Revelation of Jesus Christ Part 6: 01 November 2023

Revelations 12

Audio Sermon

Revelation 12 1:4

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And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

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And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

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And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

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And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

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Amen. I believe the Bride is getting to know that the songs that she sings are all about her, just like the entire Bible is about her. The Bible opens up in Revelations, it's about her. I mean, Genesis, it's about her. And it closes off in Revelations, it's about her. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Amen. Aren't you special? Amen. I'm just here to let you know exactly how special you are. And, you know, the devil's been given just more than 2,000 years now to set up his Eden. And what his job is, is to let us forget just how special we are. But the Word has come to remind us of exactly who we are. Amen. So I'm so grateful for the Word.

You know, it awakens us from that condition, as Brother Branham says, of spiritual amnesia. Amen. And remember Brother Branham tells the story of that young soldier and how he began to… He came off the trains and the wars and he began to work his way down the path. Amen. Things began to become clearer the more he began to recognize things. And how God, just like Boaz, leaving a bit of barley for Ruth at every milestone, He'll drop something in the Word, here and there, and we'll begin to realize, oh, I was with Him. He died on Calvary just to shed His blood for me. And you come all the way and you see the big picture. God is with you. Jesus Christ, the hope of Glory, the same yesterday, today, and forever, veiled in us. Amen. I love him. Praise his wonderful name.

Let's stand to our feet this morning. So enjoyed the song service. Thank you, musician and Brother Mike.   Amen. 

I just want to continue just on the thought of Israel. Amen. And, you know, what I'm trying to do is set the scene because when we realize what God's plan of redemption is and how He begins to unfold His purpose and you begin to see that God is setting the stage for the Seventh Seal in our day, which is His coming. But we understand His coming is a process. But at the exact same time, He's setting the seal for Israel. For what? For her Seventh Trumpet, which will be Him coming down to her when He's left us in the palace, Amen.

We see the type in Joseph, Amen. When Joseph was there revealing himself to his brethren, his Gentile bride, Asenath, was in the palace. When she was caught away in the palace, Joseph came to his brethren to reveal to them who he was and he said, don't be ashamed because when you did this, you went and preserved life. And so was it with God, in doing this, preserved life for a Gentile people, that it would give Him a portion and a time and an opportunity to turn and call Himself a very Gentile Bride unto Himself. Amen.

But that season is here and we want to see that stage and that scene that's been set for the 7th Trumpet Jews; 7th Seal, us. Amen. But it's all a snatching away of His Elect. Amen. 144,000 for the Jews under the 7th Trumpet and the elect Bride, Gentile Bride, under the 7th Seal. Amen. Remember, Brother Branham said there's one thing that no one knew about. That's why there was silence in heaven, the space of half an hour, when the 7th Seal was opened, was His coming. The only secret no one knows. We might have indications of the season, but the exact time and hour, no one knows. So if anyone rises up and says they know, and can place a time and a date, you know they're lying, because the Scripture said no one knows. It's a mystery. Except Him. Amen. So, God give us grace tonight. Amen.

Just Revelations chapter 12 again. Amen. I just want to cement that idea about, you know, the Bible says… The Bible begins to speak and we'll come to that, of how Satan from the Garden of Eden was a murderer. But we understand that same murderous spirit travels right through the Bible. So we don't recognize Satan by names, or by kingdoms, or by rulerships. We recognize him by that same spirit that murdered his brother Abel. Same. So when you see that spirit you know where it's coming from and we'll just tie those two things again. Amen. Cement it for this last meeting as the Lord leads us.

So just Revelations chapter 12, from verse 1, the Bible says,

1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven... And remember, we said, Brother Branham said that this is the Jewish church.  Amen. Revelations 12. He said,

1   And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and upon her head, a crown of 12 stars… (12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles, Amen, giving us an indication that that's the old Jewish church. Amen.)

2   And she being with child, cried travailing in birth pain to be delivered…

And I love this. Paul said, I travail with you as a woman travails in birth till Christ be born in me. So just as it is for the Jewish Church, it's exactly the same for the Gentile. What is it? To birth Christ. That's what the 144,000 will soon realize,  is that they crucified Him. But when those two prophets step on the scene, what are they going to do? Preach the same message to birth Christ, their true atonement. Amen. So here is the Jewish church and she's like a woman that's travailing in birth

2   …travailing in birth pain to be delivered

3   And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and 10 horns and seven crowns upon his heads

4   And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven…

And you know, Brother Branham said that's the seed of Abraham, seeds of Abraham. He said, why? Because they were deceived, some of them. Brother Branham said they found themselves at the cross, crucifying Jesus. Amen. They found themselves in the wilderness, those that perished. Amen. Two tribes that God called, never made it into the promised land. Brother Branham said He blotted their names out completely. So we understand why Brother Branham said, these were the seeds of Abraham, the fallen ones. But what do they do? They find a habitation in people, because they fall with Lucifer. Amen, spirits. Remember, we're dealing with spirits. It's not against flesh and blood, but we're fighting principalities of the air, demons. Amen.

