Come into the Ark Pt.2
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.
Our righteousness comes by believing the word for the age – Abraham believed God and it was accounted unto him for righteousness.
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.
The pattern that God did back in Noah’s day is an exact parallel of what he has done and is doing in this end time age when the son of man ministry has been revealed again.
Firstly God sends a prophet with a message, then the world reject that message, but a small group receives it and are led into a place of safety and are protected from the judgement while the rest of the world go ignorantly on into the judgement, but the ones that believed that prophet’s message are taken over the judgement and into the new earth.
Come into the Ark Pt.2
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.
**Notice from what we learnt last week that the voice that was calling them came from within the ark, that was showing us that God had to have first come down to earth - a type of the coming of the Lord in this day.
Remember that the seventh seal is the coming of Christ, so the revelation of the ark to Noah was the revelation of Jesus Christ coming to Noah, so that was Noah’s seventh seal revelation that revealed Christ for that day in the form of the ark.
Brother Branham told us in Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed that the seventh seal is shown in every type in the bible.
Over the 120 years of Noah and his group building the ark, the message of that hour advanced from books and tapes and blueprints to a fully revealed revelation and manifestation of Christ.
Noah’s ark was the word and message that was given to Noah materialised for his day, and those that believed Noah’s message to the end, and rejected all the lies about Noah on the internet, and all the disbelieve the sign websites, they were the ones that went over into the new earth with Noah, but all that disbelieved the message of that hour died in the judgement.
THE.ARK_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-18 SUNDAY_ 55-0522
86 The ark. There was one of them Noah built, a way of escape. Second one spoke of, was the one that Moses was put in. The third was the ark of the testimony to Israel. And the fourth, all fulfilled in the fourth, being Christ Jesus.
Let's go back now and begin at the first in Genesis, and see how the preparation was made for the ark, and see if it doesn't type Christ exactly. And all those who gathered into each ark, or under the--the--come to reconciliation by the ark, all was preserved through judgment. And just as certain as they was preserved in the type, how much more are we to be preserved in Christ, the real Antitype of all the arks. Oh, He's marvellous.
***Going into the ark in Noah’s time is the same thing as going into Christ now, because that ark was only a shadow of the real ark now, all these other arks were only foreshowing in type the real ark that was to come at the end time age that we are now living in.
If we observe the pattern of the saved and the unsaved down through time, we will see that both the way of mercy and the coming judgement of God was revealed to Noah and his group, and the way of mercy and the coming judgement of God was revealed to Abraham and his group, and the way of mercy and the coming judgement of God is also revealed to Branham and his group in this hour. But to the unbeliever – nothing is revealed.
LUKE 17:26-30
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 (Remember that in Lot’s day, God came down and visited Abraham in the form of a man and revealed the secrets of Sarah’s heart. Then God in that same form revealed the secret things of the future to Abraham and his group about him and Sarah about to be turn back young again and the destruction of Sodom - there is your seventh seal again, the coming of the Lord, this is what we have seen happen again in this day, it is the same pattern of what we saw in Abraham’s day); 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.
In other words – all that were not a part of Noah or Abraham’s group were totally ignorant of what God was doing and the annihilation that was coming.
So the very same pattern in Noah’s day and in Lot’s day is repeating itself perfectly again in our day - so only the elect can see these things, because it is hidden to all else.
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.
**From last week we found out that the voice of God that was calling Noah and his group, was calling them from within the ark which was the word, the message of the hour – it was Christ, it was the coming of the Lord, it was the seventh seal, it was the revelation of Jesus Christ for that hour, and he was calling them to come into a place of safety from the oncoming storms of judgement, He was calling them to come into himself because he was that Ark, so he was gathering the elect of that hour unto and into himself – and that is what the message is doing in this day, it is gathering the bride into the word of this day.
***Notice from last week – that the Ark was a different place to that of the outside world, it wasn’t the new world, but it wasn’t the old world either, it was a place of safety between the two worlds, and it was also the thing that was going to take them over into the new world where they would walk out over the ashes (as it were) of the wicked.
PSALM 27:5
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
***A hiding place in the time of judgement, a hiding place between the two worlds, an age in between two ages.
What is between the Laodicean church age and the millennial age?? -The bride age.
The voice of God in this hour is calling us out of the ignorance of Laodicea and into the bride age, into Christ the message of the hour.
