Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive
GENESIS 24:15-16
15 And it came to pass, before he (Eliezer) had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. (This is Eliezer at evening time on his search for a bride for Isaac, and we know that Isaac is a type of Christ in this hour, and Rebeca is a type of the virgin bride of this hour, and Eliezer is the ministry of William Branham in this hour. And so this story is actually a prophecy of the events that would take place at this evening time age that we are living in now)
16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. (Notice – Rebekah was a virgin at evening time, a virgin at the time of the Eliezer call – in the days of the voice)
ISAIAH 7:14
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
This scripture is a compound scripture that is actually speaking of two virgin women; one at the end of the Old Testament (Mary), and another virgin which is the end time virgin bride of the believers of this hour.
Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive
ISAIAH 7:14 Opening scripture
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
In the message “Marriage and Divorce” 1965, Brother Branham explains to us that a human woman was designed by God differently to any other female animal in the animal kingdom.
And because of our understanding of the serpent seed doctrine, we know that Eve was not a virgin after she conceived in her womb, but when it came to Mary, Mary remained a virgin after she conceived, and so we see a difference here that is very important for us to understand in the light of this end time message because we are also called to be a virgin bride that will conceive in a way that is different to the last Pentecostal age.
LUKE 1:34-38
34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? (Look at Mary’s question about the angel’s message to her for that day (How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?), and that has also been the question of the bride in this day – “how is it possible that I can conceive in a different way to that of what has been from the beginning”)
35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
(Notice how the Old Testament begins with a virgin woman (Eve), and then the New Testament also begins with a virgin woman (Mary), and then the last Eve would be a virgin also.
36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
Two conceptions spoken of by this angel at the beginning of the New Testament, and it would be by two different ways of conception that these two women (Elisabeth and Mary) would conceive.
*The New Testament begins by telling us of Two conceptions by two wombs of two women, the older woman Elizabeth, and a younger woman Mary - and woman represent churches, an older church and a younger church, and so this is showing us that the way these two churches in the end time would conceive would be different.
37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
A while back we spoke 3 services on the subject of – “The Two Wombs” showing the difference between Elisabeth’s conception and Mary’s conception.
THE.SPOKEN.WORD.IS.THE.ORIGINAL.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-1 SUNDAY_ 62-0318
32-3 …Now, the Word that God spoke to multiply and replenish the earth, It couldn't find a place to land. Finally this Word caught into the womb of a virgin. (We'll speak of the two wombs this afternoon more...?...)
***Mary and Elisabeth represents two churches or groups at the end time, because Mary (who by the spoken word of an angel’s message conceived without a sensation) is a type of the true bride of Christ at the end time, but the older woman Elisabeth is a type of the older Pentecostal church age who conceived before Mary did, but her conception was by a sensation in the same way that Eve conceived in unbelief.
**And it was John the Baptist that came out of Elisabeth’s womb just as brother Branham came out of the Pentecostal age before the bride age began.
Did the Pentecostals believe in William Branham’s message? – No – so the womb that brought forth the forerunner of this age was connected with unbelief as with Zachariah’s unbelief of the Angel’s message, but the end time bride who represents Mary is shown in the scriptures to conceive differently to how the Pentecostal age conceived, and the conception by the word of this hour would bring Christ again in human flesh in this age in the body of his Bride.
GOD'S.ONLY.PROVIDED.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP_ SHP.LA V-7 N-4 SUNDAY_ 65-1128M
156 And remember--remember how we just went through the Church Ages? The messenger to the church always comes just at the dying of the other church age, always. The dying of the Pentecost brings forth the rapturing of the Bride. See? The dying of Luther brought forth Wesley. See? The dying of Wesley brought forth Pentecost. The dying of Pentecost brings forth the Message now. (Why do some message preachers still want to resurrect the Pentecost age again within the message – because that’s the Elisabeth group within the message of this hour, all they can bring forth is “God sent a prophet”, they just can’t accept the angel’s message like Mary did concerning the conception by the spoken word)
176 … you've got to die to the Lutheran age to be borned in the Wesley age. You have to die in the Wesley age to be borned in a Pentecostal age. And you have to die in the Pentecostal age, leave nothing of it left, burn it with fire, because it's going to be burnt like, the stalk that the wheat comes up out of. The stalk, the denomination, it's got to be burned. So don't bring your denomination over in the new Message. This is the Word now.
