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1 October 2016 Amos Olusegun Omoboriowo This message was preached by th Brother Amos, on Sunday, 27 March, 2016, at Bible Faith Tabernacle, Lagos, Nigeria. This is a most refreshing message, giving us yet another angle, of how God is using men to complete the pattern of His plan of salvation, for His Gentile Bride. It brightens up our pathway, as we move closer to that place of our Crossing Over to Glory. Good morning Church. I welcome our visiting brothers and sisters. It is good to have you all, and may God meet with you in a special way, and may He bless the Church. Once again, I want to appreciate the humble response of my fellow ministering brothers, on the various Bible issues that we have dealt with recently. I appreciate the humility which Brother Bode Omoniyi, our brother in Ibadan, has shown towards the correction of the projection he made, and I also appreciate the humility which Brother Wilbur Jordan, our brother in New Jersey, has also shown, towards the correction of a projection he also made. I appreciate these brothers, not only for setting things right, but for how they have laid things humbly and sincerely before the people of God, for it makes a difference. May the Lord bless them richly, for I am encouraged by their humble and sincere attitude, and it gives me hope, that indeed, God will get His men, and that they will be totally subject to the absolute rulership of truth. Brothers and sisters, God expects the ministry to be an example to the flock, for they Ref. No.:

2 Page 2 are to show the way to the body of saints, particularly when it comes to their attitude towards correction by the Word of God, for this is where many men are failing. The times of correction, is especially when the right attitude is expected, because we must all be ruled by the Word of God, and particularly as ministers of the Gospel, we need to demonstrate this fact to the body of God's people; we need to show that we are truly subject to the rulership of the Word, and not only say it, paying mere lip service. Therefore, when a Scriptural correction offends you, you have a problem, a very big problem! That is a fact! And sometimes, you do not need to say anything, in order to show your objection to a Scriptural correction, because your silence is what says everything; it speaks volumes: It can be louder than your actual voice, which is why I hear some men today; I hear their dissent; I hear their objections, very loud and clear. They have said nothing, but I hear them loud and clear, because they do not need to say anything. For their not saying anything, just tells me everything I need to know. But as I sometimes say: You cannot follow God without following a man. It is utterly impossible for anyone to follow God without following somebody; you will have to follow somebody somewhere! I will tell you that right now! You could not follow God in the days of Noah, without following Noah in the light of God that he bore in that hour of time. As a Jew, you could not also say you were following God, in the day God was delivering the children of Israel from Egypt, and not follow Moses in his light. You could not do that, for if you did, you would not be following God! Period! As an Israelite, you had to follow Moses in the light of the Word of God that he bore in that day, or you were certainly not following God. Saints, this is a fundamental and an absolute truth which the religious world have no clue about, for you must simply follow somebody in order to follow God, more particularly because the truth of God does not come in a vacuum, but it comes through the chosen vessel of truth whom God has anointed! This thought can be brought to the days of John the Baptist, the Elijah in the earthly days of Jesus Christ, a man whom Jesus referred to as a burning and a shining light. This October 2016 thought can also be brought to the days of Saint Paul, The Apostle of the Gentiles. We can further bring the same thought to the days of William Branham, the Elijah-Star messenger to this Laodicean Church Age. And we can also definitely bring the same thought to the days of Raymond Jackson, The Apostle of this end time, the Paul of today. May I therefore warn you that in 2016, God has not changed: He is still the same! Consequently, and similarly, it is impossible to follow God today, at this very junction of time, this final junction of Gentile redemption, without following a man somewhere. You will have to follow somebody! It could be your pastor, and for a lot of people, it is their pastor that they are following, and not the truth of God. Consequently, when their pastor stands, they stand; and when their pastor falls away, they also fall away with him, for it is not the truth they are standing for, but for their pastor. The main issue remains, however, that they are following someone, who is their pastor. It could be the Pope of Rome you are following; it could be the Archbishop of Canterbury; it could be Benny Hinn: The fact

3 October 2016 remains that you will follow somebody somewhere, for you have to follow a man, in order to follow God! Full stop! The only thing I will implore you is this: Please make sure that the man you are following, knows exactly what he is talking about, and that he is establishing you in the Truth of the Holy Scriptures; make sure that he is giving you a perfect understanding of the Message of redemption, which God has given to us through His Son Jesus Christ, and as laid down in the Holy Bible. Just make sure that the man knows what he is talking about, strictly in the light of the Holy Scriptures. That is all that matters, for we all follow somebody! Consequently, it is not about: I like him, for he looks very handsome. I like the way he pronounces his words, and I like the way he dresses. Oh, he is so cute! Those are just downright carnal things, having no spiritual benefit, and they will take you nowhere, as they will not prepare you for the rapture. Brother Amos, my pastor is the one who paid the bill for my marriage, and he also paid for my accommodation, and so, I will stay with his ministry. Good for you! But you should also know that he could not have done that, if God had not moved him to do it, and as such, why not give God the glory, and love that God who moved him to do what he did for you? Why not give your allegiance to God who used the man to be an instrument of blessing for you, rather than spitting on God, and following the man, when you can clearly see that he is out of the true way? The fact that a man helped you, does not mean that he owns your soul! He does not own your soul, simply because he helped you! Your soul cannot be bought with money, IF it has truly been redeemed, because your soul has been redeemed with the precious blood of Jesus Christ, who died on the cross of Calvary about Two Thousand Easters ago, and as a result, you owe God your life, for it is no longer yours! Exactly! Nevertheless, the truth remains, that you cannot follow God without following a man somewhere. You will have to follow somebody somewhere! But as I said in the past, and as I must keep emphasizing, you cannot follow a man, and not have confidence in the man. And if you do not have confidence in the man you are following, why exactly are you following him? You are wasting your time, and Page 3 you are only gambling your eternal life away! You are not supposed to waste your time, and you are not supposed to gamble with your eternal destiny, for this is about Eternal Life: We are on a journey, a spiritual journey, to Eternity! Consequently, before you follow a man, you are required to prove him. How, you may ask? It is strictly by the infallible yardstick of the written Word of God! It is the revelation of the Word of God that you are supposed to use to prove a man, that you may know whether he is a man into whose hands you can entrust your soul or not. And having proved a man over time by the Holy Scriptures, and he has proved himself faithful to the Word of God; if he has consistently shown that he is firmly and unshakably planted upon the solid Rock of the Word, you should build enough confidence in the man, to be able to give him the benefit of the doubt on any grey areas, areas of things you do not understand, believing and trusting that he knows what he is talking about. How much more when he tells you that he has the Scriptural light of an issue, particularly as a man bearing the light of Jesus Christ for the body of ministry, being a Lead

4 Page 4 Ministry! If you will not believe him, then you should show the way: You do not need a guide; you be the guide! Furthermore, you cannot tell me that you are following a man, and you are knocking that man at the same time, be it from your pulpit, or even in your closet. That does not make sense! You cannot follow a man on account of the truth, and then be knocking him in your closet or from your pulpit, at the same time, because of the truth that he is standing for, as it amounts to knocking the God of truth! And neither can you be knocking the Lighthouse that the Lord is using to provide the Fresh Carcase of the Word of God, for the Bride universal, for that is wheresoever THE CARCASE IS! You must be careful, because God is watching you, and He is hearing you, and He will certainly pay everyone in their own coin, which is why He has built a law into this Message of Truth, and it is called the law of elimination! Therefore, men do not need to hear you, for God hearing you is what makes the difference, because there is nothing man can do, even if they hear bad things spoken against them; but on the other hand, God can do all things, and as it is written in Hebrews Chapter 10, verse 31: It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God! You cannot follow a man, be knocking the man in your closet behind the scene, and then pretend as if all is well, and as if God is in hypocrisy. You cannot follow a man, and argue with him on issues of truth, when you know exactly who that man is, IF you truly know who he is in Jesus Christ, that is, under Jesus Christ, in God's plan of redemption. It is not that anybody is anything of himself, for we are all nothing. However, if you confess that you know a man's place, within the body of ministry ordained for the elect Bride, which Jesus Christ our Lord has established in the earth today, that he bears the Standard, as the Lead Ministry, how dare you argue with him over issues of truth?!that is the point! How dare you do that, particularly when he is humble enough to let you know when he is not sure of something, that he is not sure, or when he does not know something, that he does not know! And when he knows something, and he tells you that he knows what he is talking about, in the light of the Word of God, how dare you argue with him?! Then you say, Well, I October 2016 will not argue with Brother Amos, but that is the revelation God gave me. God did not give you any revelation! He gave you nothing, for the revelation of God is one! God does not draw two opposing pictures of truth for His people, for that creates nothing but confusion. And we all know Scripturally, that God is not the author of confusion, and hence, He does not contradict Himself, being infallible, for there is perfect harmony and consistency in the revelation of God! And let me say this to Brother Hope Nnaji in Owerri Church: YOU HAVE NO REVELATION OF ANYTHING! And you are not going to come here to tell me anything about the Word of God! You just came straight from the cold into this Continuity Light of Jesus Christ, for you only just came from William Kumuyi's Deeper Life Bible Church, an organized system of religion peddling carnal holiness! Tell Brother Hope, that he will not come from Kumuyi's camp, to come and tell me anything concerning this Holy Bible! Moreover, all the little leaven he is adding to this Continuity Message, will only end up killing the people who are foolish enough to drink the nonsense he is giving them in Owerri. I will tell you now:

5 October 2016 God did not send me to play games with men on issues of Life, for this is not a game! My brother, you will learn to crawl before you start to run, because the way up is down! I hear you loud and clear, Brother Hope. I love you with all my heart, but as I must consistently point out, God did not send me to play a game of Dominoes with you, or with any other man for that matter, on issues of life eternal! I will not be playing ping pong or checkers with the Message of my Lord, with anyone! And although I speak like this, I speak in love, as I am offering you God's love and mercy, because the love of God is corrective, as God chastens and scourges His people whom He loves. Let us even ask: What is revelation, true divine revelation? Revelation is not something that overturns God's Holy Bible! You said God gave you the revelation, and yet, the things you are peddling are erroneous things. Therefore, I have to ask: What exactly did God give you? And precisely how did he give you what He obviously did not give you? Come and show us the way! Do not stay with that issue alone: Come and also show us the way! You just do not realise that you have a long way to go, and that you have a lot of catching up to do, because you only just came into the End Time Message the other day, and you came directly into The Present Light, knowing absolutely nothing about the Message of the end time Elijah! All that you know concerning the Message of Elijah to the Gentiles, you got from this ministry, and now you want to argue on issues you know absolutely nothing about! You cannot take the little opportunity, the privilege given to you to preach, and turn yourself into a peacock: You will self-destruct, and you will also destroy those who are foolish enough to follow the load of rubbish you are peddling! No man is at liberty to preach his ideas, and call it revelation! Revelation does not overturn the plan of redemption! It does not! It certainly does not overturn the Holy Scriptures! By the grace of God, we will produce that Scribe in due season, THE DUAL APPLICATION OF MALACHI 4:6B, PROMISE OF ELIJAH, which deals with the contrary projections our brother has been making in Owerri, and subsequent erroneous projections he also made in Port Harcourt, in Brother Enoch's assembly, creating confusion in that assembly. Page 5 It is coming out in the Scribe in due season; but I will not rush to produce it, simply because of the spanner our brother is trying to throw into the works. I will produce it when God leads me to produce it, because it is God that sets the pace, and I will follow that leadership, regardless of men's current attitude. After I took that message at the Convention, and having laboured long and hard to present the truth with clarity, which was all by the grace of God, without shaming anyone, and without even calling the names of brethren involved in the teachings, I expected, after that Convention, to hear from the men concerning the message delivered, merely indicating their a g r e e m e n t o r disagreement with the truth that had been well presented. No, I did not need to invite anyone for a meeting thereafter, so that we can be arguing over a truth that has been well laid out by the Scriptures! I have better things to do with my time, than to be striving with men on issues that even little babies can see! If a man in the ministry cannot see the truth, after listening to that message at the Convention, what other thing am I supposed to do,

6 Page 6 other than pray that God will open his eyes to the truth? The fact remains, that having laid out the truth by the Scriptures at the open Convention, I expected to hear from my brother, but I did not hear anything. And that silence was all I needed to hear: For I heard nothing! Because the nothing tells me the entire story, hence the reason I said, I hear him loud and clear! So, I say again: If you disagree with me on an issue that is scripturally plain, for it is absolutely clear, then, Come and take this, and lead us. (Brother Amos lifts up the Bible). Come and show us the way! Brother Hope, you say God gave you the revelation, that in the 70th Week of Daniel, Moses will establish the Levitical Priesthood, before the ministry of Elijah will start for the Jews. That is nothing but hogwash, and it is clear that God definitely did not give this to you! That is why I say, Do not just stop only on the issue of the establishment of the Levitical Priesthood: Come and show us the way! Brothers and sisters, now come with me to the Scriptures, for I have a serious thought to present, in view of these current sad developments. People just do not seem to understand what day this is, and how late the time is! It is written in the Book of Romans Chapter 11, that after the Mount Carmel showdown, and Jezebel swore that she would kill Elijah, Elijah ran for his life, and came to God, declaring: Oh Lord, I am tired, and I am the only one left. They have destroyed your altars, killed all your prophets. And now, they are running after my life to kill me. Saints, do you know what Apostle Paul said was God's reply to him? Romans Chapter 11, verse 4 records: But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have RESERVED TO MYSELF seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. God reserved to Himself, seven thousand MEN, who stood solidly and unshakably for nothing but the truth of God! Apostle Paul did not end there; but by divine inspiration, knowing just how perfect and unchanging the ways of God are, he took that same infallible truth, and applied it to the Dispensation of Grace, even to our day! I said that he took it and applied it to our day, to this one day of salvation, thereby confirming that it is a truth of God that applies October 2016 even today in 2016, for it applies right now, as verse 5 plainly states: Even so then at this present time also THERE IS A REMNANT (of MEN) according to the election of grace. In other words, for Apostle Paul is simply saying: God never leaves Himself without the witness of a true body of Ministry! You say, Brother Amos, the Lord was referring in that day to believers, and not to the ministry. Yes, I agree that the divine pronouncement also applies to the body of saints, for it also gives us the witness of a true body of believers. However, the fact remains that you cannot have a true body of believers (saints) standing anywhere, without a true ministry of the light, because the light of the children of God, is the ministry God establishes to carry the Light for His people! That was why Jesus Christ warned the Ephesian Church in 96 AD., as recorded in Revelation Chapter 2, verse 5, that IF they failed to repent, he would remove their candlestick, just as it is written: Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove THY

7 October 2016 candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. This gives us nothing, but the man God anointed to carry the Light for the Ephesian Church Age in that day, Apostle Paul having passed away thirty years earlier, in 66 AD; and this candlestick was none other than Apostle John! Saint John was their candlestick in that day, the candlestick of the Ephesian Church, because the light of the body of saints, is the ministry God sets in the earth to carry the Light for His children. Period! Hence, once that candlestick is removed, darkness takes over! And indeed, when the Lord called Saint John home around 100 AD., Satan came in, sowed tares, and took over, and the Church went under, as she was led into the Dark Ages! Coming back to when God informed Elijah, that he had reserved seven thousand MEN, in Romans Chapter 11, we have to understand that these men, although they constitute the true body of believers, they also set a type of the true ministry of God. And before you argue against that, I will take you back to the cry of Elijah in verse 3, which states: Lord, they have killed (who?) THY PROPHETS, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone (in the ministry), and they seek my life. Elijah was simply saying that he was the only prophet left in Israel! But what was God's reply to him regarding this fact, as recorded in verse 4B: I have reserved to myself seven thousand MEN. This gives us nothing but ministers of God, a true body of men! And if God reserved seven thousand men in that day, how much more now, will God not leave Himself without a True Witness of Truth, a Ministry of the Light! That was the precise position Elijah occupied in that day, for he was God's principal Witness of Truth! And because he was tired, and desired to be called home, God now instructed him to go and anoint another Standard bearer in his very position, another True Witness, as the Book of 1 Kings Chapter 19, verse 15-16, declares: And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and ELISHA the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be PROPHET IN THY ROOM. Why? This is because when one Page 7 Standard bearer goes, another comes, to carry the Light of God for the body of ministry, as God does not lay His Standard on a shelf, FOR THE TRUTH OF GOD ALWAYS MOVES ON, through God's chosen vessel of truth! Elijah did not question the commission God gave him in that day, to anoint Elisha in his office, because he knew that that was the way forward after him. That is why I said, yes, generally speaking, we can apply the seven thousand reserved men to the body of God's people; but in truth, it also refers to men in the ministry, as that is its principal application. And in order to seal this truth, I will take you back to a similar scenario, where one hundred prophets were also kept from slaughter by God, using Obadiah, the servant of King Ahab, as written in 1 Kings Chapter 18. Obadiah speaks to Elijah in verse 13, declaring: Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundred MEN of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? But even when the one hundred prophets were kept, no doubt, the Lead Prophetic Ministry of Elijah

