The Two Births
JOHN 3:5-6
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
(Your first birth was by the physical seed of your earthly father, and that produced your flesh body that caused you to enter into this earthly kingdom, it gave you access into the kingdom of this world so that you could understand the things of this world – you could not understand the things of this world without that birth. But your second birth is a spiritual birth by the seed of the revelation of the word for your day by your heavenly father, and that is what gives you access into the kingdom of God to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of God – that is why people without the new birth cannot understand the revelation of this hour because they cannot enter into that kingdom of understanding without this new birth)
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
MATTHEW 11:11
11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
The Two Births
MATTHEW 11:11
11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist (The greatness of men is not measured by natural achievements and standards in life, but is measured by divine standards and achievement: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
This scripture is talking about two births. John was the greatest prophet that was born of women, not because he was better human being than all the others, but because his message foreran and heralded the first coming of Christ just as we have had a prophet in our generation herald and forerun the second coming of Christ.
**All the way from Abel to John, every man came into the world by sex birth, and John was the greatest man of all these.
“but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he”.
In other words, the new birth into the kingdom of heaven produces a greater level of man then the sex birth could ever produce, because the sex birth only produced a natural man that was temporal and was full of trouble and could not understand the things of God, and would one day die, but the new birth produces a man that is eternal and that can understand the things of God, a man that can never die.
**Our first birth came by a woman, but our new birth comes by a man – the man Christ Jesus.
LUKE 7:24-28
24 And when the messengers of John were departed (notice the messengers of “John”, not the messengers of Christ.
Today there are people who are just the messengers of brother Branham; they are not the messengers of Christ the revealed word.
All they can talk about is how great brother Branham was and all the stories and all the miracles that took place and how great this prophet that foreran the second coming of Christ was – we have had those men today – there focus is still on the messenger and not on the one that the messenger foreran which was Christ - but those men are departing us in this hour because there is a much greater event that is taking place – the revealing of Christ in Bride form – she is Him in this hour, she is not just one portion of the word, she is written in the volume of the book), he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
26 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. (He is identifying John’s part in the word – but John only had that one part, but the one he was forerunning (Christ) had his part written from Genesis to Malachi – he was the entire theme of the entire Old Testament – in the volume of the book it was written of Him)
28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
***So we see that this is dealing with two different births. John was the greatest that was born of women – the greatest man that was born by a sex birth, but the least that is born of the new birth is greater than John.
JOHN 3:27-29
27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. John was a friend of the bridegroom, he was not the bride.
172-2 PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.5
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.
**So we see here that brother Branham is typing the bride of this day with Mary who received a seed and produced a birth outside of a sex birth – he tell us that this is the secret – that the word is in the bride as it was in Mary.
LUKE 1:5-13
5 ¶ There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. (Look at this Godly linage of priests like the seven church ages of Godly people)
6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
The gospel of Luke begins with the story of two women, an older woman (Elizabeth), and a younger woman (Mary), and we know that woman in the bible represent churches, so this is an older church and a younger church that were together in fellowship because they were cousins. So notice that the older woman “Elizabeth” received seed in a different way to how Mary received seed, just like the Pentecostal way to receive the Holy Ghost was by sensation and feelings, but when we come to Mary’s conception, it was going to happen to Mary in a completely different way to that of Elizabeth - not by a sensation, but by an angel’s message and by her receiving that message.
**That is why when people that claim to be the bride (Mary) in this hour, when they teach a sensation doctrine of a previous “older woman” Pentecostal age, you know that they are not Mary but Elizabeth, because Mary is the type of the bride, and she is conceiving to bring forth a birth in this hour without sensation.
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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.TOKEN_ DALLAS.TX V-19 N-12 SUNDAY_ 64-0308
120 Don't, never rely upon some sensation. "I felt chills run over my back. And--and I--I smelt something; seen some blood in my hands, or some oil. Or--or, I won my Bachelor's Degree. Or, I danced in the Spirit. I shouted. I spoke in tongues." Them things might be alright. I have nothing against them, but that's not what I'm talking about.
JESUS.KEEPS.ALL.HIS.APPOINTMENTS_ TAMPA.FL SATURDAY_ 64-0418E
258 Don't make that mistake. Don't you trust in speaking in tongues for the Holy Ghost.
(Remember, that’s what the Pentecostal age taught the people to rely on – a sensation) Holy Ghost speaks in tongues, but don't you trust that and doing the things that you're doing, dancing in the Spirit, some kind of a sensation. Christ is a Person. Certainly. When... And He's the Word. And if He is in there, He always makes His Word work just exactly the way It's supposed to.
GOING.BEYOND.THE.CAMP_ JEFF.IN V-6 N-3 SUNDAY_ 64-0719E
31 As I look and preach across the nation, and watch the people, I--I am fully persuaded that the people are not getting to Christ. And I believe that it's the enemy that's throwed this hindrance. Because, the reason I believe this, He is not the object that they have been pointed to. They have either been pointed to a--a--a dogma, or a doctrine, or a party, or experience, or a sensation, or something like that, instead of being pointed to Christ, the Word.
HE.HARVEST.TIME_ PHOENIX.AZ V-18 N-6 SATURDAY_ 64-1212
265 …Mary didn't have no conception with the Holy Ghost giving her a sensation. God the Father created a germ, or--or an egg in Mary, and a Blood cell in her, also, and it was the Blood of God. (See what he is talking about. Mary types the bride in this hour, and Mary was the one that would bring forth the Christ that would fulfil the volume of the book of the entire Old Testament, but she would conceive this new birth without the sensation of a sex birth conception of the way that all humans had come into the world previously up to the woman Elizabeth, and that is what brought the misunderstanding of everyone against Mary – “how can this be Mary, how can you have a child without a sensation, how can you receive the new birth without a Pentecostal sensation, we just find it very hard to accept this idea that you are trying to make us believe in Mary, you mean to tell us that you have conceived and will bring forth a new birth without sensation, this is not the traditional thinking of all the past ages of the way that it has always been done before, this is a hard concept to grasp – How can this be??” – we have this problem today among the message world.
Many no doubt thought that Mary was lying, but then they began to see a life forming in her – that is why the ones in this age who have the revealed word of the hour in their souls by the revelation of this hour are the ones that are bringing forth the life of Christ)
AND.KNOWETH.IT.NOT_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-10 SUNDAY_ 65-0815
279 Just watch! Stay close to Christ. Let me warn you now, as a minister of the Gospel, of this. Don't take any foolishness. Don't imagine anything. Stay right there until this inside of the inside is anchored to the Word, that you're right in Christ, 'cause that's the only thing that's going to... Cause, we're in the most deceiving age that we ever lived in. "It would deceive the very Elected if it was possible," because they have anointing, they can do anything like the rest of them. (Remember that a person can have the true Holy Ghost anointing in their spirit and be an unbeliever in their soul – that is where the confusion and the deception for so many people)
So the word is in the bride as it was in Mary, and Mary is the younger woman who gave birth after Elizabeth, Mary is the last day’s bride – and notice that the conception of the word seed came into Mary without a sensation but by the message of an angel that she received in her heart by faith. It was after she believed the angel’s message, then she conceived in her womb, showing that we can only receive the conception of the life of the word only after we have believed the angel’s message of this day.
But notice that Elizabeth was also a part of what was happening for that time because she was also connected with the forerunner of Christ because the ministry of John the Baptist came out of her womb, like in this day brother Branham came out of a Pentecostal church womb environment.
Remember that Elizabeth also believed in the angel’s message for that hour to a level – so we find that these two women (Mary and Elizabeth) are associated together in this age in the same movement of the hour, but the difference is in the way that they bring forth their births – these are two different births.
**Up to that stage Elizabeth’s birth was the greatest of births of all humanity (that’s the Pentecostal age), but Mary’s birth would be even far greater than that - that’s the bride age birth of this hour by the spoken seed word of an angel’s visitation and message).
LUKE 8:10-11
10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
I PETER 1:23
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
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. Amen! See?
240 The new Birth is Christ, is the revelation. God has revealed to you this great mystery, and that's a new Birth.
***So one birth is by a Pentecostal sensation, but the real new birth of the bride in this hour is by the revelation of the word in the soul without fleshly sensation.
The old women church Elizabeth is a cousin to this age and this message – a near kin, out of Elizabeth’s womb came John the Baptist, and out from that womb of the Pentecostal age of 1906 came the forerunner of the Christ’s second coming – Malachi 4.
***Every one in the message today believes in the forerunner for this day – they are all like Johns disciples, they all truly believe that God sent a prophet, they all believe in serpent seed and water baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, all these great truths that God promised to restore in this day. But when it comes to the word is in the bride as it was in Mary without sensation – many in the message still don’t know how that could be, they just can’t understand it because this has never happened in any other age before – a virgin bride becoming pregnant without knowing a denomination?? – Without a sensation??
LUKE 1:34
34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
Notice - even Mary herself (a type of the true bride for this hour) she struggled to understand this for a season.
LEADERSHIP_ COVINA.CA V-7 N-7 TUESDAY_ 65-1207
162 The choice of your conduct. You could... You can't mix it now. You're either for God or against God, and the outward expressions shows exactly what's on the inside. See? The cocklebur... 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.
163 Look here, you are a outside person. You have five senses that contacts that outside body. God gave you five senses; not to contact Him, your earthly home: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear.
164 Then you have a spirit on the inside of that, and it has five outlets: conscience, and love, and so forth. Five outlets that you contact the spirit world with that, but with your spirit.
165 Your physical contacts the physical. Your spiritual contacts the spiritual. But inside of that you've got a soul, and that soul is that gene that come from God.
166 And like a baby formed in its mother's womb. When the baby comes into the--to the mother's womb by the little germ, it crawls into the egg. It doesn't form one cell a human, the next a dog, and the next a cat, and the next a horse. It's all human cells because it's building off of an original human cell.
167 And when a man has been borned again by the Word of God, predestinated to Eternal Life, called "The Elected," it'll be Word of God on top of Word, Word on Word! Not a denominational creed and then a Word, and a creed; and it won't work. You can't have that leaven in It! Only one Eternal Life, Jesus Christ the Word:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,...
See where the conception of the word is – it’s in the soul – the word is in the bride as it was in Mary.
You can have all the sensations you like, you can have the genuine Holy Spirit in your spirit realm, but if the spoken word seed of this hour hasn’t birth you in your soul by a revelation of Christ, then that is just Elizabeth bringing forth a prophet’s message belief – a forerunner to the word – you produce a Malachi 4 just as Elizabeth brought forth a Malachi 3 – all you’ve got is “God sent a prophet to this generation – serpent seed – Malachi 4 – water baptism – what a great man William Branham was in our generation - the first and second pull of all the healings and miracles” – your still saved and going to heaven, but that’s not Mary the bride.
Elizabeth was part of the plan, she was a cousin to Mary, she was a real believer in Malachi 3, she was saved, she brought forth part of the word, but Mary brought forth the entire revelation of the entire volume of the book by a different birth, a birth without a sensation – that is what is promised for the true bride of this hour.
BIRTH.PAINS_ PHOENIX.AZ V-3 N-4 SUNDAY_ 65-0124
170 Notice, quickly now. Now, she is in that stage, beyond a shadow of doubt. We're in the Laodicea church age.
171 Now, Her messenger is promised, in Malachi the 4th chapter. He's promised to do it. And the Message is to bring back the Word, bring the people back to the Word. Birth is to be. She's to be delivered, of a new Birth, from according to Malachi 4.
The Two Births