Let's bow our heads again.
Father God, we thank You for this privilege, Lord. We appreciate the mercy that
You've given us so much. Thank You for bringing us together again tonight, Lord.
We're here, Father, to gather around the Body Word of the Son of Man. We know,
Lord, that You have sent us a prophet in this day. We're so thankful that you
could let us live to see it, Father, and let us be predestinated to be a part
of that in this day. And I pray that You'd bless everyone that's assembled here
tonight, Lord. Without a doubt there's needs here among us. We know that, first
of all, no doubt there's spiritual needs, people need more of the understanding
of the Word. They need more of the Holy Spirit bubbling in their hearts and
I'm sure all of us could take more of that, Lord, as we try to endeavor to walk
a little closer to You, Father. And I pray that you would stir up that pure
mind that is within us, Lord, and let us seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness and all of these things be added unto us. Speak to us through
that Word tonight, Lord, and let every heart be satisfied when they leave from
this place, that they have heard nothing but the truth. We ask it in Jesus'
Name, the Son of Man. Amen.
May be seated. So glad to see you tonight. Glad to be back, have this opportunity.
Good to see Brother Antipas back there. I learned his name. And so, I said that
ain't no problem, I can call that. And so, we appreciate him being with us.
We were talking with him out there, you know, Sunday and I ask him if he was
having a problem with our Southern drawl, you know, dragging our words out.
He said, "Well"...., he said he could understand the people from New York a
lot better that he could the people from the South, because they talk fast,
you know. So we kindly drag it, you know, and drawl. But that's just the way
you have it. You know, wherever you go, you have different...., (I guess), dialects....
that what you call it. I know when we go to India, we have so many different
dialects, I mean, sometimes from one village to another. And it's just so many
different languages over there. We have a hard time over there. I was so glad
to hear that in Africa, (especially in the part that Brother Antipas lives),
they speak English. So we don't have to have.... Even if we get a chance to
go over there, we won't have to have an interpreter. Just preach and.... You
know it takes about twice as long when you're preaching through an interpreter
as it does if you're preaching, you know, without an interpreter.
But anyway we're glad to have you tonight. I didn't quiet finish the message
Sunday morning. You know we were on the two books there, but I felt like that,
I went as far as I wanted to go. I had a lot more quotes, ....going into the
Church Ages book where Brother Branham was referring to, in some of these messages
that I brought out the quotes. He was telling us to go into the Church Ages
book and to look at the reality of what the two books are. There's just one
book, you know, and there's two sections to that book. There's a book of your
life, and then there's a Lambs' book of life where your name was put in there
before the foundation of the world and, of course, it can, under no circumstances,
ever be removed. But the ones in the book of life, they can be removed. See,
Judas' name was written in heaven, according to what Jesus said, you know, when
they all come back and rejoiced because the devils were subject unto them. And
Jesus said, "Don't rejoice because the devils are subject unto you, but rather
rejoice because your names are written in heaven." And so, Judas was among them,
see. But Judas was a renegade from the beginning, see. He was the son of perdition,
but he was going to try, you know, or make an attempt, and he did. He went out
and cast out devils with the rest of them and so forth, because the Lord Jesus
gave them the authority to do that. And he was, all the time, a son of Satan,
see. But that's what we're looking at, is, he had his name taken off. A lot
of people have their name on the book and they have it taken off. Some peoples'
names will remain on the book at the white-throne judgement and they'll go into
eternal life even without the new birth. We don't understand that, but of course,
if God wants to do that, that's His business. And we don't have anything to
say about that, see; it's what He wants to do. But the Bride will be borned
again. Amen. They are elected to be children of the Father. Amen. So we know
that and they have to be borned again to be sons and daughters of God. Alright.
But tonight we're going a little different subject and it's going to take about
three services to cover this, and so it will be tonight, Sunday morning and
Sunday night. We won't play a tape Sunday night, we'll just go ahead and finish
it up. I think I've got it pretty well divided up to where it'll take about
three services. Now I've been having a little problem with my mouth here. I
guess you can see it, those of you see.... it looks like I've been hit in the
face here. And it's all blue and everything. I don't know what it looks like
on the inside but I know I've got some stitches in there. They went in there
and took out a cyst. It was in under the roots of my teeth, embedded in the
bone. They had to go in the bone and get this cyst out; he pulled it out in
three different pieces. So they got all that done now and I've got to go back
Friday morning and they're going to take the stitches out; remove the stitches.
And they're kindly aggravating, you know, rubbing in there. It'a little aggravating,
a little uncomfortable but, I just thank the Lord that it's done as well as
it has. It hadn't hurt me hardly at all and so, I'm so thankful for that. I
know you people have been praying for me and I appreciate it.
Now, you know we talked a little bit about the anointing that would come upon
that city. How many of you remember that? Alright, so for the next three services
we want to talk about this New Jerusalem and we want to dig in there deep now
and look at the New Jerusalem and see what it is and when it comes down and
also it ties into the millennium. We know that and it also moves right on into
the new earth. There's a lot in here that we hope to be able to cover. We've
covered some of it before but not, probably, in the depths that we plan to this
time, by the grace of God. So you just listen close and you can understand what
Brother Branham is saying. The first Scripture I'd like to go to, and I want
to read in three places tonight from the written Word. And my first reading
will be in Isaiah 65. I want you to turn with me to the 65th Chapter of the
book of Isaiah, 17-24. Then we'll go to the 6th Chapter of Revelation, Verse
14, and then we'll go from there to the 21st Chapter of Revelation and we'll
read a few verses, probably 2-5, of that chapter. All this tying in to the same
thing that Brother Branham is talking about.
For, behold, I
create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered,
nor come into mind.
But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create
Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping
shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not
filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner
being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards,
and eat the fruit of them.
They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another
eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall
long enjoy the work of their hands.
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the
seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
I want to stop right there, it's
the 23rd Verse. Now I'd like to go over here to Revelation, Chapter 6, and let's
look and see what.... You'll probably have a hard time tying this one in until
we get into the Message, but it is tied right into this subject. Alright. Verse
14 of Chapter 6,
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and
every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Now that's just one verse I wanted
to read there. And that's a tricky little verse. So we'll see what Brother Branham
said about that and get some light on it. You remember in Malachi, (I believe
it is), the 3rd Chapter, it was talking about the hills being made low and the
valleys coming up. That was during the prophecy of John the Baptist, see, (the
Elijah of that day), that was to introduce Jesus Christ, our redeemer, the sacrifice.
