THE LORD JESUS AND HIS CHRIST WIFE. Thought for the book taken from the Message delivered on November 9, 2014 Dawsonville, Georgia U.S.A.

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2 THE LORD JESUS AND HIS CHRIST WIFE Thought for the book taken from the Message delivered on November 9, 2014 Dawsonville, Georgia U.S.A.

3 2014 by Ben Howard All rights reserved. This book cannot be sold, nor in any way be used for the soliciting of funds. All scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version Bible Published by the Sound Of Liberty 7286 Hwy 53W, Dawsonville, Georgia U.S.A.

4 THE LORD JESUS AND HIS CHRIST WIFE Good morning to each one of you. Thank God for another opportunity to come together and worship the Lord in Spirit and in truth. We want to obey God and do His will. He always does good things for us according to His good pleasure. And being the wife of His Son, He brings us to the place that He takes great pleasure in us. We are reading today in the Book of Revelation 11:15. I ministered on this scripture not too long ago and the title of the message was, God Glorifies the Lord and His Christ before All the World. And now I want to bring it on a little further and go a little deeper into this subject. So the message today is entitled, The Lord Jesus and His Christ Wife. We want to differentiate somewhat between the Lord Jesus and His wife in the earth. They are not the same, in the sense that there is the person of the Lord Jesus Christ and always will be; even throughout eternity. So the fact is, there will always be King Jesus The King of all the earth. And His wife, a body of people (many members) are baptized into His body by one Spirit and is the Christ part of the Lord Jesus. That is the thought that I will follow throughout this message. So let us pray before we begin. Heavenly Father, we come to you, Lord, thanking you for your love, goodness, and mercy upon us. We thank you for granting us this privilege to live here at the end time and to arrive home where there is peace, rest, joy, and tranquility. And all the things that thou has given us, we thank you for them. Lord, we bless your name and we praise your name now as we look to your Word. And, Lord, I don t have to say it, because you know it s so, but I want to say it anyway, Our sufficiency is of thee, and we praise you for giving us that sufficiency to speak thy Word by thy anointing. It s in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that we pray. Amen.

5 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 2 Reading now in Revelation 11:15, And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. I want us to carefully notice this scripture, and also I want us to look at a little type here. We know that God put things in the Word that types certain events that will happen in the future. So when He expresses it in the Word, then it shows us the things that He will bring us into. It also helps us to see that He knew all about it all the way back in eternity before the world was ever made. This is seen when we look at the time in the Garden of Eden, which was the only perfect time that we can look to since God created man and woman here on the earth. In the earthly realm it was perfect, because they were living in the presence of the tree of life, and would have become the tree of life had they waited for God to tell them to go and partake of the fruit thereof as is seen in Revelation 10:8-11. And if this had happened, there would have never been the fall of mankind. Now let s take a closer look at this. When speaking of this perfect time, there was only Adam in his earthly body, but all the while Eve was within Adam. At first all the spiritual attributes were within Adam. But as time passed, God in His love for His son created a wife for him, whom Adam named Eve. This was after God created all the animals and all the fruits and vegetables and all the lakes and streams. He created a beautiful place for His son Adam and his beautiful wife Eve. So when Eve was created she saw this beautiful Garden of Eden. And Adam proudly presented this paradise home to the love of his life, Eve. This was an expression of God s marvelous love for His children. So God gave His son the perfect woman to make his life complete and to give Eve great joy with Adam her soul mate. Now remember here that I m typing this with the Lord Jesus and His Christ, His beautiful wife, or His Christ wife. God has been creating her by doing the many different works through

6 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 3 the church ages and building this body through time. We gleam this from seeing how God worked in the Garden of Eden, and we get a nice picture there. It was God s will for Adam to have a wife. And He was God s first son, because the Bible clearly says that Adam was a son of God (Luke 3:38), and of course Eve was His wife. So the story here is that we have seen a created son of God, and his wife Eve, the mother of all living. Now God does the same thing for His only begotten Son, who is our Lord Jesus Christ. Now having said that, we come to the Book of Revelation where it talks about the Lord and His Christ, and we begin to see the wife of our King Jesus as God has created her. In Ephesians 4:24, it says, And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Also, we read in 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. At this point we look back to the time when Eve was created. Adam uttered forth something that has become very important in this hour. He said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. (Genesis 2:23) That is a good point I want to make here, because that s what Paul said about us. We were taken out of the man Christ Jesus. The Spirit that we operate by was taken out of the man. And all of this came from Jesus. And in Ephesians 5:30-31, Paul used the exact same words of Adam in describing our marriage to our Lord Jesus. Another thing I want to put in right here before I go any further is the fact that before the fall there was no blood sacrifice. I want you to notice this because it is going to be important as we go along. There was no blood sacrifice. There was no animal killed to get the blood; they didn t have to offer up the life of an animal