And so, Revelation chapter 12, verse 4 says,

4   And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and it did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

Amen. You may be seated. 

I'm looking at that end... Brother Branham said, what's that? He said, whenever Christ, the promise, just the promise of Jesus coming, Satan was there. When he heard the promise of a great deliverer that would come forward and snatch them out of the power of Egypt, the arms of Egypt, he was there and sent forth that decree to kill every child. That's what brother Branham says. And when he refers to that Scripture, he said he was always there to rip out the promised Word from her. He did so in the days of Moses. He did so in the days of Herod. But you know, it goes all the way back to Eden. He did so with Cain. 

You know, Brother Branham said Cain hated Abel for one reason only, because he was more spiritual. Same reason why Joseph's brethren hated him, because he was more spiritual. Same reason why Hitler hated the Jews, because they were more spiritual. It was for nothing else but the fact that they were Jewish. That they wore the sign of the five star of David upon them. And they wore it with pride, showing that they knew who they were. They were convinced that they were of God's chosen Seed. And the devil hated them for that. Amen.

So we understand that the Bible said he was a murderer and a liar from the beginning. So what I want to remind us, amen, as we just find a place to close on Israel today, is don't be confused and have your mind straddle between schools of thought around politics, economics, and social media and the news. It's all from hell anyway. It's a lie. Whenever Satan moves, we know from history, we know by his devices, he always sends forth propaganda. That's what he does. So we can never trust the news. This is the only news we can trust. Amen.

We mustn't be confused of Russia, Rome, Hamas, Hezbollah and all these names that the devil gives them. It's still the same spirit working for one reason only, to achieve the blotting out of any promised Word of Christ. Amen. So he's in Russia. We said he's in Russia. That same spirit is working in Russia. The same spirit is working in the Muslims. We saw yesterday - I mean last time, how that same spirit to kill worked its way up all the way from the Syrians, all the way through the Iranians into the Ottoman Empire and straight into Gaza, same spirit to murder, kill the elect and chosen of God. Amen. 

Praise the Lord.

So, looking at the Feasts there, if you have your Bibles, lets just turn to Leviticus chapter 23, just to recap on the Feasts of God. We said the 8th Feast was the Feast of Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And I just want to make a note, you know, the 2nd Feast, which is the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which happens for 15 days on the day after the Passover, it was for the Jews, we understand that.

But, you see, we said in the feast of Pentecost, which is the fifth feast, it's no more unleavened bread, but it's a new offering on the 50th day of leaven. Why? Because Israel would always be mourning, because they can never ever step into the true joy, the true liberty, the true Sabbath, which is Jesus Christ, because they crucified Him. So when we come to Pentecost and on the 50th day there's a new commission: go forth and let the priest wave another wave offering before God with leavened bread. We understand because we've not been eating a bread of sorrow, of heartache and in that way, but we are feasting off the Body Word of the Son of Man. In other words, we are feasting off the resurrection power of Jesus Christ, risen with Him. Amen.

The feast of unleavened Bread, which is the second feast, and then the third feast, which is the wave offering and the fourth, which is Passover, unleavened, Amen, wave offering, Amen. And we get to the fifth feast, which is Pentecost, sixth feast, which is what I want to speak on, which is the blowing of trumpets. And we find that just after the Feast of Pentecost, Amen, in Leviticus chapter 23 from verse 23. The Bible says,

23  And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

24  Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month…

Amen. Seventh month there, which is… can someone tell me? Can you see? Amen. Seventh month. Amen. So,

24  Speak unto the children of Israel, saying In the seventh month, in the first day of the seventh month, (the seventh month, in the first day of that month) shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

Now I like that, trumpet. You see, when God deals in Israel, it's always the trumpets. Remember, when they walked around the walls of Jericho? There was always the seven priests blowing the trumpet and on the last one they walked and they blew and there was a great shout and the walls of Jericho fell. Amen. So, Brother Branham says that Trumpet is the Voice of God, a message calling Israel. Amen.

So, it's striking how just before the Feast of Atonement, we have the Feast of Trumpets. Brother Branham said that's because they have never been called to their true atonement. It's always been under the blood of bulls and goats and all of that. I mean, the historians say if you had to take the amount of bloodshed that was shed from the sacrifices of the Jews you'd fill rivers upon rivers. And yet they never knew what they were doing because their eyes were blinded. But it takes those Seven Trumpets, Brother Branham said, to wake them up, because remember, in this season God's only calling 144,000. That's it. Amen. 144,000 in this age and she's called by the Seven Trumpets, Brother Branham said.

Now, what's beautiful to realize is that in the Feast of Pentecost, which is the 5th Feast before the Feast of Trumpets, Brother Branham says, that's when God calls the Gentile Bride, through 7 Church Ages. And what does He do? He gathers her through the Seven Seals. Same way, gathers her through a Seven Seal Message, that she will get to the point where she will see her Seventh Seal, which is her atonement, just like the Jews would see their true atonement through the Seventh Trumpet, which is Him coming for her.  Amen.