Well we find that they were looking for that to literally take place, Brother
Gerald. They thought that was going to happen literally. See, and I was just
giving you a little clue here. So here, in the 14th Verse of the 6th Chapter,
we have the same thing spoken to us again. So are we looking for this thing
to bust apart or will it be something that will happen and everybody will not
know anything about it? It's something to look at. Let's see what Brother Branham
said about it. Alright. Now, then we'll go over here to the 21st Chapter of
Revelation, (and I read some of this Sunday), and I want to read the 2nd Verse
through the 5th.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God
is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and
God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more
death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for
the former things are passed away.
Now I going to stop right there,
that's reading through Verse 4. "...Former things passed away."
Now the big problem that, I'll say, the majority of the people have, in the
Message, or around the "Message, or whatever you want to call it, with this
subject, is trying to decide, or trying to understand, when Brother Branham
is speaking of the millennium and when he's speaking of the new earth. And we
know that Isaiah talked about the building of the houses and so forth, in the
65th Chapter of Isaiah. And we know that Brother Branham spoke of, in the new
earth, that there would be the kings on the outside, you know, the nations on
the outside that would bring their offerings into the city and make their offerings.
Every so often they would have to do that. If they didn't, then, their crops
wouldn't produce. So sometimes we get a little mixed up because.... (and that's
very easy to do), and wonder, "Well, when is this going to take place? Is it
going to take place in the millennium, is it going to take place in the new
earth, or what is it? What is he talking about?" So let's look and see what
he's talking about. Alright. First of all I want you to notice on the "Six-fold
Purpose of Gabriel's Visit to Daniel", the "Six-fold Purpose of Gabriel's Visit
to Daniel", is where Brother Branham read these verses, here, that I read to
you in Isaiah 65. And Brother Branham said, and this is his own words.
"....Listen, everybody, close now.... (Everybody listen close), ....this
is during the time of the millennium when the most Holy is anointed."
"This is during the time of the
millennium when the most Holy is being anointed." Now if that was the only quote,
if that was the only statement that he said that, then we might have a reason
to say, "Well, he might have not meant it just exactly like that." But he said
it more times than one. So that's what we want to look at and see how many times
he said it, that it was the millennium; this New Jerusalem coming down. So,
now that's where we want to be careful and take every bit of it and not try
to, you know, interpret it ourself, and let Brother Branham say what he wanted
to say about it. Alright.
So now, on a message, "Shalom".... Brother Branham preached this in Sierra Vista,
Arizona, in 1964. And he's talking about the church, the old Jerusalem, (the
earthly Jerusalem), and the New Jerusalem, (the heavenly Jerusalem.) And he's
identifying the earthly Jerusalem, the earthly church, with the moon, which
is a type of the church. But he did not type the new Jerusalem with the moon.
I want you to notice that. Alright. So I'm going to read some. If you want to
go and follow after me on this.... of course this is Paragraph 78, of "Shalom".
"...now when we find out that after King Shalom was in the--come from
the city, then creed took it over later. And it's constantly been creed, but
it represents the old church...."
See, it's constantly been creed,
but it's represents the old church. See? Now he's not talking about the Orthodox
church, but he's talking about all church. That's church, earthly church. Alright.
"....And we're taught in the New Testament. (Now watch this.) (Don't
fail to get this.)--in the New Testament, ...we are not of this city, Jerusalem
on earth...."
"In the new Testament we are
not of this city, the new Jerusalem on earth." See? Alright.
"....but we are from the New Jerusalem above. So this must be the
moon, Jerusalem, and not the New Jerusalem above.... (See, now the new Jerusalem)
So the moon representing the church,...."
"The moon representing the church."
So we want you to notice what happened to the moon when the pope went into Jerusalem.
The moon blacked out. So when Brother Branham preached the Church Ages in 1962,
he drawed on the blackboard what.... we have it back here on the bulletin board.
He drawed on the blackboard seven stages, each church age, and how much light
that would be in that age during that time. And then at the end of the church
ages, the Holy Spirit come down in the light, a pillar of fire, right on the
back of the wall, hundreds of people saw it, and identified that Brother Branham
had spoke the truth. That this was absolutely the truth and he had drawn out
the seven Church Ages and it was vindicated by the Holy Spirit. Alright - as
making his visitation there before hundreds of people. Now, so Brother Branham
now is going on and talking about this moon. He said:
"And isn't it strange that just before the pope took his journey to
Jerusalem, that the moon in the heavens made a total blackout, just a few days
before he took it, his journey. ... Now, that's never been known. See? (It's
never been known that any pope ever went into Jerusalem. That was the first
one that ever went there. Alright. See?) But what does it show? That this, (Well)doing
this to win fellowship as he met on the day after he come into Jerusalem, he
met the Greek Orthodox hierarchy...."
See? What is he trying to do?
Now you know, here, years ago, we brought a message on how that the Catholic
church was tolerating certain things and allowing certain things, breaking down
a little here and there, to bring in the daughters back under the fellowship
of the Catholic church. It's all settled now, he's got it all in there. You
know I brought some messages here, not too long ago, on the "Mystery Babylon",
you know, and you heard all of that. And we told the history, the current events,
the things that had happened where Billy Graham made his statement and went
right in there with them and identified what a great thing is going on and all
this evangelistic work going by the Catholic church; and this is the mother
whore. Alright. So now we know that all of these things have taken place now
and so all of it's gathered together now in one. It's all come back together.
Alright. So now, that's what Brother Branham is speaking of here. He said,
"....And what does that reflect? Fellowship, they're wanting Protestants
and Catholicism joining together...., (wanting that to come together) ....which
they are doing and will completely do...."
This was in '64 so now they have
absolutely did it. They don't have to worry about it no more, it's already done.
"....And God reflected this to us in the moon of a total blackout.
By His mercy and grace."
He showed us that the church,
now, is blacked out, absolutely blacked out. There is no salvation in the church,
none. See? Jesus Christ was put on the outside in the seventh church age and
He could not get back in. So there is no salvation in there at all. It's done
with. It's absolutely finished. The last one come in before the Lamb took the
book. See? When the Lamb took the book the mediatorial and intercessory work
was finished. It was absolutely finished at that time. Everyone that was to
come in under that mediatorial and intercessory work during the church ages
had to make that move before He could take the book and come down and open the
Seals. Then when He come down and open the Seals it started another Message
and another land; the Seven Thunder Mysteries come forth. There was another
Message that come forth. Amen. And this is what.... the thing that is happening
now is the claiming of what He redeemed. He's claiming what He redeemed now
and so it is a different Message altogether. We do not go back to Pentecost
to find out the Message. We do not go back to the Pentecostal of two thousand
years ago to find out the Message. We are too much farther advanced than they
were two-thousand years ago. And we know that and Brother Branham told us we
are far beyond that now. So what we need to do is to get in the Message of this
age. This is it. Amen. Alright. So what he's trying to do now is to let the
people see what's taking place. So now, going on down in the "Shalom" message,
he tells us how that all of these, the different stages, and then it come to
the seventh stage and it was completely blacked out; completely blacked out.