7 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 4 for the life of the people. There was nothing like that being done, because everything was perfect. Adam and Eve was in perfect unity. There was nothing between Adam and Eve. Then later (after they sinned), they were clothed in animal skin and the blood was shed. This was done so that when God looked down He didn t see the sin, He saw the blood of that lamb that was killed to make an atonement for the sin. At first Adam and Eve were naked and they were not ashamed. And that is what the Word of God says about us, He that believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ, shall not be confused, or shall not be ashamed. In other words, there was nothing between Adam and Eve. And now there is nothing between us and our Savior. It was given unto us to be clothed in fine linen, clean and white, and that means that Jesus Christ puts His righteousness upon us. He became sin for us that we may be the righteousness of God. He took our sins, and He gave us His righteousness. And we are made ready by accepting this by faith. This righteousness puts us together to the point where there is nothing between the Lamb and ourselves. That s why we have a clear conscience towards God. In the Book of Hebrews 10:8, it says, Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law. Jesus became the sacrifice; He offered Himself once to God and obtained eternal redemption for us all. Yes, He became the eternal sacrifice for us all. He said that we should have no more consciousness of sin. In other words, the sacrifice takes us back to the way it was in the garden before the fall, with no more consciousness of sin. This was the way it was for quite some time in the garden with Adam and Eve. But the serpent came in and brought another spirit into this perfect environment which began to work. That is what Satan brings with him into every perfect environment that he can enter. The serpent wouldn t have had that wisdom and knowledge of his own; he was just a

8 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 5 creature being used by another source of wisdom and knowledge, which of course was Satan. And through this newly obtained subtility he got Eve to rely on knowledge and break the Word of God by not waiting on the Lord. See, Eve failed to wait upon the Lord to come into God s perfect will. Now as we look at this, we see that Jesus came into the world, and at first He was named Jesus. Christ hadn t been added to His name yet. We hear many people talk about Jesus (and that is good), but later on down the road Christ was added to His name. And that Christ part of His name is showing us His anointing as the time came for Him to begin to do what God had ordained Him to do (after about thirty years). It was the same with Adam; he walked around here and within him was the masculine attributes along with the feminine attributes. Also, this shows that God had in Him not only masculine attributes, but feminine attributes, too. So when God created a body for Eve, He took out all those feminine attributes from Adam; and then He put them within the body that He had created from the rib that came from Adam. Now for the first time in the realm of human beings God made both male and female; thereby creating the means to produce more sons and daughters of God. Knowing this fact helps us to see why God hates the sexual perversion so much, as Paul wrote in Romans, Chapter One. In this modern society many people act like they don t know whether they are male or female. But God has separated the feminine from the masculine. That means in this day of perfection that a man has to be a man and a woman has to be a woman. The Lord Jesus has His wife here in the earth. And no, we are not Jesus; but we sure love Jesus, who is our Husband. According to Ephesians, Chapter 5, the Lord Jesus wife, Christ, takes on the spiritual flesh and bones of Jesus, our Husband and King, in the physical realm. The Word says, We are bone of His bones and flesh of His flesh. That means God has created a wife

9 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 6 for His Son in the earth, and the Son has put His Spirit (Christ) in us. God started this process of creating on the day of Pentecost when He sent His Spirit to the Jews to get the Jewish part of the church, known as the brethren, into His Kingdom. Then later, He sent His Spirit to the Gentiles to begin to work towards getting a wife for His Son. But when that serpent, or spirit of iniquity, saw this, he did as he did in the garden. And it wasn t long until that same spirit wiggled itself in. We find that in 2 Corinthians 11:2-3, where Paul says, I have only engaged you at this time, but you are going to be married later. It s my job to build a foundation to engage you. But sad to say, the same thing that happened in the Garden of Eden began to happen all over again. The spirit of iniquity came in and began to be an evil influence. Paul said, I fear as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. And before God took Paul home, he said, There are men among you right now, and there is something wrong with them; because as soon as I m gone they are going to rise up and draw disciples after themselves. Because it is already in them, and they will do what is in them to do. They want a following. But they couldn t do it at the time, because here stood Paul in Christ s stead. Paul spoke of a virgin. But in this last day, it s not to be a virgin but it s to be a wife. A virgin is not a wife. A wife is when man and woman come together in the intimacy that God ordained before the world was. And that s what makes us the wife of the Lamb in this hour. It is recognized that this woman has become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, because we have been taken from the man, and the man is Jesus Christ. And that same Jesus Christ is here today in the fullness of His Spirit. He sent the fullness of His Spirit to us in Revelation, Chapter 10, and now there s been a wedding. This means that we are not only

