Guide our Feet into the Way of Peace Pt.3
RUTH 3:4
4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.
Sitting at ones feet is to do with receiving instruction
JOHN 14:25-27
25 ¶ These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things (This scripture could not be fully realized until this age when the mystery of God would be finished and the “all things” would be revealed – but to receive this level of instruction you have to be like Ruth at the feet of the instruction of the Holy Spirit which is your humility and willingness to learn from what the message of this hour teaches), and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Notice – a teaching in this end time hour to bring us into a peace at a time when the world is entering into a time of trouble such as it has never known before.
Guide our Feet into the Way of Peace Pt.3
Just to background a little to pick up this subject…
LUKE 1:76-79 We began this subject by looking at Zacharias’s prophecy concerning his son John the Baptist who is also a pattern of the forerunner that would introduce to us Christ in this age – “as John the Baptist was send to forerun the first coming of Christ, you will forerun his second coming.”
76 And thou, child (speaking of both John the Baptist and also in prophecy of the forerunner for this age – so this scripture is compound), shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, (The dayspring from on high has most certainly visited us in this day)
79 To give light to them that sit in darkness (of denominational ignorance of the word) and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
So the message of this hour was sent to guide our feet into the way of peace just like Ruth was guided into the way of peace after she has been introduced to Boaz who was the Lord of the harvest. ***And so we know that we are living in the real harvest time of which we are the real Ruth sitting at the feet of the real Boaz at the real midnight hour at the time of the real winnowing after the real shuck of the denominations have been separated from the real grain of wheat – this is the time we are living in now.
*From our studies in Jeremiah 32 we found that out it would be after the 70 years of captivity in Babylon that these two documents of the deeds of what Jerimiah had purchased from Hanameel his uncle's son of the land that he had paid for but not yet claimed or possessed, these two documents of purchase had to match in order for the claim and possession to be legally made.
So these two documents that resided within the earthen vessel of which one had been opened for the entire 70 years (the opened one being Christ) and the other one that was sealed (representing the bride of this hour as she was not to come into full view until the end of the seven church ages), that these two evidences must match exactly before the possession of what Adam lost in Eden can be claimed and possessed back again.
***In other words, 2000 years ago Christ paid the price at Calvary to buy back Adams lost estate, but unless these two documents match exactly at the end of the 7 church ages, the claim of what had been paid for would be null and void and all would be lost – these are the two matching halves of the Chinese laundry ticket that have to both come together in this age before we can be turned back young again just as Adam turned old after the fall.
**If we turn old when the title deed was lost, then when the title deed has been restored back to us in this day, then it is just as easy to turn back young again. Remember that these two documents coming together produces the title deed that Adam lost in Eden.
***This word “feet” in the Greek is the word “pous” {pooce} of which one of the meanings is that of disciples who listen to their teacher's instruction are said to be at his feet - Like how Paul was trained at the “feet” of Gamaliel.
***In the Old Testament we know how that Ruth received instruction at the feet of Boaz, and that instructing was to do with the redemption of everything that was lost by Elimelech – so the knowledge of her redemption of what was lost came to her at the feet of what Boaz was instructing her at the midnight hour, and that promise of His intent of redemption to her was that brought into a state of peace and rest.
- Then in the middle of the bible we see how Mary sat at Jesus feet and she also heard gracious words – that is also showing the bride’s relationship to Christ in this hour.
- Then in the book of Revelation at the end of the Bible we see how that John fell at Jesus feet – and John in the book of Revelation types the bride of Christ of this hour that is receiving instruction of redemption and of a great inheritance.
*The story of Ruth was an Eastern story, but the story of the Rancher owner’s son and the orphan girl and the buckboard that brother Branham tells is a western story – both of these stories have been given to us by God to give us a foresight in this hour to meet the challenge of this age.
Brother Branham relays this story of the Orphan Girl and the ranchers son in the 6th seal – and so whenever you find a story placed in the message of the hour and especially in the messages of the opening of the seven seals, you know that that story was placed in there by God for a purpose because that is a promise that Christ is wanting us to come into a reality of in this hour.
GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY_ LA.CA WEDNESDAY_ 59-0415A
E-49 Reminds me of a little story. Once I... You--all of you know, I used to herd a few cattle. And I thought I was a genuine cowboy. (He was a young man at the time, and he imagined himself as a real cowboy)
And so, I remember at a ranch that we was working on, there was a... The Armour Company owned it, really, and the cattle out there they was branded, and we grazed them. And so they was... The story goes... Was before I come on the place. (Armour & Company was an American company and was one of the leading firms in the meat packing industry. It was founded in Chicago in 1867 by the Armour brothers led by Philip Danforth Armour. By 1880, the company had become Chicago's most important business)
But they had a bunch of young girls, the rancher did. And they were all these little flippy type girls in them days. I think we called them "flappers." And now days they're called "chorus girls," or something. But however, they was a... Flapper mothers is what brought forth chorus girls. Now, what's the chorus girl going to bring forth, what I wonder?