Brother Branham said he did not finish that...., he did not black it out completely
because at that time the seventh church age was not completely finished. Alright.
"....The six conditions of the moon, how in its brightness in the
first church age, dark in the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth; just
the way the Holy Spirit let me draw them on the board, and then identified them
with Hisself on the wall of the Tabernacle two years ago...."
That's exactly what happened.
He come right down in a pillar of fire and identified Himself with exactly what
Brother Branham had preached, amen, to verify it was the truth.
"....The moon reflects itself, and science again picks up the picture
of the church ages, just as they picked up that Light yonder and put it in "Life"
Magazine...."
Has everybody saw a picture of
that in "Life" magazine, that happened in '63? And all of you saw when the angels,
(the seven angels), made an appearance and picked Brother Branham up; you saw
that picture of the cloud? Alright. So, if you didn't I've got a magazine; I've
got one of them. And I've got it in plastic to keep it good and nice. And believe
it or not, (Brother Holmes speaks to Brother Chris), ....your dad's the one
that got it for me. Amen, Brother Sonny Osborne. Amen. And I've kept in right
in plastic ever since. And I take it out once in a while and look at it and
read it, put it back in there. Alright. See, now this magazine was of the opening
of the Seals. This light that come was different.... In other words it come
to verify another stage of the ministry. See? In the tabernacle there, when
he preached the Church Ages, the pillar of fire come down to verify that the
church ages were closing out. So in 1963, when the visitation come of the seven
angels, that was the opening of the "Seals". That was the sounding of the "Thunders".
That was the time that the.... a new Message and a new land was coming into
view. It was the time of claiming what He had redeemed. So now, he goes on here
to say now...
"....of the opening of the Seals, of the revealing in the age of the
seventh angel. In the days of his ministry, the seventh messenger, the mysteries
of God, which all the mysteries has been along the ages, should be revealed,
made manifest; it should be at that time...."
In other words, at that time all of
the mysteries down through the church ages should be made known at the opening
of the Seals. Alright. Now that's not saying that.... What he's talking about
is, a white horse went out, nobody knew what that white horse was. See? A red
horse went out and nobody knew what it was. A black horse went out and a pale
horse went out, nobody knew what those were. So, the opening of the Seals took
the symbolic part of it and brought the reality of it and told us exactly what
happened in each church age, amen, and brought it all up to date. But there
were still mysteries that had not yet been known and so that was what the new
Message was, opening up these mysteries that had never been known since the
foundation of the world.
One of them was "Marriage and Divorce". One of them was "True Justification".
The justification for the woman as well as the man. See, there's so many people
today, they'll say, "Well, the man can remarry but the woman cannot remarry."
Now listen, the difference is this: Regardless of what you do out there while
you are in sin before you are converted, (before you are borned again....) I
don't care if you've been married a dozen times, the woman at the well had been
married five times and was living with another one which was not her husband
at that time. Is that right? But when she heard the Message, she said, "Sir,
I perceive that you are a prophet. We know that when the Messiah comes He'll
tell us these things." And He said, "I'm the one that's talking to you; this
is Him." Amen. So she run into the.... You know, I've heard people say all kinds
of things about it, but you can read anything in there you want to, but Brother
Branham and the Lord Jesus said.... The bible said that she went into the city
and told the people, "Come and see a man that told me every things that I've
ever done. Is not this the Christ?" Amen.
And then the woman caught in the very act of adultery and brought before Him
and throwed down at His feet by the, you know, the law makers - breakers. Amen.
And they said, "Now, we've caught her in the very act of adultery. Moses' law
says stone her, what do you say?" He stooped down and wrote on the ground, He
got up and He said, "You that are without sin, cast the first stone." He stooped
down and wrote again. When He got up there was nobody there but the woman and
Him. And He said, "Woman, where are they that accuse you?" And she said, "Lord,
I don't have none." And He said, "Neither do I accuse you, go your way and sin
no more." Amen. See?
In other words, when you come to Christ, when the old nature is done away with,
there is no book, the book is done away with. There's no book against you. There's
nothing against you. You are justified, you stand in the sight of God as though
you never sinned in the first place. See? Absolutely perfect in the sight of
God; no sin. So you see, regardless of what you do out there before you are
converted, that goes with the book. Amen. That goes with the old nature. You
get a new start then, you're a new-born child of God. And if you've been married
five times, four times, three times, two times or never been married, don't
matter, then you have a right to choose you one in the Lord. Amen. Woman and
man. Alright. So now, "age of the seventh angel...." Now here he is, he's coming
and bringing these mysteries. Alright, so that's some of the mysteries that
he brought and you know I can prove it to you by the Message. You know that.
We've done it over and over and over. Alright. So now, on the "Feast of the
Trumpets" Brother Branham goes right back to that moon again. So it must be
important for us to understand what he's saying. Alright. Now he said:
"....the moon is the -- is the wife of the sun; it is a lesser light.
And then also, ...when the sun is gone, in the absence of the sun the moon reflects
the light to the earth, which is a type of the Church. And when the pope leaves
(the ancient enemy of the Church).... (The pope. Amen), ....and comes over to
the Jerusalem, which is the seat of the Church (which the new Jerusalem and
the old Jerusalem), we notice, before it did it, there was a total blackout
of the moon."
He's telling us that again, see.
"And (of course), in the papers, across the nation as we have on the
board, it displayed how that that moon turned from light to darkness. And the
...phenomena of it, ...that moon drawed exactly in the skies the same thing
the Holy Spirit had me to draw here two years ago....,"
When he was preaching the Church
ages. See? The moon drawed out the same thing in the stages that it went through,
the eclipse, that the Holy Spirit told Brother Branham to draw on the board
there when he was preaching the Church Ages. Amen.
"....and showing the covering, the... When it went six pictures, I
put the seventh on there, because the Seventh church age, just a shadow of light,
the going of the... That's where Jesus at the door knocking. But it goes into
total darkness. And what a reflection, what a Message from God Himself, that
these things are ...Truth: Testified it first in His Word, then by the Spirit
at the platform, and then declared it in the heavens."
In the moon. So there's no way to doubt
it, it's the truth. Amen. Alright, so now, still on the "Feasts of the Trumpets".