10 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 7 Spirit of His Spirit but we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Now that we are married to Him our loyalty is to the Lord Jesus Christ, and certainly not to some church system or system of religion. We are Christ the wife in the earth today and are separate in the sense that Adam and Eve were in two bodies. Jesus Christ (the man) is separate from (Christ Jesus) the Spirit. Adam had his own body and so did Eve have her own body. But the spirit that was in Eve was the feminine part of the spirit that was in Adam, and now it is the same with Jesus and His Christ. God took the Christ part of the Lord Jesus, the feminine out, and brought it down to earth and has created a body for us by taking the rib (the little book of Revelation, Chapter 10) out of our Adam, and with it has created His wife of flesh and bones. And He also gave us the fullness of His Spirit according to Ephesians 4:13. And just as in Eden, that Spirit was there all the time waiting for God s time to manifest it. We see this in Genesis, Chapter One; even before there was any creation of the physical body made, there was male and female, and God told them what they were to do to multiply and replenish the earth. Just like our part of the prophetic Word, Paul did the same; he prophesied what would be in this last day. He spoke what would be as we reached the fullness of the man Christ Jesus. But before he left, he said, There is the spirit of iniquity. And that is what that serpent had; it was the spirit of iniquity telling Eve, You don t have to do it that way, but you can do it this way. Well, that was the tree of knowledge, and by her being beguiled by the serpent it broke the Word. The tree of knowledge was a good tree, because the Bible says that everything that God made was good. He looked and saw that it was good and blessed it. So the tree of knowledge is good, and even the serpent was a good servant creature at the beginning. He was up higher than

11 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 8 the chimpanzee on the scale of comparing him with mankind and the other animals. The serpent was the perfect creature for Satan to go to, because he could talk, he could reason, and with Satan s anointing he had power to persuade; he was now one to be reckoned with. He was more subtle than the other beasts of the field, and now Satan had the capability to do these things in an undercover way; for through the serpent he could manipulate. The serpent had all the abilities to serve. That is the way it is with many preachers today. They have the ability and will try to manipulate people in order to get more people in the congregation. They will try to please this one and try to please that one, and lean this way for that one, and lean another way for another one. But that s not God s way. It has to be as the song says, Nothing between. We are naked. There is nothing between us and our Savior. There are no denominational rags between us. I want to say this: Christ the wife is different from Jesus Christ our Husband, because the scripture I read earlier says, The Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. Christ takes on flesh and bones and that is us, His physical wife in the earth. Jesus Christ already has His own flesh and bones. Our part is to furnish our flesh and bones, and it s the Lord Jesus part to furnish the Christ (Spirit of Life). We have to have the Christ Spirit to go into our flesh and bones. Just as in Adam s time, God built the body first, then He put the Spirit into Eve, and she became a living soul, Adam s wife. And now it s the same with us. The Bible doesn t go into elaborate details as to how God did it all, but He breathed the breath of life into Adam, and it was passed on to Eve. Jesus looked at the apostles one time and the Bible says, He breathed upon them and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. (John 20:22) Our Lord Jesus Christ has breathed the breath of life into His wife; God has created a wife for His Son and now she is alive by the breath of life in her. He has put

12 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 9 the breath of life in us. He sent down the Spirit, Christ the Mighty Angel. When we look at Revelation, Chapter 10, we see Christ coming back in spiritual form, that is the Spirit for the body of His wife in the earth. We know our Husband, Jesus; and we have His ways. Paul laid prophetic Word in there by telling us that we would have the knowledge that Jesus has. Now this is the good part and many don t get it right, but the body will have the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. In 1 Corinthians, Chapter 12, it tells about the gifts of the Spirit. Verses 7-9 says, But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit: To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit. To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. Let me say this: It is highly unlikely that He would give all the gifts to one man or woman. He gives the gifts to His body, Christ the wife. Also, there are nine fruits of the Spirit. And one of the fruits and one of the gifts are the same; showing the fruits and the gifts can be interchangeable. There is the fruit of faith and the gift of faith (which we all have to have in Christ); so it is correct to call faith a gift or a fruit, although there is some differentiation. But sometimes gifts and fruits can be the exact same thing. The fruits of the Spirit are found in Galatians, Chapter 5. And then in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 12, we see the gifts. So now we have arrived home, we ve come back to Eden and have eaten the tree of life that has now united with the tree of knowledge. When the children of Israel were coming through the law age, they had to kill a lamb and they had to do the blood sacrifice. They had to bring it to the altar and present it before the priest, and the priest did the offering up of the blood. It was a lifetime