**This message is the voice of God saying to us in this hour – Come out of the darkness, come out of the ignorance of Laodicea, and come into light of the word of this hour (the Ark – Christ).
**That is why Christ leaves his mediatorial work at the end of the church ages, to take you out of ignorance so that you can be united with him.
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.
**So from last week we know that what separated the elect from the non-elect in Noah’s day and in Lot’s day (and also in this time that we are living in now), that it was the enlightenment of the word by the secret things being revealed for the hour in which they lived in.
**To one group, the secret things of the word were revealed to them by the Lord himself, while all the rest of the world were groping in total darkness and ignorance.
So the same word that was mercy to one group became judgment to the all the others. The same rain that took Noah and his group off the earth destroyed all the others that were in ignorance of the judgement.
MATTHEW 11:23
23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
25 ¶ At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
***The pending judgement is hidden from all but the ones whom God will reveal it to. Has he revealed it to you by a message in this day?? – Then that takes you out of the group that is in darkness and ignorance, and puts you in this other group that is going over in the ark to the new world.
DANIEL 12:9-10
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
If we really believe the message of this hour, then it will affect our actions in the way that we live.
A.MAN.RUNNING.FROM.THE.PRESENCE.OF.THE.LORD_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-8 WEDNESDAY_ 65-0217
101 Then faith without works is dead; if you say, "I believe it," and don't make no act. Just like the Message, if you say, "I believe it," don't make an act, what good does it do? See? Noah went to work with his hammer and built an ark, to confirm what he was talking about. That's what we have to do, too. We have to go to work and prove our faith, by our works. Our works proves our faith.
THE.ARK_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-18 SUNDAY_ 55-0522
6 Now, there's three elements that people live in. First is the humanistic. Second is Divine revelation. And third is vision.
Now, this, like in prayer, when you pray for anyone in humanistic, we say, "Well, I--I hope you'll get well. See, I--I'm hoping. I'm believing with you, trying to use all the faith I can." That's human. (****That is sometimes how people are with the message of this hour, it is not at a higher level than at a humanistic level of intellectual agreement, it must become more than that to us)
Second, is Divine revelation, when something's revealed to you. You just know in your heart it's going to happen, yet there's nothing but just the revelation.
And third is a vision. 'Course that's THUS SAITH THE LORD. That's perfect and positive.
***When the message is revealed to you by the Holy Spirit, then it takes on another level of faith that is beyond the humanistic realm (“have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed in the humanistic realm” has the spirit of God quickened that word and made it alive to you). It is that higher level of faith produces the evidence of the token on display.
CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728
233 Look, Christ in you makes Him the center of Life of the revelation. See? Christ's Life in you makes Him the center of the revelation. Christ, in the Bible, makes the Bible the complete revelation of Christ. Christ in you makes you the complete revelation of the whole thing, see, what God is trying to do.
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. Amen! See? Not you joined a church, you shook a hand, you done something different, you said a creed, you promised to live by a--a code of rules. But Christ, the Bible, He is the Word that was revealed to you. And no matter what anybody says, what takes place, it's Christ; pastor, priest, whatever it might be. It's Christ in you, that is the revelation that the Church was built upon.
THE.ARK_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-18 SUNDAY_ 55-0522
118 Notice. Quickly now... The next ark was spoke of, we'll go to it just a moment, was Moses. The Bible declared that little basket to be an ark. And notice that it was provided by the mother, the one who gave him the birth. Amen.
Not through some seminary, not some theological experience, but the One Who gives the believer the birth, prepares the ark for him, carry him through the judgment.
The seventh seal is when Christ has come to you by the revelation of this hour and has called for you to come into the ark and he is leading you and guiding you into all truth.
And by a clear understanding you can see the word manifested for your day; nothing could ever tear your heart away from that revelation.
By faith you have come into that word, not by a humanistic reasoning realm of hope, but by the quickening power of a spiritual revealed word to your soul, and you and that word are becoming one and the same thing by your agreement with that word.
*When Noah and his group went into the ark they became one with the ark.
*When we come into the word for this hour by a spiritual revelation, then you have come into Christ, and you and the word are one together.
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."
The token is Christ in you and you in Him – it is the seventh seal (Christ himself) revealed personally to you.
Come into the Ark Pt.2