The New Jerusalem - 2

Bro. Charles Holmes

Precious Father, we do deem it a priviledge this morning to be able to come together again, and knowing the signs of the times and where we’re living now, Lord. It seems like that, we don’t know from one day to the next, where we’re going to be and whether it’s going to be over and all finished. We know that these things are so close upon us, Lord, and we thank You for the confidence that we have and the faith that You have given us, Lord, in that Message that has been brought to us by our precious prophet, Brother Branham. We know that the words are not the words of the prophet, but it’s the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we know, Lord, that, that is a Message to the Bride. And we thank You so much, Lord, that You have opened the understanding of Your children to this point, Lord, to where we are now. We know that there are other things, no doubt, that you’ll take the shadow away and let it stand out more clearly. That’s not our business, our business is to seek You first and the kingdom of God, and then all these things will be added to us. And I pray that every need will be met this morning, according to Thy riches in glory. We ask it in Jesus’ name. Amen.

You may be seated. It’s so good to be here, so good to have this opportunity. We’re just thankful to the Lord that we have this priviledge, you know, to be able to live in this day and to see the things transpiring that are transpiring; know that the hour is upon us and we don’t have to guess about it. We know that we have arrived. And so, it’s closing time for.... As Brother Branham said, the Seventh Seal winds up all of these things, everything. And so, whatever the Lord has in store for us at the change now, of our physical bodies, going into the millennium. We know that it’s up to Him to let us know what He wants to let us know about it, and the things that He wants to withold from us, then, He can do that. But I believe that what He’s been doing, now, for a long time, (ever since 1963), is opening up the things that we need to know and understand, and to make us more closely aquainted with Him, which is the Word. And that’s the whole truth of it, see. Brother Branham said, “The ‘I Am’ is the Word, it’s not the, I was or the, I will be, but the ‘I Am’ is the present tense. It’s the Word, it’s the Word for now. It’s not what the Word was for Luther’s day or Pentecost day. It’s not what it will be over there, somewhere else, but the ‘I Am’ is the Word for today, right now. Amen. So, we’re so happy to have this priviledge to enjoy these things. Amen.

Now, I’d like to say, this morning, that I do appreciate the visitors with us, I see some visitors with us. We’re glad to have our brother, Antipas, back with us, and his family. I’d like to say this, now, I’ve tried to arrange it as much as I can, in my way of trying to, you know, cut things out as much as I can this morning, so that I wouldn’t hold you so long this morning. Because this evening, what we have done.... Wednesday night, we went into the home, you know, we were talking about the New Jerusalem. And so we labored on it a good while Wednesday night. If you weren’t here Wednesday night, and you want to be a part of this study, then, you need to get the tape that we brought Wednesday night, and then you can put it together with what we’ll say this morning. And then, tonight, I want to.... I feel like, that this will be a special service tonight. We want you to bring your books with you on, “The Future Home,” and all of you can study along with us, tonight, this evening, at six o’clock. It may be a little bit lengthy, this evening, but we’re going to try to make up for that this morning. (Brother Holmes speaks to a brother about the microphone.)

Now, we’re going to try to get into some things this evening, that.... and I know the Lord has laid it upon my heart and it was a strong anointing when we were in study on this. Usually when that happens, it’s something that, maybe, will open up, that will clear up some of the things that seems to be so hard to be understood, in that message, “The Future Home.” “The Future Home” is a message, kind of like, “The Feasts of the Trumpets.” Brother Branham switches back and forth on “The Feasts of the Trumpets, he’s switching to the church, and to Israel, back and forth. And then, on “The Future Home,” he’s switching back and forth, from the millinneum to the new earth, back and forth. Sometimes he gets into the Spiritual part and then he’ll get into the literal part,( the physical part.) It’s hard to be understood unless the Spirit of God will guide you into it, and let you see it. That’s what we want to do, is to always let the Spirit have the full right of way, and let us know what’s going on. He’ll do that for us if we’ll surrender ourself to Him. See? I really believe that these are some things that we need to look at real close, because, he gives us so many keys in here that we can find other places in the Message, that, it will piece it together for us. See?

It’s like a puzzle. And that’s what we want to make sure we don’t.... If you lose one piece of a puzzle, you’ll never get the puzzle worked. You know that. You might get all of it but that one piece, but it just dont’t work, does it? Amen. And so, that’s what it is with the Message. So many people look over pieces of the puzzle and put their own ideas and opinions in there, and then, of course, that disturbs the puzzle, and it won’t come out right. Amen. I used to work puzzles a lot and I thought I could work puzzles, you know, and so, one day I saw a puzzle that was a thousand pieces and it was a round puzzle, didn’t have no edges to it. And now brother, I thought I was good with a puzzle until I got that one. With no edges, just round, and this is a circle, you know. Eternity is a circle, there’s no end to it. Amen. And so, only God can put the pieces together. Only God can do it. Man can’t do it. He’ll get his own ideas in there, he’ll get his own opinion. And the first thing you know, it’s all distorted and all mixed up, and then you’ve got death in the pot. When you’ve got death in the pot, there’s only one thing can cure it and that’s put the meal in there, and you know what that is. Amen. So, we have to have these things to understand. The Lord wants us to understand the Message, that’s what the Message come for. But He don’t want us to put our own understanding to it. Lean not to your own understanding. Amen.

I would like to say that I appreciate the ones that came out last night for the little gathering that we had out there for Brother Kevin. Had some good fellowship, had a good many of the brethren there, and we just sit around and talked while the young people were playing and having them a good time. We were having a good time with good fellowship. And we do appreciate everyone of you that came, and I know you enjoyed it. Like I said, I have got a lot of respect for Kevin because he has respect for the Word. He’s twenty years old and he still has a lot of respect for the leadership of his mother and he listens to her. I’ve noticed that he is very much under subjection at twenty years old, and I really appreciate that. It could be an example, you know. And with no father, there, in the home, but just a strong belief to do what’s right. Amen. And so, I appreciate him. (Having trouble with microphone.) .... wonder what’s going on. Alright.

Now, I want to get started here. Like I said, it may not be so long this morning, and it may not be so long this evening, I don’t know. But we have some things this evening, that I feel like, that will put some of the pieces together for us all. I don’t know, some of you may understand every thing that he said on “The Future Home.” But it’s been a long study for me and I’ve studied and prayed over it a lot, in the past, and a few things has opened up that, I feel like will help get some of these things together.

Alright, turn with me again now.... and while you’re turning to Chapter 21, of Revelation, I’d like to make this statement and I want everybody to listen. Now Brother Antipas and his family, they travel from Charlotte, come here to service. I told the brother Wednesday night, if their desire was to stay over for the service here, on Sunday, and then come to the service on Sunday evening, that, among the people of the church here, we’d try to take care of them, and give them a place where they can go and have some fellowship. Since we’re ministering tonight, I’m going to ask some of you brethren to take care of that for us, because, you know, I don’t mind fellowshipping if we’re going to play a tape, I don’t mind, just take all afternoon and fellowship. But if I’m going to minister tonight I’m going to have to be alone to be ready for that. So you brethren look out for that for me, and I know you will. Alright, now, on verses 5-7, I want to read from the 21st Chapter of the book of Revelation.

AND HE THAT SAT UPON THE THRONE SAID, BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW. AND HE SAID UNTO ME, WRITE: FOR THESE WORDS ARE TRUE AND FAITHFUL.

AND HE SAID UNTO ME, IT IS DONE. I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. I WILL GIVE UNTO HIM THAT IS ATHIRST OF THE FOUNTAIN OF THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY.

HE THAT OVERCOMETH SHALL INHERIT ALL THINGS; AND I WILL BE HIS GOD, AND HE SHALL BE MY SON.

