Categories of Eternal Life Pt.2
MATTHEW 25:1-2
1 ¶ Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
Two different categories of people, but whom both will have eternal life. The wise virgins being in the bride of Christ category, and the foolish virgins being in a none bride category – both enter the kingdom of heaven by a different process.
**Both of these gentile groups of people will come out of every age of the seven church ages. These foolish virgin groups are made up of people that have lived good lives to the best of what they knew of the word of God, but yet fell short of making the bride group because they lacked the Holy Ghost oil that would have enabled them to see the truth of the word reveal by the Holy Spirit through the messenger for their day.
MATTHEW 25:14-15
14 ¶ For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
This is dealing with a category of people who will be in the kingdom of heaven because they served their purpose in fulfilling the master’s work by the correct use of the talents that they were given by God in life. Because we know that all that fulfill God’s purpose in this life will have a resurrection unto eternal life, just as the sun is resurrected in the morning because it fulfilled the purpose of God the previous day.
MATTHEW 25:22-23
22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Notice - These people are entering into eternal life based on their faithful service with the talents that they had been given by God in this life.
MATTHEW 25:45-46
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. There is another category here of people who will receive eternal life based solely on the fact that they did a good deed towards even one of the least of the Lord’s elected.
Matthew 25 is showing other categories of eternal life – so these categories of eternal life are being revealed after the seals are opened in Matthew 24.
Categories of Eternal Life Pt.2
Continue reading this chapter 25 of Mathew…
MATTHEW 25:31-40
31 ¶ When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Notice - The Kingdom of heaven was prepared for this category of people from before the foundation of the world, so God already knew each one on them and had already ordained them to eternal life and had given them an inheritance within the kingdom heaven – maybe a great estate with a mansion or two. Yet the only reason these people will be in the eternal kingdom of God will be by some relatively small act of kindness that they did to one of the least of the elected bride categories of the Lord during their earthly lifetime, and this act of kindness would be so that small they would actually be unaware of what they had done. And so there will be groups of this category of people who have done good towards the bride that will come out of every church age of all seven church ages.
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Each one of these examples in Mathew 25 – The wise virgins - The foolish virgins - The Stewards with the talents, and then these ones who did good to the least member of the bride down though seven church ages, and then even towards His brethren the Jews, like Schindler and many others who have helped the Jews in their times of persecution. All these are different categories of eternal life groups that will be given white robes on the other side, and so this is showing us the grace of God of how that God’s grace is able to extend beyond what we could maybe have imagined. He will not forget the smallest good deed that is done by someone towards one of his elected people, because it is an act of reflection on earth of something from that eternal kingdom of Heaven. By these people being a blessing to the elect here, it shows that they will also be a blessing there in the new kingdom.
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And if there are those who will enter into life eternal after the White Throne judgment solely on the grounds of being good and kind and just to the elect of God who are His brethren, then we cannot but accept that.
We must realize that not all positions in the kingdom of heaven is of the same ranking or glory and that the bride is on a different level to others. Certain categories will be on different relationship levels to other categories – but it will all work together in total perfection because each position (no matter what rank it is) will be important for the perfection of the kingdom. This is why Jesus keeps referring to that the kingdom of heaven is like this, and then like this, and then is like this other thing, because it takes all of these things to make up the kingdom.
MATTHEW 5:3
3 ¶ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
MATTHEW 5:10
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
MATTHEW 5:19
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
(Notice – different glories of greatness of eternal life. When Brother Branham went beyond the curtain of time, he was placed on a higher level because he was a leader – and remember that there can be no jealousy there, because each position is necessary)
MATTHEW 13:44-48
44 ¶ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
All these are different categories of people that will be found in the kingdom of heaven.
MATTHEW 18:4-5
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
These words of Jesus cannot fail, they are eternal – so these are all different categories of access qualifications for the kingdom of heaven for different categories of people who will inherit eternal life.