So we see how the Angel told Brother Branham, I did not let you speak this, because this was not for the Bride of Jesus Christ, the Gentile. He said this was for the Jews. Amen. And the Angel revealed to Brother Branham that he has preached it, but under the Seven Seals. Amen. I love that.

Then we said, we don't want to say too much, but it's striking how on the 7th of October, Israel was attacked, on the seventh day of the seventh month. [According to the Jewish calendar – ed.] Amen. What's God saying? I'll leave that to you to decide. I know one thing though - and this is the correction I made, where I made the error last week. I said it with a slip of the tongue. Brother Branham said those Seven Trumpets sound under the sixth Seal. In other words, we know what the six seal is, Brother Branham said that the Sixth Seal is tribulation. The Bride is not here then. She's in glory. Asenath is in the palace, because God cannot deal with the Jews and the Bride at the same time, the Gentile Bride. So He takes one and He turns His attention just like Joseph did to his brethren. Amen.

We know that when those Trumpets begin to sound to gather Israel, we can't be here. But what we see is, I believe, in my opinion, God is letting us know that the hour is so late. We are on the brink of God turning away from the Gentiles completely. Because remember, Brother Branham said, the only reason why the bombs have not left those hangers today is because of you and I. You are the mercy seat of God veiled. The reason the world still has rain falling on the crops is because of you and I. Amen. Because the mercy seat is still here. But when she's gone, God has every right to reject the Gentile bride. Just like He rejected the Jews, now He'll reject her so that He can turn back to His own people, the 144,000. So what's God saying? Well, it's late. It's all we can say. It's very late. Praise His wonderful Name. 

So now, I just want, if you would, just with me, turn to Daniel chapter 10, actually, Daniel chapter 11. And I want to speak on this one thing, just so that we can cement... You know, sometimes it's… I don't want to turn this into a history class, but I do want you to realize that the Bible does not lie. You know, the devil would have had it that he would have kept the translation of God's Word from His people and had it hidden in Latin, so that no one could understand.

Amen. And even today, I mean… I had a family member who was Catholic and he was with me there visiting for a while. And when I began to press him on what he supposedly believes, he got pressed into a corner and he said, well, I'm not a theologian. You'll have to ask my priest. Why? Because the devil wants this Bible to be a mystery to them. But God reveals it to His children and He opens up the real meaning behind the Word. Amen. Why? Because faith cometh by hearing the Word. We need to understand and when we sometimes see… That's why the Seven Church Ages for me was such a powerful book because it takes history and places it in the Word of God. And it's undeniable, you can't deny it. It's there. So sometimes when you look at history, then we realize exactly where we are at in Scripture. So I don't want to turn it into a history lesson, but I just want us to appreciate how specific the Bible is. Amen.

If the Bible was so specific in this chapter that we'll read, revealing how the kingdoms of Greece will unfold to Daniel, how much more you and I, when He said there'd be a people without spot, blemish, or wrinkle. How much more confidence can we have in the Word of God? But what we need is to have our guards up that the devil is here to pour water on the Word, and dilute it. Amen, so he knows, when he dilutes that Word, we lose confidence in God. The quickest way to attack the faith is by attacking the Word, because that's where faith comes from. Amen. But thank the Lord for a prophet. Thank God for the Son of Man ministry which has come to open our eyes and our understanding to let us know who we are and who the devil is. Amen. Hallelujah.

So, here I just like it, you know, because in Daniel chapter 10… just quickly read with me there, Daniel chapter 10, just the previous chapter, chapter 10 verse 4. The Bible says,

4  And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel, 

5  Then I lifted up mine eyes… (And I want you to notice the description of this Angel, because you'll see what this… We'll just read it, and it says,)

5  Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:

6  His body also was like beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

This looks like that Angel in Revelations 1. You see, it's the same Angel. Here He's coming. He's coming to Daniel to reveal what? What is to come. Wasn't it the same Angel, that came in the Book of Revelations 1 to reveal to a son of man what is to come through the Seals? What's beautiful is, we see how God is dealing with both the Jews and The Gentile Bride in the same way through the same Angel. Why? To unfold to them what is to come. That's exactly what the Seven Seals did, reveal the plan of God after the death, burial, and resurrection.

What happens when He rose from the dead? Where to now for the church of the Living God? What happens? How do we get from the resurrection of Jesus Christ in corporal all the way to the Millenium? That's what the Seals came to reveal. Amen. Why? To give us faith for a rapture. That's why He came. When we see where God has placed us in the Word, it gives us the faith to realize that you are the called and chosen of God.  Why? Because Brother Branham said - and we'll touch these things as we get towards the Seventh Seal - he said, the mystery of God, when it unfolds, it calls your name.  Amen. Brother Branham said that. Why? You realize what this Word means when it opens up to you.