Alright, so now, you notice what he’s saying there, he’s saying that all things are finished. The order is changing and something else is coming in. Is that right? In other words, I am Alpha and Omega. And he goes on to say that he’s God. And so, we know that He is the Word and ‘in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the same was in the beginning with God and all things were made by Him.’ And the scripture tells us that, ‘He made the world and was in the world and the world knew Him not.’ See? He was the creator of the world. The Word created the world. Alright. So then, He come into the world in the form of flesh and the world knew Him not. Amen. So, the scripture tells us that as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even as many as believe on His name. Amen. There’s nothing that can be accomplished outside of the name of Jesus Christ. Nothing can happen, in reality, in the kingdom world of God. One of the things that we, I believe, have such a shadow over, is the understanding of the spiritual kingdom, and of the literal things of the flesh that we live in daily. We can’t take this flesh into the kingdom of God, it has to be changed before that can happen. So, we have to look at it.... What Brother Branham is trying to do in this message, and what he’s doing, not what he’s trying to do, but what the Holy Ghost has done, to the prophet, in this message, “The Future Home,” the Holy Spirit has taken the spiritual and the literal, (the physical), and has identified things that would transpire, and has placed us, now, in this message. The Holy Spirit has placed the church in the eighth day, on past the millinneum, in the eighth day. That’s what we’re going to talk about tonight. So I’m not going to get on that this morning. But I’m just telling you, that that’s where the Holy Spirit placed the church, identified the church to be in that position, in the eighth day, the new beginning of all things in eternity. See? That’s the Bride. Alright. So now, the same thing that she went through, (the same process, that she went through), to reach that point, is the same process that the world goes through to reach that point, to become the home, (the literal, physical home), for the Bride to live in with her bridgroom. The wife and the husband living together. See? And so, that’s the whole essence of the Message, the whole thing, right there, is what Brother Branham is trying to get us to see, that He does the same thing to the individual that he does to the earth, the same thing. And if we get them mixed up, of course, we get the puzzle kind of misplaced and we won’t understand what he’s saying. We can’t hold it apart, you see, and identify it separately, like it’s suppose to be. And then it’s all coming together. Alright.

So now, I want to go back to, “The Future Home”, now and I going to be getting into the “Harvest Time”, back into “The Future Home”, and then into “The Anointed Ones at the End Time”, and let you look at a few things, this morning, and get ready for the message tonight. Brother Branham said,

“IT WON’T BE LONG.... (Now, when he says that, of course, he knows what he’s talking about.) ....I WON’T BE LONG. EVERYTHING’S PERFECTLY, GEOGRAPHICALLY: SODOM, THE MESSENGERS....,”

How many of you know who the messengers are, to Sodom? You know who they are, Billy Graham and Oral Roberts. Amen. Both of them are on the retirement list. See? They’ve about played out now, so the stage is set, see. Nobody’s going to take their place, nobody could take Brother Branhams’ place. See? So, their sons are trying to fill in for them, but their work is done, it’s finished, see. Alright. So now, that’s what we want you to look at, the setting of these things. See,

“....EVERYTHING SETTING JUST EXACTLY RIGHT. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? JUST THINK, COMING TO THIS ONE LITTLE TABERNACLE....,”

Now, he identified the tabernacle, there, at Jeffersonville, as a type. You know, as a type, and some people took it literally and thought that he was saying everybody’s got to move somewhere in there around Jeffersonville. That wasn’t what he was talking about, but he was identifying that place there, where the word was coming, you know, with the future home, with this great city, the New Jerusalem. Now that’s what we’re talking about. That’s what we started this little subject, you know, in the New Jerusalem, Wednesday night. We’re still talking about the New Jerusalem this morning. Alright, and I want you to understand, it’s a two-fold meaning. Alright. So now,

“....JUST THINK, COMING TO THIS ONE LITTLE TABERNACLE, FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILES SQUARE, FROM THE SAME DIMENSIONS.

“WHY IS IT GOD SO THOUGHT AND CARED SO MUCH ABOUT THAT LITTLE PLACE OF PALESTINE (SEE?)....”

See, that one little place of Palestine. Don’t you worry, that place will be taken care of. Amen.

“....WHEN IT’S JUST A LITTLE SPOT? BUT RIGHT IN THERE IS WHERE THE TEMPLE WILL SET.... (RIGHT THERE IS WHERE THE TEMPLE WILL SET.) ....THAT’S WHERE THE NEW JERUSALEM WILL BREAK UP RIGHT THERE. OLIVE... MOUNT OF OLIVES SHALL CLEAVE PART TO THE RIGHT AND LEFT (SURE) WHEN SHE PUSHES UP FROM THE BENEATH. NOW, IF THEY SAID PUSHING APART LIKE THIS... IT’S PUSHING UP, IN THAT DAY WHEN HE STANDS, HIS HOLY FEET UPON THE MOUNTAIN....”

Now this is some great thing. I used to have the blackboard here, and we’d kind of draw it out. But now, you take fifteen-hundred miles, fifteen-hundred miles, this city, the throne, (the throne that the lamb sits on), is going to be fifteen-hundred miles high. Fifteen-hundred miles high, is going to be where the throne is. Alright, now this.... Brother Antipas, I don’t know whether you studied this or not, but you probably have, but, and the rest of you. But now, if you take a fifteen-hundred mile trip, you’re going fifteen-hundred miles high. Alright. So, if you start out here and you’re going fifteen-hundred miles high, it’s going to be on like.... and it’s coming up, it’s like a pyramid. See? It’s foursquare. See? You’ve got this side coming up here, fifteen-hundred miles, it’s only about, say, a sixty degree angle. At fifteen-hundred miles, at a sixty degree angle, you barely know you’re climbing a mountain. See? It’s very shallow. Alright. But it’s moving, it’s going up. It’s going up fifteen-hundred miles. On the other side it’s coming up fifteen-hundred miles. On this side it’s coming up fifteen-hundred miles. On that side it’s coming up fifteen-hundred miles. (Brother Holmes demonstrates each side.) You’ve got a gate over there, you’ve got a gate over here, you’ve got a gate over here, and one over here. You’ve got four gates to the city. Alright. And so, it’s fifteen-hundred miles square, fifteen-hundred miles high. Everywhere you go, it’s fifteen-hundred miles high, everywhere you look at it. The light is in the top of it, in the top of that city. Now you think how far you could see that light, if the light was light enough to light up a fifteen-hundred square mile city, thing how bright that light would have to be. And thing how far you could see that light. See? Fifteen-hundred miles high. No clouds now, none of that, all that’s gone away. See? There won’t be no clouds. Alright. So now, that’s the city. Alright. Now that’s what we’re talking about. That’s the literal, physical, new Jerusalem. See? Alright. That’s where the Bride and the bridegroom is going to live eternally. They’re going to live right there, in that fifteen-hundred square mile area, for eternity. That’s their home. Eternally, they’ll be there, right there. He goes on to say,

“NOTICE, ON HIS THRONE FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILES HIGH... REMEMBER, SATAN TRIED TO TEMPT HIM ONE TIME ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN....”

You know, when he carried him up on the mountain and said, ‘Now, I’ll show you all the kingdoms of the world, and if you’ll fall down and worship me, I’ll give them to you. See, they all belonged to Satan, see, because he deserved them because of the fall in the garden of Eden, see. They belonged to him, but you see, he’s a squatter on the land. So he’s going to be put out, going to be put off of it. And just like he’s put out of this house, he’s going to be put out of the earth, for us to live in, see. You understand? Alright, now.

“SEE? THE NEW CITY HAS TWELVE FOUNDATIONS (AS WE WENT THROUGH IT): TWELVE PATRIARCHS, A HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR CUBITS BEING THE BREASTPLATE OF AARON, TWELVE GATES OF PEARL....,”

I said four gates, I mean there’ll be three gates on each side, see, three gates on each side, just like the tabernacle was in the wilderness. See? What God did for Moses...., he carried him up and showed the heavenly Jerusalem, and told him, said, ‘Now you make the tabernacle on this order.’ And so, he had three gates over here, three gates over there, three gates here and three gates there. It was twelve gates. Alright. So now, that was after the order of what the New Jerusalem would be. See? Alright. Now he said that,

“TWELVE DISCIPLES’ NAMES. JESUS STAND THE HEADSTONE ON THE THRONE...., (Fifteen-hundred miles high, right?) ....WHEN HIS SAINTS HAS CROWNED HIM THE KING OF KINGS, THE LORD OF LORDS, AND HE’S THE HEADSTONE.”

