Doors Pt.3
GENESIS 6:16-18
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof (Notice - only one door – that was Christ. Noah wasn’t a trinitarian with 3 doors in the ark, there wasn’t two doors either with two lords like Lot’s revelation, there was only one door into the ark, and Noah and his group were called by the voice of God to come up hither through that door and into the ark which the ark represented Christ the word for that day); with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. (Judgement time – the judge of all the earth was on the earth just like it was at Lot’s time, and just like the time we are living in now, and cataclysmic judgement was about to strike the earth)
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark (Notice where this voice of God is speaking from, “come into the ark” God was speaking from within the ark for Noah and his group to come in to where he was – So Noah heard a voice and saw a door just as John did in Revelation CH.4:1), thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
REVELATION 4:1
1 ¶ After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
As it was in the days of Noah – a door was opened to Noah and his group, and a door was opened to John who represents every true believer and follower of the truth of the message of this hour.
MATTHEW 24:32-33
32 ¶ Now learn a parable of the fig tree ; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: (The beginning of the time of harvest – evening time, supper time)
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Doors Pt.3
*Last week we showed how that there were doors spoken of in Lot’s day – the people of Sodom were blinded so that they couldn’t find the door.
*And then there was a door in Noah’s day which represented Christ for that day of how God had sent a message through his prophet to the people of the earth, but they shut out the message of God from their organizations just as they have done in this day also - so we find that in Noah’s day that Christ was also put outside by the people of that day and was outside the door knocking.
*But then there were also other doors in Noah’s day, the doors of science and chemistry and cosmetics had been unlocked and opened in Noah’s day, the doors of technology, the doors of space exploration, Noah was confronted with all these doors, it was a pressure on him, and the people of the world of that day were looking to all these doors for the deliverance of man just as people are looking for the answers to save the world by the doors of science and men of education in this day that we are living in now.
Read last opening verse again…
MATTHEW 24:33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
We notice here that at the time when Israel would become a nation that this would be the age of doors – that we would be at the doors of many great discoveries that would give us access to new worlds of knowledge and information.
- Noah’s door gave him and his group access into a new world after the flood. We notice that after they had gone through the door of the ark from one world, they never went back into that same world of science and technology and sin again. When Noah and his group went out of that door again, they walked into a brand new world.
- We also know that Revelation 9 was the opening of the door of the bottomless pit that has open up a new world and dimension in this age of science and technology of what we have today – this is a new world in comparison to any other time that has existed since the flood of Noah.
REVELATION 9:1-3
1 ¶ And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
- We also know that Revelation 10 was the opening of the word which opened the door into the bride age where this same voice reveals to John the entire book of Revelation – things past, present, and future – a door that was opened gave John access into the another world of the dispensation of the bride age.
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187 …This is not a Pentecostal age (Laodicea). This is the latter-day age. This is the Bride age. This is the evening Light. This is when Malachi 4 must be fulfilled, to follow God's pattern. This is Luke 17:30, to be fulfill.
- So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
**We are now at the doors - Many doors have been opened in this end time age that we are living in, but there is only one door that is able to lead us into the truth of the word for this age and that door is Christ.
REVELATION 1:10-12
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
***If we trace this voice of Christ through the book of Revelation we see here that this voice is speaking from the midst of the seven golden candle sticks of the seven church ages – but we know that in the last age of Laodicea, this voice is put outside of the church ages and he is knocking with the truth of this hour trying to get back in, but the religious Christian world have locked Christ the word outside of their denominational doors by refusing to receive the truth of the word that God has sent for this time.
REVELATION 3:20
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice (Notice that the voice is now outside of the church age), and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
*From last week we saw that the door was the door of the truth of this age that God sent in this hour to restore the word as he promised he would do at the end time, but the denominations closed the door to the truth and would not let it be taught in their churches – so the word was outside knocking and trying to get back in amongst the people.
REVELATION 4:1 Then look at this same voice again – it now moves its position from the midst of the church ages to heaven.
1 ¶ After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, (So after the church ages, this same voice is now speaking to John, but it is not speaking to John from the midst of the seven golden candle sticks of the 7 church ages dispensations, but it is now speaking from heaven, so the voice has moved its location from the seven church ages to heaven – “Come up hither” John, Like God said to Noah –“Come into the ark”. God was now calling Noah and his group by His voice from the location from within the ark – so you have to know where the voice is calling from to be able to go to were that voice is) and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
** Remember that after John hears the voice of Christ he is immediately caught up through this door into heavily places to hear things of what is going to come to pass in the future – Brother Branham refers to this as the bride age.
