There s a holy and beautiful city Whose Builder and Ruler is God; John saw it descending from Heaven, When Patmos, in exile, he trod; Its high,

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1 There s a holy and beautiful city Whose Builder and Ruler is God; John saw it descending from Heaven, When Patmos, in exile, he trod; Its high, massive wall is of jasper, The city itself is pure gold; And when my frail tent here is folded, Mine eyes shall its glory behold. Refrain In that bright city, pearly white city, I have a mansion, a harp, and a crown; Now I am watching, waiting, and longing, For the white city that s soon coming down. No sin is allowed in that city And nothing defiling or mean; No pain and no sickness can enter, No crepe on the doorknob is seen; Earth s sorrows and cares are forgotten, No tempter is there to annoy; No parting words ever are spoken, There s nothing to hurt or destroy. Refrain No heartaches are known in that city, No tears ever moisten the eyes; There s no disappointment in Heaven, No envy and strife in the sky; The saints are all sanctified wholly, They live in sweet harmony there; 1

2 My heart is now set on that city, And some day its blessings I ll share. Refrain My loved ones are gathering yonder, My friends too are passing away, And soon I shall join their bright number, And dwell in eternity s day; They re safe now in glory with Jesus, Their trials and battles are past. They overcame sin and the tempter, They ve reached that fair city at last. BATTLE SCARRED SOLDIER CHORUS: Open your eyes you battle scarred soldier We're closer than ever before He may appear before a new dawning His coming is nigh at the door Men will be lovers of self More than lovers of God Filled with faint pride Worldly pleasures have drawn them away But if we're his children We must feel the chastening rod For those that he loves He will teach them to trust and obey 2

3 Some people believe That his coming is still far away They often grow weary And so often they lay down their load But just up ahead are the signs Of a much brighter day Don't lay down the cross child We re too near the end of the road For Those Tears I Died You said you d come and share all my sorrows You said you d be there for all my tomorrows I came so close to sending you away And just like you promised, you came there to stay I just had to pray. (Chorus) And Jesus said, Come to the water, stand by my side, I know you are thirsty, you won t be denied. I felt every teardrop when in darkness you cried, And I strove to remind you that for those tears I died. Repeat Chorus Your goodness so great I can t understand, And, dear Lord, I know that this was all planned. Saviour, you re here now, and always will be. Your love is so great and always so free, Jesus and me. Repeat Chorus 3

4 Jesus, I give you my heart and my soul. I know, without God I d never be whole, Saviour, you opened up all the right doors, And I thank you and praise you from earth s humble shores. Take me, I m yours. 1. My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer. 2.You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever. David when he wrote this Psalm was anointed and inspired by God and he probably didn t even know what he was talking about because it is for us here in this hour of time that we are now living in. I remember one night the Lord woke me up and let me know to go and read Psalms 45, it s a scripture for us. 3. Gird your sword on your side, you mighty one; clothe yourself with splendor and majesty. 4. In your majesty ride forth victoriously in the cause of truth, humility and justice; let your right hand achieve awesome deeds. 4

5 5. Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king s enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet. 6. Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom. 7. You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy. It says here you love righteousness and hate wickedness and that is you and me. 8. All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces adorned with ivory the music of the strings makes you glad. That is how God looks at us, it is not how we look at ourselves. It is how God sees us and I will show you why. 9. Daughters of kings are among your honored women; at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir. 10. Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention: Forget your people and your father s house. 11. Let the king be enthralled by your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord. This is the key right here forget your people and your father s house and that is what qualifies you to be fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. 5

6 12. The city of Tyre will come with a gift, people of wealth will seek your favor. 13. All glorious is the princess within her chamber; her gown is interwoven with gold. 14. In embroidered garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions follow her those brought to be with her. 15. Led in with joy and gladness, they enter the palace of the king. 16. Your sons will take the place of your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land 17. I will perpetuate your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever. When looking at us now that scripture is so far off the path, we are not very honourable, we are looked down at; we are the scum of society, but that is not the way God looks at us. I will now read it in the King James version now. 1. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. The King that is speaks about here is Jesus. 2. Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. 6