8 Page 8 kept them motivated. Therefore, if Yahweh, Jehovah God, always reserves to Himself MEN in the ministry, a faithful army of men, men whom we may not necessarily know, and we all know with Scriptural certainty that He does, how much truer, is it that God always has, and always reserves to Himself, a faithful Witness of Truth, a carrier of the True Light, for the body of MEN. Think about it! Brothers and sisters, we must understand, that what Elijah carried, was exactly what those seven thousand men stood for, only that Elijah did not know them. That is the truth! But every last one of them, no doubt, were hearing of the developments in the ministry of Elijah in that day, and they were being updated in their revelation. Everything going on, the things Elijah was facing in that day, and the truths he was dishing out from God, all these men were not ignorant of them at all, they were aware, for no doubt, they stood for the Standard of Truth which Elijah upheld in that day, as the carrier of the Light of God for the Nation of Israel in his hour of time. Consequently, they knew exactly what was going on! However, Elijah did not know any of them, and he did not even know that they existed! And that is a great lesson for all of us in this last move of God for the Gentile Bride, as we look forward to the original class of men God is going to put together and use, for the Bride of Christ universal, men who will occupy the five offices of the Original Ephesian Ministry. Let every eagle of God know assuredly, therefore, for it is an absolute truth of God, that the Lord never leaves Himself without a true remnant body of ministry, and much more, He never leaves Himself without a true Witness, a Witness of His Truth, which is a Lead Ministry! If the Almighty God can have a remnant body of true Ministry, it is not a Standard Bearing Ministry, a man who constitutes God's True Witness, that He will not have! Therefore, on the authority of Romans Chapter 11, verses 4-5, joined with 1 Kings Chapter 19, verse 16, I declare that God always reserves to Himself, a True Witness at any point in time. He does, and this has to be so, particularly when we consider the most crucial junction of time we are now living in, being a most dangerous one, where all spirits have been turned loose. Consequently, we must know that it is a lifeline October 2016 that is being thrown to men, when they are corrected by the Word of God; it is a lifeline that such action gives, for by it, God's love and mercy is reaching out. What they do with it, however, is between them and God. But I want everybody to know, that it is later than you think, for we are living in an extremely evil day: PERILOUS TIMES ARE HERE! Dangerous and very evil times are here, and as such, it is not a time we want to be caught outside the divine protection of God's Truth. It is just too late in the day to derail, and we have come too close to the return of Christ, to now miss it. We cannot afford to fall by the way side! Please turn with me to the Seed Chapter of the Word of God, and I pray that God will help me this morning. Genesis Chapter 12, starting from verse 1, records: Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. Look at verse 3: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse

9 October 2016 him that curseth thee: and in thee shall ALL families (ALL nations) of t h e e a r t h b e blessed.and this blessing, brothers and sisters, is redemptive; it gives us the blessing of redemption. Therefore, in verse 3B, we have a sure Word of promise that God gave to Abraham, of universal salvation, for God promised, that through Abraham, ALL the Nations of the earth will be blessed, thereby establishing for us, universal salvation, a divine blessing which is conferred upon the whole world through Jesus Christ, who is the Royal Seed of Abraham. Saints, I thank God for the two prophecies that went forth this morning, two prophecies that synchronized in their prophetic projection, bearing virtually the same prophetic content. And the sisters that the Lord used to give the two prophecies, do not know anything about what I am going to preach on this morning. Yet, because it is of the Lord, there are prophetic statements they made, as they each gave their prophecies, that made me smile, for they bear upon this message, and I bless the Name of the Lord for the inspiration. Therefore, with regard to the two prophecies, I must warn, just as it is written: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches. Now, come back with me to Genesis Chapter 12, for we will take verse 1 again, as it is my focal Scripture, and it reads: Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto A LAND THAT I WILL SHEW THEE. Here we have a promise which God also made to Abraham, of a land, a Promised Land. Is that right? Yes! Follow me to Genesis Chapter 15, and verse 8 records: And he (Abraham) said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? In other words, Give me proof or a sign that I will inherit that land, referring to the land that the Lord spoke about earlier on. For this proof or sign, God now told him in verse 9: And He said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Page 9 Abram drove them away. Abraham did all the things the Lord asked him to do, and his sacrifice was perfectly laid out on the altar. He stood by his sacrifice, and watched faithfully over it; he guarded it. Verse 12: And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. And He (God) said unto Abram, Know of a surety that THY SEED shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall SERVE THEM; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and AFTERWARD shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. In the same day the Lord made A COVENANT with Abram, saying, UNTO THY SEED HAVE I GIVEN THIS LAND, from the river of Egypt unto the

10 Page 10 great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites, (all which give us the land of Palestine). Brothers and sisters, here we see the Promised Land the Lord covenanted to give to the seed of Abraham, the children of Israel. But before they would enter that Promised Land to possess it, they first had to be under servitude in a strange land for four hundred years. Then the Lord would use a strong arm, a mighty arm, to bring them out. In this passage of Scripture, the Almighty God was simply letting Abraham know His precise plan, and in essence, the Lord was saying: I have a promise for you, a promise for the children of Israel whom you will bear, and it is to give them a Promised Land. However, I have a precise plan as to how they will inherit this land, and that is that they will serve four hundred years in bondage in a strange land, and then I will save them, and make them possess the land of promise. But they will first have to be in bondage, and afterwards, I will deliver them, and cause them to inherit the Promised Land. Consequently, brothers and sisters, we can clearly see that their possessing the Promised Land, hung absolutely upon their salvation by God, from the Nation of Egypt. In other words, in Genesis Chapter 15, God revealed His plan of Jewish salvation from Egyptian bondage, which was a physical one, as it offered them physical salvation. In Genesis Chapter 12, verse 3B, however, we also saw God's promise of universal salvation, and combining the two passages of the Word of God together, we have two set plans of redemption; two plans of salvation: One physical, and the other spiritual. We see the promise of the salvation of the children of Israel from the land of bondage, and that with this salvation, God was going to use it to set a type, a perfect type, of the plan of universal salvation that was to follow, which gives us the second promise of salvation, one we will also see. Church, it was God engineering everything sovereignly, for He determined in His omniscient mind, that the children of Israel will inherit the Promised Land, by going through a process of bondage, followed by October 2016 deliverance. And we all know that God does not do something for nothing. This plan was orchestrated by God with a particular objective or purpose: Their bondage in a strange land was purposefully designed, that it may serve as a perfect type of universal bondage, the bondage of Adam's entire fallen race, in a world of sin, a world which is not ours, for it is a strange world. Hence, Apostle Paul, speaking of the testimony or of the confession of true believers, God's elect seeds in the world, declares in Hebrews Chapter 11, verse 13: We are STRANGERS and pilgrims on the earth, for this world is not our home. That is why Hebrews Chapter 13, verse 14 states: FOR HERE (in his present sinful and evil world), HAVE WE NO CONTINUING CITY ; (we have no permanent abode, or abiding city), BUT WE SEEK ONE TO COME. Therefore, seeing that ALL God's children in ALL the families of the earth, or Nations of the earth, were in bondage of sin, the Lord God also planned to deliver us from this bondage, through Jesus Christ, who is our Deliverer, our Saviour.(Are you with me?) And in order to foreshadow this universal salvation,

11 October 2016 God decided that for the children of Israel to possess the Promised Land, they would first have to serve, they would first have to be in bondage, and afterwards, He would bring deliverance or salvation to them, thereby setting a perfect and infallible type of what He would also do on a universal level, for the Elect families of the earth. This is so, because God is a God of types and shadows! And that is why we brought out a message in the Scribe Magazine, to lay out this beautiful Bible Truth, which is God's Truth, titled, THE APPLICATION OF TYPES AND SHADOWS. This Easter morning, about Two Thousand years ago, God sent His Deliverer, Jesus the Christ, to set us free, by dying on the cross of Calvary, paying the price for our redemption. Our Moses has come, and he has set us free. Halleluiah! Brothers and sisters, when we consider this great plan of universal salvation, we must understand that before God set it in motion, He first set in motion that of the Nation of Israel; He started with the salvation of the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage, that it may go first in time, and that it may establish a perfect type of what God would do on a universal level, for through the salvation of the children of Israel, the Lord was laying out the stage, of precisely how universal salvation would be wrought! That was why Apostle Paul took the experience of the children of Israel, and used it as a type, telling us categorically that it foreshadows the experience of the Dispensation of Grace, which is the Dispensation of the New Testament, as recorded in 1 Corinthians Chapter 10, verses 1-10: Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ (in typology). But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, Page 11 The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Then in verse 11, Apostle Paul plainly declared: Now ALL these things happened unto them FOR ENSAMPLES: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come, in the Dispensation of Grace! Church, when Jewish salvation was to start, in order to set it in motion, God called a man by the name of Moses, and God revealed Himself to him, as recorded in the Book of Exodus Chapter 3. May God help me this morning. Come with me to Exodus Chapter 3, from verse 7: And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows, (just as God sees what the Bride saints are going through

12 Page 12 today); And I AM COME DOWN TO DELIVER THEM out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey... Verse 10: Come now therefore, and I WILL SEND THEE UNTO PHARAOH, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. Amen. God said, I have come down to deliver my people. But He said, Moses, now you go and deliver them; you go and do the deliverance. What does this give us? It was God IN Moses, bringing deliverance to the children of Israel out of Egypt. It was God IN Moses, initiating the plan of redemption of the children of Israel in that day. God sent Aaron with him, and Moses went to Pharaoh, and delivered the children of Israel out of Egypt. We all know what happened later, for although God promised Moses to take them to the Promised Land, but because Moses offended God at the waters of Meribah, God called him home. As a result, Moses was not able to take them IN, although he had been used to bring them OUT. However, before Moses was called home, two things were established in that day. Firstly, the Lord had already established a Three-Fold Ministry over the Nation of Israel in the wilderness: They had Moses, standing for the prophetic ministry; they had Aaron, the High Priest, along with his sons, priests, representing the Priests; and they had Levites, who were established for the services of the tabernacle of the congregation of the Lord in the wilderness. Secondly, God instructed Moses to anoint another man to take over his own very office, his Lead Prophetic Ministry office, and his name was Joshua, a man who had served under Moses. Brothers and sisters, I want you to remember that it was Moses who named the young man Joshua, for Moses changed his name to Joshua, which means Jehovah-Saviour, that God is our Saviour, and it is written in Numbers Chapter 13, verse 16: These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun JEHOSHUA. Saints, this young man, Joshua by name, was a servant of Moses, he learned under Moses. He went through serious tutelage (schooling), and training, directly under Moses, and October 2016 the grace of God was upon his life, as he had the touch of God upon his life. Out of the twelve spies, the twelve elders, that Moses sent to survey the land, only Caleb and Joshua stood firmly and unshakably with God's Word of unfailing promise, and brought a good report of the land; for both Joshua and Caleb had another spirit with them. He was a man of faith, and of valour (courageous; heroic), and he was very faithful to Moses, and as such, he was a great blessing, a great support, to the ministry of Moses. Hence, when the Amalekites came to fight with the children of Israel in Rephidim, it is written in Exodus Chapter 17, verses 9-14: And Moses said UNTO JOSHUA, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. So Joshua did AS MOSES HAD SAID TO HIM, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under

13 October 2016 him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Joshua was the man God used to move Israel forward in God's plan of salvation in that day, in the wilderness. As Bride saints who know the omniscience of God, God's foreknowledge, that He knows everything, for God knows the end from the very beginning, and consequently, we should know that before God even gave Abraham the promise of redemption from Egypt, He knew exactly where the ministry of Moses would terminate, and He knew where that of Joshua would begin. And in case anyone wants to argue with that, come back with me to Exodus Chapter 17, which gives us a period when everything was still going very well, very smoothly, for Moses! Exodus Chapter 17, verse 14 reveals: And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and REHEARSE IT IN THE EARS OF JOSHUA: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Why was it to be rehearsed in the ears of Joshua? It was because he would be the man to carry out this instruction, this expressed desire of God concerning Amalek, once the children of Israel were established in the Promised Land! That is why verses adds: And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi: For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. Consequently, the Lord knew in that day, that the hour when Joshua would take over the leadership of Israel was coming! However, when Moses was called, he was called with the potential of taking them straight to the Promised Land. Come on! Moses had the potential of taking Israel into the promised Land! In Exodus Chapter 3, verse 8, God declared to Moses: And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a Page 13 land flowing with milk and honey, referring exclusively to Canaan Land, the Promised Land. Then in verse 10, God added: Come now therefore, AND I WILL SEND THEE What does that tell you? It tells you that Moses was commissioned to take them to the Promised Land! Brothers and sisters, Exodus Chapter 33, verses 13 confirms that, but we will take only verse 1: And the Lord said UNTO MOSES, Depart, and GO UP hence, THOU and the people which thou hast brought up OUT of the land of Egypt, UNTO THE LAND which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it. Now argue with that! But because Moses offended God at the waters of Meribah, as recorded in Numbers Chapter 20, verses 7-11, the Lord now told him in verse 12: And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, BECAUSE YE BELIEVED ME NOT, TO SANCTIFY ME in the eyes of the children of Israel, THEREFORE ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. Deuteronomy Chapter 32, verses 48-52, confirms this truth, for it says the same

14 Page 14 thing. Is that right? Absolutely! That lets you see that when Moses was called, he was given the opportunity, the potential, and as a matter of scriptural fact, he had the commission of taking them to the Promised Land. But something happened along the way, and God called him home at a point in their wilderness journey, after first showing him the land of promise, from the top of mount Nebo; for God chose not to forgive him, so that he may not continue the journey. May I add, that God was not the one that caused Moses to offend; but God knew he would offend, and seeing this ahead, He planned in His sovereign and omniscient mind, to use another man from that point on. The Lord knew exactly where the journey of Moses would end,and He also knew precisely what He would do from that point on, to continue the work, and to finish it. Therefore, we have to see that although God did not motivate the disobedience of Moses, nevertheless, God was in it, for God was going to use it, and He used it, because Moses was not going to finish the picture: There would be a Continuing Ministry, which would be the ministry of Joshua. And when it became plain to Moses that God was not going to change His mind, and let him continue, knowing the ways of God, and having the mind of the Spirit of God, and speaking by the Spirit of Christ, he pleaded with God, as recorded in Numbers Chapter 27, verses 16-23: Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, SET A MAN OVER THE CONGREGATION, (speaking strictly of a Lead Ministry, a Standard Bearing Ministry), Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may LEAD THEM OUT, and which may BRING THEM IN; that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd, (still speaking of a Standard Bearing Ministry, a Lead Ministry). And the Lord said unto Moses, Take thee JOSHUA the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient. And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask October 2016 counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the Lord: AT HIS WORD, (as inspired and led by God), shall they go out, and AT HIS WORD they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even ALL THE CONGREGATION. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses. Church, please note that no Israelite rejected what Moses did right here, for no Jew rejected the ministry way forward which Moses laid down in that day before their very eyes. Furthermore, also note that the choice of the successor Lead Ministry in that day, was not that of Moses; the choice of the man who was to occupy that position was exclusively of God, because the plan of redemption of Israel was not of Moses. The choice was God's, because the plan of the salvation of Israel was God's, and the children of Israel understood that! So, the hand of Moses was completely tied in the matter, for all he could do

15 October 2016 was to pray that God would anoint another man, so that Israel, as a Nation, was not left without a Standard Bearer, a Lead Ministry, under God, just as God also later did in the time of Elijah! And may I remind you, that it was not Elijah the Tishbite that asked or prayed for a successor Standard Bearer; it was God that instructed him to go and anoint Elisha; because it is God's unchanging Truth, as He does not lay His Standard on a shelf, for the people to go their different ways! Moreover, no man can tell God how to run His business, or how He is to move His people forward in His plan of salvation, for salvation is strictly of the Lord. As I said before, Moses made the plea for a successor, only because he knew a fundamental and an unchanging truth of God, and that is this: The plan of redemption cannot move on without a Lead Ministry, someone to show the way under God, carrying the Standard of the Truth of God. Period! Furthermore, Moses also knew that God reserves the choice of that man to Himself, for God alone determines the vessel of clay He will use to carry His light for the body of ministry. May I also add, that it is the same story today, for no man determines for God, who He will use in the ministry, and in what position, and what colour his skin will be, or of his racial background, as the hands of every man is tied in this regard, for God alone determines everything relating to the plan of redemption. Let me warn though, that although I may not know who God will use in the ministry for the Bride, just as Elijah did not know that the seven thousand men existed, however, when I test the fruits of a man's ministry, I will certainly know if I can walk with him or not, for I should be able to know who I can or cannot walk with, in the light of the Word of God, just as I should also be able to know a man that does not fit the standard which God has set for the men who will make it into the true ministry. I repeat: I may not know who will make it through into the Original Ephesian Fivefold Ministry when it is all done, but one thing is definite: I can recognize a man who falls short of God's required standard, just as I can also recognize a man I cannot walk with, particularly as I am not under obligation to walk with every man in the name of the ministry, for that will be confusion! I say all that to make a point, and that is this: If the manner of Page 15 a man's ministry is too alarming or reckless, or that it is out of Scriptural order, because he just cannot be ruled by Truth, he will have to go his way, so that we can have peace. As it is written in the Book of Amos Chapter 3, verse 3, Two cannot walk together unless they be agreed on the strict basis of the Word of God. Period! Brothers and sisters, before the foundation of the world, God in His sovereign and omniscient mind, already had Joshua as the finisher of the redemption move which Moses was used to start. Joshua's Lead Ministry was essentially a Continuing Ministry, as well as a Concluding Ministry, because he carried them through to the Promised Land: He did not hand over to another man to conclude the Israelites journey. He took them IN, and established them in the Promised Land, thereby becoming THE MINISTRY OF CONCLUSION, the Ministry of Completion. And when Moses asked God for another Guide for the Nation of Israel, we never saw where any of the priests came and rebuked him, saying: Moses, what are you asking God for? Are we not here? What are you trying to imply? Are we

16 Page 16 stupid? Are we morons? What do you mean that God should set a man over the people, so that they are not like a sheep without a shepherd? Are you saying that we are blind guides? Are we not shepherds? What exactly do you mean? What are you trying to say? Are you trying to bring us down before the congregation? None of them said that, because they knew exactly what Moses meant, and they themselves fell in line, for they knew that their security and prosperity on that journey, demanded that they have another Guide under God, a Lead Ministry, just like Moses! They needed a man who would be used in that crucial key position which Moses occupied, so that the plan of the salvation of Israel which God started by Moses, could be completed by him. Hence, when it was the hour for the Lead Ministry of Joshua to commence, following the death of Moses, God commissioned Joshua in Chapter 1, as verses 1-6 reveals: Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, (being a fruit of his ministry), saying, Moses my servant is dead; now therefore ARISE, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: AS I WAS WITH MOSES, SO I WILL BE WITH THEE: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people SHALT THOU DIVIDE FOR AN INHERITANCE THE LAND, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. That was when Joshua now stepped on the scene, taking charge over the Nation of Israel, and he laid out his word of command to move the children of Israel forward in their journey to Canaan land, they replied him in Chapter 1, verses 16-18: And they answered Joshua, saying, ALL that thou commandest us October 2016 we will do, and WHITHERSOEVER thou sendest us, we will go. ACCORDING as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the Lord thy God be with thee, as He was with Moses. WHOSOEVER HE BE that doth rebel a g a i n s t t h y commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage. And of a truth, in Chapter 3, when they came to the River Jordan, and they needed to cross over into the promised Land, and Joshua gave them the divine revelation of the way forward, a fresh revelation of how to cross the river, none of the men in the ministry contradicted or opposed him! Do not forget, that just as the Red Sea was a great obstacle in the way of the children of Israel in the days of Moses, so was the River Jordan a great obstacle in that day, one that stood in the way of their possessing the Promised Land! Verses 6-8 provides: And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went

