I Am the Resurrection Pt.2
JOHN 11:25-26 (our opening scripture from last week)
25 Jesus said unto her (Martha), I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Notice – This was a question for her to answer – and Martha’s answer would be very important to the outcome of the resurrection event of Lazarus that would follow. This is showing us that there must also be a people in this hour that will also give this same answer that Martha gave in response to the question that Jesus asked.
I Am the Resurrection Pt.2
JOHN 11:25-26
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Picking this thought up from last week - we notice here that the resurrection is not so much an event as it is a person - and so as it was at the tomb of Lazurus, it is the same with the promised resurrection for this hour.
We think of the resurrection as an event of people being raised up from the dead (and it is), but it’s also the same today as it was then, in that the resurrection is first a person before it can become an event – have you met the person of the resurrection that has again revealed himself to us in this day.
*So the first think that takes place is when the person of the resurrection appears on the scene. The same person who appeared to Martha at the tomb of Lazurus has appeared again in these last days in the form of the revealed word of this hour, because in this hour, Christ IS the mystery of God revealed to you.
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
In other words, “Martha, do you believe that I AM the resurrection” – that the person of the resurrection is right here with you now”?
This same question is being asked of us also in this hour regarding who it is that is with us now.
Do we believe that that same Christ who was the resurrection back then and was speaking with Martha back then, is the same Christ who is again revealed himself to us in this day and is now the resurrection of this hour speaking with us also by the way of the revealed word?
*You become a part of the resurrection when you believe in the person of the resurrection in the form that He reveals himself in for your day.
**Jesus required Martha’s faith in Him as the resurrection and the life in order for the resurrection of Lazurus to take place back then – and so it is the same for this day in that this end time bride must come to a perfection of faith in the Christ in His revealed form of today in order to bring the resurrection for this hour.
*We should never underestimate the value and the personal benefit that we gain from the experiences and the dramas that God has placed along the pathway of our life’s journey.
We must understand that God has so precisely designed our lives and the events of our lives for the soul purpose to lift us up into greater levels of spiritual character – We saw that with Job and with Joseph and many others in the bible. Troubles in life are not designed by God to destroy us, but to mould and advance our character – this is why your life is actually full of the supernatural, it’s just that God does it in such a discreet way that you can’t see it for what it really is.
*So all the troubles that we go through, and that we think are so hard and uncomfortable and unpleasant - they are actually far more valuable to us than of what natural gold would be a benefit to us on a monetary level.
In fact, money can often go a long way to sometimes destroying people’s character – or at least bring out the worst. You will often see that with siblings who will fight against each other over their parent’s estate – it’s a lack of character that causes that.
The Wise Woman’s Stone
A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream.
The next day she met another traveller who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveller saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveller left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime.
But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman. “I’ve been thinking,” he said, “I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone.”
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12 Before I talk to the kids, I'd just like to talk to the adults just a minute, too, all of you. It's now, perhaps, maybe a strenuous trip, it's been. But the experience that I've learned from God, I wouldn't take ten thousand dollars for what I learned of the Lord since I been here. I truly believe I come in full obedience to the command of the Almighty, and I--I hope I can ever remain that way.
Brother Branham is referring to the experience of how that after the seven seals had opened, that he had begun to lose his feeling for the people because of how they had seemed to reject his message to them, and so because of this, he was thinking of leaving the ministry of how he had been used to, and moving out into the wilderness and becoming a guide.
And so God gave him the experience of meeting those two tramps in the restaurant tea rooms that looked like him and Fletcher Broy (his brother-in-law).
Fletcher had become an alcoholic, and God showed him that if he carried out his plans of what he thinking in his mind, that he would become a bum just like God had showed him in a dream.
*And so God had totally engineered that experience and placed that drama in Brother Branham’s life and pathway in order to guide him away from a future of what would have been his future if he had carried out his plans.
*And so the message of the hour is showing us something by this example of exactly how God deals with us also in our lives – God will plan things for years for just a few minutes of an event in your life that will change the pathway and the future of your life.
*Because God cannot improve on the way that he deals with people, he can’t do a less perfect job on one of what he does with another, and so when we learn His ways of how he deals with man through these types of examples, then we are able to notice God more clearly at work in our own lives. God is not a showman – you have to look hard for Him.
*So this is why it is important for us to learn the language of His ways of how He is dealing with us in our lives – this is what we spoke about on Wednesday night.
*Sometimes we find ourselves in a mess because when God tries to warn us, we chose to ignore the warnings and chose our own way of thinking that our future will be better and brighter if we choose our own way above what seems like the harder way of obedience to the word of God.
*God’s way will always seem like the harder way to our human thinking, but that is the way that God wants to bring you into brighter future.