I'll preach one of these nights on sowing to the wind and weeping--reaping the whirlwind. That's what we've done.
E-50 Now, notice this. Then before that the... they... The ranch got all fixed up nice and everything, because the Armour's boy was coming out to visit the ranch out in the west. And they were going to have a big time.
Of course, all these girls were going to vamp the boss's, the head boss's boy. You know, they'd marry him. Well then, they understood he was looking for a sweetheart. So they were all fixed up that night, and they was going to really give him an old Western reception. And the shooting their guns and having a big time.
And they happened to have a--a girl there, which was a cousin. Her mama was dead, and her daddy was dead. And she had nowhere to go, so she came to live with her uncle. And of all that had to do the work, was her. The other girls just stayed all prettied up all the time, and she had to do all the work.
E-51 You, many of you maybe have had that expan--experience, an orphan. It reminds me of the Church of the living God (That's right.): laughed at, made fun of all the time.
So she had no clothes seemingly to clean up in when the rancher's son come, the owner's son came. So that night, they had a great big blow-out. And--and she had to stay back in back of the--the bunk house. And so, when they all got out of the dining room from eating, why, she went in and got all of the dishes and washed them.
So it happened to be the--the owner, Mr. Armour's boy, walked out at the back and was looking. And it was true, he was looking for a sweetheart. He noticed that little girl, standing in there washing the dishes. There was something about her that seemed real to him.
E-52 After a few days' visit, one night she was pouring out the dish water at the back of the place, after a hard day's work, and she heard somebody say, "Good evening." And she looked, and it was young Mr. Armour just standing there. And she pulled the straw over her feet; she was bare-footed. And she bowed her head; she felt ashamed. He said, "I've been watching you. And I have found, to what I believe, that you are a virtuous young woman." Said, "I'm out here," said, "I'm so sick and tired of that fancy going-on of the city in Chicago and so forth." Said, "I--I come out here to hunt me a wife." And said, "You just meet that specification."
Oh, her heart like to of went... A man of that caliber? ask her, a poor little orphan to marry him? That's about the way I felt one night when I got a invitation to come to the wedding supper. "Want me? a man like me would--would have an invitation to come to the Lord Jesus?" But He asked me. I--I was... I imagine just about as--felt about like she did. "Who am I?" But He told me to come, and I come.
E-53 Then he said to her; he said, "Now, you make yourself ready. One year from this night, I'll be back to get you." Said, "Will you marry me?"
She said, "Well, it... Of course I would. But" she said, "I'm not worthy."
Isn't that about the way you felt? "I'm not worthy, Lord."
He said, "Don't think of that. I'm not looking for clothes and things; I'm looking for virtue. And I--I--I want you for my wife. Will you be?" And he kissed her.
And you remember when the Lord put that kiss on your heart, how you felt? Oh, my. Oh, kissed away all my sins, and all my sorrows, and... He--He just made something different. He--He--He said I could... I--I... He's going to bring me to the wedding supper one night.
E-54 So he said, "Make yourself ready."
You remember, the Bible said, "And the Bride has made herself ready," in the robes of the righteousness of the saints. You see?
So that little girl only got seventy five cents a week. But, oh, how happy she was that year. Just washing and singing, saving every penny she could. Rest of them went to town and bought new packs of cigarettes, and whatmore, you know, and their whiskey, and carrying on new decks of cards, and had their big time. But she's just labored away. Why? She was getting ready, making herself ready.
And then finally, first thing you know, she got to town, and she got the wedding garment, and got the money that he sent her, and got the wedding garment, and come back. And did them little cousins make fun of her. Ummmm. That's just about the way some of these cousin denominational religion, social gospel, said, "You bunch of little holy-rollers."
E-55 I talked to a girl here not long ago in Oregon. She said... She's belonged to another denomination. And she said, "Well, what's 'tending your party? If they ever... If they'd be the ones that would be in heaven, I wouldn't want to be there."
I said, "You won't have to worry very much unless you change your attitude." See? I said, "You won't have to worry very much."
She said, "All that there screaming and carrying on."
I said, "Now, wait. You worship Mary. And the Virgin Mary, before God would ever put the wedding garment on her, she had to go up the day of Pentecost and get so full of the Spirit, till she staggered like she was drunk. You ain't coming in anything less." Just remember that. Yes, sir. "And that was, as you call, the mother of God." See? I said, "If Virgin Mary had to go to Pentecost and get the Holy Ghost before she could ever go to heaven, you'll never get in; anything less. Just remember that. That was the Virgin Mary."
"Oh, that isn't so."
I said, "Do you believe the Bible? Here it is. And Mary was right with them in the upper room. And she got so full of the Spirit until she danced under the Spirit, acting like somebody drunk. And you think you'll get to heaven anything less than that? You'll never do it. Yes, sir. Virgin Mary and all the rest of them had to come the way of the Lord's despised few." So... Yes, sir.