***That has been a lot of the problem in the message and is still a problem in the message - people tend to bring their denominational traditional ideas over into this message of the bride age and try to teach a hybrid message from a previous age to try to produce the new birth for this age, and it doesn’t work, and it never will work.
GOD'S.ONLY.PROVIDED.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP_ SHP.LA V-7 N-4 SUNDAY_ 65-1128M
124 You remember the last Thursday night's message? Your old husband must be dead. Right. Your new Husband is the Word.
****Remember that Eve was deceived in childbearing, in other words she was deceived in the way that a child is meant to be conceived. And that is why so many today are still confused about the genuine new birth for this hour; many still think that it comes by a sensation of the flesh as we were taught in the previous Pentecostal age, they still think that the evidence of the Holy Ghost comes by a sensation or a manifestation of a gift, they just cannot accept that the conception of the life of God can only come by the seed word of the revelation of Christ for the age revealed to the person.
****This Elizabeth group, their faith just won’t stretch that far to this advanced method of becoming pregnated by the spoken word alone without sensation, but Mary’s faith believed that, and that was the difference between Mary and Elisabeth, that was the difference between these two wombs – they both brought forth sons, but it was the way they conceived that was different.
JAMES 1:18a
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth
This word “begat” = to bring forth from the womb, give birth to,
**The first doctrine of the New Testament was that “ye must be born again” because the problem was that in your first birth you were born wrong because of the way you were conceived. Remember that Eve was deceive in the way she was meant to conceive, and that conception was connected to the unbelief of a false teaching of the word about the way she was meant to conceive and bring forth children (you have to still watch this teaching today amongst the message – trying to bring back a Pentecostal church age conception idea back among the people of this message - watch out for that, that is not what this message teaches us.
ISAIAH 7:14
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
As we said before - We know that this was Mary, but we also know that this scripture is a compound scripture that is also speaking of an end time virgin church people that would come into existence after the seven church ages had ended in a complete blackout of the word. There has been an Eliezer sent out at this evening time to get a virgin bride for the promised Son Christ.
“a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” Immanuel = "God with us" or "with us is God"
****By this kind of conception, the Virgin Mary conceived and brought forth God in Human flesh as Eve should have done in the beginning, no other conception could have done that. And notice – she brought forth God in flesh in male form – that was at the first coming of Christ, and we are taught by the message of the hour that this end time bride would also be a virgin that will conceive and bring forth Christ in human flesh again, but this time it would be Christ revealed in the flesh of his many membered bride in female form at His second coming, His coming in the form of the bride coming of Christ in a many membered bride body – God with us again in bride form – not just “I will be with you” but “I will be in you” – “at that day you will know that its I in you and you in me”, and so by the members of the bride body, it completes the body of Christ both male and female – the two are actually one – She is Him in this hour)
THE.CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE_ LA.CA V-2 N-28 THURSDAY_ 65-0429E
170 The other is pregnated by the Word of God and will bring forth the Body, the finished Body of Jesus Christ, which is the Bride. The Body of Christ isn't finished yet. How many knows that? A man and woman is one. And Christ is one Body, the Word. The Bride will have to be the rest of that Body. And the two, together, makes the one Body again. Like Adam was at the beginning: man, his wife, are one.
****So remember that Elisabeth (the old woman who represents the old Pentecostal age of this last church age) conceived by a sensation, but the young virgin woman of this age who represents Mary must conceive differently – the end time bride in the bride age must conceive by a revelation of the word delivered by an Angel’s message just like Mary did.
Mary didn’t say “Let it be unto me according to a sensation”, she said “be unto me according to thy word” because the spoken word is the original seed – that is why the original seed of the word has been given to us again in this age by an Angel’s message, and you need seed in order to conceive.
One of the mysteries of this last age was the baptism of the Holy Ghost without sensation but by the conception of life coming by the word of the revelation of Christ – “the words that I speak unto you are spirit and life” said Jesus.
CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728
234 What is the new Birth then? You'd say, "Well, Brother Branham, what is the new Birth?" It is the revelation of Jesus Christ personally to you.
