The Prophecy of the Resurrection Pt.2
JOB 14:14-15a
14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: (Notice from last week - a voice calling that brings about a resurrection – like the loud voice that called Lazarus from the dead)
REVELATION 20:6
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
ECCLESIASTES 1:9
9 ¶ The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
JONAH 2:10
10 ¶ And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
The Prophecy of the Resurrection Pt.2
The resurrection that has been prophesied for this hour has been foretold of in many of the stories and parables and symbols of the bible, and all the prophecy pertaining to the resurrection for this hour - we are now living in the time of when the reality of what has been before in all the shadows and types of the bible is coming to pass in reality form.
In other words - The secrets for this age are revealed in the stories of the bible.
And so the story of the resurrection of this hour is also detailed in mystery form in the stories of the bible.
LUKE 10:25-37
25 ¶ And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
(Notice how Jesus turns to the word for the answer, because all the answers to every question in your life is already written in the word)
27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
30 And Jesus answering said, (notice – he is going to give him the answer to this question by telling a story) A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,
34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
***So we see that the story revealed the answer to the question, and this is how the whole bible is written – the stories of the bible reveal the answers to our questions because through stories is one of the major ways that God communicates his truth to us – and so the same God that wrote the bible is the same God that gave us the message of the hour, and so in the stories of the message we will also find the answers to our many questions because it’s the same God who doesn’t change his ways.
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E-14 The next one coming was a white woman. (Brother Branham is telling the story of a woman coming up in a prayer line) And she came, told her where she was at, what was wrong with her, just a cyst on the ovary, but said, "Prepare for death, for your not going to live but just a little bit." a Christian. Now, if I'd have been a healer, I'd have healed the woman.
Many times, I've seen death on people this last week. But I never said nothing about it, 'cause prayer could change it. But not this time, God had said it. I'd seen the funeral procession. And I know it was over.
And I said, "Prepare for death, for you're not going to live but a little bit."
She said, "How do you know that?"
I said, "Well, the same One that knowed what was wrong with you."
She just done like that, and walked off the platform, set down, and in about ten minutes, she dropped dead right there. They took her away. See? See, I couldn't... If I'd--if I'd have been the healer now, I'd have healed her. But I can only say what He tells me to say. See?
These experiences and stories that brother Branham told us about throughout his ministry gives us answers and insight to things along the journey of life that we may also encounter, because this is showing us that this woman in just 10 minutes from walking off the platform had an appointment with death – so God has an appointed time for us to be born, and an appointed time for us to die, and after death, an appointed time for a resurrection.
Here is another story…
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143 The mother come back, she said, "Brother Branham, you know, here's me and my children," said, "we've all been in and out, and in and out, and around the Tabernacle, and things. We set and listen at you preach, and we'll go up to the altar and come back." Said, "I'm backslid, too, Brother Branham." She said, "I want to come back to the Lord Jesus, for His goodness to my child." Well, you see, that--that's very nice, but you don't come to the Lord Jesus because of that.
144 Along towards midnight, twelve, one o'clock, her mother dozed off to sleep. And she said, called her, said, "Mother."
And she said, "Yes, honey, what do you want?"
She said, "You know, I'm so happy!"
She said, "I'm so glad of you being happy."
Said, "I'm at peace with God." And said, "Oh, how fine it is!"
In a few minutes, again she called back, she said, "Mother."
Said, "Yes?"
Said, "I'm going home."
145 And she said, "I know you are." She said, "Yes, sweetheart," said, "the doctor will take the baby tomorrow. And then about a day or two, when your incisions heal up and you get away from here, you go back home and be happy again, you and your hubby and the little children, and be a Christian and live for God."
She said, "Mother, I mean I'm going to my Heavenly Home."
She said, "Sure, honey, at the end of the journey."
She said, "This is the end of the journey."
"Oh," she said, "now, what's the matter?"
146 Said, "The end of the journey." So said, "Yes, mother, within a few minutes I'll be gone."
147 Well, she thought she had just got nervous and delirious. She called the nurse, the nurse taken her respiration. Everything was normal. And within five minutes she was gone, she was dead.
148 And then when I come back home, in a week or two after that... I think Brother Graham preached the girl's funeral. When I come back home and Meda told me that that girl died that night, my, I couldn't...
I--I went to see the mother. "Yeah."
149 And I--I--I don't know what caused me to do it, but I said, "Lord God, You--You owe me an understanding, see, after me going out there and--and telling that husband, and him coming to the Lord after You done these things for him, and all like that, and then take that girl's life like that." I said, "You owe me an understanding."
150 When you tell God something like that, He'll leave you sitting alone. I don't... He don't owe me nothing. I'm in debt to Him. Well, He just let me pout it out for a few days, you know. And, after about three or four months, one day I was out on the creek bank and the Lord spoke to me in a vision, and said, "Now go to her mother, and say this to her mother, 'Did not her time come the year before that, when she was drowning in a creek, on a picnic? She should have went at that time, but I had to take her when she was ready to go.' And that's why all this happened and why you went out there."
151 Then I got down and cried. I said, "Lord Jesus, forgive me, Your poor stupid servant. I should have never said that, Lord."
Remember that Hezekiah was appointed a time to die, but God extended that time another 15 years because of his prayer – but it went bad for him, and he ended up far worse off for that extra time – so that is why sometimes God takes people before it seems that there time should be up.
Sometimes the will of God will act out different to how we think the way things should be done, because God knows what lays ahead of each of us.
