Safe in the Ark
GENESIS 7:1-5
1 ¶ And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. (As judgement was in the land – we see that the call of God to Noah was instructing Noah and his family to come into the ark where they would be safe from the judgment that God had determined for that hour.
Notice – he does not say go into the ark, but come into the ark because He was that ark in symbol form, and they were to come into him because that was the only provided place of safety for that hour)
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. (Redemption also includes the animal kingdom – God also has a position for them in the new earth)
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. (God is revealing to Noah and his group the precise day that the flood would come, but the rest of the world had no idea)
5 ¶ And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
Noah and his family were obedient to the word for that hour and up to that stage they had laboured faithfully in the constructing of the ark to bring forth the word into flesh for that time, but notice that just a few days before the judgement came upon the earth by the flood, the voice of God came to Noah and his family to instruct them that this was the time to get into the ark.
The whole purpose of the message of that hour was to bring that message to flesh and to bring them into the reality of what they had followed and believed for all those years by following the prophet’s message in obedience.
LUKE 17:26
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Safe in the Ark
GENESIS 7:1
1 ¶ And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Coming into the ark is a type of coming into Christ which is also a type of marriage. Remember when Eliezer brought Rebeca to Isaac (a type of Christ and the bride of this day) he took her into the tent.
GENESIS 24:67
67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
And so this is a type of this hour in which we are living in the season of the marriage of the Lamb to his beloved bride (after the Eliezer call), when a people in this day who have followed a man to meet their unseen bridegroom come into the tent and receive the fullness of the seed of word of God in this hour.
We know that when Ruth came into the knowledge of her marriage to Boaz (at the midnight hour) when Boaz made his plan of redemption known to her, only then could she enter into complete rest – all her worries as a widow were over, because Boaz took all the responsibility of her upon himself – she had nothing to worry about anymore, she was safe in the care of Boaz.
THE.ARK_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-18 SUNDAY_ 55-0522
163 Nothing to worry about. No harm can be done. You're just as safe as you can be. Let the storms come. Let the... oh, everything take place, let sickness strike. Let anything take place that the Satan desires to send. God will rock you right through every bit of it. Don't go to jumping out. Stay right in Christ. Say, "Lord God, 'Upon this Rock,' You said, 'I'll build My church, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it.' I believe Thee, Lord Jesus. I now anchor my soul in a haven of rest." Oh, my.
Christ, the Chief Captain of our salvation, there He stands, the great conqueror. He rent the veil in two, and took down all the middle walls of partition, invited "whosoever will" to come and partake of His Life, be covered with His Divine blessings, that there'll be no judgment strike you. And if judgment strikes, it can't hurt you. You may be sick for a little while, you may have to go through something for a little while; but remember Christ is at the end. He never said this ark will set in a little whirlpool like that, where there'll be no... calm, just as calm as it can be. No sir, He never carried a flower bed of ease. He never promised things easy, but He promised grace to sustain you in the time. I think of the poet said:
Must I be carried home to heaven on a flowery bed of ease,
While others fought to win the prize and sail through bloody seas?
No, I must fight if I must reign. Increase my courage Lord.
Yes sir. Don't notice when the hard trials come, just stay right in the ark and say:
God, I'm safe for evermore.
I've anchored my soul in the haven of rest,
To sail the wild seas no more.
The tempest may sweep o'er the wild, stormy deep,
But in Jesus I'm safe evermore.
Let sickness come, let troubles come, let dis-heartening, or heartaches, and everything come, that has nothing to do. We receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved. Didn't say you'd be jumping back and so forth, but God will land you as safely as you can be in His Kingdom one of these days. You stay right in His ark.
Noah and his group stayed in the ark until the judgment was passed and they were taken over into the new world a type of the millennium that is to come.
We know that trials are a normal part of a Christian life - No one can escape them.
They come as a natural part of life’s circumstances.
And the trials of this life at this present time are a significant part of God’s plan and permissive will to test you and to bring you into a complete maturity to prepare you for the new civilisation that is to come in the kingdom of heaven.
I PETER 4:12-13
12 ¶ Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
“Fiery” trial = the burning by which metals are roasted and reduced; by a figure drawn from a refiners fire; calamities or trials that test the character
I PETER 1:7
7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Appearing - apokalupsis {ap-ok-al'-oop-sis} = revelation - a disclosure of truth, instruction, concerning things before unknown – an unveiling of the mystery of the word.
We are living in the time when the seven seals have been made known to us in this end time hour, the word had been fully unveiled to the bride to reveal the names of the redeemed that have been hidden in the bible from Genesis to Revelation, but the world is completely blind to these things because they have rejected the humble channel that God sent these things by in this hour.
So we are living in the time of the coming of the revelation of Jesus Christ – the ministry of the Son of Man, because before we can see him in his corporal body at the meeting in the air, we must first see him in the opening of the word for this day because that is what is taking place in this hour because this is the day when the Son of Man is being revealed again in bride body form.
JOHN 10:14
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
We must know him in this hour, and we can only know him by the revelation of this hour.
MATTHEW 7:21-23
21 ¶ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. This knowing is to do with receiving seed – in other words because they refused to come into the truth for their age, then they continued in their unbelief.
Read again
I PETER 1:7
7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
So when we look back down through history we observe that there have been many trials and testings that the saints of all the ages have had to endure from Pauls time until now.
If you study the lives of the believers from Saint Peters day until now you will see that there is a common thread of firry trials that they all went through because each person represented a part of the one great body of Christ in bride form.
So as He (Christ the man - Husband) suffered in his life while on earth, so has the bride of 2000 years (the woman – wife) suffered throughout the seven church ages until this age.
**So we see that what was a pattern in the seven church ages must also be a pattern of our own lives in miniature form because we are just a small part of the same chemistry of the entire church age, because character is form in the crucible of human trials and suffering.
So we see that God had sent a prophet in that last age that Noah and his family had lived in for 120 years of that age, and God had revealed to Noah the coming judgement that was to come upon the world at the end of that age – and we know that there had to be a time when Noah’s revelation became materialized in the form of the Ark which was actually the revelation of Christ – the ark revealed Christ, that was the coming of the Lord for that hour.
Opening scripture..
LUKE 17:26
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
So it has been promised that in this day that we would also come into a place of safety in the Ark (as it was in Noah’s day and in Abrahams day) because if there was an ark in Noah’s day which represented a place of mercy and safety in a time of judgement, and we also see that there was an Abraham that was not even in Sodom, then these things must be repeated again in this last age.
**Notice, Noah wasn’t in the place of Judgment because he was in the ark which was the word for that hour, and Abraham wasn’t in Sodom because he stayed with the one that had revealed the secrets of Sarah’s heart who was revealing to him the word for that age by the one who stayed with him who was the Lord himself – the mighty angel that had descended from heaven and revealed himself in the form of Human flesh to Abraham.
Three groups in Abraham’s day
The Sodomite group
The Lot group
The Abraham group
ELIJAH.AND.THE.MEAL.OFFERING_ PHX.AZ V-9 N-4 THURSDAY_ 60-0310
115 We're living in the shadows of the end time. There may not be a tomorrow night. I don't know, Lord; that's to You. But while it is yet possible that some could enter in tonight, Father, I pray that You'll send the Holy Spirit.
You said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." In the days of Sodom they had three classes of people: the sinner, the lukewarm church member, and the Elected (called out): Sodomites, and Lotites, and Abraham's called out of the world.
I.HAVE.HEARD.BUT.NOW.I.SEE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-3 SATURDAY_ 65-1127E
112 Now, we notice here that in Luke, the--the 17th chapter, and the 30th verse, that He said, "In the last days, that the Son of man would reveal Himself as He did just before Sodom and Gomorrah, and the same conditions would exist." He told about Moses, about... and I beg your pardon, not about Moses, but about Noah. How that the people was "eating, drinking, and so forth, marrying and given in marriage." Then He come around, He said, "Now, as it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be at the time when the Son of man is being revealed." Now, watch, the Son of man was revealed to Abraham's group, as a man, a prophet in a form of human flesh, a ordinary man with dust on His clothes, and Abraham called Him "Elohim."
LOOKING.UNTO.JESUS_ PHOENIX.AZ V-22 N-2 WEDNESDAY_ 64-0122
168 Now in this last day, Lord, You promised. You said, "As it was in the days of Sodom," while Abraham sitting there in the heat of the day, the little, called-out Church. We look down across the world today, Father, we see Sodom exactly, Gentile's perverted, lukewarm. And we see these three angels appearing before Abraham.
169 Two of them went down to the lukewarm church, Lot, to try to call them out. Two went down there, a modern Billy Graham, to call them out; no miracles, only blinded their eyes. Preaching the Gospel does do that.
170 But there was One stayed up here to Abraham's group, signifying the elected, called out, that wasn't in Sodom; was born, out of Sodom, the true Church, the Abraham's Seed of today.
We are this prophecy in human flesh in this hour because we are of the group that have stayed with this one that had revealed the secrets of Sarah’s heart in the tent. And this same one that revealed the secrets of the hearts also went on to reveal to Abraham the judgement that was about to take place with the sodomite world at that time.
ROMANS 1:17-18
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Both the righteousness and the wrath of God was revealed to Noah and his group
Both the righteousness and the wrath of God was revealed to Abraham and his group
Both the righteousness and the wrath of God were revealed to Branham and his group in this hour.
But to the unbeliever – nothing is revealed.
LUKE 17:24-30
24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
(The same as the bride has suffered for 2000 years and been rejected of their generations, because it is after the suffering comes the resurrection)
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
GOD'S.CHOSEN.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-7 SATURDAY_ 65-0220
91 He spoke of this age, what would be now. The believers of this age has to believe This, what He promised today. Just the same as they had to come into the ark, to be saved; go out of Egypt to be saved; they have to come into Christ, to be saved now, into the Word Message, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The only place of safety in this hour is when you are in Christ Jesus – and he is the word of this hour that has been revealed to the bride by Malachi 4’s message.
TOKEN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-19 SUNDAY_ 63-0901M
230 Don't just come this far, say, "I believe the Message." You obey the messenger. Come into Christ! You say, "Well, I believe every Word said, Brother Branham." That's good, but that's just--that's just being able to read.
231 Take the Message, take It into your heart, that you must have the Token, the very Life that was in Christ be in you. "When I see That, I will pass over you."