***The door that gives you access to that ream in this day is the door of the truth of this hour, its Christ, because Christ is the door.
*So at this time of when this voice calls John up higher as a flying eagle, it is this same voice of Christ that is going to be revealing to John the entire book revelation – and it is in this dispensation of time right now of when all these things are being revealed to the bride.
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174 …To everyone that hears this Word, John represented him. Amen John was the representative of the Blood of Jesus Christ, testimony of the Word. He was a witness of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, with a personal fellowship with Christ, and he represented the entire church; that, every man or woman, boy or girl that ever believed in Christ and accept Him on the same grounds, he'll be summoned someday, "Come up hither," and be caught up before the tribulation. Remember, the tribulation time hasn't set in yet. (We are living in the time right now that he is speaking of because we can see that the tribulation period is soon about to set in – so this event of Revelation 4:1 has been taking place since the opening of the seven seals right up to this present time now in 2022 – and I want to show us by the help of the Lord that the message of the hour teaches this to us very clearly)
This is being the time of setting of the judgment. John is being showed now what's going to take place after the church age. See? So it was.
***Remember that the 7 church ages ended with Christ being shut outside the door of the denominations because they rejected the truth that God sent in this generation through His prophet messenger – then this same voice of Christ moves location from the dispensation of the church ages into heaven where it calls John to come up higher which we know that John is called to come through the door of the truth of this hour into the bride age – and then it is in this bride age dispensation where it is shown to John all these things of the mysteries of the entire book of Revelation by this voice of Christ as he speaks it through the voice of his seventh angel on earth.
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49 Now, tonight with the 4th chapter, we're leaving off now, John had spoke to the Laodicean church age. And in this Laodicean church age, it was the most messed up church age of all the rest of them.
And we found the most pathetic thing in the last part of the Laodicean church age, Jesus standing on the outside of His own church where He had been put out, knocking at the door, trying to get back in. Isn't that sinful? I think that's about one of the most pathetic Scriptures that I've ever read: Jesus, outside of His own door, and His church had put Him out, and He was trying to get back in to only save them. "Any man that will open, let Me back in My own house, I'll sup with him and he with Me." Isn't that--isn't that pathetic? The God of heaven, put out of His own church by their creeds and denominations, and the way they were doing put them out--put Him out of the church, accepted their creed.
51 It's the very same thing as it was the day that Jesus was crucified. And that was that when they accepted Barabbas, a murderer, and crucified Jesus: loosed a murderer among them, that was proven a murderer, and accept--and turned down Jesus Christ, the only One that could give them Life.
And that's the same thing every denomination, and the Pentecostal denomination, has got today.
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109 Now, he... After the church ages was over, and everything was come ready, made ready the setting of the 4th chapter here, the church ages was done. He had done left the earth. You see? Remember, the voice that spoke to him, behind him, in the seven golden candlesticks, the work was finished. And now that same voice was speaking up in heaven.
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125 Oh, and notice, John, being taken up immediately after the church age, was a type of the raptured church. Immediately after the church age is over, this Laodicean church age, then comes the rapture. The church goes up like John did into the Presence of God.
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58 …After the church age, after the ages of the church, and they... The church never appears again until Revelation the 19th chapter when she returns with Her Bridegroom. (In other words, the world won’t see the bride until she returns with Christ in Revelation 19, but while the world is going on doing their thing through their doors of their worlds of Science and technology and unbelief, John who is a type of the end time bride is being shown by this voice things that are to be, and things that were before, and things that are now.
This is the time that John is being shown everything that pertains from Revelation chapter 4 on to the end of the book of Revelation in chapter 22, because the entire book of Revelation was a revelation that was sealed up until the time of the voice of the seventh angel.
REVELATION 10:7-8
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
8 ¶ And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again (Not the voice that spoke from the seven church ages – but this same voice now speaks from heaven as in chapter 4 – this is the bride age), and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
**So we know that this event is taking place for the bride right now – So Revelation 4:1 is going on right now, and brother Branham tells us that Revelation 4:1 is the rapture of when the church is taken up, and we know that the rapture is the event of being caught up to be with the Lord. But then we also know that the rapture is a three phase process that consists of the shout, the voice, and the trump, and we know that this process of the rapture has already been initiated by the coming of the message of the hour, this is what has been taking place for a period of more than 50 years now of a people that are being caught up into the revelation of the hour through the door of the word of this hour which is Christ (as John was caught up into heavenly places to see the mysteries of the word).
***Let us look at a Prophet of God teach this exactly from the message of the hour.
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149 Notice now, let's see what was this:
And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one set upon it, upon the throne.
There was a voice that called him. Oh, that voice. Oh, I can't get away from that, that voice of that One behind him. Then he looked around there, and He showed him all the church ages, 'cause he was standing in the church ages, the seven golden candlesticks. Then he heard that voice after the church ages had ceased, that voice left the earth, went up. When He got into glory, he heard Him say, "Come up here. I'm going to show you what's going to happen from hereafter." Oh, my.
150 That voice... Let's speak on that voice a minute. I got some Scriptures wrote down here. Let's go to I Thessalonians 4, and just listen over here what this voice is going to say. Oh, we all know what it's going to say, without--'fore we read it, don't we? We know what's going to happen. "The trumpet of God shall sound and the dead in Christ shall rise." Is that right? You who are putting it down, in I Thessalonians 4:16 and 17, "the voice." That voice was the voice of Christ. Is that right? The voice of Christ.
... for the trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
... we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them... to meet the Lord in the air: and forever be with the Lord.
151 The same voice that summoned John, "Come up," the same voice that said to John, "Come up," is the same voice that'll summons the church someday (Amen.), summons the church.
The reason people become confused over this subject is that they have it fixed in their minds that the entire rapture is one single and instant event that takes place in the twinkling of an eye – they think that the rapture is just the trump of God that translates us and takes us off the earth in a spit second of time, but the message of the hour teaches us that the rapture process consists of 3 events that take place over a period of many years and consists of a shout (which is the message of the hour that calls the bride up higher into heavenly places), and then the voice (which is the word in the bride as it was in Mary – the message goes from book and tape form into human form), and then the Trump (Which resurrects the sleeping saints).
And so we notice that these three phases of the rapture is simply the same voice of the word of God at 3 different stages of maturity.
A shout is simply a loud voice – A voice is also a voice – and the Trump is another word that can be used for a voice that calls the resurrection of the sleeping saints – is it 3 advancements of stages of the same voice.
So brother Branham is telling us clearly in this quote that this voice of Revelation 4:1 is the same voice of the rapture voice in I THESSALONIANS 4:16-17
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (3 progressive parts to the rapture event since the voice of Revelation 10:7 has been with us, and it begins with the Lord himself descending from heaven with a message (the shout phase of this rapture process), and that message was a door opening up to us to give us access so that we can know the things that are to be here after)
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Read that portion of Brother Branham’s quote again …Then he heard that voice after the church ages had ceased, that voice left the earth, went up. When He got into glory, he heard Him say, "Come up here. I'm going to show you what's going to happen from hereafter." Oh, my.
150 That voice... Let's speak on that voice a minute. I got some Scriptures wrote down here. Let's go to I Thessalonians 4, and just listen over here what this voice is going to say. Oh, we all know what it's going to say, without--'fore we read it, don't we? We know what's going to happen. "The trumpet of God shall sound and the dead in Christ shall rise." Is that right? You who are putting it down, in I Thessalonians 4:16 and 17, "the voice." That voice was the voice of Christ. Is that right? The voice of Christ.
***So the shout, voice and trumpet of I Thessalonians 4:16 and 17 is the same voice that John hears in Revelation 4:1 – that’s thus saith a prophet of God.
*This is what the message teaches us, and this is why it is important for ministers to teach the people what the message teaches because you cannot truly know your position of who you are in this hour outside of the understanding of these things.
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130 Three things happens. A voice... A shout, a voice, a trumpet, has to happen before Jesus appears (before we see him in the corporal body at the final translation of the bride from the earth, these three things have to happen first). Now, a shout... Jesus does all three of them when He's--He's--He's--He's descending.
A shout, what is the shout? It's the Message going forth, first, the living Bread of Life bringing forth the Bride.
***I am trying to show us clearly by the message of the hour that the same voice of God calling from heaven for John to come up higher in Revelation 4:1 is the same event of the voice of Christ in the shout of the message of this hour that has called us into this bride age dispensation.
*This proves to us that the rapture cycle has already commenced and has been in progress for many years because the shout of the message has already initiated the rapture process.
**So the message of the voice of God that has come to us in this day is the first stage of the rapture process that we must first be caught up into and become a part of in order to be a part of the rest of the rapture process right up to the final translation at the last trump.
***We have heard the same voice in this hour that John heard call him up hither - we have been caught up into the revelation of things that are to be just as John was caught up (and the evidence of that is that we will be receiving truth of this hour as it continues to advance), then if we are a part of this (which we are), then it is impossible for us not to have a body change in this hour – you cannot stop your body from being changed in this hour because the cycle of that change has already begun in your life, your soul has already been change from doubt to faith, from darkness to light, from ignorance to truth, you have already been quicken and made alive by the light of this hour.