Well, now what did Brother Branham say that this special, designated, created Bride, will come to? How many of you know what he said? He said, “This is a super race.” Right? A super race that will come to the headstone. See? He said that in the Church Ages book. I forget what page, but anyway, he’s telling about this super race of people. Super creation of people, a new creation. See? A new creation, not one made over, but absolutely a new creation, a new generation of people. Amen. It’s the Spiritual kingdom. Alright. So now, looking at the headstone and knowing where we are today, we can put some of these things together. We can see what’s taking place now, and we can see that, in the Spiritual, that we’re way over past the millinneum. See? Way over past the millinneum in the Spiritual. We’ll prove that to you tonight. But in the physical, we are still in the sixth day. We have not passed into the millinneum, which is the seventh day. See? We have not passed into the millinneum yet, that’s the seventh day. That’s the day of rest. Alright. But the Bride has already gone into the eighth day, which is eternity. Alright. So now, let us go now to “Harvest Time”. Brother Branham refers back, now, to this message, “The Future Home”. He said, now,

“...THE FUTURE HOME OF THE BRIDE AND GROOM, ON THE TAPE....? (He said, I hope you got it, I hope you listen to it. He said,) .... I BROUGHT IT OUT IN THERE. THE LORD GAVE IT TO ME.... (I like that. “The Lord gave it to me.) I GIVE IT ON TO YOU AS HE GIVES IT TO ME.”

Alright, now this is very important, because he’s going to go back and pick up Moses, now, on “The Anointed Ones at the End Time” and tell you exactly how Moses got it and how he delivered it to the people. And you watch and see now, and you’ll understand what the vision was that said that, you know, he was like Moses you know, because he called an exodus. Moses called an exodus, and so did our prophet, called an exodus out of, into. Amen. Alright, so now look now.

“...THE FIRST THING, THE WORLD WAS CONDEMNED UNDER ADAM’S FALL FROM THE WORD. (Alright, the world was comdemned. Now.) THE PREACHING OF NOAH BROUGHT JUSTIFICATION, AND GOD BAPTIZED THE EARTH WITH WATER; THEN ALONG CAME THE SON.... (S-O-N now, “Then along came the Son...”) AND DROPPED HIS BLOOD UPON IT TO SANCTIFY IT...., (That was) .... TO CLAIM IT (to be) HIS OWN....;”

See? Bringing it back. A process of cleansing, of redeeming the world, the earth, back again, see, for His people, for His subjects to live on, in eternity. Alright. Now.

“....IN THE FINAL WINDUP, THE RENOVATION WILL BE FIRE THAT WILL BURN EVERY GERM, EVERY THING; IT’LL GO FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES HIGH IN THE AIR.”

“AND THEN WHAT? ‘I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH; FIRST HEAVEN AND EARTH WAS PASSED AWAY. AND I, (John) SAW THE HOLY CITY, THE NEW JERUSALEM DESCENDING FROM GOD, OUT OF HEAVEN, ADORNED AS A BRIDE FOR HER--ADORNED AS A BRIDE FOR HER HUSBAND (SEE?) COMING DOWN UPON THE EARTH. THEN GOD AND MAN...”

Does what? Becomes one. See? Alright. So now, going back to “The Future Home” now, going back to “The Future Home” for another little thought here.

“AND THE MILLENNIUM... SEE, THE WORLD HAS NOW ALMOST SIX THOUSAND YEARS OLD....”

This earth, this world, is almost six thousand years old, the order of this earth, you know, as we know it. Of course, like science is trying their best to figure out how old it is, you know, sometimes to try to prove the Message wrong, and try to prove the Bible wrong, but they forget one thing. See? When they look in Genesis and start reading, see, the first words is, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,... Period. See? Now, that means that that has settled that. That’s settled. Then He goes on with a conjunction, see, “and”, adding something else. See? But the period there is where we stopped. That could have been ten trillion years ago when He created the earth, the heavens and all of that. We don’t know how long ago that was, see. Science is trying to prove something, that they can find, you know, some kind of a flaw in the the Bible. But you’re not going to do it. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Period. It could have been trillions of years ago, we don’t know. But we know one thing - “and”, conjunction, something happened. The earth went into chaos. This world went into chaos. Then six thousand years ago God began to bring it out. See? Six thousand years ago He began to bring all of this out, and then that is where time started for us. Right then, you know for this human race. Six thousand years ago. Alright. So that’s what he’s saying, it’s been six thousand years now, and then...

“....THE FLOOD CAME, AND HE BAPTIZED IT WITH WHAT? [CONGREGATION REPLIES, “WATER”--ED.] WATER. NEXT TWO THOUSAND, JESUS COME TO SANCTIFY AND CLAIM IT, DROPPED HIS BLOOD UPON IT, CALLED IT HIS.”

“ALL RIGHT, “I’LL COME AGAIN,” NOW, AS KING WITH HIS QUEEN. AND.... (then, of course), ....THE SECOND TWO THOUSAND YEARS WHAT DOES HE DO? HE COMES AND GIVES HIS REST PERIOD AND THEN BURNS HER OFF AND CLAIMS IT FOR HIS OWN, PUTS HIS OWN BACK ON IT. AND NOTICE, NOT THE PERFECT WORLD, THIS MILLENNIUM....” (See, when we go into the millinneum, we’re still not in the perfect world. See? It has not yet been thoroughly purged yet. We’re still in time when we go into the millinneum. Alright. So, he’s saying that this) IS A TYPE OF THE SEVENTH DAY.”

This is a type of the seventh day. Still, we’re in time, in the millinneum. Alright.

“THEN COMES THE WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT. SEE, WE STILL HAVE JUDGMENT; WE’RE STILL IN TIME IN THE MILLENNIUM. IT’S A DAY, ONE THOUSAND YEARS. IT’S A TIME ELEMENT. NOT... DON’T GET THAT MIXED UP WITH THE NEW EARTH NOW, ‘CAUSE IT’S NOT.”

Don’t get the millinneum mixed up with he new earth, because it isn’t, see. Now this is on “The Future Home”. But, you see, he goes back and forth and so, sometimes it’s so hard to hold the things together. You have to pray and ask God to help you to do that. See? Alright, so now, he said, “It isn’t the new earth, it’s the millinneum. ”And then he prays here, and he says:

“NOW LORD....”

This is way over in the end of the.... coming into the end of.... and I’m skipping a lot here. I’m skipping from page 30 to page 68. I’m leaving that space in there for tonight, ok? And we’ll get in there tonight. Alright, now, on page 68, he said,

“HELP US, LORD. IF THERE IS ONE HERE THAT IS CALLED TO THIS WEDDING SUPPER OF THE LAMB, (See? If there’s one here that’s called to this wedding supper of the Lamb) THIS THOUSAND YEARS OF MILLENNIUM REIGN AND TO THEN ENTER INTO THE CITY AFTER THE HONEYMOON IS OVER--....”

See? Boy, I tell you, you know? You say, “Well, I thought he said this and I thought he said that.” He said exactly what he meant. And so, the only one that can unravel it, is the same one that said it. Amen, the same one that said it, is the only one that can make it look like a picture for you. Amen. Alright. So now.

“...THE MILLENNIUM IS MERELY THE HONEYMOON. (Alright, now. the) ...BRIDEGROOM TAKES BRIDE HOME. IT’S HERS....”