"There's no mistake about it at all. Those Seals and Ages (church
ages),perfectly in line, perfectly, God giving witness by supernatural signs
and wonders, with the Word and history all placed together, in the age that
we're now living in."
Well what is the great thing
that Brother Branham is trying to show us now? So we want to look at this and
we go back now to Revelation 6:14 Now we're moving into another message and
it's the "Future Home". So we're going now from the "Feasts of the Trumpets".
The first one was "Shalom", right? Well, the first one, actually, was "Gabriels'
Visitation to Daniel". I just read a short quote there. Alright. Then "Shalom",
then the "Feasts of the Trumpets". Now we're going into the "Future Home". Alright.
And we're going to read some quotes from there. Now Brother Branham goes into
Revelation 6:14. He said,
".... (You)it departed as a scroll. The Bible said,... John said,
'I saw the heaven and earth depart as a scroll....,' "
How many of you know what a scroll
is? Certainly you do. Alright. So, "It departed as a scroll." See? Alright,
what happened? It changed. See, it changed, something changed. That's what Brother
Branham is telling us. So, he said now, this is:
"...Revelations 6:14. Jesus said, 'Heavens and earth shall pass away,'
or in other words, heavens and earth shall be changed...." (See?)changed. Used
that same word right there again. (Now), ...not annihilated...., (No) not annihilated,
for later in Revelations 21:2-24 he seen the New Jerusalem coming down from
God out of heaven and sitting upon this earth. It doesn't mean that it'll be
annihilated. The systems will be changed."
See? The systems will be changed.
Amen. How many times have you heard Brother Branham say, "It's not the people
in there, it's the system?" See? He said, "The systems will be changed." Alright.
See, like.
"You're the same man in statue...."
Now he's explaining what he's
taking about. See? And he can explain it better than anybody else, because he's
called to do it. So if you'll listen you'll understand what he's saying. Alright.
"You are the same man in statue that you was when God called you:
(See? The)woman. But you see what it did; it was a regeneration: (See?) the
old life passed away; the old desires passed away. When you used to like to
drink, and cuss, and fuss, and stew, and run around,... immoral, that thing...died.
See? ("That thing died.")now... Then you was Satan's instrument;...."
"Well how could that be, Brother
Holmes?" Well, could I take just a minute on that? Alright. How could I be the
instrument of Satan? Well, I think I said Sunday morning, that, when a little
baby is born, you know, that spirit is waiting to go into that baby, which is
the life. The baby has no life, it's breathing on it's mothers' heartbeat and
all of that. It has no life in it. Just a little... You say, "Well what about
the kicking and twisting and all?" That's all from the mother. Alright. That's
the muscles and things in there, but the baby has no life in it until it's born.
See? And when the baby is born the spirit is hovering over the mother, ready
to go into the baby. Alright. But that spirit has aready been attacked by Satan.
See? The spirit has already been attacked by Satan and he has already control
of that spirit before it goes into that baby. See? You say, "Well, why did God
allow that?" See, that's why God never gave that spirit to that baby. He could
not give that spirit to that baby. If He did He would be giving the wrong spirit
to the baby. He permitted that spirit. Brother Branham said, "He permitted that
spirit to go into that child. He did not give that spirit." He did not give
Satan to that baby, but He permitted that spirit to go in there, already had
been attacked by Satan. So what does that do? That makes you come into the world
a liar, a thief, everything else, because that nature is in there. See? So now,
I become the instrument of Satan; absolutely. I become the instrument of Satan
at my birth, (my natural birth). So as I grow I begin to lie, you know, and
do everything else, you know, that Satan wants you to do. Alright.
So then, we also find out that Brother Branham said, "There was a little...."
(and I think I read this Sunday morning). See? "There was a little speck of
life placed down in there." That little speck of life is laying dormant in there.
What is that? That is identification. See? So now He has marked you. If you
are elected to eternal life, then He has marked you with that little bit of
life that He put down in there. Alright. It's eternal life, see? It's eternal
life, it cannot be done away with, see? So itlay there dormant until God gets
ready to bring it to life. See? And then, when He gets ready to bring that to
life, what He does is, He sends forth a Message, and He catches your attention.
And then, the thing that you do then, you begin to repent of your sins. Well,
Brother Branham said, "If God can get that old soul to agree with Him...." What
did he say He would do, brethren? He said, "Then He would destroy that soul."
If God can get that old soul to agree with Him (that old devil, and He will,
don't you worry), He'll make him agree with Him and then He destroys the soul.
He destroys that.
"Well, then you're without a soul?" No, because that little gene of life down
there is birthed right in at the same time. See, at the same time that this
one goes out the other one is birthed right in. See? And that little gene of
life becomes the nature of God. See? And the nature of God, then, takes you
over. See? And so the book that was held against you then, all of your life....
You say, "I was married twice Brother Holmes." Well, if there's no book that
identifies that, who's going to say you were, if there's nothing to identify
it? So there's nothing to say that you done it. All of the deeds that you did
under that old nature is done away with. It's absolutely gone! There's not one
spot of it can be brought up, never again! Never! It cannot be, it's absolutely
destroyed, there's no record of it! No record of it at all. Alright, so then,
that is what gives us this privilege now that we're talking about here, see.
He said now.... Let me make sure that I don't lose you on these things because
these are a little deep sometimes. Now.... Watch this.
"....You was Satan's instrument; now you are redeemed. And that's
what the world will be, (the world will be)same way....,"
See? See, I'm not losing my thought
here, I'm going right on and telling you, that what God does to you, He does
the same thing to this world, this earth. See? He changes it. God lives in the
same old house that Satan used to control. Right? When you are borned again
God moves into this house, the Spirit of God. He takes over control. Alright.
It's the same house, it's the same statue, (everything just like it was), but
the only difference is, Brother Antipas, is the occupant. There's a different
occupant in there. See? Like, if I had a house... If I was going to buy a house
that had been occupied by a bootlegger. How many of you know what a bootlegger
is? Huh? Alright. And you know, he has made whiskey and sold whiskey and done
everything else. And I don't care what he done. See? Now he lived in that house.
And that bootlegger moves out, and I move into that house, it's no longer a
bootlegger. See? The occupant has changed. Somebody else is in that house. See?
So I can't say that the house is a bootlegger! I can't say that the house is
an adulterer! I can't say that the house is wrong! It was the man that lived
in there that was wrong! See? So the problem is today, people want to hold somebody
under the law and let the other one out from under the law! But the truth of
it is when you are borned again nobody is under the law! We are absolutely free.