I wanted to say this, it was a question that my children raised, you know. We were speaking about belief and revelation. Those two things are very different. The prophet told us that the devil believes the Word too. The prophet also told us that the devil cannot have revelation, but he believes the Word. In other words, what that means is, sometimes as believers, we can come through the motions of serving God and we'll still believe the Word. We'll know that's the prophet. I believe it. But what good is it if the Word doesn't become alive to you. Because when you stay at the realm of just believing the Word, then someone can preach you out of the Message. But once it's revealed, there is no devil in hell that can snatch you away from That, because the Word has become a living reality. Why? Because you see your Name. Brother Branham said when the Word is unfolded, you heard from your theophany. Your theophany spoke to you. Why? Because your theophany is the Word. And when that Word speaks to you, it quickens something on the inside and you know that's me. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. 

So what does the Bride of Christ need? Amen. It's not to read the quotes in that way, because the devil can do the same thing.  But what the Bride needs is the quotes with the quickening power to make the Word live in you, Amen, to make the Word alive in you. That's why, you know, I don't have to say it very explicitly, but we've been to many churches and spoken with many believers in this Message - what you know, when you leave their presence, you just know something's wrong. There's a shallowness. There's no depth. But yet they believe. But why? It's because they are still on the road to Emmaus. Like that Angel that came and withheld their eyes that they might not see Him. They don't know who they are serving, but they believe. 

But brother, when the day comes when God opens the Word to them, they'll be a different people. When the day comes when God opens His Word to us and we see our names written in that Book, you'll be like John. He was heard in every dimension. When he saw his name, he shouted for joy because he saw that he was there. Amen. Praise His wonderful name. You love Him? Oh, praise the Lord. Amen. 

So, this Angel has come to reveal to Daniel. Cause Daniel is caught up in Babylon, ruled by Persia there, and he's got a burden on his heart to get back to Judea, back to Jerusalem, back to the temple where he knows he can worship God. Because you see, he's under that message still where they believe it's a physical thing. Like Jonah. If I could just, wherever I'm at, I could just turn my body all the way and face the temple of God, I will find favor. That's not God's plan. That was never His perfect plan. His perfect plan was the Lamb of God. Amen. 

So here the same Angel, the same description comes to reveal to Daniel what would happen with the Greeks. Now I just want to take a little moment, Amen, before we find a place to close, just to let you know how explicit... Amen. Sister Vida, if you could go to the next slide there. Amen. I just wanted to have the slide there to let you know Brother Branham said, the gathering of Israel is... Amen. We said that …?... And we'll get to the Trumpets, amen, when we close. Next slide, my sister. Amen. Next one? Yeah, there we go. So, I found such a nice, sort of picture which kind of like, almost puts Daniel chapter 11 graphically and how explicit it is. I just want to go through a few verses. I'm not going to go through the entire… What I'm doing is I'm just giving you a starting point to study. It's beautiful.

It really is beautiful because what it does is, you know… many people when they go to Israel, they say, when they come back, they say the Bible's a new book to them, because they are able to place things and when they read the Scripture, they'll see what is unfolding in the Scripture visually because they were there.

Likewise, when we can come to certain chapters and unpack a chapter like Daniel chapter 11, and then you realize just how explicit the Bible is. It just opens up things for you later on in the Word. Amen. So, the Bible opens up in the eleventh chapter, verse 1. It says,

1  Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him,

2  And now I will show thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia… 

From Cyrus, who was the current king, there were three kings to come still. Amen. And we know the final king, I believe was Darius. It was Xerxes and then Darius, a different Darius. Amen. But you can read that in history there. And the Bible said,

2  …And the fourth shall be far richer than they all... (And who was that fourth? It was Xerxes. Xerxes was the penultimate king of Persia and he was the richest.) …and shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.

3  And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

(And you know that's Alexander the Great. Amen.)

4  And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven, and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up, and even for others beside those.

You'll see there on the top, those are the four kings, the four kingdoms. In the blue there on the top:  those are the four kingdoms that Greece was broken up in and that's what the Angel is telling him.

But there's two main kingdoms that Daniel chapter 11 unpacks. Why am I saying this, I want you to notice where that same spirit came in, in Laodicea, which was a church (age) in Asia Minor. Amen. 

You have to see there, the main kingdoms… The Bible doesn't speak so much of the two in the middle there, but the main kingdoms were the Seleucid kingdom and the Ptolemaic kingdom. Amen. The Ptolemaic kingdom found its way on the southern side. So, maybe we just back up. When Alexander the Great died, he never had an heir, so the generals under him fought. There were four generals and each general fought for a piece of that kingdom. But the two strongest emerged. Amen. The two strongest that emerged were General Seleucid and General Ptolemy. Amen. General Ptolemy - I hope I'm pronouncing it right - but he found his way on the southern side of the eastern empire, which was Egypt, Alexandria. General Seleucid found his abode in Syria, Antioch, Syria.

So now the Bible is beginning to explain to Daniel how this will unfold. From verse 5, he says,

5  And the king of the South shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.

6  And in the end of the years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement...

Now, if you read history… What happened there in Daniel chapter 11 verse 6 was that the king of the south, which basically wanted to make an agreement with the king of the north. He had a daughter, they called her queen Berenice. And he basically sent this daughter and gave the daughter to the King of the North to marry. But what the King of the North did was, he divorced his first wife. And you know what her name was? Queen Laodice. And she was basically given… That's where Laodicea came from, was her.

Queen Laodice was the first wife of the King of the North, General Seleucid. 

And so the King of the South, basically gives his daughter, Queen Berenice, to him to make an agreement with her. And what happens is, Queen Laodice gets jealous, and when they get married, she murders the general himself, kills Queen Berenice and her sons.

So we go on. And then the Bible says,

7  But out of the branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north…

So when this queen was murdered, Queen Berenice by Queen Laodice, the only heir was her brother. And her brother then goes against the king of the north, amen, who was under the control of Queen Laodice. You see, when Brother Branham said, Laodicea is the age of women? Here this queen, she murders her husband, his current wife, and all the step sons so that she can have power. And the very name Laodicea is born from her. This is history, you can read it. Amen.

The Bible says,

7  But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate (Verse 7), which shall come with an army and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:

Now, what happens is, throughout chapter 11, there's this constant war between the king of the north, king of the south, king of the north, king of the south, king of the north, king of the south.

Amen. And what I want to get to is basically from verse 17 there.

So what eventually happens is a king of the north raises up and he has adored to Cleopatra of Syra the first.  Not the same Cleopatra, she was the great, great, great, great, great, great grand of Cleopatra, queen of Egypt who had that affair with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, amen, but it's not her.

So the king of the north eventually sends his daughter and there the Scripture will say,

17   He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.

So here the king of the north sends his daughter to marry the current king of the south. And Cleopatra I  of Syra, then turns against her own father, which is the king of the north and basically sides with the king of the south. Amen. And what that does is, that basically gives rise to the next king of the north because now when the king of the north couldn't find a way into the kingdom of the south through his daughter Cleopatra, he turns his attention to the Mediterranean Isles, and that's where this clash between the king of the north and Rome happens. What I want to say is that the Roman Empire comes in, because they were fighting for the same region. It was basically Rome at the end of that, which overthrew the Greeks. So he comes, he meets… So after knowing he doesn't have what he takes to conquer the kingdom of the south, because his daughter turned against him, basically foiled his plans, he then turns his attention to try and capture the Mediterranean Isles, but the Romans are there. So he's kind of caught with his tail between his legs.

Now he passes and he has a son, and his son, Antiochus, I think it was Antiochus IV or V, he then raises up, and because he sees the Roman Empire encroaching and basically taking over everything and he doesn't have the strength to fight against them, he turns his attention back on the Jews. And as he's making his way all the way from the Mediterranean Isles back into Syria, he basically goes straight for Jerusalem and slaughters the Jews and desecrates the Temple. That is found, and you can read it there just one more verse, verse 31. And the Bible says

31   And the arm shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

32   And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

So you know what that is. He then marches on to Jerusalem, totally destroys and desecrates the temple of God, and that gives rise to the Maccabean brothers. And even today, they fight this revolt against the king of the north. And today, the Jews still celebrate that feast, which is the feast of Hakanah, I think, which is where they won the battle against the king of the north who came in there to destroy and desecrate their temple.

Now I was looking at that, and you know, Brother Branham says this, and I want to read this quote as we find a place… I'm just going to read the Sixth Seal, and we can find a place to close. But listen to what Brother Branham said in the Feast of Trumpets. He says… now Brother Branham will come to the Sixth Seal, quickly, maybe we should just… what I want you to notice is, just as a holder there, just know that when everything else fails, the enemy still has one thing that he wants to do, which is to blot out Christ. We said in Revelations 12 there, he's waiting, the dragon is waiting for that baby to be born, so he can snatch her. The same thing that happens with the gentile remnant in this day. 

But here are the Greeks. He is pretty much being overthrown by Rome and he's marching back but history says he has to unleash his anger. Who does he unleash it on? The Jews. So he marches in there, soldiers and armies upon armies and he totally annihilates, massacres the Jews. I think there were 4,000 Jews that were just massacred as he came in, King Antiochus, Amen. He totally slaughtered them. And not only did he do that, but he desecrated the temple as well.

Now, look what Brother Branham says. He says - this is in the Feast of the Trumpets, paragraph 160. He says,

160   They wasn't natural horses... 

Maybe just turn with me quickly to Revelations chapter 8, because I said (as we find a place to close) this evening, I want to start speaking on the Trumpets. Amen.

Now we said those Seven Trumpets, which when they start blowing, which is under the Sixth Seal, which is where the Bride is gone, they are gathering Israel, those that are 144,000. You can read it there from Revelations chapter 8, from verse 7. The Bible says,

7   The first Angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of the trees was burnt, and all the grass was burnt up…

And Brother Branham said, you see, that speaks of that first exodus. When God called them out of the first exodus, he called them out by the same plague that you see there. So in other words, this is speaking of another exodus, but an exodus, as we said last time, out of spiritual Egypt, from spiritual Egypt into a true atonement, which is Jesus Christ. Amen.

But here the first Trumpet sounds, and it's exactly the same thing we saw in the first exodus: hail, blood, fire. Why? Because the First Trumpet sounded, and God said, come out of her! Just like the call when our Message broke. Brother Branham said, come out of her. Be not partakers of her sin. Same thing to the 144,000. Come out of her. Amen.

Now, if you go to - so the Seventh Trumpet is sounding and we pick it up from verse 13 as Brother Branham says there and Revelations chapter 9 verse 13. It says,

13   And the sixth Angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God.

14   Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

And Brother Branham said, what did the river Euphrates do? It separated Eden. To get into Eden you had to cross over that great river Euphrates. He says obviously those demons were trying to get to that Tree of Life. Barred! These are demons, the same ones that fell out with Lucifer who was kicked down. Amen.

So here, just two more points and then we can close.

Now under the Sixth, you see that Sixth Trumpet, Brother Branham says that's when the persecution to the Jews will happen. Because remember, there's that period of seven years. Three and a half years, Jesus Christ cut off from them. But there's that remaining three and a half years where they'll be persecuted and killed. Amen. Even says so much that those two prophets will be murdered in the streets and their bodies will lay there until they are resurrected.

Brother Branham said who does that? Rome. Rome does that. So here we see that Sixth Trumpet. Remember, we said just between that Sixth Trumpet and the Seventh Trumpet, those two prophets step on the scene, Moses and Elijah to the Jews. To do what? To preach the same Message we received, to call them to their true atonement. But at that same time, the call goes forth to lose those angels, those angels that were bound at the river Euphrates, trying to get to the promised Word, Christ. Bound there. Loose them. Brother Branham said those are the same spirits that will come and persecute the Jews, the 144,000

Now Brother Branham picks it up here in in the Feast of the Trumpets and he says,

160   They wasn't natural horses. They breathed fire and they had breastplates of Jasper and they had tails. And the end of the tail looked like a serpent, a snake's head at the end of it, stinging. See? it was spiritual horses…

Same thing with those Lucifer and the fallen stars. They were spirits. The same one that we saw last time would come upon the King of Tyre, the King of the North. They were spirits that indwelt men. Yes, humans would give them names, but they were those same spirits there to kill God's people.

So, Brother Branham said,

160   ... spiritual horses, spiritual devils, chargers, that had been bound in Euphrates all these years, supernatural devils. What is it? The old Roman Empire being revived…

The same ones that killed under the occupation of Judea, the same ones that murdered the Christians in the Dark Ages being revived when those angels are loosed under that sixth trumpet, those demonic angels, those spirits, those devils. They are let loose to attack and persecute and kill God's elect.

Brother Branham said, 

160   …what is it? That old Roman Empire being revived; the persecution of the Jews. They had been bound for nearly 2,000 years.

We know they've been bound for 2,000 years. Why? There, the Roman soldiers hung and crucified Jesus Christ. But then we saw last time, the devil began to change his mask, change his mask from a Julius Caesar to a Constantine, someone that loves the Christians, someone that wants to be religious. Why? Because Cain was religious from the beginning. You see, the true identity of the devil is religious. Brother Branham said he doesn't have horns, but he's standing behind a pulpit with a suit. Amen. Why? He's religious. He's religious. He's always been religious because he wanted to ascend higher than God. Amen.

With the old Roman Empire being revived, the persecution of the Jews, they've been bound for nearly 2,000 years, but are let loose. Brother Branham says, under the Fifth Seal... How many knows the Fifth Seal was those Jews that were persecuted under Stalin and Hitler? Amen. Maybe let's just turn there, because Brother Branham makes one statement and it will kind of cement the thought here as we close.

If you turn with me to Revelations chapter 6, from verse 9. The Bible says,

9   And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God…

You see, why did Hitler kill them? Why did Stalin murder those Jews? It was because they were slain for the Word of God and for the testimony which they held. That's why they hated them. That's why Brother Branham said Hitler would shoot them until they had no bullets left. It was because they held a testimony that they were God's people. They wore the five pointed star of David with pride because they served Jehovah. Amen. But the enemy hated them for that. 

And the Bible says,

10   And they cried…

Who's crying? Those ones that were slaughtered in the Holocaust. Brother Branham says, they're crying

10   …saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

They want vengeance because they were murdered without a cause, because they were Jews.

And the Bible says, verse 11,

11   And white robes were given…

You see, Brother Branham says, it was given to them. You see the 144, 000 need to prove, their faith has to be purged by their own blood. Brother Brandon says they'll be murdered. They'll be slaughtered, persecuted. But these were given white robes. They might not have come to their true atonement, like the 144,000 will, but God's grace gave them white robes. We serve such a just God. I would rather be at the mercy and judgment of God than at the mercy and judgment of man. Because He's righteous, He's faithful, He's true. Amen. So the Bible says,

11   And white robes were given unto every one of them and it was said unto them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season...