See, this home, this new Jerusalem, literally, this fifteen-hundred mile city, that we’re talking about, it belongs to the Bride. That’s what He created for her. That’s what He made for her. See? That’s where she’s going to live. But, what John saw, is what’s going to live there. When he saw it coming down and, you know, the Bride already prepared and made ready before the earth, before the literal, physical, New Jerusalem, comes into existance in Palestine, before it pushes up, now it’s coming up. Now you talking about something pushing up, you wait until that thing starts pushing up and going fifteen-hundred miles up in the air. Amen. And everything is already prepared, and when it starts coming into existance, it’ll just come into existance just like He planned it to happen. Now He’s already got His Bride ready. She’s already gone through that process and gone all the way through to eternity. Into eternity. So she’s waiting now, she’s waiting now in eternity. You say, “Brother Holmes, you don’t believe that.” I believe as much as I see that microphone right there. Amen. We have passed from death unto life. We cannot die! We are in eternity, amen, in the eternal kingdom of the eternal God! Now this is the Spiritual, see. Alright. So He has to get this ready, and then, He gets the place that this is going to live in ready, and brings it on the scene. Alright. And then they come together. See? That’s what he’s saying here. Alright. You say, “Well, I don’t see that in there.” Well, you pray. The Lord’ll let you see it. Alright, now. So he goes on now. He said:

“...(This belongs to her and) HE’S GONE TO PREPARE A HOUSE SINCE HE’S BECOME ENGAGED. MAY WE BE TRUE TO HIM WHO IS THE WORD, FOR HE IS THE WORD. REGARDLESS OF HOW OTHERS TRY TO SASS US, KEEP US AWAY FROM IT LORD, DRAW ME NEARER.”

Then he sings that little chorus.

“FOR SOMETIMES I GROW HOMESICK FOR HEAVEN,

AND HIS GLORY I THERE SHALL BEHOLD,

WHAT A JOY THAT WILL BE,

WHEN MY SAVIOUR I SEE!

IN THAT BEAUTIFUL CITY OF GOLD.”

Amen. Now....

“THE FUTURE HOME OF THE GROOM AND BRIDE, HE’S COMING BACK ...(then) THE WEDDING SUPPER, IT’S GOING TO BE THREE AND A HALF (Of course, he said days. Of course that was a little.... we know it’s three and half years. Alright. See.... You say, “You’re not trying to....” No, I’ll just say three and a half days. That’s fine. Alright. That’s fine with me. Amen. Alright. So, now. It’s going to bring.... What is He going to do? He’s going to....) ... RETURN AGAIN IN THE MILLENNIUM....”

He’s going to take His bride away and have her with Him, three and a half years, and then, while He’s making Himself known over here, to the Jews, (to that 144,000), all this is going on at the same time.... You say, “Well, how can He be here and be over there?” Well you forgot, He’s omnipresent. See? You can’t condense the Spirit of God into one place. See? He’s omnipresent, He’s everywhere. Yeah, see? His Spirit can be over there with 144,000, and be at the marriage supper of the Lamb at the same time. Amen. Now you know that’s the truth. He’s God. Amen. Alright, so now, see, what people forget is this, that wherever God has chosen to take up His dwelling place, that’s where He is. See? Amen. If somebody.... and I’m wanting to walk now. If somebody is borned again, by the Spirit of God, that means that the life of God, is in them. Right? That’s what it means, the Spirit of God is in you. See? Alright. So now, Brother Antipas’ brother over there.... I don’t know how many thousand miles it is from here to his home, over there, but it’s a long way. But now, he’s borned again over there. See? For that’s God over there. See? For this is God here. See? And then in India, the ones that’s borned again, is God there. See? I mean, when people start to condense God into one person, just one being like that, and say, “Well, He’s just like a finger.” Wherever Gods’ Spirit is, wherever He decided to dwell in, that’s God. Amen. We can’t condense it down to just one little group of people like we’ve got here. It’s got to be in the world, the whole world. Amen. Amen. Alright. So now, I said I wasn’t going to be long this morning, but if I keep this up, I will, won’t I? Alright. Now, the future home of the groom.... See, He’s coming back now, and then, this marriage supper....

“....LIKE THE BRIDEGROOM TAKING THE BRIDE TO HER SURPRISE. (Now, He does that after the marriage supper. ) HOW THE LITTLE BRIDE STANDS THERE IN AWE AS SHE LOOKS AT HER FUTURE HOME. AND BY FAITH TODAY, LORD, WE SEE IT YONDER . (By faith we can see it yonder.) IT’LL BE RIGHT HERE ON THIS EARTH. YOU PROMISED IT. (Now he’s praying.) YOUR CHURCH WILL BE COMPLETELY.... (Listen to this: “Your church will be completely...”) ....REDEEMED ONE OF THESE DAYS...., (Completely redeemed.) AND THEN YOUR WORLD WILL BE REDEEMED, (See? The church will be redeemed, then the world will be redeemed) THE REST OF THE PARTICLES. BUT FIRST YOU HAVE REDEEMED YOUR PEOPLE, THEIR BODIES, THAT’S MADE UP OF THE WORLD.”

You have redeemed them first, see. Alright. Then You finished the work for the earth, see, that we come out of. And then.... it’s so plain when you get to looking at it in reality. Alright? Now.

“JUST A LITTLE WHILE AND WE’LL BE SUMMONED; THEN THE RAPTURE WILL COME. JUST A LITTLE BITTY GROUP LIKE ENOCH WILL BE TAKEN UP. THEN....”

Now watch this. I’m going to ask Brother Don if he will go.... and I can’t get down there with the microphone, but.... maybe I can, I don’t know. But anyway, I want him to go to the 12th chapter of Revelation. I want you to go.... (blank space on tape).

“....THE REMNANT OF THE WOMAN’S SEED THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD (JEWS), (See? The remnant of the woman’s seed is the Jews. They keep the commandments of God. And, see,) HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST....”

Which is something else. See, the Jews don’t have the testimony of Jesus Christ. See? They don’t have the testimony of Jesus Christ, but the gentiles does have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Now this is the little group that didn’t make it into the Bride. It could be billions of them, I don’t know. But he said there’s going to be a small group, like Enoch, that’s going in the Rapture. Just the Bride. Then, this other group, which keep the commandments, which is the Jews, and the ones that have the testimony of Jesus Christ, that didn’t make it in the Rapture, but they have the testimony of Jesus Christ, and I’m not going to try to put it together, we’ll see when we get over there, whoever they are. Anyway, it’s Gentile.

“....(Then, they) WILL BE HUNTED DOWN LIKE DOGS.... (after the rapture), ....AND SHALL GIVE THEIR LIFE FOR THEIR TESTIMONY. THEN ONE GREAT MORNING, THE BREAK OF THE MILLENNIUM...THE HONEYMOON WILL START. ...THEN THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT TILL THE END OF THE THOUSAND YEARS....”

So, you see, all these is hunted down, of course, and is killed, then, of course, he said, live not again for the thousand years.

“....THEN AT THE END OF THE THOUSAND YEARS THERE WAS A JUDGMENT, (See? The white throne judgment.) SHOWING THAT HAM WAS IN THE ARK. AND HAM IS STILL THERE IN THE REMNANT. (See? Ham is still there in the remnant. Sin is still there. See? The) ONES THAT HEARD IT... (Now listen! I don’t care how you place them. You can place them anywhere you want to. You can say it’s the sleeping virgins, you can say it’s the foolish virgins, you can say it’s this, you can say it’s that, or whatever you want to. But look at it like he said it, now. The ones that heard it) AND REJECTED IT (See?) WILL HAVE TO BE JUDGED. NOW, GRANT IT, LORD, THAT WE’LL NOT BE CONSIDERED AMONG THEM, (See? Grant it, Lord, that we won’t be considered among them.) BUT WILL BE IN THE CALL TO THE WEDDING SUPPER, FOR WE DO RECOGNIZE JESUS AMONG US TODAY. WE’RE GOING IN WITH HIM, OUT OF THE WORLD INTO HIM.... (See? Out of the world, into Him. Now,) LET US WALK FORTH IN THAT CITY, COME OUT WITH HIM.

Let us walk forth in that city, coming out with Him. Alright. So now, on “Questions and Answers”, in 1964, I’m going to read this little question, and then, I’ll probably switch right back to the “Harvest Time”, and get a quote there. We’re coming down pretty close now. (Brother Holmes comments on all the movement in the church.) May God help us. Alright. So now, see.

“GOD MADE THE WORLD IN SIX THOUSAND YEARS...., (See? Alright.) ....AND THE SEVENTH THOUSAND HE RESTED. HE SAID A MAN WILL NEVER LIVE THAT TIME....”