13 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 10 of rituals. But when Jesus came and died, those rituals of killing a lamb was not necessary anymore. And God even said, I have no pleasure in them. We can read that in Hebrews 10:1, where the Word says, For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. This was just a shadow of what was to be. And that is what the seven church ages were; they were just a shadow (or forerunner) of what was to be. Even what happened at Pentecost was a shadow of what was to be in Revelation, Chapter 10. Let s look at that part in Verse One again, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. So what the Jews were doing was just something to get them through another year. The Jews kept the day of Atonement and the killing of a lamb and the offering of the blood. But it couldn t make them perfect. They could do this every day of their lives and it still couldn t make them perfect. Because perfection is only in Christ Jesus. I want to bring in a couple of things here that I have mentioned in recent times concerning traditions and rituals, because I feel it would be good to tell it again. I had turned the television on and there was one of the religious programs that was showing a man taking communion. He had a little kit that had a little wine or grape juice in it and something like a little cracker of some kind and he said something on this order, You want to take communion every day to help get rid of your sins, because it represents the atonement. On another occasion, there was another man that came by my house and said, My wife and I are really getting close to God. We take communion every day. We have grape juice and crackers every morning to be sure our sins are taken away. God doesn t have any pleasure in those communions they do. The church did that while coming through the church ages. And

14 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 11 many times they included foot washing, which was, and is, an Eastern custom; it has never been a Western custom. So their message is, We ve got to take communion in order to get rid of our sins. Well, that would only bring to remembrance your sins every year. But we have come home now, back into Eden. We not only crossed over Jordan, but we kept moving until we got back into Eden where there is man and wife again, and where no sacrifice is necessary because there is no sin there. In Christ there is no sin. There can t be sin in Christ. We have become the very body of Christ in the earth. Now Jesus still has His body. Remember, Jesus was a carpenter, before He became Christ. Christ was the anointing added to Him; then He became Jesus Christ. He wasn t Jesus Christ until He was baptized and that Spirit came upon Him. Now that Spirit comes to earth in Revelation, Chapter 10, where we see one coming down from heaven, His face like the sun; His feet as pillars of fire. This is the same one that was in the office of the High Priest during the church ages when it was appropriate to do sacrifices. And there His feet was as fine brass as if burned in a furnace as He walked amongst the fallen church. This falling of the virgin started in the days of Paul. He said, There is the spirit of iniquity working right among you. It s already at work. When the seven seals were opened in 1963 by the prophet of God, William Branham, he exposed what that antichrist spirit was in all those denominational systems and he said, Come out of her, my people! It was a religious spirit that was impersonating Christ. When that first seal was broken, we saw a white horse rider, and he went forth to conquer. Almost everyone was saying that white horse rider was Jesus. No, this white horse rider is not Jesus. Because the one on this white horse gets off the white horse and gets on a red horse and begins to kill, and there was a time of martyrdom.

15 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 12 There is a book entitled, Foxe s Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, which gives us a record of the sufferings of millions that were killed for the Word under the Catholic Church. And when Catholicism became predominant in Europe, especially in Spain, the Spanish Inquisition became a tool for torture. When Christians wouldn t go along with the pope and accept the cross as a token that they would obey the pope, they were tormented, tortured, and killed. What Jesus did at the cross, resurrection, and on the day of Pentecost is what makes you a Christian; not carrying a cross. There are certain times in the Philippines that some will carry crosses and take a chain and beat themselves on the back with it until the blood pours out, doing penitence for their sins. This ritual was picked up from Catholicism. But God showed us through Brother Branham s ministry that the spirit that operated within that system was antichrist. And through time that spirit used many different religious men (antichrist) to deceive the people, while portraying themselves as men sent from God. We were enlightened to this deception by Brother Branham s ministry, while opening the seven seals of the Book of Revelation. He exposed the antichrist in the many systems of religion while preaching the seals in The antichrist system already existed when the seals were opened, but the very man who is the antichrist wasn t revealed by the opening of the seals. This wouldn t be revealed until in our day when Christ would walk around here in this earth again. When I say Christ, I m not talking about Jesus, I m talking about Christ the wife. Soon Jesus is going to take us (His Christ) up to meet Him in the air. Then after the great tribulation we will return back to this earth again with our Husband and King to reign with Him to start the millennium. Now, what s written in Revelation, Chapter 10, is made very clear as Christ (not Jesus) comes back to earth in the time of the last (seventh) church age. The seventh church age continues