What's that season? Three and a half years. Three and a half years, where God would basically come back, once He's left us at the palace. He'll come back and He'll wage war. And He will avenge their blood.

Amen, …should be fulfilled. Until His servants and their brethren… white robes again…

11   …and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for their little season, until their fellow servants and also their brethren, (their brethren, Brother Branham says that's why they're Jews. Who's their brethren? The 144,000.) …that should be killed as they were. 

So you see, that 144,000 will also be killed, every last one of them. Why? Because the Sixth Trumpet opened. Those 200,000,000 devils are let loose on them. Why? To kill them. Kill them! Because that dragon is waiting for that child, that male child, which is the Word, as Brother Branham said, to be born.

Snatch their own lives. Why? For their testimony. Amen.

…killed as they were should be fulfilled. 

Praise the Lord. Now Brother Branham says, he says,

161   And notice what happens under the Sixth Trumpet. (He's talking about those demons that were let loose there.) They were turned loose on the Jews; the persecution of the Jews. Supernatural devils, nearly 2, 000 years, then let loose by Stalin, Hitler…

So those same devils that are going to be let loose under the sixth Trumpet will let loose under the 5th Seal. Now listen to what Brother Branham says here. He says, let loose… so you might be thinking: Stalin, they are not Rome. Stalin is Russian and hates every last bit of the Roman system.

But Brother Branham says, they were let loose

161   …by Stalin, Hitler upon the Jews. You say, “Well, that isn't Roman.” It's the same spirit. They done the same things they did to the Christians, in the old pagan Roman days. Now watch the natural Israel, and the Spiritual church now, as we separate it here. Turned loose on the Jews.

I like that. Brother Branham said, the same spirit Stalin had is the same spirit Rome has. So we don't really care about the name Hamas, or Hezbollah, or even Russian, or Chinese, or Roman. It's the same spirit, because the devil has no identity, but murder and lies. Amen.

He was kicked out, found his abode in a serpent in the garden of Eden. Why? To kill and murder. And here we find out he takes his mask and he changes his face all throughout history. But it's the same enemy, same enemy. Here he takes on the form of Nebuchadnezzar, takes on the form of Cyrus, takes on the form of Xerxes, takes on the form of Antiochus, but it's the same devil wanting to murder God's Elect. Amen.

You see, that's why we cannot have our ears open to the news. The news would want us to take sides. Choose Israel or Palestine. Choose Palestine or the US. Choose Russia or the US. But we are signed with God's Word because every one of them is against God. Why? Same spirit. 

Brother, when the Russians are let loose in the US, you think they will be kind? Brother Branham said, when those warships land on the beaches of California, he said they will ravish and rape the American women in the streets. How is that different from what they'll do to the Jews and the remnant? Same spirit. Goes back to that same beast that has a way of masking himself.

You see when, when Daniel saw that beast - I think it was Daniel chapter 13 there, the beast. He said the beast that was like a lion with bear’s claws and eagle’s wings and all of that stuff. You see, those are powers mixed up in that beast. So the beast, it looks like a beast, but it has different powers attached to it. So the devil can utilize any one of that. He can unleash the claw of the bear, the wing of an eagle, the lion. It's that beast, he has all these powers at his back and core. And at a snap of his finger, he can unleash Hezbollah. At a snap of his finger, he can unleash Hamas. At a snap of his finger, when God allows, he'll unleash Rome. At a snap of his finger, he'll unleash Russia. When God allows it. Remember, God is the One controlling these things. He allows the devil to have his abode in these people to fulfill His Word and purpose.

What am I saying? In closing, switch our ears off to the news. Brother, the quickest way to dilute your faith is to listen to the news, because every last word of it is a lie. It is a lie spun by the system. Every news agency, every social media outlet, every social media channel is owned by the beast. Who can we trust? What can we trust but the Word of the living God? So we have to have a spiritual lens on to look through the eyes of the Word and recognize the Antichrist. He'll be a lot more deceptive than what we think. Amen. Praise the Lord.

You see, we also can't get too emotional with Israel, because all is not Israel. Do you think God's children would have had a musical festival? Dancing around with half nakedness? Showing their bodies all undressed, dancing around the statue? God's children don't do that. The Bible teaches us that all is not Israel. So even then, compassion has to follow God's Word. What is true compassion? Brother Branham said, true compassion is to do the will of the Father. So we can't be too swayed with emotions either. God said, whoever blesses Israel is blessed, whoever curses Israel is cursed. But then Paul says, all is not Israel. So when you pray for Israel, you pray for the Elect of God. As Paul teaches us, all is not Israel. Just because the banner is raised under the cloak of Israel, all is not Israel. God's people is that 144,000, the Elect that know Him and will serve Him. Hallelujah.

But God will move on the scene, change politics. You know, I was just looking. It's amazing. You know, just over, in closing... Under a month ago, Benjamin Netanyahu stood at the UN and spoke about what he calls the new Middle East. I don't know if anyone heard that clip. He basically pitched the idea (how blind is this) to Biden.