7 3. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. Here is the scripture that the Lord gave me the other night, I went to look it up and it spoke to me. In thy majesty ride prosperously, ride victoriously. He let me know that we are not some second class citizen. You are right on it, you are above it we have the goods and He want us to ride prosperously not just say it, but act accordingly, because of truth meekness and righteousness. We have a truth, we believe His Word, and righteousness is to believe His Word, sure you have to live a life above reproach. Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to Him as righteousness. If you believe the Word eventually you will follow the Word. It will have preeminence above all. We have a truth here in this end-time. Then there is meekness we don't think much of ourselves. 4. And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 5. Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. 7

8 The reason your arrows are sharp is because of truth, meekness, and righteousness. This is the key its like digging out a gem a pearl. 6. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. 7. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 8. All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. I image that the myrrh, aloes and cassia are the best of the best. 9. Kings daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. 10. Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; 11. So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him. 8

9 You can t just read this over haphazardly what it says here to forget thy own people and thy father s house and if you do it this will be the result of it. 12. And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour. 13. The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 14. She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. 15. With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace. 16. Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. 17. I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever. Before you can claim that scripture you have to meet the conditions you can t just claim it, God has to give it to you, and before God can give it to you have to meet the conditions. First of all you have to be born again. Then you have to have the love of 9

10 God shed abroad in your heard. Sure in one place it says: if you don t hate your father and your mother wife and children you cannot be my disciples. You have to know God to know what He means by that, sure you don't go out and hate people. You have to have everything lined up perfectly you can't just use the scripture to terrorize people and dictate to people. In 2 Peter 1: I m going to prove to you that just because you are a christian it doesn t stop there, it s a journey. 3. According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Once you are born again and the love of God is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost. All this is a journey you can t just claim that verse back there and have power over your enemies without having first met the conditions for the that journey. 5. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 10

11 6. And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7. And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 10. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 11. For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 12. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. 13. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; What I m trying to say here you can t just throw scriptures out there and use it to terrorize people and use it to lock people into your mode of believe. We are being accused that we don t understand the Bible. We understand the Bible perfectly. We have 11

12 this end-time picture. When you step back and go over the things and analyze what we believe about the church ages, God knows our potential, God gave me that scripture a long time, before I even knew about a prophet, but God knows our potential that eventually, when push comes to shove, we will make the right decisions. That is what predestination is all about. When I came face to face with the fact that God sent a prophet, I accepted it. It is why the Lord could give me that scripture Psalm 45 when I was still back on the colony. Sure I did not understand it to the full extent that I do now but when I look back now I can see how the Lord will have to take me away from that colony away from your family. He could have never taken me away from the colony had He not given me that scripture: forget thy father s house and thy own people. The Lord was preparing me for what was coming up the road. It is not an unpardonable sin to have your family as a secondary item, because if we do our part the Lord will make sure that they are looked after. Like David said: I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. We have to understand this Word with a balance. We can t use it to dictate to people and use it to lock people in so you hold unto me. It all has to 12

13 have a balance. It has to be first thing first: line upon line precept upon precept. You cant abuse this Word you have to use it as you are led by the spirit. The Lord was dealing with me all week about riding prosperously. You can t go and ride prosperously if you have not met the conditions to do so because at the end of the day you are going to falter, and you are not going to be able to ride prosperously, but if you have everything lined up properly, if you forget thy fathers house, you still have a love for them but you hate the things that they do. In your heart you can t hate anybody because the love of God is shed abroad by the Holy Ghost. Everything has to make sense, everything has to be in line with the scripture so the Lord can back it up. We are born again; we have been baptized in Jesus name. We see this end-time message which is very important. We are not contaminated by taking unleavened bread, by believing that the 2 days are done and the midnight cry has not happened yet. We have earnestly contented for the faith that has once been delivered to the saints, that is why we are where we are today. We have met the conditions. We cannot just go in here and claim this scripture - that the king will greatly desire thy beauty. You have to meet the conditions. Forget thy father s house and there again 13

