The Rising of the SON – Easter message
GENESIS 1:1-3
1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Notice the full stop or period – there could have been billions of years between Genesis 1 verse 1 and Genesis 1 verse 2)
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Notice – the bible begins with “Let there be light” so it begins with the “Rising of the SUN” because before you can have life you must first have light.
But we are also promised that “In the evening time it shall be light”, so at the end time age at the end of the bible there would be another sun rising, not the SUN but the SON – the ministry of the Son of Man that would shine the light of the word of the SON upon the earth to also bring forth life.
The Rising of the SON – Easter message
We know that Revelation 10 was the Mighty Angel (which was Christ himself) descending with a little book open, and that little book that the angel had opened in his hand was the title deed that Adam forfeited when the Tree of Life was in the Garden of Eden – Adam had had full access to that tree up to the time of the fall.
So from that time on, Adam had no Fellowship with the word and light of life, he had no access to Christ which was the true light of the world, he fell from immortality to a mortal corrupted life, a corrupted body, he fell from light to darkness, from life to death, from strength to weakness, from youth to old age.
Then he found himself locked up in three dimensions - light, matter, time, and all his children that came from his loins became the children of death.
ROMANS 5:12
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
We know that Eve, by receiving a perverted word from the serpent caused her to give birth to a perverted child. Cain was a liar, a murderer, and an inventor of false religion. So one word of God broken is what produced Cain.
That is why in these last days, the mark of the beast will be upon all those whose names are not written in the Book of Life, those who will be in a man-made religion, because man made religion breaks the word.
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41 "Now," you say, "Brother Branham, why do you strike at those people so hard?" (He is talking about people in denominations)
It ought to be struck at. It's got to be struck at. Flee it, because it will finally form the mark of the beast. Remember, that is the Truth! It will be the mark of the beast. Denomination will lead right to it. It's on its road right there now, to force, by a power.
So out of the Eve’s womb came dead children – they were alive, but they had a death sentence placed on them from birth. But God promised to give another woman a seed at the end of the Old Testament that would bring redemption for Adam’s fallen race.
So as the woman Eve doubted the word at the beginning of the Old Testament in Genesis, then at the beginning of the New Testament we find another woman with a virgin womb (Mary) believing the word of the Angel messenger and she gave birth to Christ which Eve should have done. And that was the beginning of another rising of the Sun, not the SUN, but the SON. So we can see that there was a rising of the SUN at the beginning of the bible, and then there was the rising of the SON in the middle of the bible.
So out of Eve’s womb, death came into the world, but out of Mary’s womb came life, a life that would bring light and life back into a world of darkness and death.
JOHN 8:12
12 ¶ Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. The light of life is when you receive the word of God for your day.
So now we are living in the last age at the end of the bible, and brother Branham preached the message “Indictment” - A second crucifixion of the Word, and then he goes on to preach “Shalom”, and “The Easter Seal” and “It is the Rising of The Sun”, showing us that the same pattern of events that happened at the first crucifixion and resurrection of Christ is repeating itself again in this end time age, and that a new day has begun to dawn in this age – this is the bride age when the Word is being birthed into full manifestation to reveal and make manifest the evening time promises of this hour.
GENESIS 1:2-3 Opening scripture
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
So in Genesis the Bible opens with “The Rising of the Sun”, - “Let there be Light”.
What did the sun do? - It brought up the seeds that were already laying in the earth – it brought life to them that sat in darkness. The acorn became an oak tree, the rose seed became a rose, the sycamore seed became a sycamore tree, they all came up under that sunlight and by the sunlight connecting with them, it was their connection with the sunlight that transformed them so they could take their place to display their glory in God’s Kingdom.
That was at the beginning of the bible, then in the middle of the Bible in the first day of the week, there was a duel sun rising of the natural sun and also the SON of God, and at that time we know that many of the Old Testament saints also rose - David, Isaac, Joseph, Rebekah, Abraham and Sarah.
MATTHEW 27:50-53
50 ¶ Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
So now in this day, we are at the end of the bible in the evening time when the SON has risen again in our age because “at evening time it shall be light”, and this rising of the SON in this hour is going to bring the resurrection of the New Testament saints.
ZECHARIAH 14:6-9
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 ¶ And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. (Not a trinity of 3 persons)
***So the Bible begins with the Seventh Seal (The Rising of the Sun), and then in the middle of the bible there is also the breaking of a seal and the rising of the SON, and then the Bible ends with the opening of the Seventh Seal (The Rising of the SON), so the entire Bible is Christ, and Christ is the Mystery of God revealed, because the Son of man is the word revealed.
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93 Now, Who is the Son of man? "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."
***The son of Man is when the light of the word is revealed to you.
REVELATION 1:10-13
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. (The paps is around the chest)
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167 Now, let's watch Him just a little further, as we take the rest of this 13th verse.
And in the midst... (That's the middle.)... of the golden candlesticks one like... the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girded about the paps with a golden girdle.
Now, here's more proof that this doctrine is right about being the Lord's day. Did you notice Him? He was not a priest during this time; neither was He a king; He was a Judge.
Notice, a priest, a high priest, when he went into the sanctuary or went in to minister, to service, he tied himself around the waist. Tying his girdle around the waist, meant that he was serving: never tied it over his shoulder. But here He comes out, walking out with the girdle tied around the top, with a sash over His shoulder, girded about the paps, the breast, with a golden girdle, girded up high. What is it? An attorney, a judge. The judge with his sash over his shoulder, girded up here, not down as a priest. See, that shows He wasn't in His priesthood now. John went all the way over into the Lord's day and saw Him coming as the Judge.