We are absolutely a new creation in Chirst Jesus! A new creation! A new person,
not made over! A new creation in the same house, amen, in the same vessel that
the old one lived in, now we've got a new one living in there. Amen. Nothing
is held against you; nothing. And that's what Brother Branham is trying to get
you to see. He said:
"....the Greek word there (anybody knows) said you are a new creation
(Amen.), a new creation in the same old temple.... (In the same old house, a
new creation.)(Well) Watch what happens ...now (See?)..."
"And in the new earth, there is a new City...."
See, he's going back and forth from
the individual to the earth.
(Now in this)earth, there is a new city.... (Alright),my. Now, listen
close. Don't forget this.) ...Jesus said in John 14, (He said), '(I will)to
prepare a place for you. Let not your hearts be troubled... You believed in
God. ...believe also in Me.' In My Father's house is many mansions...' (Brother
Branham said the correct interpretation of that, the correct translation of
that is)'In My Father's Kingdom is many palaces....'
See? Not in my Father's house are many
mansions but "in my Father's Kingdom are many palaces." Amen. Alright, He said,
....I go to prepare a place for you. If I go I will come again and
receive you unto myself; that where I am there ye may be also.
And then, you know, He said,
....whither I go ye know, and the way, ye know.
And one of them said, "Well,
we don't know where you're going. How shall we know the way?" He said, "I am
the way." I am the way, the truth and the life." Amen. Oh, you see if we can
just find the way, it's easy then. Once you find the way, it's easy. Alright.
So now, he said now:
"....They couldn't see He was God. Said, 'You've believed in God,
now you believe in Me. And I'm going to prepare a place for you. (He said) this
New Jerusalem now.' "
He's been working on this New
Jerusalem. Amen. We've got that little song the children sing around here, "He's
Still Working On Me". Amen. He's still working on me. Alright, you know, and
I like that because, I mean, I'm 77 years old and He's still working on me.
Amen, alright. And I like that, see. I want Him to keep on working on me. Keep
on, keep on working on me. Amen. We don't never want Him to stop that. Alright.
"(So)listen close...."
He keeps telling us to listen
close, don't miss this, don't miss this. Alright.
"Now, listen close; don't move; don't--don't miss this. Christ is
in heaven today preparing the New Jerusalem. Just as God created the earth in
six days--made the earth in six days (or six thousand years)... They said, 'Be
not ignorant.' We read in the Scripture, one thousand years is one day. And
Christ is gone and is preparing a place (that's been on its construction for
many, many thousands of years), preparing a place. 'And if I go and prepare
a place, I will come again, and receive you, that wherever I am, there you may
be also.' Notice, the Redeemer and the redeemed."
Well, somebody said, "Well, where
in the world is heaven then? If He's in heaven where's He at?" Well, heaven
is right in your heart if you're borned again. Amen. See? I mean.... how about
that? You believe that? I do. Amen. Heaven is not ten million, billion light
years away. We talk to the Father because the Spirit knows how to talk to Him.
Amen. And He's here, He's not ten million light years away, He's here. Amen.
He is omnipresent. Alright, so now, let us go on and look and see what we're
looking at now.
"....Don't miss this..." (He said. Alright.)
"John said, "I saw the holy City...."
Now he's getting to the last
part of the Scripture that I read tonight. He's already covered the other three
and now he's getting to the last one. Alright.
"John said, 'I saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem descending out
of heaven, as a bride adorned for her husband." And where did it settle....?..."
Where did that city settle? First of
all, what was the city? The Bride. Alright. Well, where did that city settle?
"....Just exactly like it did on there,...."
Now where? Brother Branham said,
"on there." I didn't bring that other quote there, so I'm going to have to tell
you where it was. When Jesus went out to the Jordan to be baptized, (to be baptized
of John), as He come up out of the water, (straight-way out of the water), what
happened? The heavens opened, is that right? The heavens opened and there come
out of the heavens, (in the form of a dove), the Holy Spirit. Right? And it
settled upon what? That part of the earth. Amen. That part of the earth that
had been redeemed. Amen. You get this now? This is deep. Alright. Now, if you
ever was.... How many of you know that Jesus Christ is the Word? He was the
Word then, how many of you believe that? He was borned the Word. That's right.
He was the Word. Is that right, brethren? Alright. So now, if He was the Word,
then all of the Word was in Him; He was all of the Word. Alright, if He was
all of the Word and I'm part of the Word, where was I at? See? I was in Him
wasn't I? See? So you see what I'm saying? When He was redeemed; when that part
of the earth was redeemed, what did it do for us? Amen. So you see, lot of times
we look over these things, but we need to look them right square in the face
and see what Brother Branham is saying. Alright, so now that holy city now....
he said,
"....Just exactly like it did on there, upon the earth. Jesus was
part of that earth that the Holy Ghost descended upon (Is that right?) and remained
upon Him forever. It never can leave Him, It's always there (He and God are
one.), (See, He and God are one.)has to remain. And so John saw the holy City,
the New Jerusalem descending like a comet ...a dove, (He saw this Holy City),
....coming down out of heaven and settling upon a redeemed entire earth..."
The redeemed entire earth. John
saw that. Huh? Did you ever see that? Alright, watch this now. He's saying that
when this dove come down, (this Holy Spirit come down in the form of a dove;
like), and settled upon this part of the earth, he said that, "that was the
entire earth." Let me read it again. I don't want you to miss it. This is deep!
So you're going to have to look at it for what Brother Branham is saying. Watch
now.
" '....So John saw the Holy city, the New jerusalem descending like
a comet ...a dove, coming down out of heaven and settling upon a redeemed entire
earth. To do what? To claim every attribute.... (To claim every attribute, see,
every attribute.) ....that He made the earth for;.... (Every attribute that
He made the earth for) ....every man that was represented in the eternity and
every woman is redeemed then. She's been scoured and burned by fire; Jesus in
His fiery temptations...."
See, He's talking about our Redeemer
and how we were redeemed. See? Amen. It's a great subject; it's a great lesson.
And I know I've got to quit in a little bit. Alright, now.
"....Jesus in his fiery temptations in the wilderness for forty days...
After that, notice, it was ready for His ministry then. Think of it, the Holy
Ghost descending upon earth, Jesus, and that holy Blood. Now watch. I hope I
don't go too deep for you. See?"
"The holy Blood that was created by God, the Blood, the Life, the Creation
of God: Jesus was the beginning of the creation of God...." (Amen. God created
Himself a body! Amen. See?)
"....Jesus was the beginning of the creation of God: (Alright)my. You see
it? God made in creation... He was Spirit. The Bible said He's the beginning
of the creation of God. How did He begin? (He begin) In the wombs of a woman,...."