14 you have to make sure you line up with what Peter said: And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. You have a love for everyone but you hate the things that they do. Even the things people do may not be so far off, but what they preach, what they stand for, what they promote. I can t fellowship with something like that because of the Word that says: Mark those that cause division not holding unto the doctrine that you have been taught from such withdraw. This Word means more to us than life itself, that is why we can meet the conditions. There are not to many people that are willing to give up their family. They use family as a back up incase this thing fails. They can t give up this church thing and they can t go and be isolated. Sometimes you look back, in 2004 when the Lord took brother Jackson of the scene. No one expected to see what is going on today. I just thought that it s just going to float right along, but after a while it caused me to step back and take a look at things. I saw some things that I had not foreseen. God gave me the vision and a dream, then I knew that this is not going to be what I thought that it is going to be. This is very dangerous turf here now. Especially when He showed me the dream about the minefields, this ministry is now laden with minefields 14

15 and somehow we have to get through this field to the other end, we have to realize it is laden with minefields. After a while it became pretty obvious that these preachers are preaching false, they are nothing but minefields and if you go near them then you will be blowed to smithereens and I literally saw it full of minefields. I know some minefields you have step on them before they explode and some have sensors that if you go to near they will blow you into smithereens. This is not something that I thought up. That is why we don t go near them and follow with what the Bible says: such avoid. When they teach that the 2 days are done for instance. Why even bother to go and debate with them. If you go near that minefield you are going to be blown to smithereens. This is not something that I thought up it is a dream that the Lord gave me. When the Lord gives you a dream you need to embrace it with a passion, and you need consider it very seriously you can t just haphazardly just pretend like just some Joe Blow gave you that dream. The Lord of heaven gave me that dream to protect me from what is going on and what is coming up the road. Had He not given it to me then I would be walking right on top of those minefields; I would go fellowship with people that pervert the things that we have been taught. 15

16 Then the Lord gave you the scripture: remember the things that you have been taught. That is a very condensed scripture. If someone comes along and tries to tell you that the 2 days are done, we have to go back and remember the things that we have been taught. We have been taught when the 2 days are done and when the Jews were cut off, and that is at the Crucifixion. When someone comes along, with 56 It is just ways and means how the enemy has crept in. He has come in with those seducing spirits to pervert the things that we have been taught and then you get that warning, and I get the dream about Gideon and the minefields. With you it is very condense to remember the things that we were taught and those things that they are preaching is not something that we have been taught. We have been taught that the cut off for the Jews as a nation was at the crucifixion and when you embraced that with a passion, and you don t allow yourself to be intimated and follow that pattern and you withdraw. That is earnestly contending for the faith and when you go back like Peter says, Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. Like you need to go back and embrace it because there is more truth you need to be 16

17 established in the present truth and that is what you and I have done we have isolated ourselves. Since brother Jackson has gone of the scene, I didn't see it right away but it is now an individual journey. It s not a group thing. A lot of people can't leave this group thing because it s a back up. They can t take responsibly for their own action. All you need to do is trust the Lord. I will put my trust in Jesus, I will take my comfort from Him as I lay upon His breast. Over the years He was the only one that I could trust, I could not trust people I have learn on this journey to trust the Lord sure sometimes it was pretty hard but you know that is why we are where we are today we are continuing on we don't need a group. We only need the people that the Lord brings in. Ja, everyone looks at us as shady characters and all that stuff. I don t know what their opinion is of us but it does not matter. That does not intimate us or fizz on us. We are right in the season now where everyone is being tested. The Lord was the only one over the years that I could trust. Of course they will not speak well of us and they will throw everything at us. The devil is allowed to throw everything at the christians right now. It says in Revelations: He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him 17

18 be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. People have the freedom to go and do whatever they want. If the want to be wicked or righteous. If you want to be righteous the Lord is going to take care of things. We don t have to worry about ISIS, and all these groups that are coming into the USA, they like to see people suffer. They don t intimate us because we are not in that category this is judgement on America for rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ; for rejecting God s prophet; For rejecting the Word of God. They don t see it as such, but it is judgement on them. We have followed that Word. We have accepted the fact that God sent a prophet. That s all God required. Brother Branham said if the church of America would have accepted this end-time message there would have been no need for hospitals. What is the big thing today: It all about Health Care. If the church of America would have accepted the end-time message and prophet there would be no need for all those hospitals. That is what the devil is holding over their heads. Everyone wants Health Care for free, it's the very thing that they would not need had they accepted the message to the age. Sure at the onset there would have still been some hospital but God would have shown what 18

19 people need to do to stay healthy and how to live. If they would have accepted the prophet all that would have come with it. We have accepted the prophet and by doing that we fulfil the scripture where Jesus said: And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Then Jesus goes on to say this: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. We have accepted the prophet and Brother Jackson. If you accepted the prophet and if you are truly honest and sincere the Lord will lead you to Brother Jackson and when the time is right He will move you on. He will move you up a notch. This is the ministry of Brother Branham; Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. That s that gospel net, some He threw away and some He put into a different vessel and that is where the Lord put us He put up into that other vessel and that is the ministry of Brother Jackson. Even with that, just because some people are in the ministry of 19

20 Brother Jackson that is still not the end all where all. It says: he that endures to the end the same shall be saved. You have to continue on. When He took Brother Jackson of the scene and you look back and you analyst it, all of a sudden it has become a whole different ball game. It s not like it was when Brother Jackson was still here, everyone was under his umbrella; everyone was under brother Jackson s anointing. If you go back and listen to the sermons the ministry preached and even the songs service, it was so anointed. When the Lord took him off the scene and the people they try to sing the same songs, but because they will only sing them and not live by them God lifts that anointing. Even the ministry all of a sudden they started preaching things that are not true. You can t listen to them anymore, you can t even go near it anymore. God has completely lifted that anointing and now it is a complete different ball game. It's a different scenario. Now it s you and I, as an individual journey, we have to walk this walk alone. You have to walk that lonesome valley you have to walk it by yourself, there is no one there to walk it for you. Its time of isolation, It s no more group thing. A lot of people use the group as a back-up plan. They don't trust the Word; they don't trust Jesus. People don t want 20

21 to give up their group thing they feel that that it is where its at, but I tell you if you go out there on your own and trust Jesus and have everyone on your back and terrorize you with miss quoting the Word, forget not the assembling of yourself together. They leave out the part where it says, be edified. We are not being edified when someone tries to terrorize people; when someone tries to use the Word of God to twist the scripture to their advantage. When the Lord gave you the scripture: remember the things that you have been taught. I know the things that we have been taught, and when someone tries to take it away from you, I am not being edified by that, and I move on. I get out of there. As I go further, I see what the Bible says, forget thy father s house and your own people so will the King greatly desire thy beauty. He only gave me that scripture because He knew potentially that that is what I would be doing. That is what you and I are doing we are just continuing down that journey on this walk and that is the scripture that the Lord gave me ride prosperously. Do it with authority. We are still not there yet, but we don t have anything to be ashamed of. We have all that, simply because we have forgotten our own people and our father s house. You don t hate them. You have to have that 21

22 sense of balance. Jesus said: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matthew 10:34. If you decide to follow Jesus and your siblings decide not to, there is going to be a variance. One family member against another but if they are on the same page with you, then you and I have no right to reject them. They have as much right to this truth as we have. If they don t, then the devil will use them because he has access to their soul. The devil will use them to try to terrorize you; to try to tear you down; to try to manipulate you with - oh you don t love your children or you should honour your father and mother. The Bible says, he that does not hate his father and mother. You have to have a sense of balance that is why when I go into Psalm 45, I go there with the utmost of caution, realizing that you have to have all you ducks lined up. You can t just claim that scripture, you don t hate your family but they are a secondary item. Like you told your dad, if you want to honour your parents, you will obey God and make Him the 22

23 priority in your life and that is how you really honour your parents. The devil can use that scripture to fear monger you so that you forget about the calling that God has on your life and go back and say, what do you want me to do, and they will say come and take care of me. That is their way of honouring your father and mother. In their old age, and they are sick you are supposed to go back there and take care of them. That is how they interpreted that. Then you just drop the calling that the Lord has upon your life. That is not the way it is, you have to have a sense of balance, you have to get the scripture right. You can't go back and forsake what the Lord wants from you. If you follow the Lord the Lord will take care of your parents. This one guy said to Jesus, let me follow you but let me first go and bury my dad. Jesus said, Let the died bury their dead. It s either you follow Jesus of you don t. That is how it is when you follow and walk with the Lord and it is a good walk. The Bible is not to put us into a cage the more you obey the Bible the freer you are. Forget your father s house, so big deal, God will look after things. Like David said, I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. 23

24 If you and I do our part, God has a way of taking care of your family; He will do His part. Sure they are not where I would like them to be. They would stab you in the back in a heart beat and they will do everything to derail your journey. That is what the devil knows that he can use. Like that Bible says, And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. Our only obligation is to follow the Lord, to follow truth and to continue on this journey. That is what we are doing and we are not intimated by people - Oh you don t understand the Bible right. We are seasoned with this Word, and we are not ignorant of satan s cunning crafty plans. He knows the scripture too but he misquotes it. We know who we are and we can ride prosperously. We are more than conquers. Sure we are still human beings and that will sometimes slow us down a bit. That is mine thought today - ride prosperously and forget thy fathers house and with that comes a responsibility. I can't use it to tie you to me, and to use it to threaten you just to have you with me. That is not how it is here, you are simply here because you have earnestly contented for the faith. You challenged that Lyle Cook. He was anointed to say those things to find out who was earnestly contending for the faith. I challenged him on some 24

25 other issues. He did not like it very much but I did anyway. When you challenged him it was you who did it. I did not tell you to do it. You wanted to know where he was going with the idea that the cut off was not in 33AD and you wanted him to explain himself. That is earnestly contending for the faith. There are a lot of people contending for the faith but they are not earnestly contending. When you only contend for the faith, and a situation comes up where there is a choice to be made between contending for the faith and family you are going to buckle but when you are earnestly contending for the faith nothing else matters. It will be quite the contrary: I m out of here; I m done with this outfit. That is what you and I have done. Then we did the next step we marked those that cause division not holding on to the things that we have been taught, then it goes on to say: from such withdraw, or avoid. There is no other option then to withdraw. As I journey on I begin to see and realize that this is an individual thing. It s between you and the Lord - But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. 1 John 2:20. That is where you and I are at we can encourage ourselves and we can go through this Word from cover to cover and it encourages us. It set us more freer every week. Like Peter says: Wherefore I will not be negligent to put 25

26 you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. We don t know what the enemy will try to do next, but we have this Word. We did not know that we will get this last attack and sometimes it will take you a day or two to get over, but when we get home we will deal with it. We are up to her tricks, a lot of people are controlled by Satan and they don t know it. We are aware of all that. We sometimes do not know where the enemy will attack from next. The Lord will by the holy spirit warn us, or give us a scripture so that we will be rooted and when those attacks come, they don t effect us. Peter writes: 12. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13.But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. Those fiery darts they will come, but they have no effect on us, we don t allow ourselves to be intimated we just continue to move on. 26

27 The scripture the Lord gave me this week is: ride prosperously; ride victoriously. We know that by riding victoriously we are winners. That s what the fight is all about, you want to be the winner. We have the victory, and why is that - because of truth, meekness and righteousness. We believe this Word. We are not where we need to be, but we believe it. Like I said, Abraham believed God and as he journeyed, God revealed more and more of Himself, and God promised him those countries and that promise still stands today. They will get there land back, simply because Abraham believe God and it was reckoned unto him as righteous. It was not a game. Now everyone is so use to playing a game and sometimes it can have an effect and you can start playing the game too. We are not playing games here. This program is not something that I one day woke up with and decided that that is something that I am going to do. This is all very serious stuff here, this is God doing this. God is directing this, and as time goes on people will see it and will know that all this is right and true. Right now they don t even hear us. We know what we have. We know where we are at in time, and we know who we are. 27