The Mystery behind the History of our Lives Pt.3
I KINGS 10:1-3
1 ¶ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
*We have been witnesses to a greater than Solomon in our day, and so we know that there must of necessity be a greater than the queen of Sheba here also, and if we are that fulfilment of the queen of Sheba of this day, then we must also have the evidence of our hard questions being answered by the wisdom of the word of this hour – and this is what the message of the hour has done for us.
**The events that took place in this queens life is revealing the mystery of our own lives in this hour – This queens life was the shadow of the events of your life that was cast back to her by the events of your life in this day – and so this is the real mystery behind the history of your life that the scriptures is revealing to you now.
God has written your life story in the pages of the lives of the people of the bible.
The Mystery behind the History of our Lives Pt.3
When we read about the history of the Seven Church Ages, that is the churches history that anyone can study and learn about by reading church history books – but there was a mystery behind that history that was sealed up under the first 4 seals of Revelation 6, and so it took the breaking of those seals to show the mystery behind the history of the seven church ages.
*So it was only when the Seals opened in 1963 that we could understand what the history books couldn’t tell us about the history of the church.
The church ages was the history – the first 4 seals was the mystery of the history of the church ages.
*So then we can see from this how that God shows the mystery at the end of the history just like we saw with the two on the road to Emmaus when Jesus comes on the scene after the history of His life, death, burial and resurrection, and opens to them from the scriptures the mystery behind the history of His life. He was the only one who could break the seals from off the history.
***Brother Branham’s life on earth was from 1909 to 1965.
So from his birth in 1909 to the time of his decease in 1965, that is a history of 56 years of life that he lived out.
*But the supernatural part was that scripture was being fulfilled in his life and in the events of his life – that was the mystery behind the history of his life.
***So as Brother Branham comes down to the end of his life as we follow him through the messages that he preached, he begins to see his part of the word clearly and then begins to show us the mystery of his life from the scriptures, that he was Eliezer sent to get a bride for Isaac. He showed us how that he was Moses that lead a people in an Exodus – a third exodus; he was the one who like Joshua brought the Church into the new land and set them positionally.
*He showed us that he was Elijah that lived in the time when Ahab and Jezebel (Kennedy and the Catholic Church) were in the land.
He showed us how that he was the angel of Revelation 10:7 and that he was a son of man revealing the SON of Man of Revelation 10:1, because the same ministry of Christ was manifested in his ministry.
*All those things (by his preaching) he is showing to us what happened in those years of his life on earth from his birth until his departure from this world.
***He preached the message in a way that we would come to understand the mystery behind the history of his life, and so in the same way we are to see our part also, and are to also come into the understanding of the mystery behind the history of our lives by the scriptures.
**In our opening scripture we looked at this queen of Sheba, of how this small history of her life was placed in the scriptures.
ESTHER 2:15-17. Esther is another queen that is showing us something of this hour.
15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter (Notice how her parents had died, this is a type of our denominational parents in this hour), was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. (In the time of the voice of Revelation 10:7)
17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
We want to look at one more queen in Danial CH:5 – Brother Branham tells us of this queen in the message of the Invisible Union - 1965.
THE.INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE.OF.CHRIST_ SHP.LA V-2 N-15 THURSDAY_ 65-1125
182 Let the Holy Spirit search your conscience, and you'll agree with Daniel 5:12. When the queen come in before Belteshazzar, and said she found out that there was a prophet, Daniel, was among them, and he was a dissolver of doubts.
Notice here - A queen declaring a prophet that can dissolve doubts in a time of judgement. We are of those in this day who are also declaring a prophet that God has used in this generation to dissolve doubts.
DANIEL 5:10-12 (Danial Ch:5 is the time of the handwriting on the wall at Belshazzar’s feast of where he had ordered the vessels (that were meant for the service of the Lord) to be used for his own purpose of entertainment – that is what is going on in this day - Satan wants to use the vessels that are ordained for the service of the work of God in the service of his own purpose)
10 ¶ Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:
(It is commonly suggested that this queen was queen Nitocris who had been the wife of king Nebuchadnezzar – so this would have been Belshazzar’s grandmother)
11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; (Note that this word father can also mean ancestor. It is commonly accepted that Nebuchadnezzar was Belshazzar’s grandfather – so this Belshazzar of Danial CH:5 was Nebuchadnezzar’s grandson – so it is easy to get confused)
12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
Notice again – a queen at a time of when the handwriting was on the wall and judgement was already in the land, and she is declaring a message of one who was able to solve hard questions that not even the wise men of the entire nation could answer. This is showing us of this hour of where there would also be a queen that is declaring the same message at this time of judgement.