****That is why the evidence of the new birth is not based on speaking in tongues, or a tingling feeling up your spine, or an emotional experience, even though at times we need feelings and experiences to help us along the way, God uses those things, so there is nothing against feelings and emotions, in fact any religion without some form of emotions is dead, but life in this hour doesn’t come by feelings, it comes by the revealing of the word and the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost.
**The bible didn’t say “upon this feeling I will build my church”, but upon this rock of the revelation of the word I will build my church. And sometimes, even message believers struggle to accept that because of the influence of the Pentecostal age.
Remember that they were a sensation loving age – they loved the gifts, and God allowed them to conceived by that method just like Elisabeth and the first Eve, and it did bring forth a form of life, but this last age of the bride age was to be like Mary and conceive differently, not by the gifts, but by the giver of the gifts Himself coming to unite and pregnate a people by the original seed of the word of truth – the Holy Ghost made way for the giver himself.
THE.MASTERPIECE_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-7 SUNDAY_ 64-0705
136 Notice, here, the Life that was in the husk. In the stalk, and in the tassel, in the husk, all gathers in the Seed. And the Life that was in the stalk, went, one went to make the other. Justification, made a way for sanctification; sanctification, made a way for the baptism of the Holy Ghost; the baptism of the Holy Ghost, made a way for the Holy Ghost Itself to come right down in perfection, back to the Word again, to manifest Itself.
TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE.WITHOUT.BEING.THE.WILL.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-8 SUNDAY_ 65-0718M
174 "But I'm not Him. But He is standing among you. And His shoes, I'm not worthy to loosen. When He comes, makes Hisself known..."
And today He is standing among us, in the person of the Holy Ghost, manifesting Hisself more and more, coming into His Church, making Hisself known; because, Him, and the Bride and the Groom will be the same, making Hisself known. And one day you'll see that the One that you feeled in your heart, and see His identification, will become personalized before you, then you and He are One.
You've united by the Word. And the Word, was in the beginning, will go back to the beginning, which is God. "And that day you'll know that I am in the Father, the Father in Me; I in you, and you in Me." Hallelujah! We're here. Hallelujah! I'm so glad to see Him personifying Himself right among us, and see what He promised for the Word; not what's somebody's emotion, singing, and jumping, and dancing. But by His Word, amen, He is making Himself known.
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31-2 That's some of the mysteries that this angel is supposed to wind up, all the mystery--all the mysteries of God... And the other one... May I say this with reverence, and not referring to myself, but referring to the Angel of God.
The serpent's seed, that's been a hidden mystery all through the years.
The grace straightened out, not disgrace, but real true grace.
No such a thing as an eternal burning hell. You'll burn for millions of years, but anything that was eternal had never beginning or end, and hell was created. All these mysteries.
The mystery of the baptism of the Holy Ghost without sensation, but the Person of Christ performing in you the same works that He did.
The person of Christ (by the word) in the believer, finishing the work through His bride for this end time age.
***Eve was commissioned to multiply and bring forth children and replenish the earth, and she did that, but we know that the way she did it brought death to the entire human race. If she had done it the right way by the spoken word of God, then the entire human race would have lived forever, but the way she conceived was founded upon a deception and unbelief of the word, and so every child she brought forth had to die because of that wrong birth – that’s why we all need a new birth. ***Where Eve failed, the bride of this hour won’t fail to multiply and fill the earth with people of the right birth that can never die.
****Our conception as the virgin bride of Christ for this end time hour must come by the revelation of the truth of the word that has been spoken to us by the Angel that has appeared to us in this day – it cannot come based on the deception and the unbelief of some hybrid word teaching of a previous age – that was what Eve and Elisabeth represented.
172-2 PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.5
…Here is the secret of this. The Word is in the bride (as it was in Mary).
How was the word of that hour in Mary, and how did she get the word in her, and then how did she conceive by that method?
***Remember that Mary actually became physically pregnant just by receiving an angel’s message, and that method of getting pregnant had never been seen before for 4000 years of human existence – “How could a virgin conceive just by the spoken word of an Angel’s message” Even Joseph couldn’t handle that idea, and he was going to put Mary away privately, and so it was very hard for anyone to accept that back then, and that is why it is also very hard for people to accept the same thing in this day even many in this message.
***But this exact same thing is promised to repeat again in this last day because the new birth for this bride age is promised to come by a visitation and a revelation from an Angel, and this is so different to how women (Church’s) would usually conceive.