And so this is how Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James of what their lives had seemingly come into this very deep and sad experience of witnessing the crucifixion and death and burial of Jesus of whom they had looked to as the one who would restore the kingdom of Jerusalem – it looked like it had all failed and come to a totally disastrous end, but yet it was this very experience that would in fact open up to them the way for a far greater and brighter future.
MARK 16:1-2
1 ¶ And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
2 And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
Natural nature was showing us something of a greater meaning.
**Notice how that this was at the beginning of the 8th day.
And we know that the 8th day represents the bride age, and so this was like the beginning of the bride age for that time before the falling away took place later on at around 53AD when the 7 church ages dispensation began, and from then on there would only the candle lights shining in each age – the SON light had sunk below the horizon, and a long night time of 7 church ages had set in.
But this short period of time directly after the resurrection of Christ until around 53AD was not a candle light age, it was the rising of the SON age of the fullness of the word that had risen for that hour.
***That is why It is again the Rising of the SON in this last age again, because the SON that set back then has resin again in this hour by the opening of the word in this day by a prophetic ministry.
So we are not living in the candle lights of the night time of the 7 church ages anymore, because the SON has risen again – it IS the rising of the SON, and when the sun comes up, you don’t need your candle lights anymore.
***Remember that Christ had been rejected and crucified by the religious world at the end of the Old Testament when the denominational ages of the Old Testament had run out.
That is why in this 8th day of the bride age that we are living in now, we are also living in a time after the 7 Gentile church ages of the New Testament have run out.
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76-2 {54} Notice, and is not revealed until--this Book is not revealed until the church ages and denominational ages has run out, and there's time no more. (Brother Branham is speaking of the sealed book of Revelation 5 of which was opened in Revelation 10, that through a seventh angel’s ministry was to be made known to an end time people) See it? It's only revealed after church ages and denominational ages has run out.
… But then He promises that when that time has finished out, there'll be the sounding of the seventh angel's voice, and then the Book will be revealed (See?) at that time.
**This book is the title deed to all that Adam lost – the legal ownership to everything that Adam lost is being given back to an end time people of the living decedents of whom are to be the beneficiaries of the will.
But what does that look like in your every day life? It is Christ unfolding the truth of this hour to you along your life’s journey day by day and week by week and year by year.
MATTHEW 4:16
16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light (Darkness is night time – candle light time, it represents a time of ignorance of the word – baptism in titles and all sorts of things. But light is when the word of this hour is made clear to you personally – that is what this event looks like in your everyday life - and so it is not a public show but a personal revelation of Christ the word to you personally); and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. (Springing up is resurrection - so it is the end time light of the end time message of the hour that causes the resurrection of the people)
**It was the breaking of the seal by the angel that revealed Christ to these two women (Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome) – and Christ is the word. ****So the purpose of the breaking of the seal by the angel is to reveal Christ the word to you.
**So when the word of this age is revealed to you by the angel’s message breaking the seal of your understanding, then that is the evidence in your life that the seal has been broken and the resurrection is on for your life, and that you are a part of the resurrection of this day because Christ has personally appeared to you for this hour – the very one who is the very resurrection Himself.
*He is the only one that can open your understanding to the resurrection of the word in this hour – because that is exactly what He did to his disciples after His resurrection of that day – he had to open their understanding to the SON light that had risen in their day.
***Brother Branham speaks of two resurrections…
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97 "Because I live, ye live also," speaking to His Wife. "Because I live, ye live also." What a resurrection that that was! And what a resurrection this is, to be quickened from the dead, "to be made alive in Christ Jesus," by God's quickening Power.
***The quickening power is when Christ reveals himself personally to you by the message of the hour – it is the seed of the word that was in by election you from birth being quickened by the spirit of the truth of the light for the age.
**You cannot receive life without light, it is LIGHT that PRODUCES LIFE. So the quickening power of the seed comes by the light shining on the seed, and that light is the revelation of the word of this hour that shines on the seed that is already in you, and that is why you are able to recognise the message as truth, just like the eagle story of how the baby eaglet responded to the voice of his mother.
***It is impossible for you to recognize this message at the truth of this hour unless the seed of God dwells in you to recognize it, because in non-seed there is nothing to quicken.
**All of the darkness during the seven church ages has all been driven away in this hour by the rising of the SON light of His resurrection in this day – “I AM the RESURRECTION”.
The SON has risen – and the person of the resurrection is here speaking with us – do we believe this?
That is why His mediatorial work is finished for those of us who have seen His appearing in this age - we have been pronounced justified just as if we had never ever sinned in the first place – so if someone has been judged and found to have never sinned in the first place, then they are not required to be mediator for any more.
