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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DON’T MOVE THE BOUNDARY LINES BETWEEN LIGHT ANDDARKNESS....................................................................................................7

August 23, 2015—Dawsonville, Georgia

CHRIST THE GREAT CONNECTOR BETWEEN MELCHIZEDEKAND JESUS ..................................................................................................25

October 24, 2015—Glen Daniel, West Virginia

UTTERING THE THINGS CONCERNING MELCHIZEDEK THATNEEDED TO BE TAUGHT AGAIN .........................................................43

October 25, 2015—Glen Daniel, West Virginia

CHOOSING THE TIME AND PLACE TO DEFEAT OUR LASTENEMY CALLED DEATH.........................................................................55

November 1, 2015—Dawsonville, Georgia

INTRODUCING CHRIST TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE: Repaying Themfor Introducing Jesus to Us............................................................................73

November 8, 2015—Dawsonville, Georgia

THE MYSTERY OF AREA 51.....................................................................93January 24, 2016—Dawsonville, Georgia

THERE IS NOTHING MORE POWERFUL THAN THE WORDWHOSE TIME HAS COME TO BE FULFILLED..................................107

February 14, 2016—Dawsonville, Georgia

MAKING THE FINAL PREPARATION FOR MEETING THE RESURRECTED MEMBERS OF THE WIFE .........................................124

February 20, 2016—Dawsonville, Georgia

THE SPIRITS OF JUST MEN ARE MADE PERFECT BY THE SOUNDING OF THIS LAST TRUMPET: A Covenant within the NewTestament Covenant.....................................................................................137

March 7, 2016—Dawsonville, Georgia

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DON’T MOVE THE BOUNDARY LINESBETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS

The following is a testimony of Barbara Jean Howard of a night visionthat was given in the early morning hours on August 23, 2015: In thenight vision, Ben and I were at a certain place inside a building and we werelooking around. While Ben was looking at some things, I went looking around,also. While I was standing there, a man came up to me and said, “I was lookingat your land and I noticed that there were some men trying to move yourboundary lines.” I looked at him and said, “Are you sure?” He said, “Yes,I’ve got some aerial photos of them trying to do it, and you need to do somethingabout it.” The man was some kind of airplane pilot that took aerial photos, andhe had taken some photos of our land. I looked at the aerial photos; and sureenough, I saw some men trying to move our boundary lines. I said to the man,“I’ve got to tell Ben!” I went and found Ben and told him, “Ben, there is aman over there that told me that there were some men trying to move theboundary lines on our land, and he has the aerial photos to prove it.”

What a night vision! The Lord Jesus deals with His wife in many dif-ferent ways to bring forth His will. Sometimes He gives us dreams andvisions, along with the revelation of the Word for this day. Now withthat being said, let’s just ask God’s blessing on the message for today aswe go forward. Heavenly Father, as we go forward with your message today,as always we need thy guidance, we need thy anointing. And without thyanointing, Lord, we could do nothing. So I pray, Lord, that you will help us tobe submissive to the Spirit of God in the way of it taking over our mind, oursoul, and our spirit. And this body, Lord, may it be one with the anointing ofGod. And may words be spoken that will edify thy people and help us all, inJesus Christ’s name. Amen.

As we approach the Word for today, I want to take this thought andentitle it, Don’t Move the Boundary Lines between Light and Darkness. Youwill notice as we minister this morning that the Word of God speaks oflight and darkness; and it also speaks of something else—outer dark-ness. As the Word goes forth today, you will learn that when we cameinto this world we were all born into darkness; yes, into a very darkworld. So when we speak of someone being cast into outer darkness,then we are speaking of a different kind of darkness other than the dark-ness that’s in this world because of sin, which we were all born into.When we speak of someone (whether angels or mankind) that is castinto outer darkness, then this is an act of God against someone that hasrejected the light to the point that they have become a child of darkness.

This truth will be made very clear in this message today.This world was very dark when Jesus came, but He came as the light.

Matthew 4:16 says, “The people which sat in darkness saw great light; andto them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprang up.” Lightsprang up for us, and now He is our reason for living. This great lightshows us that there is nothing else in this world that is worthwhile.Many people have obtained much worldly goods in this life; and I’mnot against obtaining material things, as long as one can obtain thesethings while putting the Lord first. The Bible says, “Seek ye first theKingdom of God and His righteousness, and all things will be addedunto you.” That’s why the wife of the Lamb is saying, “Lord, my Hus-band and King, above all things help me to do thy bidding.” And if wedo this, I promise you, all things will fall into place exactly where theyare supposed to be.

In the Book of Exodus, Chapter 19, it talks about setting bounds andthe people were not to touch the borders of the mount; showing thatwhen God set a boundary line it’s not to be touched, and certainly notto be moved or crossed over. And that is what this last trumpet messageis all about, it sets a boundary line between light and darkness. We seewhere Paul picked this up in Hebrews, Chapter 12. And I thank Godthat we are in the New Testament now and the boundary lines are setbetween light and darkness.

So today I’m speaking about setting boundaries between light anddarkness; showing the great danger in moving the boundary lines.Many people try to move the boundary lines to fit their own purposes.They can’t differentiate between the two (light and darkness). But Godhas set leadership amongst us to bring this light of present day truthwhich has made it sure and steadfast. But when someone thinks theysee something a little differently than God’s leadership has brought, andthey yield to the temptation to move the boundary lines just enough totry to make their thinking as God given revelation, then it becomes anawful error of darkness. Thus they go back into the land of darknessthat they came out of. Matthew 6:22-23 says, “The light of the body is theeye: if therefore thine eye be single (seeing nothing but revealed truth), thywhole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil (influenced by iniq-uity), thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is inthee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” That’s when one is close tobeing cast out into outer darkness.

When Jesus died, He went down and preached to the spirits in prisonand He brought all those up that belonged to God that died in the OldTestament times. And since that time, there are no righteous souls inthe heart of the earth. Notice, hell and paradise were in the same place

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(in the heart of the earth), but there was a gulf fixed between them. Butonce Christ Jesus brought the righteous out, raising them from the dead,He took them and paradise up with Him.

We can read in 2 Corinthians 12:4 about how Paul was caught up intoparadise. Yes, he was picked up. Meaning that Christ Jesus took every-thing that had light out of hell, leaving everything that was lost in hellwhere there is total darkness. And this includes all the angels that fellwith Lucifer. Yes, they along with all mankind that died who were lostare forever reserved in the region of outer darkness until they arejudged at the great white throne judgment where they are condemnedto be destroyed in the lake of fire. That’s when all sin and disobedienceto God is done away with.

Now it becomes very clear that there is a boundary line set betweenlight and darkness, and we don’t want to cross over it or move it to goback into the darkness where light was. This is what happens when thelight moves on to light up another part of God’s Word. And we don’thave to actually go back to be in darkness—for it’s the light whichmoved, leaving those in darkness who refused to walk in the light ofrevealed Word.

Here’s an important point that I want to bring to your attention beforewe go any deeper into this message. It’s important to keep in mind thatthe boundary lines serve not only to hold at bay those that would try tobring in their darkness (teachings which are not in line with this pureWord for the wife), but also to help all the living members of the bodyof Christ to know not to tolerate those that are in ignorance of this mar-velous truth to the point that it begins to disturb the inner peace of theirsoul. So the boundary lines are important to the wife of the Lamb. Thispeace came to us after eating the little book of Revelation, Chapter 10,giving us the understanding that by eating the little book, we have ful-filled that part of the Word and have taken the light thereof with us intoEphesians 4:13-16, where the light has found its new home.

So having said this, it’s important here to see and praise God for Hisgrace and mercy that always grants us a space of time to move into anynewly revealed Word as we adjust our thinking to the new realitythereof, until we are settled in this spiritual land just before the rapture.

Now it’s at this point in this message that I want to comment on thefallen angels as we make a comparison between the fallen angels andfallen mankind. First of all, it’s important to know that the angels fellsomewhere back in the prehistorical age long before God ever createdAdam and his race upon this earth. They were already reserved underchains of darkness until the Day of Judgment. This tells us that theyhad already rejected God’s mercy by rejecting God’s call to them by His

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faithful leading angels, such as Michael and Gabriel, telling them to staytrue to God’s ways and to reject the preaching of Lucifer and his de-ceived followers.

We also see in the Book of Daniel that the angels, Michael and Gabriel,were willing to stand up to the devil and his followers to do God’s willand to bring a message of God to those that wanted God’s will to bedone. (Daniel 10:3 and also Daniel 12:1) Then in the New Testament,again we find Michael and his angels doing battle with the devil andhis angels and winning. (Revelation 12:7)

These above scriptures establish the fact that God’s good angels didn’tjust sit back during that prehistorical time when He tried the angels.No, God had a voice concerning these things; for He sent a warning inthat prehistorical age, telling them to stay faithful to God’s ways. Andtheir message from God became a safety net to the angels that wantedto stay true to God’s Word. That’s why those, who by their own choicechose to follow Lucifer’s perverted ways into darkness, are now re-served unto everlasting chains of darkness until the Day of Judgmentwith no other chance of being reconciled back to God.

Now let us deal with those that love darkness rather than this puregospel light of the living Word. At some point, (and only God knowswhen that point is reached) they are barred from the marvelous light ofthis gospel that’s only for the wife. Thus leaving them reserved underthe chains of a lessor light (church age law) which is not part of the mes-sage for the wife of the Lamb. Thus being bound with the chains of aless powerful portion of the Word, they are not able or willing to com-mit to it with all their hearts by forsaking all other voices that go con-trary to this truth. So not being able to come to this truth withoutreservation, they are now bound to the lessor light; thus being foolishvirgins and the tribulation saints—all of which will go into the greattribulation period, which is within the 70th Week of Daniel. Then, ofcourse, there’s the tares which are cast into outer darkness and will al-ways go the way of least resistance, because they are the fallen seed ofthe evil one from the beginning.

When Jesus came, the people that sat in darkness (in natural humanignorance; not knowing God) saw a great light. See, there was a greatlight that sprang up; for Jesus Christ is the light of the world. We wereall born into a world of darkness, but Jesus came to give us light by giv-ing us a new birth. But mankind loved darkness better than this newrevelational light, with the exception of the predestinated, who lovesthe light (revealed Word).

There is a parable in Matthew, Chapter 13, where those that rejectedthe light are cast into outer darkness. And once they are cast into outer


darkness, they are unreachable, because they rejected the great lightthat God sent (which is the gospel) to all humanity. Jesus came to seekand to save that which is lost by bringing them out of darkness into thismarvelous light. It’s sad, but there are some who saw this light and theyturned from it because they loved darkness more than light, becausetheir deeds were evil.

I like the way Jesus Christ spoke of the difference between light anddarkness in John 3:19-21, “And this is the condemnation, that light is comeinto the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deedswere evil. For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to thelight, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to thelight, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” Thefact that is expressed here is that when the Lord lights up these goodtreasures, if we turn our backs on this gospel and choose some kind ofa religious system, or the world, or anything rather than God, then even-tually He says, “Cast them into outer darkness.” And from there noone returns to light; they can’t come back.

Now in order to bring a balance to this message, I want to show thatat times it’s possible for someone that has come to this light to stumble(or as Paul said in 1 Timothy 1:6, “some having swerved”) and not becast into outer darkness. Because when they stumbled or swerved theyrealized they were out of the way so they repented and looked to ChristJesus for strength to carry on with the things of Christ, by dependingupon His very own righteousness that has now become their very ownrighteousness. And by this we are all made ready to be changed in amoment, in the twinkling of an eye.

Then, of course, there’s the foolish virgins and tribulation saints thatwill be redeemed in their time. They are in darkness by their lack ofrevelation, and therefore not in the light of this last trumpet message.Before we finish today, we will see our security in the body of Christ asthe wife of the Lamb, and we will rejoice and be exceedingly glad! (Rev-elation 19:7-8) But also we understand that some people are ordainedto a different part of God’s plan and will fulfill their part of the Word inits season. And although they are not the wife, they haven’t been castinto outer darkness. Remember here, that we never want to underesti-mate the grace of God on His predestinated seed.

There are boundary lines set and we don’t want to try to move them.Many people want to live real close to the boundary between light anddarkness, and there is a spirit that helps them do it. And that is thespirit of iniquity. The spirit of iniquity is what worked on some of theearly saints; and many of the saints couldn’t tell the difference betweenthe Spirit of Christ and the spirit of the antichrist. Only Paul, by reve-


lation, noticed the difference. But even he had to have a revelation toknow these things. He said something on this order, “There are mensitting among you now and they are preaching and claiming to believethe same message that I’m preaching. But as soon as I’m gone, they willrise up (they want to be a leader) and draw disciples after themselves.”Then he said, “The spirit of iniquity does already work in them.”

Now the spirit of iniquity is mentioned in the time of Lucifer, whowas perfect in all his ways (he was living in perfect light) until iniquitywas found in him. His name even meant the bringer of light, the morn-ing star. But when he was tried, he fell and was cast into outer darkness,and he can never be redeemed. But what he can do is he can come andpretend that he is an angel of light, which God uses to try His redeemedchildren through false leaders who are willing participants, becausethey love the praise of men more than the praise of God.

In the Book of John, we find that many believed but would not confessHim because they loved the praise of men. And because of this, theywere blinded. John 12:42-43 says, “Nevertheless among the chief rulers alsomany believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him,lest they should be put out of the synagogue: For they loved the praise of menmore than the praise of God.” Also, in John 3:19-21, it says, “And this is thecondemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness ratherthan light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateththe light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But hethat doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, thatthey are wrought in God.” Then in 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, it says, “Forsuch are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into theapostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into anangel of light. There it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed asthe ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”

So after reading these scriptures, it’s not surprising that some of thosepeople who didn’t believe the Word for that time period began to actlike apostles and call themselves apostles. Because Satan himself istransformed into an angel of light. He pretends. He is doing this in hisreligious system which is controlled by the spirit of iniquity. Many thatare affected by his spirit, even in our day are saying, “This is God, I canfeel the Spirit moving me!” Just like they did in Paul’s day.

We can see how the spirit of iniquity worked through men like Bal-aam. We can read the story in Numbers, Chapters 22-23, of when thechildren of Israel were coming through the wilderness and there was aman named Balak that had hired Balaam to curse Israel. He said to Bal-aam, “I will give you some money if you will curse Israel.” Well, Bal-aam went, but God told him something on this order, “Don’t touch


Israel, my people, the apple of my eye.” So Balaam told Balak, “I can’tdo what you are asking.” But Balak said, “I can give you a house fullof gold.” Balaam said, “Well, maybe I’ll go pray again.” But then as hewas going for the second time to try to curse Israel, the donkey that hewas riding on crushed his leg against a wall, and Balaam got so madthat he drew his sword and was about to kill this faithful donkey. That’swhen the donkey began to talk to him. God was really rebuking thisprophet. But he was a false prophet. See, his motives weren’t right. Hewas trying to curse Israel in order to get that gold, to get a position. Andthe donkey began to talk to him and rebuke him. God gave this donkeythe voice of a man to rebuke that prophet with.

Even after all this, Balaam went back to Balak and told him how toget God to curse the children of Israel. He told Balak to give a partyand get the young people together with the Moabites, and have a rockconcert, an orgy, and God will curse them—and He did curse them.There a man of Israel was caught with a woman in an illicit act and oneof the men that stayed true to God took a sword and stabbed all the waythrough them both. And God’s wrath was stayed. See, that was theworks of Satan; getting in there and using God’s name and using reli-gion to do his evil deeds. And this same thing was brought over in aspiritual way during the church ages.

The Bible says, concerning the church ages, that they had the deeds ofthe Nicolaitanes and the doctrine of Balaam amongst them, which wasall the spirit of iniquity. And God told them, “I have somewhat againstyou.” That’s when Christ as High Priest started making intercession forthe fallen virgin church by sending messengers of God with a messageto each of the ages. And He continued throughout the seven churchages, all the way up to Chapter 10 of the Book of Revelation when Christthe Mighty Angel said, “There should be time no longer,” for them tolive under the church age law. (Revelation 10:6)

Some of the things that has happened (and is happening) in this reli-gious world are close to the real, and the people fall for it instead of thereal Word. But God has a Word for us and we have to be baptized intothe message for the time that we are living in. That is where the light isshining in our day.

When the sunlight passes over one place, it leaves that same area ofthe earth in darkness while the sun is lighting up another area. Andnow even the seventh church age is in total darkness as a new day hasbegun. And now that we’re in a new day, God is giving us this newlight. I’m saying this to differentiate between light and darkness. Nowwe will be able to understand why God tells us not to move the setboundaries; it’s because there is darkness there.


Now I’ll pick this up in the Book of Hebrews, Chapter Twelve. I wantto read here to learn about the boundaries and why it was necessary toset boundaries. We are picking up with the same thing God told Moses,how He was going to come down upon the mountain. But before Godcame, Moses had to set boundaries. Now watch what Paul wrote aboutthis. He’s telling the people here in Verses 18-19, “For ye are not comeunto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor untoblackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and thevoice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should notbe spoken to them any more:” He was roughly telling them what God wassaying as He was giving the law to the children of Israel. And Paul said,“You haven’t come to that. You haven’t come to darkness. You haven’tcome to blackness.” When we come to Christ, we come to the light andtruth.

Most of us are not comfortable at all when a storm comes with thelightening and thundering and the wind blowing hard. I’ve beenthrough storms that were really scary, especially those that came atnight. In the daytime we at least can find our way, but when the stormscome at night you get an uneasy feeling because you can’t tell what ishappening. You just hear the thunder rolling and the wind howling,which sometimes knocks the electricity out and you’re in total darknessexcept for the lightning flashes. So it’s very uncomfortable when we arecaught in a situation like that. Well, that’s similar to the way it was withIsrael. But in the body of Christ we haven’t come to darkness. Wehaven’t come to blackness. We haven’t come to tempest. Amen, butnow we see clearly what God is doing, we’ve come to the heavenlyJerusalem; that’s where we have peace, peace, wonderful peace comingdown from the Father above. But He set boundaries which we don’tmove. The line is drawn and we don’t try to get into other areas wherethere is darkness—because we’ve got light and it is in the message forthe hour as the trumpet is sounding. (1 Corinthians 15:51-52) O whatpeace and consolation!

Let’s go to Verses 20-21, “(For they could not endure that which was com-manded, (When they heard this, ‘do this and don’t do that,’ that was theOld Testament law.) And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shallbe stoned, or thrust through with a dart: (Now watch) And so terrible wasthe sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)” In other words,you don’t want to come to God without being in Christ. That’s whatJob was talking about when he said in Job 9:33, “Neither is there anydaysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.” It’s so fearfulnot having light to walk in. Well, that’s the way it was in the Old Testa-ment; it was so fearful. But in Verse 22 there was an answer. There is a


daysman that has brought us together, and His name is the Lord JesusChrist. He came as the mediator. He came to make a way. He came toput us in light.

Watch what Paul says here in Verse 22, “But ye are come unto mountSion,” See, you haven’t come to blackness and darkness. That day isover. The sun has set on that; and if you go back there, you’re goingback into darkness. Anytime you go backward you go into darkness.Light is present and before us, see. Paul says, ye are come unto mountSion; and that means you’ve come unto light. We walk forward in thelight; and we grow. Mount Sion has been identified as the source of joy.And here is where the wife finds spiritual treasures and joy unspeakablewhich makes her full of glory! “and unto the city of the living God, theheavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,” Revelation5:11 says that the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand,and thousands of thousands of angels. When you see thousands ofthousands of angels, you say innumerable.

Now let’s get Verse 23, “to an innumerable company of angels, to the gen-eral assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and toGod the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.” Now notonly to the angels and to God, but to spirits of just men made perfect.Those are the ones that came down when Christ came (1 Thessalonians4:14—those that are asleep (dead) in Jesus will God send down withHim.) And we are all in this heavenly environment. That’s what NewJerusalem is. It’s a spiritual heavenly environment. And that’s why wefeel so good. We’re in spiritual Jerusalem! And the angels of the Lordencampeth around about them that fear God. So we’re in the spiritualrealm, and we are peaceful and safe.

What we are seeing here in Hebrews, Chapter 12, is that God is draw-ing a line, making the differentiation between the darkness and black-ness of the Old Testament, thus leaving those that rejected the law inouter darkness. And now God has drawn a line (placed a boundary)by this last trumpet message (which is the wife’s covenant) betweenRevelation, Chapter 10, and Ephesians 4:13-16. He did this by bringingthe light of Revelation, Chapter 10, over to Ephesians 4:13-16 where webecame the fullness of Christ in the earth, and are now the wife of theLamb, as we by revelation witness the shadows falling on Revelation,Chapter 10, showing the fulfillment thereof.

Now Verse 24, “And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to theblood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.” This showswhat God did for those that looked for the Messiah, those that madethe substitutional offering which was a lamb; showing what we haveby accepting Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. In the days of old, Abel of-


fered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain—by revelation, byfaith. Somehow he knew the Lamb of God was going to come and die.I’m sure he didn’t have all the details about it, but he killed the lamband it shed its blood, and Abel went on that. And God said that he wasjustified rather than Cain, who offered the fruit of the field. And whenGod gave Moses the law, He added the killing of the lamb to the law.See, we can’t go back to those things. Those were types and shadows.To go back to that, you are going back into darkness.

Let’s go, to John 1:1, to see what the real light is. This is importanthere, because we are going to see what Biblical light is. First of all, Iwant to say this, we were all in darkness. We were born in sin, shapedin iniquity, and came into the world speaking lies. So we were awayfrom God with no way to get back. But here came a way! And here iswhere I want to show the difference between darkness and what thescripture calls outer darkness, because some people were cast into outerdarkness and there was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Inother words, it is a miserable situation. So here outer darkness is dif-ferent from being born into a dark world.

Here in Saint John, I want to begin reading with Chapter One, VerseOne. “In the beginning was the Word (and Word here is spelled with acapital W—showing Deity), and the Word was with God, and the Word wasGod.” Now first of all, there’s the word ‘with’ here that is very impor-tant. The Word was with God. And that Word we find was manifestedthrough a virgin named Mary. Verse 2, “The same was in the beginningwith God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thingmade that was made.” Now Jesus didn’t come into existence until He wasborn of this virgin about two thousand years ago. Verse 3, “All thingswere made by him;”—what is the him here? It is Word. God created allthings with that very same Word that became the Messiah, the creatorwalking around here in the earth. Jesus said, “He that hath seen mehath seen God.” Because that was the manifested Word walkingaround. And He came to bring light. And that light is spiritual under-standing, spiritual enlightenment of God, which gives light to the soul.But while that light is here, there’s also darkness. And when Jesus wasput on trial it was the religious world that cried, “Let Him be crucified!”And it was the spirit of iniquity that was using the Word and cried outagainst Him. The religious leaders had knowledge (the tree of the knowl-edge of good and evil), the written Word, but no revelation; so they puttheir twist to it and their false understanding. And that’s all anyone hasis knowledge, unless revelation (the tree of life) comes upon the Word.Jesus Christ said, “You must worship God in Spirit and in truth.”

Let’s continue reading in John 1:4. It says, “In him was life;” When we



received the Holy Ghost, eternal life came into our hearts. In the Bookof Matthew 27:52-53, we read that when Jesus Christ was crucified thatHe raised the Old Testament saints from the dead when He arose. Tothe saints that died under the Old Testament, He gave them that eternallife that came by the Holy Ghost. That’s why they could rise from thedead and go into the city. That means that Abraham was walking thestreets of Jerusalem. Can you imagine King David walking down thestreets of Jerusalem again? They were seen of many. They were herefor about forty days and nights, because that’s how long Jesus was here(Acts, Chapter One) before He ascended. And Ephesians, Chapter 4,says when He went up, He took them with Him.

But watch what He did. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.”Now hold that word light. What is light? It is the life of Christ. It’s thelife that is in that Word. And when one tries to manipulate the Wordfor their advantage, then they create the spirit of iniquity. That’s whenthey are cast into outer darkness, never to be able to come to the truthagain. And that’s the spirit of many preachers. We sometimes hear peo-ple say, “If I wanted to get rich quick, I would become a preacher,” afterseeing what some preachers do on television; especially begging formoney. Well, I tell you, that is religious iniquity, and it is darkness. Theline has been moved all the way over into outer darkness; that’s not justthe darkness that we are born with. Because the darkness we are bornwith will flee when we open our hearts to the light and allow this mes-sage to beam through our soul. Just like it did with Paul—that lightstruck him down on the way to Damascus and he never was the sameagain. Like it was on the day of Pentecost, and like it was at Cornelius’house—when the light came, it made a difference. And today if thelight of God comes into your life, you will be different! You won’t beliving in ignorance and in darkness and in stupidity concerning theWord of God. There’ll be one thing important to your life, and that isJesus! You’ll say, “Lord, help me above all things to do thy bidding.”And that is the first and foremost thing in our lives. That should be theprayer that we pray every morning.

Verse 5, “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehendedit not.” That means the darkness can’t understand this message and thejoy that we have. That’s why they ask, “What has happened to thesepeople? Why, are these people so happy?” A while back, a religiousman that came to visit me for a while, said to me, “Ben, I don’t knowwhat it is that makes you so happy and at peace; if you had my prob-lems, you couldn’t be that happy. I’ve got trouble here and troublethere.” (I didn’t tell him about any of mine. I didn’t want to burdenhim more.) But he said, “I wish there was some way I could put that

joy in a bottle and take it home with me!” Well, you can’t put it in yourbottle, but you can get it in your heart! But I can’t give it, only He can.

There is a message that will give you this light. And darkness can’tunderstand it, or comprehend it, or hinder it, or slow it. Regardless ofhow dark it gets, it can be as dark as midnight under a washtub, butyou turn the lights on and that darkness has to go. It can’t fight thelight, so the darkness has to go. Well, that’s what it is when the Wordfor the hour comes into your heart. It lights you up like a thousand wattbulb and your light will shine then! This little light of mine, I’m goingto let it shine!

So that’s the way it is. When we get Christ in our life, we have lightand life. We have the right outlook on life. And we are not planningwhat we will be doing fifty years down the road; we walk in what is fortoday. Let’s live today. Let’s rejoice today. Let’s walk in the light today.Who knows what tomorrow may hold? It may be sunshine, it may beshadows, it may be rain; but today I’m going to rejoice in the Lord!

But here he says the light shines in your heart and darkness can’t com-prehend it. That means for us, the light of this last day message is thelight of God that is shining for the wife of the Lamb. Each church agemessage had a light (a candle light, only a portion of light), as did theshout and the voice of the archangel messages. And when God movesHis light on, then darkness sets in where the light once was. But Godhas sent the light again in this last trump of God message, and it willnot go out. It is not just a portion of light, but it is full light which willraise the dead and change the living and will shine in its fullnessthroughout eternity. We’ll walk in the light, beautiful light. Come wherethe dew drops of mercy are bright. Shine all around us by day and by night.Jesus the light of the world. This light helps us to see clearly that denom-ination and independent preachers have come to move the boundarieson this light, and without this revelation you won’t be able to know thedifference between light and darkness.

There are some people that want to try to move the boundary lines ofthis last trumpet message by picking out certain parts of this messageand using it to promote something contrary to what God has revealedand calling it light for our day. That’s the spirit of iniquity that wants toact like God, even lift itself up above everything else. As stated earlier,this spirit was first seen in Lucifer; he was perfect until iniquity wasfound in him. He said to the rest of the angels, “I’ll tell you what I’mgoing to do—and I want you to be part of it—I’m going to lift my throneabove the stars.” You talk about a big preacher—he was that. Back inthe days of the deliverance revival, one of the preachers said, “I’ve gota bigger tent than you do. I’ve got the biggest tent in the world.” And

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the other one said, “Well, that’s nothing. I got a bigger offering thanyou did.” And now in this day some say, “I’ve got a better website thanyou have. I sell more books and get more hits than you do. People sendme more credit card offerings than I can use, so I will buy a bigger planethan you have.” That’s one of the ways the spirit of iniquity works. Butwe’ll walk in the light.

Now here came John to introduce the light, John 1:6-7, “There was aman sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, tobear witness of the Light (In other words, he came to introduce, to be aforerunner.), that all men through him might believe.” This is for whoso-ever can receive a revelation and desires this light. If you sincerely wantit, that want came from God, see. There are many that don’t want it.

Verses 8-9 says, “He (John) was not that Light, but was sent to bear witnessof that Light. That was the true Light,” And that is the only light there is.If you mix religious ideas with this light, it produces the child of iniq-uity. You can’t mix this with religious ideas, the light will flee and allyou have is religious darkness.

The Spirit of Christ rejects every religious system in the world today.Now there are some people in a religious system by ignorance that don’tknow any better. But the wife of the Lamb is in perfect light. 1 Corinthi-ans 13:10-12, says that we once looked through a glass darkly, but nowthat which is perfect is come and we see face to face.

So that which is perfect came, and that was the spiritual coming ofChrist in Revelation, Chapter 10. He came as a Mighty Angel. And wewere baptized into that perfect light, that body, and now we’re the wifeof the Lamb. And now we are clothed in fine linen clean and white,and the devil still wants to try to move the boundaries over towards thedark line; but we are in perfect light and our hearts are fixed.

There are boundaries set, and they are set by the Almighty. And thisis the way God set the boundary line—He gave a message of light. Heset boundaries, so we don’t go back to where the life once was, but weonly know one way and that’s to go forward in the light of God’s Word.Hallelujah! Don’t move the boundaries or don’t blur the boundariesbetween light and darkness. Let darkness be darkness and light belight, and that is the way with the wife of the Lamb; because we’re inthe body of Christ. We’ve come to the heavenly Jerusalem that we arereading about in our scripture today. And we are very happy here!

Now watch here. Verse 10, “He was in the world, and the world was madeby him, and the world knew him not.” Amen, it’s about the same thingtoday—they don’t know Him; He is hid in the Word. But we are livingepistles (living Word). I preached a message in 2009 entitled, “The Wifeis the Living Epistle: A Landmark Message,” which marked a line (set a


boundary) that only those who are the living epistles are the wife of theLamb. We are living Word, we have become the Word. Because in theBook of Ephesians, Chapter One, when He predestinated Christ, Hepredestinated us in Christ. And when Christ was crucified, we werecrucified with Him as part of the Word. (Galatians 2:20) And when Herose from the dead, we were raised with Him. (Romans 6:4) Amen.And now we are made to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.(Ephesians 2:6)

In Revelation, Chapter 4, John being a type of the wife was picked upand he began to see the throne, he began to see all the revelation. Andin Revelation, Chapter 21, it says, “Her light was as clear as crystal, likeunto clear glass.” The only way we can see something as clear as glassis when that something is spotless. This glass is as clear as crystal andit reflects the light of God for the wife in this day. And that’s Christ re-flecting Himself in His wife.

I tell you, there’s some light (this message) reflecting off of us todayas we go forth in the light of God’s Word. And it is going around andaround the world. And although darkness tries to creep in from timeto time, it always fails to get into the body of Christ.

Verses 11-13, “He came unto his own, and his own received him not. Butas many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God,even to them that believe on his name: (Here’s how Jesus came.) Whichwere born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man but ofGod.” He didn’t have any inherited sin.

Well, we’ve got that Word in us! And it grew and grew in grace andin the knowledge of the Lord, until we became the Word made flesh,baptized into the body of Christ, thus becoming the wife of the Lamb.And not only that, but we became bone of His bone and flesh of Hisflesh. In other words, the Word became flesh again. Yes, the Word hasbecome flesh in us in our day, the Spirit that came down shown in Rev-elation, Chapter 10, is the Spirit of Christ that became flesh and bonesthrough us; and here He is, Christ Jesus in His fullness, walking aroundagain in the earth through His wife. The Word has been made fleshagain! Praise God. But it didn’t come through the natural type birth; itcame through a spiritual birth, and now through God’s choosing wewere baptized into the body of Christ.

Let’s continue on with Verse 14, “And the Word was made flesh, and dweltamong us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Fa-ther,) full of grace and truth.” Now I want you to notice that. We becamethe Word. This happened when Christ Jesus the Word came down asthe Mighty Angel to take on our flesh and bones; making us the Word,also, by our spiritual baptism into His body. That’s why it is this part


of His body that is going to be changed in a moment, in the twinklingof an eye, because this Word that has become flesh and bones cannotdie.

Now in 1 John 1:1, it says, “That which was from the beginning, which wehave heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, andour hands have handled, of the Word of life;” Now we have become the Wordof life. It’s like Adam and Eve. Eve became bone of Adam’s bone andflesh of his flesh. Yet that didn’t take any of Adam’s attributes away tothe point where Adam was less in what God created him to be. It’s thesame thing with Christ and His wife, as we have become the Christ partof the Lord Jesus. This doesn’t take anything away from our Husbandand King, the Lord Jesus Christ, but together we are one in God.

After saying what I just said, it’s important here to remind you thatthe rest of God’s family is also part of God’s plan, but as it was withAdam, only Eve was the wife. And now only we are the wife of theLamb. So when we shake hands with one another, we shake hands withChrist Jesus.

There’s a place in 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4, that we read quite often,it’s Verse 8. It says, “He that rejected you, rejected God. He that despis-eseth, despiseth not man but God, who hath also given unto us HisHoly Spirit.” Why? Because we are Christ Jesus, the man of Ephesians4:13, manifested in human flesh! When I say that, I’m only speaking ofthat special part of God’s Word which became our Lord Jesus Christ;not the fullness of the God of the universe that is everywhere presentat the same time.

All right, Verse 2, “(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, andbear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father,and was manifested unto us;)” Can we see eternal life? We can if we’relooking at His Son’s wife. And we can if we’re looking at God’s message,God’s Word, and the trumpet God’s Word is sounding through. Andwe have become the Word for our day and our hour, because we believeit one hundred percent and have put everything else behind us. Wecould not be of one mind, one accord, one judgment, until we becamethe Word made flesh. That’s when we became the walking and talkingWord, just like Jesus did.

And then John said in Verses 3-6, “That which we have seen and hearddeclare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly ourfellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these thingswrite we unto you, that your joy may be full. (This is where we get our joy.)This then is the message which we have heard (Now here’s how you get it.There is a message involved in this that we must hear.) of him, and declareunto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (And there is no

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other message.) If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in dark-ness, we lie, and do not the truth:” That’s refusing to accept this Word, andthat causes one to get in that realm of darkness, crossing that boundarybetween light and darkness. And then he says, Verse 7, “But if we walkin the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and theblood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” We become the light.We become the same light that was that life that was with the Father.That’s us now. I’ve got life and it is eternal life; I cannot die! Throughthe church ages this would refer basically of the inner man. But withus, the wife of the Lamb, this outer man goes along with what the innerman does!

Now I want to read in 2 Peter 2:4 (concerning the angels), “For Godspared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and deliveredthem unto chains of darkness, to be reserved until the day of judgment;”They’re in darkness and they can’t get out—and it’s just the same forthe many religious systems that will never repent and will be destroyedby fire. (Revelation, Chapter 17) The angels are reserved unto darknessand they can’t come to the light because they left perfect light and wentinto darkness. We were in darkness to begin with, but we came intolight. And therefore, He gave us salvation. He redeemed us andbrought us into this that we were part of in the beginning.

Continuing on in this same chapter in 2 Peter 2:9, it says, “The Lordknoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and reserve (notice again,the word reserve) the unjust until the day of judgement to be punished.” See,just like the angels, He reserved. He doesn’t reach and pull them outand say, “I want to give you another chance.” Because they were livingin perfect light and made their choice and they deliberately walkedaway from the perfect light that they were in. And that’s what Jesussays about souls that walked away from the Word, as He said to His an-gels, “Cast them into outer darkness. There will be weeping and wail-ing and gnashing of teeth.” It’s the same outer darkness that the angelsare in. They’re under chains of darkness and can never come to thelight.

Jude spoke of it. He said, “And the angels, which kept not their firstestate,” Notice, they kept not their first estate. We left our first estate be-cause we were in darkness, and came to light. John said, “You were indarkness, but here came light—darkness can’t comprehend light.” Hesaid, “I am introducing you to Him. I’m not Him. But I came to bearwitness of the light.” Amen, that light, that life, was manifested. Andwe ran to the light while others ran away from the light and have goneinto darkness, and there is no repentance for them. So Jude said, in Jude1:6, “And the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habi-


tation, He hath reserved (Here is this word reserved again.) in everlastingchains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.”

Now watch here, they went away from light. They deliberately, pur-posely, chose to listen to Lucifer and leave the light to go into darkness.And he said they are reserved in everlasting chains unto the day ofjudgment. They are reserved; they don’t come out! They are in thatrealm of darkness and now we see them only as demons. They tormentand do certain things, and they are permitted to try humanity. But thedevil can’t get to this light! We are in the light of God’s Word. Now inthe flesh he can beat us around and cause things to be hard for us, butwe’ve got that inner peace. And John says, “These things I write untoyou that your joy may be full.” You can have a headache so bad thatyou can’t open your eyes, and yet be shouting for joy! It’s because ofwhat is in you.

As stated earlier, Peter said that Jesus went and preached to spirits inprison. When He went down, He only brought out the redeemed of theLord. That’s when He brought the Old Testament saints up. And Hedidn’t bring any angels up with Him. They are still down there reservedin chains of darkness. And when I say, “down there,” it may not be somuch down there, but under chains of darkness. And they’ll be therefor how long? Until the great white throne judgment. And Paul said,“Know ye not that the saints will judge the world and even angels?” SoJesus brought the Old Testament saints up but He didn’t bring any ofthe angels up with Him.

Let me go to Revelation, Chapter 21. This is so good that I don’t wantto miss it. Now this is John speaking. Revelation 21:10-11, “And therecame unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the sevenlast plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride,the Lamb’s wife. (He didn’t stop at just bride, because we are the Lamb’swife.) And he carried me away in the spirit (We’ve got to get in the spiritto get this.) to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, theholy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God:and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clearas crystal;” Crystal is valuable. Some people collect crystal glass that’scut where it reflects light. That’s the way they do diamonds; they reflectlight.

Well, I tell you, we are part of that city and there is light reflectingeverywhere. We are in that heavenly Jerusalem that we read about inHebrews—and only the predestinated can come here. And here, theboundaries are set permanently. So don’t try to move the boundarylines and say, “God’s going to save those that died without knowing theLord,” or “God’s going to save the angels that kept not their first estate.”

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No. He gives everybody a chance in their day and in their hour; andthen the light moves on. That’s why we have moved with the light—because everyone had to make their choice in whatever day they livedin as to whether to move with light or be overtaken by the darkness thatfollowed the light of the Word. So we are hearing this last trumpet(trump) message of God that’s sounding now. It will raise the dead inChrist and change us into the glorified wife.

How many love this wonderful light? I love light; especially spirituallight. God bless you. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, as we come to younow, Lord, I pray that you will take this Word and that you will use it for yourglory. And may this message highlight the title, “Don’t Move the BoundaryLines between Light and Darkness.” And light is where truth is. Darkness iswhere truth has been. O God, I pray that you will just take these words anduse them to show forth the seriousness of this message as you use these wordsfor your glory. And may the people be enlightened, and may they receive fromit that which you have ordained. We ask this in the precious name of the LordJesus Christ. Amen.


CHRIST THE GREAT CONNECTORBETWEEN MELCHIZEDEK AND JESUS

I want to greet each one of you in the wonderful name of our Lord andSavior, Jesus Christ. It’s so good to be with you here again in West Vir-ginia as we come together to worship the Lord in Spirit and in truth.

We are going to begin reading in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 14, andI want to take a thought and entitle it, Christ the Great Connector betweenMelchizedek and Jesus. The Bible says very little about Melchizedek inthe Old Testament. Moses wrote very little about him in Genesis, Chap-ter 14, and David only uttered a few words about him in the Book ofPsalms 110:4. After this, we read nothing more about Melchizedek(who was the king of Salem) until we come into the New Testamentwhere the Apostle Paul writes about him in the Book of Hebrews, start-ing in Chapter 5, showing us that he was a prototype of Jesus Christ theHigh Priest, the king of peace, and the king of righteousness. So beforewe go any further, let’s have a Word of prayer.

Heavenly Father, as we read your Word, I pray that the anointing to speakthe Word will be present in a way that will cause the Word of God to go forthunhindered and unhampered and that it will be to your glory and that each onewill receive it. Lord, I know that you have to anoint the spiritual ears and openthe hearts of the people for this to be so, but you are more than willing to do itand we believe you and thank you for it, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

In reading what Paul wrote about Melchizedek, it is hard to distin-guish whether he is speaking about Melchizedek or our Savior, JesusChrist. In fact, I had someone tell me just last week that Jesus Christwas Melchizedek and it was Jesus Christ that Paul was writing about.Well, there are many people that believe that is the case; while otherssimply say, “I don’t know who Melchizedek was or even if he was a realperson.”