You see, when we speak of that covenant that Rome would bring? The Jews are making it. In other words, if you look at everything that's happened over the last eight years or so, it basically breaks down into two channels, two corridors that govern east and west. They call it the corridors of merchandising.

It's the way goods flow between…, not only goods, but goods and services, things like gas, oil, products, and that sort of thing.

There are basically two distinct channels of commerce: one which goes across the eastern side, which goes all the way from Syria, right into Russia, and then the other which goes all the way from the west, straight through the Ukraine, into Europe.

It doesn't confuse us when we read and see why the U. S. want the Ukraine under their control. Every gas pipeline goes straight through there into Europe. These two powers are fighting for control over these two arteries that basically have the potential of governing the entire wealth of the world. 

So what Israel is doing, is… you know, there is, they call it I believe it's the Leviathan Channel, which is the biggest reserve of oil and gas found in the Middle East.

Now Brother Branham makes the statement, he says, watch when Russia goes for that oil. He said that's when that covenant is broken and the war is triggered. Now, if you look at what's happening: Benjamin basically pitched the idea of the new Middle East to Biden, which is to tap straight in to the Leviathan reserves and create a channel all the way through the West and into Europe, because he wants to bring the wealth into the Middle East, hoping that Revelations 13, that beast, would play fair. So here he is at the UN (you could read the clip, you could watch the clip), showing a big diagram of how the channel will work and how it will connect the Middle East and Europe together. He's pitching this to the UN, big smile on his face. And I thought, my, speak of Daniel, Gabriel's sixfold instruction to Daniel. He said…?... And they will turn against her.

What are we saying? It's late. Now that made so much sense to me when you see… Russia knows. If you remember, even when you look at the battle of Gog and Magog in the Bible, the Bible said the king of the north and all her kingdoms. Watch Russia's allies, starting with Syria, Iran, China, all of them, there's such a polarization happening across the world. And what is happening? Russia knows where those oil reserves lay. The same oil reserves that Israel is trying to capture for the West, so that she can bring the wealth to the Middle East, is the same channel that the merchandise corridor across the East is trying to tap into. There's a battle right now amongst the East, even for that Leviathan Channel, which is all the gas and oil reserves. 

Brother Branham said when they go for the oil, watch that. I'm not saying, but it just looks like this covenant between Israel and the West is really coming forth just a month ago, when he pitched that idea to Biden. Read about it. 

As a musician comes forward.

It's late. Really, really, really late. Amen. But what are we saying, friends? We're saying, you see, that's why I just feel we have to be so caught up in the Word of God. We have to be so desperate. When something struck Daniel's heart and he began to read the scrolls of the prophets, and he began to see that God made a promise that he would restore in 70 years. In the 69th year, a burden began to come into Daniel's heart, and he began to lay himself before the Lord in sackcloth and ashes, desperation, looking for the fulfillment of God's Word.

And I'm thinking, well, won't it be the same for the Elect, the Spiritual Bride; chosen, the gentile, where we'd be laying before the Lord and reminding God of the very same promise. God wants us to do that, because God wants to see that desperation, that hunger, that thirst, to call Him on the scene, and say, Lord, take us home.

Lord, lead us to the last one, so that we can go home. You know, maybe the last one might not even be from out there coming in. Maybe it's within. Maybe it's that one person that's still on the road to Emmaus, who hasn't really opened their eyes to recognize Christ in their midst, who's still looking at the Message as some movement, but not looking at the Message as the very same testimony of Jesus Christ in their lives. I think there should be such a desperation. And why a desperation? Because there's so much deception, so many voices. But there's only one Voice of God that we can lay our souls on and rest and bathe because it's the only Voice where we can let down the bars and soak It all in.

So why would we bother ourselves with the news and the filth? Because it will just dilute our faith. But let us know that the Bible is true, the Word of God is sure. It's an anchor we can rest our souls on. For heavens and earth will pass away, but His Word will never fail. Hallelujah. Amen. May God anoint us with a burden for the Word. You see, the Word has been used in such a cheap phrase. Every message church is preaching the word. But what is the Word? The Word is the Logos. It's Christ the living Word among us. It's not just a bunch of verses and chapters in a book. It's a living God manifesting His Life through you.

And how do you know He's manifesting His life through you? You find yourself walking in perfect tune with the Word. You can see yourself in the Word. Amen. Why? Because your Light has come. And the Glory of the Lord has risen among you. Hallelujah. Your eyes are open. He got into the inn there and He broke the bread and then they recognized and said, He is risen. May that be our experience, not just on the road to Emmaus, with our eyes closed, but we want to get into the inn.

God break the Bread and open our eyes and recognize He’s in our midst, not only in our midst, but in us. Hallelujah. Do you love Him, Amen? Let's stand to our feet.

I love You, Lord, and I lift my voice

To worship You, oh my soul rejoice

Take joy my king in what You hear

Let it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear