The Second Coming of the Lord Explained
II THESSALONIANS 1:7-10
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: (Water in Noah’s day, Blood in Jesus day, Fire in this day)
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
JOHN 11:24-26
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
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: (we were dead in trespasses and sins – but we have now passed from death unto life because of our revelation in Christ)
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
When we bury a believer in Christ, we only bury their body; they themselves are very much alive and well in their theophany body in the 6th dimension.
The Second Coming of the Lord Explained
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II THESSALONIANS 1:7-10
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, (We know now that there were seven angels that were revealed with him, but notice the first part of this verse - And to you who are trouble - this second coming of the Lord would take place in a time of trouble as also written in Psalms 27:5, and it is during this time of trouble that the rapture of the bride takes place.
In DANIEL 12:1 …and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time)
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: (It is at Christ’s second coming that he will take vengeance on the world for the rejection of his prophet and his message and for crucifying the word for the second time,they refused to believe and obey the message of the hour - Vashti)
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; (whenever you see this phrase “the presence of the Lord”, you know that it is after the word of the Lord has been pronounced)
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, (not with us as in His first coming, but in us) and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Review and clarity of what we already know…
We know that the end time message that came forth in this hour by God’s vindicated prophet was to gather the Bride together and to show us how to prepare for rapturing faith.
- The message is to give us faith to be changed in our mortal bodies so that this mortal will put on immortality.
- It is to ripen a Bride and to bring us to perfection like the grains of wheat in the light of the sun (the S-O-N) who has been revealed to us through the Message of the hour.
- It is to bring us to maturity.
- It is to bring a Church to perfection because the Bride must come to perfection in order to bring the resurrection.
I THESSALONIANS 4:15-17
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
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:
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.
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129 I want you to notice a great thing taking place here now. Don't miss this. See? Now notice. The Word says here, in Second Thessalonians, that there is three things. Notice. From the 13th to the 16th verse, there is three things that has to happen before the Lord Himself appears (this appearing that he is talking about is when we meet him in the air in his corporal glorified body). Quickly now, so we can close. See? The first thing happens... Notice: a shout, a voice, a trumpet. Let's read it now and see if that's right. See?
For the Lord himself (16th verse) shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with the voice of the archangel, and... the trump of God:...
130 Three things happens. A voice... A shout, a voice, a trumpet, has to happen before Jesus appears. Now, a shout... Jesus does all three of them when He's--He's--He's--He's descending.
We see that in this message called “The Rapture” that brother Branham preached on December the 4th 1965, he takes 1st Thessalonians 4 and for the first time explains what the shout, voice and trump is, and notice - from his birth on April 6, 1909 all the way to December the 4th 1965 you won’t find anywhere in the entire Message that he ever explained this.
But now for the first time in his entire ministry, (just two weeks before he was in the car crash, and nineteen days before his death) at the end of his ministry, he begins to explain this threefold mystery of the coming of the Lord, and we know that the coming of the Lord is the Seventh Seal. He had already told us that the Seventh Seal was revealed in a three-fold manner.
THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E
557-3 {245} …And now, as certain as I stand in the platform tonight, I had the revelation that revealed... It's in a threefold manner. That, I will speak to you by God's help of a fold of it.
THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E
563-5 {299} …And in Sabino Canyon, He said, "This is the third pull." And there's three great things that goes with it, and one unfolded today, or yesterday, the other one unfolded today, and there's one thing that I cannot interpret, because it's in an unknown language.
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575-4 {390} Notice, there is a whole earth is to be purged. There will be such a thing that the moon, stars, and all nature will be purged. You see what it is? The earth is renewing herself, being purged, getting ready for the millennium. The millennium's coming up. And see, everything that's got any filth in it is to be purged during the Sixth Seal.
Now, now, do you notice on the opening of this Seventh Seal, it's also in a threefold mystery. This one I have--will speak and have spoke, that it is the mystery of the seven thunders. The seven thunders in heaven will unfold this mystery. It'll be right at the coming of Christ, because Christ said no one knew when He would return.
Notice - Nowhere in the Bible (in the four gospels), did Jesus say, “I will come with, a Shout, a Voice, and a Trump.” Jesus never said that. But Jesus kept speaking about His second coming. “I will come again - I will come as thief in the night”, but Paul, a prophet who was caught up into the third heaven, saw the mystery of the coming of the Lord, the Seventh Seal, and that it was revealed in three folds, and so he writes it in 1st Thessalonians 4, and 2nd Thessalonians 1 of the coming of the Lord and shows how that it will have three parts - a Shout, a Voice and a Trumpet, but Paul left it sealed up – he didn’t explain it.
But there was promised in the end time that all the mysteries should be made known though the Seventh Angel’s message that was to come in the eagle age with an eagle anointing, not a reformer, but a Prophet who would catch this revelation of the shout, voice, and trump and show what it is because he sees the same vision that Paul saw, and the same vision that John saw, and the same vision that Daniel saw, which was the mystery of the time of the second coming of the Lord and the catching away of the bride (Revelation 10), the seventh seal.
GENESIS 24:63-65
63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming. (These were the same camels that Rebekah had watered)
64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac (how did she know it was the coming of her bridegroom? because Eliezer had told her), she lighted off the camel. (Lighted = to let drop, to cause to fall, to throw/ to lie prostrate, prostrate oneself – This is also what Ruth did at the midnight hour when she lay prostrate at Boaz’s feet, and this is also what John did in Revelation chapter 1 when he saw Christ and fell at his feet, and this is what the bride does in this last day, we fall at the feet in full submission to this revealed word that we have met in this hour)
65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
When did Isaac come? at evening time. What time are we living in – evening time?
When did Isaac and Rebecca marry and come into an invisible union, at evening time?
So when Isaac was coming out at evening time, that was the time when he met and married Rebekah, but notice - who saw the coming of Isaac – who identified the coming of Isaac to Rebekah? A man named Eliezer, the man who had called out Rebekah to be the Bride for Isaac - he said, “That’s your Lord coming there”, and who does Eliezer represent in this day? The Seventh Angel messenger – the end time prophet.
When did Boaz and Ruth marry and come into union? at harvest time?
RUTH 2:2-6
2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
4 ¶ And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee.
5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
When Boaz was coming in the book of Ruth chapter two, who did he commune with regarding Ruth? He communed with his servant (singular) that was set over all the reapers at harvest time.
**So in the second coming of the Lord he comes first to his head reaper, it’s a mystery of this hour, and this is not revealed under the first Six Seals, it is only revealed under the Seventh Seal, because the Seventh Seal is the coming of the Lord, but he first comes to his head reaper which is brother Branham, and then as Eliezer reveals to Rebekah that this who is come is Isaac, so brother Branham makes known to the bride in this hour that this who has come is Christ.
And so we know that the first fold of the three-fold mystery of the coming of the Lord is the shout which is the message of the hour to gather the bride together.
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152 Now, it's the first thing, is the sounding. The first thing is a trumpet and a... or a voice... A shout; and then a voice; and then a trumpet.
Shout: a messenger getting the people ready. (Just like Eliezer got Rebekah ready)
The second is a voice of the resurrection: the same voice, that, a loud voice in Saint John 11:38-44, that called Lazarus from the grave.
Getting the Bride together; and then the resurrection of the dead, see; to be caught up with It. Now watch the three things takes place. The next is what? Was a trumpet. A voice... A shout; a voice; a trumpet.
153 Now, the third thing, is a trumpet. Which, always, at the feast of trumpets, is calling the people to the feast. And that'll be the Bride's Supper, the Lamb's Supper with the Bride, in the sky. See?
154 The first thing comes forth is His Message, calling the Bride together. The next thing is a resurrection of the sleeping Bride; the--the ones died, back in the other ages, they're caught together. And the trumpet, the Feast in the heavens, in the sky. Why, that's the thing that takes place, friends.
So the Shout was the Message, and that was brother Branham’s part, just as Eliezer’s part was to introduced Rebekah to Isaac, that was the shout, the first fold of the threefold mystery, but notice that in the next fold Eliezer is off the scene, and the second fold is the voice of the resurrection, The same voice that called Lazarus from the grave in St. John 11.
JOHN 11:43-44
43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
So the Shout of I THESSALONIANS 4:15 was singularly fulfilled in Brother Branham’s ministry (the Prophet, the messenger and his message), that is why he could speak plainly of that fold, but now after his departure, we who are alive and remain are to be united with the dead in Christ that are to rise, and that will take the second fold which is the Voice of the resurrection, so now that becomes our part, because the voice of the resurrection will have to be here before the saints can raise up.
Remember – the voice is to bring the sleeping Bride out of the sixth dimension to unite them with the living Bride, because the living Bride is in these three dimensions, but those in the sixth dimension are to come back into these three dimensions, but they have to wait there until we come to perfection, so as the SON-Light gets stronger and stronger, and as the revelation increases in the Church, it brings us to maturity.
I THESSALONIANS 4:16
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:
So we know that the Voice was a mystery within the Shout, and the Voice part was the second part of the threefold mystery that is to take place after the shout (after the prophet leaves the scene) but before the resurrection, so this voice part is not the prophet’s part, but this is our part, so there is a part for us just as there was for brother Branham, because the Bride under her messenger is the final Voice to the final age, “the Spirit and the Bride say come”, the shout has now matured into the voice stage in the bride, because what the Spirit has said through the Prophet, the Bride will also say, and what the Bride and the Prophet says has already been written in the Bible because you cannot add one Word or take away one Word from the Bible.