***Three scripture readings showing three queens – The Queen of Sheba, then Queen Esther, and then this Queen that we read about in Daniel CH:5 – each of these queens lives were declaring a portion of the mystery of your life this hour.
*You have had your hard questions answered by a greater than Solomon.
*You have been involved in the choosing of a bride like Esther.
*You have declared the message of one who can reveal the secrets in this day of Judgment.
I am trying to show you that your life is matching all these scriptures.
CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728
107 …The entire Bible is an expression of one goal that God had, one purpose He wanted to achieve in the entire Bible. And all the acts of the--of the believers in the Bible has been in type, and expressing what God's great goal is, and now in this last day He has revealed it and shows it. And God's help, well, you'll see it right here this morning, what the Lord has had in His mind all along, and has expressed it.
***The mysterious part of Jesus life was that there was this supernatural element that was taking place all throughout the events of His life.
Jesus was fulfilling the scriptures spoken of Him from His birth to His death in a very clear way, but yet no one was recognising it even though His entire life was matching every prophecy of what the prophets had foretold of Him in their writings, and even by the happenings of their lives.
The events of Jonah’s life declared a portion of the life of Christ.
The events of Joseph’s life declared another portion of the life of Christ.
The events of Moses’ life declared a portion of the life of Christ.
The events of Boaz and King David, and Salmon’s lives all declared a portion of the life of Christ. It took all their lives to show the one great life of Christ.
LUKE 24:25-27
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
***All these scriptures of prophecy concerning Jesus were being fulfilled in the events of His life supernaturally, but yet no one else was understanding it at the time that it was happening, but yet he was understanding it and was able to open to them the mystery of his own life from the scriptures – and so for ourselves in this day, we need to learn to recognise how that God has been working in the supernatural realm of our lives so that we can see the mystery in the events of our own lives of how God has been fulfilling scripture for this day in our personal lives and in the lives of our fellow believers as a collective bride body.
THE.SECOND.SEAL_ JEFF.IN TUESDAY_ 63-0319
180-1 {21} Now, last evening as we always like in teaching on the--on the Seals, we have--teach it the same way you do on the--on the--the church ages. And... When we got finished with teaching the church age, the last time when I drawed them out here on the--on the pulpit on a board, how many remembers what took place? He came right down, went right back there on the wall in a Light and drawed it off Himself, right there on the wall before us all. The Angel of the Lord stood right here before several hundred people. And now, He's--He's doing something real supernatural now too. And so we're just expecting great things.
**At the end of the church ages series, God supernaturally drew the seven church ages of the moons on the back of the wall for all the see – that was certainly a supernatural thing to everyone that witnessed it, but now during the preaching of the seven seals, brother Branham is recognising that God is also doing something very supernatural among the people, but you cannot see it in a way of what you saw at the end of the Church ages – but yet it was a very great supernatural thing that was taking place, but no one at the time could see what it was because it was in the supernatural realm of how God was bringing his word to pass in the event of the seven seals being opened.
*So God bringing His word to pass is a very supernatural thing, but He does it in such a way that to the untrained person, it looks like just a bunch of random events that just happened by chance – but there was no chance involved, it was the supernatural power of God that was directly controlling those events.
THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E
559-5 {264} .. Something going on, I told you, this week that you... It's been all around you, but I wonder if you noticed it.
… have you noticed the mysterious parts of this week? That's what it is. That's what it's been. It's been, not a human being, a man; it has been the Angels of the Lord.
But nobody saw the Angels of the Lord flying around during the opening of the seven seals, nobody saw an Angel writing the seven seals out on the back of the wall, yet this was one of the greatest events of biblical history of what God was doing – and yet only Brother Branham was seeing this but kept it a secret until the end.
**So this is also what your life is like – God has been doing great supernatural things in your life all through the years of your life, but you have not been able to see it because you have been looking at it in a wrong way – you have been looking for visible Angels to appear before your eyes, and a visible hand to write supernaturally on the back of your wall, but then you miss seeing God fulfilling his word in the events and circumstances of your life which is far greater miracle.
