The People of the Prophecy Pt.2
ESTHER 3:5-9
5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. (We remember that Satan wanted Jesus to bow before him, so we know what spirit was in Haman, it was Satan’s spirit in a man. But Mordecai didn’t bow, so we know what spirit was in Mordecai, it was the spirit of Christ in Mordecai)
6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai. (A spirit of genocide that would try to wipe out an entire race of people – this is the same spirit that came back on Hitler. People die, but the spirits that are on people don’t die. When a person’s soul goes to their place at their death, the spirit that was on them stills remain on the earth to continue its influence through others. What you act out in life shows the spirit that you are being influence by)
7 ¶ In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: (the law to bow to Haman was against the Jewish law) therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
A money proposition to influence laws to be changed in order to bring destruction to the people of God.
REVELATION 7:1-3
1 ¶ And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. (wind is war)
2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. (Your forehead is your revelation)
*These four angles are commissioned to hold back any war that would destroy Israel until these 144,000 of the people of the prophecy have been sealed by the revelation that will come to them by their two Jewish prophets (Moses and Elijah), they are the people of this prophecy, and no power in the world will stop this prophecy from coming to pass.
The People of the Prophecy Pt.2
A little background from last week…
**All the way through the history of the bible, there have always been people that God has raised up in each season of time for the purpose of fulfilling certain prophecies of the word.
*Scriptural prophecy is always connected to the predestinated people of the prophecy, and so when God has determined for certain prophecies of the scriptures to come to pass, He has to have the people on earth that those prophecies will be fulfilled through, and not only have them on earth and in the right place and at the right time, but He also has to have them built up in their personal lives to a certain level of maturity and with the right training for the job He has for them to do. That is why your life will sometimes feel like “boot camp”
*Then He has to have the exact political and religious climate just right as well as a million other details. All these things are the require ingredient in order for the scriptures to be fulfilled – and so there are many complex details that God has to bring together in order to fulfil scriptural prophecy, and Satan knows this, and so he is forever trying to upset the plan of God by trying to get into the details in order to try to prevent the scriptures from coming to pass – but more often than not, the very thing that Satan does to try to stop scriptural prophecy from coming to pass is the very thing that is a part of the detail that is required to fulfil the prophecy.
**So Satan is really just a tool in God’s hand that actually assists the plan of God in the fulfilment of prophecy - so everything that Satan does can only ever work toward the fulfilment of the scriptures even though he is trying his best to do the opposite. The infinite God is ten billion times smarter than Satan could ever be.
**God can take the negative things that Satan does and make them work out perfectly in His plan in order for the prophecy of the word to come to pass.
**From last week we mentioned about how that Herod tried to stop the prophecy of scripture of a king being born in Bethlehem by trying to kill Jesus when he was just a little baby – yet he could not stop the prophecy of the word, the fact is that it actually helped to fulfil the prophecy of Jesus living a part of His life in Egypt – “I have called my son out of Egypt”.
*So we must understand that this is always the tactics of Satan – if he can somehow destroy the people of the prophecy, then he thinks that he can prevent the word of God from coming to pass, and so this is why the Devil is always trying to destroy the people of the prophecy – that is what’s going on right now with this Israeli conflict – Satan wants to stop the prophecy of the 144,000 receiving the revelation of the message of their hour through their two prophet’s that God will send them (Moses and Elijah).
**It’s the same thing with an end time the gentile bride – Satan knows that if he can somehow wipe out the believers of this last day message, then he is convinced that he will be able to stop the prophecies concerning an end time gentile bride of Christ. He still hasn’t learnt that it is impossible to stop scriptural prophecy no matter how hard he tries – his reasoning still keeps getting the better of him. “But if I can only destroy the people of the prophecy, then I will win against God” he thinks. That makes so much sense to Satan’s thinking so that even after 6000 years he is still trying, even though he has never once succeeded.
*From Genesis to Revelation’s, God has been fulfilling the prophecy of His word in the lives of people down throughout all of history – this is the mystery of Deity in humanity that we spoke of last week, it is God’s great mystery of redemption being told of in the stories and the lives of people.
*The realm of where the supernatural operates in your life is not a public show that God causes you to look great in the eyes of others.
**We spoke last week about how that God will place a little event in your life, and then He will do another small event over in another place in your life, and all these things will add up to what God is achieving of His word being expressed and lived out and interpreted in your life, and yet it seems so small to us, and because it happens in what looks like such a natural way, it is often hard for us to really believe that that was God doing those things through our lives, and so it is often hard for ourselves to see how God is bringing His word to pass in our own lives – but this is God’s ways of how He operates.
**And so the outside world will never see these things, because these things are mostly lived out in your life in such a humble and often spread-out way.
**The whole world failed to recognizing the Elijah ministry that came in these last days, even with all the supernatural events that surrounded his ministry – so how much more will they fail to see the bride part of the prophecies for this hour being fulfilled. They will never be able to recognize it because of the humble and simple way that God is doing it, because this is how God fulfils His word of prophecy in people’s lives. This is how Deity is reflected in humanity.
*** And so because of this humility of how God brings His word to pass in our lives, we often personally struggle to see ourselves as the people of the prophecy, because we stumble at what seems like the simplicity of it, of how God brings his word to pass in our lives.
THE.FOURTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN THURSDAY_ 63-0321 We read this quote last week…
322-4 {314} And He's got wrote, "Life," riding on a white horse, and here's a man with three different powers mixed up, called death, gathering his earthbound delegates, and Christ is gathering His heaven-born subjects, saints.
He's got death wrote on him; Christ's got Life wrote on Him. Those with Him are on white horses also, and they are called "the chosen before the foundation of the world," (Amen.) and they are faithful to the Word. Amen. Whew. I like that one. Called, chosen before the foundation of the world, and then faithful to the Word by their choosing…
*The evidence that you were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world is by the evidence of your choosing to be faithful to the word for this hour.