16 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 13 after we are called out of it. It goes on and is destroyed when all the rest of religion is destroyed. There is no light therein; they are in darkness because the light has moved on to this part of the Word in its fullness into the wife of the Lamb. And as this happened, we passed the till of Ephesians 4:13 and were baptized into the body and reached the fullness of the stature of the man Christ Jesus. This verse shows the full representative part of the man Christ Jesus by His wife, which is the body of Christ presently in the earth. And in this body there is neither male nor female. All of us together are the wife; this includes the ministry and all the members. There s where we find the true ministry, because it s now part of the wife. All through the church ages God had something in reserve just for us, the wife of His Son. And He waited until now, the perfect time, to send it down to us. Again, this has been something in reserve from the time that Paul wrote his letters to introduce to Christ a virgin and on through the church ages. She wasn t wife then. Paul said, I espouse you as a chaste virgin, that I might present you to one husband. Just after this, God took Paul home. But the same Spirit and a ministry likened unto Paul s is back today with an apostolic ministry, which has picked up the things that Paul prophesied about and is giving a spiritual application. This could not be until the little book was brought back to us. It s been hid away in the Book of Redemption shown in Revelation, Chapter 5. I want to say this again, because it is very important. This Book of Redemption is the book that was sealed with seven seals, and when each seal was taken off the book they revealed certain things basically about the antichrist, what he would do and how he would work as it revealed the system of the antichrist, and it even revealed where the antichrist would come from, but it didn t pinpoint a man by naming him. It wasn t time then; but it is now, as the wife stands forth as the fullness of the man Christ Jesus and is manifested in the earth showing the real

17 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 14 Christ. That s when the man antichrist is manifested to the wife of the Lamb. The Lamb took the Book of Redemption and opened it, because He is the one that died for the sins of the whole world. This was showing that He was the one who paid the price for the sin of all mankind, thus redeeming us back to God. So the Lamb took from the Book of Redemption what the Bible calls a little book. This coincides with what we find in Matthew, Chapter 13. In this very last age it talks about one that brings out of his treasures the things that were hidden until he was ready to reveal them. And we have the hidden treasures, they are in the little book. We have the very thing that was brought out of the treasure house. And among the treasures there are things that are old and things that are new. That s why we have to have the old to help us appreciate the new. There s a scripture that tells us to look to the pit from which we came, and to the rock on which we stand. He took us from the miry pit and put our feet on the solid rock. Hallelujah! The song says, He brought me out of the miry clay, and set my feet on the solid rock to stay, and now He s in my heart to stay! This is seen as it began to transpire in Revelation, Chapter 10. See, He took that little book out of His treasure, and His treasure contained a three part message that Christ brought down. And two of those parts were preached before the angel told John to go take the little book and eat it up. That was the shout and the voice of the archangel as is shown in 1 Thessalonians 4:16. That s why this last trump message that was given unto me to deliver to all the other members of the wife also reveals the first two parts of the message of the spiritual coming of the Lord. And our commission was to take the little book and eat it up, which we (the whole body) did and are prophesying. Now let s get back to speaking about the fruit, or fruits, of the Spirit. This calls for us to start at the very beginning in the

18 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 15 Garden of Eden. For here we see the tree of life and its fruit mentioned, along with the tree of knowledge and its fruit. By God s foreknowledge He made the fruit of the tree of life available to mankind through time in its different forms since (humans) have been here on earth. But now it s in the final stage of its fullness. That s what we see it in Revelation 22:2. The road has been long, but the tree of life has now reached its fullness of purpose in the wife of the Lamb. So the twelve fruits is what has been produced by the Word of God. In the Book of Colossians 1:5-6, Paul speaks of what the saints heard in the Word which came to them. He says, For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is come unto you (his message), as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth. It is here that we could begin telling a never ending story about the tree of life and its fruits, but I will limit this story to the last three fruits at the top of the tree of life as seen in Revelation 22:2, making the twelve seen fruits on the tree of life. Now by seeing the symbolism of the prophetic part of God s Word, everything becomes clearer. He even used a stone to show revelation as Peter received the revelation that the man Jesus was the Christ; for Jesus called Peter s revelation a rock, and said, I will build my church upon this rock (revelation); and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it (revelation). (Matthew 16:13-19) So also are the fruits of the tree of life symbolic. So there are three parts or fruits shown in this final ministry. Paul showed this in 1 Thessalonians 4:16. Also, in Ephesians 4:13-16, the fullness of Christ is shown. This is fulfilled in Revelation, Chapter 10. The first two parts bring us up to this sounding of the trumpet. Three gifts bearing fruit brings the number to twelve and makes it a reality among us. This revelation was hid among the treasure householder, which

19 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 16 Christ brought out of the treasure house after the opening of the seven seals. Praise God! Here came the first part of that gift that gave us wonderful ripe fruit as the prophet, William Branham, brought his message. And that message was basically to call us out of all religious systems and tell us about the antichrist and his system. This prophet also told us, The day is coming when you will get to the place where you will not move until you have thus saith the Lord. And Christ will be here among us in such a powerful way. He gave us that part of it. O what wonderful fruit! Then here came Brother Raymond Jackson explaining many of the things about the Godhead, Israel, the tribulation period, the millennial reign and many other revelations. And now God has brought forth this trumpet message after the first two parts have been delivered. This ties it all together in perfection for us, His wife. When we see this by revelation it brings into view what the Bible says, The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God sounding. It was spoken in Paul s day that this would be, and now here it is. God is getting His Son a wife by this three part ministry. This is a gift that was reserved only for His wife. This is our wedding gift. So now we are eating and enjoying all the fruits of revelation, as the final three fruits are given unto us. It s at this point we can see twelve fruits on the tree of life as John saw it. Here I want to make mention of a dream that Sister Leah had in She said, I was standing, beholding a big beautiful apple tree (which I believe was in a field); I was right in front of it. The apples were so beautiful large, green, and perfect. I was thinking how privileged I was that God allowed me to see this. I thought, He (God) put this here just for my eyes to behold. I walked up to it and picked an apple. I tried to pick another one, but just gave it a little tug; and when it didn t

20 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 17 immediately come off I thought, I won t force it. Then I tried another one carefully and it didn t come off either; so I left them alone I knew they weren t quite ready to be eaten yet. Now I want you to notice the little book is not the whole Book of Redemption, because God is speaking specifically here. It s shown here that we have arrived at the place where we are the Christ part of Jesus. So we find that we are dead and our life is hid with Christ in God. It s not bad to be dead; because here we are among those members of the wife that have died. We are among them, and to us they are living. So we are dead. The Bible says, You are dead, and your life is hid (where?) with Christ in God. So our life out here has very little significance other than walking in the will of God. We are just traveling through this world, because we are pilgrims and strangers. As far as the natural earthly things are concerned, whether we own much or a little of this worldly goods makes no difference. Jesus our Husband owns the cattle of a thousand hills and so do we. The Bible says, Though He was rich, for your sake He became poor so that you could be rich in spiritual things. And now that Jesus Christ has finally gotten His wife, He is not about to lose her. Though she has stumbled and she has made her mistakes along the way, here we are today, nothing between us! He that believes upon the Lord shall not be ashamed. (Romans 10:11) And Adam and Eve were not ashamed. There was nothing there to be ashamed of. And there is nothing among us in Christ that we have to be ashamed of. All right, so Christ (the Mighty Angel) brought the little book down to earth and gave it to us. And that is the Bridegroom s gift to us. And now we can hear the Lamb saying, I will show you what I did for you. It s here in the little book quickened to us as we are baptized into His body. Not baptized into the person Jesus, but baptized into Christ Himself, the part of the Spirit that becomes the wife. And now there s another plus for

21 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 18 us, we no longer have ministers ruling over us. Paul said, I am going to set rulers over you to keep you straight, till you reach the stature of the man Christ Jesus. And we are now in the very place that Paul was writing about. There is no longer rulership over us, because rulership has turned into leadership; now we have ministers with leadership. This is made possible because we all become the body of Christ now that He has given us the gift (the little book), and says, Take and eat this. And when we ate it, we realized that it was not just for our spirit and soul, but it also has to do with our flesh and bones. We which are alive and remain are not going to precede those that are asleep, because they are already here, and will soon appear from the dead. Yes, all they have to do is take on their bodies, because He brought their spiritual bodies with Him when He came. When Christ came, those that were dead in Christ who are part of His wife, He brought with Him. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-14) In Hebrews, Chapter 12, it says, But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels. Colossians 1:13 says, Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. This is showing to us that we have entered into this spiritual environment. We are back in Eden as the tree of life where there is no sin, there is no shame, and there is nothing between; and there is no blood sacrifice laying there. Why? Because He has given us that fine linen, clean and white, which is His righteousness. Please don t lose sight of the fact that I m only speaking of the wife here. And remember Jesus didn t have to offer a lamb for Himself, because the Bible says, He never sinned, nor was guile found in His mouth. So He could become a curse for us to deliver us from the law that was a curse on humanity. In Galatians 3:13, it says, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: And Paul reached back and quoted that scripture, Jesus became

22 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 19 a curse for us to take the curse off of us. He died for us. So now there s nothing to stop us from going in the rapture. We find these gifts here, and we are eating this wonderful fruit that s in the little book. Notice, it s a book that only His wife gets. This little book is only for Christ the wife; therefore its message will raise the dead members and change the living into glorified bodies. Now we which are alive and remain are those that hear this last trumpet message, because it s only in the last trumpet part of the message that a voice speaks to John and tells him to take possession of the little book, because this is where the eternal life for the wife is contained. But there s a difference between eating of it and taking possession of it and eating it up. For example, in the second church age (the fallen church) the overcomers were given to eat of this hidden Word of life (manna) and are laid away in the grave, but because they ate of the Word for their day, they will raise with eternal life with all the other members that have gone before us. But again, the living members are the only group that takes possession of the little book and eats it up for our translation. The little book was a gift to us, as we received the Voice of Authorization (inspiration) from God to go to the angel and ask for the little book, which we did, and we ate it up; thus becoming the wife of the Lamb. Jesus Christ now has a beautiful wife. He didn t marry while here in His earthly walk; for He was to marry later. So before He could marry, He had to reveal Himself to His brethren, the Jews. This is seen in Romans 15:8. The remainder of this chapter shows God s mercy turning to the Gentiles to make them a part of God s family. From this point, God began putting together a body to be the wife of His Son. This is spoken of by Paul in his writing in the Book of Ephesians 2:14, For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us. Here Paul is telling us that the wife (the body of Christ) is made of both Jews and Gentiles. Now He

23 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 20 takes His wife here at the end time. God had to get a wife for His Son that would be complimentary to Christ. So I m asking you today, Do you live a life where you are complimenting the Lord Jesus Christ as a true representative, or do you do things where you are ashamed? Remember, they weren t ashamed; there was nothing between so they weren t ashamed. Some people say, I m ashamed of my life. Well, when you are living by revelation you don t have to be. If you have a revelation and are the wife of the Lamb, you are going to walk in the light. If you are that, then you have already been baptized into the body of Christ. Here I want to refer back again to Colossians 1:13, Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: And that s none other than the body of Christ. You are translated into it. And there is no darkness there whatsoever. There is no darkness in Him, neither shadow of turning. This is real; it s Jesus Christ expressing Himself in the earth through His wife, and we have all the attributes of Jesus Christ in us. I said, We have all the attributes; not one member. I brought that in several times. I hope you don t think I m being repetitious, but I m saying this for a reason because some people say, This preacher has all these gifts. He has all nine gifts. But that is not so. Only Jesus Christ could make that claim; not even Paul who stood here in Christ Jesus stead could make that claim. We are the feminine part of Jesus Christ, manifesting the man Christ Jesus. And within this body of Christ are all the gifts and fruits, but not in one member. Just as Eve was the feminine part of Adam, so are we the feminine part of Jesus; we are the wife of the Lamb. Now being the wife is not being in religion; it s not joining a church and keeping their traditions. For Isaiah said, Your offerings and your sacrifices have become a table full of vomit. In other words, when you see it as a way of cleaning your sins,

24 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 21 God sees it as a table full of vomit. It s Christ in your heart by faith that makes perfect. Again, I want to read Hebrews 10:1, For the law was a shadow (and so were the rules for the seven church ages) of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. Verse 2, For then would they not have ceased to be offered? (If it got the job done, they wouldn t have had to keep doing it over and over.) because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. Now are you reading that? You wouldn t need anything else; but it s Christ in you, the Hope of Glory, and not religious traditions. You re dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. Verse 3 says, In those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sin every year. Those do-gooders are never going to do good enough. Amen. It s only by Christ our righteousness; He stood for us and we can t improve on that. It s perfect! It is perfect, it is done, it is settled, and it is finished. And all we have to do is accept it. And along with our acceptance comes the awesome knowledge of what has been done for us, and that causes us to walk unto all pleasing. (Colossians 1:10) Adam and Eve were naked and were not ashamed. There was nothing between them. Let s go on to Verse 4 of Hebrews, Chapter 10. It says, For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. You might say, Well, we know that, Brother Ben. You seem to be taking up time telling us what we know already. But let s look at what Paul was trying to bring to a group of Jews that were still involved in their communion and their sacrifice; also, I want to bring it up to our day. There are people still concerned about the same thing in their walk with the Word now. They will say, Oh, I ve got to take communion. If I don t take communion I won t be saved. Well, I m afraid if you are

25 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 22 depending on that to be saved, you are not going to be saved anyway, so don t worry about it. Verses 5-6, Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: (That s Jesus.) In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Because that was just something to keep their conscience alive through the church ages. Yes, the church was fallen and it still is. That s why it has to go through the tribulation period. I m not talking about the wife of the Lamb who stands outside of all religion and all denominational church systems; she doesn t go through tribulation. Paul was the one apostle that had the message for the virgin of his day to make of two people one body consisting of both Gentiles and Jews. But there are some unlearned preachers today that want to include Paul as part of the twelve apostles to the Jews. But he was not. He was to introduce a virgin to be married to the Lamb. (2 Corinthians 11:2-3) And now this apostolic ministry picks right up from where Paul s left off and has married us. And that little book brings back those spiritual prophecies that Paul laid in the Word for her, and makes them live for us in this hour. Hallelujah! Continuing with Verse 7, Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book, it is written of me,) to do thy will O God. When we took the little book, we learned that it was hid in the volume of the Book of Redemption, which was brought down to us as seen in Revelation, Chapter 10. It is the only part that is brought down to us. Verse 8, Above when he saith, Sacrifices and burnt offerings of sin, thou wouldest not, neither hast thou pleasure therein which are offered by the law. The point being made here is when talking about these sacrifices and offerings, Isaiah waxed bold, because of some of the things he said about it and the way it would be. Even David prophesied saying, Lord, don t let them come into thy righteousness. And the Bible says, That which should have been for their welfare has become a trap to them. When

26 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 23 Jesus Christ came and shed His blood, it should have been for their deliverance. But they didn t want deliverance. They didn t want Christ. They wanted to keep Him at a distance with their religion between. But there is a people that have nothing between them and Christ. There is nothing between the wife and her Husband Jesus. Many people have something between, but to the wife, her life is Jesus. That s it! Where is your life? Our life is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus! He s our Husband and He s our King and He has made us keepers of the King s Papers. And He has made us to ride in the second chariot and has made us part of the Godhead, because we are part of Him. When we look into the Book of Genesis, we see Eve. And even though Eve was beguiled by the serpent, God couldn t kill her without killing part of Adam, because she was part of Adam. And when we look at Sarah, she laughed when the angel of the Lord came and said, You are going to have a child. Well, she was too old to have children. But the angel told her, This time next season, you are going to have a child. Well she laughed, it could have been for joy. But if it was for a bad reason, the angel could have killed her. But really he couldn t, because she was part of Abraham. That was God s stream of life. And God can t kill or hurt the wife without hurting King Jesus, because she is part of Him. Jesus can t let the earthly things kill His wife here in the final stage of it, because we are part of Him. You can t hurt her without hurting Him! That s why we are saying, We which are alive and remain shall be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, because we are going to meet Jesus in the air. There we will meet face-to-face with our Husband. I hear the chariot wheels rolling now! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I hear a voice saying, Come up hither, like He told John, him being a type of the wife. We can look and see that the seven church ages have fulfilled their purpose as far as benefiting the wife. The first thing that happened after the church ages, John was picked up and saw the

27 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 24 throne and the rainbow, and he looked and there were seven candlesticks and all the candles were lit. That means we ve already come through the seven church ages and we are in the time of rapture. Again the title of the message, The Lord Jesus and His Christ Wife. There are a lot of baptisms, but Ephesians 4:5 says there is one baptism. How do you want to be baptized? There s One. Do you want to be baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? Do you want to be sprinkled? No. We want to be baptized into the body of Christ, and that s the wife of the Lamb. There is nothing between. I love the song that says, Nothing between my soul and my Savior, not of this world s delusive dreams; I have renounced all sinful pleasures; Jesus is mine, there s nothing between. Nothing between my soul and my Savior, so that His blessed face may be seen. Nothing preventing the least of His favor; keep the way clear, let nothing between. God bless you. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, in Jesus Christ s name, we bless your name and we praise your name. Lord, first of all I thank you for helping me to bring this message to the wife. I pray now that you will take it and use it for your glory. May it go to all the places of the earth that you have ordained, that you will receive all the glory. And we thank you for sharing your glory with us as you said in Saint John, Give me back that glory that I had with you before the world was. Lord, you share it with us, and we thank you and we love you and we appreciate you in Jesus Christ s name. Amen.

28 2014 The Lord Jesus And His Christ Wife 25 AUDIO/VIDEO SERMONS AND BOOKS All sermons by Brother Ben Howard are recorded on Cassette tape, CD's, DVD's, and Mp3 formats. Also, there is a collection of published books that are available for download or by request as well. Please feel free to visit us at our website often as new materials are constantly being added, or write to our postal address below. Sound Of Liberty 7286 Hwy 53W, Dawsonville, Georgia U.S.A. TwoAnds@soundofliberty.org