17 October 2016 before the people. And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan. You can read the entire Chapter, for it is a lovely account, laying out in details the crucial prophetic revelatory instructions for crossing over. Joshua instructed the ministry to carry the ark, precisely as God had shown him, and the congregation were to follow in a precise divine manner, and none of them challenged his revelation! None of the men in the ministry in that day, Priest or Levite, dared to say: Brother Joshua, do you not think you are getting it wrong? We need to stay with the Message of Moses, just as God instructed you, for Moses was the deliverer and star messenger. Let us see what the Message says: It says spread thy rod over the Red Sea. That is the word; that is the Message! Brother Joshua, you need to use the rod of Moses! Unfortunately, the rod of Moses would not work at the crossing of Jordan, and neither would the spreading of another rod over it work either! The junction of time they were now in, needed fresh light; fresh divine counsel; the unveiling of the mind of the Spirit of God, specifically concerning The Crossing Over! Moreover, in ALL the inspired writings of Moses, there was absolutely nothing God had given concerning the crossing of Jordan. God did that, in order to allow for progressive light, continuity revelation, that the people may see that Joshua was also being dealt with by God prophetically, just as God had dealt with Moses, and verse 7 which we just read, confirms this truth! Brothers and sisters, that man had God's prophetic dealing upon his life, and you need to read the prophetic revelation God gave him concerning the crossing of Jordan. And even thereafter, when they had to take the heavily fortified city of Jericho, with its great and high walls, it was by the serious prophetic insight Joshua received that it was taken! God had to do that, in order to watch over His plan, as it was not about Moses, and neither was it about Joshua; but it was about God's plan of redemption Page 17 for Israel, one which had to be accomplished, and hence, God was with Joshua, as He was with Moses! Consequently, when Joshua stepped into the prophetic shoes of Moses, carrying on the work of the redemption of Israel, as the Lead Ministry, he did not lack any fresh divine revelation that was material for accomplishing the great work of Jewish salvation. Please come with me to the charge Moses earlier gave to Joshua, recorded in Deuteronomy Chapter 31, and we will just take verses 7-8: And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the Lord hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; AND THOU SHALT CAUSE THEM TO INHERIT IT. And the Lord, He it is that doth go before thee; He will be with thee, He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. Amen. Now watch, Church. When it was the hour of time for the children of Israel to cross over Jordan into the land of promise, that they may begin to possess it, God gave them a man to lead the way, for he was their

18 Page 18 guide, under God; a man God used to bear the Standard, A TRUE WITNESS OF GOD. For in that day, the plan of the redemption of Israel was not left on the shelf for every man in the ministry to tell the children of Israel what to do, and which way to go. No, God did not do that! I say that because although Moses had been used to bring them OUT, we must not forget that their salvation was not yet over, as it was not yet complete. God did not bring them out, so that they could die or stay in the wilderness. God redeemed them out of Egypt, to bring them into the Promised Land. Consequently, until they entered the Promised Land, their redemption was not yet complete, and as such, they needed another Anchor Man, one who would take them IN, and God gave them one in Joshua! I must keep reminding you, that the essence or the reason for their deliverance from the land of bondage in the first place, was in order to bring them into the land of promise. And hence, until their establishment in the land of promise was accomplished, their deliverance or salvation was incomplete, as they had to inherit the Promised Land! The plan of redemption from Egypt, was orchestrated by God for the nation of Israel, to enable them to inherit the land. And having been brought out of Egypt, in order for them to inherit the land of promise, they also needed to cross over Jordan! Crossing Jordan therefore became a fundamental issue; it became a most crucial issue, as it brought them to a crucial junction of time in their journey, as that was what stood in the way of the children of Israel! To achieve this feat, God had to give them a man to carry them over Jordan, and establish them in the land of Canaan. Consequently, I call this ministry, A CROSSING OVER MINISTRY, crossing River Jordan into the Promised Land. Saints, the Nation of Israel had a live Lead Ministry to carry them through to possess the land, after the death of Moses. And when I looked at this passage of Scripture a few days ago, Deuteronomy Chapter 31, verses 7-8, and knowing God's charge to Joshua in the Book of Joshua Chapter 1, verses 1-6, I stopped and I pondered, and I said to myself, IF the Almighty God would give the children of Israel A LIVE LEAD MINISTRY, to carry them over to the Promised October 2016 Land, what about the Bride of Jesus Christ? What about the Church of the living God, the universal body of Christ? Not that I expect a grossly apostate religious world to agree with me on that, or to agree with me on anything for that matter; but I expect the elect Bride of Christ to agree with me on that, and it is solely for them that I preach this message. Therefore, I want to take a message this morning titled, JUST BEFORE THE CROSSING OVER. Church, Moses was the deliverer of Israel, for God used him to bring them OUT; but it was Joshua that God used to take them IN. Their actual possession of the land was directly wrought under the ministry of Joshua the son of Nun. He was not the only one that did the work, for there were many other men in the ministry over the Nation of Israel in that day. However, his role was a paramount one, for it was most crucial, as he held a key position, being the Lead Ministry over the Nation of Israel, which is Major, even though when compared to that of Moses, it was Minor. But being the Anchor Man, under God, it was his God given responsibility to take them from the point where Moses stopped, and lead

19 October 2016 them into the Promised Land, that they may inherit the land. God set him over that nation, that he may show the way, giving them the revelation of the mind of the Spirit of God for that hour of time, every second of the way, for as he himself confessed to the children of Israel, THIS IS A WAY WE HAVE NEVER WALKED BEFORE! When the children of Israel came to Jordan, and they encamped for three whole days under the divine leadership of God working through Joshua, the Lord revealed the logistics for Crossing Jordan to Joshua, and he laid it before the officers of Israel, who in turn now went throughout the host of Israel, passing the same message to them. We will pick up the account in Joshua Chapter 3, from verse 3: And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, THAT YE MAY KNOW THE WAY BY WHICH YE MUST GO: FOR YE HAVE NOT PASSED THIS WAY HERETOFORE. And indeed, brothers and sisters, likewise, WE HAVE NOT PASSED THIS WAY BEFORE! Therefore, we must ALL follow the Ark, which is the Word of God, as God leads through the Lead Ministry He has established for the end time Bride. Saints of God, in that day, all the men in the ministry, and all Israel, followed Joshua with a perfect mind, for it was with one mind, as there was Unity of revelation and of purpose! Verses 5-6 adds: And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you. AND JOSHUA SPAKE UNTO THE PRIESTS, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people, without any priest objecting or arguing! Here we see nothing but absolute Unity of the Faith, and Unity of Purpose, and this unity existed, not only in the ministry, but also in the Entire Nation of Israel, who stood as one man, following the Lead Ministry of Joshua, the successor Standard Bearer to Moses. Church, if the Almighty God would do that for Natural Israel, in order to possess a Page 19 literal piece of land, how much more will God Almighty do the same for Spiritual Israel, which is the Universal Nation of the Bride of Christ, people who constitute the Royal Seeds of Abraham, through Jesus Christ, that they may make it into Heaven! I say that only because, our Promised Land is not a physical one, as we do not have the promise of a literal land; our promise is to Enter into the Rest of God, which is IN the Holy Ghost, AND be raptured into Heaven, for the marriage. That is why Jesus promised in John Chapter 14, verses 1-3: Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. That is precisely the reason we are entering into heaven, in a glorified supernatural physical body! Therefore, whilst the Nation of Israel had to Enter a Natural Land in Palestine, the Nation of the Bride, on the other hand, have to Enter a Spiritual Realm, which is HEAVEN ITSELF!

20 Page 20 Consequently, entering heaven is what is on the card for us, for it is the main issue facing the Elect Bride of Christ; and we MUST Enter Heaven at the return of Christ for His Bride, otherwise, we will face the Antichrist in the 70th Week of Daniel! Hence it is written in Revelation Chapter 19, verse 9: And he saith unto me, Write, BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE CALLED UNTO THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. Amen! But the issue is this: Now that we are facing the prospects of rapture, just how can we prepare for it without a Lead Ministry? That is the point! And specifically speaking, why would we not have a Lead Apostolic Ministry, seeing that we are back in the days of apostles, when we all know that Malachi Chapter 4, verse 6B Elijah to the Gentiles, produces Ephesians Chapter 4, verse 11 Fivefold Ministry, who have apostles, not only as their head, but as the beginning fold of the Ephesian Ministry? I ask again: IF at the crossing of Jordan, God gave the Nation of Israel a Lead Ministry; IF just before they crossed over into Palestine, Jehovah God gave them a Standard Bearer, what about now that we are just preparing to cross over to the other side, which is to Heaven itself, at the return of Christ? Think seriously about it! Because God does not leave Himself without a True Witness, a True Witness of the God of Truth! And before you deny its application to this day, in January 1963, in his message titled, SPIRIT OF TRUTH, on page 4, paragraphs 23-25, William Branham declared: But each life has been planted by the Master Life-Giver, and He knows just how and what to do. And everything that He has placed here on earth is for His glory. The stars are for His glory. The winds are for His glory. The flowers are for His glory. And we are the crowning of His glory. But it seems like that everything will obey Him but man. Man just seems to...he has such a time, because that he was the only thing that fell. Everything else stayed in its original condition. But, man fell. Therefore, God has a battle with him, to get him to do what is right, and to obey. And one of the great problems for God, down through the years, as the history of the church goes, IS TO FIND SOMEBODY THAT HE CAN COMPLETELY October 2016 GET IN HIS CONTROL. HE ONLY NEEDS ONE MAN! HE'S ALWAYS USED ONE MAN AT A TIME. HE ONLY NEEDS ONE MAN. HE'S ALWAYS USED ONE MAN AT A TIME. We studied that last few nights: ONE MAN, NOT A GROUP. HE JUST WANTS ONE. THAT'S ALL HE NEEDS! Cause, two men would have two different ideas. HE JUST TAKES ONE MAN, REPRESENTS HIMSELF THROUGH THAT ONE PERSON. Never did He do it otherwise than that. See? About a year earlier, that is, in 1962, in his message titled, ABSOLUTE, paragraph 164, Brother Branham similarly stated: God doesn't deal with groups of men. God deals with AN INDIVIDUAL, because men has different ideas. He's built up different in nature. God has to take that MAN, and mess HIM around, and pull HIM around, out of HIS own SELF, till He gets HIM in His nature. See? And then God deals with that PERSON, (who now becomes the Lead Ministry). Look all down through the ages, Noah and Moses, the prophets; never two of them at the same time. ONE, constantly, all the way

21 October 2016 down through the age. The prophet to this age was only synchronizing his position with that of Moses and Elijah, and we all know that the God of salvation does not change, for He remains the same, even today in 2016, being perfect in ALL His ways. And in case you think that Brother Branham was just speaking on a general note, without any real application to this Last Church Age, now speaking specifically about God having another man after him, an Anchor Man, a Lead Ministry, in his message delivered on December 19th, 1954, titled, DIVINE HEALING, Brother Branham declared: I don't want no organization. But help me to live so that in my generation... I'll not stand in another generation. I'll have nothing to judge them. I'll not have to stand the judgment with them. But I'll have to stand the judgment with men and women who I've lived with. That's where it counts yonder in the resurrection. When my days is finished and I've done my best, if I be God's servant, GOD WILL RAISE HIM UP ANOTHER MAN IN THAT DAY WHEN I'M GONE. So there's no need of me setting something around my theology; IS ME TO LIVE IN WHAT LIGHT I HAVE, and wait till--on God. For the next generation to come, HE WILL HAVE A MAN THERE WHEN THAT GENERATION COMES UP. Amen. Oh, my. Think about that quote, for it speaks of another Lead ministry! This infallible and unchanging Truth of God, which demands that when one True Witness of God goes, another comes, was why, in his message titled, SPIRIT OF TRUTH, a message we quoted earlier, the prophet spoke precisely of his successor Lead Ministry, declaring plainly and categorically on page 6, paragraph 43: It may be my home going-time. It looks very much that way. If it is, THERE WILL RISE SOMEBODY AFTER ME THAT'LL TAKE THE MESSAGE ON. He'll be an odd person, but he'll rise after this and TAKE THE MESSAGE ON, (BEING GOD'S SUBSEQUENT TRUE WITNESS, which gave us Raymond Jackson, The Apostle of this end time, our Saint Paul, the first fruit of Elijah's ministry. Brother Branham added, seriously warning): AND YOU LISTEN TO IT. AS LONG AS IT'S SCRIPTURE, STAY WITH IT. (Meaning that you Page 21 should not reject the continuing Message of Truth, simply because Brother Branham did not preach on a matter, as long as it is Bible based). Brothers and sisters, looking at the reality of what we are also facing today, in the light of God's plan of universal salvation, please come with me to Acts Chapter 7, and we will take it from verse 37, as it reads: This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him, (referring prophetically to Jesus Christ the Messiah), shall ye hear. This is he (Moses), that was in THE CHURCH in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us. Brothers and sisters, Saint Stephen referred to Israel in the wilderness as the church in the wilderness, using the word Church retroactively: meaning that he used it regarding a gathering that occurred in the past. In other words, he used it pointing back, which means in effect, that when the children of Israel came out of

22 Page 22 Egyptian bondage into the wilderness, they constituted the Church of God, for they then became the Church of God in the wilderness, for God used them to set a perfect type of what the Church of God IS and will always BE. And the Church of God will always be a called-out body of people: Ecclesia, or The called out people of God, from the various organized religious systems of the world; called out from all man-made systems of religion, that they may worship God strictly in the absolute light of the Word of Jesus Christ. That is the true meaning of Church! And may I point out, that there is a calling out from the world of sin, and there is also a calling out from the apostate world of organized religion, which is a religious world of unbelief of the Word of God. Therefore, we must realise, that as long as the Bride is here, and the Spirit of Christ is here, the true Church of God will remain a called out body of people, people who constantly and continuously follow the Lord Jesus Christ, solely in the revelation or Light of the written Word of God, which is the Holy Bible. This has to be so, and this is absolutely so, because as Moses declared prophetically, Whosoever does not hear that prophet, who is Jesus Christ, SHALL BE CUT OFF!This means that the Church is a called out body of people, CALLED OUT by the Truth of God, INTO the Truth of God. They are separated BY the Truth, INTO the Truth, and UNTO God. Consequently, they do nothing but follow the revelation light of the Word of God by which they have been called, and into which they have been called by God! That is the Church, for THE TRUE CHURCH KEEP FOLLOWING THE TRUTH! That is why they are the Ecclesia of God; the called out of God; the Church of God; GOD'S PILGRIMS! Now looking or considering this called out people of God, the Church in the wilderness, they settled in their various camps, in their various tribes, with a Threefold Ministry established over them, consisting of Prophets, Priests, and Levites. Moses was their Deliverer and Guide, under God, the man who bore God's Standard of Truth in that day. They were the very first class of people to be used by God to constitute a Church, and what the Church of God will always be. Brothers and sisters, all that was setting a type, a perfect type of the New October 2016 Testament Church, who likewise, would be called out. FIRSTLY, they would be called out from the general world of sin, through the redeeming Message of Jesus Christ, and constituted into the Church. And when the Church later derailed, and was led into Babylon, into Roman Catholicism, worshipping God by the creeds, dogma, carnal ceremonies, and traditions of men, ALL which have no redeeming value, for they are leaven, God would also call them out. So, SECONDLY, God would call out His people from the organized systems of religion, to follow Jesus in his divine scriptural revelation. From this, brothers and sisters, we should all clearly see, that the Church in the wilderness, in their different tribes, set a type of the universal Body or Church of God, established in their scattered fragments in the various nations of the world, that is, in their scattered local assemblies around the world, each following the revealed light of Jesus Christ of the Holy Scriptures, which is the Message of the Hour, by which they have been called out, having the Ephesian Ministry God set over them. The Church in the wilderness was

23 October 2016 absolutely a perfect type of the New Testament Church. Having established this incontrovertible fact, for it is the truth of the Word, we now have to seriously ask: IF according to the infallible record of the inspired written Word of God, IN CROSSING OVER into the promised Land in that day, Israel, the Church in the wilderness, had to have, not just a live body of ministry, or not only a live body of ministry, but also a Lead Ministry, to enable her to cross over and possess the Promised Land, what about the Nation of the Bride, when she is now facing the hour of her translation into Heaven? Just think about that for a few minutes! What about the Bride? Are we all supposed to find our way in the ministry, each man doing his own thing? How are we going to have Unity of The Faith, AND the Perfecting of the saints within the universal body of Christ? So think about it this morning, for it is all about the salvation of God. Think seriously about it! And it does not matter how many dictators, or Nicolaitans, or lords, we have in the ministry in the Branham Movement, as well as out there in the religious world; it does not matter how many selfappointed and selfproclaimed Lead Ministries we have in the religious world; it does not even matter how many phony (deceptive) so-called Standard Bearers we have in Christendom, men who are creating nothing but utter confusion, and who are doing and teaching horrible things in the Name of the Lord, bringing nothing but shame and reproach to the Name of Jesus Christ; Nonetheless, the truth still remains: Will the Church of God, the Church of the New Testament, the Nation of the Bride appointed for the rapture, Not have a True Standard Bearer, a True Guide, under Christ, JUST BEFORE THE CROSSING OVER? That is the issue, the real issue, and that is precisely what this message is about! For if you have eyes to see, you will see that the Christian religious world today is in an incredibly sad state of confusion and apostasy, with every man rising up around the globe having something to say, preaching and teaching everything imaginable and unimaginable, apart from the horrible things socalled men of God are doing! Moreover, having access to the Internet, whether it is in terms of printed messages, or it is in Page 23 terms of video messages, they all have the means to pollute the whole world with their toxic waste, using Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube, for the world is now within everyone's easy reach, for them to disseminate (spread) their junk, and sell their spiritual wares of death. We live in a day when every person who has a Bible, and who can read and write, now takes it upon himself to preach and teach, creating utter mess in Christendom, for the religious world is full of ideas of all sorts. It is nothing but babel! Brothers and sisters, seeing that the world is bombarded by an incredible conglomeration of voices, each one earnestly clamouring for recognition, how do we get out of this great deluge of revelatory confusion? How do the universal Bride saints navigate their way around this giant and most complex spiritual maze of all sorts of teachings and projections? I ask again: In the midst of a great conglomeration of voices, all claiming to have been dealt with by God, and all claiming to speak for God, and who are creating nothing but utter confusion, total confusion, why will God Almighty not have A TRUE WITNESS? If in the days of Elijah the Tishbite, God reserved to Himself

24 Page 24 seven thousand MEN, who did not bow down to Baal's Error, how about now? Furthermore, IF in that day when God reserved these MEN, the Lord also had A TRUE WITNESS in the ministry of Elijah, and when he was to go, God replaced him with another TRUE WITNESS in the ministry of Elisha, what about today? How about now when there is great confusion in the land? Has God changed? Does He change? Of course not, for God does not change, being absolutely perfect in ALL His ways! IF the Church in the wilderness had one Lead Ministry after the other, until the salvation of the Nation of Israel was completed, what about the salvation of the Bride Church, will it not be the same story? Is the God of the Old Testament Church, not the God of the New Testament Church? Is the God of the mountain not also the God of the valley? Is He not God at ALL times and in ALL situations? We even want to ask: Why do we have so much confusion in the land today? Why the mass confusion in Christendom, when the Spirit of God is one, and when the revelation of God is one, and when the true Church is one? Why the confusion and differences in so-called revelation, when the Spirit of God does not draw contrary and opposing pictures, and neither does He contradict Himself? How come there is so much confusion in the land? Why the mass confusion in Christendom? For as there are innumerable Churches and ministries around the globe, so are there innumerable teachings on virtually every issue of the Bible, creating mass confusion in the religious world. The confusion in Christendom is as much as the churches and the ministries we have on earth! That is how much Babel has been generated in the earth today, and yet, God is not the author of confusion! He is not! So, why this babel? Brothers and sisters, it is the devil's business to create utter confusion, gross babel, particularly at this end time, and God is allowing it, for He is using it as a means of confusing and throwing off all those who are not meant for heaven, people who are not heaven bound! And it is only because these people themselves do not have any love for truth in their hearts, that makes God allow the devil to give them all sorts of false teachings, in exchange for the truth! That is why Apostle Paul gave a prophetic warning October 2016 concerning this end time to Timothy, who was also an apostle, recorded in 2 Timothy Chapter 4, verses 1-4: I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; PREACH THE WORD; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time WILL COME when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they HEAP TO THEMSELVES, (amass to themselves) teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. This Scripture tells us prophetically that there will be a great conglomeration of teachers (ministers), for they will be ten a penny! And when people can amass or heap to themselves teachers, what does it create? It gives us men in the ministry who are peddling all sorts of teachings, creating nothing but revelatory chaos, total confusion! It gives us many preachers, countless number of ministries, who all claim to have a revelation from God, that

25 October 2016 God has dealt with them, giving them revelation for the people, but no Truth! Such a condition produces famine, acute famine, spiritual famine; for although we have loads and loads of men who are preaching around the globe, nonetheless, Truth becomes a rarity, an absolute rarity! That is precisely why the Book of Amos gives us a prophecy of famine at the end time, and if there is to be famine, the spiritual state of the religious world at this end time, must allow for it, showing that Truth has been cut off, and that people are only holding to all sorts of things that cannot profit their souls! Hence Amos Chapter 8, verse records: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. Saints, we are facing the reality of this prophecy today as we speak. However, when we now consider how food is to be produced, abundant food, for the Bride of Jesus Christ, in a time such as this, that is, in this day of acute famine, I have to also ask: Just how did God break the power of famine in the days of Joseph, in the land of Egypt? The Lord used one man, Joseph, to carry the blueprint of the revelation that produced the storehouse in Egypt, causing ALL roads to lead to Egypt in that day, as recorded in the Book of Genesis Chapter 41! Now argue with that! Brothers and sisters, I know the religious world have no clue to any of the things we are talking about, because all they have is just a religious spirit, which gives them a sanctimonious appearance, and that is why they are very happy following just anything, holding to hand-me-down traditions of men, which lead nowhere. They do not care whether what is being fed to them is true or not, for they are not following Jesus Christ in a divine revelation of Truth. Saints of God, I ask again: IF the church in the wilderness could not cross over Jordan into the Promised Land, without a Lead Prophetic Ministry, what about the Gentile Bride Church? Just how can they cross over into Glory Land in the rapture, without similarly having a Lead Apostolic Ministry? I Page 25 ask that, because we all know that heaven above, is the destination of the Bride Church of this end time, for up there in heaven is where she will be married to Jesus Christ her Bridegroom, the one who redeemed her! We saw that earlier by the Scriptures, for that is the promise of God to the Gentile Church, the New Testament Church; which is why we are earnestly looking forward to the hour of the rapture, as that is the plan of universal salvation. Is that right? Yes! Going back to the Old Testament, speaking in prophecy concerning this plan of Gentile salvation, what did God say in the Book of Hosea Chapter 2, verse 23: And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her,(god referring to the Gentiles), that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people,(still referring to the Gentiles); THOU ART MY PEOPLE; and they shall say, THOU ART MY GOD. Halleluiah! Church, hold it there. Right here in the inspired writings of Prophet Hosea, we have a promise of the salvation of the Gentile people, a universal redemption, one which God promised Abraham in Genesis Chapter 12, verse 3B, a passage of Scripture we

26 Page 26 read earlier. Brethren, up till the hour of Hosea, and all through the Dispensation of the Law, it was still just a promise, for that plan of Gentile salvation had not been set in motion; it was not yet in effect, as the Law Season, which set a type of the Dispensation of Grace, had not yet run its full course. However, what did Apostle Paul say in his Epistle to the Galatians, Chapter 4, verses 4-5? It declares: But when the FULNESS OF THE TIME was come, (when the Law had run its course), God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. When Jesus stepped on the scene, he constituted the ministry of the apostles, making them the head of the New Testament ministry, being the beginning fold of the Ephesian Fivefold Ministry. He also began to preach, and he laid down certain principles of faith, principles of spiritual conduct, particularly when you look at the beatitudes recorded in Matthew Chapters 5, 6, and 7. He laid down these principles of godly conduct to moderate our lives, so that we can reflect something, if indeed God has touched our lives by the Spirit of redemption. And as we speak this morning, in all Christendom, all those who desire to walk pleasing to God, want to live a clean life; they want to live a righteous life, because they see that in the admonitions of Jesus Christ, as it is very plain. Consequently, they do not want to miss Church service; they pay their tithes and give Church offerings, and they also give alms to the poor; they try to do some good works, and they also try to live clean, sustaining it with fasting and prayer. They see these things, and they aspire to these things, for they know that it is required of them as Church goers, or as people who profess to believe. What they do not see in Gentile Christendom, however, is that walking with the Lord Jesus Christ is much more than that, for God has a set plan, one which they do not see. Yes, God has made a promise of salvation, but the accomplishing of this promise is laid out in God's detailed plan of universal salvation, one which therefore, has its logistics, the starting period, as well as the starting ministry, the racial course that the Gospel will take, and the various vessels that will be used to move this plan of redemption of the Gentile October 2016 world forward, from dispensation to dispensation, and from one junction of time to another, plus the way it will be concluded: How, Where, and the Vessels of conclusion. All these are very crucial, fundamental issues, material truths that go into the plan of salvation, issues which the religious world do not see. They only see that salvation is available for Gentiles, and that by believing Jesus Christ, you are saved. After that, and as far as they are concerned, all they need to do is just to live for God, which is very true; but they see nothing else, as they have no clue to the material details of God's GREAT PLAN OF GLOBAL REDEMPTION! The knowledge of these deep and fundamental details of God's plan of salvation, is what sets the Bride of Christ apart, from every other group of people in the entire religious world! And before you question this fact, for it is God's truth, I will simply ask you: Why do you think Jesus spoke in parables to the crowd of people who came to listen to him, knowing that they were religious Jews? It was in order to hide the Mysteries of the kingdom OF GOD, from these religious people, that

27 October 2016 it may take only God's dealing in the lives of the elect seeds of God, to give them an understanding of these deep truths, God using divine revelation! Matthew Chapter 13, verses confirms that! Therefore, we must all realise that in God's revealed plan of redemption, certain things pertaining to redemption constitute God's mysteries, mysteries that devolve upon the plan of salvation; mysteries which God buried in the Scriptures, and which hold secret things God has in mind to unfold concerning this Great Plan of Redemption. That is why we brought out a message in the Scribe Magazine titled, SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE, for it is not enough just to know Jesus as Savior: That is good; that is very important; and that is where it starts; but that is most certainly not enough, IF you will be his Bride! Because there is much more in this plan of redemption than just that! For apart from the mysteries of the kingdom, there are also prophecies God has given in the Holy Scriptures, and they all have their application in the plan of salvation, as they also devolve upon this great plan of global redemption! May I add, that with regards to this same plan of universal salvation, God has given certain prophecies in the Holy Scriptures, that are designed to open up everything concerning the end time to us, so that we may know precisely where to place our feet, on account of the great snares laid out all over Christendom by the devil. Consequently, by the unveiling of these prophecies, you can see the devil in all his disguises, because you have the mind of the Spirit of Jesus Christ for the hour, and as such, you are not moved, for you know exactly where God is, and what He is doing in the earth, at this very junction of Gentile time. That is the essence of prophecy, for it is designed to post God's people ahead; and that is also why the knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom make a difference, because it opens up to us the deep things of Christ, things that are buried in the mind of God, all still regarding this great plan of salvation, giving us the perfect mind of the Spirit of Christ. This is what really shows that you know the Lord Jesus, and that you are truly walking and talking with him in the light, because you have his revelation! Yes, knowing this fact of God, Satan also Page 27 raises up his men to impersonate God's dealing, and these men come down the road of life with fantastic testimonies of supernatural dealings of angels, claiming to possess certain deep revelations of things which are nothing but spiritual cyanide, for it is the spirit of the Antichrist in projection. That is also a reality we face in Christendom! It is not for nothing Apostle Paul warned us in 2 Corinthians Chapter 11, declaring in verses 1-4: Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. Then in verses 13-15, Saint Paul warns: For such are false apostles, deceitful

28 Page 28 workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the m i n i s t e r s o f righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. Exactly! The fact remains, brothers and sisters, that God does not leave His children in darkness concerning His Truth, that they may Know precisely what He is doing, and how He is working in the earth in their hour of time. There are mysteries of the kingdom, and there are also prophecies, not just concerning the days of old, but more particularly, we are referring to prophecies pertaining to your day, to help you see the way clearly. What is the point in understanding the prophecies of yester years, if you are blind to the prophetic reality of your own day? That is it! And there are so many snares today, because we live in perilous times; the snares are so many, for they are on every side. Indeed, DANGEROUS TIMES ARE UPON US! Therefore, what are you going to do without a true understanding of Bible prophecy, because Bible prophecy is what opens up this day; it opens up everything in plain view to the seeds of God, to let them know the mind of God, and to let them know what the devil is also seeking to do today, because God lays out everything in detail in Bible prophecy, as His plan of redemption is complete and entire, covering everything ALL through time. The religious world only see the plan of salvation on one level; and that is the reason they have no clue whatsoever to the deep things of the Spirit of Jesus Christ: The logistics of God, and the detailed layout of the plan of global redemption, a redemption they make so much noise about! And that is exactly why they look at people like us as if we are preaching heresy, and we are not! We are simply preaching the Holy Bible, for by the grace of God, we have the Word of God; we have its revelation, which is the revelation of life; for the Word has been opened up to us like never before, in ALL its aspects: Doctrines, Mysteries, and Prophecies, for BIBLE DAYS ARE BACK! As Apostle Paul declared in Acts Chapter 24, verse 14, we also declare: But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I October 2016 the God of my fathers, BELIEVING ALL THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN in the law and in the prophets. We simply believe all that is written, for we are Bible Believers. Period! However, you can call us anything you wish! Now please come with me to the inspired prophetic writings of Prophet Habakkuk, for I want you to see something. Remember, we are considering a message I title, JUST BEFORE THE CROSSING OVER. Here is a prophecy of Habakkuk, given about 626 BC., over six hundred years before the Dispensation of Christ, as laid out in Chapter 1, verse 5: Behold YE among the heathen, (referring to the Jews), and regard, and wonder marvellously: FOR I WILL WORK A WORK IN YOUR DAYS, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. Please do not go to the verse 6, because verse 5 stands alone, and it has absolutely nothing to do with verse 6, and neither does it have anything to do with the preceding verses 1-4. Church, here we see a prophecy in the Book of Habakkuk, one which we considered in a message I took before I travelled, titled: THE WORK IN AFRICA. It is a prophecy

29 October 2016 speaking exclusively about Gentile Salvation. And in the prophecy, God is speaking to the children of Israel scattered in the Gentle world, warning them ahead, saying in essence: You had better pay attention, because I am going to do A WORK in your days, a specific work. I ask: What work is this? God says in this prophetic passage: FOR I WILL WORK A WORK in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you ; though it be preached to you; though it be laid out bare before you. I have a reason for taking this route, and I need you to pay close attention. So, we must ask: What precise work is this? Brothers and sisters, this is the work of universal salvation which God promised Abraham way back then in Genesis. How do I know that? In the Book of Acts, Apostle Paul reached back to this very prophecy of Habakkuk, and slotted it by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, as a prophetic verse that is applicable to his own day. In Acts Chapter 13, Saint Paul warned the Jews in Diaspora, declaring in verse 40: Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets. (Saint Paul now goes straight to the particular prophecy, and picks up the writings of Habakkuk, stating in verse 41): Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish (Why did he say that? It is because of their negative attitude; their negative response to the work spoken of in prophecy, declaring): for I work a work in your days, A WORK WHICH YE SHALL IN NO WISE BELIEVE, though a man declare it unto you. And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. Halleluiah! Listen to me, brothers and sisters: When Jesus Christ the Messiah was here, he did not even touch this prophecy of Habakkuk. But here came Apostle Paul, the Star messenger to the First Church Age, the Ephesian Church Age, and THE Apostle of the Gentiles, according to Romans Chapter 11, verse 13, the man who occupied the beginning office of the apostolic fold of the Ephesian Fivefold Ministry. It was not Apostle Peter who presented this prophecy of Habakkuk, as it would have been totally out of place for him to apply it to his ministry, being the man who held The Apostleship of the Page 29 Circumcision, which is that of the Jews! (Gal. 2:7-8). Neither was it Apostle James that presented this prophecy of Habakkuk; it was indeed a man, and The Man to whom the prophecy applied, was the man that picked it up, at the God ordained junction of time of its precise application, and that was none other than Saint Paul! Brothers and sisters, Apostle Paul, the man carrying the Blueprint of God's Plan of Gentile redemption, universal salvation, picked up this prophecy that had laid dormant for many Centuries of time in the Word of God, warning the Jews, because he knew his ministry was the very ministry that that verse of prophecy pertained to, in its beginning application, for God used him to set it in motion. He was that MAN, who declared that work, for he laid out that work of global redemption which God promised Abraham, that ALL families of the earth shall be blessed salvationally, being a redemptive blessing! Therefore, we will say this morning, the beginning application of the prophecy in Habakkuk Chapter 1, verse 5, gives us precisely the Ministry of Apostle Paul, the man God used to set The WORK of

30 Page 30 Gentile salvation in motion, being the carrier of the Blueprint of this redemption, the man who bore the Standard of the Truth of Christ. And as it is written in 1 Corinthians Chapter 3, verse 10, that is why Saint Paul, working as a wise masterbuilder, established The Foundation OF TRUTH, the Absolute Foundation of the True Faith of Jesus Christ, upon which the faith of us Gentiles is firmly established. Consequently, verse 11 declares: FOR OTHER FOUNDATION CAN NO MAN LAY THAN THAT IS LAID, which is Jesus Christ, (in his divine scriptural revelation)! This seals the truth of the key, and very crucial Ministry Position Apostle Paul occupied, and of the revelational Plumbline of Jesus Christ that he carried for the Gentiles, his ministry being the beginning Ministry Point for the Great WORK OF UNIVERSAL SALVATION! However, before that work could start, Saint Peter, being the Apostle with the 3 keys into the kingdom, first had to use his key to open the door to the Gentiles, and this was what took place in the household of Cornelius, in Caesarea, as recorded in Acts Chapter 10, signalling that Habakkuk Chapter 1, verse 5, could now start, once God had also anointed His chosen vessel of clay, the man who would be used to set this very Gentile work of salvation in motion. And when Jesus Christ appeared to Saul of Tarsus in broad day light, and revealed himself to Saul, changing his name to Paul, he was led into Arabia, where he stayed for a few years, as the Holy Ghost dealt with him in all the types and shadows of the law, laying out the entire plan of Gentile redemption for him, thereby enabling him to carry the Standard of the Truth of Jesus Christ for us Gentiles. And when he started his ministry, he reached way back in the writings of Habakkuk, and applied it to his day, AND to his ministry work, warning the Jews: Do not let this prophecy fulfill over you, for it has been hanging for fulfilment for many Centuries of time. The Almighty God promised to establish a work of salvation in your days, the work of Gentile redemption, which you will not believe, even though A MAN tells you, for I am now telling you about it. Because if you do not believe, you will only wonder, not having a clue to what is going on, and you will perish! That is why as we speak, the Jews still do October 2016 not understand why we Gentiles are believing and following a Jewish prophet they rejected, although they have come to accept the fact that we are following Jesus Christ, as Christianity has now been recognized, having spread all over the world, and having become the world's most dominant religion, even though they still do not believe in the New Testament. They carried all those prophecies of Old, without any revelation, and that is exactly the situation we find in the earth this morning, speaking of the Nation of Israel. All they are presently doing in the land of Israel, is carrying on with all sorts of traditions and ceremonies that Moses did not even give them in the Torah, until Judaism has become so unrecognizable, for they are the commandments of men, the commandments of the Scribes and Pharisees which they kept till this day, and which they have also added to! And even the Gentiles are following them in it, covering themselves with prayer shawls that have no spiritual virtue, no more than the panel of the door to my car! And it is a fact that you can go to Church every Sunday, and still lack spiritual understanding; because if all you want to