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97-5 {201} Remember, He'd been on His mediatorial work back here. But remember, these Seals are ready to be opened, and the Lamb come from the sanctuary of God, advanced forward...
***He is now coming to claim the ones that he had been interceding for for the past 2000 years, to claim His possession of what he died for and to resurrect their bodies from the graves.
“The Master IS COME and calleth for THEE” Martha revealed the coming of the Lord to her sister Mary - it was a sister church ministry that brought that message to Mary.
*At the first rising of the sun on that first Easter morning – it was the resurrection of Jesus body from the grave, that was the groom’s body, but now at His second coming of His appearing in these last days, He has come to resurrect his wife’s body of both the saints that are sleeping in the dust of the earth and those of us who are alive and remain.
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67 ... All hopes gone, all everything. He was dead, rottening in the grave, but just hear Him say it, is all she wanted.
68 Now when He said, "I am the Resurrection and Life," she believed it. She believed it. Now notice, now she had to believe for the impossibles, when she heard Him say, "I am the Resurrection and Life. Though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." Said, "Do you believe this?"
69 And she said, "Yes, Lord, I believe it. I believe that You are the Son of God that was to come into the world." I like that. I like that.
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125 Now, the predestinated Ones are the first to be quickened by the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit comes to claim Its Own. Now, this is deep now, and be sure to catch this good.
126 Now, as the sun was sent across the earth (The sun he is speaking of here is the SON light of this hour that has travelled across the earth for these past 58 years – As the light shines from the east to the west, so shall the coming of the son of man be, the shining light is the revelation of the revealed word, it is the message of the hour – it is Christ again in his private ministry of His appearing and the revealing of Himself as the resurrected word of this day. *Since the opening of the seven seals in 1963, He has been making Himself known to His elected ones of this day by the opening of the word to their understanding and quickening them to life by their faith in that revealed word - this is what he is speaking of here), not to bring rocks, which was dirt also, to life, it was not to bring all the dirt to life, but was to bring the part of the dirt which was enclosed around a life.
127 Not all man will receive Christ. Oh, no. But those which God foreordained Life, is housed around some of the dirt of the earth, that's the One He comes to quicken. They're the Ones.
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60 Look at the millions on earth that didn't receive It when Jesus was here. But how thankful that we should be this morning, to know that we have the direct evidence and the Bible proofs, that we are included in that great resurrection morning coming, that great Easter.
***The great Easter of this day began at the rising of the SON light of the word of the message of this hour that has ushered in a bride age dispensation.
****“It is the Rising of the Sun”, “There is a man here NOW who is turning on the light”, “Christ Is the Mystery of God revealed”– in other words, when the Mystery of the word is revealed to you, then that is CHRIST the person of the resurrection.
“Who is THIS Melchizedek” “The Invisible UNION of the bride to CHRIST”.
All of these sermons are revealing the current event of what is taking place in this day – it is not a public show and never will be. That is what the third pull was all about – an elected people being married to Christ by Him revealing His word to her and she receiving that word by faith.
****So this is what has been going on for all of these years since the seventh angel left us in 1965?
**It has been Christ continuing the ministry of the third pull of the revealing of the word in a non-public, non-stage show ministry by His appearing this second time to the his elected ones of this age, seeking out his own sheep by the sounding of his voice, and He has been leading us by that voice out of this world and into a new world of the millennium just like how that Noah went from one world into another world by the revelation of the word that was given to him for his age) We have the earnest of it, right now in our mortal bodies. The predestinated ones are the first, of course, to be quickened, when the Holy Spirit comes to claim Its own.
***How does he claim you in this hour? By appearing to you in the form of the SON light of this hour.
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E-44 …If that was Messiah yesterday making Hisself known to His own, that's Messiah today making Hisself known to His own.
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122 … If you're ordained on that ground, the Holy Spirit is here to find you. And when It finds you, you recognize Its call. You know the hour you're living. You know that these things are supposed to happen. Quickly you're raptured up to meet It (Notice what he is talking about - you are raptured up to meet the word for your day – this is Revelation chapter 4:1), and now you're setting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Oh, what a promise! What a Heavenly Father, Who would give us these things!
** Genesis 20 was when Abraham and Sarah were changed from old people to young people again between the appearing and the coming – and noticed who had revealed himself to them just before their bodies were turned back young again.
***If that same one of who is the resurrection and the Life that appeared to Abraham back there at that appearing has also appeared to us in this hour at this appearing, and so we can know for sure that our bodies must also be turned back young like theirs were because the assurity of our body change is that we have also met the same person that Abraham and Sarah met – if you have met the person of the resurrection in this hour, then it is impossible for you not to have a body change also, because He is the Resurrection and the life.