So what is the millinneum for? It’s to let that man live in time for a full day, because He told Adam, ‘In the same day that you partake of this fruit, that same day you will die.’ See? You won’t live out that thousand years. See? You’ll have to die. So He’s going to prove to Satan, that He’s going to restore that back, thatHe has restored it back, and it’s going to be the millinneum, where we live a thousand.... The word millinneum means a thousand years. So that means one day. How long did Methuselah live? 969 Years. He was the oldest man that ever lived upon the face of the earth. He was cut short of that thousand years. But, there is going to be a time element of one thousand years, literally. Amen. There’s many people that claim to be in the Message, (and I have nothing to do with trying to separate who is and who isn’t, the Word does that), that say that they’re in the millinneum now. Well, now if they say they’re spiritually in the millinneum, I’ll say they missed it there, because Brother Branham said we are in the eighth day. See, we’ve already passed through the millinneum, in the spiritual sense, and gone into the eighth day. Then, if they say we’re physically, literally, in there, I’ll say they missed it, because Brother Branham said we go in there with our glorified body. There won’t be no sickness and no more tears, no sorrow. Amen. Even though we’ll be in time, we have our glorified bodies. We’re going to live there a thousand years, with our glorified bodies, in time. Amen. And then, we’ll slip into the new earth. Alright. Now watch this now.

“....(He said in that) DAY YOU EAT THEREOF, (that’s) THE DAY YOU DIE.” (Talking to Adam.) ... (and) METHUSELAH WAS THE OLDEST MAN THAT EVER LIVED IN THE BIBLE, (And of course, we know that he lived 969 years) AND HE NEVER LIVED THAT THOUSAND YEARS. BUT THE MAN THAT’S GOING TO LIVE THROUGH THE MILLENNIUM, ONE THOUSAND YEARS, TO SHOW THAT THE--THAT THE PENALTY HAS BEEN PAID....

That the price has been paid, and we’re going back to Eden, without any curse. Amen. The curse has been taken off of the human race. See, at that time. Alright, the curse has not yet been taken off of the earth, but it’s been taken off of the subjects. Alright, see? So now, we’ll wait then, for a thousand years before it’s taken off of the earth. We still can’t go into our new home yet, because the curse has not been taken off of that. See? Amen! I love this! This is real, and this is something we need to know! Amen. Alright. If we don’t, we get mixed up, you know, like I said, and we get the puzzle all messed up. Alright, so one thousand years is to show that the penalty has been paid.

“....MAN LIVES FOREVER; THE DAY IS FINISHED; THE TIME IS FINISHED; THEY'RE IN ETERNITY.”

Now, let’s go back to “Harvest Time”. Alright?

“(It’s the) SAME THING WITH JESUS, LOOK, WHEN HE WAS BAPTIZED IN WATER, AND MADE HIS PREPARATIONS, HE WAS SANCTIFIED TO BEGIN WITH BY THE FATHER; (Alright.) THEN HE RAISED UP HIS HANDS, AND HERE COME THE DOVE UPON THE LAMB. (Well,) WHAT WAS GOD DOING WHEN HE PUT THE DOVE ON THERE? (See, what was He doing when He allowed the dove to come upon that part of the earth? See? Watch.) HE CLAIMED THAT PART OF LIFE - (Alright?) ...THAT WAS PART OF THE EARTH , (that was part of the earth) JESUS EAT FOOD LIKE WE HAVE....”

See? He was a mortal being. Jesus was a mortal being, just like you and me, with sixteen elements of the earth. And diety was in Him. Amen, He was the incarnate God. Alright, now.

“....THE NATURAL BREAD. (He ate, which was a part of this earth, you eat it, you know. Alright.) BUT NOW GOD CLAIMS IT; ...NOTHING (is) GOING TO HOLD IT....”

So when that dove came down upon it, God claimed it. Amen. You see that, Brother Wayne? You heard this years ago, didn’t you? Amen. Maybe not quite this clear, but we preached it when you was here years ago, the same thing. Amen, but it’s opening up a little more as we look at it. Alright. Now watch.

“....DEATH CAN’T HOLD IT....”

I don’t care what you say, and how many people believe something else. Now I’m going to ask Brother Don, before I get to far in here, to clarify what he said over there in the last one I read, in “The Future Home,” where he was identifying, you know, the Jew and the ones that had the testimony of Jesus Christ, the gentiles. The 17th Verse of the 12th Chapter.

AND THE DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN, AND WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT OF HER SEED, WHICH KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST.

Alright, you see, the dragon, the dragon. What is the dragon? The old mother whore. Amen. That spirit, alright? And her children. Alright. So, they come out against everything that will stand for God, amen, and run them down and take their lives. Alright. So now

“....THAT WAS PART OF THE EARTH, JESUS EAT FOOD LIKE WE HAVE, THE NATURAL BREAD. BUT NOW GOD CLAIMS IT; THERE AIN’T NOTHING GOING TO HOLD IT. DEATH CAN’T HOLD IT. SAID, “DESTROY THIS TEMPLE, (You know when he talked to His diciples, He said, ‘destroy this temple and in three days I’...) [personal pronoun] (will) RAISE IT UP AGAIN.” (See?)

I like that, see? Amen. A mortal man. Huh? A mortal man, sitting there talking to His diciples, and saying, “Destroy this mortal temple, here, (this physical temple), and I will raise it up again.” Why can’t them poor people see that the same thing could come through that prophet, like it did David, amen, when David said, “I’ll not suffer to see my Holy one, you know, in hell...” and so forth, you know, how He said all these things. And come to find out, it sound just like it was David talking about David. See? But it wasn’t David talking about David, it was the Lord speaking through David talking about the Lord. See? So why couldn’t it be that, when He raised His hand and said, ‘I’ll ride this trail once more,” see? It wouldn’t have to be the mortal man, William Branham, but it would be the Voice that’s crying out through him. “I’ll ride this trail once more.” Amen. So you’ve got to look at these things and know that it was God speaking through the prophet. Amen. So now, this temple, He said, “I’ll raise it up again.” That was the mortal man, but that was more than the mortal man. The mortal man, Jesus, could not raise up the temple. See? But He that was in him was saying, “Destroy this temple that I live in. Go ahead, I’m God that’s living in there. And you destroy that temple and I’ll raise it up the third day!” Amen. So, you see, it was not Jesus speaking, the mortal man, it was the incarnate God, saying, “I’ll raise it up again.” Alright. And He did.

“AND WHEN THE MAN AND WOMAN (Now listen to this close. “When the mand woman”) GOES INTO GOD, COMPLETE NOW, (When they completely go into God, see?) .... NOT UNDER SOME SPELL,....”

You know, get the music going about.... You know what I mean, and first thing you get everybody shouting. And that’s alright to shout, if you know what you’re shouting about, it’s fine. And the first thing you know, they go into a spell, (like the Pentecostal people did), and then, the first thing you know, they say, “If you speak in tongues, you’ve got it.” Well, many spoke in tongues and didn’t have it. And like the Methodist people said, “If you shout, you’ve got it.” Well, many people shouted and didn’t have it, Brother Antipas. See? They didn’t have it because they shouted. You haven’t got it because you speak with tongues. The devil can speak with tongues. Amen. That’s not proof that you’ve got it, even though the Holy Ghost does speak with tongues. But it’s not a sign that you’ve got the Holy Ghost if you speak with tongues. See? Alright, so that’s what he’s saying here, he’s trying to get us to understand. See?

“....NOT UNDER SOME SPELL, NOT UNDER SOME EMOTION,....”

He said, “I’m talking about going into God.” What is God? The Word. You know what I’m talking about. You know what he’s talking about. Amen. Alright.

“....BUT REALLY WHEN THE WORD (when the Word) AND HIM BECOMES ONE;....

When you and the Word becomes one, you have gone into God! Amen. You say, “Well, I didn’t speak in tongues.” You didn’t have to. You say, “I didn’t shout.” Somewhere or another, you probably did. Amen. I believe everybody’ll shout a little bit when they get that change. I mean, you know, that old soul gets out of there, you may have different kinds of emotional feelings, but something happens, you know. But anyway.

“....GOD HAS SAVED THAT PERSON,. (now, that has gone into God. God has saved that person, and He has) SANCTIFIED HIM FROM THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, (Three processes. Watch now.) .... RENOVATE EVERYTHING OF THE WORLD AWAY FROM THEM WITH THE FIRE OF THE HOLY GHOST, (That’s right, amen.) AND LIVES IN THAT PERSON, REFLECTING HIMSELF, THAT PERFECT MAN OR WOMAN LIVING BY THE WORD. SEE, THAT’S THE EARTH THAT’S CLEANSED...”

That’s the part of the earth that’s cleansed. Amen. See? So you see, you can’t be a part of the world and be in God. You can’t do it. You can’t have no part of the world and be in God, it won’t work. See? “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” Is that Scripture? Turn to I John and see if it isn’t. Alright. So you see, the love of the Father separates us from the world. Amen. This is a close thing, it is not a hit and a miss, it’s not a hap-hazard drag-along. If I want to pray today, I’m going to pray, if I don’t, I’ll wait ‘til tomorrow, or maybe next week or something. If I want to pick up a message and read it, I’ll pick it up today, if I don’t, then, I can do it tomorrow, or then, next week or something. That’s not giving your life to God. You say, “Come on now, Brother Holmes, don’t get on our toes.” Do you want to be in God? That’s what I’m talking about. When you are in God, then, you are the Word, and the Word is God! And the only desire that you’ll have is to be like Him. Amen. Amen. Give me more of that, give me more of that, see. And then, that cleanses the house that you live in. Amen. That cleans it up, amen, and you don’t want no part of the world then. See?

“....HE’LL USE THE EARTH THE SAME WAY; HE REDEEMS IT.”

See? So he’s going back to the earth, now. He said, He’ll use the earth the same way. Alright. So now, He uses this pile of earth to dwell in, so He cleanses.... He redeems this part of the earth. See? Alright. So now, He’s going to do the same thing to that earth that we’re going to live in, eternally, that’s what he’s saying. So we go into that cleansed, everything taken off of it. Amen. You say, “Well, why do we have to die?” We don’t, we just go to sleep in Christ, go to sleep. You know, this old body gets tired. Amen. It has to lay down somewhere and go back to the dust, is that right? If we’re not living when, you know, the change comes. Alright. But that has nothing to do with the one that’s inside. If you’re borned again, then, that person inside just moves right into the theophany and goes right on; Don’t miss a beat. Amen. Don’t go into a shadow.

Iwas reading the other day where, science was trying to figure out how people, sometimes when they come down to death, some of you might have read that, sometimes when they come so close and brush death, so many of them had had experiences of leaving their body, and going somewhere, and then, coming back into their body. Now science is beginning to wonder about this. They’re beginning to acknowledge that there’s something there. And I read where, down here in Georgia somewhere, where, this school has defied the teaching of evolution and said, “We will teach creationess, not evolution.” Amen. Going against, see? Because they have an understanding that it come about by creation. It didn’t evolve from one species to another species, right on up, in other words, from the chimpanzee to the human. No. He started out whatever the seed is, that what it will be. Amen. He started out with a monkey seed, and that’s what come from the monkey, the monkey seed. And if he ever reproduces himself, what is he going to reproduce? A monkey. And when it started with a human being, it started with a human being seed. Every seed brings forth of its kind. And every time a human being is born, it’s not a monkey one time, a dog the next time, and something else the next time. Every time a human being reproduces himself, what is it? It’s a human being. Amen. So, you see, it’s not evolution, in the way that they teach it. It is that life evolved from one, a little higher order, and a little higher order, starting at the polywog, or the little tadpole and so forth, coming on up. But, it wasn’t the same species, changing from one to another. See? Amen.

You see what I mean, alright. I can’t explain it like some people. I know what I see. Amen. Alright. Now, if we’re to understand these things now, that we’re suppose to understand in this day, then how am I going to understand it. Look, if I go back and Iall the time studying Luther’s message, or I’m all time studying, you know, some of these great men of Pentecost, I am not going to get the Message of this day. You say, “But they were great men.” They were great men. See? But what they had is not good enough for you. Well, what has become of that, Brother Antipas? The prophet said it’s turned to cairn. It’s stinks in the nostrils of God, because He has moved from that. It did it’s work for that day, but it won’t do the work for this day. You’ve got to have the Word for this day in order to have the results of the Word for this day! See? In other words, you’ve got to be in the Word for this day! Watch. You say, “Well I want to see that.” Alright, turn to “Anointed Ones at the End Time” let’s see about it. Let’s see what he said. Amen, alright. That’s Paragraph 218 and 219, on the “Anointed Ones At The End Time”.

“NOTICE (now). MOSES, HE NEVER GIVE THE CHILDREN OF GOD... MOSES WAS AN EAGLE,.... (See, Moses was an eagle.) AND HE NEVER GIVE THE CHILDREN OF GOD NOAH’S LEFTOVERS;....”

Amen, what about that? No sir, he never brought one of the messages that Noah preached, over to the children in his day. It wasn’t for them. Amen. The message of Pentecost was not for us. See? We’ve got another message. It’s in a higher order. Amen. He had the fresh Word of God. See? He had the fresh Word of God. Where did it come from? It come straight from God to Moses. See? It didn’t come from Paul to the church. You say, “Well Paul had the Word of God.” That’s true, it was good all the way through the seven church ages, but at the end of the church ages, he said, “I’m Alpha and Omega.” You saw what I read in the 21st Chapter there, this morning. He said, “It is done!” Something was finished when He took the book out of the hand and He come down, when the book was open, He said, “It is finished, time shall be no more.” That meant that time for that age was closed, no more would God recognize that message no more, because another message come in. Another message come in, another land come in. So he moved out from Pentecost into a higher order. Amen, the “Seven Thunders.” Right. Regardless of what people say, that’s exactly what Brother Branham is saying. It’s another message and another land. See? Alright. So we get hung up back there on them..... Them fellows preached good messages, I’ll guarantee you that, and I used to read them a lot.

But, I’m kind of like old Neil Havala. I read where he said one time, he said, “You can read all the books you want to, and all the messages you want to,” he said, “but when I found out that this Message was the voice of God,” he said, “I didn’t have no more time to read any other books.” He said, “Then I want to hear it straight from God.” Amen. So that’s the way we ought to be. Amen. You’re not going to get rapturing faith from over there somewhere, you’re going to get it from the Message, right here. The Seven Thunder Mysteries, is what he said would give us rapturing faith, is that right? Alright, now watch. Well, I hope you’re listening.

“....THE LORD GOD MET ME (Moses said,) IN THE WILDERNESS, AND CONFIRMED HIS WORD, AND SENT ME DOWN HERE TO CALL YOU OUT.... (Amen.) ....THEN THERE COME IMPERSONATORS AROUND, IMPERSONATING IT. SEE?....”

And that’s exactly what’s happened today, you know. You’ve got somebody over here saying that he’s the prophet, somebody else saying that he’s the prophet. Got somebody, I think, over in Africa, there, saying that they’re the Messiah, and if you don’t hear what they say, then,.... you know.... What Brother Branham said was one thing, but, now what he’s saying is something different. I read a little bit about it the other day. Alright.

“....BUT HE HAD THE WORD OF THE HOUR,....”

See? Moses had the Word of the hour. These impersonators are imposters. It won’t work. It won’t work. They try to make it work, but it won’t work. Amen. Alright.

“....‘CAUSE GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM, THE ONE WHO HAD THE PROMISE, (Abraham had the promise. He siad,) ‘ YOUR SEED SHALL SOJOURN IN A STRANGE LAND FOUR HUNDRED YEARS, BUT I’LL VISIT THEM AND TAKE THEM OUT WITH A MIGHTY HAND.’ ”

So it wasn’t Moses, it was God. See? Amen. So you can’t impersonate that. See? You can have anything you want to of any other age, any type of the Message you want to, and you can say this is real, this is good. It was. He didn’t say “I was”, He said, “I Am.” He didn’t say, “I will be,” He said, “I Am.” He’s the one that spoke to Moses. The “I Am.” He said, “Who will I say sent me?” He said, “You say that “I Am” that “I Am” sent you. Not, I will be or I was, but “I Am.” Present tense, hourly Message, is where we get into God, and no other way. Amen. Watch.

“MOSES SAID, ‘NOW, THE LORD GOD WILL SPEAK TO ME, AND SHOW ME, AND HAS TOLD ME WHAT TO DO, AND I’LL TELL YOU.’ SAID, ‘I AM SENT ME.’ I AM, NOT I WAS, OR WILL BE, I AM, PRESENT TENSE, THE WORD NOW. NOT THE WORD THAT WAS,.... (in Noah’s day, or in Adam’s day. No. But the Word that is, present tense, right now. See?) .... THE WORD THAT WILL COME, (No. but,) THE WORD THAT’S NOW. SEE? YOU GET IT? ...I AM IS THE WORD. ‘IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD.’ IS THAT RIGHT? ‘I AM... (God.)’ ”

“GOD SENT ME AS HIS PROPHET TO VINDICATE THIS TO BE TRUE: ‘I AM THE ANSWER TO THIS WORD.’.... (See? I am the answer to this Word.) .... TOLD ME TO COME DOWN HERE AND DO THIS.”

“AND WHEN HE DID IT, PHARAOH SAID, “WELL, WE GOT PLENTY OF BOYS IN OUR GROUP....”

See? They say you’re following a man. Why, we got something fresh. We got something over here that’s, you know, it’s.... and so and so. Well, like I said.... I remember one time in St. Augustine, I kept referring back to Brother Branham, what he said, and I picked up the spirit out there. Some of them were saying, you know, “Well why don’t you quit callin his name?” Uh, huh. I said, “Now listen, if you’ll show me a man on the face of this earth that did what Brother Branham did, what God did through Brother Branham, I’ll call his name. If you can’t then you better be watching out.Because I have never known another man that was used by God like William Branham.” Amen. And you haven’t either. And you won’t never know one. Because there wasn’t but two more of them and that was Moses and the Lord Jesus. Amen. Right. Moses wrote the Old Testament. And then, of course, it was God over us in a pillar of fire. Then when Jesus come it was God with us, in human flesh. Then when the Holy Ghost come, what is it? It’s God in us. See? It’s the same God. Amen. Three manifestations of the same God. We can’t go back over there to Calvary, we’ve got to come over here now to the Life. See? It’s not the literal, physical blood, it’s the Life that was in the blood, that has come back on the believer. Amen. And that’s where we are today So Pharoah had a lot of impersonators, but they couldn’t produce like Moses did, see. We got plenty of the boys in our group....

“....CAN DO THAT TOO”: IMPERSONATORS.”

“JESUS SAID, ‘NOW, THAT’S GOING TO REPEAT AGAIN IN THE LAST DAYS (SEE?), (And that’s where we are now, see. Alright. I’m closing now.) CLAIMING THE SAME THING...’ WATCH WHO COME DOWN FIRST. (See?) WATCH WHO STAYED WITH THE WORD. SEE? THAT’S IT. THAT’S HOW IT’S KNOWN.”

It’s the one that stays with the Word. Amen, amen. You say, “All of it?” Yes sir! “You mean, even marriage and.... Yes sir, every bit of it. Every bit of it. “You mean, even where he said that, ‘you didn’t sin in the first place’, and he said, ‘neither man or woman,’ he said, ‘you both stand justifeid in the sight of God, as though you never sinned in the first place.’ You mean, I got to believe that Brother Holmes?” That’s the Word of this day. And if we don’t believe that.... If we put anybody under the law today, we’re not going to make it, amen. This is liberty, this is freedom, this is peace. We go into God, which is the Word, and then, what takes place? The life that was in God, begins to live out through us. See? It’s a natural thing for....

In other words, the supernatural inside of us brings that natural under subjection, and we begin to act like we’re Christians. Amen. The lady folks begin to let their hair grow, they don’t want to cut it, you know. They don’t want to trim the dead ends, they don’t want.... They got all kind of excuses. “Well, it’ll grow better.” Now you know you’re lying. You know better than that. When you take the scissors and cut the dead ends off, the reason you’re doing that is because you want to cut some of it off. You don’t want it as long as it is. You say, “Well I don’t believe that.” You’ll see one day. He said, “If you going to cut it then why don’t you shave it.” That’s what Paul said. If you going to cut your hair, if you’re going to trim the dead ends off, you women. Because, if you’re going to do that, I can call you woman, but if you let your hair grow, I’ll call you a sister. See? Amen. See? But if you’re going to cut it a little bit, why don’t you just shave it, just be shorn. Amen.

That’s the Word of God, isn’t it. You say, “Well, why are you getting on that?” We’re talking about going into the Word. And when we go into the Word of this age.... what did the Word of this age teach us? He taught us that there was only one woman in the bible that ever used makeup, painted her face, and what happened to her? She was good dogmeat, is that right? So you go ahead and paint your face and paint your fingernails and toenails and everything else, and guess what’s going to happen to you. You’re going to be good atomic fodder. Amen. You’ll be good atomic fodder just as sure as I’m standing here. Got to have some for that. So, if you want to be a part of that, that’s fine, that’s up to you.

But where that little gene of Life is, it’s going to come out and produce, ‘cause you’ll find out tonight that it never had no beginning, it was in the mind of God eternally. Amen. It comes right on through, it’s eternity. You never was saved at any day, no sir, you always was. In the mind of God you were always saved, He knew where you was all the time. And when He got ready for you, He just called you. Amen. Amen. Oh my! Come on sister. Don’t you love Him, don’t you appreciate Him? I do. Amen. This is rich. Amen. What we’re talking about is real! It’s real! Amen. We’re going to get into some spriritual things tonight and I want you to really come, and come believing, and pray and ask the Lord to help us to understand these things. And we won’t venture out of the book of the “Future Home” tonight. Every quote that we have will come right straight from that book, right from that message. Amen. Let us stand.

“Give Me Oil In My Lamp.” If you don’t have it, you sure had better be trying to get it. Amen.

Amen. How many of you know that? Why, we ought to keep our hands up. I seen a little fellow standing over here on the corner the other day, Brother Don, he was preaching away, preaching away. And I told Sister Darlene, I said, “I used to do that.” I said, “I stood on the street corners of Belton, South Carolina, I stood on the street corners of Anderson, South Carolina, I stood on the street corners of Honea Path, South Carolina, right on the square, and preached what I thought to be the truth at that time.” All that I knew.

The man is doing all that he knows to do. Amen. He just needs somebody to take him over, (like Paul did) to that little group down there, and say, “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?” Amen. I didn’t feel a bad spirit toward the man. We can’t do that until we first present the truth to him and he turns it down, see. Amen. So he’s doing all that he knows to do. Amen. And we need to take the truth to him. Somebody needs to come up and witness to him. He’s a little bitty fellow, looks like he starved to death, but he’s out there. You’ll see him on Saturday, he’s out there preaching, amen, telling the people what he knows with his Bible. Amen. So think about what we know and how we ought to be. I heard Brother Branham say yesterday, on a message, I heard him make this statement. He said, “After I had that experience beyond the curtain of time,” he said, “it made me want to go after everybody that was lost.” He said, “I don’t want to see nobody lost.” It put something in me to want to go and witness and witness and witness, more and more. Amen. Let’s us pray that God will give us a real clear vision, amen, of where we’re at now, and what’s going on, and invite people to come. Amen.