31 October 2016 do is just to fulfill a religious service, that is okay, then go anywhere you like; for at the end of the day, you are going nowhere with it. However, IF it is about getting yourself ready for the return of Jesus Christ for his Bride, at the time of rapture, you will most certainly listen to the voice or the revelation of the Holy Scriptures, for YOU CANNOT BE RAPTURABLE WITHOUT S C R I P T U R A L UNDERSTANDING! To be rapturable, you will have to have an understanding of this great and glorious plan of redemption, on a different level entirely, one ordained for the statural growth of the elect Bride, for it is a level that the Denominational world can never attain, as they have no clue; because they are just following hand-medown traditions, having just a religious spirit! Moreover, speaking of this evil and apostate hour of time, they might as well throw away the Bible as having nothing to do with Christianity, because there is nothing it says that counts anymore for them on issues of faith, as they have rejected its final authority on ALL SPIRITUAL MATTERS! Brothers and sisters, I want you all to know today, that the Work which the Spirit of God testified through Prophet Habakkuk in Chapter 1, verse 5, is the work of Gentile salvation, the redemption of a universal body of God's elect people, and it was set in motion through the ministry of Apostle Paul, The Apostle of the Gentiles. Consequently, the call of Saint Paul by Jesus Christ, as recorded in Acts Chapter 9, gives us the beginning point of this work; for it gives us the man through whose ministry the work will commence, just as the call of Moses in the wilderness of Midian, was the beginning point of the salvation of Israel out of Egypt. Because the beginning point of salvation, God's salvation, whether it is under the Old or New Testament, gives us the man who will carry the Blueprint of that redemption, which is its Divine Plan, setting it in motion, in the Light of the revealed Word of God! The beginning point of redemption is the anointing of the Candlestick of that salvation! That is the indisputable Truth of God, whatever the Dispensation, even if we want to go as far back as to the hour of Noah, and the salvation of the eight souls that God preserved in Noah's Ark: The call of Noah was the beginning point of that salvation! It confirms Page 31 scripturally and inarguably, that the beginning of salvation is a ministry point, the Beginning Ministry Point: The Ministry that God will use to set off that work of salvation, as the Blueprint Holder of that salvation! Period! And may I say this morning, and I do not care what any man in the entire religious world thinks or says to the contrary, Whatever has a beginning point, has an ending point; whatever starts must have an end; and whatever has a beginning ministry point, must also have an ending ministry point! That is an incontestable fact! Saints of the living God, since the plan of Gentile redemption which God promised Abraham has a beginning ministry point, you must understand today, that that plan of Gentile Salvation also has an ending ministry point; because whatever has a beginning must have an end; and whatever has a starting ministry point, must of necessity, have a concluding ministry point. This is absolutely so, because God is Alpha, and He is Omega: The way He starts something is the way He will also finish it, because He does not improve on His ways, being perfect in ALL His ways. Church, just look at the Church in the wilderness.

32 Page 32 October 2016 When God was going to set the plan of the salvation of Israel in motion, He started with the call of Moses, and as such, the establishment of the ministry of Moses became the beginning point of that salvation. The ministry of Moses was the beginning point of that salvation, because for that salvation, God needed a man to carry the Light of that Covenant, and consequently, the calling and anointing of that man, was what set that plan of redemption in motion in that day, for the children of Israel, in the land of Egypt. And through him, God raised up other men in the ministry, for the work load was not laid upon just one man, but it was shared amongst a body of ministry, and the redemption of Israel was finally accomplished. But the fact remains, brothers and sisters, that the beginning point of that redemption, gives you the ministry of a man, one man, and his name is Moses. Full stop! We read it in Exodus Chapter 3. However, the absolute fact also remains, that Moses did not complete the work he was used of God to begin, as he was called home along the way, whilst still in the wilderness, and Joshua stepped into his shoes, in order to continue the work, taking his precise office, as the Continuing Lead Ministry over the Nation of Israel, as well as being the Lead Ministry of Completion. Yet, Joshua did not do the work alone, for there were so many other men in the ministry to share the workload. However, he was a man who occupied a central position, a Major position, within the Plural Ministry that God established over the Nation of Israel in that day, being the Lead Prophetic Ministry, for ALL the children of Israel. This Truth cannot be scripturally disputed, for it is a plain fact, one that we have already established from the Scriptures at the beginning of this message. Moreover, the written testimony of Moses, as well as the written testimony of God, seals this Truth. Consequently, I repeat: The work of salvation for the Nation of Israel, which God used Moses to start, God used Joshua to complete, and this does not deny or take away from the ministry accomplishments of all the other men in the ministry in that day. And regardless of the feelings and objections of any man, (and I say this, because racial pride, envy, and ambition, which are all traits of unbelief, are the things that motivate men to stand against the Truth of God), nevertheless, the unchanging fact remains, that the salvation of the Church in the wilderness, had its beginning ministry point, as well as its ending ministry point! That plan of salvation started precisely with Moses, and it ended precisely with Joshua, as the Book of Joshua Chapter 18, verse 10 records: And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord: and there JOSHUA DIVIDED THE LAND UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL according to their divisions. Fight that! Argue with this scriptural reality; a reality which the Church in the wilderness faced, a Church that God used to set a perfect type of what the New Testament Church will also be! Brothers and sisters, what God used Moses to start, God used Joshua to finish, for the Israelites had a STARTING Ministry Point, and they also had an ENDING Ministry Point. A salvation that began with Moses, was concluded with Joshua, ministry-wise. So, just how are you going to get away from this scriptural reality of God's True Church? How many see the point? My! And if

33 October 2016 that is how it was with the church in the wilderness, saints, you must know that it is going to be the same with the Church in the New Testament, at this end of time, for God does not change, and His standard remains the same, as He does not play games! You must know that, and you must be certain of that, because the salvation of God, and His logistics, is the same, for God is one! Church, I am making a point, and that is this: We have a promise of Gentile redemption laid out in Genesis, and Hosea also spoke about it. However, Prophet Habakkuk prophesied about this work, and what the response of the Jews will be to it. In Acts Chapter 13, verses 40-41, Apostle Paul, the man who also constituted the Beginning or the Starting Ministry Point of this salvation work, applied the prophecy of Habakkuk to his ministry, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, showing us precisely where it starts; where this work begins, declaring: Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, THOUGH A MAN DECLARE IT UNTO YOU. That is not exactly how Habakkuk ended it; but that is the divine interpretation of it, for that is exactly what it means! Habakkuk said: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, THOUGH IT BE TOLD YOU. But the question is, by who? It is by A MAN, and not by an angel, and that man is Apostle Paul, God's True Witness to the Gentiles, ministering in the Gentile world, warning the Jews in Diaspora of the promised work of universal redemption, thereby setting it in motion! No one can argue with Apostle Paul over what Habakkuk means, and be speaking by the Spirit of Christ! Otherwise, I will simply say, you should have been the one to show us the way, bearing the Blueprint of God's plan of universal salvation! The Holy Ghost inspired interpretation and application which Saint Paul gave, holds inviolate! Brothers and sisters, just as in the days of Moses under the Old Testament, when the plan of Gentile redemption was also set in motion, characteristically, God also used one man to set it in motion. It is not that one man could do all the Page 33 work, or that one man did all the work, for that is impossible. But God had to use somebody, one man, to carry the Blueprint of this plan, as the Principal Ministry, the Lead Ministry, one who sets it in motion, and who also shows the way, the direction, under Christ. It is also to ensure unity of revelation and unity of purpose, as the work is one, because the salvation of God is one. Consequently, there will be a synchronized working of the men in the ministry, because they have somebody giving them a true vision of the work, and of its divine direction, as their guide, under the Lord Jesus Christ. What is so difficult to see in that, and what is heretical about that? It is an absolute fact of the written Word, that Apostle Paul is the apostle of the Gentiles, and the man who was used by the Spirit of Christ, to lay the infallible and unchanging Foundation of Faith, that the salvation of the entire Gentile world rests. This confirms, for it is evidence, that he is the starting ministry point of universal salvation, exactly as Moses was the starting ministry point of the salvation of the nation of Israel out of Egypt. And may I therefore ask: IF there is a starting ministry

34 Page 34 October 2016 point for Gentile salvation, will there not similarly be an ending ministry point? Think about it! You must think about it, particularly at this late hour, for as Gentiles, we are now facing our own hour of Crossing Over, for as we all know, Saint John saw the Bride in heaven already, by divine prophetic revelation. So, the material issue is this: How did she cross over? Just how does the Bride get up there? Do not forget we are dealing with a message titled, JUST BEFORE THE CROSSING OVER. In Revelation Chapter 19, and for a background, the Bible records from verse 1: And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God. This verse lets us know that the events recorded in this passage of Scripture take place in heaven, for it is a heavenly setting. With this established, let us now skip to verse 7, and it states: Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB IS COME, (IT HAS FINALLY COME), and his wife hath made herself ready. Hold it there! I have to make a point this morning: The issue of the Bride attaining the spiritual height or image God has ordained for her, in order to make her rapturable, (ready for the rapture), is not debatable, for it is a done deal. It is a finished work in the mind of God, which was why in 96 AD., Apostle John saw the Bride in heaven for the marriage ceremony. He did not see her going up though; but he saw her in heaven, showing that she made it through, for she Crossed Over to Glory Land! That is why there is much rejoicing and celebration in heaven, because the marriage of the Lamb, who is Jesus Christ the Son of God, has finally come. And where is that marriage taking place? It is up there in heaven! However, the engagement is going on right now on earth as we speak, for it is here on earth that she makes herself ready. Consequently, we are now getting engaged to Jesus Christ our Bridegroom, strictly in a divine revelation of his Word, for our engagement to him is by the Word, strictly being a spiritual engagement. Therefore, you can accept him in his scriptural revelation, and you can also reject him in that revelation, as the choice is yours. Your ambition may mean more than your engagement to him; your desire for the ministry can mean more than your engagement to the Lord; it is your choice. Your love for your pastor can mean more than your engagement to Jesus Christ; it is your choice. Every man is making his choice, but regardless of the choices people make, the truth remains that in the final analysis, His Bride makes herself ready. So, right here in heaven, we see a finished product, an end product of universal redemption: For the end product of Gentile redemption is the Marriage of the Messiah with his Bride, made up of a universal body of saints, from ALL Seven Church Ages, and from ALL races and nations of people, ALL families of the earth. That is what shows that redemption is complete! When we Cross Over to Heaven, it shows that our redemption is now complete, just as the Crossing Over into Canaan Land by the Jews, constituted the completion of their redemption out of Egypt, for they made it into the Promised Land, under the Lead Ministry of Joshua! The material question therefore, is this: How do we also Cross Over? In other words, Where is the Ministry of

35 October 2016 Completion? We must ask this question, because we cannot Cross Over without a Lead Ministry, and speaking particularly, we cannot Cross Over without a Lead Apostolic Ministry, because we are back in the days of apostles. This is because the end time Elijah's ministry, the Elijah to the Gentiles, of Malachi Chapter 4, verse 6B, brought us back to the days of the apostles, the apostolic founding fathers of our faith, who are the beginning Fold of the Ephesian Fivefold Ministry. In other words, God used Elijah to restore us back to the apostolic ministry, as the Apostolic Fold of the Ephesian Ministry, is the first ministry fruit of Elijah's ministry. And with the reproduction of the office of the end time Paul, The Apostle, or the Chief Apostle, which is the starting office of the apostolic fold of ministry, an office which was occupied by Raymond Jackson, we are most certainly back to apostolic days, for THE DAYS OF THE APOSTLES ARE BACK! Therefore, we must have a Lead Apostolic Ministry today, to lead the universal Bride, the New Testament Church, right up to the rapture, for that is the Crossing Over Point! Consequently, brothers and sisters, now that we are living at the junction of time which is JUST BEFORE THE CROSSING OVER, WE MUST HAVE A LEAD APOSTOLIC MINISTRY! We have to have one, and that is the fundamental issue we must consider, as this is the junction of time we will have The Latter Rain, to empower us dynamically (supernaturally), to get ready for the rapture, this being the period that ends IN THE RAPTURE! That was why, speaking concerning this era of time, an hour beyond his day, but still within this Laodicean Church Age, which is our junction of time, an hour which leads directly to the rapture, and an hour which gives us The Latter Rain, back in 1960, in his message titled, The Seven Church Ages, page 174, paragraph 2, William Branham plainly declared: Now I want you to be very careful here and SEE THIS. God has promised that at the end time Malachi 4 is going to be fulfilled. It has to be, for it is the Spiritquickened Word of God spoken by the Prophet Malachi. Jesus referred to it. It is just before Christ comes the second time. By the time Jesus comes, ALL SCRIPTURE MUST BE FULFILLED. The Gentile Dispensation Page 35 will be in its last Church Age, when THAT MESSENGER OF MALACHI COMES. (Brother Branham was referring to himself; he was referring to his ministry as Elijah. He continued): He will be right with the Word, (still referring to his Elijah ministry). He will take the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation. He will start at the Serpent's seed AND CARRY ON TO THE MESSENGER IN THE LATTER RAIN. Here Brother Branham gives us the Messenger in the Latter Rain. That gives us the Final Anchor Man for the Universal Bride Church: The Messenger of God IN the Latter Rain! Yet again in the same message, The Seven Church Ages, still speaking about this Last Gentile Candlestick of the Lord, the Final True Witness of God, the one who will make the Jewish Connection, taking the Gospel back to the Jews, in the very season of the rapture, and immediately preceding the rapture itself, William Branham proclaimed on page 36, paragraph 5: Now, when is the Gospel returning to the Jews? When the day of the Gentiles is finished, (bringing us directly to the hour of the

36 Page 36 October 2016 Crossing Over). The Gospel is ready to go back to the Jews. Oh, if I could just tell you something that is about to happen RIGHT IN THIS OUR DAY! THIS GREAT THING THAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN WILL CARRY OVER TO REVELATION 11, (being strictly a Connecting Ministry), AND PICK UP T H O S E T W O WITNESSES, those two prophets, Moses, and Elijah, turning the Gospel back to the Jews. We're ready for it. Everything is in order. AS THE JEWS BROUGHT THE MESSAGE TO THE GENTILES, EVEN SO THE GENTILES WILL TAKE IT RIGHT BACK TO THE JEWS, AND THE RAPTURE WILL COME! Now think seriously about this: IF the ministry of Apostle Paul was the Beginning Ministry of the Work of Gentile redemption which Prophet Habakkuk prophesied about, I therefore ask, who is the Ending Ministry, for there Must be an End Ministry? IF Saint Paul's Ministry gives us the Starting Ministry Point of Universal Salvation, we must have another ministry at this end time, which gives us the Ending Ministry Point of Universal Salvation, God Almighty being as it is written, the ALPHA and OMEGA, the BEGINNING and the ENDING.It is also written: Jesus the AUTHOR and FINISHER of our Faith. As God started with the New Testament Church, so will He finish with it; for as God started with the church in the wilderness, so did He also finish. God does not change His ways, and neither does His Plan of Salvation change. We definitely cannot approach the rapture without a Lead Apostolic Ministry, for as Saint Paul warned, we are not as one that beateth the air, and neither are we chasing shadows. We battle and run with absolute certainty! Moreover, this is not a game of Hide and Seek! Come on! Just consider the prophecy of universal redemption spoken of by Prophet Habakkuk, for there is nothing complex about this Truth of God, because God's Plan of Salvation has been opened up and laid bare for us at this evening time, making the Holy Bible an open Book to all the eagles of God. Coming back to consider this passage of Scripture, Habakkuk Chapter 1, verse 5 states: Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: For I WILL WORK A WORK in your days, which ye (Jews) will not believe, though it be told you. Look at how Dr. George Lamsa's Bible Translation from the Aramaic of the Peshitta, put it: Behold, O you presumptuous, see, wonder, and be amazed! for I will do a work in your days that you would not believe if a man should declare it to you. As we saw earlier, in Acts Chapter 13, Apostle Paul picked up this prophecy, and applied it to his ministry, warning in verses 40-41: Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though A MAN declare it unto you. This shows evidently and inarguably, that his ministry constitutes the Beginning Ministry Point of this prophetic work, of the salvation of the Universal Nation of the Bride. Brothers and sisters, I must continue to warn, for we must understand, that this prophecy is not limited in its application to the ministry of Apostle Paul, even though God used him to set it in motion, as it had its beginning application in his

37 October 2016 ministry. But it is not limited to his ministry, because the work also has an ending point, a point of completion! Therefore, we must see that this prophecy of God also has an ending application, as it applies in the ministry of completion: For if we have a precise Beginning Ministry Point, commonsense will tell you, that there also has to be a precise Ending Ministry Point! I say that, even though sense is no longer common, but is now extremely rare! Consequently, God may use an innumerable array of men in the ministry to carry on this Work thereafter, that is, after it was set in motion, God working around the globe, throughout the Seven Dispensations of Grace; and a number of these men, no doubt, have been used in a Major way, particularly as it also gives us six other Star Messengers after Saint Paul; Nonetheless, we must have, and we do have, a precise Ending Ministry Point FOR THIS WORK. That is the point I want you all to see, and you have to see it, for this is not abracadabra, and neither am I speaking Greek or Hebrew, but plain English! In other words, two precise points in this great work of salvation are most crucial points, and as such, the two points MUST be rooted in the Scriptures. That is, they must have their basis in the Scriptures, as ministries which are spoken of in the revealed Plan of Salvation, as recorded in the Word of God! Furthermore, whereas the Starting Ministry Point is past, and hence, it can be easily seen in the written Scriptures, thereby needing no faith before it can be believed, as it is plain, being an accomplished fact of history; on the other hand, the Ending Ministry Point, must be spoken of prophetically, as a Promised Ministry, a Bible Promised Ministry, one that is to come, and hence, it requires divine revelation to believe it, just as it was when Apostle Paul made his claim, for in that day, that move of God was new. The ending ministry point has to be entrenched or recorded in the Holy Scriptures, in order to dispel all clouds of doubt, and to settle all arguments concerning exactly how God brings redemption to its completion and closure, for there can be no doubt in the hearts of God's elect children about the Ministry of Completion. The Ministry of completion just has to be a Ministry Point that is also laid out in the Word of God, because the Entire Plan of Page 37 Redemption has been mapped out in the Holy Bible, to begin with! Now listen to this: IF we have a Beginning Teller, The Work Teller, the man who declares the Truth about the Work, the man referred to in the prophecy as the one who told you, there must also be an Ending Work Teller! I will remind you that in the days of Apostle Paul, it took faith, real faith, for any man to believe that he was the Starting Ministry Point of this salvation work, simply because his name was not written in the prophecy of Habakkuk! But God has never done that either, for not even the name of the Messiah was written in the Old Testament writings, that his acceptance may be by faith! The bottom-line is: Do you see the promise? Can you see the promise of God in His Word? And what exactly does the Word of promise say that that person will do? Then look for the man who is accomplishing that divine objective! Simple! Brothers and sisters, it is all about the revelation of God, for revelation is what makes the difference, as God gives understanding to ALL His seeds! Furthermore, a prophetic Scripture bearing upon a man's ministry, is usually opened up by the man to whom it relates!

38 Page 38 October 2016 Hence Apostle Paul came, and declared to the Jews in Diaspora, in that day, that he was the man whom Habakkuk wrote about in prophecy! It was for them to judge the fruits of his ministry, using the Plumbline of God's written Word of promise, for any man can claim to be anything, and any man can also claim to be fulfilling something! Exactly! And as I said before, IF the work spoken of in the Book of Habakkuk has a beginning application, surely, it also has to have an ending application! It certainly has an ending application, and that is a fact people are not looking at, and neither are they considering it. Salvation for the Gentile world does not go on forever, for there is an ending point to it, even in terms of its time application, a period which we all know ends, when Jesus Christ opens (breaks) the Seventh Seal in heaven. We are saying in effect, that the breaking of this Seventh and Final Seal cannot take place, without the Lord first establishing an Ending Lead Apostolic Ministry on the ground, for the conclusion of this great work of universal redemption, prior to the opening of this Final Seal. This is absolutely so, because Christ must leave the throne in heaven when he breaks this Seal, signaling that his intercessory days are over, for universal redemption is over, and the time has now come for us to actually Cross Over to Glory Land. That is why we are preaching on JUST BEFORE THE CROSSING OVER, for it is a Truth which all eagles of God must see, being strictly a Bible issue, and a most crucial issue of redemption, as we cannot Cross Over to Glory Land without a Lead Ministry, God's True Witness of His Truth. It is absolutely impossible to Cross Over without this ministry, and as I must keep emphasizing, this projection is solidly Bible based! You will never get away from this Truth of God, when we are considering the Lord's Great Plan of Salvation, whether it is in relation to the Old Testament, or it is in relation to the New Testament, for God is God; He remains the same, and His salvation is also one. Moreover, an infallible and immutable (unchanging) pattern has already been set in the Early Church, when considering this ministry, and you had better consider it sincerely, if you are not to be led by the spirit of the Antichrist, that is now moving over the earth with a great rage, and with serious subtlety, deceiving billions of souls in the world today. That is why I will warn you, that you cannot look at the plural ministry of men in isolation, that is, without regard to God's Blueprint of Redemption, the divine plan relating to the ministry, for it also gives us anchor men, at various junctions of time. You just cannot look at redemption in isolation, or look at the ministry in isolation, without also looking at the divine logistics that God has designed for moving the work forward: You have to consider God's revealed logistics as well, for all these things make up the plan of redemption! Therefore, when we consider the great plurality of men God uses to preach His Word in the earth, you must understand that God has key men, Lead Ministries, Faithful Witnesses of God, for God does not leave Himself without a True Witness. You must see this truth, otherwise, you are just like a little boy or girl who wants his parents to have another baby, because he wants a sibling (a brother or sister), but he does not want to know how a baby is made. He does not want to know that his parents first have to come together, and his mother must also be

39 October 2016 impregnated in the process, and that she must carry that baby successfully for about nine months, ever before a baby can be had. And when he is being told the logistics for having a baby, he does not want to listen, or believe it, only because he thinks that his parents can simply get up, based on his request for another sibling, enter the room, and bring out another baby, which is not going to happen, for it is absolutely impossible! You know there are children in Europe who have never been to a farm, and have never seen hens laying eggs before. So, when they are asked: Where do eggs come from; how are eggs produced? They simply reply: They come from the supermarket; they are produced in the supermarket. Remember we are talking about our Crossing Over to Glory Land, and we are saying that it requires a Lead Apostolic Ministry! So, why do you want to live in perpetual ignorance, when the light is shining, and I am referring to the True Light? What excuse are you going to give for walking in darkness? We must realise that we are no longer in the Dark Ages! Furthermore, I need to sound a warning, that the things God allowed in the Reformation Era, which gave us a period of unclear light, will not be allowed today, simply because the True Light now shineth! That was why in those days of Reformation, men like George Muller, could enter the ministry as an evangelist, and set up orphanages, feeding them by faith, that is, without any means of support whatsoever, which is a carnal enterprise, however noble, and moreover, we all know that that is not even the business of a preacher to begin with! We have not been called to establish orphanages, hospitals, and schools, whatever the grade, and however successful we may be in such endeavours! But as it is written in Mark Chapter 16, verses 15-16: And he (Jesus) said unto them (who are in the ministry), Go ye into all the world, and PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. That is the Commission, the Great Commission! May I therefore remind you, that THE GREAT COMMISSION HAS NOT CHANGED! Men are totally responsible for changing it, building schools and universities, hospitals and orphanages, and all that, Page 39 when Oxfam, the Red Cross, and the United Nations, would do a much better job at it. Saints, the essence of the calling of preachers remains the same, for it has not changed, and it is exclusively TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION! As it is recorded in Luke Chapter 24, verse 47: And that REPENTANCE and REMISSION of sins SHOULD BE PREACHED in his name among ALL nations, beginning at Jerusalem. This is precisely what men have been called to do, although today, they have left this divine commission totally behind them, and have entered a rat race to see who can build the biggest and best universities, all in their inordinate ambition to build an empire on this planet, and to make money and fame! This reminds me of something that took place in this our day. In 1987, Oral Roberts, the late Pentecostal Evangelist, making a desperate appeal, announced to the world, claiming that the Lord said He would call him home, unless he raised $8 Million within three months, to build the Oral Roberts University Medical School. In his signed fund raising letter, he claimed: God said, I want you to use

40 Page 40 October 2016 the ORU medical school to put My medical presence in the earth. I want you to get this going in one year or I will call you home! He received over $9 Million in donation for his Medical programme, but what a mess! That is how scandalous these men can be, for they do not blush, having no conscience! However, the truth remains, and this is the point that I am making, and it is that God allowed a lot of things during the Reformation, as men did as they liked, even though many of them did it sincerely; but He will not allow such things today, because we have moved out of the period of unclear light, into the Full Light of the Son of God, for BIBLE TIMES ARE BACK! WE ARE BACK IN THE DAYS OF APOSTLES! Consequently, the situation where every man is a lord to himself and his local assembly, and where he can do what he likes, and preach whatever holds his fancy, is totally out of the picture, for God has a Standard, and it is the Standard of the Blueprint of Redemption, the Divine Master plan of Redemption, which is recorded in the Holy Word of God! Come to think of it: In every age, the Lord addressed the age through the star messenger; which means that all God's seeds have to follow One Man, in every age! Hence, it is written to the First Church Age, in Revelation Chapter 2, verse 1: Unto THE ANGEL of the church of Ephesus write It is also written to the Seventh and Final Church Age, in Revelation Chapter 3, verse 14: And unto THE ANGEL of the church of the Laodiceans write The prophetic admonition of Jesus Christ also ends in every age with the same warning: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto The CHURCHES As I often say, in considering the angel to the ages, and as we all know, God could not have sent a spirit angel to instruct a human being to write to another spirit angel, for that would be most absurd and impossible! For just how would he serve him the letter, and where would he find that angel, when we know that angels live in the spirit world? Consequently, we must realise that the angel referred to in these passages of Scripture, are human messengers, for an angel simply means messenger, and it refers to the star messengers to the seven church ages. So, the point is this: If there is truly no place for a Lead Ministry, a Standard Bearer, we should not be talking of seven star messengers to begin with, because it requires that the universal Bride in each age follow One Man, in the light of Jesus Christ that he is given on behalf of that age! And what is more, we ALL followed One Man, William Branham, in the light of the Holy Bible that he brought! So, if we have to follow another man, in order to complete the plan of salvation in this Last Age, what makes it heretic, when we already followed one man to begin with? If you question the truth of a subsequent Lead Ministry, it is called hypocrisy and unbelief, and you will pay the price for unbelief, which is a very costly one, being an eternal price, IF you do not repent! Moreover, in his sermons, William Branham also testified of other consecutive Lead Ministries to come after him, speaking specifically of the Paul of the end time, and also of the Ending Ministry for the Bride, which is the Jewish Connector, the Carry Over Ministry, who is the Messenger IN the Latter rain. Furthermore, and this is a very fundamental point, the First Church Age, the Ephesian Church Age,

41 October 2016 gives us not only the beginning of God's dealing with the Gentiles, it also gives us the Original Standard Church, one which this end time Church Must and Will conform to! And in that Original Standard Church, a ministry pattern was established right there, a pattern which no man can change or contest, as No man in the entire world can challenge it, scripturally, even though you do not have to believe it; but you cannot contest it by the Bible either! And what is this infallible and unchanging ministry pattern? In the Ephesian Church Age, the Lord Jesus gave them a star messenger, Apostle Paul. And when he passed away in 66AD., the Lord anointed Apostle John to carry the Standard of Truth, for that same age thereafter; not as a star messenger, because you cannot have two star messengers to an age, but as Christ's Candlestick, Christ's True Witness, and that gives us a Lead Apostolic Ministry, the man with which Jesus Christ closed his dealing for that Age, in its revelational climax! That was why in 96 AD., when Jesus Christ was going to give his prophetic revelation to the general body of ministry, a profound prophetic message for that matter, he sent it to just One Man, and all the other servants of Christ were expected to receive that message from John, even as the Book of Revelation Chapter 1, verses 1-2, declares: The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his SERVANTS things which must shortly come to pass; and he (the Lord Jesus Christ), sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant JOHN: Who bare record of the Word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw, (as the True Witness of Jesus Christ, the Lead Ministry in that day). This Scripture now lets us see precisely in 96 A D., w h o t h e candlestick of that Ephesian Age is, as referred to in Revelation Chapter 2, where Jesus spoke to that age in verse 5, declaring: Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove Thy CANDLESTICK out of his place, EXCEPT THOU REPENT. This gives you none other than Saint John, the beloved apostle, and with his Lead Ministry, he being the Last Apostolic Page 41 Guard, God's dealing with that Age was completed, for the Standard had now been established, and when he died around 100 AD., the devil was now able to come in, and he led the Church into the Dark Ages in Babylon! Brothers and sisters, in the First Church Age, God had a Saint Paul, and He also had a Saint John, Two Lead Ministries, successive Lead Ministries, in that same age. Apostle Paul was used to carry the Blueprint of Gentile redemption in its beginning point, and Apostle John was used to finish the written record of the Blueprint of this redemption, in that Beginning Era of Christianity. Can I hear Amen? Yes! Saint John completed and therefore concluded, the entire written record of God, and even Saint Paul spoke about him in 2 Corinthians Chapter 12, when he wrote about THE MAN THAT WAS CAUGHT UP into paradise. Apostle Paul said in that passage of Scripture, that the man h e a r d t h i n g s unspeakable, things that was not lawful for any man to utter, and these deep divine revelations of the Master which John was invested with, proves that John carried the Ending Blueprint of redemption, in

42 Page 42 October 2016 a very deep and complex prophetic revelation, in order to give the end time Bride, a deep and entire prophetic insight. And it is a fact, that without the Book of Revelation, we would have been as blind as bats to the reality of today, the reality of this end time. Think about it! If not for the Book of Revelation, we would have had no clue as to how to look at what is going on out there today. It took that prophetic Book, to give a full and comprehensive understanding of God's ending moves to the Bride Universal, and to also open up all the ending moves of the devil as well, posting us ahead. This divine prophetic revelation of Jesus Christ, is what lifts the Bride up, much higher than anything the devil can do or throw at her, at this evening time, and what an insight it gives! Church, that insight did not come through Apostle Paul, the Star messenger to the First Age; it came through Apostle John, the Minor messenger to that same age, the successive standard bearing ministry the Lord used to move the plan of Gentile salvation forward! Why did God use another lead apostle after Saint Paul? Because it is not about Saint Paul, but it is about the universal plan of salvation that God promised Abraham, a plan that had to be moved forward, God using another anchor man! That is why the Lord told Joshua, As I was with Moses, I WILL BE WITH YOU. Because it was not about Moses; but it was about God's plan of salvation for Israel, a plan which God had to move on through Joshua, which is also why you cannot personalise everything to Brother Branham, for this plan is beyond the prophet to this age, for it is also about God's great plan of universal salvation! So, I am laying out a very serious point, a fundamental point, and that is this: The way God moved ministerially in the First Church Age, is the very way He will move in the Last Church Age, as that is precisely how this Age will close! The Lord started the Ephesian Age with a Star messenger, and closed it with a Minor messenger, speaking of the revelational standard. So likewise, in God's dealing with the Bride, He started this Last Age, the Laodicean Age, with a Star messenger, Elijah, and He will end it with a Minor Messenger, Saint John, for He is Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last, the Author and the Finisher. Now, tell me that that is heresy! Church, let me ask these hypocrites in the Message Movement; these pack of unbelievers: What is wrong in a man declaring his ministry calling, his precise ministry position, if it is not that people generally hate the Truth? Leadership is what they do not want, which is why it is only the leadership of a dead man, William Branham, that they will accept, as utterly ridiculous and abominable as it is, for it is idolatrous, because God does not lead His people with dead men! That was why there was a Joshua after Moses died, for God put him into the shoes of Moses, to lead the children of Israel by a live ministry! Another point is this: IF Apostle Paul, as well as Apostle Peter, could openly declare their apostleship in their inspired writings, what makes it prideful and out of place, for someone to do the same today? What makes it acceptable then, but wrong now? I ask that, because of what people have been saying and writing, that I am trying to make myself something; that I am proclaiming myself a lead ministry. But Saint Paul openly proclaimed to the world in Romans Chapter

43 October , verse 13: For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am THE Apostle of the Gentiles, I MAGNIFY MINE OFFICE! I ask: Was he trying to make himself something when he said that, when we all know that that is the Gospel Truth? Again, in Acts Chapter 13, verse 47, he proclaimed to the world, that God said to him: I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, T H A T T H O U SHOULDEST BE FOR SALVATION unto the ends of the earth. Who will argue with that? And does that take out or deny the place of other men in the ministry? No! If Saint Paul could do that, why can somebody else not do it, IF God has also made him something in His infinite love and mercy, in furtherance of God's plan of salvation, and in conclusion of the same plan? Furthermore, the question is this: In the plural body of ministry established around the globe for the Bride saints, how can we avoid confusion, and also avoid working at cross-purposes, IF we do not have a voice to show us the way, a voice bearing the standard of the Blueprint of redemption, which is The Standard of God's Present Truth, God's Truth for the hour, one lifted up above all other voices? Just how can we avoid confusion, IF there is no True Witness of Jesus Christ on the ground? Come on! This is not being smart, for it is all about the truth of God's way of accomplishing His great plan of redemption; it is all about God's logistics of redemption! That was why there had to be a Saint Paul, and it was Christ IN him, lifting up the Standard of redemption, and with his passing away, there had to be a Saint John in that day as well, and it was also Christ IN him, carrying on the Standard of redemption! I say likewise to you this day, that with the passing away of Brother Branham, and with the subsequent death of Brother Jackson, that the Standard of Truth cannot be placed on the shelf today, for there has to be another anchor man, another lead ministry, right here at the very end. That is precisely why Jesus Christ gave the Plumb-line, the Standard of Truth, to Saint John of this end time, in its prophetic application, as revealed in Revelation Chapter 11, verse 1, a prophetic passage concealing the Jewish Connection, taken together with Revelation Chapter 10, verses 8-11, and it gives us the ministry of Page 43 completion! For the God that was IN Moses, was the same God that was IN Joshua, which was why God assured Joshua: There shall not ANY MAN be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: AS I WAS WITH MOSES, SO I WILL BE WITH THEE: I WILL NOT FAIL THEE, NOR FORSAKE THEE. Why? Because it was not about Moses or about Joshua; but it was all about God's plan of redemption, which God had to watch over jealously, and also move forward, till it was fully accomplished, ensuring that it did not fail! And as it was the Spirit of Christ IN Paul, enabling him to become the Beginning Ministry, so likewise, it is the Spirit of Christ IN the John of the end time, enabling him to become the Ministry of Completion AND of Closure! And just as Saint Paul could take the prophecy concerning the work of redemption spoken of in the Book of Habakkuk, and apply it to himself, showing us its beginning application, so likewise, the John of today can take the same prophecy, and apply it to himself, showing us its ending application. I am simply saying to you: The work of Redemption that Habakkuk spoke of, one which started with Apostle