***God took away Brother Branham’s baby daughter (Sharon Rose Branham), and for years he couldn’t understand why God would do that until one day the Lord showed him that if she had lived she may have gotten into trouble in her life that could have prevented her from entering into the kingdom, what God was looking at was the resurrection of Sharon Rose Branham – brother Branham was only looking at her death, but God has her resurrection in his mind, so he had planned an appointed time of her departure from this earth, so he took her from Brother Branham when he did so that he could be sure to give her back to him again – so the resurrection is what is the important thing.
The Jews were murdered under Hitler during the Holocaust, and all that most people see is their terrible deaths, but God is seeing their resurrection.
**The story of Esther is about the resurrection of a people that has been condemned to death, and the story of Ruth is a prophecy that is dealing with a Jewish people and a Gentile bride after the Second World War, because there has to be a resurrection of Elimelech’s fallen family who is a type of Adams fallen race – so Ruth is also a story of the resurrection.
I CORINTHIANS 15:21-23
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
Opening scripture..
JOB 14:14-15a
14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. (You have and appoint amount of time on the earth, and you have an appointed time to be resurrected)
15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee:
We are now living in the hour when the entire mystery of the entire bible has been opened to the bride of these last days by Christ himself by the opening of the seven seals, and it is from this open book that Christ is calling the bride of seven church ages by name in this hour, like Esther was called by name by King Ahasuerus, and then she came into a marriage union and received the seed of the king for that hour, and so after the bride of Christ in this day receives the seed of the revelation of the word for this day, then there follows a resurrection and a catching away to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
MATTHEW 12:39-42
39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Notice that it was in the third day that the resurrection takes place.
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. (This is referring to the great white throne judgement when witnesses will come forth)
42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation (notice again – this is at the great white throne judgement), and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
What about this age when we have had an even greater manifestation of God in the form of an even greater gentile prophet to this generation.
**We want to look at the prophecy of the resurrection in the story of Jonah, because the story of Jonah is a prophecy not only of Christ’s resurrection, but also of the resurrection of this age because Jonah was a prophet to the gentiles (the same as what we have had in this day).
JONAH 1:1-3
1 ¶ Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
**We will notice as we go along in this story that the original word of the Lord that Jonah received at the beginning was the same word that had to be restored to him again at the end, but before that word could be restored, he had to go through a seven cycled process (a type of the seven church ages) before that word could be restored to him again in the last age.
JONAH 1:4-5
4 ¶ But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. (This is like the dark ages where the martyred saints slept in the darkness of the ground)
Remember - The sea is a type of the Babylon denominational system of the Roman church that the true church of God was tossed about by during the church age period – like Israel in the captivity of Babylon for 70 years.
JONAH 1:6-12
6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?
9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
11 ¶ Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Jonah knew that in order to save life, it would require the life and sacrifice of one in order to save the lives of many – this was the spirit of Christ in Jonah – we see this same spirit in Esther, because Esther was also willing to give her life in order to save her people.
JONAH 1:13-17
13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. (We could liken this to when Luther protested the Catholic Church and broke the power of Rome against the people of God in the Sardis church age – Rome still existed, but the power of the storm that once threatened the church was broken)
16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
JONAH 2:1-2
1 ¶ Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. (***Look from where God is hearing his cry – from the belly of hell, he was in a dimension of Hell while still being on the earth, he is experiencing Satan’s Eden and the Laodicea age because darkness is all around him, and this is the age that we are living in now, because this age has fallen into total darkness and apostasy and hell is everywhere you look because the fifth dimension has been opened up by science by the technology and is spewing into this dimension that we live in)
3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
(In the temple was the word – Jonah, although he was in the condition of hell in the Laodicean age, he didn’t look at his circumstances, but he looked toward the revelation of the original word of God)
5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. (Notice - Even though he was looking toward the original word again, his condition didn’t improve while he remained in the fish’s belly. Sometimes we try to set up house and try to make an easy and comfortable life in the darkness and hell of the fish’s belly, among all the stinking fishy smelling juices of this evil age of Laodicea – but what Jonah really needed was a resurrection from that condition)
6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving (We must confess the promise of the word of this hour with the voice of thanksgiving in this age.
**The word that Jonah was looking to he had now put on his lips by confessing the promise of that word until that word and his faith became one and the same thing)
; I will pay that that I have vowed (Notice - He had finally come to a place of full surrender to the will of God for his life – like how Nebuchadnezzar took seven years of exile to also come to a place of full surrender to the will and purpose of God). Salvation is of the LORD.
10 ¶ And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
We see how that the power of the spoken word was displayed just before the resurrection took place.
***Now Jonah was in a new dispensation, a new age, an age within and age, he had come out of Laodicea and into the Bride age – he had once sat in darkness, but now he is in a great light, he is now in the full light of the sun, he had “come out of her my people” (the denominational Roman beast system), he had come out of the inky black sea and into the light of a new day where the original word was being restored to him again)
JONAH 3:1-2
1 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. The same message that he had heard from the beginning in the first age is being restored to him again after the seven church ages are completed – it is the restoration of that same original word.
All these stories of the bible are prophecies for this age that are revealing to us the events of this hour that we are living in – this is the age when all these prophecies that were written about beforehand in the bible concerning the resurrection are to be fully manifested in this hour by a people of this hour.
**What is greater in this life then to surrender ourselves completely to the purpose that God has promised for this hour.
The Prophecy of the Resurrection Pt.2