Yes, Melchizedek was a real person, but he came into being in a verystrange way; in much the same way that Adam did—without father ormother. But unlike Adam, Melchizedek’s existence here in the flesh wasvery temporary and for a specific purpose. And like all the other man-ifestations of Christ in the Old Testament, he was not created to be, orto have, a permanent soul that would exist after his purpose here wascompleted (it was the Christ in him that was eternal). His purpose herewas to become a man to manifest Christ, thus showing us that later thissame Christ anointing would become a permanent part of our Lord

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Jesus Christ who was born of a virgin named Mary. Jesus, unlikeMelchizedek, would be given a soul as a permanent part of Himself,and He would live here among mankind where He would grow in gracein the presence of God as His soul developed in Him. Luke 2:52 says,“And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God andman.” This is something that could never be said about Melchizedek ashe had neither father nor mother. He was created and not born, so itwas not for him to grow into an adult, which is God’s way for mankindto develop an individual soul (our inner man). Here is just one of thedifferentiations between these two men. Let me be clear here thatMelchizedek was never begotten. He was not the Son of God who coulddie for our sins and take the curse of the death sentence off of us. ForJesus is God’s only begotten Son who was born of a virgin and part ofthe human family. It is here at the very beginning of this message thatI want to place a note: What we say about Melchizedek in this messageis in no way implying that he paid any part of the price for our redemp-tion. That was exclusively the job of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.

Now as we will see in the reading of our scripture today in Genesis,Chapter 14, Melchizedek met Abraham after his battle was over withthe king of Sodom and the other kings that had taken Lot and his familycaptive. Melchizedek brought forth bread and wine as a victory cele-bration; and it was here that Abraham came into his rest (Hebrews 4:10)as Melchizedek blessed him.

Also, after this, there was another man that came to Abraham in muchthe same way as Melchizedek did. The difference here is that this man,accompanied by two other men, came to both Abraham and Sarah andate a meal with them. (Genesis, Chapter 18) Then after they were fin-ished eating, the man whom Abraham called, “My Lord,” began toprophesy unto him and Sarah about the birth of their promised son,Isaac, and when this birth would happen. The other two men sat andwitnessed this prophecy, and afterwards the two (who were called an-gels of the Lord in Genesis 19:1) went to Sodom to deliver Lot and thoseof his family who would hear what they were saying. But the one manwhom Abraham called Lord stayed and told him about the judgmentthat was soon to fall on those perverted cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.Here, Christ appeared as a prophet and did his job; and he disappearedin much the same order as he appeared. This man (unlike Melchizedek)was not a type of Jesus Christ the High Priest; nor was he a type of theking of righteousness. He was not showing the king of peace; neitherwas he showing the king of Salem. But this man was being shown as aprophet, and he delivered God’s plan to Abraham; while Melchizedekwas showing the plan of God that would be accomplished in and


through our Lord Jesus Christ through all eternity. Keep in mind thatat that time God’s only begotten Son had not yet been born into thisworld through Mary, a virgin of the daughters of Israel. So here we seethe Christ before Jesus was ever born.

Here we can see that God is showing us, through Melchizedek, Hisplan hundreds of years before it came into being. This was God in theOld Testament using the anointing that later became known as the Christwhich came into His Son Jesus at His baptism by John. We see Godbearing witness to this event in Matthew, Chapter 3. And in the Bookof Hebrews, Paul took this truth, and by the inspiration of God wentdeeper into this revelation. All of this we will learn from what Paulwrote for us in the Book of Hebrews. He shows us a very importanttruth about how Christ, through Melchizedek, overcame death. Afterthis, Melchizedek is seen no more; showing that he was not a permanentliving soul. So this finished the purpose of Melchizedek being here onearth. It was the Christ that was permanent, which is seen again in Jesus,thus making Him the Lord Jesus Christ. These are important facts tokeep in mind as we begin to unravel this great mystery.

Now I want to speak of Paul’s prophecy of overcoming death as partof this great plan of salvation. This is something that almost allmankind dreams about doing. But to find the answer to the questionof how to overcome death remained elusive, mainly because of the factthat with sin came the death sentence. And to satisfy God’s justice,someone had to pay the sin debt for those born to fallen mankind.David said in Psalms 51:5, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin didmy mother conceive me.” This is showing that we all needed someone todie for us, as we were not born of the tree of life. This is confirmed inJohn 3:7 when Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Ye must be born again.” Yes,Jesus Christ died to give us this new life without the death sentence,thus taking away our sins and giving us His very own righteousness.(2 Corinthians 5:21)

So now it’s clear that Melchizedek could not pay the sin debt for thosewho were born into this world needing a Savior, because he was neverborn of a woman. But Jesus Christ could, and did, pay our sin debt, be-cause he was born of a woman as God’s only begotten Son, who Paulsaid took on the seed of Abraham and died for all of God’s seed by tast-ing death for all mankind who could hear Him by revelation. (Hebrews2:12) Now through the writing of Paul we understand that overcomingdeath is part of our salvation and we can, and will, do this. (Romans8:22-23)

Now confirming again that it was Christ in Melchizedek, God usedhim (as well as Enoch and Elijah) in the Old Testament times to show

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us that we can challenge the death sentence and win, as Paul wrote in1 Corinthians 15:51-58, “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,but we shall be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the lasttrump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, andthis mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have puton incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall bebrought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of deathis sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which givethus the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” So the death sentence isrendered unenforceable on those who are receiving by revelation thislast trumpet message that I am now preaching. The death penalty islifted from them.

So to Abraham, Melchizedek was a real person; but he was not a per-son born of a woman and his job was very temporary. But he did existand he did meet with Abraham as shown in Genesis, Chapter 14, andthey did eat together. And this was also the first time that we read aboutthe giving of tithes. When Abraham met Melchizedek, he did some-thing that was not known before this time. I don’t know why he did it,but Abraham gave him a tenth of all. Melchizedek didn’t ask for any-thing; but there was something in Abraham’s heart that told him to dothis. And from that point on, this became something that God’s peoplehave done. And then, much later, it was included in the Law of Moses.Keep in mind here that Melchizedek was before the law and there wasnothing written about tithing; this was done voluntarily by Abraham,because he just wanted to do it. And that is the way it is for us and ourtithes; it’s because we want to. There is not someone saying that wehave to do it; but it’s in our hearts to do it.

When I was just a little fellow I had joined a church and it was a re-quirement for all of us to give at least a tenth of our earnings. We hadto do that among other religious things. Well, in Bible days it didn’tstart off that way; it started with a man that just loved the Lord and hegot a revelation and he gave a tenth of all. And that is the way it is withus as we have come out of the law age into our wonderful baptism intothe body of Christ. Tithing to the real work of God is something thatthe saints of God love to do; even without being told to do it.

So I am going to read here about this man named Melchizedek; be-cause through him God shows us many truths that are now coming tous by inspiration and revelation of the Word and Spirit. I am showingthese things to the wife of the Lamb as a help to us and for our edifica-tion. I spoke last week and entitled our message, Jesus Christ Introduces


Us to Speaking the Word by Inspiration. This message will help much inshowing us that from henceforth it will take a spiritual revelation toprovide the inspiration for furtherance into our translation, as we havelearned from Paul’s writing, which is brought to fruition in this writing.

First, we see a great faith in Paul which gave him inspiration to preachwhat we will be reading in this mighty Book of Hebrews; showing usby revelation some things that were not written about Melchizedek.This is only one of the many things that Paul preached that had to bedirect revelation from God, because the Old Testament tells very littleabout Melchizedek. The fact is, there is very little scripture that is ded-icated to Melchizedek; but we will see what Paul says in the New Tes-tament about this man. How did he know these things that he wrote?It was by revelation.

I am saying this in order to lay the foundation for this message as wego into this prophecy for today. I want to show you that Paul had verylittle to work with from the written Word when speaking ofMelchizedek. But he didn’t need much; just the little bit that he hadwas enough, because the Holy Ghost can take a little seed and cause itto grow. He can take a few words and spread it out. As a little flowerseed grows up into a beautiful flower, it doesn’t look like what wentinto the ground, but it sure looks beautiful and smells good when theprocess is completed. That is what the Word of God is like.

Now we are going to be reading in Genesis 14:18-20, and here we findAbraham coming home after a battle where God had given a great de-liverance. It says, “And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread andwine: and he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him, andsaid, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth.And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thyhand. And he (Abram, later changed to Abraham) gave him tithes of all.”Here is the only encounter that we read about anyone having withMelchizedek. Notice, he was the king of Salem, the priest of the mosthigh God, and he came and blessed Abraham and he was absolutelyspeaking for God. And when this encounter was over, both men wenttheir separate ways.

Now before we read in the Book of Hebrews, Chapter 5, to find Paul’srevelation on this mystery man of God, Melchizedek, let’s make onestop in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 10, and get a scripture that is needful,because Christ is the great connector between Melchizedek and Jesus.For here we see Christ in the Old Testament; and as we go on into thiswe will see that there are many great things that God did before theWord-Son, Jesus, was born as the only begotten Son of God.

When Jesus died on the cross and gave up the ghost, He said, “It is


finished.” After this, the gift of the Holy Ghost became available tofallen mankind who would repent of their sins and give their heart overto God.

We see today that many of the denominational churches don’t wantto be identified with the word Holy Ghost, so they say Holy Spirit. Evenin the different Bible translations they will use Holy Spirit in the placeof Holy Ghost. In one sense it is the same; but the difference is that theHoly Spirit has always been. But the Holy Ghost was not here untilJesus Christ died on the cross and He gave up His ghost, which wassomething that Melchizedek could not do. So we see why Jesus Christwas the only one that could pay the sin penalty for all mankind.

1 Corinthians 10:1-4 says, “Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye shouldbe ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed underthe sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;” Noticehere that Moses did not say, “I baptize you in the cloud and in the sea.”No, they heard Moses’ message. They came through the Red Sea andthe cloud was over them by a message and there was no other baptism.

This is the same terminology that the Apostle Paul was using to showa spiritual truth concerning our baptism into the body of Christ. It isby this last trumpet (trump) message that is saying, “By one Spirit, youare baptized into the one body of Christ.” In other words, there is nowa message going forth, and it’s the fullness of Christ in the earth. Andwe believe it and have become one with it; because by it we were bap-tized into the body of Christ and we are now Christ the wife in the earth.Jesus Christ has given us the Christ part of His name. “Ye are the bodyof Christ, and by one Spirit ye are baptized into His body.” Each livingbeliever of this message is a member of the body by baptism (or bap-tized into this message) and altogether (collectively) we are one body,thus making us the many member body of Christ. So the children ofIsrael weren’t baptized unto Moses by him saying, “I baptize you in myname,” or “I baptize you in the cloud and in the sea.” No, they followedwhat he taught.

Continuing with Verse 3, “And did all eat the same spiritual meat;” Everyone of them ate of the manna that God let fall from heaven. It didn’tmatter how good they were or how bad they were; they all ate of thesame thing. Verse 4 is the verse that I specifically want you to notice. Itsays, “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiri-tual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.”

Now this is showing Christ way back there in the time when Moseswas bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt. All but a few werecomplaining about being thirsty; not waiting patiently on God to pro-vide water for them; just as many people today are dying from thirst.


We hear that report from many people; they say, “What happened tothe revival?” It seems like everything is dry.” Well, there is plenty ofspiritual drink. There is a spiritual Rock now; and that’s the Rock ofAges and it will never cease to give revelation (drink to the thirsty) bythe wife the Lamb.

We see when the children of Israel were in the desert, Moses smotethe rock. And it was said that there was a couple of million people alongwith the different animals there; so it took a lot of water—but the waterdidn’t run dry. (That was the result of the anointing which was calledChrist in the New Testament.) And when Moses smote the rock, it rep-resented Jesus Christ being smote on Calvary. In John 7:38-39, it says,“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flowrivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believeon him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesuswas not yet glorified.)” Jesus Christ had to be crucified for the real water(Holy Ghost) to come out. That’s why on the cross, He said, “Father,why hast thou forsaken me?” Then He cried with a loud voice and gaveup the ghost. And that was the only Holy Ghost that there has everbeen. And that is the only Holy Ghost that there will ever be. And thatis what Acts, Chapter 2, was all about. We can read where the disciplescame out of the upper room and they were shouting and speaking intongues, and it caused so much turmoil among the religious people thatthey came together and said, “These people are drunk.” But Peter stoodup and said, “No, we are not drunk as you suppose.” And then hebegan to speak by inspiration. He said, “This is that which was spokenof by the Prophet Joel saying, “I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh.”

Now we can see the Christ that was in the Old Testament, the Christthat was with Melchizedek and others, becoming one with His peoplein the New Testament. And now the Christ that had come into Jesus,the Son of God, is in us. When Jesus was baptized, the fullness of Christcame into Him. He had lived a good life, even before Christ came intoHim. He was the Word, even before Christ came into Him to become apart of the human family. And by this transaction, God and man couldbe at peace with one another.

Likewise, we were part of the Word—in the beginning was the Word.We were a gene there before the world was (Ephesians, Chapter One).We were with Him then and He put our names in the Book of Life. Wewere part of the Word (the Spirit) to be made manifest in this last day.But our soul and flesh wasn’t Word, yet. Our flesh came into being bythe natural law of reproduction, and in our life we did sinful things andwent our own way. But one day there was a knock on our door and weanswered it and said, “Jesus, come into my heart and live.” And He


came in and He began to clean us up so that we could live like Him.The Bible says, 1 Peter 2:22, “He is our example, who knew no sin, nei-ther was guile found in His mouth.” That is why we presented our bod-ies a living sacrifice unto the Lord, holy and acceptable unto God, whichis our reasonable service. In other words, we get our body in line withthe Spirit of Christ that is in us. We became one with the Spirit of Christ.Our soul became one with the Spirit of Christ. He and us (the membersof His body) became the same. Paul said, “I’m in Christ’s stead.” Paul’swork was back there laying the foundation for us to build on. (1Corinthians 3:9-11) He stood the pressure of bringing his message thathas laid the foundation for us; and it brought us into the fullness ofChrist, having His very mind. And that mind of Christ brings forth theWord by revelation that is not even attached to human natural things;it’s totally in the Spirit.

We have the mind of Christ—let this mind be in you, which was alsoin Christ. Because the Holy Ghost is that Spirit that was in Jesus Christ,and now He is working through us to get our mind and our spirit per-fectly in line with His. The man Jesus and the Christ that came into Himwas so much the same that He became Jesus Christ. If you saw Jesus,you saw the Christ. Jesus was the visible part of Christ. Christ the wifein this hour is the visible part of the man Christ Jesus, because He camedown in Revelation, Chapter 10, in the fullness of His spiritual coming(right foot on sea and left foot on earth) and we were baptized into Hisbody. And now He has given us His Word.

The Bible is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and when anointedit becomes the tree of life; and then these two trees are not so differentfrom one another. In fact, we get the tree of life (the Spirit of revelation)along with this written Word when it is rightly placed for the time it iswritten for—and that’s when we have one perfect Word. Jesus said,“My words are Spirit and they are life.”

So we see that the written Word has life in it—but it also has death init. God said, “I set before you this day, the way of life and the way ofdeath.” Paul told us this in 2 Corinthians 3:6, “Who also hath made us ableministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letterkilleth, but the spirit giveth life.” The letter (written Word) alone will kill,but it is the Spirit that puts life in it. The Spirit puts life in us. And nowthis spiritual Word has come to life in a very real and spiritual way forthe wife as we have been given a new covenant of the spoken Wordshown by the little book of Revelation, Chapter 10. That’s the wife’s tes-tament which will raise the dead members of the body of Christ andtranslate the living into glorified bodies. This testament (covenant) isshown by the sounding of this last trumpet message that is ministered


by the wife of the Lamb. A man can quote scriptures and people may think, “My, that man is

spiritual; he sure has a lot of knowledge.” But knowledge will get usinto a lot of trouble if we don’t have the Spirit to know how to use it.Many people take the Word of God to kill and destroy with it, but theSpirit of Christ takes the Word of God and puts life in it. That’s whyGod had men like Paul. God gave Paul a message to call out a peopleto be a virgin in that hour, and he took from both the Jews and Gentiles.He said that the body of Christ is neither Jew nor Gentile. AlthoughGod sent Paul to the Gentiles as is seen in Acts 15:14-18 and Romans11:13, he was also to witness this to the Jewish people who already hadthe gospel as preached on the day of Pentecost, beginning in Acts, Chap-ter 2. Paul went forth and preached to the Gentiles and the predesti-nated heard and accepted it and so did many of the Jews. Both the Jewsand the Gentiles began to believe the same thing that Paul taught. Theylearned from what was preached that it was not necessary to circumcisetheir children for a salvational purpose and they forsook the offering ofsacrifices. And a new man began to be formed of both the Jews andGentiles. This created a virgin to be the wife of the Lamb; thus creatingthe new man of Ephesians 2:14-18. This laid the framework for this lasttrumpet message that has taken (translated) us past the till of Ephesians4:13. This marriage is seen in its fullness in Revelation 19:7-8.

In Romans 16:1-15, Paul gives us some names of those Jewish Chris-tians that believed his message that espoused them (Jews and Gentilescollectively) as a virgin to Christ. Yes, this applied to both the Jews andGentiles. Pricilla and Aquila were amongst those Jews that believedPaul’s preaching concerning the Kingdom of God and they had a churchin their house. (Romans 16:3-5) They were Jews who fell in love withand accepted what Paul was preaching; thus they became virgins to theLord. Therefore, they will be part of the wife of the Lamb and come upin the resurrection for the wife; while there were others in the Jewishrealm that did not follow Paul’s revelation but were ordained of God tostay with the gospel of the circumcision as is spoken in Galatians 2:6-9.

Now when we see Christ in the Old Testament, many scriptures comealive for us. In days gone by we were taught that Christ wasn’t hereuntil Jesus came. But that was very wrong! Christ was that Rock in thewilderness. Christ was back there before the world was. He was withGod before He became one with the soul of Jesus. And the first timewe see the Christ anointing expressing itself was before mankind wason this earth—it was on Lucifer who was perfect in all his ways untiliniquity was found in him. We can read about it in the Book of Isaiah,Chapter 14, and in the Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 28. When Lucifer is


first seen in the scripture, he was not seen as the devil, but he was seenas a bringer of light that was at the dawning of creation. This was backin the prehistoric time; even before God created Adam’s Garden ofEden. He was the angel that God had invested much power in. Godput this anointing upon him, but he sinned against God and lost thatanointing.

We have seen it many times in this day, when someone receives theanointing how they begin to get lifted up with pride. During the timeof the deliverance movement when preachers had the big tent meetings(and I was in many of them years ago), you could hear preachers saying,“I’ve got the biggest tent in the world,” indicating that they were thegreatest preacher in the land. And another would say something onthis order, “You may have a bigger tent than I have, but I received a big-ger offering than you did.” They began to be in what we call a rat racewith one another of who could have the biggest tent or get the biggestoffering. Iniquity was found in them and the anointing left. Where arethe big tent revivals now? They are gone.

This is just like when Lucifer ruled this earth, we see that he liftedhimself up before the angels. He said, “We can do it better. Look atwhat we have. I will lift my throne above the stars.” And that is whatsome are saying today, “We don’t need leadership. We don’t need theministry that God set in the church.” It’s the spirit of iniquity. Well,God stripped Lucifer of the anointing and he will never receive it again.And now God has stripped the anointing from these boastful preachersand they will never be anointed again.

This Christ anointing came on different ones down through time. Itwas seen on Melchizedek. He spoke and prophesied to Abraham. Andby that same anointing he even overcame death. From the beginningGod knew the one that this anointing would eventually rest upon andbecome one with, and who would use it for only doing the will of God.And that was on God’s only begotten Son, Jesus, the Word made flesh.And now it’s on the members of His wife, who have reached the placewhere they will do only the will of God.

When Christ, the anointing, came upon Jesus at the time John baptizedHim, the first thing that happened to Him was that He was driven intothe wilderness to be tempted of the devil for forty days and nights, inwhich He overcame the devil at every trial. All the angels had to waituntil God had tried His Son; only then did the angels come and ministerunto Him. And although they had power to push back the devil and topush back all the evil powers, they didn’t do it; for had they stoppedthe devil from trying Jesus, He wouldn’t have shown us how to handlea trial. But according to God’s will, the angels waited until God had al-


lowed Jesus to be tried like no other man has ever been tried. And notonly was Jesus tried in the wilderness, overcoming every temptation,He was even tried in His daily life, as He was tempted and tested in allpoints like we are, yet without sin.

So all the angels stood back. I’m sure they wanted to get at the devil,but God told them, “No, Jesus has to go through this trial, because He’smy Son and He has to be prepared for the job that He is going to do.He’s got to be tested and tried in every point to show the devil and allcreation that He is God’s chosen one.” And as soon as God was finishedallowing Jesus to be tempted, then the angels came and ministered untoHim. I can imagine that the angels were so happy that they could finallycome to Jesus. Because there He was, a frail body after fasting for fortydays and nights. But they couldn’t come to Him while He was beingtested. I want to highlight that point, because it might help some of us.The angels of the Lord encampeth around those that fear God—butsometimes God lets us go through testing. And it is not that the angelstook a vacation, as we may think if they don’t help us immediately. No,it is the will of God being worked out. And the angels know what thewill of God is for those that they are to help, because they are minister-ing spirits sent unto those that are heirs of salvation. (Hebrews 2:14)

So when Jesus was crucified on Calvary, He released the Christ; forChrist had become one with the very soul of Jesus. But not only did Herelease the Christ, but He released His own soul. And that miracle cre-ated the Holy Ghost. And nowhere can we find in the days of Mosesor anywhere else in the Old Testament where Christ was ever called theHoly Ghost. The reason being, Christ had never become one with a souluntil Jesus. This is important in understanding Melchizedek’s place inthe plan of God as he was not one born with a human soul as Jesus was.

So this act of God’s Son releasing His spirit that had become one withChrist (giving the Spirit of Christ a soul) connected God with mankind.And by this act, God created a ghost that could blend with our spiritand make us part of Him; and it not only blends with our spirit andsoul, but also with our body as we submit ourselves unto Him. Andnow this brings to light why Melchizedek was not our Savior. But hewas like the man that came to Abraham and Sarah, who after his jobwas finished went back to being what he was before he met them, with-out leaving anything behind of himself, except his message.

Now as we read in Hebrews, Chapter 5, I want you to watch as wetalk about Melchizedek. Keep in mind, I’m not talking about Jesus beingin Melchizedek. I’m talking about Christ the anointing that was onMelchizedek, which came all the way through time before it landed onJesus. And Christ (this special anointing) is the great connector. Paul


got a revelation and showed us the great mystery of how Melchizedekand Jesus were connected. So now that we have the proper understand-ing, it will become very clear to us as I read the scripture as to whetherit is talking about Jesus or Melchizedek.

One of the points I want to make here is that Paul began to speak byinspiration things that were not written. He had only a seed Word ofMelchizedek that was planted back there in Genesis, Chapter 14, andalso mentioned in Psalms 110:4. So when Paul was writing here in He-brews, God began to put this revelation in his heart and reveal to himwhat Melchizedek was all about. It was not written anywhere else inthe New Testament until Paul wrote it. And Paul was a man just likewe are, as 1 Corinthians 15:10 says, “But by the grace of God I am what Iam: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboredmore abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was withme.” I really love this scripture, so we had it written on the back coverof one our books entitled, Christ the Wife: A People without a Country. Ibelieve that each of us that are involved in this last trumpet messagecan say, “His grace was not bestowed upon me in vain,” because wehave embraced it and we have let it make something out of our livesthat can glorify God and that will even change us in a moment, in thetwinkling of an eye without going through the channel of death.

So we want to begin reading now in Hebrews 5:5. (You might say,“Preacher, you sure took your time getting here.” Yes, but it is going tobe worth the wait!) It says, “So also Christ glorified not himself to be madean high priest;” Jesus Christ wasn’t just to do the work of a high priest.No, His work was much, much more. God made Jesus Christ everythingthat was related to the soul of mankind for the purpose of qualifyingHim to be the bringer of our total redemption. That’s why He was takenfrom amongst men to be our Savior. God made Him the Apostle andHigh Priest, King of Saints, and our Husband and King. And in the mil-lennium He will be King of Righteousness, King of Peace, and the listgoes on.

Notice Verse 5 is showing that Jesus didn’t go in the temple and say,“I’m the high priest now. I’m the one. I’ve come to take over this oper-ation.” No, He came for a different purpose. Jesus was a man ac-quainted with grief and sorrow. God wanted Him to live a life just likeother people but without sinning. Do you know why? So that wewould not be able to say as a way of making an excuse for our slothful-ness, “Yes, but that was Jesus; He could do it.” In the way of testing, Hewas just like we are. And what He did, He did by faith in God, becauseHe took upon Himself the form of a servant.

Yes, Jesus was tested just like we are. The Book of Philippians 2:5-8


says, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being inthe form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himselfof no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made inthe likeness of man: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” God gave usthe same Spirit, and He also gave us the same overcoming power, asthe Book of Luke 10:19 says, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on ser-pents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall byany means hurt you.” So let’s not try to make excuses by saying, “Yes,but that was Jesus.” No, God didn’t give Jesus this position until Hehad let Him go through many things in life. And He wouldn’t even letthe angels help Him when He was going through some of His hardesttrials. God knew that Jesus had it in Him and He wanted Jesus to showus how it’s done. And what He did, He did by revelational faith in Godand said that we could do the same. John 14:12 says, “Verily, verily, I sayunto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; andgreater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” Godwanted to prove to us that overcoming is something that we can dothrough Christ. The Bible says, “Jesus Christ is the Captain of our sal-vation.” And now we can say, “Oh, what a Captain we have!” He stoodand He didn’t waver; even in the face of death He did exactly what Godordained Him to do.

Let’s continue on with Hebrews 5:5. It says, “So also Christ glorified nothimself to be made an high priest, but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son,to day have I begotten thee.” In other words, the title of high priest didn’teven come close to what all Jesus had to do; because He was the verySon of God. Verse 6, “As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.” Now may we ask, “Paul, where didyou get these things that you are saying about Jesus and Melchizedek?”It’s here that he was speaking the Word by inspiration; and oh my, whathe is about to tell us next.

Now in the New Testament, Jesus was the one that introduced thisministry of speaking the Word by inspiration after He was anointed.But the Pharisees and Sadducees wouldn’t hear Him. They were soblind. They said, “We have Moses for our father. Our fathers ate mannain the wilderness.” And Jesus said, “Yes, and they are dead.” The onlymanna that had spiritual life in it was the life in the manna that was inthe ark. And that shows the spoken Word for our day.

Many times all that people get is the natural Word, and there is no lifein it; because it takes the Spirit to make the Word live—it takes faith.And if we read here in the Book of Hebrews, we can see where it’s saidthat many fell in the wilderness and didn’t inherit the land because they


failed to keep the Word because of unbelief. And I am telling you nowthat we don’t even want a little shadow of unbelief. Look what God isdoing; the last trump is sounding and the time of rapture is here. Theworld is falling apart and the revelation of the Word of God is flowing.Hallelujah! And the life of the Word is coming with inspiration to thewife in our day of visitation.

So Paul is telling us something here. The revelation he got was rightfrom the heart of God. He spoke the Word, and it is just as good as ifJesus had said it. It’s just as good as if Moses had said it. Paul was or-dained to tell us about Melchizedek. He wanted to give us hope thatthere would be a people living that were not going to die. ThisMelchizedek didn’t die. And now there is a people looking death in theface and saying, “Oh death, where is your sting?” And we are encour-aging those that are in the grave (like how Ezekiel, in Ezekiel, Chapter37, prophesied to the valley of dry bones) to claim their portion of theWord that says, “Oh, grave where is your victory?” The living part ofthe wife is saying unto them, “Come on out of that grave and enjoy thisjubilee that we are having here, as we have been clothed in fine linen,clean and white!”

So the Christ that came in Melchizedek overcame death. And so didJesus Christ overcome death, but Jesus gave His life for us so that wewouldn’t have to die. No man took Jesus’ life against His will, but Hewillingly laid down His life for us in order to pay a debt that we couldnot pay; because the Christ in Melchizedek had already overcome deathto show us how it’s done. This is fertilizer for faith. Enoch was trans-lated, and Elijah was seen taken in a chariot of fire; but it was differentwith Melchizedek, because God created this man just to show us howwe can overcome death through the fullness of Christ.

Let’s get Verse 6 again, “As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priestfor ever after the order of Melchisedec (Psalms 110:4).” Now Jesus Christwould be dealt with after the order of Melchizedek. Remember here, itwas Christ causing Melchizedek to do what he did as a prototype ofwhat was coming. Christ (Spirit) was the great connector that connectedboth Melchizedek and Jesus together.

Verse 7, “Who in the days of his flesh,” Now Paul is not talking about inthe days of Jesus’ flesh. But he’s talking about Melchizedek here, “whoin the days of his flesh.” Paul is going to switch back and forth betweenJesus and Melchizedek. And unless you see the great connector, youare going to say, “I can’t tell if he is talking about Jesus or somebodyelse.” But you are going to see. Continuing with Verse 7, “Who in thedays of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strongcrying, and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard


in that he feared.”Now watch. Here is this man (Melchizedek) who had finished his

part of the plan of God, and the time had come for him to go. He offeredup some strong prayers to God. He got serious about this thing. AndI’m telling you if you are planning on being changed in a moment, inthe twinkling of an eye, it’s time to get serious about this thing. SoChrist in this man overcame death. And now, Christ is going to over-come death through this human element (members of the body ofChrist) that are the living members of His wife, because it is promisedto we which are alive and remain. We are living in a time when God ismoving mightily.

Christ the great connector! The same one that overcame deaththrough Melchizedek is the same one that overcomes death in us, andis the same Christ that died on the cross in Jesus for our sins. Why didHe do it? He tasted death for every man, so that we wouldn’t have totaste it. Jesus payed the cost in full. But Christ back there inMelchizedek wanted to show us that we can escape death and not die.Here, permit me to say again, the price was paid by our Lord and SaviorJesus Christ on the cross. This man Melchizedek was not involved inthat part of the plan. And Paul was the only one that spoke this revela-tion like this; not Peter, James, nor John. And now there is a message inthis hour and it is the only one that is presenting this revelation of over-coming death—namely, the last trumpet message, which is only for thewife of the Lamb.

Yes, there were men in the days of Paul, such as Peter, James and John,who were as good as they come. But they preached to the Jewish churchthat was connected to the nation of Israel who we refer to as the Jewishbrethren; while Paul called out a virgin from both the Jews and the Gen-tiles to be included in the Lamb’s wife as the marriage has taken placein our day. And while I am preaching to we which are alive and remain,the dead in Christ that are the members of the wife will come up first;and then we are going to be changed into glorified bodies and raptured.Lord, we are ready! Remember here that when Melchizedek prayed,he was heard—and he didn’t die.

Now Paul drops back to speaking about Jesus in Verse 8. And if youdon’t have the Holy Ghost and someone to preach to you that has someHoly Ghost sense with the anointing, you are going to read this and say,“I don’t know who Paul is talking about.” That is what people say tome, “I don’t know who Paul is talking about.”

Most people are lost when it comes to what Paul said aboutMelchizedek. But to understand the things of God, it takes the HolyGhost and the eating of the little book that was brought to us by the


Mighty Angel of Revelation, Chapter 10, to become Christ the wife ofthe Lamb. And this ministry that God has ordained is preaching it andthis is the time for it. This was not to be preached back in the churchages when they were singing songs such as, “I’m longing and waitingto go.” And they were longing to go (God bless them) because that wastheir message. They said, “I’m ready to go to the grave.” And theysang, “There ain’t no grave gonna hold this body down. When I hearthat trumpet sound, I’m coming up out of that ground. Because thereain’t no grave gonna hold this body down!” That was for them. Butour faith is for translation. And with us there is a different call. Thereis a call saying, “Oh, death where is your sting now?” WhenMelchizedek got through praying, he could have said, “Now deathwhere is your sting? Come on and hit me with it if you think you can.I’ve overcome. I’m an overcomer.” And where is that written? It’s in 1Corinthians 15:57, “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory throughour Lord Jesus Christ.” Christ the great connector! He was back there asthat Rock in the wilderness and all the way through the Old Testament;and He is that Spirit that has anointed us, baptizing us into the body ofChrist.

When the fullness of the Spirit of God fell on Jesus and went into Him,Christ found His home. Christ found one that He could blend with per-fectly. And the Spirit of Christ that came down in His fullness in Reve-lation, Chapter 10, found His home in us and we found our home inHim. We are at home, inside the body of Christ as the wife of the Lamb.

Let’s read Hebrews 5:7 again, “Who in the days of his flesh, when he hadoffered up prayers and supplications with strong crying, and tears unto himthat was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared.” Andthen it says in Verse 8, “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience bythe things which he suffered;” Watch. It switches back to Jesus in Verse 8,but it is the same Christ. So Paul’s writing switched from the manMelchizedek to the man Jesus. That is because Christ the great connec-tor between Melchizedek and Jesus was the same in both. And Christis a Spirit.

Continuing on with Verses 9-10. It says, “And being made perfect, he be-came the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Called of Godan high priest after the order of Melchisedec.” This is speaking of JesusChrist here and not Melchizedek. Paul said that Jesus came after theorder of Melchizedek. And because it is the same Christ, many of thethings that happened with Melchizedek, happened in Jesus Christ ourLord. So no wonder it is after the order of Melchizedek. Amen. Doyou see now, Christ the great connector that has connected this togetherfor us? He has connected the eternal life in our soul with the redemp-


tion of our bodies. Hallelujah! In Paul’s day he said, “We wait for theredemption of the body.” And now our wait is over as the Word is beingquickened unto us. The Holy Ghost is the earnest (down payment onour full redemption) which redeems our bodies as well as our souls aswe have received the fullness of Christ as is seen in Revelation, Chapter10. So Christ is the great connector that has connected our spirit andsoul and body together with His. We are in Christ and Christ is in usand together we are in God.

In the Old Testament the high priest had to make a sacrifice by blood,but he had to do it over and over again. But Jesus Christ had to do itonly one time. Paul said that Jesus offered the blood one time, whichwas at Calvary. One time is enough for me. There is a song that says,“He died once, and one time is enough for me.” He came into ourhearts and cleansed us from every sin, washed us as white as snow, andhas clothed us in fine linen and has made us His wife.

Paul had many things to say, but they couldn’t hear it in that hour, be-cause there were certain things that had to transpire that would bringthis into being. In Matthew, Chapter 13, we see that the espoused virginfell away and had to go through seven church ages, and the wheat andtares had to grow together until harvest at the end of the age. And thenafter the harvesting, the tares are bound in bundles to be burned andthe righteous now can shine forth as the sun forevermore. And thiscouldn’t come into being until the seven seals were opened and the littlebook brought back and the mystery of the church ages finished. It isall in our book entitled, The Chronicles of the Tenth Chapter of Revelationand the Eating of a Bitter Meal—for the wife of the Lamb has left her tes-timony therein.

I want to stop here and pick up again in tomorrow’s service. Up untilnow, we have just gotten the cookie jar opened! It’s like we have cut abig cake and have begun to sample it; and it gets better and better andgreater and greater as we go deeper. On this part of the message wewant you to see the great connector between Melchizedek and Jesus,and that Melchizedek is not our Lord Jesus Christ. And again withoutrevelation, one could read Paul’s writing and think he was talking aboutjust one man, when he was actually talking about Melchizedek andJesus. Melchizedek was created to show the coming Savior. And whenPaul was talking about Melchizedek, one could think that he was talk-ing about Jesus. That’s why we don’t fault someone for thinking thatJesus and Melchizedek was the same. That’s because it was the sameChrist using both men.

So God sent Paul to connect that together for us. It was the sameChrist, just using different men. And this man Melchizedek was the


priest of the most high God, and he was the king of Salem, and the kingof righteousness, and the king of peace, which shows what Jesus isgoing to be in the millennial reign—the great King, and He is our Hus-band. Glory to God!

Now it’s all coming together for us here at the end time. We see thatthe world is falling apart. We see that everything is coming into placeto finish it up here at the end time. And the wife has perfect under-standing of it all. We see it not only in the spiritual realm but also whenwe look out into the worldly realm. We see Russia has come into theMiddle East, and all the pieces of the puzzle are coming together to say,“This is the end.”

Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we come to you praising your name. Wethank you, Lord, because you have given us one more opportunity to stand andbe identified with the Lamb that died for us. And, Lord, we thank you andpraise you for your love, goodness, and mercy. And we appreciate you, Lord.I pray that you bless each one that hears this message. May you quicken thisWord to their heart and let them know that we are on the winning team, andthat we are at the end time, and that we are ready and waiting for the transla-tion of the body. We are the wife of the Lamb, the body of Christ, that is walkingand talking and witnessing in this hour. In Jesus Christ’s name. Amen. Yourwife.


UTTERING THE THINGS CONCERNINGMELCHIZEDEK THAT NEEDED TO BE

TAUGHT AGAIN

Greetings to each one of you on this beautiful Sunday morning as weare gathered together once more in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Last evening we talked about Christ the Great Connector betweenMelchizedek and Jesus; and in that part of the message we showed thatChrist in the Old Testament was spoken of as the Spirit that God usedto give His Word to the prophets before the birth of Jesus (God’s onlybegotten Son who was the Word made flesh). Since that time, the Christpart of God’s Spirit became one with the spirit of the man Jesus andthereafter is seen as one Spirit, thus creating the Holy Ghost.

So from the Christ Spirit and the human spirit of God’s Son, JesusChrist, He has created this ‘Holy Ghost’ Spirit that can connect with ourhuman spirit giving us a new birth and eternal life. By this means,God’s Son became one with the spirit of His redeemed family under thenew covenant, bought by the blood of Jesus Christ, our Savior.

Since this period of time, God has been speaking by inspirationthrough His ministry. This is seen in the apostles as well as others; es-pecially in Paul, and now through the wife of the Lamb (Ephesians 4:13-16). Speaking by inspiration is clearly seen in Paul’s writing as he wrotethe scripture concerning Melchizedek in the Book of Hebrews. Hereached back and showed the Christ that was seen in the Old Testamentas the Rock that was in the wilderness which Moses smote and watercame out to give drink to the children of Israel. (1 Corinthians 10:4)

Now in the New Testament we read where Jesus Christ said this waterwould come out of the believers bellies (our inner being). He said inJohn 7:38, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his bellyshall flow rivers of living water.” This is the blessing of Christ as we arebaptized into the body of Christ. And the living water (Word and Spirit)flows from us, as we are now the recipients of the fullness of Christ.And just as it flowed out of the Rock in the wilderness, it now flows outof the wife of the Lamb. For we are dead and our life is hid with Christin God. (Colossians 3:3)

Today we are going to continue on with the same thought that westarted last evening but I want to use a different text; because lastevening we were mostly establishing the presence of Christ in the OldTestament by showing some of the wonderful things that were wrought

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in Christ in those days. This message is a continuance; we will not begoing over those things that are already on record, so from here I wantto pick up and go forward. But I would like to pray before we continueon today.

Heavenly Father, as we come to you, Lord, I just want to thank you for agreat service thus far today and for your blessings upon your saints all overthe world. And I thank you for the revelation of the Word of God. And now,as we are about to read more of the Word, I pray that you will anoint us to saywords that will be of a benefiting nature to all, especially the wife of the Lamb.I pray also that you will anoint me to speak the Word in a way that wouldplease you. This we ask in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen

I want to speak on, Uttering the Things Concerning Melchizedek thatNeeded to be Taught Again. Paul tells us this in Hebrews 5:11-14, becauseat that time he could only bring it so far. This was as God ordained itto be; for Paul was laying the foundation for the building which wouldcome later. And now we see these truths even include more about JesusChrist and Melchizedek.

At the time of Paul’s writing in Hebrews, Chapter 5, he accused thosein his day of being immature. He said, “You have need of the milk ofthe Word, because you are still babes.” When Paul wrote this about thesaints being babes and needing milk, evidently he didn’t realize thatthere was going to come seven church ages after he was gone, and thatthe espoused virgin would fall away but would come back again whenthey heard a ministry that continued preaching this Word by inspira-tion. He also told us that we would come into the fullness of Christ.And now that has happened just before the rapture.

Also, it was along about this time that God let Paul know that he wasgoing home, so Paul revealed to the saints that he would be going homesoon. And with his going away, Christ also withdrew Himself as thatapostolic office was withdrawn until He came back as the Mighty Angelin Revelation, Chapter 10. Even though Paul said that he was in Christ’sstead, he did not come into the fullness of Christ as is seen in Ephesians4:13, because God took him home to allow the fallen church to surviveby a survival law that Paul had set in the Word for them to live by untilChrist came again and reactivated the apostolic ministry to lead us toour spiritual baptism in this spiritual body of Christ. And now Christis back on earth in His fullness, both legs of His spiritual coming, to takeHis wife (both the dead and the living) in the rapture.

I want to place a note here: When I’m speaking of the fullness ofChrist, I’m speaking of more than receiving the baptism of the HolyGhost as was first given on the day of Pentecost in Acts, Chapter 2, andwas restored back to us in this last day. Pay close attention here—Re-


ceiving the Holy Ghost is receiving a part of the very soul and Spirit ofJesus Christ, which is a gift from God and is eternal life. It is here at theend of the church ages that we see that Christ comes into the earthlyrealm in His fullness, clothed with a cloud as the Mighty Angel (Reve-lation, Chapter 10) and we become His wife; bone of His bone and fleshof His flesh. And by His fullness, we show forth not just a part but thestature of the fullness of Christ unto ‘a perfect man’ which has manymembers. (Ephesians 4:13) This is both legs of His spiritual comingwhich has taken us beyond the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Here in the Book of Hebrews, Paul said, “I have many things to say.”He also told them to leave the foundation and go on to perfection ormaturity in Christ. (Hebrews 6:1-2) In this case, Paul was writing tothose who were living in that present time and telling them that theycouldn’t receive what he was saying at his time, so what he was sayingwould need to be taught again.

In our message a few weeks ago we saw that Jesus Christ introducedus to speaking by inspiration; showing us that since the day of Pente-cost, God has been giving us truth by inspiration. And being inspired,Paul revealed to us that it was Christ in the rock that Moses smote. ButMoses and the children of Israel had to move on from that rock in thewilderness. But the wonderful thing is that Christ continued to movewith them and was manifested in many other ways, until finally it cametime for Him to be manifested in and through the Son of God, Jesus theChrist.

After Jesus Christ was crucified and resurrected, we come to Acts,Chapter One, where He told His disciples that He was going to leaveand He gave them some insight on what was about to happen to themat the receiving of the Holy Ghost. But their hearts were on the hope ofthe kingdom being restored back to Israel. They said Lord, “Will youat this time restore the kingdom back to Israel?” (Which is speaking ofthe millennium.) Jesus answered and said, “It is not for you to knowthe time and season.” So this was one of the times that God let themknow that there was something more but it wasn’t time. Jesus said, “Ihave many things to say to you, but you can’t receive them now. How-beit when the Holy Ghost is come, He will reveal these things to you intheir proper time.” Here we can see very clearly that many things thatwere written in the Bible were written for a later time, to be revealed byinspiration to those for whom it was written. Romans 15:4 says, “Forwhatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, thatwe through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.”

In the Book of John, Chapters 14-17, the conversations that Jesus Christhad with His disciples before He went away are laid out very clearly.

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He said, “My Father and I will take our abode with you.” That is theHoly Ghost coming within us, which is none other than the Spirit ofChrist after He took on a human nature through our Lord Jesus.Melchizedek didn’t have a soul that could live in us; so never do we say,“Melchizedek is living within and he is my Savior.” No, but Christ Jesusis living in us and He is our Savior. This means that not only do wehave the Spirit of God but we have a part of the very soul of the Son ofGod.

So today we are going to continue reading what we were reading lastevening and I trust that after this the truth concerning Melchizedek willbe very clear to us. I’m going to start reading again in the Book of He-brews, Chapter 5, starting with Verse 6. It says, “As he saith also in an-other place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.” Herewe only want to establish by the scripture the words after the order of.This shows again that ‘the man Melchizedek’ and the ‘man Jesus’ arenot the same person.

Now Melchizedek didn’t come as part of an established priesthoodorder; for he came hundreds of years before God through Moses set upa priesthood. And when Jesus came it was a similar situation. Althoughthere was a priesthood set in Israel and the priests were to be taken fromthe tribe of Levi, Jesus was born into the tribe of Juda of which tribeMoses spoke nothing concerning the priesthood (Hebrews 7:14). Andalthough Jesus Christ is seen in Revelation, Chapters 1-3, as High Priest,He did not come from the established line of priests. Here it shows Himmaking intercession for those that were part of the fallen virgin duringthe journey through the seven church ages, who are now laid away inthe chronicles of God’s Word waiting for their resurrection to join us,the living saints, for the rapture.

Here we see that God never uses a denomination when He brings anew truth or a further revelation. This is just the way that God doesthings when He is showing a new revelation. He always takes it out ofthe religious realm and puts it before the people so that they will knowthat it is God doing the work. In this way it always happens outsidethe program of man, because God doesn’t just give us certain rules togo by; He leads us by His Spirit from revelation to revelation. Romans1:16-17 says, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the powerof God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also tothe Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith(from revelation to revelation), as it is written, The just shall live by (rev-elational) faith.” If we went by rules, we would not need revelation; nei-ther would we need to be intimate with Christ Jesus. We could say,“Yes, I’ve got it. I believe this,” or “I believe that.” We would get set in


a certain belief system or religious order and live our life without reve-lation. But God doesn’t do His work that way in the wife of the Lamb.

We find when Paul was speaking of Melchizedek in Hebrew 7:4, hesaid, “Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarchAbraham gave the tenth of the spoils.” Yet Melchizedek couldn’t and didn’tpay for our sins or our healing, or make it possible for us to have eternallife or a glorified body; Jesus Christ did all of that. Just like the songsays, “Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe.” And this could only take placein God’s time as Jesus died to pay for our sins and now has given usHis righteousness. This is the point I want to make here: Christ, theanointing through God’s only begotten Son, Jesus, has already died, res-urrected, and come forth into glorification. And only because of JesusChrist will the dead be raised and the living be changed. All these bless-ings come through the Lord Jesus Christ. The person Melchizedekcould not do any of this; but he was a shadow and a prototype of ourLord Jesus Christ, a shadow of the good things that have come.

Let’s read Hebrews 5:6 again, “As he saith also in another place, Thou arta priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.” Verse 7, “Who in the days ofhis flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryingand tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in thathe feared.” Here, Paul switches back to talking about Jesus Christ inVerse 8, “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things whichhe suffered;” Verse 9, “And being made perfect,” Jesus was being made per-fect (matured) by all the things that He went through; after all He wasabout thirty years old when He was baptized of John and receivedChrist. And by this transaction, God created a masterpiece, a perfectspirit and soul and body to be the Savior of all His creation. God or-dained Him to be the Captain of our salvation. And I wouldn’t want togo into battle with someone that didn’t have a few battle scars or someexperience, would you? So I gladly walk with Him!

So Jesus Christ is the Captain of our salvation and He learned obedi-ence by the things which He suffered. God let Jesus come just like therest of us humans, as far as being born of a woman, as the Word becamean embryo by the working of God. Although He was born of a woman,He wasn’t born with the sinful attributes that we were born with. Jesuswas never in sin. There is no one else that the Bible says this about—“He neither sinned nor was guile found in His mouth.” In all thingsHe pleased the Father. Jesus said, “I come to do thy will, O Lord.” AndHe has given us His Word and the fullness of His Spirit. He is our Kingand Husband and we can’t honor Him enough.

Continuing on with Verse 9, “And being made perfect, he became the au-thor of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Called of God an high



priest after the order of Melchisedec.” Notice again—after the order of—andthis clearly tells us that this is not Melchizedek, but it’s Jesus Christ ourSavior. It is important to note—Melchizedek was not born of a womaninto the human family; he did not come by any human means. But thiswas not so with Jesus; He was born into this world. Jesus came just asthe scripture said He would come—born of a virgin. And another thingto keep in mind as we go forward is that Jesus didn’t come to destroythe Law of Moses; but He came to fulfill it. And His message put thelaw in the chronicles of what has been wrought. Paul said the law wasonly a shadow of the good things to come and now, praise God, thegood things have come.

The Word says that the law was a school master which taught the Jew-ish people and those of the Gentiles who were circumcised and kept thelaw. That’s why the law said, “Thou shalt,” and “Thou shalt not.” ButPaul said that when the seed is come or when faith is come, we are nolonger under the school master. From that time, God’s people wouldbe led by the Holy Ghost, that special part of the Spirit of Christ. Andnow in our day, He sent us a message to walk by without being underthe law of do’s and don’ts.

Now the virgin of Paul’s day had the Holy Ghost but was waiting forthe fullness of Christ as the prophecy was given by Paul in Ephesians4:13 that indicated this to be so. We read that John, in the Book of Rev-elation, Chapter 10, saw Christ as the Mighty Angel coming to thisearth, and He put His right foot upon the sea and His left foot on theearth; showing that the fullness would be seen as two legs of His spiri-tual coming. This showed that on the day of Pentecost the discipleswould receive the first leg of the spiritual coming of Christ. But now,since Revelation, Chapter 10, has been fulfilled, we have received thefullness of both legs of the spiritual coming of Christ, making us thewife of the Lamb.

Let’s get Hebrews 5:10-11, “Called of God an high priest after the order ofMelchisedec. Of whom we have many things to say (differentiating betweenJesus and Melchizedek and some of the other things that we are show-ing in this message) and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.”Paul was being bold by saying, “Seeing that you are dull of hearing,”wasn’t he? Again, notice the title of my message, Uttering the ThingsConcerning Melchizedek that Needed to be Taught Again. Paul told the peo-ple, “You need to be taught this again.” But he didn’t teach it again, be-cause he went on home. But it doesn’t make any difference; for it isbeing taught again anyway, because it was Christ doing the teachingthen, and it is Christ that is still doing the teaching now through Hiswife as we bring forth this last trumpet message which brings glorifi-


cation to our bodies (the living and the dead). (Ephesians 4:13-16, 1Corinthians 15:51-52, and 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17)

Also, the Word tells us in Romans, Chapter 8, that we groan and travailin pain, waiting for the adoption to wit, the redemption of the body. Thesoul is already redeemed; but our redemption is not complete unlessand until this body is redeemed. And the Christ that came inMelchizedek set a pattern for overcoming death. He overcame it whenHe prayed to God and offered up prayers and supplications to the onethat saved him from death.

Now those words spoken (written) by Paul in Verse 11, whether heknew it or not is prophetic for our day and God through this last trum-pet message has brought this prophecy into fulfillment. Here God sawHis prophetic clock strike 1 Corinthians 15:51-57. It was at this timethat Paul’s prophecy began to be perfectly in line with what we are say-ing today. This is glad tidings to both we which are alive and remain, andto those that’s soon to be resurrected.

Verse 11 again, “Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be ut-tered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.” So it was hard to utter. In other words,it was hard to preach these things to them then. Well, I can see why; itwasn’t time for them to get the glorified body. It wasn’t time for themto see how God would let a group overcome death and be changed justas soon as the dead were raised. This helps us to understand why Paulwas saying, “I have much to say about this but it is hard to preach toyou because your ears are dull of hearing.” I’m glad that there is a peo-ple today that are ready, waiting, and wanting this Word—and theirears are not dull of hearing and they can hear the trumpet soundingvery well. That’s why this causes our heart to burn within us!

Watch this next verse. It says in Verse 12, “For when for the time ye oughtto be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again (I want you to noticethose words teach you again. In other words, this same thing had tobe picked up and taught again, because they weren’t getting it. Neitherwere they understanding some of the more simple things.) which be thefirst principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need ofmilk, and not of strong meat.” So instead of leaning forward, they beganto lean backward. God knew that this last trumpet message was goingto teach these things to them again in the fullness, giving us perfect un-derstanding and bringing strong meat to a people that love to eat themeat of the Word, which is going to change us in a moment, in the twin-kling of an eye.

After all, Paul said, “I laid the foundation (that was his job), but an-other buildeth thereon.” The wife is the another that buildeth thereon.And now we are in the fullness of the finishing of what Paul laid the



foundation for. We are at the end time and rapturing faith has come.And in order to understand these things, they had to be taught again.And now we are the mature wife of the Lamb, so instead of being babiesor immature, our stomachs can now take strong meat. In other words,we are not just espoused to Christ but we are His wife. And by spiritualbaptism we have been married to the very Son of God and we have Hisvery own mind.

Verse 13, “For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of right-eousness: for he is a babe.” I’m preaching to the living part of the wife;those that have reached the fullness of the stature of the man ChristJesus through our marriage to Him. And the strong meat is acceptingand believing God’s Word that tells us that we have overcome the deathsentence and will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,as soon as the dead are raised.

Verse 14, “But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age,” Nowthe Bible tells us in Matthew, Chapter 13, and Revelation, Chapter 10,that after the seven church ages have run their course and the mysteryof the seven thunders are made known, then all this mystery will be-come history or the chronicles of Revelation, Chapter 10. It was at thistime that our marriage took place as we were baptized into the body ofChrist. That means that we have passed the till of Ephesians 4:13 andhave reached the fullness of the stature of the man Christ Jesus. This istelling us that we have now matured to the point that we have becomebone of His bone and flesh of His flesh in our marriage to the Lamb ofGod, Jesus Christ, our Husband. So these revelations belong to thosethat can handle strong meat, those that have reached full age. Thismeans that we have left the virgin stage and have become the marriedwife.

Please bear with me a little more as we reemphasize the importanceof knowing that the only righteousness that God will accept in this dayis the righteousness that is given by accepting the righteousness of theSon of God. This all began in the days of Paul’s writing, and now is ob-tained only by the ones that have become mature, which is the wife ofthe Lamb, dressed in fine linen, clean and white, which is the righteous-ness of saints. And we have a revelation of this righteousness and knowthat it is not based on what we have done or what we are doing or evenwhat we will do, but it is what He did for us when He took our sins andgave us His righteousness. This is the only righteousness that God willrecognize. It’s not our righteousness, until it is given to us by ourbeloved. Because our righteousness was as filthy rags. But there is arighteousness of fine linen that is not tinted, that has no spots on it; andit now belongs to us, as we are baptized into the fullness of the body of


Christ.Verse 14 again, “But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even

those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good andevil.” Those of full age are going to be able to discern good from evil.They are not tossed to and fro. They have their spiritual senses exer-cised. In other words, we use our spiritual mind and are growing ingrace, so we exercise our senses to discern good from evil. And that’sby having the mind of Christ which is now our mind, also. And becausewe have the mind of Christ, we understand what is good and what isevil and what’s profitable and what’s not. This (exercise of our senses)comes as we hear the Word of God and we grow in grace—our faithgrowth exceedingly. (2 Thessalonians 1:3)

When my wife, Barbara Jean, and I were in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe,I preached a message entitled, Obtaining That Which Was Previously Un-obtainable (which can be heard on our website), showing that we haveobtained something we didn’t have before. And that’s basically whatPaul is telling the saints here in his writing about what the body ofChrist was going to be in maturity. And we have arrived home and aremanifesting that which Paul said would be.

Now Hebrews 6:1 says, “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine ofChrist, let us go on unto perfection (or maturity); not laying, again the foun-dation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,” Paul is speak-ing by inspiration of what was given to him by the grace of God as awise master builder. (1 Corinthians 3:9-11) In other words, he is tellingus that we have to move on beyond those things that they were seeingup to that point. He is saying, “Now it is time to take that other step.These are things that you will need, so they must be taught again.” Andnow we are teaching them again and they are very obtainable.

Then Paul goes on in Verse 2, “Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of the lay-ing on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.” Hesaid, “These are the principle things that we must move on from to goon to perfection (maturity).” We had to move beyond these things, be-cause Paul saw many other things, such as the Lord shall descend fromheaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with thetrump of God. Also, keep in mind that at the time of Paul’s writing hewas only prophesying these things, but we are receiving them as re-freshing new revelational truths as they are brought into fulfillment.

Now we have already come through the time of the second leg of thespiritual coming of Christ, which shows us that He has finished Hiswork as High Priest in the seven church ages. That’s when we saw thetwo legs of His spiritual coming in Revelation, Chapter 10. At that timeGod provided the fullness of Christ (both legs); giving us a body to be



baptized into, making us the wife of the Lamb. This needed to betaught, as we now know that there were two legs of the spiritual com-ing. And we are the beneficiaries of it.

Again, the wife by one Spirit has been baptized by spiritual baptisminto the body of Christ. Yes, in this last day this has taken place; forChrist Himself has come to earth and we have moved on with Him.And that leaves all these churches with all their rituals behind. ChristHimself has come to earth and brought us this trumpet message, andwe took it and became one (intimate) with it. The Bible tells us, “Thiswill all take place when the last trumpet sounds.” And the trump ofGod is sounding and the dead are going to get up out of the groundfirst and then we are going to be changed in a moment, in the twinklingof an eye. And now we are singing, “O death where is your sting? Ograve where is your victory?” This is what the Christ of the Bible isshowing us through this last trump ministry of the wife of the Lamb.

Yes, it was at Calvary that Christ, who took on the spirit and soul ofour Lord Jesus, suffered with Him in death. For here Christ felt every-thing that Jesus felt, as He paid the sin debt for His people. He paid theprice for our total redemption. He cannot die again; death has no moredominion over Him. It’s here that a great faith building message comesforth for and to His Christ wife. Romans 6:9-10 says, “Knowing thatChrist being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominionover him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, heliveth unto God.” Also Hebrews 2:14 says, “Forasmuch then as the childrenare partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same;that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is,the devil;” And this takes us to 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 and 1 Corinthi-ans 15:51-57. Now our faith is in the fact that we are dead and our lifeis hid with Christ in God; everything that we need is in Christ.

Now I want to go to Chapter 7 of the Book of Hebrews, because theWord gives us more understanding. And remember, it was Paul thatsaid, “You can’t hear it now; it needs to be taught again.” So if it neededto be taught again, we have met the challenge and are teaching it again.Let’s fulfill the need and meet all the end time challenges and get out ofhere in the rapture as we receive our new bodies.

So the Word says here in Hebrews 7:1, “For this Melchisedec, king ofSalem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from theslaughter of the kings, and blessed him; To whom also Abraham gave a tenthpart of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after thatalso King of Salem, which is, King of peace;” Again, here God was showingus a prototype of the King—even to what King Jesus Christ will be inthe millennium and where He will be sitting on His own throne. God


demonstrated all of these things in and through Melchizedek. What agreat man. Paul said, “Consider how great this man was.” (Hebrews7:4) He is seen as the King of Salem (that means on earth, which typesKing Jesus sitting on His own throne in Jerusalem), also King of theearth, and King of righteousness. That’s where our righteousness comesfrom—King Jesus. He makes us righteous by accepting us into Himselfby spiritual baptism into His spiritual body as His Word Wife. We takeHis righteousness and walk with Him being led by the Spirit, and Hisrighteousness is now giving us a new body by the predestinated willof God. Amen.

Paul told us how great Melchizedek was, because he had Christ inhim. Now we say how great the wife is, because we not only haveChrist in us, but we are baptized into His body. And we are not a tem-porary being for Christ to manifest Himself in, as was Melchizedek. Butby His marriage to us, we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh.That’s our eternal habitation in Him as His wife. So Paul said concern-ing Melchizedek, “Consider how great this man was.” We reply by say-ing, “Consider how great the wife of God’s Son, King Jesus, is!”

When looking at Melchizedek, we see that he was the king of right-eousness and he was the king of peace. And not only that; but he, alongwith Enoch and Elijah, became the first examples for the living membersof the body of Christ who are now looking death in the face and saying,“O death, where is your sting?” The Christ that was in Melchizedek hadno beginning of days nor ending of life. No, he wasn’t the Lord JesusChrist, but it was Christ in Melchizedek.

In last evening’s message, we began to see how this all has come to-gether; how Christ was the great connector that connected Melchizedekand Jesus together. And now Christ is the great connector between us,the wife of the Lamb and our Lord and King Jesus, our Husband, whogreatly loves us, His beautiful Christ wife. That’s what this is all about.So yes, we can shout together, because our spiritual ears can hear thislast trumpet bringing us glad tidings.

Please bear with me as I say just a bit more here about Melchizedek.At no time do we address him as ‘Melchizedek the Christ.’ BecauseChrist in Melchizedek did not become a permanent part of him. Godcould not create the Holy Ghost in him, as he was never meant to be apermanent soul, although the Christ that was in him was permanent.And Christ the anointing kept right on moving forward until thisanointing came upon and into the Son of God creating the Holy Ghost.

Now it took this ‘great man’ (using Paul’s words), Melchizedek, to bea prototype of Jesus Christ our Lord as king of peace. See, that wasshowing King Jesus in the millennium—a time of perfect peace. That’s



why it’s good to understand what God was showing us throughMelchizedek. But now it’s all in Christ. Having shown some of thethings that were seen in Melchizedek, we must always keep in mindthat Jesus is the one that paid the sin debt and paved the way to makeit all come into being. See, He is the Son of God. And He is that onethat we love as our Husband.

So Melchizedek had his part to do, and he did it, and now those daysare gone forever. This man that Paul said was so great is seen no more.And now this chapter is closed in the chronicles of God. And by thewisdom of God we leave it right there, and we do not attempt to makesome mysterious revelation out of this, beyond the fact thatMelchizedek was a prototype of Jesus the Christ. And now it’s time forus to look to the revelation that’s being made known by the body ofChrist in our spiritual baptism as we have passed the till of Ephesians4:13-16, and are in 1 Corinthians 15:51-57. This is the fulfillment of Rev-elation 19:7-8 that gives us the liberty to lay Melchizedek to rest in thechronicles of God’s Word.

Now to sum up the whole matter, it is the Lord Jesus Christ that diedfor our sins and paid the price. He alone is the bloody Lamb that tookthe Book of Redemption shown in Revelation, Chapter 5. Jesus Christpaid the total price for our total salvation—spirit and soul and body.And after He had paid the sin debt, God gave Him the authority to takethe Book of Redemption that He bought with His own blood. And inthis last day, the Lamb took from the big Book of Redemption (the Bible)a small portion known to us as the little book and the Mighty Angelbrought it to us as our book (our testament). Yes, He gave it to us, Hiswife, and told us to eat it up and we obeyed. That’s our part of the re-demption plan producing the wife’s testament, which is the last trumpetmessage of 1 Corinthians 15:51-52.

So the things that Paul said were ‘hard to be uttered and needed to betaught again,’ have been fulfilled. Now let us rejoice in the Lord JesusChrist our Savior, Husband, and King!

Let us pray. Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, may you take thesewords and use them for your glory. And we thank you for your great anointingthat has brought to pass this revelation for your wife. And we thank you foryour move in this hour as we are waiting to say, “It is all finished.” In JesusChrist’s name we pray. Amen.


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Good morning to each of you. I’m glad to see you rejoicing in ChristJesus, our Lord and Savior, who has redeemed our mortal bodies, aswell as our souls. He does all of this by making us part of the mani-fested Word, and by confirming unto us that we are His wife, the man-ifested Word made flesh. And now it is with us as it was with Jesus,who was the first one to be born of a woman and become manifestedWord in human flesh. This is very important, as we will see as we readin the written Word of God today. For it’s the inspiration that quickensthe scriptures of the written Word; thus transforming us into spokenWord made flesh, just like Jesus was. But this was not available, andtherefore was not obtainable, until now.

I remember several years ago, when in Zimbabwe, I traveled quite adistance to a small village in the backwoods and preached to the peoplea message entitled, Obtaining That Which Was Previously Unobtainable.And one of the brothers got up and said, “I believe that heaven hascome down.” And it sure felt like it; I bear witness to that fact. Heavencertainly did come down in that service. That was what Paul was talk-ing about in Hebrews 12:22-24, which shows us that heaven has comedown and we’ve come right into it, where the spirits of just men aremade perfect and where the angels dwell. In other words, we came intoa spiritual environment and were made to sit together in heavenlyplaces in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians, Chapter One) He made this possibleby coming down to us as shown in Revelation, Chapter 10, makingHimself known to us, which has baptized us into His body.

So having said that, I want to take a thought today, Choosing the Timeand Place to Defeat Our Last Enemy Called Death. Now the time and placeis shown to us in the Word of God. The timing is revealed unto us aswe see this message for our day. Now let’s pray before reading. Heav-enly Father, Lord, we come unto you at the opening of thy Word. And, Lord,I love what your great servant, Paul, said, “Our sufficiency is of thee.” Maywe always look to you, Lord, always realizing that anything we say to benefityour people—the sufficiency, the ability, the anointing—comes from thee. Wegive you all the glory. I pray now as we commit ourselves to you, that you willhelp us to do all thy bidding. In Jesus Christ’s name we pray. Amen.

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want to start there just to get the word death. And after this, I want toread in Philippians 1:20-26 to get the word choosing. This word mayseem like a strange word to be using, but we will see as we read thatGod gave Paul a choice on what to do about going to the place wherethe departed saints were waiting for him. But God knew by His fore-knowledge what this man that was in Christ would do for the benefitof the espoused virgin that would become a part of the wife of theLamb.

But before we go any further into the message, I want to mentionsomething that happened with Brother William Branham, who was themessenger to the Laodicea church age. The story goes that once a ladycame to him that had a vision or dream, and she said to him, “BrotherBranham, I saw a dark shadow following you.” And Brother Branhamsaid, “I know it, Sister. I know he’s there. But he can’t touch me untilthat time comes.” This shows us that God lets us know some of thethings that is about to happen to us.

Now let’s read 1 Corinthians 15:26. It says, “The last enemy that shall bedestroyed is death.” Paul is writing here concerning death, calling deathan enemy which is to be destroyed permanently before eternity begins.But I want to deal with death as it relates to the wife of the Lamb, whichare those that are baptized into the body of Christ. For after we ate thelittle book, the law of life freed us from the law of sin and death. Forother people, the death sentence is in effect all the way through the mil-lennium. But not for the wife; for we are the people that 1 Thessalonians4:15-17 applies to. We are the which are alive and remain, who overcomedeath.

Let’s go to Philippians, Chapter One, because it is here where Paul be-gins to say some of the things that I want to bring to you this morning.Some people think that Paul contradicted himself because he waspreparing to die, and yet he was saying, “We which are alive and re-main.” But let’s look at what he was saying in this light—one part ofwhat he said was prophecy, and the other part was for that present timeand was being applied in the day he was living in. So there is no con-tradiction. There’s nothing out of line. He wasn’t speaking out of bothsides of his mouth. He was speaking Word for that time period, whileat the same time he was laying a prophecy in for our day.

So I’m reading here in the Book of Philippians. And the reason I wantto read this is that Paul is talking about going on and choosing. I wantto show you that he chose to stay rather than to go on and get his rewardat that particular time. In other words, he was choosing the time. Hesaw a need and it was as though he was saying, “It wouldn’t be good ifI just left the people right now. So it’s better for me to abide.” It seems


that God had brought him into a place where he could see what was onthe other side. He was caught up into the third heaven, so he knew abit more about what was in the heavenly realm than most of us know.He wanted to bring the people up with him, but he saw they weren’tquite ready for what he had in mind.

So I’m going to pick up in Verse 20 of Philippians, Chapter One. Itsays, “According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing Ishall be ashamed (If you’re on the Word, you don’t have to be ashamed.I thank God for that.), but that with all boldness, as always, so now alsoChrist shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.”“Christ is magnified in my body,” he said. In other words, Christ isgoing to be glorified in our bodies. And we want to do our part in thisarrangement. That’s why we bring our minds into captivity to the lawof Christ (love of Christ). That’s why we present our body a living sac-rifice, holy and acceptable, which is our reasonable service that Christmay be magnified in our mortal body.

Verse 21, “For me to live is Christ (‘I’m going to magnify Christ.’ Hestood in Christ’s stead.), and to die is gain.” Now here he is talking aboutdying. In that hour, yes, “To die is gain.” I’m sure that many times Paulgot homesick for heaven after seeing what it is like over there. Andsince that time, the saints that came before us sang, I’m homesick forheaven, I’m longing to go. They were singing about going by the way ofdeath, and that was appropriate for their time period. But right here atthe end time He is giving us a different promise. He is bringing thepromise up to the time that we are living in. And by His Word He hasmade it clear to us that we are the people that are alive and have re-mained until He came. He has revealed to us that we are the ones thatare not going to die.

Continuing on with Verse 22, “But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit ofmy labour (He was bearing fruit.); yet what I shall choose I wot not.” NowI want you to notice that word choose; yet what I shall choose. At thattime, very few people could even think about being in that position oreven being given a chance to choose. But God knew Paul would makethe right choice. Just as God knew His Son, Jesus Christ, would makethe right choice when He was in the Garden of Gethsemane. Matthew26:39 says, “And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, say-ing, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: (Notice this nextword.) nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.” Then in Verses 42-53(after a great multitude with swords and staves had come to take Him),He said unto them, “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, andhe shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how thenshall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?” Also, in John 10:18,

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we hear Jesus saying, “No man taketh it (my life) from me, but I lay it downof myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. Thiscommandment have I received of my Father.” What we are reading herehas, ‘having a choice’ written all over it—thus, the title of this message!

So God knew that Paul, like Jesus Christ, would make a choice basedupon the will of God and the present need, and based upon his love forthe espoused virgin. Paul saw the people growing in grace and in theknowledge of the Lord. The fact is, he said, “Your faith groweth ex-ceedingly.” (2 Thessalonians 1:3) So Paul didn’t choose ‘to die is gain’at that time. He felt that for the espoused virgin’s sake it was better thathe abide with them. Paul knew the will of God concerning the necessityof the virgin coming to full age or maturity. He knew that Christ Jesuscould not marry her in this adolescent state, which would be like pullingunripe fruit. It wasn’t time for the rapture, having not reached the full-ness of Christ.

So Paul was looking at the situation with his understanding of whatthe wife had to be. But seeing she was still just a young virgin and notyet ready to be the wife of the Lamb, he had to move according to thedispensation of time they were in. And that’s where we’re getting ourthought, Choosing the Time and Place to Defeat Our Last Enemy CalledDeath.

I’m going to tell a dream that I had in just a moment, and it will helpus put this into perspective. But the first thing that I want to do is getright into this and show that Paul was given a choice. Because he said,“I don’t know what I should choose; I wot not.” But watch what he saidafter this verse of scripture. Verse 23, he says, “For I am in a strait betwixttwo,” And there are times, I suppose, in our lives when we are in a straitbetwixt two. As with Paul, we could look back and say, “Oh, the battlehas been rough. The battle has been hard. And I’m worn quite a bit.But I know there is something wonderful over on the other side.” See,Paul knew what was over on the other side. It was something in theSpirit and it had a great impact on Paul and was drawing him. That’swhen he began to compare this life with what he saw beyond the cur-tain of time. And his conclusion was that there was nothing here thatcould compare to it, because it was so great.

Here in Verse 23, he was looking at the espoused virgin, saying, “ForI am in a strait betwixt two; having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ(in a literal sense); which is far better:” See, for him it is far better. Butwatch his choosing. Sometimes God gives us a choice because Heknows that we will make the right choice. Oh, to see what Paul saw onthe other side and compare it with the struggles we face here in thisworld of pain and frustration and aggravation. It makes us want to


sing, “Down here there’s nothing that can compare!” Most of us haveexperienced some pain and frustrations and struggles in this life. Weface those things along the way. So naturally we would have a tendencyto look for something over on the other side. It’s not that we’re not en-joying Christ Jesus in the present, but God allowed us to see anotherpromise.

So as we’ve experienced some of our own trials and discomforts ofthis life, we can understand how our brother, Paul, who suffered muchin his body for the gospel’s sake in his day, would have a desire to goon to be with the Lord. But he made the right choice for his situation.Yes, he made the right decision; he was looking at the right thing. Andwe hear him saying, “I am in a strait.” I’m going to read that Verse 23again. “For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to bewith Christ; which is far better:” Now watch. Verse 24, “Nevertheless” (Ilove that word nevertheless.) In other words, “Now that’s what’s goodfor me. It would be better for me if I could lay down all my burdensand I could get out from under all of this load.” He was carrying a bigburden in doing the great work that he was called to do. So God justlet him make the choice here. At that time, he had the feeling that hecould go or he could stay. And that feeling doesn’t come to very manyof us. My thought is this, “If I can be of service to the saints of God whoare moving toward translation and rapture, then I want to stay with thewife for her edification so that we will all be raptured together—boththe living and the dead members of the wife.” We are raptured as amany member body all at the same time. And as Paul made the rightchoice for the virgin in his day, let us make the right choice for the wifein our day.

When we read about some of the things that Paul went through, wecan see more clearly and understand why he would speak like this andlook at things like he did. He was whipped many times, forty timessave one (as the Jews prefer to say). And once he was cast out of thecity and stoned and left for dead. But when the saints prayed, he gotup and continued his preaching. And he went to one place where hesaid, “No man stood with me. Only the Lord stood with me.” Then inanother place he named two or three brethren, saying “only they werewith me.” And it was quite a struggle but it was ordained of God to bethus.

So here he got to the place where God evidently felt that he had theability to make the choice. Again, Verse 24, “Nevertheless to abide in theflesh is more needful for you.” Is more needful for who? You. He wassaying, “To me, if I go on, that would get rid of all my burdens. Thatwould give me that crown of life that is laid up for me. That would give


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me everything that mankind has ever desired. But nevertheless.” Inother words, he wasn’t putting himself first. That is a good thing abouta Christian, they don’t normally put themselves first. And they don’tusually do what is best for them, unless it is best for the body of Christ,also. He said, “Nevertheless, it is more needful for you that I stay.” Nowthat settles his reasoning right there. He didn’t have to think about itanymore. That’s a real preacher. You talk about a preacher. You talkabout somebody presenting Christ. He said, “I am crucified withChrist, nevertheless I live, yet it is not me living, but Christ living inme.” And this is nothing more than Christ talking through Paul, saying,“Yes, I’d love to go. I’ve been there.” There’s a saying, “I was therewhen it happened, so I guess I ought to know.” He said, “I’ve been overthere,” and he told us some of these things that he received while overon the other side of the curtain of time. But some of the other things hesaw he couldn’t tell. He said, “I am not permitted to tell you. Itwouldn’t be profitable (or lawful) at this time.” But whatever he saw, itwas so good that he never could stop thinking about it. Yes, he just keptthinking about what was over on the other side. But then he lookedaround and thought, “I don’t want to go and enjoy all these good thingswithout this beautiful virgin that I have espoused to Christ being ableto enjoy all of this glory with me.”

That is Christ talking through Paul. The Bible says that Jesus Christovercame death there in the garden when He prayed until His sweatbecame as great drops of blood. But He didn’t want to have this victoryand leave us unable to overcome death while He enjoyed His glorifiednew body; so He tasted death for us all by dying on the cross for us. Hedidn’t have to die. But He died that we could live, and now we die outto the things of the world that are not profitable. We can look at deathand know that it can’t get power over us, that we can overcome death.That’s the promise for the wife in this hour that we are in now. And itcould not happen until we arrived here at this time, in this season. So,let’s say together, “Jesus, we love you!”

So Paul, as he was looking at death, his thought was, “If I go on, what’sgoing to happen to the little ones? What’s going to happen to the es-poused virgin? This brings to remembrance the concern that JesusChrist had for His mother. He would not give up His Spirit when Hewas on the cross until He had made provision for her welfare first.Then, He said, “All things are now accomplished.” We find this in John19:25-28. We can see by reading this where Paul received his inspira-tion. O what a Savior we have!

Paul said over in the Book of 2 Corinthians, Chapter 11, “I’ve espousedyou that I may present you to one husband.” But then he said this, “But


I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve, your mind should be corruptedfrom the simplicity of the gospel of Christ.” In other words, there arethose that want to complicate this gospel for you. He said, “Thesethings that I preach are in simplicity.” And that is what the gospel isnow and always has been. The theologians are the ones who make itcomplicated. What is simpler than what we are reading today? It issimple, because He is the revealer of His Word.

Again, Paul said, “Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needfulfor you.” Verse 25 says, “And having this confidence (See, he knew whathe was doing. He wasn’t guessing here.), I know that I shall abide and con-tinue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; That your rejoicingmay be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.”Here he is saying, “Having confidence, I know that I shall abide andcontinue with you for your furtherance and faith.” Here was a man,born of a woman, born in sin and shaped in iniquity, but had a newbirth from a new gene pool. From henceforth, you couldn’t trace hisgenes back to his father or mother. Because by the new birth and froma new gene pool, in the spiritual realm he was without father or mother.And even in the natural realm, he didn’t say much about his linage, be-cause now his linage was from Christ.

After Paul’s new birth, he got a new start, he was born not of the cor-ruptible seed but of the incorruptible Word of God. He got a new set ofgenes and he got a blood purifier in him, the Spirit of God, to purifyand breed out all the fallen nature, the serpent nature, the carnal think-ing. And he had to do it himself so that he could tell us how it is done.That’s why he said, ‘cast down imaginations, bring your mind into cap-tivity to the law (love) of Christ,’ and that is a must for us as long as weare in this human flesh.

So here, Paul chose to stay and show us the way to Christ. And thatwas the proper decision in every way for that time period. And now aswe have arrived here at the end of the age, we see that Christ has comeback to this earth in His fullness to activate and bring life into Paul’sprophetic Word of ‘we which are alive and remain shall be changed’ asthis last trumpet is sounding.

When Paul entered into the part of his message which was becominga prophetic utterance, he prayed that this prophetic utterance would begiven to us. And when I get a good look at it from the scripture, I canonly say (as it was said about Jesus Christ), “He doeth all things well.”

Now we must look to the Spirit to reveal the Word unto us, as thescripture says in 1 Corinthians 2:14, “But the natural man receiveth not thethings of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can heknow them, because they are spiritually discerned.” This scripture is very



needful as we begin to talk about overcoming our last enemy. There isa prophecy of the spiritual coming of Christ that says, “The Lord Him-self shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of thearchangel, and with the trump of God.” And two parts of this prophecy(this prophetic message) have already come and gone. And now theSpirit of Christ tells us by revelation what time it is, by letting us knowthat what we are hearing is the last trumpet sounding and that it willbring forth the dead and change the living. So now we can release ourfaith to believe God that we will be changed in a moment, in the twin-kling of an eye.

We choose the time at the sounding of this last trumpet, this being themessage that gives us all that we need for the changing of our mortalbody. So when we see what’s going on, what God has fulfilled, whereGod has brought us, it gives us a faith that is sure and steadfast and un-movable. Paul said we are to be “steadfast, unmovable, always abound-ing in the work of the Lord.” So the point is, there comes a time when thereis a basis for our faith, for everything that God has promised in the dayand hour that we are living in. There was a basis for what Paul said. Iam sure glad that Paul didn’t decide to go on to heaven before he leftus the contents of the little book in his prophetic writing, which has beengiven to us in this present day.

Now we’ve got solid Word—“On Christ the solid rock we stand, allother ground is sinking sand. And when all around us gives way, Heis still our hope and stay.” See, He put us in the Word and made us partof it. The reason we can know what took place way back there is be-cause we are part of it. So Paul, by the Spirit of God, brought all that heneeded to bring for the virgin to get her prepared for a marriage in thisday. And now the prophetic part of the Word has come. What we aresaying now would have been out of season in the days of Paul concern-ing our translation and the rapture.

In the days of Paul, he said, “Wash the spots out of your garments.”(Ephesians 5:26-27) He was speaking to the young virgin. But John sawa people in the Book of Revelation 19:7-8 that didn’t have to wash spotsout; for they were clothed in fine linen, clean and white, which is therighteousness of the Lord, which came by our fullness of the baptisminto the body of Christ as the wife of the Lamb. (Jesus Christ was with-out sin and no guile was found in His mouth, who had no spots orblemishes, but had perfect righteousness.) And John calls this people,the Lamb’s wife. He said, “The Lamb’s wife hath made herself ready;and to her, and to her alone, it is granted that she should be clothed infine linen.” That’s His righteousness, which is now our righteousness.So in Christ, we can no longer say, “Our righteousness is as filthy rags;”


for now we have become Christ the wife, and that would be saying thatthe righteousness of Christ is as filthy rags, and that’s kin to blasphemy.We are a very part of Him—those that have eaten the little book andhave become a part of it as shown in Revelation, Chapter 10, and Eph-esians 4:13-16.

So as we believe with a surety that He has come to this earth and madeus His very own wife, and that we are part of Him, bone of His boneand flesh of His flesh, then we should have no reservations believingthat He has overcome death for us. For when He died on the cross, wewere with Him; therefore we, too, have overcome death.