44 Page 44 October 2016 Paul, ends with Apostle John! Period! For if that work had a beginning ministry point, and it most certainly does, surely you have enough sense to understand that it has to have a concluding ministry point. Because whatever has a beginning ministry point, must equally have a concluding ministry point, as the opportunity for salvation does not run forever; the door of salvation is not open forever! Come on! Brothers and sisters, the Beginning Ministry Point of redemption, gives us the man that carried the Blueprint of that plan, setting it forth in motion. Therefore, the Ending Ministry Point must also give us, and it actually does give us, the man that carries the Blueprint of that plan, bearing the open Scroll of redemption, bringing it to its concluding point, conveying not only the revelational details of its beginning, but also the revelational details of God's Move through time, together with the Ending Details of this glorious plan. This has to be so, in order to avoid confusion of any sort within the camp of God's people, as we Cross Over with perfect and unparalleled divine revelation. It guarantees Unity of The Faith, which is a necessary platform for the work of perfection. It is written in Ephesians Chapter 5, verses 25-27: Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, That he might present it to himself A GLORIOUS CHURCH, NOT HAVING SPOT, OR WRINKLE, OR ANY SUCH THING; but that it should be HOLY and WITHOUT BLEMISH. This glorious spiritual state gives us nothing but perfection, which is spiritual maturity. And indeed, she will be a glorious church, without spot, and without wrinkle. And wrinkle speaks of creeds, dogma, traditions, and carnal interpretations of men, all which create leaven, showing that the Ministry of Completion, the Ending Ministry Vessel of the work of Gentile redemption, will have serious depth to his revelation, and absolute clarity. He must, IF we are to return a totally wholesome and perfect Gospel Message back to the Jews, he being the ministry where it all ends for us Gentiles. May I further add, that it is absolutely impossible for the Bride to get ready, and attain this glorious spiritual stature, without unrestrained accessibility to an unlimited supply of water, and we are talking about the clean water of the Word. No, it is not water that is dirty or polluted, and neither is it water that she has to manage, because it is insufficient, or one that runs out. It is an artisan well, an ever-flowing stream of life that she is washing in, that she might be squeaky clean. When we were in Secondary School (High School), where I attended as a boarding student, Christ's School, Ado Ekiti, in those days, there was no pipe-borne water in the School. Water tankers used to bring water to fill all the tanks in the various dormitories and laboratories, and once they were filled, everybody rushed to get water from the tanks. We took all we could, and we washed all we could wash, clothes and all. That was because, by the following day or two, it was finished, and the water tanker would not come till maybe another three or four days thereafter. When we needed to bathe, sometimes there was no water, so, early in the morning, in order to prepare for classes, sometimes, we had to trek (walk) over a kilometre with our iron pails (buckets) in our hands, right into town,

45 October 2016 to look for water, and we carried it back to school on our heads. However, if we found no water, we came back with empty buckets, and we still had to get ready for school! What we did in such a situation, was simply to stroll with our empty buckets into the bathroom, which was a general one, as we were all boys, and we would beg for a bowl or two of water from any friend or classmate we saw, and getting those two or three bowls, we had to make do. That was how I learnt to bathe with just two or three bowls of water, and believe me, I did a good job of it, and by the time I was finished, I was clean! We learnt how to manage with little! However, may I say to each and every one, that when we are considering the Ephesian prophetic passage of Scripture, giving us the washing of water by the Word, you are not looking at managing water, for here, there is an overabundance of water, as we are at the fountain of the Master! I repeat: Managing limited water does not apply to the Bride, showing that she has an overflow of divine revelation of the Scriptures, as the Fountain of Truth has been opened up by the Spirit of Christ, in order to give a complete, wholesome, and perfect understanding of God's plan of redemption, to the Nation of the Bride, at this end time, WHEN HE IS TO TAKE HER TO HIMSELF! Take away the constant and continuous flow of divine scriptural revelation of Jesus Christ, that Continuity Light, and there will be no getting ready for any individual. That is a fact! And that is why the Bible says of the Bride: His wife hath MADE HERSELF READY, meaning that she has been given accessibility to the unlimited divine water of the Word. But you can get to the bathroom, and decide not to bathe, as the choice is yours; you can refuse to wash. That is the truth! Consequently, what you do with the truth that has been made available to you, is between you and God, for you are the one who is to make yourself ready, as God only provides the materials. What you do with the materials is between you and God, and that is precisely why we have the speechless friend of Matthew Chapter 22, verses 11-14! I took THE SPEECHLESS FRIEND as a message, and it was actually my last message at Cecil Deliverance Tabernacle, Williamstown, New Jersey, USA, before parting ways with Brother Page 45 William Fletcher, the pastor of the church, when I saw that they were not ready to follow the Continuing Light of Jesus Christ. And truly, the Lord has given us everything we need to make it to the marriage supper in heaven, but what we do with truth, is between us and God. That is why I must keep warning that this is not a game, for as it is written: For many are called, but few are chosen. One thing, however, is certain, for it is settled: Saint John saw the Bride in Glory Land (Heaven), for she had got herself ready; she was ready. That means that she met the required standard of the Almighty God, and this lets us know undoubtedly, just as it is written, that Christ will receive her unto himself, A Glorious Church, and no less. But the truth also remains, that without God's True Witness, there can be no turning on of the artesian well of life, for the stream of life flows through the anointed vessel that the Lord has placed on the earth, to turn on the tap of the ever-flowing stream of life, which is divine revelation. That is the way, the only way, because it is God's provided way, particularly as we now face our Jordan, which is our Crossing Over. And when it

46 Page 46 October 2016 came to the Crossing of Jordan back then; when it came to possessing the Promised Land in actuality, God did not leave it to every man in the ministry to do what he liked, and to enter the land as he felt in his heart, each man going his own way, and doing his own thing, each claiming to have been dealt with by God, for he would not make it through, as the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, and all the other ites, would have made minced beef of him, for they would have killed him! Think about it! No man could make it on his own! When it came to Crossing Jordan to possess the Promised Land, for the salvation of the church in the wilderness, God did not leave it to every man in the ministry! He had a man to carry the Plumb-Line of the Word; He had a man to carry the Light, the Torch of Truth; God had a man To Show THE WAY: Because as it is written, This is a way we have never walked before, and consequently, they had to listen to Joshua, God's Faithful and True Witness. And yet, that salvation also sets a perfect type, as it was only physical salvation that they had in that day. So, what about spiritual salvation? What about the eternal salvation of the souls of God's people? What about the attainment of the spiritual reality of what the church in the wilderness typed? How much more now, do we need a man under Jesus Christ, that can turn on the Light! If you do not see what we are talking about, that is okay; I understand. But if you see the point we are making, why will you not walk in the light; why will you not follow the Truth? Yes, as I said earlier, we live in a religious world where so many men of God socalled, are making themselves something, and are claiming to be something, and yet, they are bringing nothing but shame and great reproach to the name of the Lord, and to the cause of Christ. Nevertheless, that does not take away or nullify God's logistics! You cannot use what the devil is doing out there, and the explosion of counterfeit lead ministries we have around the world, to take away the reality of God's True Witness! You cannot point to Jim Jones of the Guyana tragedy, or to David Koresh of the Branch Davidians, in Waco, Texas, to deny the lead ministry of the Bride of Christ, no more than you can use the recorded false ministries of Theudas and of Barjesus, in Acts Chapter 5, verses 36-37, to take away the Promised Ministry of the Messiah, or to take away that of Apostle Paul, and you know you cannot do that! Come on! Moreover, the devil is doing those things, in order to destabilize people, and make them lose focus, and miss the way, having become disenchanted and disoriented, forgetting the Blueprint of salvation, which does not change! I just showed you God's infallible and unchanging pattern that was established in the church in the wilderness! The Lord had a man to start the Jewish salvation, who was Moses, and He also had a man to finish it, who was Joshua. And when the time of Gentile salvation began, God did not just turn every man loose, saying: Now simply preach the Gospel! No, He did not do that! Oh, my! The Lord even had a precise racial course of how the Gospel was to go, where it was to start, before it came to the Gentiles! And when the hour of the Gentiles came, the Jews having first been given the opportunity to hear the Gospel, and they rejected it, and it was then turned over to the Gentiles, the Lord anointed one man, Saul of Tarsus, and gave him a companion named Barnabas. But that one

47 October 2016 man carried that Light as THE APOSTLE of the Gentiles, the Plumb-line holder, the man who carried the Blueprint of Gentile redemption, and Barnabas recognized this fact, for God is sovereign, and Barnabas followed him, even though he, Barnabas, came into the faith before Saul of Tarsus, and he was even the one who took Paul to meet the apostles after his conversion, as recorded in Acts Chapter 9, verses 26-27, and nobody can deny this fact! And if that is so for that day, that there was a Beginning Ministry Point for Gentile redemption, setting in motion God's promise in Habakkuk Chapter 1, verse 5, why can you not see that the same God will have an Ending Ministry Point, to bring completion to the promise in Habakkuk? What is difficult to see in that? And as I said earlier, it does not matter how many false men have come and gone, the truth remains the truth! You will not use the counterfeit of the devil to nullify the Word of God! You will not say because we have had so many false Messiahs, you will reject Jesus Christ the True Messiah! Come on! And indeed, before Jesus Christ came, there had been many false Messiahs come and gone, like Theudas! Therefore, the many false lead ministries we are facing today around the globe, also do not take away from God having His True Witness, a Lead Ministry, as God never leaves Himself without a True Witness, a True Witness of His Truth! As a matter of fact, the alarming situation of the multiplicity of false lead ministries around the globe, particularly in the Movement, who are creating total confusion, makes it all the more crucial and necessary, that we have a True Lead Ministry! The most horrible and apostate condition we face today calls for such a ministry: It calls for a standard bearing ministry, a lead apostolic ministry! Moreover, speaking about the end time ministry plan of God, Revelation Chapter 10, not only gives us the Star messenger to this age in verse 7, it also gives us a Minor messenger to this age in verse 11.It lets us see undoubtedly, and with absolute clarity, that as the First Age had a Star messenger, and God ended that age with a Candlestick, a Minor messenger, in establishing the Original Standard of the Truth of Jesus Christ, similarly, in this Last Age, we have also had a Star Page 47 messenger, and God is also ending this age with a candlestick, a Minor messenger. Indeed, JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER! For in Revelation Chapter 10, what do we have? In verse 7, we have the Elijah Prophet-Star messenger to this age, as it is written: But in the days of The Voice, (and not of his person, but of his voice, which is his message; as the man is no longer here with us to lead us to the rapture; but in the days of the voice) of the seventh angel,(the star messenger to Laodicea), when he shall begin to sound, (that is, when his message begins to be published around the world), THE MYSTERY of God, (a singular mystery of God, which gives us the salvation of the Gentiles, a mystery which God used Apostle Paul to start), should BE FINISHED, (completed, in the days of his voice), as he (God) hath declared to his servants the prophets (in the Old Testament, speaking concerning universal salvation). Please note that the term SHOULD be finished, still gives us a period of time in this Last Age, wherein God actually brings it to its absolute

48 Page 48 October 2016 finish or completion. And as we speak this morning, God is still saving souls, for salvation is not yet complete. This leaves us with the Ministry of Completion, in God's Great Plan of Redemption, and that is precisely what verses 8-11 now gives to us, as it is written: And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book (of redemption) which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and EAT IT UP; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ATE IT UP; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. And he said unto me, THOU MUST PROPHESY AGAIN before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. Brothers and sisters, this prophetic passage, one which gives us the Promised Ministry of John, is what God has ordained to bring actual completion to the work of salvation, and IT WILL BE COMPLETED, in the days of THE VOICE of the seventh angel, which is in this Laodicean Church Age, which is the Last Age! Hence, we should see by the Holy Scriptures, that John brings completion to The Mystery of God, which is the work of Gentile redemption, one which Apostle Paul started. For indeed, the Work which started with Paul, ends with John, and as such, when we consider the prophecy of Habakkuk Chapter 1, verse 5, it is a scriptural fact, therefore, that a work which Apostle Paul started in that First Age, it is Apostle John of the end time that completes this work. Consequently, IF you see the application of the prophecy of Habakkuk to the beginning ministry of Paul, you must also see its application to the ending ministry of John, for John completes what Paul started, and with John's input, salvation comes to a literal, permanent, and perpetual close, for ALL Gentiles. Hence, Revelation Chapter 11, verse 1, adds to the ministry of John: And there was given ME a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying (to John), Rise, and measure the temple of God (in Jerusalem, which was not in existence in 96 AD., and which still does not exist as we speak today in 2016), and the altar, and them that worship therein, (giving us by prophetic application, the Jewish Connection, as the Plumb-line of the Gospel, the Original Standard of the Gospel of Christ, is returned back to the Jews, by God's Final Gentile Witness, for the salvation of the children of Israel). Do not forget that for the accomplishment of the great plan of salvation, God first started with the Nation of Israel in a shadow, saving them by taking them out of Egypt, and establishing them as the church in the wilderness, after which He now led them into the Promised Land, ALL in a shadow, for it was all physical. It gave them physical salvation and a physical land of promise. Having accomplished this salvation, God turned to the Gentiles, allowing the Jews to first turn down the Gospel, and God saved our souls from sin, giving us spiritual salvation, one which is eternal, establishing the New Testament Church, the Nation of the Bride, following which He will lead us into the Glory Land in Heaven. This being

49 October 2016 accomplished, God will return to Israel, to give them what we Gentiles received, which is spiritual salvation, and the plan of salvation is concluded both for Jews and Gentiles. In Romans Chapter 11, Apostle Paul confirms this divine move, warning the Gentiles in verses 25-32: For I would not, brethren, that ye (Gentiles) should be ignorant of This MYSTERY (of universal salvation), lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part, (partial blindness), is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles, (the full number of elect Gentles), BE COME IN (to receive salvation). And so ALL Israel shall be saved, (for God will return to give salvation to ALL elect Jews thereafter, once the Gentile days are over): as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I SHALL take away their sins. As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. For as ye (Gentiles) in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: Even so have these (Jews) also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that He (God) might have mercy upon ALL, (thereby accomplishing salvation which is global).that is precisely why, when we consider this Great Plan of Universal Salvation, you will never get away from the absolute Truth, that God always reserves to Himself A TRUE WITNESS, a man bearing the Standard of God's Truth for the hour, turning on the Light of God's salvation in every junction of time! This is more particularly so, when we consider two vital junctions of time in this plan: The Starting Point, and the Ending Point. The Beginning Point of Salvation always gives us the Blueprint Holder, and the Ending Point of Salvation also gives us a Blueprint Holder: One sets it in motion, and the other concludes it, ALL by the Spirit of God! And as it is written in the Book of Ecclesiastes Chapter 7, verse 8: BETTER IS THE END OF A THING than the Page 49 beginning thereof. And IF it was glorious under the Beginning Ministry of Paul, what about the Ending Ministry of John? That is why the Lord Jesus gives John the Entire Scroll of Redemption to eat, lifting him higher revelationally, to a level that No man has ever attained! God Almighty called out to John directly from heaven in the prophetic setting, instructing him to go to the Messenger of the Covenant to take the Open Scroll, and he ate it up, that we may know without any iota of doubt, precisely where the work of Gentile redemption ends! But as Prophet Isaiah asked in Chapter 53, verse 1: Who hath believed our report? I want to announce to you today, that the work of Gentile salvation which God used Saint Paul to set in motion, as spoken of in the Book of Habakkuk, it is Saint John that God will use to complete and conclude it, thereby concluding the work spoken of by Prophet Habakkuk, for it applies to both ministries, the Beginning Ministry, and the Ending Ministry. That is why John eats the Entire Scroll of Redemption! I lay the Truth of God before you this day: Choose whom you will follow. But as for me and my family, we will follow

50 Page 50 October 2016 the Lord Jesus Christ in his Continuing AND Concluding Scriptural Light. The very fact that John ate not just part of that Scroll, but the whole Scroll, shows that completion is in John, and this is a truth I cannot emphasize enough. And if you are still in doubt, I will simply ask you: Why did Jesus give John the Entire Scroll of Redemption to eat? That gives you the Finishing Point, which is the point of completion, as this is where it all Ends! This is the Ministry of Completion, because whatever has a starting ministry point, must have an ending ministry point. What is hard to understand in that? Eating the entire scroll of redemption is a coded message, giving us the ministry of Completion! And as I stated earlier, I must also ask: Are you therefore going to use the array of false ministers, men who are making themselves something out there, to deny the Truth of God? Or are you also going to take the death of Raymond Jackson, the chief apostle,(the fact that he passed away contrary to our expectation), to deny the Jewish Connector, when we can now see the Promised Completion Ministry God has given us in His Word? We should know that someone has to fulfil it; someone has to make the Jewish Connection; and someone has to lead the Bride to the rapture; because timewise, and speaking concerning the universal Bride of Christ, it is JUST BEFORE THE CROSSING OVER! Somebody has to fulfil the Promised Ministry of Completion, leading the Bride into the rapture, for that is our Crossing Over! Unbelievers like you,(and I am speaking to doubters and skeptics in the Movement), would have warned Joshua, had you lived in his day, saying: How can we be sure that you are going to take us in? How can we be sure that you will not also die like Moses? Moses told us that he would take us to the Promised Land, and he died on the way! Therefore, we have to wait and see! May I say, that having laid out the truth of the ministry recorded in Revelation Chapter 10, verses 8-11, all the Wait and see people, are nothing but gamblers, for they have no revelation of anything, as they believe nothing, for this is not a game! This is now about the written Word of God, for I have shown you the Promised Ministry of completion, a prophetic ministry that we did not see in the days of Brother Jackson! Therefore, it is a matter of whether you believe the Word of God or not! IF Almighty God had a Beginning Ministry, and nothing in all the power of Pharaoh and Satan could stop him, just as nothing could stop Saint Paul, why do you think that anything can also hinder God's ordained ministry of Completion, when God is not a man, and when God is not limited, and when He is sovereign? Come on! Only believe, and quit your unbelief! People forget that it is the Master, Jesus Christ, giving John to eat the entire Scroll, as God ordained it to be. And what does that show you? It shows that the John of the end time is the Final Gentile Candlestick of Jesus Christ, the same way it was in the First Church Age, as revealed in Revelation Chapter 1, verse 1, when the Master had a message for his plural servants, but he sent it to just one man, Saint John, for and onbehalf of all other servants, and through whom all other servants received that message! And if you are a true servant of Jesus Christ, you cannot turn truth down, just because of your racial or personal ego, or because you want to be recognized for something, for every elect seed of God ordained as Bride, must and will see the place of a