***Under this new age revelation, brother Branham told us that you can have the previous Pentecostal age version of the Holy Ghost baptism every hour of your life and still be lost.
LEADERSHIP_ COVINA.CA V-7 N-7 TUESDAY_ 65-1207
162 ... Many of you think, "I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, I'm going to Heaven." That don't mean one thing that you're going to Heaven. No, sir. You can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost every hour in your life, and still be lost and go to hell. The Bible says so. Uh-huh, that's exactly right.
MODERN.EVENTS.ARE.MADE.CLEAR.BY.PROPHECY_ SBD.CA V-7 N-6 MONDAY_ 65-1206
100 Notice, we find today that people... There's many people just can't believe It, even Spirit-filled people. I'm going to give you one that'll choke you. The baptism of the Holy Ghost don't mean you're going in, not at all, not on that, don't have anything to do with your soul. …Remember, in that spirit you can be baptized with the genuine Spirit of God and still be lost.
***So we know that the rain which is the Holy Ghost Baptism can fall on the just and the unjust – this was something that the Holy Spirit revealed to us in this age that was never understood properly until this age – even brother Branham himself was confuse about this for many years. So the “rain” falling on someone is not the evidence of the new birth, it is just the evidence of the Holy Spirit falling on someone. The real evidence is those who can receive the word – the original seed.
***Remember that this terminology “The Baptism of the Holy Ghost” has a very wide application, because we use this term to mean both the rain which is the spirit of the genuine Holy Ghost falling on a person’s spirit realm, and also the new birth, but we have since been taught by the message of the hour that the new birth of this age is very different to the rain baptism of the Pentecostal age because you can have the rain baptism every day of your life and still be lost, but you cannot receive the revelation of the seed of the word in your heart and ever be lost, because that word when watered by the Holy Spirit is what quickens you to eternal life. The word is spirit and life.
THE.FUTURE.HOME.OF.THE.HEAVENLY.BRIDEGROOM.AND.THE.EARTHLY.BRIDE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 SUNDAY_ 64-0802
195 Now, that's what we was talking the other day, the evidence of the Holy Ghost. See? The evidence of the Holy Ghost is when you can receive the Word; not some system, but have a clear understand.
WHO.DO.YOU.SAY.THIS.IS_ PHOENIX.AZ V-6 N-9 SUNDAY_ 64-1227
218 …The evidence of the Holy Ghost is believing His Word. Always been every age if you can receive the Word.
***The genuine new birth of this hour can only come by the conception of the seed of the truth of the word which is first received into the womb of your mind as teaching, and then the Holy Spirit takes the teaching of the word that you have received in your mind and makes it clear to you by an overshadowing and a spiritual revelation – then that word becomes a faith in you, and that truth of the word is spirit and eternal life.
THE.SPOKEN.WORD.IS.THE.ORIGINAL.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-2 SUNDAY_ 62-0318
91-2 And the only way that we can ever be borned again is first in the womb of the mind receive the Word, and then the Spirit comes on top of that and brings it. There you are. That's what does it. That's the real Gospel teaching, brother. I believe if Saint Paul was standing today he'd teach the same thing (Amen.) in this hour. All right.
What was the results with her? Physical and spiritual death. What is the results of those who accept the other word, it goes into this frolic today that they got? Both physical and spiritual death. Both body and spirit shall be annihilated, be no more. That's exactly right.
91-4 Note, Mary's womb--Mary's womb, the physical mind (See?), was virgin womb. Why? She believed God's Word. No matter how much anybody criticized, how many things somebody else said, that didn't have one thing to do with it; she believed God's Word regardless.
Oh, I wished I could just get that over. Are you getting it? See, first, was her mind. Before the act ever taken place in her literal womb, the act had to take place in here first to let the Spirit come in, to do the rest of the work. Oh, before the actual spiritual birth can take place, the Word has to find Itself through your mind; believe It. "He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath Eternal Life, and shall never come to the judgment, but's (or through the tribulation period), but has passed from death unto Life." That's it.
92-1 Oh, my. Now, notice: virgin womb, her mind, virgin mind to believe God's Word.
***Mary literally conceived and became pregnant just by receiving and believing the word revealed to her by an angel’s message. And so must this end time bride’s conception come by the same way, by the Word revealed to you by this angel’s message; that is what we are called to in this hour.
Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive