Michael and His Angels
REVELATION 12:7-12
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, (this word “dragon” means “the great serpent” which is the same serpent from the beginning which was Lucifer)
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out (Notice he didn’t go voluntarily), that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (This casting out is going on right now, that is why Satan is becoming more and more the god of this evil age - the rise of demon power is taking over the people of this world in many forms of deception)
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. (For seven long church ages Satan and his demons have been falsely accusing the people of God, but in this last age he is finally cast down because of the revelation of the word that has been released upon an end time people)
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 ¶ Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Read verse 7-8 again…
REVELATION 12:7-8
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
Michael and His Angels
Pick up from Wednesday night… explain in a little more depth.
This quote we are about to read has confused many people over the years.
The Holy Spirit told brother Branham that you can’t teach Pentecostal babies supernatural things, so when we look at some of these things, we must go beyond Pentecostal baby understanding into the higher things of the supernatural of what we were born for in this age to understand.
THE.FIFTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 63-0322
346-2 {87} … The Church goes up in the 4th chapter of Revelation, and does not return until it comes back with its King in the 19th chapter. But these Seals here are revealing what has been, what is, and what will be. See?
The reason that this quote is confusing to some is that we know for certain that Revelation 10 is the coming of Malachi 4 (the gentile prophet that will turn the hearts of the children back to the faith of the Fathers of the early church), and we know that that has taken place in the time that we are living in now, we have seen the fulfilment of these things, we are witnesses to these events.
*So if chronologically we are in heaven and gone in the rapture in Revelation CH 4 and don’t come back until chapter 19, then how does Revelation CH 10 fit in when we know for certain that we are on earth at the time of Malachi 4 coming on the scene of when we are commanded to “eat the little book” which is the message of this hour?
REVELATION 4:1
1 ¶ After this (the seven church ages) I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
We must first understand that this heaven that he is speaking of here is the heaven that consists of the revelation of the word - Heavenly places is the believers position in Christ, and so after the seven church ages have ended, then there comes a message that is released upon a predesignated people that is so powerful that they are caught up higher than any other age to see things past present and future – so we are viewing the events from Revelation 4 to 19 from an elevated position of the revelation of the word that has come to us in this age, and that elevated position enable us to see things that have taken place in the past, and what is taken place according to the word in the present, and what will take place in the future.
Read quote again…
THE.FIFTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN FRIDAY_ 63-0322
346-2 {87} … The Church goes up in the 4th chapter of Revelation, and does not return until it comes back with its King in the 19th chapter. But these Seals here are revealing what has been, what is, and what will be. See?
The church has been caught up higher in the revelation of the word in order to see what has been, what is, and what will be – we are not coming down again.
The next time we come down will be on white horses in Revelation CH 19 at the return of Christ in power and glory.
EPHESIANS 2:5-6
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Heavenly places is in the realms of the revelation of the word.
The teaching of this end time message has lifted us up higher into a realm far beyond denomination boundaries so that we can see all these things that are going on in this evil age by this prophetic message that we have received.
*We have been caught up higher into the bride age to see these things.
So after the seven church ages have ended, the church is raised up higher and is sitting in heavenly places in a realm of revelation so that we are able to understand all these events that are taking place between chapter 4 and chapter 19, and to know what our part is in these events.
PERSEVERANCE_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 63-0113E
12 …We've anchored in Christ, setting in Heavenly places, caught up in Rapturing grace right now, setting in His Presence in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Death itself can't touch us. Anchored away, nothing can bother us, just simply secured and waiting for His Coming. And we're grateful for this.
IT.IS.THE.RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M
263 … quickening Power, caught away into the Heavenlies, a eagle that's done flew above the chickens, way up yonder in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus! Oh!
THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E
534-4 {63} Now, remember, after the 4th chapter of Revelations, the Church is gone. After the--the four horse riders has went out, Church is gone. See? Everything that happened to the Church happened up to the 4th chapter of the Book of Revelations; everything that happened in the antichrist move, went up to the 4th chapter, and the Fourth Seal of Revelations (both for antichrist and Christ) ended up; and antichrist comes to his doom, and--with his army, and Christ comes with His army. (that is the time we are in now – at the end of the seven church ages when the Devil come to his doom)
It's an old battle that started way back beyond time. And then they was... Satan and his angels was kicked out. And then they come to the earth, and the battle set in again. Because Eve broke down the barrier from where she was isolated behind the Word of God, and from that very hour, Satan won the battle over God's Word, because one of His subjects, the weaker, let down the bar.
How was the battle won against Eve at the beginning? - By her reasoning against the revelation of the word of God.
THE.FOURTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN THURSDAY_ 63-0321
317-3 {278} Notice. What is this all coming to? (Now, we've just got about twelve, fourteen minutes here, I guess.) Look what this is all coming to. What is it? It's going right back the way it did. It started in heaven; it's coming to the end time battle.
The first thing in heaven was a battle. Lucifer was kicked out and come to the earth; then he polluted Eden. Then he's been polluting ever since.
And now, from the battle in heaven, it's coming to the battle on earth, and it is to be finished at--on earth at the end time in a battle called Armageddon. Now, anyone knows that. The battle started in heaven. Holy... And so, they kicked them out. Michael and His angels overthrowed them--just run out. And when they did, dropped right down in Eden, and here started the battle down here. (So Angelic wars become human battles)
***So while we are caught up in these heavenly places in this hour, there is a war that we are engaged in that is taking place in that heavenly realm of the word verses the reasoning of the devil – and it is the greatest battle ever fought.
*Michel and his angels represents Christ and his bride in this end time age, and so the battle field (as we are told in the message “The Greatest Battle Ever Fought”) is in our minds, because our minds is where the revelation of the word is, and so the war that started in heaven is now raging in the minds of the bride members, and that war is between faith in the word of God, or to doubt the word of God by reasoning against it.
*Eve lost that battle by her reasoning against the word, and that caused the whole world to go into struggle and death, but in this end time age we know that there is a second Adam, and then there is also a second Eve, and this second Eve will not listen to the lie of the devil against the word of God, but will prevail and overcome.
REVELATION 12:7-9
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
*So now there is no place found for Satan and his angels in the bride age in the heavenly places of the revelation of this revealed word of this hour – this day this scripture is being fulfilled.
***Satan has been trying so hard to get amongst us within this message to bring a fall collectively to this end time bride as he did with Eve at the beginning, but we have fought him and his fallen angels of unbelief by the revelation of the word that has been opened up to us in this last age, and so as a bride body we have been casting him out into the earthly realm where he is going about to deceive the whole world (that is what is taking place right now), and so Satan and his angels know that when they are defeated by the last Eve (by her casting down all reasoning out of her mind against the word of God), he knows then when that happens, that he has but a short time upon the earth before Armageddon finishes him off and he is bound for a thousand years during the millennium.
THE.GREATEST.BATTLE.EVER.FOUGHT_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-0311
13-1 This great first battle that was ever fought begin in heaven when Michael and his Angels fought against Lucifer and his angels. It first started--the first battle was in heaven, so sin did not originate on earth; it originated in heaven. And then it was thrown down from heaven, cast out of heaven to the earth and fell on human beings. Then the battle from Angels become human battles. And Satan come to destroy God's creation. What God had created to be for Hisself, he had (Satan), come to destroy this. That's what his purpose was, was to destroy it.
Then the battle begin here on earth and begin in us, and it's been raging ever since.
So the battle of faith in the word against the reasoning of the Devil has been the human battle right from when Eve was first deceived in Eden – she actually believed in the Devil’s reasoning instead of the word of God, she went with worldly wisdom instead of Faith in God’s Word.
**But this battle that has been raging for 6 thousand years since Eden, according to Revelation 12:7-9 is finally won by Michael and his Angels (which is Christ and His end time bride) just before the final end comes and Satan is bound for a thousand years.
So he knows that when his is being defeated by the Christ and his end time bride, that he has but a very short time left, and so he and his demons go out and completely deceive everyone that is upon the earth and causes them to worship him.
REVELATION 13:8
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
He has failed to deceive Christ’s end time bride in this age, she was the main one that was in His sights, she was the big prize, but she becomes an invincible army in this last age because she has become united with Christ the word, and so he loses the battle and is finally is cast out of the heavenly places, and so now he begins to focus his attention upon the people of the earth (of this entire world) and oh they are so easy to deceive because they have no revelation of the word of God to resist him with, and so he becomes the God of this evil age and is worship even by the religious world.
***That is why sin is increasing at a remarkable rate right at this time, because Satin has lost the battle against Christ end time bride and he is being cast out of heaven to the earth because there is no place of reasoning found in the mind of the bride any more – and so he knows that his time is now very short.
II TIMOTHY 3:1-17
1 ¶ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
10 ¶ But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
How do we overcome in this age?
I PETER 5:6-10
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
8 ¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
10 ¶ But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.