You can only choose to be faithful to the belief of the message of this hour only if you have first been chosen by God. Otherwise, you would be living out a portion of prophecy of the word that would not be your part to fulfil, but the fact that you are fulfilling that prophecy proves that you have been chosen by God as the person of that prophecy.
That is why Jesus knew who he was by the scriptures, because in the volume of the book it was written of Him, and his life fitted the events spoken of Him for that hour.
**All the actions and the choices that people make in their life, when you look at the accumulated events of their life, it shows what part of the prophecy for their age and season that they lived out.
318-2 PHILADELPHIAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.8
THE FINAL ADMONITION TO THE AGE
Revelation 3:13,
"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches."…
Oh, there are so many voices in the world--so many problems and needs crying for attention; but there will never be a voice so important and so worth attending as the voice of the Spirit. So, "He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches."
***As believers in this end time age, there will never be a voice so important and worth attending as the voice of the Spirit of the word that has come to us by the message of the hour.
**It is very important for us to first know what age we are living in, and then know the prophecy of the word that God is going to achieve through His people for the age that we live in.
If we don’t know this, then we will be walking blind like the rest of the world, and we will almost certainly fail to see the achievement that God is achieving in our day.
*Brother Branham preached a message called “Recognizing Your Day and its Message” - 26th of July 1964.
***We must recognize what part of the prophecy of the word that is to manifest for this age, because the word prophesied for the age can only come to pass by the people predestinated to that position by the supernatural act of God’s providence and purpose in their lives.
***You were born at a specific time in history, and at a specific location on the earth, and by certain parents that God had caused to come together in a certain way of providence, all for a purpose for you to be able to fulfil a certain part of the prophecy for your age.
Everything of the smallest detail has to come perfectly together for the prophecy for the age to come to pass.
Jesus was prophesied to be born in Bethlehem, and so a certain law had to be changed so that people had to go to their birth towns to register for tax – all these details are controlled by the providence of God.
**If we lived back in that time of the horse and buggy age, then our natural lives would express that we were in that age because we would be involved with horses and buggies for our transportation – we would live and act in a certain way in that our lifestyle would express the characteristics of that age.
*The same with the motor car age, or the airplane age, or the technology age – our lives will naturally reflect the age we are living in by the way we relate to and act according to the time of history that we live in.
*We know that over the last 200 odd years, as each year has gone by there has been a higher revelation of the industrial advancement of the technology of that of the previous years.
*And so as our lives are naturally connected to the world in that we are living in of a time of great advancement of technology in the natural world, so must our lives be connected to the spiritual age of the level of the revelation of the word that has been revealed to us.
*We are under an eagle anointing in this age, we are not under an Ox or a Man age anointing - we are under an anointing of the revelation of the word of this hour by the revealing of the mysteries of God.
**So this is the hour where rapturing faith is to be realized in a people, because the rapture is first a revelation that is given to a people.
And so because of this revelation of the rapture that has come to us in this hour, we know that we are the people of the prophecy of the word in that we are prophesied to go into another world just like scientist are searching for a greater revelation of science in order to go to Mars. **The people of the scientific world are forever seeking greater revelation, because they know that revelation is the secret that will give them access into new worlds.
**Each one of us have come into this world for only a short season of an earthly journey in order to experience the testings and trials of life in a fallen world.
*But as the members of the end time bride of Christ, soon our earthly journey is to be collectively terminated by the resurrection and the rapture.
Elijah’s earthly journey came to an abrupt end at his catching away, and Enoch’s earthly journey came to an end at his translation.
I THESSALONIANS 4:17
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.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
**You need comfort when things get really bad here on earth, and so this is to be our comfort, is to know that there is a word of prophecy that God has connected to us as a people of the prophecy, and that that prophecy concerning us is impossible to fail, because we are the people who have met the qualifications for this hour of a people that will be translated from this world to another world by the revelation that we have received.
*This prophecy concerning a people who have remained faithful to the message that God has sent for this time and season cannot fail – our rest is in knowing that we are the people of this prophecy.
**When we think of all this A.I. technology that is being talked about - it is an intelligence of a far higher knowledge being connecting to people in order for them to operate at a superior level of information that is far above their own limited intelligence.
**Intelligence is headship – Intelligence is where the decisions of direction and purpose for the body is generated from.
*So this is important from the point that in the message “Countdown”, Brother Branham tells us how that scientific advancement in the world is showing us what God is about to do with His people in the spiritual realm.
COUNTDOWN_ JEFF.IN V-11 N-3 SUNDAY_ 62-0909M
23 Now, things that were made of things that do not appear. Now, I have learned through all these years that all things that are natural are types of spiritual things, everything that's in the natural. And now, just remember that when you see anything in the natural, it is typifying a spiritual thing.
… When science achieved something by--by--by the natural, God's achieving something by the spiritual.
… They were spiritual scientists. Amen. They seen the thing; they believed it. Man did it by education, the natural scientist. The spiritual scientist done it by revelation: one by education, the other by revelation. Oh, if we can just open up. There's all kinds of material laying here. That's right.
**A.I is all about a greater intelligence being connected to humanity – this is in the natural realm, so when the spiritual intelligence from the Headship of the word joins itself to the body (and this is what has actually taking place by the opening of the word), it is a sign that it is nearly time for the bride to leave this world in a spiritual astronaut age.
**The great secret that was in the back-part of God’s mind is now in the hearts of a people by the opening of the seven seals – and so these are the people of the prophecy of what was spoken of in all the shadows and types pertaining to this age - our hearts of revelation have literally being turned back to the faith of who we are just as the early church knew who they were.