REVELATION 10:7
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he (one man) shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Revelation 10:7 is a scripture that is speaking of just one man – but the bride in this hour is made up of many thousands of believers, so when the bible is speaking of a queen in this hour, it is not just one person but a many membered body of Christ.
***All these woman in the bible (that type the bride of this end time age) could not singularly show the complete picture of the bride of Christ in this hour, but each one is showing a part of the great picture.
***Ruth showed a part of the bride of this hour, the queen of Sheba showed another part, Esther showed another part, the queen in Danial 5:12 showed another part, Sarah showed another part, Abigale showed another part, Rebekah at the evening time well showed another part, but in the volume of all their parts combined it showed the complete picture of the end time bride of this hour.
**So all these parts of their history combined are showing the complete manifestation of the bride of Christ in this hour, but because it is a many membered body, it is not that you as an individual have to manifest every part yourself, because it is a bride body fulfilment and not a one man fulfilment like the scriptures that pertained to Brother Branham’s part was.
**So as a believer under the revelation of the message for this day, there is an unseen hand that has been guiding you through life, and so you cannot help but to have live out the portion of the word that you are ordained to manifest, but your part combined with all the other believers will fulfil all of what has been spoken of the bride for this day.
MALACHI 4:5-6
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
**We know that Brother Branham came by degrees to understand his portion of the word that He came into the earth to fulfil, but this didn’t become clear to him all at once - God had to open this understanding to him little by little until he came to have a faith and a confidence in the part of the word that he was, and so this understanding cause him to become aware as to the details of how God was involved in his life supernaturally, and so he would often noticed supernatural things occurring around him of what almost no one else would notice.
A.PARADOX_ PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-1 SUNDAY_ 65-0117
31 Now, I'm--I'm... wore out one Bible, since I started in the healing campaigns, or praying for the sick, rather. At Houston, Texas, was given me a Bible, years ago, some eighteen years ago, by Brother Kidson and his group. And I wore that Bible, back and forth, around the world, until it just completely wore out, pages come out of it.
32 And I was just given a new Bible. And the strange thing... I am not superstitious; I hope you people don't think that it would be superstitious. When this Bible was given to me, they had a little... two little markers in it, little ribbons. It's a Bible like I had.
33 Brother Kidson gave me one was a Scofield Bible, now, not because that I agree with Mr. Scofield in his notes. Now, probably some of you do, some of you don't, but I just let you know that I just don't take Scofield Bible because I believe that. Because he has got it so paragraphed off. That was one of my first Bibles, and I just learned to read it like that. And I just keep the same Bible. Which, if I would have had the Thompson Chain, it would have been much better. I could have found my text much faster on a Thompson Chain Reference.
34 But when I opened the Bible, the first little ribbon in the Bible was a very strange thing, where it was. Was when Solomon dedicated the temple of God, and the Glory of God was so great, the Shekinah glory in the building, till the priests couldn't even minister.
35 And then the next string was laying where Ezra returned and dedicated the temple.
36 And the third little marker, that my wife had gotten me and put in the Bible, not knowing, with my name on it, and so forth, was laying to Mark 11:22. She just stuck it in the Bible, and that's where it was at. And that's, "If you say to this mountain, 'be moved.'" And all of you know when that Scripture was in my mind, you tape people, that's when those squirrels come right in, into that exactly.
37 And then the strange thing of it was, my favorite bird, robin, picture was on the marker, the little bird with the red breast. As the legend goes, that one time he was a brown bird; but there was a Man dying, one day, on a cross, and he felt so sorry for the Man till he flew in to try to pull the nails out himself, and he got Blood all over his little chest, and since then he's been a red breast. That's the way I--I want to meet my Saviour, too, with His Blood on my... inside my chest, on my heart.
38 And then my first meeting, Message I'm to preach in here, is at Phoenix, Arizona. Phoenix is something that can raise up out of nothing. That's what God does. He takes nothing, raises up something out of it.
39 And my Message this afternoon, is titled, for the next thirty or forty minutes, "paradox." And I want to read from a Scripture that...
40 Few years ago, that, I would take a Bible, and let you hand me the Bible, when I first started my ministry; and just take your Bible, and many of you have seen me do it, just hold it open like that, and say, "Lord, where is the Message to me?" It opened to Joshua, the 1st chapter, any Bible that you would hand me.