A girdle is a belt or sash like a fabric belt, so the girdle is around the paps (the chest), not around the waist. Brother Branham said that when the girdle is around the waist, the priest is in service, in other words Christ would still have been in the days of His Priesthood which is His mediatorial office as “Son of God”, but John was seeing one like the Son of Man, and the Son of Man ministry takes place after the Son of God ministry of the 7 church ages has ended, but just before the Son of David ministry in the millennium, and so between Son of God and Son of David, the Son of Man is to be revealed again according to Luke 17:30.
LUKE 17:30
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
So John was transported into the future day of this age that we are living in now when Christ is fulfilling his office as Son of Man again – a prophetic ministry of the opening of the word because the word of the Lord comes only to the prophet.
Revelation 1:14-15
14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Here John is seeing Christ with the girdle around the chest in His Son of Man Ministry at the end time; he is seeing Him in the Lord’s Day when His hair was white like wool as the Judge of all the earth as what also Abraham called him when he revealed the secret of Sarah’s heart when his back was turned to the tent.
GENESIS 18:24-25
24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
We are the only generation who has seen Him with a white wig. The Seven Church Age saints never saw Him with a white wig. But after the Seven Church Ages were run out, then this Mighty Angel (Christ) descends with a white wig.
He was coming in the clouds of Heaven like how He said he would return, and when the picture was turned to the right, we see Him wigged as a Supreme Judge.
At the beginning in the morning time of the Gospel, the Apostles saw Him with a Crown of Thorns. And in Revelation 19 when He is coming as Son of David, He comes with many Crowns, but in our day, between His Priesthood and His Kingship - between the Church Ages and the Millennium - between Son of God and Son of David, we have seen one like The Son of Man with a White Wig.
It is the Rising of the SON, it’s the dawning of a new day, a great resurrection has come to us by the promised word of this hour
Notice - what happened at the beginning of the New Testament in the morning time, is being repeated again in the Evening time at this end time age.
**The Word that was sealed up has now been unsealed by the descending of the Mighty Angel in this evening time hour – and the SON has risen again.
So we know that it’s the Dawning of a New Day in this hour.
What happened at that Rising of the SON back at the beginning of the New Testament is repeating itself again at this Rising of the SON, because we see how the Angel descended and broke the seal and rolled back the stone at that first rising of the SON – after the seal was broken, it was a new day.
***But then among the elect of that day there was confusion, Is He risen? Is He alive? Is He dead? Are the Seals open, are they closed? some said I believe and some said I will not believe – remember that this was among the ones that were of the true followers of the message of that hour – this was not the people of the world and the denominations.
The people of the world and of the denominations of that day were all under a strong delusion, because they were all told that He was a false prophet and that he tried to pervert the minds of the people with strange doctrines, and they thanked Jehovah that he was now dead and the whole thing was over. But they did not know that the Risen Christ was searching for His Elect.
It was now a private ministry, because the descending of the Angel was a total secret to them, it was only for the Elect, He was appearing, not to the World but only to the elected.
Jesus said, “The world will not see Me, but you will see Me. I will come to you.”
He was speaking to a specific group – I know my sheep and My sheep know Me - they will hear my Voice.
We see this same pattern repeating at this End Time, the Message is designed and intended by God to awaken the Elect only.
**We know that the Seventh Seal is The Resurrection Seal - The Easter Seal.
Job saw that seal, he saw the Redeemer standing on the earth in the latter days as The Mighty Conqueror. Job saw the secret of life after death revealed.
So in the Garden of Eden, man ate from the wrong tree and death came in and life was sealed up, Christ was sealed up because he was the Tree of Life that was sealed by the Cherubims at the beginning in Genesis, and then at the beginning of the New Testament he was sealed in a Tomb.
***But we know that to know Him is Life Eternal, so while He is sealed up death can only but reign among the human race because Christ is a Hidden Mystery.
But when He breaks The Seals off of himself and exposes Himself and Unveils Himself (The Mighty God Unveiled before us – The Unveiling of God - Christ the Mystery of God Revealed) then the light of life can shine back and bring a resurrection again. When the Seals opened, it Revealed Christ.
Once Man was kept away from that Tree of Life, but now Man is being rushed back to The Tree of Life by the revealing of the word of the message of this hour.
That is why that it is in the evening time that it shall be light. All that Adam lost will be restored, the Image of God, Supreme Power, Dominion over the earth, Perfect Fellowship with God.
Fallen man could not eat from that Tree of life, but the redeemed man can eat – that is what we are feeding on in this hour. We have access to that Tree again.
**Genesis 3 was the sealing up of the Tree, but in Revelation 10 He has broken the seal and opened the book and released the evening time message to bring an evening time resurrection to an evening time people. Is SHALL be light about the evening time.
Shalom – good morning friends, it is the Rising of the SON
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232 The dawning of a new day, I feel it all over me now. The Light of a new day! The Light of a day where there is no night, there is no darkness, no shadows, no skies, no--no dim, dark skies, no midnights, no graves, no flowers on the hillsides, no funeral processions, no doctors, no morgue. Amen. I--I can feel the--the rays of His Light breaking through upon my soul. The new day! The old one is pressing away.
233 As I feel the mortal blood pouring through my body, I feel the surge of the Holy Ghost come in behind it, "Rise, and shine."
234 Something said, "Billy Branham, you're getting old, you're getting weak, your shoulders are dropping, your hair is turning gray and falling out." That's right. And darkness and gross darkness upon the earth!
235 "But rise, and shine!" I feel falling there the surge of Light of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ which has made me a new creature in Him. I look for that day, amen, for the new day.