Oh my! Now, anybody that can't
see "Serpent Seed" here, there's something wrong with them, see. Now you watch
what Brother Branham is saying right here now.
"....The woman..." (See?)
"How them blind people can't see the serpent's seed right here. See? Eve
was put here on the earth, and before Satan ever touched her or anything else,
God said to them, 'Multiply and replenish the earth.' (She hadn't done anything
wrong. "Multiply an replenish the earth.") ....It's right. But Satan comes in
here, and if that was Adam's son,.... (Now listen), then where Adam was a direct
descent from God, and you only take the nature of your parent. (Cain could not
have been the son of Adam, no way. Amen. Alright, now watch.)when you are borned
again you take the nature of your Parent of heaven. (See? When you are borned
again you take the nature of God. Amen.)...your Parent of heaven is the attribute
of the Word, or the Word is the attribute of your Parent. And how can you deny
It for denominations?"
Hmm? You can't do it if you are
borned again. Alright, now watch. I'm trying my best to get to that place where
I can stop.
"I--I hope you don't miss this. I know it's from God. See? Jesus,
here He comes descending, and there was Jesus, the attribute of God. Now, the
woman, ...Watch. God said, 'Because they did this,' said, 'I'll put enmity between
your seed and the serpent's seed.' Is that right? And the woman don't have (a)
See? So she's going to have to be given
a seed. She had the seed of the serpent in her then. See? She had already been
pregnated by the serpent; the seed of the serpent was in there. And said, "Your
seed that's coming through the woman and this seed of the serpent is going to
be at enmity with one another." They can't see eye to eye. There's always difference.
The hiss of the serpent is always.... "Well, that's for another day. Well he
didn't mean it for today." Hiss of the serpent. I mean.... hey! I'd better not
get too hard. Alright. But you know, you can't get too hard as long as you stay
in the Word. See, that's the thing about it.
See, the woman has a field but she doesn't have a seed. A seed has to be given
to her. Isaiah said, "A virgin shall conceive. A virgin shall conceive." Brother
Branham said for seven-hundred and sixty years that went around and around the
world, waiting for that right one to come along. And one day the right one come
along. And here come the angel down and said, "Mary, thou art blessed among
women." Amen. Something's fixing to happen to you. Huh? "You're going to conceive
and you're going to bring forth a child and his name is going to be called Jesus.
Because He will save His people from their sins." Amen. She said, "I don't know
how that's going to happen, I can't figure it out." I can't figure out this
new birth to save my life but I don't want to figure it out, I just want to
believe it. See? I know something happened to me! I know I changed, how about
you? Do you know something took place? Do you know something happened? Amen.
I tell you, when that token comes, you'll know about it, amen. Something takes
place, see? Alright.
So, then she received the seed. Alright the first prophecy that was ever made,
I guess, right there, was right in the beginning of Genesis there, where He
told the woman, He said, "Your seed and the serpent's seed will be at enmity
with one another." Amen. And they've been fighting all the way. Alright. So
now you see, don't you?
"...(She) doesn't have a seed, she has to remain--to have a seed...."
"You see, through the sexual intercourse here had brought from Satan, the serpent--which
was not a reptile; had legs till his legs went off of him. He was the most subtle...
the only beast that would--would coordinate with the woman. A beast seed won't
do it now, man or nothing else. They tried it; won't work. See? The seed life
of a male won't go into a female woman; (They tried the chimpanzee, it won't
work. Alright, see?) it won't do it. But that was the closest thing..."
See? He was an upright creature,
the most subtle beast of the field. He talked to her. Amen. And he had a place
for a soul. How many of you know that? See, he had a place for a soul, amen,
and that place was filled with Satan. Satan come into him. He was made with
a place for a soul but he didn't have a soul. See? So Satan come into him. And
then he was possessed with the nature of Satan. And Satan worked through that
serpent and beguiled Eve, and committed adultery with her. And that's exactly
what happened. And, of course, she was pregnated by the seed of the serpent.
And then, there would have to come one that was by sex. So there was going to
have to come one without the fall, see, without the fall. So by what? The Spoken
Word. See, the Word of God come to Mary, (by the angel), and said, "You're going
to conceive and have a baby." That was the Spoken Word of God. She said, "It's
hard for me to understand, but nevertheless, let it be unto me according to
thy Word. Let it be unto thy handsmaid according to thy Word." Immediately she
received the seed of God, into her womb. Amen. And then, of course, she begin
to take in the sixteen elements of the earth and the baby begin to grow in her
womb. Alright. So that was the fulfillment of that, when it was born, of course.
And then, ever since that, there's been enmity, see, enmity. Alright, now.
"See, they can't find that specie between a chimpanzee and a man.
See, each one as it is evoluted up from the birds and on up to monkeys and so
forth, up to chimpanzee, then there's a lost. That was the serpent, not a snake.
Every form is lost from him, because he was cursed."
"Now, God didn't curse Adam. He might've done the same thing, but He cursed
the earth--thorns and thistles. He didn't curse Eve, but said Adam would be
her ruler. From now on she ain't trying any (more)or anything; (Amen, no sir!)is
her ruler. See? 'All the days of your life and in sorrow... and you'll bring
your--life into the earth.' But He said, 'I'll put enmity between your seed...'
Now, she didn't have any seed; she never did have. So she had to receive a seed
from some way. God gave her a seed, not by sexual intercourse, but by creation."
"Can't you blind people see, that's the seed of the serpent. Oh, my, Satan got
there before Adam; that was the seed. But she received a seed. What was it?
God Himself. He was the beginning of the creation of God."
Amen. I'll take it up Sunday morning and go on. May
the Lord bless you. Don't you love Him? Don't you appreciate Him? Come on sister.
Amen. I tell you, I'm getting done just in time; just in time. How did I do
it, brother? I don't know. But anyway, that's just right. Alright. Don't you
love Him? Are you glad you're one of them? Had you rather be that than to be
the king of all the world? All the potentates? The Gettys? The Rockefellers?
Amen. Their money will vanish away. This that you've got children, is eternal,
amen, no end. Let us stand. "I'm One of Them".
Congregation sings.
Amen, I've always loved that song. I heard Brother Branham tell about the time,
in Memphis, you know, when he was going down to pray.... He didn't know where
he was going. The plane was brought down by a storm and he was carried out to
the hotel. And then, the next morning he went to mail a letter. And so they
were going to come and pick him up and put him back on the plane and the Holy
Spirit told him, said, "Keep walking." Amen. He kept on walking and he walked
down and It said, "Turn here, turn here." And he got way down in the black people's
section, you know. Down in Memphis, at that time, you know, they were isolated
and there was segregation, and so they couldn't be together. And so he was walking
on singing, "I'm one of them, I'm one of them," with his little satchel, you
know, and little hat on. And all of a sudden, there was an old black lady leaning
up against the fence. Her shoulders were wet with dew where she'd been there
for hours. She said, "Morning parson." He said, "Auntie, how did you know I
was a parson?" "Oh," she said, "Did you ever hear of that Shunamite woman?"