REVELATION 6:9-11
9 ¶ And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: (These were the Jews under the altar of sacrifice that were murdered by Hitler and Eichmann in the Holocaust– their earthly life had ended, and yet they were alive and gathered together in another place beyond this life in a group of a category that will receive white robes and eternal life – these are people that had rejected Christ, and had even murdered him, but yet God had shown mercy on them because He had had to blind them in order for the gentiles to have a chance at salvation)
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
**The secret to understanding this 5th seal is that it is showing us that there are other categories of groups of people who will receive eternal life that are outside of the bride, and that many of these people have already gathered into their respective categories on the other side. These groups of people will be necessary in order to populate the kingdom of heaven with subjects that have the gifts and skills and talents given by God in order to be an eternal blessing and benefit in that kingdom just as we see that there are diverse skills on earth in order for an earthly kingdom to function. In order for a kingdom to prosper it requires many skill sets. Carpenters, brick masons, architects, landscape designers, gardeners, musicians, song writers, poets, story tellers, the list is endless.
*So we can see that people will receive eternal life based on different qualifications of how they acted towards a certain level of the word while they lived through their earthly life’s journey - like the groups in Mathew 25 we read about. The sheep on the right hand receive eternal life based solely on their showing of kindness to the elect of God – and this applied to every church age since Christ because brother Branham talk about Nicodemus being a part of that group.
**Just one small act of kindness was enough to give them a place in the eternal kingdom of heaven. And so whatever that event of kindness was in their lives, God knew about that before the foundation of the world and prepared a place in the eternal kingdom of heaven based on that event. Mathew 25 is showing us the categories that will make up the kingdom of heaven – this is what is being revealed after Matthew 24 by the opening of the 7 seals.
**Many people struggle with this concept of truth because they don’t understand the grace of God in the qualification process for each category – but the opening of the seven seals reveals all these things because the opening of the seven seals actually shows plainly all these different groups of categories of people that will receive eternal life.
Picking up from last week…
We have been studying on this group in the 5th seal of whom were the Jews that had been murdered under Hitler and Eichmann – they had been gathered on the other side in their respective category, and they were told to wait a little longer until the last 144,000 group would be martyred and gathered together as they were. And we saw from last week’s study that this same pattern applies to the foolish virgin groups of 7 church ages.
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555-2 {225} …Now, what happened? They were purged during the time of the awful tribulation period. Now, if God's going to purge that's--that virgin that was a good woman, but she just failed to get oil in her lamp (If you have oil in your lamp, then you will see the word for your day and hold to it, proving that you are the bride of Christ), and He's going to purge her through persecution in there, He puts them tribes right in there for the same thing, and purges them during the time of the tribulation period, because it is a purging; it's judgment. But, you see, they, after...
555-4 {227} And look here. Here comes up the hundred and forty-four thousand after the purging of Israel, and here comes up also... The sleeping virgin comes up purged and has white robes on. See? How perfect, how beautiful that is.
**Brother Branham is showing us that after the rapture, both the 144,000 elected Jews and the gentile foolish virgins of the last of the Laodicean age will be martyred, and will both receive white robes of immortal bodies in their respective categories in that both of these groups will receive eternal life at the great white throne judgement.
The 6th seal is a 3 fold purging - it purges the 144,000 Jews, it purges the last group of the Laodicean foolish virgins, and it purges the very Earth itself to prepare it for the millennium of a 1000 years of peace.
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536-6 {81} Now, now, we're going to speak here now on this 7th chapter just a minute to--to kinda bridge it in between Sixth and Seventh Seal, because that's the only material that we have to go on right now, is the Sixth--between the Sixth and Seventh Seal, is the calling out of Israel.