Let’s look at what we have in Christ now. Through Christ we have theperfect righteousness of God, because He has made us free from the lawof sin and death, just as God’s Son is free from these laws. The Wordtells us that He died once and that death has no more dominion overHim. In Romans 6:7-10 it says, “For he that is dead is freed from sin. Nowif we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him: Knowingthat Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath more dominionover him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, heliveth unto God.” Also, Hebrews 2:9, “But we see Jesus, who was made alittle lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory andhonour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” ThenVerses 14-15 says, “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh andblood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he mightdestroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver themwho through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” Afterreading these scriptures we would be hard-pressed to make a caseagainst this revelation of overcoming death after we have heard thistrumpet sounding for this hour and choose to believe the Word by rev-elation.

Now I want us to notice in our reading that there are two main thingsthe trumpet message brings. One of them is the resurrection of thedead, and the other is the changing of the living. When the trumpetmessage is on the scene, then that’s the time that the dead will raise andthe living will be changed into glorified bodies. And I’m not talkingabout some crazy stuff here, like I witnessed when a man came by myhouse a few months back. I heard a knock on my door and I went toanswer it. I knew him. He had changed some since I saw him last. (Hishair had turned greyer than the last time I saw him.) I opened the door,and said, “Yes?” He said, “I thought I’d come by and see how you aredoing.” I said, “Well, I’m doing fine.” So I asked him if he wanted tocome in. He came in and sat down. And as he sat there for a while, Iknew he was going to try to talk to me about something because he



seemed to be a little bit nervous. And finally he began to talk to meabout some people that had died that he believed were lost. He said,“I’ve been out in the spirit getting them and bringing them back to God.I want to get those that died that didn’t accept the Lord.” He namedone woman in particular that had already passed on, he said that thisperson was very hard-hearted, and he wanted to bring her to God for asecond chance. He said, “An old Indian chief came to me and said, ‘Iwill always be near you; and if you ever need anything just let me knowand I will give it to you.’” And he kept on talking like this. I didn’t saya word, but just sat there and listened to him. Then he said, “The reasonI am here, I go where the spirit says go and I do what it says do.” (Thereason I’m telling this is in hopes that this may help others to keep theirhead on straight if they ever have to deal with such nonsense. But wedon’t have to listen to nonsense! This trumpet message contains all thatwe need as members of the wife of the Lamb. Satan likes to throwthings out there, but truth always stops the mouth of the gainsayers.)Well, as he continued talking, he said, “Joyce sent me by to ask you howyou are doing.” See, Joyce was my first wife that had passed on to bewith the departed saints in 1995. I simply looked at him and said, “I’mdoing fine.” At first, I thought he was just trying to joke around withme a little bit. Then I thought, “This is not something to joke about.”And then I realized, “This man is serious.” Then he said again, “Joycewants to know how you are getting along.” Again, I said, “I’m doingpretty well.” I didn’t say I believed him or disbelieved him. And thenhe went on his way. I’m saying this to show you, the enemy is still aliveand well. But he is powerless.

I told you earlier that I would tell a dream that I had, and I think righthere may be just the right time to tell it. In this dream I was on a mo-torbike. And here came a man on a bigger motorbike. He had on ablack trench coat and a black hood that covered much of his face. Hecame riding up the road and he tried to knock me out of the road. Well,I had no reaction; I just got my motorbike straightened up and went on.Well, he turned around and came back around behind me, revving hismotor up as if he wanted to try to knock me down. And when I didn’treact, he went on by me. And then I woke up. That could be none otherthan Mr. Death—a powerful creature in his own right. But not whenhe comes against the power of God! He can’t succeed in his evil waysthen. So he tried to knock me over, but I didn’t fight with him. I didn’tchoose at that time to fight. And although, in the dream, I knew prettymuch what was taking place, what was going on, I didn’t panic. Herewe see the title of this message.

See, Paul chose to stay here instead of getting many goodies heaped


up on his head and living the life of tranquility in the new kingdomwithout any problems or burdens. He said, “It would be better for mepersonally if I went on; but nevertheless for your sake I’m going to stay.It’s better for me to stay for the furtherance of your joy and your faith.”So, the thing is, the death angel tried to get me to fight with him. AndI chose not to fight with him at that time, not wanting to lend my mindto the wiles of this defeated being. Jesus Christ has given us power overall the power of our enemies, and we never want to tolerate somethingthat would hinder our contentment in fulfilling the words of JesusChrist when He said, “My joy I leave with you.” So the one on our sideis the one that overcame death in the Garden of Gethsemane (meaningthe olive press), but then gave His life so that we could have power toovercome death, too.

In the Book of Hebrews, which we have just read, it says that JesusChrist tasted death for every man, so that we wouldn’t have to tastedeath. So what I am saying is that there are great promises laying beforeus. And sometimes when great promises are laying before us it is alsoa time of danger, too. So it’s time to be sane, sober, and sensible and notlose our head over something. God wants us to stay steady and watchthe Word as it unfolds itself.

Now the Word is unfolding itself to the point where we’ve comethrough two stages (or parts) of the spiritual coming of Christ, which isthe shout and the voice of the archangel. And it’s only in the third partthat Paul writes about this last trumpet message in 1 Corinthians 15:51-53. This is because the first and second parts have already happened atthe fulfilling of the third part. So Paul only deals with the third part,which is the trumpet or the last trump. Keep in mind that this last trumpis the same trumpet that Paul wrote about in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17which says, “The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,with the voice of the archangel.” These are the things that we havecome through. And since then this last trumpet has begun to sound, asthe third part of the message of the spiritual coming of the Lord hasbrought us into Ephesians 4:13-16 and is bringing us into the rapture.And we chose to come into this part of the message by our baptism intothe body of Christ in this final hour.

In Revelation, Chapter 5, we see the Book of Redemption, which theLamb opened in heaven, but He didn’t bring it all down to us, becauseall of it is not for our part of the redemption plan. There are certainthings in the Book of Redemption that the Father keeps in His ownpower and is revealed in His own time frame as He has ordained it. SoGod sent down to earth the wife’s part of the Book of Redemption, nowknown as the little book, which also was opened in heaven. He sent



this down by Christ shown as the Mighty Angel. It was during this timeperiod that the Voice of Authorization spoke and said, “Now all thingsare ready; go and take the little book and eat it up,” which we fulfilledin this present day. And now it is with the wife as it was with Jesus.The Word says in John 5:25-26, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He thatheareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, andshall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. For asthe Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in him-self;” And now the Father has given unto us, the Son’s wife, to have lifein herself. He did this when He spoke from heaven and authorized usto take the little book and eat it up. And since this has taken place, wehave that same life in us and we are speaking the Word of life by proph-esying again. (Ephesians 4:13-16)

That’s why there was no way we could preach a message of overcom-ing death as long as ‘time-wise’ God’s plan was still in the first two partsof the message of the spiritual coming of Christ, because the redemptionof our mortal bodies comes in this trumpet part of the message. Paulsaid that this part of God’s plan, which is called the last trump, wouldbe at the last part of this message before the catching away. (1 Corinthi-ans 15:51-53) That’s when the dead members of the body of Christ riseand the living are changed! That’s Christ the wife who has received thislittle book of Revelation, Chapter 10, and has eaten it up.

In Thessalonians 4:13-17, the Word says, “God will send (Christ) Jesusand He will bring with Him those that are asleep in the Lord.” Thosethat are dead in Christ, He brings with Him. That’s the spiritual comingthat is seen in its fullness in Revelation, Chapter 10. Now who does Hebring with Him? He brings those theophanies that have gone to heaven;all those that are part of the wife of the Lamb since the days of Paul.Paul said, “If this earthly tabernacle were dissolved (and get that wordif), those that have gone on before us have a building already reservedin heaven.” Well, he said that Christ brought those theophanies downwith Him when He came. And that is where Paul prophesied andshowed us that we come among them—the spirits of just men madeperfect. That is where we are now; we’re in heavenly Jerusalem, as seenin Hebrews 12:22-24.

Now that we have come into heavenly Jerusalem, this is the time andthe place for us. And we have chosen to come into this city of our ownfree will as God foresaw we would. And to go into this city means thatthe time has come for our complete redemption, and we can see every-thing falling into place. And now our prayer is, “Thy will be done onearth as it is in heaven.” We don’t want to change His will, we just wantto get in time with it, fulfilling our part of the Word. And now we know


that this is timely, it is in season, and we are receiving what Christ issaying by the anointing of God for our time.

See, we choose to believe this, because it is our part of the Word. Andthe dream that I made known to you showed someone with a blacktrench coat coming at me with a black hood over his face while he wastrying to knock me out of the road. And by inspiration, I just let himgo. See, I was choosing the time, choosing the time and place to defeatdeath, our last enemy. It has to be just the right time. It has to be whenGod says, “Now!” And that is what God is doing now; He is bringingus into the revelation of when to do this. He is getting our minds gearedinto it. Paul said, “I could go now, nevertheless, I choose to stay withyou for the furtherance of your joy and faith.”

See, God is not going to let one man get out here and be translatedahead of the rest of the body of Christ; we are all changed together.Those that are baptized into the body all have one faith, with the mindof the Lord, though we are many members. And together we have onename, the Christ part of the name of Jesus Christ, which was given untous upon our marriage to Him. Yes, that’s right, He gave us the Christpart of His name. This began to come into being when He came backto earth in His fullness in Revelation, Chapter 10; not as a person, butthe Christ anointing part of the Lord Jesus Christ. So when I say, “Christcame,” I’m not talking about Jesus coming; He’s not going to come backto this earth until after the tribulation to begin the millennium in Reve-lation 19:11-14. But by being baptized into that body, we have becomeHis Christ, His anointed wife. And we have submitted totally unto Himand are praying this prayer, “Lord, help me above all things to do thybidding.” It was only at this time that we passed Ephesians 4:13 whereit says till we come to the fullness of the stature of the man Christ Jesus.And then it says right then and there in those scriptures that we can beno longer tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doc-trine. And now we are speaking the truth in love and our thinking isthat we have chosen to live. We see our part of the Word, and we arefulfilling it by believing for the resurrection of the dead members of thebody and the translation of our mortal bodies without going throughthe channel of death. And now the Bible tells us to edify one another inlove. That’s the body of Christ. That’s the one that is not going to die.

Let’s go to a scripture in the Book of Romans, Chapter 6. I want tobring something in about baptism and what it is for. Verse 3 says,“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were bap-tized into his death?” Now I want you to associate two words togetherhere—baptism and death, which (for the saints that have already goneon before) shows the importance of baptism and how it has to do with



the resurrection. And we which are alive and remain are rejoicing withconfidence in our full redemption as we eagerly wait for their appearingamong us to complete our joy as the wife of the Lamb.

Let’s go to Romans 6:4. It says, “Therefore we are buried with him by bap-tism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory ofthe Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Here Paul is put-ting this scripture in its proper place in the spiritual realm. Verse 5, “Forif we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also inthe likeness of his resurrection:” When we talk about the baptism and res-urrection, that’s speaking here in the natural realm. But the soundingof the trumpet puts us beyond water baptism and dying. It brings onboth the resurrection and our translation. So we thank you, Paul, forbeing obedient to Christ and boldly bringing out of God’s treasures thisgreat revelation concerning the trumpet as seen in 1 Corinthians 15:51-53, for the last enemy, death, is destroyed in the wife of the Lamb be-cause of the sounding of this last trumpet. And now there’s a peoplethat will see the dead rise and will be changed at that time!

Let’s get Verse 5 again, “For if we have been planted together in the likenessof his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:” Verse 6,“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sinmight be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is deadis freed from sin.” (That’s natural; but it’s showing it is the same in thespiritual realm.). Now the verse I really want you to notice here is Verse5, “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death,”That’s why in the past we took saints to the water and planted them inthe name of the Lord. And the Word says, “We shall be also in the like-ness of His resurrection.” Well, when we see what Paul preached aboutwe which are alive and remain, the burial and resurrection fits into a timejust before we reach this translation time frame. And this time frame isbrought on by the sounding of the trumpet which puts us beyond thedeath sentence. You might say, “Brother Howard, I’m not willing to gothere.” Well, the thing is, you can’t go unless God leads you by HisSpirit and gives you revelation.

Let’s go back to 1 Corinthians 15:29. I’ll read this scripture and alsoanswer a sister’s question, who had written and asked me about it. Shewas working at a café that was owned by a man who was a Mormon.The Mormon’s teach that if you have loved ones that have died andweren’t baptized then you should be baptized for them, because theyneed that baptism. He told her that she could do that for them and theywould be all right. Well, sometimes people take a scripture and isolateit from the other scriptures which deal with the same subject, and theytry to interpret it before God’s time comes to make it known. But they


will always come up short, as far as the understanding of it goes. Sheasked about a scripture that Paul wrote, concerning being baptized forthe dead. It’s in 1 Corinthians 15:29, “Else what shall they do which arebaptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized forthe dead?” Now I want you to notice, it’s talking about baptism, death,and being raised from the dead. Now when you take the Word andlook at it right, as God makes this scripture known, it is as simple as itcan be. For here Paul was telling the saints what water baptism is con-ducive of. That’s the truth in that scripture—death, burial, resurrection,these three things. That was the reason for water baptism. But Paulwas not telling the saints of his day that they could be baptized forsomeone who had passed on. He was only expressing the fact thatwater baptism had to do with death, burial, and resurrection. This iseasy to understand by the spiritual revelation of the wife of the Lambin this day of translation.

Now that we have reached this place where the last trumpet is sound-ing, we know what Paul meant when he said, “leaving the doctrines ofbaptisms, let us go on to perfection.” I love one scripture in 1 Corinthi-ans 1:17 (Paul is writing); he says, “For Christ sent me not to baptize, butto preach the gospel: not with the wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christshould be made of none effect.”

I want to pick up with 1 Corinthians 15:42. Then I want to read downto Verse 51. And then a prophetic Word is going to strike Paul like alightning bolt. It changes his thoughts altogether and he begins to talkabout something else that has nothing to do with death, has nothing todo with burial, and has nothing to do with resurrection. And the Wordsays this will take place when the last trumpet is sounding. Now thequestion is, what is the last trumpet and is it sounding? A man calledme from Texas the other day and he said, “Ben, when do you think thetrumpet is going to sound?” I said, “What you are hearing right now isthe trumpet sounding.” He didn’t have any comment.

Now notice my title, Choosing the Time and Place to Defeat Our LastEnemy Called Death. Verse 42, “So also is the resurrection of the dead. It issown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:” Now that is a good thingto think about. This message shows that death purifies the body. Some-times we hear the Pentecostal folks say things on this order, “This fel-low, he smoked.” Or, “This fellow would have a drink every now andthen.” Or, “This lady, she was a good woman, but she sure did like touse snuff.” Well, I tell you this, if you lived in the mountains (and I’mnot talking too many years ago, maybe fifty or sixty years back), youknow that almost every farmer chewed tobacco. And usually, once ayoung lady got married she started using snuff. But if they were born



again, the tobacco or occasional drink of alcoholic beverage didn’t causethem to be lost. If their temple was defiled, then death purified the childof God.

Verse 43 says, “It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown inweakness; it is raised in power:” I’m talking about the body of those thathad a pure soul, that loved the Word as God revealed it unto them, andhad a heart toward God within them. Those that died that way aregoing to come up! And that body is going to come up in perfection andin power, not in weakness.

And then Verse 44, “It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body(It will be one just like Jesus’ resurrected body; for John said we wouldhave a body like unto His own glorious body.). There is a natural body,and there is a spiritual body.” We’ve got both—the natural is what we see,and the spiritual body is within us at the same time. So when Christcame back to ‘we which are alive and remain,’ He didn’t bring our theo-phanies back with Him, because we that are alive have our theophaniesin us now. But make no mistake here—Christ’s coming quickens ourinner man to the point that it changes this mortal body into a gloriousbody like unto His own glorified body, along with all the glory of thesaints that were resurrected at this time. So He did not bring ours back,because it was here within us.

Verses 45-46, “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a livingsoul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit (This is comparing theLord and Adam; the natural man and the spiritual). Howbeit that wasnot first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that whichis spiritual.” And it also fits exactly within the framework of what weare saying. Verse 47, “The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second manis the Lord from heaven.” Paul did well in explaining all of this. Verse 48,“As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and as is the heavenly,such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of theearthy (that’s what we are doing now), we shall also bear the image of theheavenly.” Paul is saying, “What you are seeing is only half the picture.There is a heavenly body. And just as you are bearing the image of thisearthy, you are also bearing the image of the heavenly.” Then in Verse50 he writes, “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inheritthe kingdom of God (meaning there has to be a change); neither doth cor-ruption inherit incorruption.” See, in other words, that corruption willall go away completely through the decaying of the body in the graveor by whatever means the body is dissolved. So flesh and blood is notgoing to inherit the Kingdom of God; not this sinful flesh. That’s whywe’ve got to be changed. He said you’ll be changed.

Now, when we get to the next verse, Verse 51, suddenly he changes


completely, totally, and absolutely. He changes and starts talking aboutsomething else. He brings us to the time that the last trumpet begins tosound. Choosing the time and place to defeat our last enemy called death—now is the time; and the place is this message of the last trump sound-ing. Here is where death is completely and totally defeated; even forthose that left this earth by the way of death, because this messagebrings them up from the grave. Yes, Christ will even bring up the deadby this Word of God we’re hearing.

Watch Verse 51, Paul starts dealing with something entirely differentfrom what he was dealing with up to this point, which was death, bur-ial, and resurrection of the body. But now Paul begins to deal with theliving—‘we which are alive and remain.’ He says, “Behold, I shew you amystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all (members of the wife) bechanged,” Now, watch. This is a totally new working of God. The oldrule says that it is appointed unto men to die (Hebrews 9:27). But thatno longer applies to the wife as we are under a different covenant, we’reat the beginning of a new day, a totally new thing. The trumpet issounding. There’s a message coming forth and it fits exactly with whatPaul said—“We will be changed.” That’s the new law of love. And notonly does he tell us that, but he tells us how and he tells when.

So upon arriving at Verse 51, we’re not talking about death, burial,resurrection, and keeping church rules or communion or foot washingor anything of that nature any longer. No. Paul said, “Go on! There isperfection for you.” All right, he says, we’ll be changed, “In a moment,in the twinkling of an eye,” Then he tells us when it is going to happen—“at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised in-corruptible, and we shall be changed.” Do you see it now? This is wherethe death angel has no power. He is defeated. And now is the time.We are building up our spiritual faith muscles by the Word that is nowsounding forth.

Verse 53 says, “For this corruptible (the body we are living in) must puton incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.” Now here theWord is not saying anything about being baptized. It’s not saying, “Yougo be baptized for some of your dead relatives,” as taught by the Mor-mons, which is a misunderstanding of the scripture. Now watch whathe says in Verse 54, “So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption,and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then (that then is now) shallbe brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”So now we are not talking about going to the grave. We are not talkingabout going to the river to get baptized for the resurrection. We are say-ing, “Death has now been swallowed up in victory!” In other words, ithas no power over us.



Notice, death is swallowed up in victory. Then here’s what those whohave gone before us that are in the grave are saying as they hear mepreach today, “O death, where is your sting now? O grave, where isyour victory?” A similar thing happens in Israel, as seen in the Book ofEzekiel, Chapter 37. Here God tells Ezekiel to prophesy to the valley ofdry bones, and they began to move when they heard the Word. Theybegan to move around, and finally they stood up on their feet as anarmy! That’s the restoration of Israel (Ezekiel, Chapter 37). But this isnot the restoration of Israel, this is the bringing forth of the part of thewife of the Lamb who went to the grave. Verses 55-58, “O death, whereis thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (The grave doesn’t have anyvictory.) The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.” (We’renot under the law of sin and death, but we are under the law of eternallife.) “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our LordJesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, alwaysabounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour isnot in vain in the Lord.”

That’s my message for today. Let’s pray. Heavenly Father, as we come toyou now, I pray, God, that you will take these words and use them for yourglory. And may they go to the places that you have ordained, and may theyjust settle down into the hearts of the people that they’ll have new hope, thatthey’ll have new zeal, that they’ll have a new vision; and they’ll say, “Thisthing is happening! This is real. This is not fanaticism. This is the Word ofGod.” As this trumpet sounds, it is coming into being. Oh, God, I pray thatyou will bless each one, bless your wife. We thank you for clothing us in finelinen, clean and white, by giving us a revelation of the righteousness of God,revealing that it is not our righteousness but it is your righteousness, whichyou have given to us. We ask this in the precious name of Jesus Christ. Amen.


INTRODUCING CHRIST TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE

Repaying Them for Introducing Jesus to Us

Greetings to each one of you this morning. I appreciate you in theLord; and I appreciate the Lord Jesus Christ who gave His life for us atCalvary, for He has blessed us abundantly with all spiritual blessings.Please turn with me to the Book of Romans, Chapter 11. We will startour reading there today. And as we usually do, we will have other scrip-tures to read; for the Word says in Isaiah 28:10, “For precept must be uponprecept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, andthere a little:” That’s the way it goes in the preaching of God’s Word.

So I want to minister on a line of thought, Introducing Christ to the Jew-ish People: Repaying Them for Introducing Jesus to Us. As we speak on thisthought, you will understand its significance as we go further into themessage. But before reading, let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we come praising you, Lord, for your goodness and yourmercy upon us. And, Lord, as we are gathered together here in your name, youhave said, “I will be in the midst.” And now, Lord, you’re not only in themidst, but we’re in you as a member of your body, baptized into the body ofChrist by one Spirit. And we thank you for accepting us as part of your wife.Bless us and anoint us together and help all the hearers of the Word to receivefrom it that which you are giving us in this day. In Jesus Christ’s wonderfulname. Amen.

Let’s go to Romans 11:13; Paul is writing to the Romans here and hespeaks of taking the gospel to the Gentiles. And as Paul began to preachthe gospel (taking it to the Gentiles), a small group, containing bothJews and Gentiles, began to really hear what he had to say. They be-lieved his preaching concerning the Kingdom of God and blended to-gether as a virgin that was destined to become the wife of the Lamb.And although God told Paul that he was the apostle to the Gentiles,many of the Jews heard his message; even though Romans 11:13 says,“For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, Imagnify mine office:”

At the beginning of Paul’s ministry, he went preaching the gospel ofChrist to many Jewish congregations with the other twelve apostles thatwere called to preach to the Jews. But problems began to arise; for Paulsoon found that what God gave him for the Gentiles didn’t work very

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well with the Jewish believers. And it wasn’t until the church leaderssent Paul away did they have peace. In Acts 9:28-31, it says, “And he(Paul) was with them (the twleve apostles at Jerusalem) coming in andgoing out of Jerusalem. And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, anddisputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him. Which whenthe brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth toTarsus. (Please notice the remainder of this scripture.) Then had thechurches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified;and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, weremultiplied.” Here we get a clearer understanding of what Paul wascalled to do. Because it seems that as long as he tried to stay atJerusalem and work with the twelve apostles who were sent to the na-tion of Israel, there was trouble in the Jewish churches.

Now everything that was happening to Paul at Jerusalem was workingtowards getting him into the calling wherewith God had called him. Itwas working God’s perfect will, pushing him in the direction of step-ping out with a message that would call the Gentiles and the Jews intoGod’s perfect will where they could become a part of the body of Christ. Here we are seeing the earlier signs of God’s plan to call from both theJewish people and the Gentiles a number from both to be espoused toChrist to be His wife here at the end time. Now we are beginning tosee God’s plan as it is unfolding unto us; even as Paul said in 1 Corinthi-ans 13:12, “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: nowI know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” So as wetake this journey in the Word today it will become very clear to the wifeof the Lamb what God’s plan was from the beginning.

Now the Jews were already acquainted with God’s laws and the thingsof God, but the Gentiles were not. The Gentiles had many gods. WhenPaul was in Athens, on Mars Hill (which was one of the places that Paulwent as shown in the Book of Acts, Chapter 17), he saw many differentaltars to many different gods. Then he saw an altar with an inscriptionthat read, “TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.” Can you imagine howshocked Paul must have been when he saw the many altars to the dif-ferent gods? It’s here that we begin to understand the depth of thethinking of many of the Gentiles.

There were many different gods in the minds of the Gentiles that theywere ignorantly worshipping; but they did not know the God that madeheaven and earth. (This reminds me of the different religious denomi-nations of our day.) This shows us what kind of life many of the Gen-tiles lived before the light of the gospel that Paul preached came to them(1 Corinthians 6:9-11), which caused their thinking to be different.

Since the day of Pentecost, Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the King) was


known to the Jewish Christians. But these things were totally unknownto the Gentile world other than the fact that they knew about a placecalled Jerusalem, and that there were people there that worshippedsome kind of a god and that they only worshipped this one God. So asPaul was shocked at all their gods, likewise it was probably shockingto the heathens (Gentiles) to know that Israel worshipped only one God.They no doubt would have said to the Jews, “You mean you have onlyone god?” Because at that time, the Gentiles had a god for this and agod for that, why they had all kinds of gods, but they did not know theGod of the Jews, the one and only true God.

To summarize the story in Acts, Chapter 19— In Athens there was agreat economy built around the making of images to the different so-called gods.So when Paul began to preach and tell them, “Those images are not gods,” acertain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made his living by makingshrines to the goddess Diana, went to the other workman of like occupationand began to turn the people against Paul. Demetrius felt he had to protecthimself and his fellow laborers, so he said, “You see brethren how our occupa-tion is in danger. This one comes presenting another god that is going againstour trade of making images. And we will soon be out of business if we don’tstop him, because he is saying our images made with hands are not gods. Andnot only will we be put out of business, but that the temple of the great goddessDiana should be despised and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom allAsia and the world worships. So went their argument against Paul’spreaching. But the point here is that Paul came preaching to this typeof people and he began to introduce them to Jesus the Christ, becausethey knew nothing about Jesus Christ or a Messiah to come.

Notice, he didn’t introduce them to Jesus the King of the Jews who isgoing to come and set His throne up in Jerusalem to be the King of allthe earth. No, he had to preach Christ Jesus to them in a way that wouldgive them a part of God’s Kingdom at that present time. Paul knew thatmost of the Gentiles had very little respect for the Jews and their reli-gious laws. This is the reason that he came preaching the good newsabout Christ Jesus to them, instead of preaching Jesus, the King of theJews. This was by the wisdom of God; and this was the way Paul beganto bring in the good news of Christ to the Gentile people, to give lightto their darkened souls by the light of the gospel of Christ.

Now Christ came on the day of Pentecost in the first leg of His spiritualcoming as the Holy Ghost. And at that time, it was not known that therewas more of Christ to come (as the second leg of His spiritual comingis seen in Revelation, Chapter 10). And as Paul began to preach Christto the Gentiles, many of them began to rally to what he was saying. Andas he was introducing the Gentiles to Christ, he was also telling all that

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would hear him (both Jews and Gentiles) that God told him to go to theGentiles. It was of most importance, especially to the Jewish people, tolet them know this. It was his main calling to let the Gentiles know thatGod had sent him to them, who previously were not part of God’scovenant. That’s why Paul said in Ephesians 2:11-13, “Wherefore remem-ber, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircum-cision by that which is the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That atthat time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the common-wealth of Is-rael, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and withoutGod in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off aremade nigh by the blood of Christ.” It was after this that Paul began to talkabout one body that consisted of both Jews and Gentiles, saying that byone Spirit we are baptized into that one body. He said that God has bro-ken down the middle wall of partition. The wall that was broken downwas between a selected number of predestinated people from the Jewsand Gentiles as He has made of twain one new man whom he referredto in other places as being a virgin that he espoused through his mes-sage to Christ to become His wife. Here Paul is speaking of the samegroup of believers as shown in Ephesians 2:14-18.

So we see that as time went by, more and more Paul began to bringout the fact that his prophetic message would make of both the Jewsand Gentiles one new man created in Christ Jesus. So there had to be anew covenant for this new man that’s shown in Ephesians 4:13-16,which shows that this man is not under the covenant that governed thechurch ages; for it is made clear to us in Revelation 10:6-7 that this timeperiod of the church ages came to a close. And it was at this time thatthe authorization came from heaven, as the Almighty God spoke againand said, “Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of theangel which stands upon the sea and upon the earth.” And we went tothe angel and said, “Give me the little book.” And the angel said, “Eatit up and prophesy again.” (Revelation 10:8-11) That brought us intothe new covenant for the wife of the Lamb which completely deliveredus from the church age covenant.

Therefore, as Paul began to preach his message, it came into conflictwith not only the Jewish church but the Jewish society and even withthe Gentiles. But some of the Jewish people began to really get inter-ested in what he was saying. They began to want to know more aboutGod’s plan. In Romans, Chapter 16, Paul began to make mention ofsome of the saints of both the Jews and the Gentiles who were the es-poused virgin. He mentioned Priscilla and Aquila, who were Jews thathad a church in their house; as a small group of the Jews and the Gen-tiles began to come together in Christ by the message that Paul was


preaching. This was taking place even though there was still that groupof Jewish people that believed in Jesus and believed that He was comingback to this earth to rule and reign. By this time it was very clear thatthe Jewish church still didn’t go along with Paul’s teaching concerningcircumcision, the Sabbath day, meats and drinks, and being baptizedinto the body of Christ. They seemed to be perplexed by Paul’s teachingconcerning the espousal of the virgin to be married to Jesus Christ,God’s Son, and his teaching about the rapture of the one body made upof both Jews and Gentiles.

We find in Galatians 2:6-9 where Paul went to one of their meetings inJerusalem, and he took Titus with him. And remember Titus was a Gen-tile. The Jews wanted Paul to have Titus circumcised, because that wasthe Jewish way; for they were still keeping many of the customs of thelaw, such as the Sabbath days and other holy days. But Paul told them,“I am afraid of you, because you still want to keep these customs whenChrist is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.(Romans 10:4, Colossians 2:16, and Galatians 4:10-11)

So Paul came with a gospel to call out a people of the Gentiles. Andas he called out a people of the Gentiles, some of the Jewish people werealso coming in and hearing what Paul had to say, and they believed it,as many as were ordained to be a part of the wife of the Lamb. Andthey all, both Jews and Gentiles, became the engaged virgin to becomethe wife of the Lamb, while the other Jewish people went on their ownway with the Jewish church to fulfill their part of the Word.

In Romans, Chapter 15, Paul writes about the ministry of Jesus Christ,who came to confirm the covenant to the fathers. The fathers were theJews; and God made many promises to them. The promise was to Abra-ham, Isaac, and Jacob that from the Jewish people a king would come.And then to David, He said, “I will raise up a son to sit on your throne.”And on and on the promises go.

We see that Jesus Christ couldn’t go to the Gentile world and He com-manded His disciples not to go to anyone except the lost sheep of thehouse of Israel. So the Jewish apostles preached the gospel as they wereinstructed by Jesus Christ in His earthly ministry. In Matthew, Chapter10, He told them, “Go not to the Gentiles. Go not to the Samaritans.But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” And in Acts 11:19,it says concerning the Jews, that as they were scattered abroad theywent everywhere preaching the Word to none but unto the Jews only.This clearly establishes the fact that the people that the twelve apostleswere preaching to were Jews. Hence the need for Paul and his preach-ing to the Gentiles.

So the twelve apostles presented the Messiah, the King, to the Jewish


believers. But Paul was looking at a truth in the gospel that God kepthidden from the twelve apostles, as his gospel was different in manyways. His message was showing Christ in you, the hope of glory; ratherthan just looking for Jesus Christ to come back and sit on His throne inJerusalem and take over the earth and put down the enemy. In Acts3:19-21 Peter told us about King Jesus coming back to this earth to startHis Kingdom at the beginning of the millennial reign. And althoughPaul knew this, he presented the gospel in a different manner, sayingthings such as, “Ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.”

When Paul came to see Peter, James, John, and the other apostles whowere there at Jerusalem, it was made clear to them that Paul had thegospel for the Gentiles. So they told Paul and Barnabas, “You go to theheathens, and we will go to the circumcision,” thus separating thegospel of the circumcision and the gospel of the uncircumcision andmaking the gulf very wide between the Gentiles and the Jewish peoplewho both were looking for the coming of the Lord, but in two differentmanners. (Galatians, Chapter 2)

Again, we find in Acts 3:19-21 (right after the Holy Ghost began tomove on the Jewish people), Peter began to tell them about Jesus Christcoming back again. He said, “Repent ye, therefore, and be converted, thatyour sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from thepresence of the Lord; And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preachedunto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of allthings, which God hath spoken by mouth of all his holy prophets since the worldbegan.” In Acts 1:6-9, we see where the apostles asked Jesus before Hewent away, “Lord, will you at this time restore again the Kingdom toIsrael?” And Jesus said unto them, “It’s not for you to know the timesor the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power.” So Peterpicked up that same thought and said, “The heavens must retain Himuntil the times of restitution (meaning the millennium).” And that’swhen God will send Jesus Christ back to this earth. And, of course, thatwill be after the tribulation period. But what’s being said here com-pletely ignores a great truth that wasn’t made known to the Jews at thattime. It was only made known to Paul and those that heard him, thatChrist would come in the fullness of His spiritual coming to rapture thewife out of the earth before the great tribulation period.

We read in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 where Paul spoke of the coming ofthe Lord and it was from an entirely different viewpoint than what Peterpresented in Acts, Chapter 3. Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, “Forthe Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of thearchangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first:Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in


the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”That’s the rapture, where the living saints (we which are alive and remain)will be changed into glorification without going by the way of death.This takes place immediately after the dead saints that are part of thewife are resurrected; then together we will be caught up to meet theLord in the air.

Nowhere did Peter or the other apostles to the Jewish people speak ofbeing caught up to meet the Lord in the air. They spoke about the Lordcoming back to start His Kingdom, which He will. But there was some-thing hid in God that only Paul revealed unto the body of Christ to thosefrom both the Jews and the Gentiles that would be in the resurrectionto be a part of the wife. Paul said, “This is a mystery that God madeknown to me, the mystery which was hid from the foundation of theworld.” And for the body of Christ in our day we find where Christcame back to earth not as the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, althoughHe is coming that way later, but first He comes in the fullness of HisSpirit and we are baptized into Him as His wife. (Revelation, Chapter10)

Now this part of the gospel was not preached to the nation of Israel inthe fullness that is seen in Revelation, Chapter 10, and Ephesians 4:13-16. Paul only prophesied about it. Neither did the Gentiles have it inits fullness until now. Although Paul did tell them about the waterlessbaptism at that time; and in doing so he was giving the virgin the Wordfor that hour which would baptize them into the first leg of the spiritualcoming of Christ. Much of this Word that we are now hearing was notavailable until we received the second leg of the spiritual coming in thislast day, which brings together those that have gone on before us withthe living part of the body of Christ, as we all receive the fullness ofboth legs of the spiritual coming as seen in Revelation, Chapter 10.Please keep in mind that this did not take place in its fullness in Paul’sday. And now God has made known to the wife (we which are aliveand remain) these secrets, including the fact that it was unknown to thewife until now. That’s because it has been hid in God since the founda-tion of the world. And now is the time for this gospel to go forth by thesounding of this last trumpet.

We see that when the Jewish part of the church fell away, the Gentilepart of the church fell away also; and both went into the dark ages. And,of course, the Jewish people for the most part went back to doing thethings that you see today in their worship services, keeping many ofthe customs of the Law of Moses; and most are looking for the comingof the Messiah. And the Lord is not going to disappoint them. The Mes-siah is going to come back to this earth and He is going to put down the


enemy. He is going to come and sit on His throne there in Jerusalem.And He will take His position as the King of the earth. Zechariah 14:9says, “And the Lord shall be king over all the earth; in that day shall there beone Lord, and his name one.” Thus satisfying the desire of all the childrenof God.

Now that is all so beautiful and so true. But if we stop here and leaveout or skip over what’s taking place in our day, then we miss an entirelydifferent working of God. We would be leaving the wife totally out ofthe picture when we speak of the Millennial Kingdom. But when speak-ing of God dealing with Israel after the Pentecostal baptism (Acts, Chap-ter 2) that happened for the Jewish people, here’s where we see in God’splan a place for Paul’s message to be highlighted in revealing the mys-teries that were hid in God from eternity. (Ephesians 3:9) In showingthese mysteries of God that He revealed through Paul, it makes Paul’swork shine as an apostle to that part of God’s working in the first leg ofthe spiritual coming of Christ, as Paul was laying the foundation for usto build on in this second leg or the fullness. So Paul’s job includedreaching over to the Gentiles to get them involved in a special part ofGod’s plan. But some of the Christian Jews did not like that. Read Acts,Chapter 13, where Paul was trying to get the Jews, also, to understandwhat he was preaching. But they could not understand without it beingrevealed unto them by the Holy Ghost.

Paul spoke of the spiritual coming of Christ, which he made very clearin the scriptures of 1 Thessalonians 4:13-16, 1 Corinthians 15:51-57, andEphesians 4:13-16 of which the twelve apostles showed very little inter-est. Well, they didn’t want what Paul had to offer. They had what theywanted, they were waiting on the Messiah; although the predestinatedsaw what Paul was bringing. And now in this last day, some of the Jewsare believing in Christ Jesus as our Savior, Husband, and King by hear-ing this last trumpet sound and by revelation of this anointing.

When Paul talked about the spiritual Kingdom, he was talking aboutChrist. But when the Jews talked, much of the emphasis was on theSavior, the Messiah, and an earthly Kingdom. That was some of the dif-ference in their thinking. And when they looked for the coming of JesusChrist, they looked for Him to come as the Savior and their King. Notone place in the Bible did Peter ever say that He was going to come backand we were going to be caught up to meet Him in the air, or that at thelast trumpet there is a coming together where we are married. Not onetime did Peter talk about engaging a virgin. Not one time did Peter talkabout being married to Christ and becoming bone of His bone and fleshof His flesh. Not one time did he talk about Christ being our righteous-ness in the way that Paul did. Romans 9:30 says, “What shall we say then?


That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained torighteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.” This scripture showshow the Gentiles obtained righteousness, whereas Israel as a wholesought after it partially by works. (Romans 9:31-33 and Romans 10:1-4) Also, in Acts, Chapter 21, it shows that upon Paul’s return toJerusalem that he was rebuked because he was not including the worksof the law in his preaching concerning the righteousness of God.

Now the title of our message, Introducing Christ to the Jewish People:Repaying Them for Introducing Jesus to Us, is coming into view; for herewe see that the Jews indeed did let us know there is a Savior and we in-deed owe a debt of gratitude to these wonderful people for sharing withus their Savior and King, which is also our Husband. They were tellingus that He is coming back to earth, He’s going to take over this earth,and that there is a millennium. That is laid out so clear, especially in theOld Testament books. And it was continued by Jesus Christ as Hepreached to Israel. Then Peter and the other eleven apostles continuedthe same.

So we see that Paul came as an apostle to introduce the Gentiles toChrist; not to the Jewish Messiah, as this was not his main message. Butthe sad thing about this is that the Jews didn’t receive Paul very wellback then; and they haven’t since then, with the exception of the pre-destinated Jews that are to be part of the wife of the Lamb. These arethe ones that Paul said unto, “Your names are in the Book of Life andhave been there before the foundation of the world.” (Philippians 3:3)That’s those that, by revelation from God, can receive this Word.

So it becomes very clear that the Jews, as a people that were given theLaw of Moses, are not the Lamb’s wife. Jesus spoke in a parable con-cerning this fact in the Book of Matthew 22:1-14. Here a king is shownpreparing a marriage for his son. He sent invitations to those of hiskingdom (which were the Jewish people). But they made light of it andwould not come. Then the invitation was withdrawn as the king be-came angry and sent and destroyed their city and slew those evil men.And he said concerning this marriage supper (Luke 14:24) that none ofthose men which were bidden shall ‘taste’ of my supper. That’s whenhe said, “Go out into the highways and hedges and bring in the lame,the blind, the poor, and all who will come, that my house may be full.”The truth we see here is that the wife of God’s Son does not come out ofthose religious Jews because of any special privileges that they mighthave as a Jewish nation. Paul understood this, as he came on the scenepreaching that God does not take out of the Jews as a privileged peopleto be His Son’s wife. He let us know that the door was open to the Gen-tiles, also. This created the opportunity for God to create the new man,


taking from both the Jews and the Gentiles and bringing them into theplan of God; making them a part of the body of Christ, as it existedunder the baptism of the Holy Ghost which was the first leg of the spir-itual coming of Christ. Now the body of Christ is neither Jew nor Gen-tile, but has become Christ the wife.

So we must look to the Word of God in order to see that Christ is theSpirit that is the anointing. And more than that, He is the Spirit of thesoul of the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s what came out of Him on Calvaryand came back on the day of Pentecost in the first leg of His spiritualcoming. And by that first part of His coming, He (through Paul’s mes-sage) got a people engaged of both the Jews and Gentiles. And Paulsays in 2 Corinthians, Chapter 11, “I’ve espoused you as a chaste virginto Christ, that I might present you unto one husband.” In other wordshe was looking for and expecting a marriage. And that was the purposeof gathering a people from the Jews and the Gentiles to make one newman—Christ, who now by marriage has made us Christ, His beautifulwife.

Now nowhere in the Jewish gospel do you find such writings as that.But I am here today to introduce to the Jewish people this marriage mes-sage, just as they introduced their Messiah, Savior, and King, to us. Andthey also showed us what would take place in the earthly Kingdom ofone thousand years. I’m so glad that they shared these wonderful bless-ings with the Gentiles. And now I am here to share with them the bless-ing of being part of the wife of the Lamb which is the Christ in the earththat came back in Revelation, Chapter 10, and it is totally hid from allbut those that are predestinated to be part of Him. The predestinatedwill see it, they will receive it, and nothing can stop them. So introduc-ing Christ to the Jewish people—that’s the message that we are anointedto bring, just before the rapture.

I sometimes watch some Jewish programs on television, and what theyteach is as far off of the Word of God as what some of the reprobate Gen-tile preachers are teaching. Many of them have gone to eight candle-sticks. And I saw one yesterday on a Jewish station where the youngfolks were dancing to something like rock-and-roll with their little skullcaps on their heads. Some of those traditions are nothing more than thefigment of some rabbi’s imagination and some of those things date backto the dark ages. It’s not in God’s Word for our day. But, praise God,help is now here; for we are here to introduce the real Christ to you thathas come in this last day. Our Jewish brothers already know very wellabout the Messiah, and that He is their King. They know He is coming.But I’m telling them about Christ—those that have an ear to hear.

So as the Jewish apostles introduced Jesus, the King, to us, we are now


here to repay them for their goodness by introducing Christ to the Jew-ish people, telling them that, “In the Spirit, He has already come.” Hecame in Revelation, Chapter 10. So come on Jewish folks and acceptthe message that will make you part of the Word that has become thevery wife of the Lamb! Let us break down that middle wall of partitionagain! And that is what I am doing in this message. Don’t miss it!

We’re talking about introducing Christ to the Jewish part of the wife.The Bible speaks of the Lord and His Christ. That’s in Revelation, Chap-ter 11. A great truth is seen here as now we have the understandingthat our Lord Jesus has put the Christ part of His name upon us, Hiswife, and we rejoice in the fact that we are now bone of His bone andflesh of His flesh.

Today many people can see the Lord, but they know not His Christ(the anointed one), which is His wife. Adam and Eve is a good type ofthis. God took from the spirit of Adam all the feminine attributes andcreated Eve his wife. And Paul used this same example, saying that wewould become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh and would haveHis Spirit, making each member of the body part of Him. (Ephesians5:30-32) We have been baptized into Christ; not into Jesus, not into theKing. We’re going to sit by the King’s side. We have been made keepersof the King’s papers! We’re riding in the second chariot! Like Joseph inEgypt, he rode in Pharaoh’s second chariot, and there was nothingabove him except the king. It’s the same way with Christ the wife inthe earth that carries His name and rides in His second chariot. Andwe are introducing Christ to the Jewish people, as they introduced theirMessiah to us in earlier times.

We are introducing Christ to them, and the predestinated will hearand accept it, making them part of the wife; while those that are not thewife will be looking for the King to come back and set up His Kingdomon earth, which He will after the tribulation. In Revelation 19:11-14, wesee King Jesus and His wife coming back. And at that time the othersaints will be raised from the dead with glorified bodies to see the Kingsitting on the throne and His wife sitting by His side dressed in finelinen, clean and white. So as we received of their mercy, now, in return,they receive of our mercy to them. So here’s the message introducingChrist to the Jewish people as they introduced Jesus as their Messiahunto us!

Paul said in Romans, Chapter 15, “I am the minister of Jesus Christ toyou Gentiles.” Jesus couldn’t go to the Gentiles because of a covenantwith the Jews, but God had a man that could, a man that loved thoseGentiles. It was Paul that said, “I am the apostle to the Gentiles.” NotPeter, James, nor John, but Paul! And he introduced Christ to the Gen-


tiles as a Spirit to be baptized into. He said, “You’re dead and your lifeis hid with Christ in God, and when Christ comes you’ll be like Him,and the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven.” All of this is in theSpirit. But with the Jews it’s mostly in the natural—Jesus Christ, Savior,and King. But let me tell you something, Jews; the King has a wife andshe has the Christ part of His Spirit. She has that part of the name.That’s why the Word says, “The Lord and His Christ.”

In Acts 13:42-49, Paul went and preached to those Jews; and the reli-gious leaders didn’t like it at all. But the Gentiles besought that thesewords might be preached to them. Well, the Bible says that on the nextweek he spoke to the Gentiles and almost the whole city came out tohear him. Well, those Jews got jealous and they were angry, and theybegan to contradict and blaspheme everything Paul said. They threwhim out of the city, but Paul shook the dust off his feet and he said, “Itwas necessary for the Word to be preached unto you first, but seeingyou have rejected it and put it away from you, lo we turn to the Gentiles;for thus did the Lord command me saying, ‘I’ll make you a light to theGentiles.” Well, that’s now reversed, and it’s the Gentiles that have re-jected this truth. We are telling the Jews, “There is a light. And Christis that light that is shining through us, His wife, that lights a way foryou to become part of the wife of Lamb.”

Here, God takes us into the knowledge of the spiritual man, ChristJesus, by revelation, whereas the twelve apostles that preached to theJews saw Him as the physical man, Jesus Christ, and spoke of His com-ing in that manner. They also showed Him as the King of the earth. Andwhen the twelve saw Jesus Christ go up, they saw a man going up toheaven. A cloud received Him out of their sight. And two angels cameand stood there and they said, “This same Jesus (not Christ) that yousee go up, He will come in like manner.” And we now understand thatthe Lord Jesus, the King, comes to begin His one thousand years reignas the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords.

When Paul spoke of Christ in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17, he spoke of Hiscoming as a spiritual coming. And John saw Him coming in this sameway in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 10. Paul said, “God has madeknown to me this mystery that has been kept secret from the foundationof the world.” And although the Book of Revelation wasn’t written atthe time, Paul spoke of the same spiritual coming of Christ which isrecorded there. And now we’re making known to you this mystery thathas been kept secret from the foundation of the world that Christ cameback in the fullness of His Spirit and there are three parts of His min-istry—the shout, the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God. Andit is the trump of God which is sounding right now. And this is what


raises the dead and changes the living! And then we’ll be caught up tomeet the Lord in the air. That’s the Christ that came back in Revelation,Chapter 10. He put one foot on sea and one foot on earth.

I was studying on that when I was writing the book entitled, The In-terpreted Book of Revelation in 1978-1979, and I had come to Revelation10:1-2 where it says, “And I saw another mighty angel come down fromheaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his facewas as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand alittle book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on theearth,” And I was wondering about those feet in that scripture—and heset his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth. And I just leftmy Bible opened and went on to bed and fell asleep immediately. AndI had a very short dream, but it was a powerful dream. In this dream,I was walking down through a meadow towards an old farmhouse. Itlooked like it was pretty much broken down. I didn’t believe that any-one lived there, so I walked up to the house. Then suddenly the dooropened. And there stepped out a man with a bull horn in his hand. Heput it up to his mouth and said very loudly, “Remember the feet!” Andwith that being said, he lowered the bullhorn down to his side andturned and walked back into the house and I was suddenly wide awake.I got up and read that again, “Right foot upon the sea and the left footon the earth.” That’s when it came to me that there were two parts ofthe spiritual coming of Christ back to earth. See, the first part of Hisspiritual coming was on the day of Pentecost, which was the baptismof the Holy Ghost. The second part of His spiritual coming was fulfilledby the coming of Christ in His fullness as the Mighty Angel.

So when the Jews received the Holy Ghost, they received a portion ofthe life of Christ, now known as the first leg of His spiritual coming.And they went forth. But they didn’t receive this gospel that we’repreaching now, known as the second leg, or fullness, of the spiritualcoming of Christ. That’s in Revelation, Chapter 10. It shows the fullnessof Christ, both legs of His coming. So Paul looked down through theeyes of prophecy and he recorded the three parts of this spiritual com-ing that brings the fullness as seen in Ephesians 4:13-16. That is bothlegs of His spiritual coming which is the fullness. And as God is intro-ducing this to the Jewish people, the Lord Jesus is not seen ‘hopping’into Jerusalem on one leg. But He is coming in the fullness of Christand all those that’s to be part of the wife will see and understand byspiritual revelation.

Notice, I’m not talking about the coming of the Messiah to start theone thousand years Kingdom age here. Get that out of your mind.That’s altogether a separate thing and it takes place about seven years


later at the end of the 70th Week of Daniel. So the wife which includesthose Jews that have heard and accepted this Word are like-minded.This includes Jews, such as Priscilla and Aquila. Because when theyheard Paul’s preaching, by revelation they saw it and accepted it. Andthere are those like Apollos and some of the others that heard what Paulsaid, and you couldn’t pry them away from it with a big pry bar. Youtake Timothy, you take Titus, they just stayed right with it. All are partof the virgin of Paul’s day, and they become part of the wife by thesounding of this last trumpet message.

In the Jewish realm of Christianity they were progressing well untilabout 70 A.D. when Jerusalem was destroyed and the churches weredestroyed within the city. The Jews were taken to all nations into cap-tivity and many of them were sold as slaves. And from henceforth,when you found a Jewish congregation, they were doing much like theydid in the Old Testament. So from the time Jerusalem was destroyed,the Jewish church went down, down, down, as far as Christian beliefswere concerned. But I’m happy to say there were a few that were stillbelieving in Jesus. But many others had the hope that, “We’ll build thattemple back.” “We’ll offer that lamb on the altar for our sins.” And onand on it went like that as they went into darkness. And that’s why thislast trumpet message is so important here at the end time for the Jewishpart of the wife as it is for the Gentiles.

After the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jews being scattered intoall nations, the Jews still worshipped in synagogues, while there was aGentile church coming through the seven church ages. But there werenot very many Christian Jews to be found after this. There were only avery few Jewish believers amongst the believers in Christ Jesus in theGentile congregations. For we find that most, both Jews and Gentilesalike, got away from the Word. That’s why they didn’t get the little bookthat Paul wrote. For the Spirit of it was taken up to heaven with Paul,while the written Word of it stayed here. The revelation of Paul’sprophetic message was put within the Book of Redemption, which wasthen sealed with seven seals, and remained thus until the seals wereloosed in this last day and the Book of Redemption was opened andthat small portion (the little book) was taken from it and brought downto us by the Mighty Angel. And once the seven thunders uttered theirvoices to clear up the mystery (which is now history) of what had hap-pened in the church ages, the Almighty God told John (a type of theLamb’s wife) to take the little book out of the hand of the Mighty Angeland eat it up (our part of the Book of Redemption). And upon our ask-ing, it was given unto us, the wife. We asked for it and received it andate it up. And the revelation of it baptized us into Ephesians 4:13-16


where we are now prophesying again. Amen.So we ate the little book while we were coming through Revelation

10:8-11, which brought us into Ephesians 4:13-16 where we’ve reachedthe fullness of the body of Christ. So have we been baptized into thebody of Jesus? Absolutely not. Are we baptized into the body of thephysical King that’s coming back to sit on the throne? No. We’re bap-tized into the body of Christ by one Spirit. And our spiritual baptismmakes us part of Him, makes us bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh,spirit of His Spirit, and mind of His mind. Let this mind be in youwhich was also in Christ.

Listen up, Jews. Would you like to be part of the wife of the Lamb?Then here’s the gospel. As you introduced Jesus, the Messiah, to us, weintroduce Christ to you. And here it is! It’s shining as a bright light.It’s here to give you life! It’s here to translate these mortal bodies. It’shere to take you out of this earth before tribulation begins, and that’sbefore that temple is ever built again in Jerusalem, your city of the King.

Now here at the end time, Christ has come back in His fullness as abright shining light. It was said to Paul in Acts 13:47, “I have set you tobe a light to the Gentiles, delivering them from the power of Satan tothe power of God.” And now here’s a message sent which will deliverthe Jewish people, those that want Christ and want to be part of the wifeof the Lamb. It will bring them home, which is the heavenly Jerusalem(the body of Christ). So my Jewish brothers and sisters, this will makeyou part of the wife of the Lamb. This trumpet message is sent to thosethat want to be one with us as part of the wife, those that want to havethe righteousness of Christ Jesus, those that want to be married to Him,clothed in fine linen, clean and white, and go up in a rapture.

There is only one body of Christ. This message that Paul laid the foun-dation for is the message that has broken down any part of the wall be-tween the Jews and Gentiles that has been erected through time byreligious leaders and reformers that were less enlightened to God’s planfor the wife of the Lamb. Now we see there is no separation in the body.It’s just as Paul said in Ephesians 2:14. And in this last day that middlewall of partition has been broken down, making of twain, one new man!And that new man is the man Christ Jesus and we became that whenwe were baptized into the fullness of Christ. We do His work, we ex-press Him; and now you can’t see the wife without seeing the manChrist Jesus. And now when someone looks at us, they are looking atHim, who is now our King and Husband. The Messiah is going to bethe King of Israel, as well as the King of the whole earth. But I’m tellingyou about the King of Saints, Christ Jesus, the same yesterday, today,and forever!


So here we are with a message that is opening doors! Hallelujah! Itis opening doors that have been sealed closed. It is opening doors thatreligious leaders said couldn’t be opened! And there are people todaythat stay out of the land of Israel because they believe that the Jews willnot accept the Lord Jesus Christ until the two prophets come (the twoolive trees, and the two candlesticks) of Revelation, Chapter 11. Andso they say, “Stay out of Israel with the gospel.” Well, those that havethat kind of thinking should definitely stay out of Israel. But we knowthat Israel’s time has come and that they are hearing this trumpet sound-ing. But also we know Israel, natural, (the nation) will stay right wherethey are; for they are not going to accept being the wife of the Lamb.

Just like these denominational churches out here—if you say, “I’m thewife of the Lamb,” they’re going to look at you like you are crazy. Aman told me awhile back that he let someone hear one of my audio mes-sages, and after they heard it, the person asked, “What did that preachermean by saying, ‘We are the wife?’ What’s he talking about when hesays the wife? Where is the church?” Yes, there’s a church. But that isnot what we are talking about. I’m talking about the wife. She’s the onethat is baptized into the body of Christ. She’s the one that has becomebone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. She’s the one that recognizesthat He came in Revelation, Chapter 10, and gave us that propheticWord and we ate it up. Praise God, and now we are prophesying!

In Paul’s day, those Jews that heard his message were drawn to it, justlike a magnet, drawing them to Christ; and they became part of that en-gaged virgin. And now, those that have a spiritual ear are drawn toChrist by this message, by this light. This is the light going forth.There’s a light that shines forth to those that sit in darkness. When JesusChrist came forth walking on the seashore of Galilee, the Bible saysthose that sat in darkness saw a great light. Well, here’s the great lightagain! And His face is shining as the sun! And here He is, Christ backin the earth again! Not one person, but the body. Christ is the Spiritthat came down and we were baptized into that Spirit and have becomeChrist the wife. The Christ of all ages is now in the earth. And now Heis here as the wife of the Lamb.

The Messiah is going to come. Yes, He is! Somebody said, “Well,you’re trying to preach against what Peter said.” No. I believe whatPeter said one hundred percent, that the heavens must retain Him untilthe times of restitution, meaning the millennium. (Acts 3:20-21) Petersaid that God would then send Jesus and He will come and sit on Histhrone—and that’s true. But remember what Peter said was before theBook of Revelation was written. So Peter didn’t see some of thesethings.


The Apostle John, being caught up in the Spirit on the Isle of Patmos,saw Him coming back (as he wrote in Revelation 19:11-14) on a whitehorse, meaning the power of the Word. And they that were with Himwere on white horses, clothed in fine linen, clean and white! That’s thewife of the Lamb that was caught up before the tribulation ever begins;for there is only one group in the Bible shown in the New Testamentthat is clothed in fine linen, clean and white. (Revelation 19:7-8, andEphesians 4:13-16) What is that fine linen? It’s the righteousness ofGod—and this message of righteousness is going forth! Some willharden their heart against it and reject it, and because of this, they can’tgo backward nor forward. They are stuck in their ways. And thereforewhen tribulation comes, after the rapture takes place, they will still bepreaching, “The Lord is coming back some day.” And He will. Butwhat they don’t know is that there’s a people that leave before the tribu-lation period begins. And it’s after that when Jesus Christ, the King,comes back to earth with His Christ wife.

I was telling you some weeks back about talking to a man that said tome, “Now Ben, if I understand what you are saying, you believe thatJesus comes before the tribulation.” And he continued to talk, saying,“Ben, if you’ll just read your Bible, you’ll find out that Jesus doesn’tcome back until after the tribulation period.” I said, “You are exactlyright. But Christ comes back to resurrect the dead members of His bodyand changes the living before the tribulation begins. Then we go upwith the Lord. And then we come back with Him after the tribulationperiod for He is our Husband and King and we start the millennial reigntogether.” It’s that simple.

Let’s go to Romans, Chapter 11. I’ll start with Verses 27-28, it says,“For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. (Thatwas to the Jews.) As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes:”And we’ve seen that. If you don’t believe it, read. Everywhere Paulwent, see what they did to him. See what they did in Acts 14:19; theystoned him and threw him out of the city and left him for dead. But hegot up and continued his preaching. But watch what the rest of Verse28 says, (Paul writing)—“but as touching the election, they (the Jewish peo-ple) are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.” In other words, it’s going to be ex-actly like what Peter said. Israel is going to be the leading nation in themillennium. There will sit in Jerusalem the Lord Jesus the King andHis wife by His side. Verse 29, “For the gifts and calling of God are withoutrepentance.” What is he indicating here in this particular setting? In thisparticular setting there are promises that God made to Israel. There arepromises He made to Abraham. There are promises He made to David.Paul said in Romans 11:28, “As concerning the gospel, they are enemies


for your sakes (and still are in many cases). But as far as the election isconcerned, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.” Meaning that Godwill bring His seed into what He promised, in that great millennium.

Watch what he says in Verse 30, “For as ye in times past have not believedGod, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:” In other words,when they rejected the gospel, God turned to the Gentiles which wasall in accordance with His plan.

Verse 31, “Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercythey also may obtain mercy.” Here it is Jews! Here it is! You can have it!Through your mercy, through the nation of Israel, the Messiah came.And when God would have given you the gospel, as a nation you re-jected it and God turned it over to the Gentiles—and we received yourgospel. In the Book of Galatians, we see how the Jews were saying,“We’re Abraham’s seed,” but Paul showed them that Isaac wasn’t thespiritual seed, the prophesied one, but it was Christ. (Galatians 3:16)So everything Abraham had concerning the salvational blessing, we arepart of it.

Again, “Even so have these also now not believed, that through your (our)mercy they also may obtain mercy.” In other words, what they brought tous, we’re giving it right back to them. And by our mercy they receivemercy (just like we received of their mercy). So as God ordained, hereis a message that reaches out and makes them part of the wife of theLamb to take them up in the rapture. And the remainder of the Jewswill get the chance to hear the two prophets of Revelation, Chapter 11,at the beginning of the 70th Week of Daniel or the 144,000 Jews thatpreach the everlasting gospel starting at the middle of the week.

Verse 32, “For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might havemercy upon all.” In other words, He makes no difference in Jews andGentiles when it comes to this gospel of Christ as far as being part ofthe wife. He’s saying, all of us were in trouble, Jews and Gentiles alike.God concluded us all in unbelief. Verse 33, “O the depth of the riches bothof the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments,and his ways past finding out!” In other words, who would have knownGod would do it this way, that God would strike a man down and say,“Go to the Gentiles”? And who could know that in this last day thatGod would raise up a people called the wife of the Lamb that is seen inEphesians 4:13-16 and say unto this body, “Take this gospel back to theJews from whence it began.” For it has reached its fullness in the wife!

See, that’s the wisdom of God. That’s the unsearchable wisdom ofGod. And Paul said, “He made known to me these secrets, mysteriesthat have been hid since the world was. And now Verses 34-35, “Forwho hath known the mind of the Lord? (Paul said we have the mind of


Christ.) Or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him,and it shall be recompensed unto him again?” Paul is saying, “What youare seeing, this is what God is doing. It is by His wisdom.” And Godknew all along before the world was that He would do it just like this.

So, Jews, it’s not a disgrace to accept this gospel from the wife of theLamb. It is not belittling, but rather glorious, to come in and accept thisgospel of Christ to be the wife of the Lamb, to be baptized into the body.All of this is by the unsearchable wisdom of God. And then the lastverse, Verse 36, says, “For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things:to whom be the glory for ever. Amen.” In other words, we glorify God.Who ordained it this way? God. Who could have figured it out? Noman. No man could instruct God. But here it is in this hour. No onewould have known the Gentile world would fall apart and go into apos-tasy, and that there would come forth a little group that loves Jesus, whoare a part of Christ Jesus, who are baptized into the body of Christ, mak-ing us the very wife of the Son of God. And now to the Jews who havean ear to hear this Word, you can receive our mercy and come in andbe part of the wife of the Lamb. God bless you. Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we just thank you for your love, goodness, and mercy. Ipray, Lord, that you will take these words that we’ve spoken here today anduse them for your glory. And may the hearers of it, may those of the Jewishlinage say, “I’ve never heard it on this order. I want this! I want to be the wifeof the Lamb. I want to go out in the rapture.” O God, we pray and ask this.We ask for your mercy. As we received the mercy of the Jews, Father, as thewife of the Lamb we freely return all of our mercy, as we pray you give thismercy to the Israeli people to break down the middle wall of partition and makeof twain one new man, the wife of the Lamb. O God, we love you and we ap-preciate you. In Jesus Christ’s name, we pray that you will bless each one.Amen.



THE MYSTERY OF AREA 51

Good morning to each of you. May the blessings and the peace of theLord be upon you. Today we want to begin our reading in 1 Corinthi-ans, Chapter 15, starting with Verse 51. This is one of the scriptures thatwe read quite often; and the reason is because this is the area of timethat we are in. My title today is a strange sounding title, and it is some-thing that we hear much about on television and from reading in someof the scientific magazines where they write about a place they call Area51. Well, I want to minister on the spiritual Area 51. So the title of mymessage is, The Mystery of Area 51.

Area 51 is actually a place where some people say that an alien space-craft was brought to after it supposedly crashed in Roswell, New Mex-ico. They say there were aliens inside of it that were killed and theirremains are concealed there. There are so many fictitious stories of thissort that are told about this place. This site of Area 51, to the best of myunderstanding after watching a documentary about it on television, isthe Nevada Test and Training Range, which is part of Edwards AirforceBase (that’s what it is called now), which is about eighty miles northwestof Las Vegas, Nevada. Employees refer to it as ‘the site’ or ‘the ranch’or some other code name, which only adds to the mystery of Area 51.Many people have written over the years about this so-called alienspacecraft crash site, claiming they have been witnesses of what hap-pened and that they have seen aliens there. And to some people’s de-light, such tales only add fuel to that imaginary world. So there is amystery surrounding Area 51. It has aroused curiosity about what isso secretive about this mysterious place. So it makes for a big mysterystory and it gives people something to talk about in their idle time.

Well, we have something better to talk about, and it’s not a fictitiousstory; but it is a very reality! We talk about “our scriptural Area 51,”which is Verse 51 of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 15. That’s one of the scrip-tures that I want to read to you today. Again, my title is, The Mystery ofArea 51.

The Apostle Paul said, “Behold, I shew you a mystery,” and it is inthis verse that God lets us know by revelation that we are now in thisarea of time as we see this scripture being fulfilled. For we must recog-nize the part that we are fulfilling in order to become that part of theWord. And now we do recognize the part that we are fulfilling; for it isthe sounding of the last trumpet that we are now hearing in this spiri-

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tual Area 51. This revelation is made clear to those that have a spiritualear tuned to the sounding of this last trumpet, which shows that thereare three parts to the spiritual coming of the Lord, as related to us byPaul in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, “For the Lord himself shall descend fromheaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump (trum-pet) of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are aliveand remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet theLord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” And then when welook at 1 Corinthians 15:51-57, we see that Paul only mentions the trum-pet part of the 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 scriptures. He didn’t mentionthe other two parts, because the Word that came through those twoparts have now been gathered into this trumpet part of the message thatis sounding forth. It’s at this time that we are gathered together, boththe living and the dead, in Verses 51-57 of this end time scripture. Nowthat we have arrived at the sounding of this last trumpet, we know forsure that we have come through the area of the shout, and the area ofthe voice of the archangel. This scripture in 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 in-terprets itself to those that are ordained and are part of it. So it’s clearthat we are in the area of the trumpet sounding. But before I say any-more about it, let’s pray before reading.

Heavenly Father, we come praising you and thanking you, Lord, for yourgoodness upon us. Lord, we could never, ever, if we had billions of years (whichwe will have in the future when we get our glorified body and all these thingstake place), but we could never thank you and praise you and honor youenough. We will always have praise in our hearts for you. Like the song wesang earlier, “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine, Oh, what a foretaste of glorydivine. Watching and waiting and looking above, filled with your goodness,lost in your love. This is my story.” O God, what a story this is! So I praythis morning that you will bless us as we read your Word, and may you anointus to bring from it the things that you have ordained for this day. We ask it inthe name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Now let’s read our scripture and watch how it unfolds itself. I wantto showcase (put on display) Verse 51, because we are talking about asecret or mystery that remains unsettled until revealed, and this is thearea of the Word that applies to us. And since Paul is talking about amystery here, I thought it would be real good to entitle it, The Mysteryof Area 51. I promise you, when people see this title on our website, theywill begin to look, because Area 51 draws so much interest amongst thepeople wanting to know what happened there.

Well, I’m going to tell you today what is happening in the spiritualArea 51, and this is the area that counts. This Area 51 is not talked abouton the history channels or the scientific channels, and there are no aliens


that came from outer space and got killed in a spacecraft here. But therehas been an invasion from outer space, because the Lord Himself hasdescended from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,and with the trump of God, and He brought with Him (God sent withHim) those that were dead in Christ that are to be part of the wife. Butyou can’t see them unless you are in the Spirit of God. So it feels goodto be in Area 51. And it is not an air force base here; it’s a base whereGod’s people come together and worship Him in Spirit and in truth andhave the joy and peace that belongs only to them.

All right, Verse 51 says (Paul writing), “Behold, I shew you a mystery;”Most people love mysteries. I, for one, love mysteries; especially themysteries spoken of by Paul, who was the apostle to the body of Christin that hour, which was the espousal period. God made us where welike mysteries. That’s one of the reasons we love our spiritual Area 51.It’s a fact that a mystery is something that always gets our attention.And Paul wrote about a mystery that is reserved just for us here at theend time. “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,” Now thatis a mystery right there! But with the sounding of this trumpet it is nolonger a mystery, because it makes manifest that there is a people thathave absolutely overcome the death sentence, which means that we arenot under the law that brings forth death. And for Christ the wife, thismeans that we that are in Area 51 are not under the law of sin and death.(Romans 8:2 and Romans 5:13)

See, the law was given by Moses. And although sin and death was al-ready here, it wasn’t made manifest (imputed) and brought to the sur-face until the law was given. And when the law was given, then sinwas magnified; because it says, “Thou shalt,” and “Thou shalt not.”And as we know, most people in general try to avoid those do’s anddon’ts. When Moses gave the law, it magnified the law of sin and deaththat’s within each human being. But now I’m talking about somethingthat makes known and magnifies the grace of God, the freedom of God,and the liberty of God, where Jesus Christ came to set us free from thatlaw. And by the grace of God He tasted death for every man. (Hebrews2:9) And now the law of sin and death has no more dominion over us.(Romans 6:9) That is what Paul is writing about—Behold, we shall notall sleep!

Oftentimes people tell me, “It’s appointed unto men once to die; afterthis, the judgment.” They say, “Every man is going to die;” while otherssay, “There are two things certain in life—one is taxes, and the other isdeath.” But that’s contrary to the Word of God, because death is notcertain; for there are some that are not going to sleep (die). The questionis—Are you one of those?

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Verse 51 again, “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, butwe shall all be changed,” Now when Paul is talking about ‘we shall notall sleep, but we shall all be changed,’ he is talking about all those thatare ordained to be members of the wife of the Lamb in this Area of Verse51. And he told us that it’s when the trumpet is sounding that this takesplace. This is when we choose our time and our place to overcome ourlast enemy called death. It could be asked, “Brother Ben, how is thatpossible for us?” That’s very simple. God has sent this message of thelast trumpet and we choose to either accept it and believe it, or reject it;and the wife never rejects Him. And then we go forward with this mes-sage that defies all logic and defies all human imagination and defieseven death itself. We can think of this as a new birth for this mortalbody, which glorifies it and makes it eternal; just as the soul receives anew life upon accepting our Lord Jesus Christ and receiving His HolySpirit, which makes our very soul (inner man) an eternal being. Thiswas a great mystery to Nicodemus, who was a ruler of the Jews, whenJesus Christ told him, “You must be born again.” (John, Chapter 3) Itwas so earth-shaking to hear such words that Nicodemus could onlyask, “How can these things be?” Jesus let him know that this was awork of the Holy Spirit. It is the same with receiving our new body; itdefies all human logic. But the sounding of this last trumpet makes itpossible! Remember, in Mark 9:23, it says, “Jesus said unto him, If thoucanst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”

Sometimes people have daydreams or write a fairytale story aboutovercoming death. My wife, Barbara Jean, and I saw a movie a whileback about some people that had found a well. And if one would drinkthe water, they would go back to being young. In the movie there werepeople that had drunk out of that well and fifty years later they werestill young people. Well, in the Bible there is such a story; it sprang fromJesus saying, “If you drink this water, it will spring up in you a well ofeverlasting life.” Well, praise God, we have found that well and we aredrinking of that water!

There have been many people over the years that have searched forthe fountain of youth; showing that somewhere hidden within man’spsyche is the desire to stay young and live forever. Well, God told usHe would renew our youth as an eagle, and now we can soar into theheavens where all things are possible to them that believe; and our faithhas grown exceedingly to where the promises for this hour are comingto pass.

Remember, Abraham and Sarah were the ones that Paul wrote aboutin the Book of Romans and in the Book of Hebrews. (And we are a seedof Abraham through Christ.) They were old; Abraham was as good as


dead and with Sarah it ceased to be as with women. She was inmenopause, and may have been for many years. But one day, someonecame and told them that the promised son would soon be born; for itwas time for God’s promise to be fulfilled. Then something happenedto them—Abraham and Sarah had their youth renewed. We always saythat God changed Abraham and Sarah back to young people. I don’tknow how much their appearance changed, but God made them feellike young people again. But just as promised, Sarah conceived andnine months later Isaac was born. God’s promise was now fulfilled.Then forty years later, Sarah went on to be with the Lord; and at thattime Abraham sent his faithful servant to get a wife for his son Isaac(which types out with the Holy Ghost going out through the messageof Paul, calling a people together to be the wife of the Lord Jesus Christ).And Isaac was married to Rebecca. Then Genesis 25:1-2 shows us thatat that time Abraham remarried and had six more sons by another wifenamed Keturah; thus showing that the gospel is going to go back to Is-rael again. So it was then, just like now, as we see the Word is beginningto be fulfilled in Israel as all the players are in place in the Middle East.And at the same time, we have entered into Area 51, and have foundour peace and joy and tranquility in this Word. Amen.

So here in Area 51 is where Paul tells the mystery—“we shall not allsleep, but we shall all be changed.” Now let’s look at that word all; wedon’t look at it as meaning all Christianity in general. We don’t look atit as all humanity or all those that talk about Jesus Christ. No. But herewe are talking about the wife of the Lamb, who can say (just as Paulsaid), “I’m crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christliveth in me.” That’s what the message was about last week, entitled,What Have We Gotten and What Have We Given in Exchange for Our Soul.It was about submitting our self, giving our life to Him. “He that savethhis life, shall lose it. But he that loses his life for my sake shall save it.”We lose the carnality of this natural life and we gain the spiritual life ofChrist. We give up our fleshly desires for the things of Christ, and thenthe Lord becomes our very own life—it is Christ living in us, and weare living in Him—the Hope of Glory! In other words, “I’m crucifiedwith Christ, yet I live. But yet not I, but Christ liveth within me.” And,“I am dead and my life is hid with Christ in God.” Those are the onesthat Paul is talking about in 1 Corinthians 15:51, “we shall not all die,but we shall all (all living members of the body of Christ) be changed.”

In Verse 52, Paul tells us how it is going to be, “In a moment, in the twin-kling of an eye,” and then he tells us when it is going to happen—“forthe trumpet shall sound.” And we choose to believe this and embraceit and walk in the light of it. Remember the message, Choosing the Time


and Place to Defeat Our Last Enemy Called Death—we do this by choosingto hear and accept this last trump of God message; being baptized intothe fullness of Christ that has tuned our ear to this trumpet sounding.This is also the message that brings up the dead members of the wife,which happens just before we are changed into our glorified bodies.

Watch what Verse 52 says, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at thelast trump: for the trumpet shall sound (that answers the when), and thedead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” Only in Area 51does a change take place. We shall be changed! Death is not involvedhere (except the dying out to our self-life). When we reach this point,the mystery is fulfilled in us as we hear the trumpet sounding and wetotally give ourselves over to God and what He is doing in this hourthat we are now living in. Praise God! That’s in our Area 51.

So the trumpet sounds and the dead are going to rise. I love that part.In the past, I would wonder why the dead would rise first and then wewould be changed. But now it’s made very clear to us. It is because theliving (we which are alive and remain) prophesy to them with this mes-sage. It is the living part of the wife who tells them to rise from thedead; for it is when the trumpet sounds that this takes place. So theyare hearing the same trumpet that we are hearing, because they are inthe same place that we are in. God sent them back with Christ whenHe came to marry His virgin, and we have become bone of His boneand flesh of His flesh in this perfect marriage of both the resurrectedand the translated members. That’s the ‘all’ of 1 Corinthians 15: Area51-52. Because amongst the dead that know Jesus Christ and are a partof the wife of the Lamb, Christ brought their theophanies back to earthwhen He came in His fullness. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-17)

When Paul preached his message, part of it was to the people thatwere living and listening then, because they were the engaged virginof his day. But another fold of his message (which was prophetic) cameinto being when he was in prison. Oh, some of those ‘prison books’ areso good! Some of the things that he wrote didn’t necessarily apply tothe people living then, for he was prophesying, although he may nothave even known it. So when the virgin fell away, God laid the revela-tion away in a secret place tucked inside the Book of Redemption, whichis the part that’s known as the little book. God sealed this little bookaway within the Book of Redemption for the wife here at the end time,both the living and the dead. God let Paul write it as though it wasgoing to happen to them right then and there. That’s why Paul said,“We which are alive and remain.”

Now I want to read Verses 8-9, in the Book of Colossians, ChapterOne. It says, “Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit (the love of


the things of God). For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do notcease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledgeof his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;” So as we have arrivedat this place, we don’t forsake that part of it, because that is communion(fellowshipping). In the Book of Malachi 3:16-18 it speaks of the bookof remembrance that God made. But this wasn’t necessarily a book ofremembrance of those that talked to the Lord often; but it was made forthem that spoke often one to another—that’s fellowship. He lookeddown and saw that perfect fellowship which is shown in Ephesians4:13-16, and He made a book of remembrance and made sure that allthose names were in it; those that were fellowshipping one with an-other, edifying one another, building up one another, and speaking toone another.

Notice, at the end of Verse 9, those words, spiritual understanding. Be-cause spiritual understanding only comes from the Spirit of God. Forno man knoweth the things of God, but only the Spirit of God knowsthem. Verse 10, “That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing,being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;”That’s why every time we meet together, every time we hear a sermon,every time we read the Word being anointed by the Spirit of God, weare increasing in the knowledge of God. Verse 11, “Strengthened with allmight, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsufferingwith joyfulness;” There has to be that joyfulness in there. Some peoplesay to me, “Well, Brother Howard, I don’t have much joy; I have manyproblems.” Sometimes the more problems we have the more joy wecan have in the Spirit of God, because we realize if we stay in this nat-ural realm these problems are going to pull us down, so we just get inthe Spirit of God by praising God and walking closer to God, under-standing what the spiritual will of God is for us. Verse 12, “Giving thanksunto the Father, which hath made us meet (worthy, suitable) to be partakersof the inheritance of the saints in light:” Notice, we are partakers of thesaints in light—God is light. Jesus Christ came as the light of the world.We are partakers of the saints in light. So that in light is important; es-pecially in this Area 51. And we are the light in the City of Light.

In the Book of Hebrews 12:22-24, it tells about a spiritual area andwhat is going on in that area of the Word. And along with the angelsand the spirits of just men, there’s Jesus Christ, our Husband and King,who died on the cross as the Lamb of God, to make possible what Paulwas writing about concerning the redemption of God’s family, with thewife of the Lamb being first and foremost in this wonderful glimpseinto this spiritual Kingdom of God’s workings.

I want you to notice Verses 12-13, “which has made us meet to be partakers


of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us from the powerof darkness,” We don’t walk in darkness, but we walk in light. He has‘delivered us from the power of darkness.’ That means darkness can’tcontrol us. The deeds of darkness, the deeds that don’t edify, they can’tcontrol us. God has delivered us. Watch how He did it. “who hath de-livered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdomof his dear Son:” So if the Word tells me that I’m translated, then I’mtranslated. We are translated into the Kingdom of God’s dear Son. Wehave arrived here as shown in Ephesians 4:13-16—and this is Area 51.All these other areas have already come to pass, the first two parts ofthe spiritual coming of Christ have fulfilled themselves. And now wehave come to Area 51 where Paul said, “Behold, I shew (tell) you a mys-tery,” and the mystery (secret) is this, “We shall not all sleep, but weshall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.” That’swhat takes place only in Area 51. Then Paul reaffirmed this when hesaid, “We are translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the King-dom of His dear Son. Now, can we believe that we are translated? Yes,we can!

Let’s go to the Book of Luke, Chapter 17, and I want to begin readingin Verse 32. It says, “Remember Lot’s wife.” And we see in Genesis 19:26where Lot’s wife surely did lose her life by trying to save it, as she wentcontrary to the angel’s instructions. Yes, she turned into a pillar of salt,and she lost all. Verses 33-34, “Whosoever shall seek to save his life shalllose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. I tell you, in thatnight (Jesus Christ is talking about a very special night here.) there shallbe two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.” Thisis a hidden mystery about the rapture, and there is a certain point I wantto make about it as we go further into the message, and it is very im-portant, so don’t miss it.

I want you to notice, not any of the twelve apostles spoke of the catch-ing away of the wife. But Paul wasn’t one of the twelve, he was the onethat God chose specifically to call a people out of the Gentiles to espousethem to Christ to eventually become the wife of the Lamb. And as theGentiles came into Paul’s gospel, they loved what he preached, becausehe told them that they didn’t have to be circumcised, and they didn’thave to keep the Sabbath, and they didn’t have to be concerned abouttheir meats and drinks; for he said, “Whatever is set before you, eat anddrink, and ask no questions.” So that went over real well with the Gen-tiles. And there were many of the Jews that began to accept it, also.And so the gospel that Paul preached began to call out a people to startforming the body of Christ consisting of both Jews and Gentiles. Pleasenotice here that while God, through the message that Paul preached,


was introducing a virgin to Christ, He was also busy working anotherpart of His plan through the twelve apostles to the Jewish people (Is-rael).

We find that while Peter and the eleven other apostles were preachingto the Jewish church, God began to give a greater understanding toPeter concerning Paul’s place in His plan. We find this in the Book ofGalatians 2:6-9 when Paul visited Jerusalem again to be in services withthe apostles. At first they would not acknowledge his part in the planof God; but God intervened by showing Peter, James, and John, Paul’sspecial place in God’s plan. Upon recognizing and understanding God’splan more clearly, showing that as Peter had the gospel for the Jews (thecircumcision), that Paul had the message for the Gentiles (the uncircum-cision), they gave Paul and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, giv-ing them their blessings, and they told them to go to the Gentiles.

Let’s read Verse 34 again. It says, I tell you, in that night there shall betwo men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.” InVerses 35-36 He says, “Two women shall be grinding together; the one shallbe taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,and the other left.” Notice, here we see it will be night in some areas ofthe earth, while it will be daylight in another part of the earth, thusshowing that the rapture is worldwide. There will be people in the bedasleep and the next morning wake-up and one of them will be missing;one taken and one left. Two women may be grinding at the millstone;and as they are grinding perhaps they are talking about what theymight have for supper that their husbands and children would enjoy,then one may look around and find the other one is gone. This lets usknow that God always leaves a witness by those that are left behind.There are three other things that He made clear here: The first thing is,whether you are asleep or awake you will go in the rapture if you areone of them. Then, the two women grinding meal shows that beingmale or female has nothing to do with whether you are raptured or not,because when you are baptized into the body, in the plan of salvation itis neither male nor female. And then, it is showing that when the rap-ture takes place, you don’t have to worry about whether it is day ornight.

Brother William Branham, who was the messenger to the Laodiceachurch age, once made the statement that he believed the rapture wouldtake place some morning between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Well, wecould ask, “In what part of the earth would it happen between 6:00 a.m.and 9:00 a.m.?” I have traveled much in my lifetime and I know forsure that the time is not the same in each country. So I will leave thatright there without having any further comments about it.


I want you to notice, Paul was the only apostle that spoke of a catchingaway (rapture). Not any of the other twelve apostles mentioned a rap-ture or being caught away; only Jesus Christ spoke of it in the way wehave just read about. Then when Paul began to speak about it, he gaveus more details of exactly how it would take place, and when it wouldtake place, and to whom it applied to. So the twelve apostles didn’tspeak of a catching away, but they spoke of the physical Lord Jesus com-ing back to earth to set up His earthly Kingdom, which He will—butnot until there has been a catching away. Then we (the wife) come backto this earth with the Lord Jesus after the tribulation, which takes placeat the end of the 70th Week of Daniel, only then will the millennium orKingdom age begin.

Now let’s get that last verse, Verse 37. It says, “And they answered andsaid unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the bodyis, thither will the eagles be gathered together.” Where, Lord? Many peoplewant to know where—“Should I go over here or over there?” Throughtime, different groups have met in different places. They would say,“You have to go to this mountain, because the Lord is going to comeback here.” “Where, Lord?” And He answered where it is. He said,“Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.”Notice, wheresoever. He showed us that at the time of the rapture it willbe night in some parts of the world and day in other parts of the world,and that means the rapture is universal. Please understand, that thereis no geographical spot on earth that we have to go to in order to be rap-tured, because we are already His flesh and bones by our marriage tothe Lamb. And our gathering place has taken us inside the body ofChrist by spiritual baptism.

The Apostle Paul is the one that preached the rapture. He was theone that was sent of the Lord to espouse a virgin to Christ Jesus to be-come the wife of the Lamb. He got her engaged in his day. But Godsent this message of marriage in our day. Notice again that the twelveapostles looked for the Lord to come in the flesh. The fact is, Peter saidin Acts, Chapter 3, “The heavens must retain (hold) Him (Jesus) untilthe time of restitution,” and that’s the beginning of the millennial reign.Jesus Christ in His physical essence cannot come to earth before then;therefore, we go to Him. We are caught up to meet Him in the air. Thenwe all come back together. This was not taught or preached by any ofthe twelve apostles who preached to the Jews; only Paul preached thispart of the Word.

So now we know that Revelation, Chapter 10, is showing the spiritualcoming of the Lord in His fullness. That is what is seen by John and isin fact the same spiritual coming that Paul wrote about in 1 Thessaloni-


ans 4:13-17. He came back to earth in His spiritual or angelical form tobe made manifested by taking on flesh and bones through His wife.

We have written a little book called, The Chronicles of the Tenth Chapterof the Book of Revelation and the Eating of a Bitter Meal, that clears all ofthis up for us. And since then, we have moved into Area 51. Paulprophesied, “We shall not all sleep.” In other words, the death sentenceloses it hold. There is nothing to hold us. And only in Area 51 does thedeath sentence lose its hold. This is the time. In Verse 51 of 1 Corinthi-ans, Chapter 15, Paul is showing (telling) a mystery (a secret), “We shallnot all sleep, but we shall all be changed.” Meaning, “O death where isyour sting?”

In the Book of Psalms, Chapter 91 (and I love this book), it talks abouta secret place. They say that Area 51 in Nevada is a total secret. Theyhave signs all over the place that say, “STOP—DON’T ENTER.” And ifa plane tries to fly over it, they get a warning that they will be shot outof the sky. It is such a secret, such a mystery, and something to writeand talk about. Likewise, in our Area 51 it is a total secret and has givenmany people something to write and talk about; but the wife knows thesecrets of her Husband as she has His mind.

Let’s read Psalms 91:1-4. (And if the Book of Psalms is not part of yourregular reading you might want to include it in some of your devotionalreading; it will really bless you.) It says, “He that dwelleth in the secretplace (Are you in that secret place? You are if you are dead and yourlife is hid with Christ in God. Those are the ones that go in the rapture.)of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say ofthe Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surelyhe shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pesti-lence.” Now watch Verse 4, “He shall cover thee with his feathers,” Noticethat, “He shall cover thee with His feathers,” I was raised on a farm andwatched a mother hen with her little chicks and how she would protectthem. If a dog came through the yard, usually the chickens would al-ways scatter. But if that dog came near the mother hen with her littlechicks, she wouldn’t run. God evidently put something within thatmother hen to cause her to protect those baby chicks and caused thedog to fear the mother hen. Because a hen would normally run whenthey saw a dog. But the hen that had the chicks would spread out thosefeathers and go towards that dog and many times the dog would actu-ally turn and run. The little chicks were protected under the shadowof that mother hen’s wings. When danger came, the little chicks wouldrun and get under the wings because they felt safe there. And the onlyway they could be hurt is if the mother hen was killed or badlywounded, because she was going to protect her babies. And nothing


can stop our God, so we are protected. Continuing with Verse 4, “Heshall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: histruth shall be thy shield and buckler.” Do you see that secret place? We getunder the shadow of His wings, and we are so safe there, nothing cantouch us.

Paul said, “I show you a mystery.” This wasn’t revealed in other ages,but it was saved for the wife of the Lamb in this hour. Here I’m re-minded of a dream that a dear brother, named Claude Loggins, whopassed away some years back, had. In this dream, he went into a storethat sold men’s suits. Although the store was mostly empty of suits,they had one that fit him very well. And when he went up to thecounter to pay for his suit, he made mention that they barely had anysuits left. At that moment, the man at the counter reached his hand backunder the counter and pulled out a very nice suit and showed it toBrother Loggins and said, “I have this one saved back for Brother Jun-ior.” (That’s what Brother Loggins and other people called me duringthose early days.) Then he woke up out of his sleep.

This trumpet message has been saved for the people who are actuallygoing to be changed, and for those who have died through time whoare part of the wife—for they, too, hear this message, and they like thesound. This sound penetrates through all veils; whether a member ofthe wife of the Lamb is alive in their mortal body or whether their bodyis waiting in the grave for resurrection.

I said sometime back, “The dead are hearing this last trumpet messageand have begun to move around.” And that’s true. We get an exampleof this in Ezekiel, Chapter 37, where God gave Ezekiel a vision, and inthis vision he was picked up in the spirit and set in a valley full of drybones. God told Ezekiel to prophesy to the dry bones; and when hedid, they began to move around. What moved them? It was theprophecy—“Speak the Word and these bones shall live again!” And ashe prophesied unto those dry bones, saying, “These bones shall liveagain,” those bones began to come together!”

Likewise, those of the wife of the Lamb that have gone before us indeath, their bones shall rise again, also. But in this hour, more than justbones are going to rise! God will unite their spirits (theophanies) withtheir bodies and bring them forth. And then, we the living are going tobe changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. This is in Area 51,the mystery area. This is under the shadow of the wings of theAlmighty. We are safe when we are under the feathers of the wings ofthe Almighty. This is the secret place of the Most High. That is wherewe are if we are believing the Word, walking with the Word.

We have read many times here in Ephesians 4:13-16 and in Hebrews


12:22-24. It’s here that we are brought into the secret place of Area 51.Ephesians 4:13-16 says, “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of theknowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of thestature of the fullness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossedto and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men,and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking thetruth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, evenChrist: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by thatwhich every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measureof every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.”Then Hebrews 12:22-24 says, “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and untothe city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable com-pany of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which arewritten in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just menmade perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the bloodof sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”

Now I want to bring in a little more about what Jesus Christ said, “Oneshall be taken and one left.” I want you to keep this in mind—Paul wasthe only one that picked up on what Jesus said and brought this outabout a people being caught up. And now we know, by reading whatthe Apostle John wrote some thirty years after God took Paul home, thatafter the catching away that there would be those that missed the rap-ture and are left here to go through the great tribulation.

The Apostle John being picked up in the Spirit wrote the Book of Rev-elation, recording the things which he saw. He was not writing his ownwords, but was only writing what he saw in his vision on the Isle of Pat-mos, showing a people in Revelation, Chapter 7, going through tribu-lation. Then the Book of Revelation, Chapter 11, shows two prophetscoming to Israel. And all of this transpires after the rapture. The twoprophets, more than likely, are on the scene right now; and they, nodoubt, are being made ready to begin to prophesy their message, andmay very well begin before we leave. But their real job will be after therapture, because when they get through prophesying, this world isgoing to be in bad shape. And then in the middle of that week, afterthe two prophets are killed, there are 144,000 Jews that will go forth intothe earth with an anointing on them and they will preach the everlastinggospel, saying, “Fear God, give glory to Him. Don’t bow down to theimage of the beast, nor take his mark. Babylon is fallen and has becomethe habitation of devils.” You talk about a rebuking message! But weare in glory at that time. How did we get there? We went to Area 51,because God let Paul write certain prophecies, and now by this lasttrumpet sounding, He has given the wife the revelation; and by it, we


have entered into this spiritual land, Area 51.Let’s have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we do thank you today for

your love, goodness, and mercy. I pray, Lord, that you will take this Word andthat you will use it for your glory. And may we especially understand thepoints that we haven’t brought out before, such as “one taken and one left.”We have seen in your Word today that Paul was the only apostle that broughtthis out of the Word for us. I pray, Lord, that these words that have been spokenwill add to the Word that we have already been bringing—that Paul was thatapostle that was sent to get a virgin espoused to Christ. And now through thesounding of this last trumpet, we are married to our Lord Jesus. Lord, help usto receive the truth of this message and to be all that you would have us to be,and all that we can be in thee. In Jesus Christ’s name we pray. Amen


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I’m glad to see each one this morning. The weather was supposed tobe really bad today; but it turned out not to be as bad as the weatherforecasters predicted. So I praise the Lord for that; and I praise Him forHis goodness and mercy upon us. Now let’s pray before reading thescriptures.

Heavenly Father, as we come to you with your Word open before us, we knowthat you are the author of the Word and the only one that can give the correctand precise meaning of it. We know our sufficiency has to be of you. So I pray,Lord, that you grant that; not only to me, but to the hearers, also. And we willbe so careful to praise you for it, in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ.Amen.

Now today, we will be reading from the Book of Matthew, Chapter16, for our text scripture. But before reading that scripture, we will belaying out the road map in the Word for this important message. Wewill be including other supporting scriptures which are very specific tothe hour that we are living in today. It’s a great blessing to us when werealize that when God sent the Apostle Paul to take a message to theGentiles that there were many of the Jews that believed Paul’s preach-ing, too, and were included as part of the virgin which was producedby his message. For he was the messenger ordained to espouse a virginto Christ. And once we see this truth, it sets our thinking in the rightdirection for understanding our part of the Word of God as it appliesto our day. Hence, the goodness of God is continued in the fulfillmentof the prophetic part of the Word for the wife.

When we read Paul’s writings, we find that he laid the prophetic Wordfor the wife’s covenant within the New Testament (or New Covenant).This means that when Paul was introducing the New Covenant, all whowould believe and accept the Lord Jesus Christ, receiving their newbirth, would be under that new covenant. Wherever he went, he boldlyproclaimed this new covenant by telling the nations that they could notbe justified by the Old Testament Covenant that God had made withthe nation of Israel and the Jewish people. He also began to tell the Jewsthat Christ Jesus was not only their Messiah, Savior, and King, but he

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was also telling them, “It is Christ in you, the Hope of Glory!” Needlessto say, he was rejected by all except those that God had ordained to be-lieve his preaching concerning ‘the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christof both the Jews and the Gentiles.’ But Paul kept right on preaching thisNew Covenant to all. And as we follow Paul’s preaching, we see thathis message began to turn more towards Word that could only be un-derstood by revelation. This was true of both the Jews and the Gentiles,who collectively were a specific group—the virgin that was to be mar-ried to Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:2-3) From this point on, Paul began tolay a foundation for the wife’s covenant within the New TestamentCovenant that would eventually produce a marriage to the virgin whomhis message espoused to Christ. But lo, and behold, the serpent cameinto the picture and beguiled this young virgin (as he did Eve), and themarriage did not take place at that time.

So Paul began to lay away prophecies that could not be fulfilled in hisday. And as the virgin fell away, she went into the long period of timeknown to us as the seven church ages. At this time, the virgin cameunder a survival law as God saw fit to send each particular age a mes-sage, which would be their salvation in that time period. This time pe-riod is also known as the kingdom of heaven age, which wheat andtares would grow together until the Mighty Angel of Revelation, Chap-ter 10, proclaimed that there should be time no longer for it to be likethis. (Revelation 10:6) And now we have reached the time where thewife’s covenant that Paul prophesied about and laid the foundation forcomes into plain view. This applies to those that were ordained andchosen of the ten virgins that are shown in Matthew 25:1-12 to be mar-ried to God’s own Son. These prophecies were sealed away in the Bookof Redemption and is the part of it that is known as the little book ofRevelation, Chapter 10. This is the wife’s covenant that’s within theNew Testament Covenant. This marriage covenant for the wife is madeknown by the sounding of the last trump of God message and is nowbeing preached. This last trumpet message completes what was begunin Paul’s day by facilitating our marriage to Christ, the living Word.And now we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. (Ephesians5:30-33). Our marriage to the Lamb has produced this glorious unionwith our Lord, as He has given us the Christ part of His name, whichmakes us the fullness of the body of Christ in the earth, known as Christthe wife. (Ephesians 4:13-16)

Now having given a prelude to this message, I want to take a thoughtand entitle it, There Is Nothing More Powerful than the Word Whose TimeHas Come to Be Fulfilled. My thought is that when we read the Word ofGod, we see certain things coming into being that belong only to the


wife. And even though we see this, it sometimes looks as though thingswill not go as promised. But then as the time comes around, we see thateverything is just as the Word says; and, as always, it prevails and wesee everything working out just like it is supposed to.

In the Old Testament, we can read the Book of Jonah 1:17, where theLord had prepared a great fish (a whale) to swallow Jonah because hehad disobeyed Him. But God kept Jonah alive in order to fulfill Hiswill. So here in Matthew 12:40, it refers back to this. It says, “For asJonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son ofman be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” No one knewthat what happened to Jonah was a hidden truth of what would happento our Lord Jesus Christ when He came. So when Jesus was speakingabout Jonah, He showed us that this scripture was really portraying Hisdeath, burial, and resurrection. And it came to pass just as God or-dained it. In Matthew 16:21, it says, “From that time forth (after Peter byrevelation had told who Jesus was) began Jesus to shew unto his disciples,how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders andchief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.” Well,He did exactly that; but the meaning of what He was saying was con-cealed from His disciples. It was only after Jesus was crucified and rosefrom the dead that His disciples received the understanding of whatthis scripture meant.

Let’s look at Luke 24:13-35. There were two of His disciples on their wayto Emmaus, and as they talked together and reasoned about the things whichhad happened to Jesus in Jerusalem, Jesus himself drew near, and went withthem. But He was concealed from their eyes, that they should not know Him.And Jesus said unto them, “What manner of conversation are you having withone another, as you walk, and are so sad?” And they began to tell Jesus of thethings that had taken place, “We thought for sure this man Jesus was the Mes-siah and had come to redeem Israel, but they have crucified Him. And thencertain women of our company astonished us, when they went early at the sep-ulcher of Jesus and found His body not there, and said they saw a vision of an-gels, which said that He was alive.” Then Jesus said unto them, “O fools, andslow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ tohave suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?” (Why can’t you be-lieve the Word?) And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expoundedunto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself. Finally, theycame into the village, and Jesus made as though He would go on, but they con-strained Him to abide with them. And as He sat there with them, He took thebread and blessed it, and broke it into and gave it to them. And their eyes wereopened, and they knew Him. Then suddenly He vanished out of their sight,just as suddenly as He had appeared. And then they said, “Did not our hearts

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burn within us, as He spoke to us along the way.” This shows us that whatHe was telling them just wasn’t getting through. But the point is thatJesus Christ came and did exactly what the Word said that He woulddo, but it wasn’t made known until it was quickened unto them. Sowhat we see is that it came time to make it known and to fulfill it.

One of the scriptures that I use oftentimes is found in John 2:22, be-cause it is here where we find that the disciples began to understandwhat Jesus had been telling them about the resurrection. One of thereasons I love this scripture so much is because of an experience I hadafter I received a new Bible from some people in South Carolina. Onenight I was going through the new Bible, marking some of my favoriteplaces. And I was reading Matthew, Mark, and Luke; just goingthrough the New Testament and getting my places marked. By the timeI got over to John and read Chapter One it was getting late, so I thought,“I’ll just leave this until tomorrow.” I went on to bed and had a dream.It was a very strange dream to say the least. In this dream, I was downbelow my house in the woods. There appeared a white marble gran-ite-type stone monument in front of me in the shape of an m. It lookedto be about 6 feet tall and about 30 to 40 inches wide. It was so glisten-ing white. At the curve at the top of the m on the left side in bold blackletters was the word anD. Then on the right side in the curve at thetop was the word anD. Just as suddenly as this appeared, it disap-peared. Then I woke up. And as I thought on this strange dream, I saidto myself, “Surely that can’t be spiritual.” When I got up the followingmorning, I sat down at the table where I had left my Bible open the daybefore. So I started to read, John, Chapter One, again, as I had the nightbefore. And then I went on to Chapter 2. As I read Chapter 2, I cameto Verse 22, and I read right over the two ands in that verse without notic-ing them. At this point it seemed that something warm came over meand suddenly I was in the woods again looking at the stone type mon-ument with the two ands written on it. Then as I looked at my Bible inJohn 2:22, those two ands there in the scripture began to rise up and offthe page, becoming larger as they rose. Then as they returned back totheir page, they went back to their normal size. This happened severaltimes, and then stopped. After I regained my composure, I began toread John 2:22 again. Then I saw something in that verse that I hadnever seen before. It spoke of the written Word and the spoken Word.Watch this scripture as it reveals the two ands in John 2:22. It says, “Whentherefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had saidthis unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus hadsaid.” Notice here that those two ands had just come up off the page andthey were magnified by becoming larger as they rose. Remember, this


scripture is speaking of the resurrection of Jesus Christ—and He cer-tainly was magnified and glorified when He arose from the grave. Thiswas a prelude to the resurrection of the dead members of the body ofChrist in this day, at which time, also, the physical translation (orchange) of the living members of the body takes place. Then we willall be glorified and magnified together as all the members of the wifeshow both the first and, along with the second and, of the Word for thisday.

Let’s read that part of the two ands of John 2:22 again, “and they be-lieved the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.” Notice thispoint, there are two ands that stand out in this verse of scripture. Thefirst and is “and they believed the scripture,” which is the written Word.But the second and is, “and they believed the Word which Jesus hadsaid,” meaning that the scripture has to be quickened. In Ephesians,Chapter 2, we find where Paul began talking about the word beingquickened, which means it comes alive to us, and we see it in a way wehave never seen it before. There are also other places that the Biblespeaks of ‘the Word being quickened.’ And I am praying that the Wordwill be quickened to us today. Otherwise, we are just reading the letterof the Word. But rest assured that God will always quicken the part tous that is for our time and our day. And for us, that means the Wordcoming alive that will translate these mortal bodies into glorified bodiesto unite with the glorified resurrected members of the wife of the Lamb,as together we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh.

Notice my title, There Is Nothing More Powerful Than the Word WhoseTime Has Come to Be Fulfilled. And at that time it ceases to be just the let-ter of the Word; for it comes alive and we begin to come into everythingthat is written about us, because we are the Word for this day. Paul toldus about this in his writing in 2 Corinthians 3:2-6. And at this time, theWord will bring to pass what is written to be, and it becomes the mostpowerful force in the world and there is nothing that can stop it.

Now let’s read our text scripture in Matthew, Chapter 16, starting withVerse One. It says, (Jesus talking to the Pharisees and Sadducees), “ThePharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that hewould shew them a sign from heaven.” Notice, they were willing to worktogether to try to find something against Him (though at other times,they were enemies). They came to tempt Him; they were not interestedin a sign from God concerning the fulfillment of the scripture. I wantyou to notice that the Pharisees’ and the Sadducees’ mission in life atthat time was to do something to discredit Jesus and put Him in a badlight. But God always gave the victory. Watch what Jesus says. Verses2-3, “He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be



fair weather: for the sky is red. (They knew the natural things.) And in themorning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O yehypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signsof the times?” That is the way it was in the religious world then, and itis the same now. People know about the natural things, so they can dis-cern what is taking place here in the earthly realm, but the heavenlysigns of the times they cannot discern. Jesus Christ, God’s heavenly signin a natural body, was there right among them, but they did not recog-nize Him. (It’s the same now with the wife of the Lamb and this lasttrumpet sounding in our day.) Jesus was sitting right there in the midstand they sang about Him and preached about the coming of the Mes-siah, and there He was. But they couldn’t read the signs, so they didn’tknow—but the elected of Israel knew. And today the wife of the Lambknows, as we have been reading the signs of the spiritual coming of theLord for the resurrection and for our physical translation to be caughtup together in a rapture. Because now the time has come for it, andnothing can stop it. And whatever else takes place in the world doesn’thinder it to the point that it will be delayed; it will come to pass on time.That’s why we can say confidently that this gospel of this last trumpetmessage has no worthy opponent, because it’s seen only by spiritualrevelation.

Let’s continue on with Verse 4. It says, “A wicked and adulterous gener-ation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the signof the prophet Jonas. And he (Jesus Christ) left them, and departed.” Theycouldn’t put together what Jesus was saying. He just left them and wenton His way not bothering to go into any more details except for saying,“That is the only sign you are going to get.” But they missed that sign.And it is very clear that they did, because on the day of Pentecost theywent about to try to stomp out the name of Jesus Christ. But even beforethe day of Pentecost (after His crucifixion), the soldiers that were guard-ing His tomb were paid large sums of money by the religious leadersto say that the disciples of Jesus had come by night (while they slept)and stole His body. Those religious leaders told the soldiers, “Do as wesay, and if it comes to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, andsecure you.” So the soldiers took the money and did as they were told.(Matthew 28:11-15) There were certain things taking place; the Wordwas being fulfilled, and there was an external force trying to cover it upand trying to hinder it. But it all took place right on time; everythingbegan to fall into place, because it had come time for that portion ofGod’s Word to be fulfilled. Amen.

In the Book of Luke, there is another scripture that basically says thesame thing that Mathew, Chapter 16, says; but it adds a few more details


that I would like to read. Let’s start with Verse 54 in the Book of Luke,Chapter 12, “And he (Jesus) said also to the people, When ye see a cloud riseout of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.” Theycould read the natural signs exactly right, but spiritual signs they could-n’t read. Now it is the same thing with the denominational and inde-pendent churches of today, they can’t read the signs. When we camethrough the seven church ages, there were so many times that Godmoved the pendulum of light forward, but the people had already builtthemselves a denomination and they stayed with that. And as the lightmoved on, they were left in darkness.

Notice, Verse 54 again, “And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloudrise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.”Verse 55, “And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat;and it cometh to pass.” Yes, they could understand natural things, butthey knew not what He was talking about spiritually. There was some-thing going on right among them and they couldn’t see it. That is thepoint that Jesus was making. There was something going on rightamong them and they rubbed elbows with it every day; but yet theydidn’t read the signs correctly. They could only read the natural signs.We have to be in the Spirit to read the spiritual signs.

One of my favorite scriptures on this is 1 Corinthians 2:11 which says,“For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is inhim? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” Sowe want to get that good and clear here—‘even so the things of Godknoweth no man.’ We operate in a natural world and we need to knowsome of the natural things of this life; how to make a living, how to drivea car, how to get around in this society. But we have to know that thereis something more important about life than these things. Even nowthere is a spiritual move of God taking place, the spiritual Christ in full-ness walking amongst us, and that’s the thing we don’t want to miss.Because God fulfills a certain portion of the Word and it will slip rightthrough, and all but the elected miss it. Watch these people here thatJesus was talking to. There He was, the very Son of God, with the veryChrist in Him (Christ, the Word, that assisted God in creating theheaven and the earth), and yet they knew Him not.

Let’s read Luke 12:55 again, “And when ye see the south wind blow, yesay, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.” Verse 56, “Ye hypocrites, yecan discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it that ye do not dis-cern this time?” Notice that, “You don’t discern this time.” “What’s theproblem here that you can’t discern this time?” See, the very God ofheaven was fulfilling that part of the Word, and that was the part thatwas the most powerful force in the world, and nothing could stop it. So



there is nothing more powerful than the Word whose time has come tobe fulfilled. That means whatever the Word (whose time has come tobe fulfilled) says, we can have faith in it, and we can rest confidentlythat this is what is going to be!

Now there are certain signs of the times in the natural that can directus to what is taking place in the spiritual. When we look at what isgoing on in the Middle East, what is going on with Russia, and we seewhat is going on with the pope, that puts it in a place where even thenatural man can discern it—and that’s good. But the spiritual part ismore important and can only be understood by revelation as is laid outin the Word. But while all of this is taking place out here in the naturalrealm, there is something else taking place. Now watch this. The veryChrist that was within Jesus, and became part of Jesus, that caused Jesusto become Jesus the Christ, He came back in the form of the MightyAngel in Revelation, Chapter 10, and brought with Him a little book,which was our portion of the Book of Redemption. Then the authoriz-ing voice of the Almighty God spoke and told us to go to the angel andsay, “Give me the little book,” which we did. (Revelation 10:8-11) Theangel said, “Take it, and eat it up (all of it).” In eating our part of theBook of Redemption, we became the living Word that made us bone ofHis bone and flesh of His flesh and we are forever the little book partof the Book of Redemption. Meaning that we have always been in themind of God. He sent down our part of the Book of Redemption to letus know that we have always been His perfect choice to be the wife ofHis only begotten Son. He knew that we would eat the little book(Christ’s flesh and bones), and now it is our own flesh and bones in theearth, just as Jesus was Christ’s flesh and bones in the earth in His day.

Now we’re not just as God’s thoughts, but we are God’s thoughts thathave become manifested flesh and bones (Word), and are back home inGod’s mind as our part of the Book of Redemption. That is the specialpart of God’s redeemed family. This means that the Word in the littlebook is no longer separate from the wife, as it has taken on human flesh.This is the home that Jesus Christ spoke of when He said in John, Chap-ter 14, “In my Father’s house are many mansions. I go to prepare (makea way) for you to get back to where you were in God’s plan before theworld was.” This shows the many mansions which are the many partsof God’s family that finds their place in the Book of Redemption, as thewife has found hers. Because the Lamb of God paid the price for all ofus on the cross. (Revelation, Chapter 5) Let us praise God for this greatredemption for His children!

We have met many adversaries in this body; but be not worried withsome opposition here in this life, because we have a new body waiting


in the wings, just as we already have a new life for our souls; for oursoul is redeemed and sealed unto the day of redemption. We are bap-tized into the body of Christ and nothing can change that, and we arenot tossed to and fro and carried about, so we are safe inside the bodyof Christ. The soul has been baptized into the body of Christ and is onehundred percent safe. But there is a birth for the body that we haven’treceived yet. So now this body must be born again (or changed). Be-cause our salvation is not complete unless and until we receive a bodythat is glorified, one like unto His own glorious body. And that is thepromise of God.

So in essence, what Jesus was saying was that they could read all aboutthe natural things; they had it all together. But that has nothing to dowith whether you’ve got it all together spiritually or not. Someone canread all the signs and make all the right predictions, like some of thesein the political realm today. I heard a comment the other day that some-one made about a politician. They said, “He has tapped into the spiritof the people, and they have it going like they want it.” But that hasnothing to do with tapping into the Spirit of God; you don’t tap into it,you are brought into it by the revelation of His Word. Yes, there arethose in the political and religious realms that can read the people andwhat is going on. And many times those religious people, the Phariseesand Sadducees, could do that. They could read things so well that Jesussaid, “You can read the signs in the sky, but you cannot read the signsof the times. Because if you could, you would recognize the Son of Godright among you now.” Now I say unto you, “The wife can read thesigns of the times. We know that there is a trumpet blowing; and as itblows, it hits the right pitch perfectly with what Paul prophesied.”

In last week’s message entitled, Prophesying Again Means Refreshingand Bringing to Pass What Has Been Prophesied, we showed that Paul’sprophecy is refreshed and brought into being by this trumpet soundingtoday. Paul said in his day, “If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound,who is going to be able to prepare?” In Paul’s day, those that were or-dained to be a member of the body of Christ under the message of es-pousal had to spiritually understand what Paul was preaching to them.And there was no uncertain sound to them. And in this day of the mar-riage, there is no uncertain sound as this last trumpet sounds out loudand clear. We have a perfect understanding that we have passed the tillof Ephesians 4:13-16 and are no longer tossed and fro with every windof doctrine, but have reached the fullness of Christ. And that’s our mar-riage to the Lamb of God shown unto us by the sounding of the lasttrumpet. That’s why we know whereof we stand.

We have read the signs of the spiritual coming of Christ correctly. I’m



not talking about the coming of the Lord Jesus at the beginning of themillennium; but I’m talking about the Christ that has already come andbaptized a people by the fullness of His Spirit into that one body in thesecond leg of His spiritual coming, which completes the spiritual com-ing of the Lord. (Revelation, Chapter 10, and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-16)

During the first leg of the spiritual coming of Christ, there was thebaptism of the Holy Ghost. The true seed of that day received whatGod was doing and rallied to it. But the religion of that day put Peterin jail and killed many of the true saints. They were going to kill Peter,but God had given him the keys to the Kingdom and he had to use it toopen the door for the Gentiles. (Matthew 16:17-19) And regardless ofhis external situation of being in jail, Peter was so peaceful in the Lord.As the song says, “I’m so peaceful in the arms of the Lord.” He was ac-tually laying down sleeping, although he was to be put to death the nextday. But the angel came and woke him up, saying, “Gird thyself, andbind on thy sandals and cast thy garment about thee and follow me.”(Acts 12:5-17) Watch this. All of these great things were happening,but those religious people could not recognize what was going on; oh,but they could recognize the signs of the weather, and they could getalong with the Roman people there. The fact is, the Romans beautifiedthat big temple there in Jerusalem. The Jewish people and the religionsof that day were very prosperous, but they couldn’t recognize the work-ing of God through Jesus Christ and the apostles. No, they couldn’t rec-ognize the very God in the Christ of the Bible standing right theretalking to them—and they missed it. They couldn’t recognize the mostpowerful thing in the earth that was taking place right before their eyes,because it was so humble.

In the Book of Matthew, Chapter 17, we see the same thing with John.When Jesus came for His earthly ministry, the disciples started to get aglimpse that this was the Messiah. But there was one scripture that wasbothering them much. Matthew 17:10 says, “And his (Jesus’) disciplesasked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias (Elijah) must first come?And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restoreall things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew himnot, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also theSon of man suffer of them.” Notice, they went to the meetings of John; andeven the religious people came from Jerusalem to ask John, “Are youthe Messiah?” But John said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilder-ness.” They said, “Well, if you are not the Messiah, why are you bap-tizing the people?” The point is, even the disciples told Jesus, “There issomething that has to happen first. Elijah has to come before the Mes-siah comes.” Well, it had already happened. They knew John. They


had went to his meetings and heard him preach. It was the greatestthing that God was doing in the whole world! But they didn’t get it.And there John was, fulfilling that portion of the Word of God whichhad been brought into being. It was the most powerful thing on theface of the earth!

See, there is nothing more powerful than the Word whose time hascome to be fulfilled. Notice, even some of the disciples of the Lord inJohn’s day, when the time came and God fulfilled His Word, althoughthey were hearing John and asking him questions, they weren’t com-prehending what God was doing right in their midst. John came withthe Word of God, and although he didn’t do miracles, it was the Wordwhose time had come to be fulfilled. It was a humble working of God.God can hide things in simplicity or He can put things in the light in agreat visible way. And although Jesus did perform miracles, and it wasas clear as the noon day sun, do you know what they said about Him?They said, “He does these things by the spirit of Beelzebub.” I thinkabout Mary’s and Martha’s brother named Lazarus, whom Jesus loved.By the power of God, Jesus raised him from the dead. Many of the Jewssaw it and they really got scared. They saw all the people followingJesus and heard about all the miracles, and they thought, “This man isgoing to mess up our organization.” They didn’t know it, but their timehad expired for manipulating the written Word. And now the time hasexpired for all the religious systems of this world, as the wife is marriedto the pure Word for this hour.

There is one particular case that we read about in John, Chapter 9,where a man was blind from his mother’s womb and Jesus healed him.When the religious Jews asked the man, “How did you receive yoursight?” He said, “A man that is called Jesus came and put mud on myeyes and told me to go wash, and now I can see.” And some of the Phar-isees said, “This man is not of God, because he keeps not the Sabbathday.” But others said, “How can a man that is a sinner do such mira-cles?” And there were divisions among them about Jesus. Then theyasked again the man that had been blind, “What do you have to sayabout this man, Jesus?” And the man said, “He is a prophet.” But theJews didn’t believe that the man had been blind to begin with, so theycalled his parents in. They gave testimony that their son had been blindfrom birth; but how he received his sight they knew not (they said thisbecause they feared the Jews and didn’t want to be thrown out of thesynagogue). So they told them to ask their son, and let him speak forhimself. So they called the man in again and said to him, “Give Godthe praise; we know that this man, Jesus, is a sinner.” The man saidunto them, “Whether He is a sinner, I know not; but one thing I know,



that I was blind but now I see. How is it that you being leaders in Israeldon’t know about this man that is doing these great things?” The great-est thing in heaven and in earth was taking place, because the time hadcome for that to be fulfilled. And today—nothing, no power, can stopthis trumpet from blowing and raising the dead and changing the liv-ing.

When we look at the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, we see that it tookplace just exactly as the Word said it would. And at that same time, theOld Testament saints rose from the dead, also. (Matthew 27:52-53) Nextcame the day of Pentecost for the Jewish people, as the Lord Jesus Christcame back in the Spirit, in the form of the Holy Ghost. Then as Godmoved by His Spirit, here came a people that were not called His peoplein the Old Testament, but would become His people. This was the Gen-tiles. That is what Paul was referring to in Romans 9:25-26, “As he saithalso in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and herbeloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the placewhere it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be calledthe children of the living God.” He is telling about a people that weren’teven seeking God. But when He called them to be His people, they did-n’t try to be righteous; but they got their righteousness strictly by faith.This starts at the end of Romans, Chapter 9, and goes into Chapter 10.Paul tells the Jews, who had all their rituals and ways of doing thingsto be righteous, “You go about to establish your own righteousness,thereby denying the righteousness of God.” Let that be something thatwe think on. That should be put in our notes. If we seek it of ourselves,we don’t get it. We’ve got to say, “I had no righteousness of my own;but now I have perfect righteousness because Christ Jesus gave me Hisrighteousness and now it’s my very own, praise God!” This doesn’tmean that we don’t live right. We present our body a living sacrifice,holy and acceptable unto God. But we are not doing it to add to ourrighteousness. We love Him because He first loved us and we do thethings the Spirit bids us to do, which is always the right thing to do. Hegave us His righteousness. And any righteousness that we could con-jure up on our own would be as filthy rags in the eyes of God. He tookour sins and gave us His righteousness; therefore, this is who we are—the righteousness of God. And that settles the righteousness question.

So there comes a certain time when the Word will be fulfilled. Andwhen the time comes for this Word to be fulfilled, nothing can stop it.The Word whose time has come is the most powerful force that thereis. And with the eyesalve of God, we can see what part of the Word thetime has come to fulfill. We’ve been baptized into the body of Christ.Now the last and final thing that we receive is complete salvation, which


is fulfilled upon the glorification of this mortal body. Before our phys-ical translation takes place, we can have sickness, we can have pain, andsometimes even get frustrated. But for that soul, and that mind that isstayed upon the Lord, there is peace. But as far as the physical body’spart of salvation, it’s not redeemed yet. But that is one of the things thatGod is now doing—as He is sounding this trumpet, our full redemptiondraweth neigh. And now the dead have begun to move around. Wesee in 1 Thessalonians 4:14 that Jesus brought the spiritual part of themdown with Him, and now we find them over in the Book of Hebrews12:22-24 as the spirits of just men made perfect. They are made perfectby that perfect knowledge of what God is doing. And at this presenttime, they can hear the voice of the Son of God sounding forth throughthe wife of the Lamb.

In John 5:28, Jesus is speaking, “Marvel not at this for the hour is coming,in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice.” So the question isasked, “Is there a voice of the Son of God in the earth in this hour?” Hasit come time for the dead to begin to hear that voice? Well, if you willread in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 it talks about the spiritual coming ofChrist. Verses 14-16 says, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we sayunto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto thecoming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himselfshall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and withthe trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:” Notice Verse 14,“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also whichsleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.” Meaning He sent them withChrist. He brings them right here. And Paul said in a prophetic utter-ance, “You’ve come to them.” Not only to them, but to angels, also. Wewere spiritually translated into that heavenly environment. And he saidit is heavenly Jerusalem. That’s a spiritual place—and those spirits arehere with us and are soon to go into a resurrected body.

Now I want to bring in about the body that went into the grave com-ing up and being united with the spiritual man. It’s in 1 Corinthians,Chapter 15, where it is showing that the body is sown in corruption,but when it comes forth it will be raised in incorruption. It was sownin weakness, but it will be raised in power. As the body decays, all theimperfections decay away with it. And when it comes forth in the res-urrection, God gives perfection to it, just as He did to the inner manwhich hears this same message we are hearing. Yes, those spirits hearthe same message we’re hearing. They hear the voice of the Son of God,which He expresses through the sounding of this trumpet.

Now the hearing of this trumpet has brought us into Area 51, into a



certain area of time where we have the Word whose time has come tobe fulfilled. This brings us into this area of the scripture that is seen in1 Corinthians 15:51—that’s Area 51. It’s not when the shout part tookplace, and it’s not when the voice of the archangel part took place, but itis in this time of the trumpet sounding, and we are the people that arehearing it and we can’t help it, because we are ordained to hear it. Thereis something in it that sets our souls on fire and that is what we’ve beenwaiting for all our lives. And this is the time when the dead is going tobe raised and we’re going to be changed in a moment, in the twinklingof an eye. This is our gospel.

All right, let’s go to Ephesians, Chapter One. Here it talks about thegospel of our salvation. Ephesians, Chapter One, is so good; it seemsthat we could stay in this chapter forever and never get tired of readingit. But we want to pick up with Verse 11. It says, “In whom also we haveobtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of himwho worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:” Now that’s whywe see this; that’s why we are here. It’s not “I will this” and “I will that.”No, it’s by His will. God has already been down here at the end of ourjourney and saw us coming up in time to where He would fulfill thispart of the Word. He saw the decisions that we would make, so Godby His foreknowledge of this present time justified His predestinationof the future. And that’s why He could put our name in the Book ofLife before the world was. By His foreknowledge of the present time,He justified His predestination of the future for the wife of the Lamb.

Verse 12, “That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted inChrist.” That’s what our lives should be, to the praise of His glory. Nowhow can we be loose in our living? How can we be loose in our think-ing? We bring our mind into captivity of the law (love) of Christ. We’rein the body of Christ. And in there, there is only one mind—the mindof Christ. Verse 13 says, “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard (youheard; faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word) the word oftruth, the gospel (the gospel for us; that’s what God is quickening andfulfilling) of your salvation:” The gospel of their salvation? No. It’s thegospel of your salvation; and there is nothing more powerful than theWord whose time has come to be fulfilled! There is a gospel of our sal-vation and it’s not for any other generation. It is for us! We are goingto be changed! There’s a gospel for us. Christ is in us, and we’re inHim—the Hope of Glory. It’s Christ in all His glory— His fullness man-ifested as the wife of the Lamb. It’s more than the baptism of the HolyGhost, which was the first leg of His spiritual coming; in this day, it isin fullness.