Said, "You know,...." said, "....she prayed for a son and God gave her a son."
And said, "That son died." And said, "She went after that prophet...." amen,
".... to come back, and he give that baby's life back." And she said, "Parson....,"
She said, "....I've been praying." She said, "I ask the Lord to give me a son."
And she said, "You know, He gave me a son." And said, "He went the wrong way.
I brought him up right but he went the wrong way. And he took venereal disease
and now he's in here dying." And said, "I'm not praying for him to be healed,
but I don't want him to be lost. I want him to be saved."
So they went in and Brother Branham said, "Auntie, would you pray first?" He
said, "She hadn't been praying long 'til I knew that she knew who she was talking
to." See? Amen. And then that old boy, he would say, "Uhh, uhh, it's dark in
here, dark." He was in a dark place, lost, going on out to meet God. Amen. Brother
Branham said he slipped his hand under the cover and caught hold to that big
old black foot, and he prayed for him. He said, "Mama!, it's getting light in
here!" Amen. Said she went over and caught him around the arm and said, "What
is it, baby?" There's one thing about it. Don't make no difference how big they
get and how bad they get, if they're your child, they're still your baby. Amen,
amen, and you love them. And you'll go out for them, you'll go through fire
for them, you'll go through hell for them, you'll go through anything to bring
them back. Amen. And she stood there and waited.
Two years later, Brother Branham said he was coming through Memphis. He was
on a train that time. Said he got off to go over there and get him a hot-dog.
Said this old boy, (about a two-hundred pound boy), hollared out, said, "Hey
parson Branham." He said, "You don't know me, do you?" He said, "I don't believe
I do." He said, "You remember praying for that man over there that was dying
there?" He said, "You're not that man?" He said, "Yes, I am." He said, "I'm
preaching the Word of God." Amen. So you see, God downed the plane and put that
prophet on that road, way down in there, for one soul! Amen. I'm so glad He
called me, aren't you? Aren't you glad? Oh my! "He's The Sweetest Name I Know",
while Brother Kenan's coming. Let's sing that little chorus.
Congregation sings again.
Praise the Lord! I'd like to see the brethren for a little bit down here.
Brother Kenan closes the service with comments and prayer.
Listed below are the Scripture and Quotes that were taken from the Message
of our Prophet for the basis of this sermon.
SIXFOLD PURPOSE GABRIEL VISIT DAN JEFF.IN DA 45-88 SUNDAY 61-0730E
130 - ...Listen, everybody, close now. This is during the time of the millennium
when the most Holy is anointed.
For, behold, I will create new heavens and... new earth: and the former shall
not be remembered, nor come into mind.
But be... glad and rejoice... even in that which I create: for, behold, I create
Jerusalem--I create Jerusalem... (That's the New Jerusalem.)... a joying, and
her people a joy... (What is the anointing? The joy of the Lord.)... create
Jerusalem a joy, and her people a joy.
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem,... (The King in the throne on the royal majesty
of the throne, the eternal throne and the eternal people with an eternal joy
in an eternal city. Oh, my.)
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping
shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
There shall be no more thence... infant of days, nor an old man that has not
fulfilled his day: for the child shall die a hundred years old; but a sinner
being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them;... they shall plant vineyards,
and they shall eat the fruit of them.
They shall not build, and another inhabit;... (That is, you die, and your son
take your place,)... build and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another
eat thereof: for as the days of a tree shall the days of my people, and my elect
long shall they enjoy the works of their hands.
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the
seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offsprings with them.
And it shall come to pass,... before they call, I will answer;... (That glorious
anointing in behind the Cherubims)... I'll answer; and while they are yet speaking,
I will hear.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,... the lion shall eat straw like
the bullock: the dust shalt be the serpent's meat. And they shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD. (Can you miss it? No.)
SHALOM SIERRA VISTA AZ V-13 N-5 SUNDAY 64-0112
78 - Now, now when we find out that after King Shalom was in the--come from
the city, then creed took it over later. And it's constantly been creed, but
it represents the old church. And we're taught in the New Testament (Don't fail
to get this.)--in the New Testament, that we are not of this city, Jerusalem
on earth, but we are from the New Jerusalem above. So this must be the moon,
Jerusalem, and not the New Jerusalem above. So the moon representing the church,
earthly...
And isn't it strange that just before the pope took his journey to Jerusalem,
that the moon in the heavens made a total blackout, just a few days before he
took it, his journey. He's coming here also, you know. See? Now, that's never
been known. See? But what does it show? That this, he's doing this to win fellowship
as he met on the day after he come into Jerusalem, he met the Greek Orthodox
hierarchy. And what does that reflect? Fellowship, they're wanting Protestants
and Catholicism joining together, which they are doing and will completely do.
And God reflected this to us in the moon of a total blackout. By His mercy and
grace...
80 - Did any of you see the paper where they took the pictures of the moon?
I have it here. If it ain't a perfect image, leaving out the seventh age which
is not yet, exactly the way I drawed by the Holy Spirit, the church ages. There's
the six of them; the seventh is not finished yet. The six conditions of the
moon, how in its brightness in the first church age, dark in the second, third,
fourth, fifth, and sixth; just the way the Holy Spirit let me draw them on the
board, and then identified them with Hisself on the wall of the Tabernacle two
years ago. The moon reflects itself, and science again picks up the picture
of the church ages, just as they picked up that Light yonder and put it in "Life"
Magazine, of the opening of the Seals, of the revealing in the age of the seventh
angel. In the days of his ministry, the seventh messenger, the mysteries of
God, which all the mysteries has been along the ages, should be revealed, made
manifest; it should be at that time. And He did it. His Words don't fail. Isn't
that a mysterious thing? God drawing in the heavens the same thing that they
hold, same God let me draw on the blackboard, and then by Himself. That's three
times He's perfectly identified it, and just before the pope goes into Jerusalem.
FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS JEFF.IN V-3 N-16 SUNDAY 64-0719M
9-4 And all nature... And the moon is the--is the wife
of the sun; it is a lesser light. And then also, that when the sun is gone,
in the absence of the sun the moon reflects the light to the earth, which is
a type of the Church. And when the pope leaves (the ancient enemy of the Church),
and comes over to the Jerusalem, which is the seat of the Church (which the
new Jerusalem and the old Jerusalem), we notice, before it did it, there was
a total blackout of the moon.
9-5 - And in the papers, across the nation as we have on the board, it displayed
how that that moon turned from light to darkness. And the very phenomena of
it, that that moon drawed exactly in the skies the same thing the Holy Spirit
had me to draw here two years ago, and showing the covering, the... When it
went six pictures, I put the seventh on there, because the Seventh church age,
just a shadow of light, the going of the... That's where Jesus at the door knocking.
But it goes into total darkness. And what a reflection, what a Message from
God Himself, that these things are the Truth: Testified it first in His Word,
then by the Spirit at the platform, and then declared it in the heavens.
10-1 - There's no mistake about it at all. Those Seals and Ages are perfectly
in line, perfectly, God giving witness by supernatural signs and wonders, with
the Word and history all placed together, in the age that we're now living in.
FUTURE HOME JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY 64-0802
28-5 - We read in John--read John and Revelations 6:14; see it departed as a
scroll. The Bible said, "That--that it..." John said, "I saw the heaven and
earth depart as a scroll," John, Revelations 6:14. Jesus said, "Heavens and
earth shall pass away," or in other words, heavens and earth shall be changed.
Used that same word right there again. No, not annihilated, for later in Revelations
21:2-24 he seen the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven and sitting
upon this earth. It doesn't mean that it'll be annihilated. The systems will
be changed.
29-3 - You're the same man in statue that you was when God called you: same
woman. But you see what it did; it was a regeneration: the old life passed away;
the old desires passed away. When you used to like to drink, and cuss, and fuss,
and stew, and run around, and immoral, that thing just died. See? But now you
are used... Then you was Satan's instrument; now you are redeemed. And that's
what the world will be, the same way, redeemed. A new heavens and new earth,
just like you--you are a new creature. And the Greek word there (anybody knows)
said you are a new creation (Amen.), a new creation in the same old temple.
Hallelujah. Watch what happens here now. Glorious. All right.
42-3 - And in the new earth, there is a new City (Oh, my. Now, listen close.
Don't forget this.) that Jesus said in John 14, He would go to prepare. "Let
not your hearts be troubled (when He's going away). I have a reason to go away.
You believed in God." He said, "believe also in Me." They couldn't see He was
God. Said, "You've believed in God, now you believe in Me. And I'm going to
prepare a place for you. In My Father's house is many mansions. In My Father's
Kingdom is many palaces." Christ is there under the construction of this New
Jerusalem now.
JOHN 14:2 - In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would
have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
JOHN 14:3 - And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
JOHN 14:4 - And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
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42-4 - Now, listen close; don't move; don't--don't miss this. Christ is in heaven
today preparing the New Jerusalem. Just as God created the earth in six days--made
the earth in six days (or six thousand years)... They said, "Be not ignorant."
We read in the Scripture, one thousand years is one day. And Christ is gone
and is preparing a place (that's been on its construction for many, many thousands
of years), preparing a place. "And if I go and prepare a place, I will come
again, and receive you, that wherever I am, there you may be also." Notice,
the Redeemer and the redeemed.
44-4 - John said, "I saw the holy City, the New Jerusalem descending out of
heaven, as a bride adorned for her husband." And where did it settle on? Just
exactly like it did on there, upon the earth. Jesus was part of that earth that
the Holy Ghost descended upon (Is that right?) and remained upon Him forever.
It never can leave Him, It's always there (He and God are one.), always has
to remain. And so John saw the holy City, the New Jerusalem descending like
a comet or a--a dove, coming down out of heaven and settling upon a redeemed
entire earth. To do what? To claim every attribute that He made the earth for;
every man that was represented in the eternity and every woman is redeemed then.
She's been scoured and burned by fire; Jesus in His fiery temptations in the
wilderness for forty days... After that, notice, it was ready for His ministry
then. Think of it, the Holy Ghost descending upon earth, Jesus, and that holy
Blood. Now watch. I hope I don't go too deep for you. See?
45-1 - The holy Blood that was created by God, the Blood, the Life, the Creation
of God: Jesus was the beginning of the creation of God. Oh, my. You see it?
God made in creation... He was Spirit. The Bible said He's the beginning of
the creation of God. How did He begin? In the wombs of a woman, which is what?
The woman is... not like...
How them blind people can't see the serpent's seed right here. See? Eve was
put here on the earth, and before Satan ever touched her or anything else, God
said to them, "Multiply and replenish the earth." It's right. But Satan comes
in here, and if that was Adam's son, then where Adam was a direct descent from
God, and you only take the nature of your parent. And when you are borned again
you take the nature of your Parent of heaven. And your Parent of heaven is the
attribute of the Word, or the Word is the attribute of your Parent. And how
can you deny It for denominations?
45-2 - I--I hope you don't miss this. I know it's from God. See? Jesus, here
He comes descending, and there was Jesus, the attribute of God. Now, the woman,
she... Watch. God said, "Because they did this," said, "I'll put enmity between
your seed and the serpent's seed." Is that right? And the woman don't have any
seed. Did you ever think of that? She has a field, not a seed. See, the serpent
had already placed his seed there. Then if the woman doesn't have a seed, she
has to remain--to have a seed...
45-3 - You see, through the sexual intercourse here had brought from Satan,
the serpent--which was not a reptile; had legs till his legs went off of him.
He was the most subtle... the only beast that would--would coordinate with the
woman. A beast seed won't do it now, man or nothing else. They tried it; won't
work. See? The seed life of a male won't go into a female woman; it won't do
it. But that was the closest thing...
45-4 - See, they can't find that specie between a chimpanzee and a man. See,
each one as it is evoluted up from the birds and on up to monkeys and so forth,
up to chimpanzee, then there's a lost. That was the serpent, not a snake. Every
form is lost from him, because he was cursed.
Now, God didn't curse Adam. He might've done the same thing, but He cursed the
earth--thorns and thistles. He didn't curse Eve, but said Adam would be her
ruler. From now on she ain't trying any preaching or anything; Adam is her ruler.
See? "All the days of your life and in sorrow... and you'll bring your--life
into the earth." But He said, "I'll put enmity between your seed..." Now, she
didn't have any seed; she never did have. So she had to receive a seed from
some way. God gave her a seed, not by sexual intercourse, but by creation.
Can't you blind people see, that's the seed of the serpent. Oh, my, Satan got
there before Adam; that was the seed. But she received a seed. What was it?
God Himself. He was the beginning of the creation of God.