So when the Word opens to you, and you read about Rebecca being called by an Eliezer call in the bible, then that is really about you being called by the shout of the message. When you read about the story of Ruth, that is really about a people in the end time age that come into full redemption and union with Christ their kinsman redeemerwho takes them to a new dwelling place that he has prepared for them in the millennium.
THE.THIRD.SEAL_ JEFF.IN WEDNESDAY_ 63-0320
253-2 {182} ... We have denominational revivals; we haven't had a real stirring. No, no, no, no. No, sir. Don't think we got revivals. We haven't. Oh, they've got millions and millions and millions of church members, but not a revival nowhere. No, no.
The--the Bride hasn't had a revival yet. See? There's been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. See? We're looking for it. It will take those seven unknown thunders back there to wake her up again. He will send it.
**Notice - Seven Thunders wakes up the Bride. But what does the bride wake up to? - The Lord has descended, The mighty Angel has come down, Christ is here, The Bridegroom is on the scene, Isaac is here, Boaz is here, the Headstone is here, a greater than Solomon is here, there’s a Man here that can turn on the Light, Who do you say this is?, Christ is the mystery of God revealed, It is the rising of the SON, The mighty God is unveiled before us.
What was Brother Branham telling us in all these sermons? – he was telling us who this is that has come like Eliezer told Rebekah who it was in the field.
The message was introducing Christ to the bride.
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153 Now, the third thing, is a trumpet. Which, always, at the feast of trumpets, is calling the people to the feast. And that'll be the Bride's Supper, the Lamb's Supper with the Bride, in the sky. See?
154 The first thing comes forth is His Message, calling the Bride together. The next thing is a resurrection of the sleeping Bride; the--the ones died, back in the other ages, they're caught together. And the trumpet, the Feast in the heavens, in the sky. Why, that's the thing that takes place, friends.
155 We're right there, ready now. The only thing, the Church coming out, has got to lay before the Son, to ripen.
The great combine will come by, after while. The wheat will be burned, the stalks, but the grain will be gathered into Its garner. See?
**What was the Shout? “Behold the Bridegroom cometh.” What is the Trump? The marriage supper of the Lamb - so between the coming of the Bridegroom (the shout) and the marriage supper of the Lamb (the Trump), is the invisible union of the bride to Christ, the uniting time, the marriage – you and the word being united together, the Head and the body becoming one – the voice of the message in you – you are the final voice to the final age.
The Voice is the part between the coming of the Bridegroom and the marriage supper, and it is going to take that part to bring the sleeping saints out of the grave because that is when the head and the body become one.
So from 1963 when the seven seals opened proclaiming the shout, and until we are all sitting at the marriage supper of the Lamb, these three things of the shout, voice and Trump will be unfolding.
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Notice the harmony of the Father and the Son. Jesus never did anything until it was first showed Him by the Father. John 5:19. This harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His bride. He shows her His Word of life. She receives it. She never doubts it. Therefore, nothing can harm her, not even death. For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again. Here is the secret of this. The Word is in the bride (as it was in Mary). The bride has the mind of Christ for she knows what He wants done with the Word. She performs the command of the Word in His name for she has "thus saith the Lord." Then the Word is quickened by the Spirit and it comes to pass. Like a seed that is planted and watered, it comes to full harvest, serving its purpose.
Who was that pillar of fire that was pictured in Houston Texas in 1950 above brother Branham’s head? That was the same Pillar of Fire that met Paul on the road to Damascus that said, “I am Jesus”, and Paul said, “Who art Thou, Lord?”- That’s the heavenly Angel, the same one that was performing all the miracles in the first and second pulls of brother Branham’s ministry, and he was the same one that opened the seven Seals in the third pull of Brother Branham’s ministry. The same One who was performing miracles was revealing Truth.
The one above in the photo was the heavenly Angel of Revelation 10:1 (Christ), while the one below was the earthly Angel of Revelation 10:7. And you are Revelation 10: 8 to 11 – Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
REVELATION 10:8-11
8 ¶ And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, 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.
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
**So this is the three-fold mystery of the coming of the Lord - from the Message and coming of the Bridegroom all the way to the marriage supper.
**This Seventh Seal revelation of the coming of the Lord is a secret that is only made known to the Bride. The rapture is a revelation for the Bride only – all others will be confused and deny these things because this is not for the flirters or the make believers of the message, but this if for the ones that He is coming into union and marriage with in this hour.
He is whispering these love secrets in the ear of his beloved bride, making known to her the full mystery of the coming of the Lord in this hour – and we are caught up in this coming by our identification with the word of this hour.
The Second Coming of the Lord Explained