Continuing with Verse 13, “in whom also after that ye believed, ye were


sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,” Verse 14, “Which is the earnest of ourinheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession (spirit, soul, andbody), unto the praise of his glory.” Now here’s the point—the body itselfis going to be delivered from this bondage of corruption; just like thesoul is. There is a gospel and it is in Area 51 of 1 Corinthians, Chapter15, and it has no worthy opponent. There is nothing more powerful,no adversary strong enough to oppose it; for its time has come.

Now I want to get over in Romans, Chapter 8. Paul is speaking. Verse13, “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit domortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” And on to Romans 8:18-19,Paul says, “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthyto be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnestexpectation of the creature (the outer man) waiteth for the manifestation ofthe Sons of God (‘the manifestation of the wife of the Lamb’).” In otherwords, we are clothed in fine linen, which is the Son’s own righteous-ness, in our full glory, with a glorified body. And the next verse says,“For the creature was made subject to vanity (In other words, it wasn’t ourfault that the fall took place. We were born in sin and shapen in iniquity,but God made a way.), not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjectedthe same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered fromthe bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children ofGod.” I want to ask you a question. Do you feel your spirit telling youthe time has come—that this is the Word whose time has come to befulfilled—and it is the most powerful thing on earth and nothing canstop it? These scriptures concerning our new bodies are the scriptureswhose time has come to deliver the children of God from the bondageof corruption as the soul was delivered and baptized into His spiritualbody.

Verse 22, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth inpain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also,” Notice, “our-selves also.” That means we’re right there in the midst. Our soul hasreached that perfection through the fullness of Christ, clothed in finelinen, clean and white. Now this body has become one with our spiritand will always be with our soul; for this is the fullness of our salvationas the soul doesn’t go into the rapture without the body. We don’t wantour soul going out there somewhere without our body. For if that hap-pened, our body would have to be buried. But there is a scripturewhose time has come—‘We shall not all sleep, but we shall all bechanged.’ This is the scripture whose time has come, and it’s the mostpowerful Word in the earth and nothing can stop it. “And not only they,but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits (that’s the Holy Ghost) of theSpirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to



wit (what?), the redemption of the body.” We’re waiting for the redemption of the body, as we’ve been translated

into the glorious liberty of the children of God by this second leg of Hisspiritual coming. When the voice of this trumpet began to sound forth,it brought a message that strikes exactly true to what Paul prophesied.He told us about Area 51 (1 Corinthians 15:51-52); so let’s not worryabout what is going on out there around us. In the natural realm, in thenatural Area 51, they built an aircraft with such technology that it canfly right through the radar without being detected. Now the wife of theLamb is coming through this world and the ‘worldly radar’ doesn’t de-tect that there is anything going on. Just like Jesus, He walked rightamong them, did exactly what the scripture said He would do, andsome said, “You’re of the devil.” And when someone expressed an in-terest in Him, the religious leaders scornfully said, “Have you becomeone of His disciples, too?” It’s the same thing today. Some saints thatare not ordained to see this trumpet message, and many that are notChristians, express doubt as to whether this message is what Paul waswriting about in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52. Well, the people that believedin Jesus Christ as the Messiah, as He walked upon this earth in the flesh,answered the critics like this: “When the Messiah comes, will He domore than this?” So today we say to those that have doubts that thetrumpet is now sounding, “When the trumpet sounds will it make theWord live more than what we see in this day? You be the judge.”

In John 3:4-8, Jesus tells Nicodemus, “Ye must be born again.” Thatis speaking of a spiritual birth for the soul. But now I tell you, “Ourbody must be born again!” It must be changed from this body of cor-ruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. This is the mes-sage whose time has come! It is one of the most powerful forces in theworld today and it cannot be stopped! It has no worthy opponent. No-tice, there will be a resurrection of the dead. There will be a physicaltranslation of the living. There will be a rapture where we will becaught up to meet the Lord in the air. This is the Word whose time hascome and nothing can hinder or stop it. And now we are saying, “Lord,pour the eyesalve on me.” And our eyesalve is the special anointingthat comes with the fullness of Christ and the power of the Holy Ghost.And we couldn’t see this message without it.

Let’s pray. Heavenly Father, we come to you now. We come praising you,Lord, for your goodness and mercy. May this Word go forth and may we realizethat the time for this to be fulfilled is here. It is taking place and we see it. Forthe glory of God, may you reveal this to your saints. In Jesus Christ’s name.Amen.


MAKING THE FINAL PREPARATION FORMEETING THE RESURRECTED MEMBERS OF

THE WIFE

I would like to take a thought this evening and entitle it, Making theFinal Preparation for Meeting the Resurrected Members of the Wife. We aregoing to be reading some of the same scriptures that we have read be-fore; but we are going to go further with them in this message. And thereason that we can take them further is because the hands on the clockthat has been keeping God’s time have moved to where certain thingsare to be fulfilled, such as the resurrection of the dead and the physicaltranslation of we which are alive and remain. And the hands on God’sclock are right where they are supposed to be for this to start happening.The trumpet of God is sounding—so that means that the announcementis being made in the Spirit, telling us that it is time for the resurrectionand the translation to take place.

In looking back at last week’s message entitled, There is Nothing MorePowerful Than the Word Whose Time Has Come to Be Fulfilled, we see thatwhen it is time for God’s Word to be fulfilled, nothing can stand in theway. There is no force more powerful. There is nothing, absolutelynothing, that can hinder it or stop it, because it doesn’t have a worthyopponent that can come against it. I love that about the Lord and Hisworking. We could wonder when this prophecy or that prophecy willbe fulfilled, but when the clock strikes the right time for a prophecy tobe fulfilled it will be, because God said it. He was here before the worldwas, and He has already been in the future and has seen everythingfrom before the foundation of the world through eternity. We could askthe question, “How can we know that He has already been here beforeus?” We know because He gave the Apostle John, when he was on theIsle of Patmos, a vision that shows us all the way into eternity. So Godknows what is in eternity as well as He knows the past and the present.He knows the end from the beginning. So there is nothing that is goingto come into being or come to an end without God knowing all aboutit. He saw everything before it happened. That’s how He predestinatedall things.

Again, the title of my message, Making the Final Preparation for Meetingthe Resurrected Members of the Wife. This is the next thing on God’s clock,and it takes place just before the rapture happens. In 2 Corinthians,Chapter 5, we are shown the theophanies (spiritual bodies; a building

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of God, a house not made with hands) that are over on the other side(eternal in the heavens). They come back to earth to take on their fleshand bones in resurrection. The spiritual body fits perfectly with the nat-ural body that dissolved in the grave; and as the two unite, they aretransformed into a glorified state. That’s why God had to send them.They’re here to pick up their bodies, and then they will come forth. Andthey will be known as they were known here. What a mighty God weserve!

We can look back over the years at the many saints we have knownwho have departed this life (or this dimension); but they are still living.2 Corinthians 5:4 says, “that mortality might be swallowed up of life.”When they come forth in the resurrection, we don’t have to get ac-quainted with them, because we already know them. That’s the wife ofthe Lamb who is all of one mind. We get one mind and are in one ac-cord. This is made possible because of Ephesians 4:13-16, where wehave reached the fullness of the man Christ Jesus, no longer tossed toand fro, and we all believe the same thing and see eye to eye. This isfor the edification of the body of Christ. I’m not talking about those outin the world, or even about Christianity in general; but I’m talking aboutthe members of the body of Christ—we live to edify one another. Yes,we want to be good to all men, and not mistreat them just because theydon’t serve God; but we want to be especially good to those that are ofthe household of faith—and double this to those that are part of thewife. See, we are close kin by the Spirit of God to those that are part ofGod’s family; for we all have that royal blood flowing in our veins. Butwhen it comes to the Lamb’s wife, we are special in that we alone arebone of His bone and flesh of His flesh; for the Lord Jesus is our Hus-band and King.

Many of us may have brothers or sisters or close kin that we may notfeel that kindred spirit towards. This is because God has given the wifeHis Spirit where we can commune with one another, love one another,edify one another, and all believe the same thing. There is not two dif-ferent types of beliefs in the body of Christ. But we have the same mind,the same judgment. And we all want the same thing, because there isjust one mind in this body—the mind of Christ. We speak with onemind and one mouth, which means there is not two or three differentways. God has moved us through His Word by revelation into thisplace of speaking with one mind and one mouth. He has moved us intothis place where we recognize the members of the wife—even thosewho departed from this natural life and have come down unto us totake on flesh and bones. And we came unto them (Hebrews 12:22-24)as they came unto us (1 Thessalonians 4:14).


At this time, all the theophanies are with Christ Jesus and are with usnow, waiting until the clock says, “It’s time.” That’s because it takes usall to make the wife complete. This is what we have been waiting for.As we have arrived at this time, the veil is becoming thinner betweenthe living and the dead. That’s because those theophanies are hearingthe last trumpet, which is this message—the same thing that we arehearing. Because the Bible says that all those that are in the grave at thetime of the last trump (those that are part of the wife of the Lamb) willhear the voice of the Son of God and come forth. So God is getting usprepared to meet them. We are presently expecting them. We are talk-ing about them. We are looking for them. And one thing we are notsaying is, “Well, someday out there that Word will probably be ful-filled.” No, it’s not out there, someday. We have now come into thatday and that hour. And this very message of the last trump of God thatwe are receiving proves that, because the resurrection happens in thetime when this trumpet is sounding. So that makes a big difference.That puts our thinking in the right direction; knowing that it is nowtime for it. And our spiritual clock has to be in time with what God’sWord (clock) says in order to have faith and confidence in what is goingto be—which is what has come upon us. That is why the Word says inRomans 10:17, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word ofGod.” We talk about it. We hear the Word preached and we rally to it—we constantly want to think about it and talk about it. But if thepreacher is preaching it, and it is not in the people, and they are notthinking the same way, then the preacher is going to be very lonely; andthat means that it hadn’t come time for it yet. But when we are all talk-ing about it, looking for it, and feeling it, we are being quickened to it!Hallelujah!

The Word of God speaks of being quickened, and that is what hap-pened to Lazarus when he was raised from the dead. His body hadbeen dead four days; and he stinketh. But it didn’t make a bit of differ-ence. Jesus walked up to Lazarus’ grave and said, “Lazarus, comeforth!” And suddenly, he came forth. He was quickened by the powerof that Word. Now he didn’t come forth with a glorified body; but hecame forth with a natural body. And the Pharisees and the religiousleaders wanted to kill him because of his testimony of Jesus raising himfrom the dead by the power of God. Jesus Christ showed forth the res-urrecting power of the Word of God, that His Word will resurrect. Jesustold them one time, “Marvel not, because all that are in the graves (intheir particular order) will hear the voice of the Son of God and comeforth. (John 5:25-29)

Now we are in that hour, and what we are doing is making final

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preparations by our thoughts, our message, by looking in the Word, byfinding our place in the Word and seeing that the time has come whenGod has begun to fulfill this part of the Word. So we are looking forthe resurrected saints at any time. They are not far away, and even nowthey are among us. So we are preparing for it, we are expecting it, andwe wouldn’t be surprised if they begin to appear amongst us any daynow. We would not be stunned a bit; for it is on our minds now. Andwe would accept it with great joy because we know that it is to be; forthe dead in Christ will rise first. And they will be with us, even as weare changed; and together we will be caught away in the rapture.

God has the rapture set as a sequence event. First, the resurrection ofthose that have gone on are raised, and then we are changed into glori-fied bodies. When we see the dead walking among us, we can say,“There’s that quickening power!” That alone would just about changeus, wouldn’t it? Then together we are raptured to meet our Husband,the Lord Jesus, in the air. So at this present time, we are getting ourspiritual mentality adjusted to meet and greet the resurrected part ofthe wife of the Lamb.

We came into a very special place after we came out of the churchages, and that is something that we must understand and have revela-tion of. In our book entitled, The Chronicles of the Tenth Chapter of Reve-lation and the Eating of a Bitter Meal, we dealt with how the Gentilechurch came through the seven church ages with seven star messengerswho brought a message to their particular age. Also, it showed how itfulfilled itself as Christ brought the little book. And we always want tonotice that He brought a little book. This signified that it was not theentire Book of Redemption, but it was a little book, which was the partthat was for the wife of the Lamb which contained the prophetic partof Paul’s message that was taken up into heaven and made part of theBook of Redemption that was sealed with seven seals.

Notice, Paul’s message was written within the New TestamentCovenant and was a special part in its own right. He told us things thatthe other apostles didn’t know. And although what the other apostlespreached was good and had its place in the New Testament, this specialpart’s place was with another people. Paul told us about a rapture; thatwe would be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. He told us that thedead in Christ would rise first, and then we which are alive and remainwould be changed. Not any of the other apostles told us that. Paul laidthat prophecy in there, and he told us when it would be. And finallywe can now see as clear as crystal what God is doing. This is becauseof what God has done in the spiritual coming of Christ. (1 Thessaloni-ans 4:16). And as we have come into the last trump of God message,


we overcome death. (1 Corinthians 15:51-52)Another thing that was very important that Paul spoke of that the

other apostles didn’t speak of was being baptized into the body ofChrist. And when he spoke of water baptism, he always associated itwith the resurrection of the dead. In the Book of Romans, this is madevery clear. When someone is baptized it is like them being buried andresurrected. Like as Jesus Christ was buried and resurrected, so willthe members of the wife of the Lamb that have passed on be resurrected.(Romans 6:3-5) Paul brought this all the way through; but towards theend of his ministry, about 60 A.D., he really began to talk about this bap-tism, making very clear what it was for. In following Paul’s ministry,starting with his early years back at the beginning, we get it a little at atime. And in 1 Peter, Chapter 3, even Peter began to recognize the as-sociation of water baptism with the resurrection. Well, that has been sogood—being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. And if you are goingto be baptized in water at all, that is the only scriptural way to be bap-tized in water. But once you get a revelation that there is a greater bap-tism, then water baptism gives way unto the greater baptism. In theBook of Hebrews, Chapter 6, Paul began to talk about leaving the doc-trine of baptisms, and of the laying on of hands, and of resurrection ofthe dead. And he said, “Let’s go on to perfection.” And that we havedone!

God is preparing us to meet the resurrected saints. That’s one of thereasons that He is letting us see what is behind us. We’ve come throughthe church age laws. We’ve come through the times of water baptismfor the remission of sins. We’ve come through that part of the Word inits day. We’ve been baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. And now Hehas brought us on to this that you now see and hear. He is letting usknow that there is another baptism—and this baptism is into the bodyof Christ. It’s not showing the resurrection of the dead, because waterbaptism showed that. This baptism is for the quickening of the mortalbody—and we will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of eye, tomeet the Lord in the air.

So what we are doing is preparing ourselves for their resurrection andour physical translation—and now our spiritual mentality fits this partof the Word like a hand fits a glove. The norm is for people, as theygrow older, to talk in this manner, “I’m old; I’m going to be dying verysoon.” And sometimes we hear a husband and wife that have reachedtheir senior years, saying, “I wonder which one of us is going to diefirst.” Even many that know about the rapture talk like that. But thewife of our Lord Jesus talks about being physically translated, in a mo-ment, in the twinkling of an eye, while others are preparing for death,



burial, and resurrection. That is their faith. But God is preparing usnow through the message of the trumpet sounding; getting our spiritand mind fit to walk among those that He has resurrected. We willknow them and be able to fellowship with them. We will feel right athome with them. And we are going to welcome them with open arms.

I can imagine seeing some of those old saints that have gone on that Iknew years ago before we came into this final part of God’s plan for HisSon’s wife. This plan is made known to them by the sounding of thislast trumpet to resurrect that part of the wife. I can’t wait to grab themand hug them and welcome them; and along about that time, that quick-ening power will be on us so strong that it will actually change our bod-ies. We won’t have to die because we are baptized into the body ofChrist now, and by this message so are they.

According to Hebrews, Chapter 12, starting in Verse 22, and readingon through Verse 24, Paul began to say, “But ye are come unto mount Sion,and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innu-merable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn,which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all , and to the spirits ofjust men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and tothe blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.” We’vecome to all these things. We are in those surroundings right now. Thatis where we have come; and God is preparing us and bringing us intoa spiritual mentality that lets us know that we are there. Hallelujah!We walk among angels. In Psalm’s, Chapter 91, it shows that God gaveHis angels charge and they help take care of us. Thank God for thatspiritual force that keeps all of the other powers pushed back. Thatmakes us winners. God made a way for us, and that way is clear andclean and straight—straight is the way—and we love the straight way,because we don’t want to wander out here and dabble around in dark-ness.

I remember a time when I didn’t know what was right or what waswrong. Among the different Pentecostal groups (who I worked with inthe past, until God let me see more truth and I moved on further in HisWord), they would say different things about baptism. Some wouldsay, “You have to be baptized using the name of the Father, Son, andHoly Ghost,” and they never called the name. And others would say,“Jesus is the name, so you have to be baptized in the name of Jesus.”And then there was another group that said, “You have to be baptizedin the name of Jesus Christ.” (And that’s good, that was the right way,according to Acts 2:38) But others would say, “You’ve got to be baptizedin the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, because in some places in the scrip-tures they were baptized in the name of the Lord.” Then there were


some that wouldn’t baptize, but they would only sprinkle the convert.All these different groups were fussing and arguing and they weren’tgoing anywhere with God. But all the while, the Spirit of God was mov-ing a people. And now He has moved us through two parts of the spir-itual coming of Christ, and we have come into the third part—the trumpof God. The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout (that wokeus up), with the voice of the archangel (that showed us where the brethren,Israel, fit), and with the trump of God (which is now sounding—and thisis the time that the dead are going to rise).

So God is causing us to make the final preparation for the meeting ofthe resurrected members of the wife. Are you ready to meet them andgreet them? And now we know that there is no force on earth greaterthan the Word of God that He is fulfilling for the time that we are in.Every time the hand on God’s time-clock comes around to a certain por-tion of the Word to be fulfilled, it always comes to pass just like it says.Amen.

Now we are in 1 Corinthians 15:29, and this is a scripture that I hadbeen puzzled about for a long time. In Verse 29, it begins to deal withbaptism; showing what it is for. The Word says, “Else what shall they dowhich are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they thenbaptized for the dead?” The Mormons say that this scripture is saying thatwe can be baptized for the dead and it will be as though they themselveswere baptized. But that is an error. Actually, this scripture is letting usknow what water baptism is all about. See, it is for those that are goingby the way of the grave. Paul explained that water baptism is showingdeath, burial, and resurrection of the saints that died before this lasttrumpet message sounds which produces a people that are changed ina moment, in the twinkling of an eye, by being baptized with a spiritualbaptism into the fullness of Christ. And this has taken us to a new areaof the Word of God where we are preparing to meet the resurrectedsaints. We are not preparing to go into the grave. We are preparing togo in the rapture; but first, before we go in the rapture, this Word isquickened—lifting us up. And there is joy in the camp! Praise God.

Let’s jump over to Verse 42. It says, “So also is the resurrection of thedead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.” It is sown oneway, but comes forth in another. Like a plant; it is sown as a seed, butGod gives it a body of its own. The saints in Paul’s day were wantingto know about the resurrection. They said, “How’s it going to be, Paul?The body is already decayed. How is it going to resurrect?” He said,“Thou fool. It’s like a seed. It doesn’t come forth like the seed you putin the ground. But it comes forth in a different body. It’s sown in cor-ruption and raised in incorruption. It’s sown in dishonor and raised in



glory. It’s sown in weakness; but raised in power!” Our mentality (andrevelation) goes beyond how the body is sown and resurrected, becausewe are not even talking about dying and being resurrected; we’re talk-ing about physical translation. And there is a big difference in resur-rection and translation. There is one group of saints resurrected, andanother group that are physically translated. The Word tells us thatwhen the last trumpet sounds, that is when those that have died willresurrect; and then we are going to be changed in a moment, in thetwinkling of an eye. And we are prepared already to meet those thatcome forth.

Remember, we are not physically translated (although we are alreadyspiritually translated—Colossians 1:12-13) when they come forth. Butsometimes I feel like I’m physically translated anyway, don’t you? In-side I’m translated. Those old saints that were laid away years ago, andsome of our loved ones who believed the Word who passed on recently,they didn’t see all the Word that we see, but they saw what God wasdoing in their time period. The powerful Word, the hands on the clockof God, was moving on that part of the Word, and when they died, theywere meeting God’s qualification for that day and that hour. When theywent down, they were right with God according to what they knew atthe time—and that was enough to give them eternal life; for they weredoing the will of God for their day before they passed from this life.And now this message of this trumpet sounding brings them up. Inmany cases the body has decayed away until nothing is left but a littledust. But God only needs a little to create with—a little dust and a Wordtheophany is all He needs. This applies to all of the wife as she is partof Him.

So Paul was showing us how the body was sown. But I want you tonotice how drastically his conversation changed from death, burial, andresurrection to translation; from death to victory over death. He con-trasted between it so much that we can’t miss it when we hear this trum-pet sound. Until this trumpet sounded, yes, you could count on dying.So this trumpet message is not for the people that say, “I hope I live an-other two or three years.” or “I know I will be going on soon, but I hopeI live long enough to see my grandchild grow up. I hope I live that long,and then I will be ready to die.” Well, those who are hearing the trum-pet sounding, we’re not going to be ready to die; we’re ready to live;we’re ready to be physically translated. Let it come! Hallelujah!

It’s important for us to understand that God will take care of the otherpeople that have a place in His Kingdom; even though they are not HisSon’s wife. This brings to mind when my wife, Barbara Jean, receiveda scripture after a sister in the Lord talked to her about her little great-


granddaughter. She was worried about what would happen to her, andwho would take care of her when the rapture takes place. Barbara Jeansaid, “Since we don’t have an answer to these things, let’s put it in thehands of the Lord.” After she finished talking to the sister, she was walk-ing through the house and the thought came to her, “Mother, beholdthy son. Son, behold thy mother.” We find Jesus saying this in John,Chapter 19, when He was on the cross, before He gave up His ghostand went on. He saw his mother and said, “Woman, behold thy son(speaking of John, the disciple whom Jesus loved). And then He saidto John, “Behold thy mother.” And from that point on, John broughtMary into his house to care for her well-being. Jesus was making pro-vision for His mother after He was gone. And after He did this, Hecried, “It is finished.” God always makes provision. What is going tohappen to this one in tribulation? What if this one doesn’t make it orthat one doesn’t make it? I tell you, “You make it, and leave the rest toGod.” You will never figure out what is going to happen to this one orwhat is going to happen to that one. But if you have faith you say,“Lord, I put it into your hands, and I leave it there.” And there will bepeace, peace, wonderful peace! Amen.

There is a great contrast in what Paul was teaching prior to arrivingat 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 in the Word; for he was talking about death,burial, and resurrection, and how water baptism was a type of that.And then he switched over totally to a prophetic part of God’s Wordthat says, “we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed at the lasttrump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised.” Andthat is where we are now. And we are making preparation to entertainthose resurrected saints.

Lately, I’ve had a few people tell me that certain ones that have goneon by the way of the grave have come to them in a dream; but it is notgoing to be a dream much longer; for we are in the hour now when it isgoing to be a reality. Glory to God! We can say, “Come and have a mealwith me.” Because they can eat, they can fellowship, and they can knowthings about this natural life. They can even have a sense of humorwhen they raise from the dead. Jesus did. In Luke 24:13-53, He showedthis as He walked with the two disciples on the way to Emmaus: Thetwo disciples were walking and talking about Jesus and were sad aboutwhat had happened to Him, when Jesus came upon them and askedthem why they were so sad. They related the story about Jesus (notknowing this was Him that they were speaking to; they thought thiswas a stranger, because their eyes were holden to who this was). AndJesus began to expound in all the scriptures the things concerning Him-self, causing their hearts to burn as He talked to them along the way.



They finally arrived in their village, and Jesus made as though (pre-tended) that He was going on. But they constrained Him to come inand abide with them. Now we are talking about a resurrected manhere! (We will have a body likened unto His own glorious body. Weare going to be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. Hedied, so that we could live.) So Jesus finally gave in and went in withthem. But before they began to eat dinner, the Word was quickened tothem—as He broke the bread and began to ask the blessing over it, sud-denly their eyes where open and they knew Him! Then Jesus disap-peared. They forgot about eating their dinner and they began to runback to Jerusalem lighthearted. (Will you be lighthearted when you seethe resurrected saints? Will you be so happy that you can’t keep yourfeet on the ground?) They ran all the way back to Jerusalem, telling thedisciples that Jesus had risen. The other disciples might have thought,“These men have got a hold of some new wine; we’ve never seen themact this way before.” (No, they weren’t drunk on new wine; but it wasall because Jesus, like the good Samaritan, had poured a little oil andwine in their wound. And no longer were they sad and discouraged.)And while they all were talking, here appeared Jesus in their midst andsaid, “Children, do you have any food?” And then He began to talkwith them as they all ate fish and honey together. Then He quickenedthe scripture to them which spoke of how He would be buried and riseagain on the third day. Then they realized, “What the Prophet told uswould be, is here. Here He sits; He’s been dead three days and nights.He has risen, and here He is eating dinner with us!”

So God is preparing us to meet the resurrected members of the wifein this day, to greet them. We’ll get together here and have a good timelearning about one another before we go to meet Jesus in the air.

We see in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 15, that Paul is bringing us into this.He stopped talking about death, burial, and resurrection when he gotto Verse 51. He stopped talking about that and began talking aboutsomething different, which is now a reality—there’s the message thathe said would be here. There’s the Word that he said would be here.There’s the people that he said would be here. And the angels of theLord are here; we’ve come into heavenly Jerusalem. We’ve come intoHim. We’ve left all denominational spirits. We don’t even like the smellof them. We don’t want to get the stench of it on us. That’s why wedon’t go into these religious places of worship. I’m not saying there’snot good people in there. There are some good people and they will goright into the tribulation period and give their lives for the Lord. Thisis seen in Revelation 12:11; it says, “They loved not their lives unto thedeath.” But what we are dealing with here is the wife of the Lamb.


We’re going a different way than the tribulation saints. We are goingstraight up in the air! Glory to God! And all the church age membersthat are a part of the body of Christ who are resurrected by this Wordwill go in the rapture.

Although, in the church ages this physical translation was unavailableto them and they went by the way of death, Revelation 2:10 says, “Bethou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” Not untildeath, but unto death. In other words, death was their door to eternallife. And now they are resurrected and go in the rapture. Praise God!

It’s similar with the foolish virgins and the tribulation saints. Theywillingly give their lives in that great tribulation period. They will havethe understanding that the marriage has already taken place and theresurrected and translated wife have already left in a rapture. And bothgroups are still here at the middle of the week as the great tribulationbegins. They will say, “The only way we can get out of here is throughthe channel of death.” So they loved not their lives unto death. Andthey overcome the antichrist by the word of their testimony and by theblood of the Lamb. That’s for the great tribulation group. But Paul inhis writing was pointing to a time when we wouldn’t be talking aboutgoing by the way of the grave. We are talking about a physical transla-tion, just after the church age saints who are to be part of the wife areresurrected.

Now let us begin reading about this in 1 Corinthians 15: Area 51. Itchanges gears completely. There is no more talking about death. Weare not of the religious people that say, “I wonder which one of us isgoing to die first.” Some husbands and wives make statements like that.Well, rapture isn’t even in their minds. But our message is about phys-ical translation; not physical death. We are here to welcome those backfrom the grave. We are in that hour now. There is a trumpet soundingand this is what it is saying, Verse 51, “Behold, I shew you a mystery (Nowthis is entirely different. We stop talking about death, burial, and res-urrection. We have gone into something entirely different. There’s sucha contrast there. Watch what it says.); We shall not all sleep (we whichare alive and remain), but we shall all be changed,” We’re not talking aboutdying and going in the grave and being resurrected. We are not talkingabout being baptized to be a type of death, burial, and resurrection,showing we’re going to resurrect from the dead. No—we are baptized,but we’re baptized by the Spirit into the body of Christ. We’ve movedon from natural baptism and the death, burial, and resurrection to spir-itual baptism and physical translation. That’s exactly what Verse 51does. It switches gears totally. “When will it happen?” Verse 52 tellsus, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump (How is it



going to happen?): for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raisedincorruptible, and we shall be changed.” So the next thing on the time-clockof God is the resurrection of those that have gone on before us. Andwe are here to meet them and greet them and open our arms to them.And then we will be changed into glorified members as they are. Andwe will say, “I’m so glad to see you! I missed you so bad! But now weare together again, forever!”

Continuing with Verse 53, “For this corruptible must put on incorruption,and this mortal must put on immortality.” Those that died, any corruptionthat might have been in their bodies died with them and is no more. Sowe could say concerning both the dead and living that they shall puton immortality. Verse 54, “So when this corruptible shall have put on in-corruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be broughtto pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.” Verse55, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting ofdeath is (because of) sin; and the strength of sin is (seen by) the law.” Butwe’re not under the law. We’ve come out of the church age law with allits rituals and traditions into this glorious liberty of the wife of theLamb.

In Romans, Chapter 8, it shows that we are not under the law of sinand death. When we read Romans, Chapters 5-8, we see this clearly.We see what the law is for, how it magnified sin; but we’re not underthe law—we’re under grace. We’re not under the law of sin and death,but we’re under the law of life. And then it goes on and says, Verse 57,“But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord JesusChrist.” Amen. Verse 58, “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast(That’s what he is telling us. When we see this, when we’re in the trum-pet message, be steadfast. Just keep your head on straight.), unmovable,always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that yourlabour is not in vain in the Lord.”

So Paul goes through all of that; in other words, he says death has nosting anymore and the grave has no victory. To us that are living, “Odeath where is your sting?” To those who went on before, “O gravewhere is your victory?” The grave doesn’t have victory over them anylonger. Why? Because the Word called them from the dust of the earthand they got up. And death doesn’t have any more sting over us, be-cause the Word says, “We which are alive and remain shall be changed ina moment, in the twinkling of an eye.”

So we are here to greet the saints as they come forth. Glory to God!We’re here to meet the resurrected members of the wife. And all willbe dressed in fine linen, clean and white, which is the righteousness ofthe saints. They’ll have the same righteousness that we’ve got. And if


there is a lack of understanding, if God wants to add some understand-ing, He will do it by the Word of God, by the sounding of the trumpetas we’ve come to where the angels are, to where the spirits of just menare made perfect. Those theophanies will be made complete by puttingon flesh and bones in their resurrection. And this is total perfection forthose just men. They will know this last trumpet message so good whenthey come up, because they have been hearing it along with you.They’ll say, “I was shouting and rejoicing while this message was beingpreached.” Amen, we’re not strangers. We are one. We are all membersof the wife of the Lamb—and we are all together before we go up. SoGod bless you today. Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we bless your name and we praise your name. I just pray,God, that you will take these words that we have spoken and may you use themfor your glory. And may we use them for your glory. And may you be glorifiedin your saints, as the wife of the Lamb marches forth with this wonderful mes-sage of truth. We ask in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen.




THE SPIRITS OF JUST MENARE MADE PERFECT

BY THE SOUNDING OF THIS LAST TRUMPET

A Covenant within the New Testament Covenant

Today we are going to be reading in the Book of Hebrews, Chapter12, Verses 22 through 24, as well as other places in the Word of God.And I want to entitle the message, The Spirits of Just Men are Made Perfectby the Sounding of this Last Trumpet. We’ve got something wonderfulthat we want to talk about today, and we will see how the Lord will leadus in this message. But before reading, let’s have a word of prayer.

Heavenly Father, I pray that you will bless us this morning and help us tospeak words that will be of an edifying nature to your people. Lord, I pray thatyou will open our ears and our hearts to your anointing which breaks everytether; this anointing that your servant, Paul, said would furnish our suffi-ciency—and our sufficiency can only be of thee. So we pray this morning thatyour sufficiency will be apparent in us and that you will bless your people wher-ever they may be. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

Let’s read in Hebrews 12:22-24. It says, ‘But ye are come unto (ye arecome unto—that’s important) Mount Sion, and unto the city of the livingGod, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels. Tothe general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven(not down here on earth somewhere), and to God the Judge of all, (nowwatch) and to the spirits of just men made perfect. And to Jesus the mediatorof the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better thingsthan that of Abel.”

Now as we read these scriptures carefully, we see that Paul was draw-ing a big circle that included many things in telling us what we cameto. First, ‘unto Mount Sion.’ Second, he let us know that this is the cityof the living God, heavenly Jerusalem. Third, he said that (we havecome to) an innumerable company of angels. Fourth, ‘to the general as-sembly and to the church (called out ones) of the firstborn which arewritten in heaven.’ Fifth, ‘to God, the Judge of all.’ Sixth, ‘and to thespirits of just men made perfect.’ Seventh, ‘and to Jesus, the mediatorof the New Covenant and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh bet-ter things than that of Abel.’ As we read these verses, we can only say,“Wow! Did you leave out anything, Paul?” Here, Paul talked aboutGod, the Judge of everything. He even went back to Abel’s sacrifice as

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he sacrificed a lamb; the lamb dying in Abel’s stead. Then he tells usabout Jesus Christ, who was God’s Lamb, the sacrifice for us all, as Hedied for us and became the mediator of the New Covenant, whichbrought us out from under the curse of the law. (Galatians 3:11-14) Paulalso tells about Mount Sion, the heavenly Jerusalem, and the innumer-able host of angels, and the church of the firstborn. So as we read theseverses, we can only come to one conclusion, which is that Paul gave usenough Word here to preach on for quite some time. But in the messagetoday, I will only be highlighting one part of these scriptures, and that’sthe part that speaks of the ‘spirits of just men made perfect.’ Also, Iwant to speak about our covenant which is within the New TestamentCovenant.

Now concerning ‘the spirits of just men that are made perfect,’ wemay legitimately ask, “How could the spirits of just men be lacking inperfection?” The answer to that question is found in the fact that Godis the one who determines what perfection is and what it is not. It willhelp us in our understanding here to glance over into Ephesians 4:13;for here we find two phrases: ‘a perfect man’ and ‘the fullness of Christ.’Then in Verse 15 we find these words: ‘may grow up into Him in allthings.’ So what we are looking at in these verses is that God is clueingus into the fact that in His great plan He is looking at the finished prod-uct concerning the body of Christ as we reach this plateau.

So when the words ‘perfect and fullness’ are used, and then God tellsus also to continue to grow, we must realize that He is speaking fromthe standpoint of His foreknowledge. By His foreknowledge He seesfullness and perfection, while in the present we are to continue to growinto what He foresaw and is speaking about. This helps us to under-stand the meaning of perfection as seen through God’s all-seeing eyes.And although Christ came down in Revelation 10:1-2 in His fullness asthe body that we were baptized into, the members continue to grow inthe perfect knowledge of the Son of God. Even after our baptism intothe fullness of Christ, growing is a necessity on our part. But as Godlooks at us, He sees our fullness and perfection in Christ. This tells methat in the eyes of God this is the perfection that God is pleased with aswe grow up into the fullness of Christ. And now we are clothed in finelinen, clean and white, as the wife of the Lamb. (Revelation 19:7-8) Thisis something to keep in mind as we take a journey into the Word wherePaul is writing about the spirits of just men made perfect. This meansthat what was ordained for them has materialized into perfection as wejoin them by our baptism into the same body. God is seeing ‘fullness’as in Christ. And by our baptism into Christ, His fullness is applied toevery member of the body.


Here we ask the question, “Who was Paul writing about when hespoke of the spirits of just men made perfect in Hebrews 12:23?” Theprimary answer to this question is that these spirits (or theophanies) isthe inward man of all that have gone on before us in death that’s to bea part of the wife of the Lamb. This includes all those that were part ofthe espoused virgin in Paul’s day, as well as those who were part of thewife down through the church ages. This also includes those of the wifethat have departed from this mortal life since Christ came back to thisearth as the Mighty Angel in Revelation 10:1-2. They weren’t privilegedto take possession of the little book and eat it up while they were alive,which would have translated their mortal bodies without ever seeingdeath.

When we think about those that have departed this life since Christ(as the Mighty Angel) came down, it’s very clear that their spirits arejoined with those souls that departed in the past ages. This includesBrother William Branham and the people that he led to the Lord thatare now resting and waiting for their resurrection. All that are part ofthe wife is included in this group of the spirits of just men. This alsoincludes those that Brother Raymond Jackson was instrumental inbringing to the Lord that have departed this life. They go directly intoheavenly Jerusalem and become one with the spirits that Christ broughtdown from heaven. And now that this has happened, it means that allwho have departed into their theophanies are hearing this last trumpetsounding forth (making one gospel or message for us all). Meaning thatall members of the wife are riding on white horses (which is the powerof the Word), all clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Revelation19:14) And now all of these souls are rejoicing in these wonderful thingsthat we all are hearing. Again, this is including all the church age saints(those that are part of the wife), which will soon rise from the dead intheir glorified bodies. And then we which are alive and remain will bephysically translated into glorified bodies as they are; as seen in 1 Thes-salonians 4:13-17 and 1 Corinthians 15:51-57.

Here is something that I want us to think about: One of the greatestthings that we have in common with the spirits of the departed saintsis that we all are desiring the same thing— our glorified bodies. As weread in our scripture, it tells us that we have come to these spirits as wehave been spiritually translated out of the kingdom of darkness into theKingdom of God’s dear Son. (Colossians 1:13) Meaning that now weare all together in the fullness of the body of Christ.

So in the Book of Hebrews where we read about spirits made perfect,what we are seeing is completeness and fullness. In God’s plan He laidthis prophecy in His Word where it has been kept safe for more than

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two thousand years before coming to pass. Now this prophecy is madea reality in 1 Corinthians 15:51-53. This happened when God broughtto pass that which is written. He foresaw this before the world was.Now that’s God’s perfection. This means what He foresaw before theworld, He brings us to that. It’s like building a house. First you see ablue-print of the plan, along with a picture of what the house will looklike as the finished product; then you start building. And when you geteverything done, you’ve got perfection or completion. But until then,it is an active ongoing process toward the final goal of completeness.That’s when we can say affirmatively, “Now that’s perfection! Just lookat this beautiful home, and it’s just for us, the wife.”

So in this setting, what are the spirits of ‘just’ men? They are saints ofGod (both male and female) who walked in truth in their day. But aswe know, the departed saints did not receive their glorified bodies atthat time but went to the grave. Therefore, they are waiting for theirglorification, which is their completion. And only God can bring themto that by His Word (the sounding of the last trump of 1 Corinthians15:51-53); for only in Him is perfection found, which in this case, is glo-rification. That’s when they will have reached their perfection, the full-ness that God ordained. This reveals the fact that what is lacking arebodies for the spirits to dwell in. And when their bodies are createdand activated (resurrected) by the sounding of this last trump—that’swhen these spirits of just men are made complete—that’s perfection.

When we look over in Ezekiel, Chapter 37, God was showing Ezekielin a vision how He would bring hope and life back to Israel. Ezekielsaw a valley of dry bones—and when he prophesied to these dry bones,they received flesh on their bones and lived again. The Word doesn’tindicate anything about their spirits being made perfect; but whenEzekiel prophesied to the wind, the breath of life came into them andthey stood upon their feet as a mighty army. This is showing the re-gathering and the restoration of the nation of Israel. But here in He-brews the Word is showing something different. Paul is writingexclusively about the spirits of just men that will become one with theirbodies which will be raised again unto eternal life. What Paul is show-ing here is not a vision but an actual happening in our day. The spiritsof just men will receive a body that has eternal life as their spirits al-ready have, as these spirits weren’t complete without their bodies.Hence, they are made perfect by receiving a glorified body by the spo-ken Word of God. And as stated, this is accomplished by the soundingof this last trumpet. For they were a mighty army (church) but theydied. And now we prophesy and they live again as part of the wife ofthe Lamb!


Prior to what Paul said in Hebrews 12:22-24, he spoke about the spiritsof the departed saints in 2 Corinthians 5:1-4, and said, “For we know thatif our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building ofGod, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this wegroan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is fromheaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we thatare in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be un-clothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.” Soupon the death of the outer man, the inner man (spiritual man or soul)is released as a theophany or spiritual body. Now that’s what cameback—when Christ came He brought these spirits of just men back. (1Thessalonians 4:14)

So the point is, Paul is writing here about being made perfect, or beingmade whole, as God ordained before the world was created. And, ofcourse, in Hebrews 11:40, it says, “They cannot be made perfect withoutus.” It’s the same with us now as it was with the Old Testament saints(in the first part of the first resurrection); for it took them all comingforth from the grave to complete God’s plan for them. And now it’s thesame with the wife of the Lamb. It takes all the members to completethe body of Christ, which means there has to be a coming together, aswe are part of one another (we which are alive and remain, along withthe risen saints to be complete) and that takes place before the rapture,because the Word says, “We shall be caught up together with them inthe clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.” (1 Thessalonians 4:17)

So we can say, “Without us they cannot be made perfect;” and like-wise, “Without them we as the wife of the Lamb cannot be made perfector complete, as we are all members of the same body and part of oneanother.” Because we all together are Christ the wife. And as long asthere is lacking, it hasn’t reached its fullness yet; there is still some full-ness to be reached. But the spirits of those that have gone on went im-mediately into their heavenly place of rest until our time arrived withthis message to say unto them, “Come forth!”