E-56 The people make fun, and they call them a bunch of idiots. Paul said, "In the way that's called heresy..." That's crazy. See, "heresy" is some "heresy, crazy, idiotic." Well, we are called that, because the supernatural is so much different from the carnal things of this world, till it makes people think they're crazy.
They said... Why, Paul said to Agrippa, said, "I'm not mad. It's..." "Mad" means "crazy." "I'm not crazy, you think I am. But in the way that's called heresy, I worship the God of our fathers." That's the way I do too. I like that. "In the way..."
I'd like to join hands with Paul. I'd like to be there that day when I see him robed in the righteousness of Christ, when I see him crowned. Hallelujah. I want to have the same kind of robe on he had. That's the same kind my Lord wore.
That's the reason I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for it's the power of God unto salvation. And tho--Gospel came not in Word only, but through power and demonstrations of the Holy Ghost. That's the way the Gospel is. It's the Word made manifest in our hearts.
E-57 Now, this little girl, she got ready. She didn't care what... They laughed. Let them laugh if they want to. But she knowed that that kiss that night meant a seal. And so did I, so do you, and every one that had that kiss of the Lord Jesus, that give you the promise, you know what it means. You don't care what the world says. If your cousins wants to make fun of you and say, "You've lost your mind, and you're old fashioned," just go ahead; that's all right. Make her no different, she just kept getting ready.
So then, finally come the hour, the sun was going down. So she robed her little self, you know, and got all prettied up. Oh, my. That's the hour the Church ought to be in right now: all robed in His righteousness, filled with His Spirit, powered with His Being, walking in the Light, waiting for the coming of the Lord.
E-58 There she was, got herself all ready, all cleaned and washed, and the wedding garment on. And you know what? As it got closer, the more critical got her little cousins. They said, "You poor little simple-minded thing, do you mean to tell you that if--if the Armour's son would marry somebody, he would marry somebody like us, somebody who would fit in his society, someone who had education, who had some glamour about them." See, that's what the Church thinks today. But how far off they are. That's right. Way off they are. They...
E-59 And so, then after while, she... they... She thought he'd delayed. It got later, later. And finally, they said, "Oh, where's he at?" That's what they're saying today. "Where is that One. I heard that stuff forty years ago, He was coming. Where's it at?"
Didn't the Bible say they'd say, "Where is that coming of the Lord. All things are just like it was from the beginning?" We're living in that day, friends. Let's take courage now while we're together this afternoon. Go out with a new courage. Go out to win souls. Get ready. The coming's at hand.
And the first thing you know, they all got around her, begin to dance, little songs around her, said, "Oh, we'll make fun of her," you know. And made the bride like they was pretending, a bride. That didn't bother her. She watched the little old clock tick around. First thing you know, it was just about one minute. Somebody said, "You... I thought he was going to be here at such-and-such a time."
"Don't worry, he will be here," she says. That's all I want to know. He promised He'd be here. That's all I want to know. He's coming; that's all. When, I don't know. But He will be here.
E-60 Right while they were making the most fun, and saying the--all these different things about her, and--and teasing her, and making fun of her and everything, they heard the wheels a coming, horses hoofs a beating, the old grinding of the sand under the buckboard. My, my, she broke through those lines. Out into the yard she went. Who was it? There he was, dressed. The carriage was ready. She run through the little trellis at the end of the yard like that. He jumped out of the carriage and grabbed her into his arms, and he said, "Sweetheart, all year long I've had people watching you." Oh, I'm so glad. The Holy Ghost: The eyes is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. "All year long, I've been watching you. I seen your virtues. I seen the flirts of other men. I seen all of this, but I seen you were true. Oh, it swelled my heart to know that the woman I was going to marry was true."
God, let that be our testimony, let that be our desire today. Live true to Christ. Be true to the calling. Be true to the Spirit.
E-61 And he grabbed her in his arms, set her up in the buckboard, and turned the carriage away, and on to Chicago. Said, "You've worked and you've toiled, and your little blistered hands will never be blistered again. The things that you've done without, you'll never have to do without again. For one of the swellest homes that can be bought on--on Lakeside Drive in Chicago is waiting for you. We're going to get married now and go live there in peace for the rest of your days."
I'm so glad that we might work and toil, and have the spit of the outside, and the frowns, and the scorns, and everything, but someday He will come. Oh, we'll be taken up with Him to meet Him in the air. And those little old cousins just stood there and looked. Oh, some of these days, we'll be caught away. God will catch away His Bride, them who are wearing the wedding garment. Let us bow our heads.
Ruth had to labour in the field before she came into rest…
This orphan girl had to labour in the field before she came into rest…
But in their labours, they were both guided into the way of peace.
So are we being guided in this hour into the way of peace by the promise of Christ concerning our redemption.
We have a confidence in this hour of His promise to take us away in a great rapture of the church to the marriage supper of the Lamb.