(The mystery of seventh seal is partly sealed up in the seventh chapter of Revelation, because the seventh chapter is revealing a people (the 144,000 elected Jews) that have the ability to receive a prophetic message – and that is also a pattern for the identification of the elected bride members of every church age of being able to receive their messenger’s message – and so there is both a Jewish group and a gentile group shown in chapter 7, and both groups will be identified by their response to their corresponding prophets. **As we have said, what the seventh trumpet is to the Jews of the 144,000, the seventh seal is to the end time bride – so both the Seventh Trumpet and the Seventh Seal is the revealing of Christ to both of these end time groups through the message of the messengers sent by God to show them who they are in their relationship to Christ)
….Now, notice, Israel--Israel believes only her prophets, and after they are vindicated. (Notice – it is only this 144,000 group that will recognize and receive these prophets – so if you are a Jew that is one of these of the elected 144,000 group, then the qualification (that will reveal you as a part of the people of this prophecy) is by you acting out this portion of the word by receiving the revelation of what is taught through the mouth of these two prophets, and that is then the sealing in your forehead, because your forehead is your revelation (THE.TEN.VIRGINS.AND.THE.HUNDRED.AND.FORTY.FOUR.THOUSAND.JEWS_ JEFF.IN ROJC 425-492 SUNDAY_ 60-1211M 250 …Your forehead is your revelation) – and this is also showing us something of the seventh seal, because the seventh seal reveals Christ to His earthly bride by the revealing of the son of man ministry, but then it also reveals Christ’s body on earth that is in the form of a people called His earthly bride – these are the ones who will prove by their own choosing to be faithful to the message that has come to them by a gentile prophet)
When the first went forth, it was a lion. That was prophet's Word. The next went forth was the work, sacrifice. The next come forth was the cunningness of--of man. But we are promised in the last day that to return to the church again for the benefit of straightening up all that has been misled--misundone--left undone, for it's predicted here that the seventh angel's message would finish the mysteries of God.
…Now, could you imagine when this person comes on the scene--when he does, remember, it'll be so humble and things till the churches will miss it a long ways (He is speaking of protestant gentile denominational churches). And could you imagine the churches, still under the tradition of the reformers, would ever receive a prophet from God who would be firmly against their teachings and organizations?
…I don't care how many tracts that the Gentiles get over there and spread out. I don't care how much you go through Israel with a Bible under your arm proving this, that, or the other; they'll never receive nothing but a prophet. (It will take these two Jewish prophets for these ones to responded to, because that is the prophecy – they will never respond to gentiles trying to convert them to Christianity, because that is not what the prophecy tells us, and it is impossible to change scriptural prophecy) That's exactly right. For a prophet is the only one who could take the Divine Word and put It in Its place and be a vindicated prophet; they'll believe it. That's right.
***So this is also why denominational teaching will never reveal Christ to the end time bride, no more than Christian denominations will reveal Christ to the Jews – Christ will only be revealed to the 144,000 through their prophets ministry.
So Revelation chapter 7 is showing both groups being called out by their own messengers and prophets, and it is showing us how the end time bride is identified, because they are the people of the prophecy whose names are sealed under that prophecy, and so the mystery of who these people are has been revealed in the last days by the opening of the seven seals.
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22 Dear God, we are unworthy to take this Book into our hands, for we read in the Scriptures that no man in Heaven or in earth, or beneath the earth, was worthy or even able to take the Book, or even to look upon It. Oh, and there came One that had been like a lamb had been slain; He took the Book, for He was worthy, and He loosed the Seals thereof. And we're looking to Him this morning to reveal these contexts that's written in the Book, because it is the Book of Redemption. All that is redeemed is written therein. May we find our position, this morning, in the time that we're living. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
**This is why that if you have received Malachi 4’s message, then this prophecy has already been at work in your life – and it is so powerful that nothing can stop it from accomplishing its purpose in your life and the prophecy being expressed in your life has already revealed that you are a part of the end time bride of Christ category.
*This is why that as believers of this end time message, we have in our full possession the evidence that we are the people of the prophecy of the bride of Christ of this end time age, and so it is impossible to stop the rest of the prophecy from coming to pass in our lives of a body change and rapture.
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2 ..Thou knowest our needs, and we would pray, as You have taught us to pray, "Thy Kingdom come. Thine will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven." Father, we would ask tonight for mercy, for liberty of Spirit, that we might be able to bring to the people the Gospel Truth, and the what we believe to be the Message of this hour, for Your Church. Lord, praying that we are a portion of that Church that's to be called out in the last days! Father, if we are not that portion, then reveal to us what we must do to be that portion.