So what we see in Paul’s various letters, as we look at them all togetherwe see a picture begin to form as we go from one of his writings to an-other. Here, once again, the scriptures are shown to be a treasure-trovewaiting to be discovered as we read God’s precious Word to receive therevelation thereof. This is seen in Isaiah 28:9-10, “Whom shall he teachknowledge? And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that areweaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be uponprecept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, andthere a little:” As we look at the scriptures, they let us know that thesespirits spoken of in our scripture reading speak of the spirits of those



departed, and they definitely need the same thing that we the livingneed. And that is the glorified body for our spirit and soul to dwell in.From this standpoint, we see two groups of these spirits that becomeone in the body of Christ.

At a glance we see the obvious ones, the spirits of those that have goneby the way of death into the house not made by hands, as Paul de-scribed to us in 2 Corinthians 5:1-4, which is their theophany or spiritualbody. The less obvious, which is referred to as we which are alive and re-main, is the inner man of those who are still in their mortal body thatwe present to Christ by being baptized into the fullness of His body.Ephesians 4:24 speaks of the new man created in righteousness and trueholiness. So when we look at Paul’s terminology of ‘spirits of just men’he is speaking of the soul and spirit of men and women who have giventheir lives to God and lived (or is living) a godly life. And then Paulsays in 1 Corinthians 6:19 that our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.And also the Word in Romans 12:1-2 says to present our body a livingsacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God. At this point, both the livingand the dead are desiring the same thing, which is our glorified body.This will make us complete; having eternal life not only for our spiritand soul, but also for our body. That’s when we will be raptured to-gether before the great tribulation period in this last day.

In reading the New Testament scripture, we find that Paul went towhere the departed spirits of just men were, and described them to us.When this happened to him, he tells us in 2 Corinthians 12:1-5 that hecouldn’t tell if he was in his body or out of his body. And now in thevery time period that we have just come through, Brother William Bran-ham, was caught up. One morning as he was meditating on what it waslike beyond the curtain of time, a voice said unto him, “Would you liketo see what it is like over there?” He said, “It would help,” and at thatmoment he felt himself slipping out of his body, and suddenly there hewas in another place with the departed saints. This is in line with whatPaul wrote about in 2 Corinthians 5:1-4 and Hebrews 12:22-24. Theseare the spirits of the saints that came back with Christ as seen in 1 Thes-salonians 4:14 that Paul informed us of, which is very enlightening.

Let’s read again Hebrews 12:22. It says, “But ye are come…” The spiritsof just men came with Christ, and now we have come to them. “But yeare come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenlyJerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels.” Now this city, heav-enly Jerusalem, is a spiritual environment that we have come into. Herethe angels and the spirits (or souls) of just men are seen together withus and are waiting for God to bring all of His plan to completion. Theneach will have their own habitation as both the angels and mankind


serve as separate parts of God’s family. Now having said that, the spirits of the saints that have gone on before

us, their spirits entered into heaven while their bodies went by the wayof the grave to decay away. Yes, it’s true that their spirits went right outof them into that place that God has prepared for them. [Now I’mspeaking only of the members of the body of Christ, as they are the onlyones that we are dealing with here. But we know that all the redeemedhave their place in the plan of God. And all those that have been or willbe called, God’s messengers will give them their proper instructions asto what applies to them. Again, here I am only dealing with those thatare a part of the wife that went before us by the way of death.] But wewhich are alive and remain, our spirit and soul stays right in our mortalbody until we are changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. Ourspirit (theophany) is not brought down from heaven as a part of thosethat are shown in 1 Thessalonians 4:14. Because our theophany (whichis our spirit and soul) is within us, and this body will be changed with-out our spirit ever leaving our body. So all our perfection takes placein our body without ever seeing death and that will make our final per-fection, or completion.

So there are some Word bodies to come forth; and it is God’s will tocall them from the dust of the earth by the Word—that’s resurrection.As He is calling them from the dust of the earth, what is taking place istheir Word body is being created. That’s why it was so necessary for usto become the Word—we became the Word by eating the Word (the lit-tle book) which was provided for us by the hearing of this last trumpet.

The Word of God teaches that known unto the Lord are all His worksfrom the beginning. In other words, what He saw in the beginning, itis going to materialize just like He planned it. There’s a people thatwere, and are, tested; and we have proved our love to God by what wedo and by responding to God’s Word that is for us. And He predesti-nated us by His foreknowledge. He has already seen the end of allthings, so He is justified in putting the names in the Book of Life beforethe foundation of the world. God gives us the call, but then He standsout here and He sees what we will do with the calling. And if we arenot doing the right thing and we are His seed, He is able to influenceconditions in our life to see that we do get to where He saw us beforethe world was. He will make it work, because He was here to see whatwe would do with what He dealt us. That’s His foreknowledge.

Now when Paul was writing about the spirits of the departed saintsas he wrote in the Book of Hebrews, he was looking at something thatwould be very important here at the end time just before the rapture.His thoughts at the time of his writing was that this would all take place



in his time period. But what was unknown to him was the fact thatwhat he was writing here was not for his time period, but would be forus, here at the end time. Because first of all, when the espoused virginwas almost ready for perfection (which is the marriage), she began tostray away. In 2 Corinthians 11:2-3, Paul said, “For I am jealous over youwith godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may presentyou as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpentbeguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from thesimplicity that is in Christ.” In other words, he was speaking and writingto a group present then, but he included the marriage in it. In Eph-esians, Chapter 5, he talked about becoming bone of his bone and fleshof his flesh, which only takes place in marriage. And this has come intobeing in our day under the sounding of this last trumpet here at the endtime. This is the reason it became necessary for Paul’s message to createa covenant within the New Testament Covenant just for the wife, whichwould free her from Paganism and the Jewish law, and the propheticpart of Paul’s message will free us today from the church age law andall religious systems in order that we would know Christ Jesus and Himalone. The Lamb’s wife has come through the trials and the temptationsand has chosen Him over everything else. (We will get more on thisnew covenant later in this message.)

I thank God that He gave us a choice; otherwise, He would have abeautiful group of robots and it would be programed into us what todo and we wouldn’t be able to do any differently. Then we would notbe participating with God. But the Word says we labor with Him, wework with Him, and He leads us and He guides us. And He gives usthe chance to make the choice to serve Him. And even if we make somebad choices, that doesn’t change God’s ultimate plan, because He knowshow to bring us around to the place where we make the right choicesto the glory of God. And I praise God for the way He does things. Oneof the great things about understanding the Word is understanding thehour that we’re living in and the promise for this day, and we look tothat. And having this understanding, it lets us know that soon we willbe changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

Now at this time, all the members of the wife are hearing the voice ofthe Son of God. And God has brought us all into a spiritual environ-ment. In Paul’s mind, this was to take place in his day; and up until justbefore his departing from this life this was his thoughts, because hesaid, “We which are alive and remain, we’re going to be changed!”That’s when Paul stepped out and said, “Behold, I show you a mystery.”This mystery was concerning the dead rising and our translation. Andnow the wife of the Lamb has stepped out and is bringing it to pass.


First of all, in God’s plan He gave the gift of the Holy Ghost to put thelife of Christ into His disciples and told them about water baptism tobegin the New Testament after the death, burial, and resurrection of ourLord Jesus Christ. It started on the day of Pentecost; and even after thedeath of the apostles, the life of Christ came all the way through theseven church ages. So when Paul wrote the Book of Romans, we findin Chapter 6, Verses 1-5, where he explained what water baptism wasshowing us. Here he explained to those saints that water baptismwould show forth what Jesus did in dying and raising again. This alsoshowed that they would spiritually die to the things of this world andlive only for Christ. And it also showed that water baptism would belike unto death and burial and resurrection. And when we read in theBook of 1 Corinthians 15:29, he says, “If the dead rise not, then why areyou baptized for the dead, or why are you baptizing?” He was makingthe point that baptism is still showing death, burial, and resurrection,and how the body is sown in weakness but raised in power. But thenhe gets to a place where he changes his subject from death, burial, andresurrection to what is to happen to the wife as this trumpet sounds.Here’s where we begin to see the wife’s covenant come into plain view.

Now, whether we want to accept it or not, in this hour there has beena great change wrought of God; for we have come out of the churchages where God gave the commandment to let the wheat and taresgrow together until the end time and then He would send His angelsto separate them. At the beginning of the church ages, God said, “Letthem grow together.” And that’s the reason things have gone the waythey have throughout the seven church ages as the espoused virgin fellaway and went into darkness. But the Word said that in the last daysGod was going to gather the tares out and bind them in bundles to burnthem. And He did. And then He gathered the wheat in His barn.(Matthew 13:30). This shows that when God accomplishes one part ofHis plan, He moves on to the next thing that’s written in His Word. It’svery important to understand this in this last day. After Christ came toearth in the form of the Mighty Angel (hiding Himself from all exceptHis wife) we were baptized into His body, thus making us Christ thewife.

As God continued moving in a supernatural way, He has now broughtus through Revelation, Chapter 10, and into (inside) Ephesians 4:13-16.That’s when all of this began to take place—Christ as the Mighty Angelcame down and set His right foot upon the sea and His left foot on theearth. This is the first showing of the two legs of the spiritual comingof the Lord; up until now we could see only one leg of it. The first legof the spiritual coming of the Lord was on the day of Pentecost, that’s



when He came back in the form of the Holy Ghost. But He came backagain in Revelation 10:1 in the form of the Mighty Angel and Hebrought with Him the little book that had been taken up when Paulwent off the scene. And now in this day, we see the second leg of Hisspiritual coming, which is the fullness, the completion of His spiritualcoming to bring to pass what’s written to be.

This had begun to come into being as Paul (who was in Christ’s steadaccording to 2 Corinthians 5:20) was showing Christ as He was availablein his day. So he was looking towards the marriage that would takeplace in this time of the sounding of this last trumpet where all of us to-gether (both the risen members and we which are alive and remain)would be in the spiritual realm of the fullness of Christ. But all of thisstopped short of what Paul preached, because the espoused virgin fellaway from this great promise for her marriage, which would have madeboth Christ and His virgin complete and perfect in one body. Yes, itstopped the promise of the fullness of what was about to be, leavingthem with only the first leg of the spiritual coming of Christ before thesecond leg of the coming could come into being. It was at this time thatthe virgin went into the Dark Ages. And as bad as this seems, this didnot stop the marriage, it just delayed it. For we see that Christ cameback to this earth in Revelation 10:1. Here He is in His fullness, bothlegs of His spiritual coming, to bring to completion His marriage to Hiswife. And now it has all been brought to the fullness of what was writ-ten concerning the marriage in Revelation 10:8-11 and Ephesians 4:13-16, with the complete picture being seen in Revelation 19:7-8, whichshows the wife dressed in fine linen, clean and white.

There is a dream that I will tell at the end of our message today ofsomething that happened that will help us to see more clearly what hap-pened in the past and how it’s all been brought together here in this endtime coming of Christ as the Mighty Angel. Christ’s spiritual comingsparked many important events; for with His spiritual descent to earthcame that little book (which had been taken up to heaven when Paulwent off the scene). Also with Him came the spirits of those that diedwho were to be a part of the wife from the beginning of the espousalperiod and throughout the seven church ages.

So it happened like this: When the prophetic part of God’s Word couldnot be fulfilled in Paul’s day, God picked it up into heaven. That’s whenGod moved the Word (revelation) for the marriage and glorification upinto the Book of Redemption and sealed it with seven seals. Now thisBook of Redemption in Revelation, Chapter 5, is very important to ourunderstanding of the Word. That’s because it shows the mind of Godand all the redemption therein, regardless of what part of God’s family


we are dealing with. That’s what Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God,wrought at Calvary. Then in our day, the seals were taken off the bookand the Lamb opened it. Then He took from the Book of Redemptionthe little book and sent it down to this earth, the part of the Book of Re-demption that is for the wife of the Lamb. God sent it back to us by theSpirit of Christ. This was exactly what was taken up in Paul’s day.

When the opening of the seals took place, it showed us what happenedin the seven church ages. And the angel of the Lord told John to writeto the seven churches of Asia, which shows us what happened in theseven church ages as the time came for them to be manifested. TheSpirit spoke unto them and said, “Thou art fallen; you’re fallen fromyour first love.” And from that time on, we see that it went all the waydown into the Dark Ages. Now where were the saints that Paul wroteto? Where was the revelation, “We which are alive and remain”?Where was these spirits of just men? God took them all into that Bookof Redemption, a small portion within it known as the little book. TheMighty Angel brought it down from heaven and then He told us to takethe little book and eat it up. In other words, “Understand this. Take inthis Word.” He tells us to go prophesy about these things that weretaken up but have now come down and are now being fulfilled. Thisincludes such scriptures as, ‘we which are alive and remain,’ which wastaken up with the little book, but was brought back by Christ.

Now there’s another scripture that I want to read to confirm that thisis what happened; it’s in 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4. It’s not a strangescripture to us, because we’ve heard it read many times, and it’s men-tioned elsewhere in this writing. It not only shows us those departedsaints, but now after the church ages, we see Christ coming back toearth. So Paul is writing in 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4; I’ll start withVerse 13, “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning themwhich are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.” Peo-ple were getting disturbed, they were coming to Paul and perhaps say-ing something like this, “Grandma passed away. What will we do?”He said, “I don’t want you to be ignorant about them which are asleep.This is the way it is,” Verse 14 says, “For if we believe that Jesus died androse again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”Yes, He brought those spirits back to earth to unite with the resurrectedbody in their glorification.

When Christ came back, He brought these departed spirits of just menback to earth. When the espoused virgin fell away, God took away thefulfilling of these scriptures so they could not take place until they wentthrough the seven church ages. They were kept in a place of safety.Well, this little book, as it was taken up, it was put in the ark (in God’s



mind); it was put in the Book of Redemption, the same Book of Redemp-tion that Adam lost.

This Book of Redemption at first was the title deed to the earth, whichGod gave Adam, His first son (who was created; not begotten); but Eve,his wife sinned, and then Adam sinned also, and they forfeited theirclaim to it, therefore it went back to its original owner, Almighty God.Now the earth and mankind had to be redeemed. That’s when the titledeed to the earth became the Book of Redemption. And only the Lambof God, which was God’s only begotten Son, could buy it back by givingHis life to purchase it, paying the sin debt. And no one could claim ituntil the Lamb came and claimed the whole thing. He bought it at Cal-vary; therefore it now belongs to Him.

So the Lamb took the Book of Redemption, unsealed it by taking theseven seals off of it (and here is something that I want you to be awareof—at this time He only took from it the part that has to do with Hismarriage to His beautiful wife) and sent it down to us in the form of thelittle book, which is seen in Revelation, Chapter 10. And since that time,God has been empowering a people to live right, to walk in the light,and to do His bidding—to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holyand acceptable unto God which is our reasonable service. And theWord says, “I pray that your whole spirit, soul, and body will be pre-served blameless unto His coming.” (1 Thessalonians 5:23) That’s whatGod has today—the living, breathing, walking, talking Word. And nowour theophanies (our spirits of just men) are here within us. Also, whenHe brought back the little book, along with it came the anointing to raisethe dead and translate our mortal bodies. That means He brought backthe prophetic part of Paul’s message, and we are prophesying things tobring to pass what Paul said would be here (which is now being ful-filled) in Ephesians 4:13-16.

So when the New Testament Covenant was introduced on the day ofPentecost to produce a people with the very life of Christ in them, it wasgiven first to the Jews, as the brethren of Jesus Christ. And then throughPaul’s message, the New Testament Covenant was extended on to peo-ple of all nations to produce a virgin to be the Lamb’s wife. That’s whenGod gave unto us a covenant within the New Testament Covenant—that’s the little book that is for our marriage. This clearly shows whyGod called an apostle whose name was Paul (who was not one of thetwelve Jewish apostles that preached to Israel) and gave unto him a rev-elation which showed that the nations (Gentiles) did not have to keepthe law to be included in the plan of God. So he began to preach to thenations, telling them about the plan of God, calling out a people fromboth the Jews and Gentiles to become the wife of God’s only begotten


Son. He brought a message that would make one new man. (Ephesians2:14-22) Now to the people that believed and accepted it, God throughthe mouth of Paul gave them a covenant that is part of the New Testa-ment Covenant, which is only for the wife of the Lamb, a people thatgave up their own nation to become a part of the body of Christ and be-long only to Christ Jesus.

Now at this point in this message I want to break in with somethingthat is very needful. We have now arrived at the time where we havepassed from the natural water baptism, unto our spiritual baptism intothe body of Christ, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness ofChrist. Now we are not just saints waiting for death, burial, and resur-rection which was shown by our precious water baptism, but we haveentered into a new era of God’s plan as shown in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52. And now both the living and those that went before us in death arewaiting for our glorified bodies and together we will be caught up tomeet the Lord in the air.

In 1 Thessalonians 4:15-16, Paul is going to speak something thatwasn’t known before this time. He says, “For this we say unto you by theword of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of theLord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall de-scend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with thetrump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:” And the trump ofGod is sounding in our very day.

Now the spirits of just men are here; we see these spirits by revelation,but they’re not made complete yet; there is something lacking and thatis a body. We’re to bring them the Word, bring them the message; whichis the Word for putting on flesh and bones, which is happening now atthis last trump. And nothing could disturb those spirits of just menuntil they heard this message which fits exactly with what Paulpreached. Paul didn’t build on another man’s foundation, but he laidthe foundation for what we are preaching. (Romans 15:20) As thistrumpet has begun to sound, it picks up with the same tune that Paulpreached and takes it on to completion.

Let’s continue with 1 Thessalonians 4:17. It says, “Then we which arealive and remain shall be caught up together (Together with who? Verse 15tells who it is. It’s those that came forth; those who were asleep.) withthem in the clouds,” We all get together down here before being caughtup. When those departed spirits that once heard Paul preach in theirday began to hear this message sound forth, they might have said,“Paul, I hear you preaching again!” And perhaps Paul said, “They havepicked up the trumpet and dusted it off and they’re making a beautifulsound.” That’s what is going on today! This message is going forth and



it is changing the living and raising the dead. And the Word creates anew body for each of those saints whose flesh and bones dissolved inthe grave (as well as for us that are alive and remain), although theremay not be a teaspoonful of the dust of them remaining; because someof them were cast into the sea and some burnt, yet the Word will bringforth of their remains all that is needed to produce that body for thespirit to dwell in. O what a great God we serve!

So, the bodies are gone, but the creating Word is here; for all thingswere created by the Word! The Word is what created the body forAdam. And the Word is what created a little baby in the womb of Mary.The Word came to a virgin named Mary, and she said, “Be it unto meaccording to thy Word,” and she became pregnant. By what? By theWord. And it produced a body, just as bodies were created for the spir-its of Adam and Eve, who were created spirits first. (Genesis 1:26-28)And now a body is being produced for those spirits of just men to con-nect with. And we, the living members of the wife, are bringing a mes-sage to those saints that are making us all one; and at their resurrection,the Word will also change the body of us that are yet living, and thenwe all will be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air in 1Corinthians 15: Area 51. Amen. That’s where Paul said, “Behold.” Hewas telling about the resurrection, the plan of salvation, and all thesethings, but then he said, “Now I want to show you something; I wantto show you what’s going to be at the last turn of the wheel.” 1 Corinthi-ans 15:51-52 says, “Behold, I shew you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, butwe shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the lasttrump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,and we shall be changed.” The dead are raised by this message and theliving are changed by this Word!

Let’s go to Galatians 1:11; here is something that I want us to see. Paulcame introducing a covenant; it’s within the New Testament Covenantand was made known to us by Paul telling us what happened at Calvaryby Jesus Christ shedding His blood and giving His life for us. As thesong says, “What a great gulf that God did span at Calvary.” Everythingis traced right back to Calvary when it comes to redemption. But withinthe New Testament Covenant, here came a covenant for a people whoup to this time, for the most part, were shut out from the covenant as isrecorded in Ephesians 2:11-13. It says, “Wherefore remember, that ye beingin time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that whichis called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye werewithout Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangersfrom the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the


blood of Christ.” Now God begins the process of producing the wife ofthe Lamb. God takes from both the Jews and the Gentiles, a people; be-cause there is no single nation that God uses to take from it a people toproduce a wife for His Son, so He had to create a wife from all nations.God called out a people with the espousal message of Paul that brokedown the middle wall of partition between the two peoples (Jews andGentiles); taking a people from both to make up the wife for His Son.(Ephesians 2:14-22) And now in this last day it has all come together infullness as God has ordained by our marriage to God’s only begottenSon. And at this time, God put His Son and His Son’s wife under thesame covenant that makes us part of one another in marriage; which isbone of His bone and flesh and His flesh. And He gave us the Christpart of His name, making us Christ the wife.

God gave a covenant for His Son’s virgin through the messagepreached by Paul. And yes, it’s part of the New Testament Covenant;for redemption under the New Testament is not just for the wife but forall people in the New Testament Age. But in Paul’s message within theNew Testament, a marriage covenant for the wife is clearly expressedin his writings to the espoused virgin; and neither the virgin nor thewife have to keep the Law of Moses which was for the Jews. They didn’thave to be circumcised. (Romans 2:26-29) They could eat and drinkwhat was set before them. (1 Corinthians 10:27, and also we find Jesussaying the same in Luke 10:8) That was unlike the way it was underthe law that was for Israel. Paul began to explain this to the Galatians,saying, “But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of meis not after man.” Now watch; Verse 12 says, “For I neither received it ofman, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.” I want toask you, “Do you believe that today?” Here came a man with a messagefor a people other than the Jewish people; although there were someJews that were scattered throughout the Gentile nations that totally for-sook the law and became part of Paul’s message and were espoused asa virgin to Christ.

That’s why during a meeting (a conference) Peter and the other apos-tles shown in Galatians, Chapter 2, told Paul and Barnabas, “You go tothe heathens, and we will go to the circumcision.” Also, in this meetingthere were men, false brethren, who came in to spy out the liberty thatthe message that Paul was preaching gave the believers; that’s one ofthe reason’s they pointed out to Paul that Titus was uncircumcised andthey didn’t want to accept him as a believer. So they wanted Paul tohave Titus circumcised (him being a Greek). But Paul held his groundon his revelation, making it known that it was not necessary to be cir-cumcised. Then after Paul took his stand on this, God gave the other



apostles a revelation of Paul’s message in the New Testament Covenant.And finally they told him and Barnabas to go to the Gentiles and theywould preach to the Jews. (Galatians 2:6-9) But until Paul preached hisGod-given revelation to them, they didn’t know God’s plan for the Gen-tiles. But once he finished his testimony to them, Peter, James, and Johnall perceived that Paul had heard from God concerning the covenantthat would produce a wife for His Son. It was as though they were say-ing, “Paul, you have got something from God, but it is not for us. Yougo out there and preach to the heathens.” But we thank God that someof the Jews wanted this message and came into the group that Paul es-poused to Christ to become the wife of the Lamb. We see some of thesemembers of the wife in Romans, Chapter 16.

Notice this as we read Galatians 1:13. It says, “For ye have heard of myconversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I per-secuted the church of God, and wasted it:” Why did God let Paul persecutethe church, knowing and seeing that down the road he would be theapostle that carried the torch for the wife to get her engaged to ChristJesus? In his humility Paul said, “Lord, I’m the least among the saints.I’m not worthy to be called an apostle, because I’ve persecuted yoursaints.” But then he finished by saying, “But I am what I am by thegrace of God. The grace of God made me this. Regardless of what I’vedone, God called me.” Verse 14 says, “And profited in the Jews’ religionabove many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous ofthe traditions of my fathers.” Watch. I love Verse 15, “But when it pleasedGod (nobody else had anything to do with this), who separated me frommy mother’s womb, and called me by his grace (not works or anything),”What did he call him for? Verse 16 tells us—“To reveal his Son in me, thatI might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with fleshand blood:” Verse 17, “Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which wereapostles before me;” Please notice this—there were already apostlespreaching before Paul ever was converted. The New TestamentCovenant was already in force before Paul was converted. But withinthe New Testament Covenant, God revealed a covenant through Paul’smessage that would begin the espousal of a virgin to become the wife.He gave him a gospel that could not, and is not (even today), acceptedby anyone except the wife of the Lamb. But when Paul began to preachit, there were some predestinated Jews that liked it as much as the Gen-tiles did. And Paul said, “God broke down the middle wall of partitionin this group to make a new man, which is neither Jew nor Gentile, justone new man.”

Here I want to tell a dream that I had a few years back. In the dreamit seemed that I was living back in the days of Israel’s King David. He


walked up to me with a sword in his hand and as he got up close to me,he lifted his sword above my head and I saw that he was going to splitme right down the middle of my head. I begin to say, “Please don’t doit, David!” But my words were ignored. He brought the sword rightdown through my head and on down through my body, cutting it inhalf. Immediately, one part of my body fell one way and the other partfell another way; and all the while I was on the outside of my bodywatching this happen. Then suddenly, I reached and got both halvesand pulled them back together and they went together perfectly, in aseamless manner, and no one could tell that I had ever been separated.Then I woke up, and I began to think about what this dream couldmean. This is where God makes one new man of both the Jews and theGentiles—that’s the wife’s covenant. This was accomplished as we atethe little book of Revelation, Chapter 10, which was a part of and withinthe Big Book of Redemption (the Bible) that was brought down to thisearth to bring full redemption to the body of Christ.

In reading Ephesians 2:14-22, we see that the body that made theone new man (consisting of Jews and Gentiles) was in the days of Paul,but was split apart when the virgin fell from her first love in the dayof her espousal and she lost Paul’s revelation. And it stayed thus untilthe sounding of this trumpet in this last day when God has put it backtogether again for the marriage of the Lamb; thus making the one newman. This is clearly seen when we recognize the two legs of the spir-itual coming of the Lord. The Word (body) was taken apart and sep-arated at espousal in Paul’s day before the second leg could come intobeing for the consummation. The marriage of the virgin failed to takeplace as was seen by God in His foreknowledge. This in the endworked out very well for us here in this last day. So once again, thesaying is true which says, “He doeth all things well!” And now at theend time the marriage is consummated as we have reached the full-ness by both legs of the spiritual coming of Christ in Revelation 10:1-2 and 8-11. And now the body is just like Paul’s prophecy said itwould be.

Notice Galatians 1:17 again, “Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them whichwere apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Dam-ascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abodewith him fifteen days. But the other of the apostles saw I none, save James theLord’s brother.” And now let’s go to Chapter 2, Verses One and 2, it says,“Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, andtook Titus with me also. And I went up by revelation, and communicated untothem that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to themwhich were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.”



This is where Paul met with the other apostles that had the gospel forIsrael, and they recognized what was happening with him and hisgospel of calling out a people of both the Jews and the Gentiles to es-pouse them to the Son of God. It’s important here not to lose sight ofthe fact that all of the apostles to the Jews were under the New Testa-ment Covenant, as well as any other people whose names are in theBook of Redemption; whether in this age or the past age or in the future,such as those that go into the millennial reign as mortal people. Every-one needs what happened at Calvary.

So after Peter, James, and John vindicated Paul’s message, the shockof Paul saying, “God gave me a gospel,” began to be less disturbing tothem. So at this point, these apostles to the Jews realized that there wasa gospel to the Jews and a gospel to the Gentiles, a gospel of the circum-cision and a gospel of the uncircumcision. (Galatians 2:6-9) And alongwith Paul’s message came the need for a covenant for these people thathad not been a part of God’s family up until Paul’s message came forth.So then, God gave a new covenant for the wife, and Paul had the Wordto bring it into being; but it is within the New Testament Covenantwhich is for all of God’s people. And once again, here at the end time,God let us know about this covenant, and refreshes it for the wife afterthe church ages are over and have run their course, as the marriage hastaken place.

And now here’s a gospel, and it’s just like in Paul’s day. God sent Paulto call out a people of Judaism and Paganism to be a virgin espoused toChrist. Paul said, “I’m going to engage a virgin to Christ.” This he did,but she fell. But she has come back in this last day in the resurrection,as we which are alive and remain are joined with them together underthe wife’s covenant which joins us all unto Him in marriage. Then wewill receive our glorified body as they will in their resurrection; and to-gether we are caught away. That’s why it was necessary in our very dayfor a people to be called out of Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Pa-ganism, and the things of the world, and be married to the very Son ofGod, making us the wife of the Lamb, as we have become bone of Hisbone and flesh of His flesh. In Revelation 19:7-8, it says, “Let us be gladand rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, andhis wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should bearrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness ofsaints.” There it is—the dead and the living brought together, dressedin fine linen, to be caught up together to meet our Husband in the air!Let’s pray.

Heavenly Father, we come now to you. Lord, we appreciate you with all ofour heart. And, Lord, help us to be able to say as Paul said, “I am crucified


with Christ, nevertheless I live, but it’s not me that is living at all, but this isChrist Jesus that is living His life through His wife.” In the name of JesusChrist, we praise you for this. Amen.




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A Compilation of Twenty-Nine Sermons

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

WHAT WENT AROUND HAS COME AROUND

THE APOSTOLIC MINISTRY INSIDE THE BODY OF CHRIST

WE ARE GOD’S WORKMANSHIP CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS


PRESENTING YOUR BODY A LIVING SACRIFICE

BEING IN THE FLESH WITH ITS EVIL WORKS OR HAVING THE

FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT IN THE FLESH

THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE LAMB’S WIFE, IS A SANCTIFIED

PEOPLE

KEEPING YOUR SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY TOGETHER FOR ALL

ETERNITY

SUBMITTING OURSELVES TO THE MIGHTY CONQUEROR

EATING HIS FLESH AND DRINKING HIS BLOOD

CHRIST THE WIFE: A People Without A Country

YE BELIEVED (TRUSTED) AFTER YE HEARD THE GOSPEL OF

YOUR SALVATION

GOD ADDED CHRIST TO JESUS AFTER HIS BAPTISM AND NOW

JESUS HAS ADDED CHRIST TO HIS WIFE AFTER HER BAPTISM

THE DOCTRINES OF BAPTISMS PRODUCES ONE BAPTISM

EDIFIERS AND EXHORTERS INSIDE THE BODY OF CHRIST

THE THIRD HEAVEN AND THE NEW MAN: Being in Two Places at the

Same Time

THE WIFE OF THE LAMB IS EXEMPT FROM THE DEATH SENTENCE

PERFECT SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCES A PERFECT FAITH

AND A GOLDEN PATHWAY FOR THE WIFE

GOD GLORIFIES THE LORD AND HIS CHRIST (WIFE) BEFORE ALL

THE WORLD

JESUS CHRIST THE GREAT UN-DOER!

THE WIFE IS CELEBRATING THE END OF HER HAZARDOUS

JOURNEY FROM THE NATURAL TO THE SPIRITUAL

WE ARE BAPTIZED INTO A MESSAGE

THE DAY STAR ARISING AND THE GOSPEL ANGEL SAYING, LO,

WE TURN TO THE JEWS

TWO APOSTLES TO THE WIFE AND HER LEADERSHIP

YOU ARE BLESSED BY GOD WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY AND

THIRSTY

KEEPERS OF THE KING’S PAPERS

A MESSAGE SO RADICAL THAT THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER

FOUNDATION LAID FOR IT TO SIT UPON

JESUS CHRIST WAS CREATED FROM THE SPECIAL PART OF THE

WORD, WERE YOU?

DO YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO ENTER INTO SPIRITUAL EDEN?

GOD HAS REVERSED HIS GOODNESS FROM THE GENTILES TO

SEVERITY AND HIS SEVERITY ON ISRAEL TO HIS GOODNESS

159The LoRD JesUs anD his ChRisT Wife

NOW THAT WHICH IS TO BE DONE

WILL NOW BE DONE

A Compilation of Nineteen Sermons

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

PAUL ANNOUNCED THIS WOULD BE HERE

A VOICE THAT BOTH THE LIVING AND DEAD CAN HEAR

THE DROP DOWN BOX FOR THE LOVE OF GOD: How God Put a Face

on His Love

THE MULTITUDES HEARD JESUS ON THE SEASHORE BUT THE

PREDESTINATED FOLLOWED HIM INTO THE HOUSE

JESUS WENT OUT OF THE HOUSE AND SPOKE TO THE MULTITUDES

AND THEN RETURNED INTO THE HOUSE WITH HIS OWN

MANY SAY WITH WORDS AND ACTIONS IT’S OF GOD BUT IT’S NOT

FOR ME

GOD’S MESSAGE AND THE BEHIND THE SCENE POWERS TO BRING

IT TO PASS

CHRIST AND THE ANTICHRIST: DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?

GOD’S SUCCESS IN ALL HIS FAILURES

IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED TRY AGAIN!

BE NOT ASHAMED OF THE TESTIMONY OF THE LORD NOR HIS

MESSAGE/MESSENGER

THE PROPER APPROACH BY THE PROPER PEOPLE TO THEIR PART

OF THE TREE OF LIFE

DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN THE BODY OF CHRIST IN

ENGAGEMENT AND MARRIAGE

NOW THAT WHICH IS TO BE DONE WILL NOW BE DONE

GIVING HONOR TO THOSE THAT DID THE HEAVY LIFTING FOR US

RE-ENGAGED AFTER TWO DAYS AND IN THE SEASON OF THE

THIRD DAY WE ARE MARRIED TO CHRIST

HISTORY’S GREATEST COVER UP HAS BEEN UNCOVERED TO US

THE GREAT FALLING AWAY: From the Tree of the Knowledge of

Good and Evil

IT TAKES A HEAVENLY CALLING TO ENTER INTO HEAVENLY

PLACES


CHRIST CAME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT

AND IS VISIBLE AS THE WIFE OF THE LAMB

A Compilation of Thirty Sermons

ENGLISH AND CHICHEWA LANGUAGE

UNLIKE EVE WE WAITED FOR THE VOICE OF AUTHORIZATION TO

EAT

HE CAME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT

TWO PARTS TO A WEDDING: Ceremonial and Consummation

GOD’S FOREKNOWLEDGE IN THE PRESENT JUSTIFIES HIS

PREDESTINATION

HE HAS MADE OF ONE BLOOD ALL NATIONS

PAUL PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED, AND GOD GAVE THE

INCREASE AS WE LABORED TOGETHER WITH GOD

HOW CHRIST THE MIGHTY ANGEL TAKES ON FLESH AND BONES

IN THIS LAST DAY

FINDING THE LITTLE BOOK WITHIN THE BIG BOOK

REACHING FORTH YOUR HAND AND TAKING THE LITTLE BOOK

THE WIFE IS THE LIVING EPISTLE: A Landmark Message

HOW JESUS DISARMED THOSE THAT WERE ARMED WITH

THE BIBLE

GOD’S REDEEMED FAMILY

THE WIFE OF CHRIST RECEIVES BOTH LEGS OF THE COMING OF

THE LORD: Remember the Feet!

WHAT KIND OF A SIGN ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

SOMETHING WE ALL NEED BUT DON’T HAVE

I AM NOT A WHIT BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES

IF YOU RECEIVE ANOTHER JESUS, ANOTHER SPIRIT, ANOTHER

GOSPEL – IT’S NOT THIS WORD

IF THE FOUNDATION BE DESTROYED WHAT CAN THE RIGHTEOUS

DO?

REACHING THE END TIME AND THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST

MY GOSPEL BECOMES OUR GOSPEL

THE LAST TRUMP MESSAGE IS DELIVERED BY THE WIFE OF THE

LAMB

RECOGNIZING IT’S THE LORD HIMSELF TAKING HIS WIFE

THE SEAL STAMPED ON YOUR PASSPORT AUTHORIZES YOU TO

PASS THE GUARDS: The Gatekeepers to the Tree of Life


ALL THAT EVER SAID CHRIST HAS ALREADY COME BEFORE THIS

ARE THIEVES AND ROBBERS

I SUPPOSED THEY WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD BUT THEY

UNDERSTOOD NOT

A PERFECT COUPLE WITH A PERFECT MARRIAGE MADE IN

HEAVEN AND EXPRESSED IN THE EARTH

THE GALILEAN AND THE REVELATION CHAPTER TEN COMING OF

THE LORD

THE FINAL JOINING OF CHRIST TO THE ENGAGED VIRGIN/WIFE

GOD GAVE IT ALL TO THE WIFE OF HIS SON

PROPHESYING AGAIN BEFORE PAUL’S PROJECTED PROPHECY

COMES TO PASS: Beyond the Prophesying Unto Nations

THE VOICE OF AUTHORIZATION

A Compilation of Three Sermons


WHEN AND HOW GOD SPEAKS AGAIN IN THIS LAST DAY

THE FIVE FOLD MINISTRY FOR THE HOMELAND

THE VOICE OF AUTHORIZATION

THE INTERPRETED BOOK OF REVELATION


INTRODUCTION TO CHATPERS

CHAPTERS ONE – TWENTY

PRELUDE TO CHAPTERS TWENTY-ONE and TWENTY-TWO

CHAPTERS TWENTY-ONE – TWENTY-TWO



I WILL NOT SPEAK OF THOSE THINGS THAT GOD HAS NOT

WROUGHT BY ME

IS THERE A FIVE FOLD MINISTRY IF SO WHERE?

AFTER TWO DAYS WE LIFT UP THE VOICE TOGETHER!

WHEN PREPARDNESS MEETS OPPORTUNITY

BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST AND THEN BAPTIZED INTO THE

BODY OF CHRIST

BISHOPS, ELDERS, DEACONS, AND THE FIVE FOLD MINISTRY

BEWITCHED BY SATAN’S RELIGION

THE MERCY AND GRACE OF GOD

WHENCE CAME THE WORD UNTO YOU

HOW GOD LETS US SEE OUR FALLIBILITIES

UNITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP

THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD

AN OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET COMES TO A NEW TESTAMENT AGE

THE WORD BOTH DOCTRINAL AND INSTRUCTIONAL

THE TWO AND’S AND THE SEVEN SEALS

ENGLISH AND TONGA LANGUAGE

SUBMTTING YOURSELVES ONE TO ANOTHER

ARE YOU A SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN CHRISTIAN?

ENGLISH AND CEBUANO LANGUAGE

AN OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET COMES TO A NEW TESTAMENT AGE

THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

CAN YOU TAKE IT? THE NATURAL CONSCIENCE AND THE

SPIRIUTAL CONSCIENCE

WHERE DWELLETH THOU IN THE MINISTRY OF HIS COMING?

BEING JOINED UNTO THE LORD IN THE CITY OF TETE,

MOZAMBIQUE

CONNECTING THE DOTS ON THE COMING OF THE LORD

THE HOLY GHOST AND PENTECOST


GETTING THE EDGE

THE CONNECT AND THE DISCONNECT OF THE JEWS AND

GENTILES

MINISTRIES OF/WITH SIMILARITIES

THE BREAD BASKET: Who Has It?

EATING THE LITTLE BOOK IN KALOMO ZAMBIA

HAVING THE RIGHT SLANT ON THE GOSPEL

THE MINISTRY AND REDEMPTION

THE RULE BOOK AND THE OX IN THE DITCH

THE DEEDS OF THE NICOLAITANS

POSSESSING THE KINGDOM OF GOD

THE CREATION OF THE SEVEN ANGELS AND THEIR PURPOSES

FALLEN FROM GRACE

WHY JESUS CHRIST BECAME A LIVING SOUL: The Great Plan of

Salvation

THEIR VOICES FINISHED THE MYSTERY OF GOD

THEIR MYSTERY AND OUR MYSTERY

THE ANOINTED CHURCH

LET US NOW TURN THE CORNER: Evening Light Before Sunrise

TAKING ONLY WHAT BELONGS TO US AND LEAVING THE REST

ALONE

TRUTH, ERROR, AND APOSTACY

THE MERCY AND GRACE OF GOD

HOW CHRIST CONTINUED HIS MINISTRY TO THE JEWS AND TO THE

GENTILES AFTER HIS DEATH

IT WON’T MATTER AFTER WE MAKE THE CROSSING

AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH

PREDESTINATED AND MANIFESTED CHILDREN OF GOD

LET’S DO IT AGAIN BUT RIGHT THIS TIME


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