Not come to the church, come to Christ. Come into Christ. Amen. Oh my! That’s what we need. Go into the Word, go into the word. What Word? The Word of this age, amen, the Word of this age. Don’t you love Him? Don’t you appreciate Him? Don’t you thank God for what He’s done for us? Amen. Ohhh! I just raised my hands this morning and I said, “Lord, I thank You for letting me to live to see this day.” Amen. And right now, so close, why, I couldn’t ask for another day in this life, Brother Don. I’ve already lived seven years past the alotted time. I couldn’t say, “Lord, let me live another ten years, or let me live this....” I just say, “Lord, help me to be ready and waiting when You get ready so I can open my arms and invite the death angel to relieve me from this pesthouse, going into that other one.” Amen, come on brother. Don’t forget, breathe a little prayer tonight before you come this evening, and let’s come back at six o’clock looking forward to the Holy Spirit speaking to us and telling us some things we ought to know.

Listed below are the Scripture and Quotes that were taken from the Message of our Prophet for the basis of this sermon.

REVELATION 21:5 - And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

REVELATION 21:6 - And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

REVELATION 21:7 - He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

FUTURE.HOME JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY 64-0802
56-1 - It won't be long. Everything's perfectly, geographically: Sodom, the messengers, everything setting just exactly right. What does it mean? Just think, coming to this one little tabernacle, fifteen hundred miles square, from the same dimensions.

Why is it God so thought and cared so much about that little place of Palestine (See?) when it's just a little spot? But right in there is where the temple will set. That's where the New Jerusalem will break up right there. Olive... Mount of Olives shall cleave part to the right and left (sure) when she pushes up from the beneath. Now, if they said pushing apart like this... It's pushing up, in that day when He stands, His holy feet upon the mountain...

56-3 - Notice, on His throne fifteen hundred miles high... Remember, Satan tried to tempt Him one time on top of a mountain. See? The new City has twelve foundations (as we went through it): twelve patriarchs, a hundred and forty-four cubits being the breastplate of Aaron, twelve gates of pearl, twelve disciples' names. Jesus stand the Headstone on the throne, when His saints has crowned Him the King of kings, the Lord of lords, and He's the Headstone.

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335 - How many got the--the--"The Future Home Of The Bride And Groom," on the tape? See, I brought it out in there. The Lord gave it to me. I give it on to you as He gives it to me.

Look, the first thing, the world was condemned under Adam's fall from the Word. The preaching of Noah brought justification, and God baptized the earth with water; then along came the Son and dropped His Blood upon it to sanctify it, to claim it for His own; then in the final windup, the renovation will be fire that will burn every germ, every thing; it'll go for thousands of miles high in the air.

And then what? "I saw a new heaven and a new earth; first heaven and earth was passed away. And I saw the holy City, the New Jerusalem descending from God, out of heaven, adorned as a Bride for her--adorned as a Bride for her husband (See?) coming down upon the earth. Then God and man...

FUTURE.HOME JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY 64-0802
30-3 And the millennium... See, the world has now almost six thousand years old. See, and every two thousand year it's had a destruction. See? First two thousand, the flood came, and He baptized it with what? [Congregation replies, "Water"--Ed.] Water. Next two thousand, Jesus come to sanctify and claim it, dropped His Blood upon it, called it His.

All right, "I'll come again," now, as King with His Queen. And the second two thousand years what does He do? He comes and gives His rest period and then burns her off and claims it for His own, puts His Own back on it. And notice, not the perfect world, this millennium is a type of the seventh day.

Then comes the white throne judgment. See, we still have judgment; we're still in time in the millennium. It's a day, one thousand years. It's a time element. Not... Don't get that mixed up with the new earth now, 'cause it's not.

68-2 - Help us, Lord. If there is one here that is called to this wedding supper of the Lamb, this thousand years of millennium reign and to then enter into the City after the honeymoon is over--the millennium is merely the honeymoon. Then She--the Bride takes His--Bridegroom takes His Bride home. It's Hers, Her Bridegroom, His Bride. Oh, He's gone to prepare a house since He's become engaged. May we be true to Him Who is the Word, for He is the Word. Regardless of how others try to sass us, keep us away from it Lord, draw me nearer.

For sometimes I grow homesick for heaven,

And his glory I there shall behold,

What a joy that will be,

When my Saviour I see!

In that beautiful City of gold.

68-3 - The future home of the Groom and Bride, He's coming back... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... me to the wedding supper, it's going to be three and a half days. Then return again in the millennium on our honeymoon, and then He's going to bring the City into view, like the Bridegroom taking the Bride to Her surprise. How the little Bride stands there in awe as She looks at Her future home. And by faith today, Lord, we see it yonder. It'll be right here on this earth. You promised it. Your church will be completely redeemed one of these days, and then Your world will be redeemed, the rest of the particles. But first You have redeemed Your people, their bodies, that's made up of the world.

70-2 - Just a little while and we'll be summoned; then the rapture will come. Just a little bitty group like Enoch will be taken up. Then the remnant of the woman's seed that keep the commandments of God (Jews), have the testimony of Jesus Christ (Gentiles), will be hunted down like dogs and shall give their life for their testimony. Then one great morning, the break of the millennium for the--the honeymoon will start. And then the rest of the dead lived not till the end of the thousand years. Then at the end of the thousand years there was a judgment, showing that Ham was in the ark. And Ham is still there in the remnant. Ones that heard it and rejected it will have to be judged. Now, grant it, Lord, that we'll not be considered among them, but will be in the call to the wedding supper, for we do recognize Jesus among us today. We're going in with Him, out of the world into Him. Let us walk forth in that City, come out with Him.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY 64-0823M
962-189 Now, in here, I believe with all my heart I--we are, or this days... If we're not, somebody is; it's got to be. Time has run out; we're at the end. Every... The world...

God made the world in six thousand years, and the seventh thousand He rested. He said a man will never live that time out--a--a year--or--or day--"day you eat thereof, the day you die." Adam--or Methuselah was the oldest man that ever lived in the Bible, and he was 969 years old; and he never lived that thousand years. But the man that's going to live through the millennium, one thousand years, to show that the--that the penalty has been paid... Man lives forever; the day is finished; the time is finished; they're in eternity.

HARVEST TIME PHOENIX.AZ V-18 N-6 SATURDAY 64-1212
338 Same thing with Jesus, look, when He was baptized in water, and made His preparations, He was sanctified to begin with by the Father; then He raised up His hands, and here come the Dove upon the Lamb. What was God doing when He put the Dove on There? He claimed that part of life--that--that was part of the earth, Jesus eat food like we have, the natural bread. But now God claims it; there ain't nothing going to hold it. Death can't hold it. Said, "Destroy this temple, I'll raise it up again."

And when the man and woman goes into God, complete now, not under some spell, not under some emotion, but really when the Word and him becomes one; God has saved that person, sanctified him from the things of the world, renovate everything of the world away from them with the Fire of the Holy Ghost, and lives in that person, reflecting Himself, that perfect man or woman living by the Word. See, that's the earth that's cleansed. He'll use the earth the same way; He redeems it.

REVELATION 12:17 - And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

ANOINTED ONES AT END TIME JEFF.IN V-5 N-3 SUNDAY 65-0725M
218 Notice. Moses, he never give the children of God... Moses was an eagle, and He never give the children of God Noah's leftovers; he had the fresh Word of God. "The Lord God met me in the wilderness, and confirmed His Word, and sent me down here to call you out." Then there come impersonators around, impersonating it. See? But he had the Word of the hour, 'cause God said to Abraham, the one who had the promise, "Your seed shall sojourn in a strange land four hundred years, but I'll visit them and take them out with a mighty hand."

219 - Moses said, "Now, the Lord God will speak to me, and show me, and has told me what to do, and I'll tell you." Said, "I AM sent me." I AM, not I was, or will be, I AM, present tense, the Word now. Not the Word that was, the Word that will come, the Word that's now. See? You get it? "I AM..." I AM is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God." Is that right? "I AM..."

"God sent me as His prophet to vindicate this to be true: 'I AM the answer to this Word.' Told me to come down here and do this."

And when he did it, Pharaoh said, "Well, we got plenty of boys in our group can do that too": impersonators.

Jesus said, "Now, that's going to repeat again in the last days (see?), claiming the same thing..." Watch who come down first. Watch who stayed with the Word. See? That's it. That's how it's known.

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