51 October 2016 lead apostolic ministry. Moreover, what can you have if God has not given you anything? As it is written in John Chapter 3, verse 27: A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. Having unrestrained accessibility to the revelation of life which Jesus gives, is what is most important. Consequently, I will ask: If God gives it to us through a man, what is your problem? Why not be happy that you have access to the revelation of life? Why must you be the carrier of it? Why not just benefit and bless God for the accessibility to eternal life that He has given you? Why does it have to come through you? Why must you have your say, if it is not flesh ruling you; if it is not ego and inordinate ambition that is eating you up? It is all Bible based, because we can see John in the Bible, just as clearly as we can see Paul. Brothers and sisters, what is so difficult to understand in that? And if you do not want to look at it this way, because it is too wide apart, time wise, speaking of the application of the prophecy of Habakkuk, then just look at the First Church Age, where there was a Paul, a star messenger, following which there was also a John, a Minor messenger, to finish the written record. What is difficult to understand in that? Come on! Church, listen to me, for I am getting close to the end of my message. I just want to make a few serious points before we close. In a most dark and grossly apostate religious world, Church, you must know that the Universal Nation of the Bride cannot be facing the rapture, without God having a Lead Ministry on ground, to bring God's plan of salvation to a climax and to closure. In this dark world, this apostate world, this anti-god age, where they hate God and His Word with a passion; with Christendom in utter confusion, we cannot be facing the rapture without a Lead Ministry on the ground. And as I must keep emphasizing, IF possessing a natural piece of land called the Promised Land, necessitated a Lead Ministry, it is not possessing Glory Land in the rapture, that we would not need a Lead Ministry, in an hour of total religious chaos! If possessing a physical land necessitated a Lead Ministry, it is not possessing a spiritual land, which is Heaven, when we go in the rapture for the marriage, that would not Page 51 demand and necessitate a Lead Apostolic Ministry. In fact, much more than in the days of Joshua, we need a Lead Ministry, for it relates to possessing heaven, which is our Glory Land! Think about it this morning, because that is what I want you to see. If the possessing of a natural land, the natural land of promise, a land of the earth, demanded a Lead Ministry to Cross Over, it is not rapture into heaven that will not require a Lead Ministry; it is not the possessing of glory land that will not require a Lead Ministry! How much more do we need one now, to keep us focused, and to give us direction for the rapture! That is why, when I looked at the Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 31, verses 7-8, and I saw that the Crossing of Jordan to possess the Promised Land required a Lead Ministry, it just struck me, how much more so now, in these perilous times, when we are now facing the rapture, a period when we are going to Cross Over into heaven? Brothers and sisters, I am telling you the truth today, and I lie not. Let me show you something to vindicate this truth, and do not fail to catch it. We all know that God is a God of types and shadows, who does not do something for

52 Page 52 October 2016 nothing. We saw earlier that it was Moses who gave Joshua the name he bears, and it was all by the leadership of God; it was God inspired, as Joshua did not ask Moses to change his name. Remember that Moses was a great prophet of God, a man who bore the first of the two greatest anointings of the Spirit of God, and a law giver. And the seriousness of Joshua's name change, is revealed in the meaning of his name, for it means Jehovah- Saviour, that God is our Saviour, speaking of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. In Numbers Chapter 13, verse 16, it states: These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called OSHEA the son of Nun JEHOSHUA. Jehoshua means Jehovah-Saviour. The question now is this: Why did God reveal to His prophet to change the name of Oshea, and not that of Caleb? And why was he given the name Jehoshua, in particular? It is simply because Moses had seen something about Joshua, for the Lord had shown him something, and this moved him to give him this name change, as it all had to do with God's plan of salvation! That was why Joshua, and not Caleb, was chosen by God to be the successor of Moses, placing him firmly in the shoes of Moses, as he led the children of Israel across Jordan into the Promised Land, thereby vindicating the inspiration of his name change! Indeed, Jehovah- Saviour used Jehoshua to accomplish the salvation of Israel, as their salvation was not complete, until they crossed over into the Promised Land, right under the leadership of Joshua, as it was Jehovah God IN Joshua. However, that is not all, for God also used Joshua to set a type of an end time reality, one which we are now facing on the earth, in the universal Nation of the Bride. Joshua not only types the ministry of the Gentile Bride, which is the Ephesian Fivefold Ministry, who together make up the head of the Universal Bride Church, but he also types the leadership of the Ephesian Ministry, which gives the ministry of apostles, plural apostles, for they constitute the apostolic head of the Ephesian Ministry. Furthermore, Joshua also types the Lead Apostolic Ministry of the Nation of the Bride, Joshua himself being a Lead Ministry of the Nation of Israel! As people following the Continuity Light of Jesus Christ, we all know these typological applications of Joshua to the Ephesian Ministry. However, what we do not know, and what we did not see before now, is that there is another typological application of Joshua, and that is precisely what I want to show you now, under Christ. And that is that, Joshua also types the Hamitic Racial Lead Ministry of the end time John, which gives us the ministry of Completion to the salvation of the Bride. In other words, he types and foreshadows THE INPUT OF HAM, for God also used Joshua to foreshadow the leadership that God will establish over the Bride universal, from the lineage of Ham, which is Africa. Now pay attention. Joshua, whose original name was Oshea, was one of the twelve spies Moses sent to scout the land of Canaan, and he stood firmly and faithfully in defence of God's unfailing Word of Promise, along with Caleb, when the other ten elders brought a very bad report that weakened the faith of the people, resulting in their divestment, from 20 years old and upwards. The issue now is this: When we consider Numbers Chapter 13, we see the tribe of Joshua, and it is the tribe of Ephraim, as verse8 reveals: Of the tribe of EPHRAIM,OSHEA the

53 October 2016 son of Nun. According to the record of the Holy Bible, we know that Ephraim, who was the second son of Joseph, was not only given the blessing of the firstborn by Jacob, by the divine leadership and inspiration of God, as recorded in Genesis Chapter 48, but so also, was he absorbed into the Nation of Israel, as part and parcel of the twelve original tribes, along with his senior brother, Manasseh. The issue is that Ephraim and Manasseh were half Africans, half Jewish, because their mother, Asenath, was an African woman, given to Joseph in marriage by Pharaoh, the King of Egypt, as recorded in Genesis Chapter 41, verses And all that was typing the reality of Jesus Christ, who was rejected by his brethren, the Jews, and was given a Gentile Bride by God the Father, the King of the whole world. Brothers and sisters, out of the tribe of Ephraim, a tribe with African ancestry, God anointed Joshua, to take over the work of redemption that Moses, a full-blooded Jew, started, and complete it, just as God would use an African to complete the work of redemption that Paul, a fullblooded Jew, started! It is all a type, and may I say that it is a perfect type, for in that day, God was foreshadowing the End of Gentile salvation, in the racial carriage of the Gospel of salvation, as well as in its Ending Ministry Point! It gives us THE INPUT OF HAM, for Joshua speaks of Africa, Abra-HAM! And it is an undeniable scriptural fact, that it was under the leadership of Joshua, a man from the tribe of Ephraim, a tribe with African origins, that the Nation of Israel came into possession, for they Crossed Over into the Promised Land; just as it will be under the leadership of the end time John, an African, a man from the Tabernacle of Ham, that the Nation of the Bride will also come into possession, Crossing Over into Glory Land, which is Heaven. Glory be to God! Halleluiah! I repeat: Israel was established in the Promised Land under the Leadership of Jehoshua, a man from a tribe with African ancestry, just as the Bride will be established in Heaven, right under the Leadership of John, a man from Africa! Think about it brethren! Just think, for our God is a God of types and shadows, and you have to see this beautiful type! Brothers and sisters, you would Page 53 expect though, that these things should be coming out from the Pope in the Vatican, or from the Archbishop of Canterbury, or even from the so-called Professors and Doctors of Divinity, or from the world's great Theologians, but it is not. It is coming from a poor, simple, humble, unknown, unrecognised, and despised people of God; because God works in simplicity and in humility. Did Brother Branham not say that The Third Pull will be carried on in a very humble way? Yes, he did! I am almost at the end of my message, but allow me to make a few serious points before I close. Just before the children of Israel Crossed Over into the Promised Land to possess the land, God had to give them a Lead Ministry; He gave them a man to show the way, that they might be able to possess the promise, and no man challenged him, despite the fact that there were many men in the ministry on ground in that day, Priests and Levites. Rather, all the men in the ministry stood with Joshua in the light of God that he bore for the whole house of Israel! Saints, God used Joshua to face every Girgashite, every Hivite, every Hittite, every

54 Page 54 October 2016 Canaanite, every Perizzite, every Amorite, and every Jebusite, in the land, and they possessed their God given land! How much more now do we need a Lead Apostolic Ministry today, when we are also facing Glory Land, and with a deluge of serpent seeds opposing the Truth from all sides, and on various levels, around the world, with their so-called revelation, which is nothing but Cain's revelation! In a world of mass confusion, religious chaos, where every man is an author of spiritual materials, and every man is a carrier of revelation so-called, for every man is saying: God is dealing with me; God gave me a revelation for the universal Bride, and they are bringing nothing but spiritual chaos, we certainly need an anchor man! In a world where all men have their own revelation, and they can easily upload the same on the Internet, or on YouTube, revelations that when you lay them on the scale of the Word of God, they simply fall apart, for they amount to nothing but a load of spiritual junk, in such a horrible time as this, we most definitely cannot do without a lead ministry! Brothers and sisters, we all know that teachings and projections that do not have their basis in the Holy Scriptures, are spiritual junk, and not a revelation at all! They are just carnal ideas, and when such carnal ideas are also being projected in the camp of the Bride, they create nothing but trouble in the camp of God's people; they throw spanner in the works. Therefore, let me tell these men who say they are following, but who are not really following anything; and I speak spiritually, figuratively now: We are at war with all men who will destabilize the Bride! From hereon, I declare an all-out war on all men, who will trouble the Bride of Christ, with their carnal ideas which they call divine revelation! I do not care how much you say you are standing for this move; but from hereon, we are at war with all men that will seek to destabilize the Bride; men that will seek to offend the peace and the revelatory unity of the Bride, as unity has begun, for it is here. You can say what you like: Oh, he is just a man. But what about you? Are you an angel? Oh, he is just a man. That is absolutely true, for I am a man; but what about you? Are you a spirit? Are you not also a man? They say these things just because I do not agree with their carnal ways, and with their carnal desires; they say these things because I do not agree with their carnal projections! Once you stand against something on spiritual principles, then it becomes: He is just a man! Yes, indeed, he is just a man, but a man under God, and that makes all the difference! Brothers and sisters, it is too late in the day to offend the Truth of God, as you do not want to derail, after having come so close to the rapture. We are living in dangerous times, for it is the hour that we will Cross Over. When you look at 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4, verses14-18, it deals strictly with the rapture, which is our Crossing Over, and it says: For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with A SHOUT, with THE VOICE of the archangel, and with THE TRUMP of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the

55 October 2016 Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. This passage gives us our Crossing Over. Coming back to verse 16, it records: For the Lord HIMSELF shall descend from heaven with A SHOUT, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Saints, that shout is the voice of one man, meaning that it is the message of one man. But you say: Oh, Brother Amos, the Bible says it is the Lord himself that descends and gives the shout. Yes, read the letter, and hold merely to the letter of the Word, and kill yourself with it! Saints, it is just as in Exodus Chapter 3, for it was also God Himself who descended from heaven in that day, to deliver the children of Israel from Egypt; but yet, He did it through Moses, for He sent Moses for that deliverance! Consequently, it was God IN Moses, bringing deliverance. How many see the point? So also in this prophetic passage of Thessalonians, it is Jesus Christ by his Spirit IN a man, uttering the shout! I now ask you, what is a shout? It is an awakening AND preparatory message! For just how shall the Master come for our translation (our rapture), if we are not fully prepared for him? I say that because there is a Bible Standard that we must meet in our spiritual stature, in order to be ready, and in order for Jesus to come for us. So, how can Jesus come before we meet that original and unchanging spiritual standard? Therefore, commonsense will tell you, that the shout has to be an awakening and a preparatory message, for it is Jesus Christ by his Spirit IN a man, giving forth the shout, just as it was God IN Moses, saying to Pharaoh: Let my people go!this prophetic Shout, is what constitutes the Midnight Cry of Matthew Chapter 25, verse 6, which awakened all elements of sleeping virgins, both wise and foolish, as the Bible records: And at midnight there was A CRY made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; GO YE OUT TO MEET HIM, (meaning: Jesus Christ is coming, prepare to meet him).i am saying in essence, that what Jesus called the Midnight Cry in his day, is what Apostle Paul later referred to as the Shout: It is an awakening AND a preparatory message for the rapture! For not only Page 55 were all the virgins awoken, for they all arose, but the wise went through a door of divine revelation, into the Inner Chamber, where Christ is getting himself engaged to his elect Bride, revealing himself to her on an unparalleled level, as verse 10 reveals: And while they (who are the foolish virgins), went to buy (Oil, as instructed in verse 9), the Bridegroom came (on earth, strictly in a divine revelation, and not physically, but in a divine revelation, being a spiritual or revelatory coming); and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage, (which in this passage is actually the engagement): and THE DOOR was shut (to the Engagement Chamber). Brothers and sisters, the Shout is what correlates to the Midnight Cry, and the Shout is an intense one; it is loud; it is instant, and it is very urgent, because it is an awakening and a preparatory message; otherwise, if it were not so, the Messiah would come without being heralded, and we would not be ready for his return in any way, as we ALL slumbered and slept, both wise and foolish virgins, as revealed in verse 5, being grossly unprepared, and totally out of spiritual shape for his return. And as we speak

56 Page 56 October 2016 today in 2016, the Bride is not yet ready. The material question now is this: How do we apply the Shout? It is applied through the ministry of a man, William Branham, the Elijah-Star messenger to this Last Church Age. You must understand that this prophetic passage of Scripture can only be applied in this Last Church Age, knowing that we are living at the time of the end, an era prior to the return of Christ for his Bride. Now listen very closely, and put on your thinking cap. The Shout, which is the first step into the rapture event, is the message or the voice of the star messenger to this age. We know that, and we have established that by the grace of God. However, and please pay attention, because all that we are adding today in the Continuity Movement, is still within the parameter of the Message of the Bible that William Branham brought, for the voice of the seventh angel recorded in Revelation Chapter 10, verse 7, forms a scaffold around the revelation of Jesus Christ to this age, this shows that what we are supplying from the Word of God today, in order to get the Bride ready for the Crossing Over, all still go into his voice or message! We are looking at the final things that complete the voice of the seventh angel! And we have a message in the Scribe Magazine titled, JOHN: COMPLETING THE VOICE OF THE SEVENTH ANGEL, which fully and clearly lays out this truth, for those interested in knowing the truth. The fact remains, that because the preparation message of the Bride is still an extension of the Shout, for the Shout is both to awaken and to prepare the Bride in full readiness for the rapture, therefore, you cannot divorce the Continuing Message from the Message that Brother Branham brought, as the Message of Jesus Christ is One, which is why it is a Continuing Message. Nevertheless, it is important to add that the dealing of Jesus Christ with the Bride does not end with the Shout, for that gives us just the first step into the rapture. 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4, verse 16 adds: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with A shout, with THE VOICE of the archangel, and with The trump of God THE VOICE of the archangel gives us the second step into the rapture, whilst the trump gives us the third step into the rapture. However, please note that the first step is not called THE Shout. Why did he not say THE Shout?Also, when we consider the third step, Apostle Paul used the word, THE trump. So, when we look at the second and third steps into the rapture, Saint Paul says that Christ descends, with THE Voice ; (not with A Voice, but with The Voice ) of The Archangel, and with THE Trump ; (not with A Trump, but with The Trump ) of God Why did he not say, with A Voice of the archangel, or with A Trump of God? But with regards to the first step into the rapture event, it is not called THE Shout, but he said, A Shout. It is because God knew that it would take more than one man, for the Shout to be brought to completion. It is just like AN householder in Matthew Chapter 13, verse 52: Jesus Christ did not refer to the principal householder as The Householder, even though he is the principal one; but he referred to him as AN householder, a man to whom other successive Scribes are likened, because there would be other successive householders. Consequently, when you consider the completion of

57 October 2016 the Shout, you must see the input of the End Time Paul, as well as that of John, the man who eats the Entire Scroll, or the Entire Message of Redemption, even though the Message is that of William Branham, in its continued projection, for it is being carried on. They are men who arise after Brother Branham, and who take the Message ON, because the Message is one; the Message of Jesus Christ of the Bible is one. Therefore, today, you have to see the input of John, because the Completion of universal salvation is IN John, and as such, John supplies the final truths that complete the Shout of the star messenger, for the preparation of the Bride Universal! Yet, the Shout is not the voice of John; but John is supplying the final details of Truths that go into the Shout, because true preparation, which is part of the objective of the Shout, is ordained for John's hour of time, he being the Lead Apostolic Ministry of Completion. That is why John is supplying the final details of Truth to go into that Shout. That is precisely why it is called A Shout, and not THE Shout, because it will take more than one man to complete that Shout, speaking strictly of its preparatory content, and not of its awakening content, as all elements of virgins have already been awakened, and have set on their respective paths, when the healing revival broke out, after the Second World War came to a close. But the Shout, which also translates to the Midnight Cry, not only awakens, it also prepares the Bride for the return of the Master, taking in the perfecting of the saints. Brothers and sisters, once the Shout has fully served its purpose, and the Bride is now in perfect spiritual shape in full readiness for the rapture, because she has obtained Unity of the faith, and Perfection, THEN the second step into the rapture can be activated, giving us Christ's descent,...with The V o i c e o f T h e Archangel This brings us straight to the prophetic setting we see in Revelation 10, verses1-3, where a mighty angel descends to earth, as it is written from verse 1: And I saw another MIGHTY ANGEL come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire. Brothers and sisters, this is none other than Michael, the Page 57 archangel, characterizing Jesus Christ, the Messenger of the Covenant, spoken of in Malachi Chapter 3, verse 1B, having the rainbow of God's Covenant upon his head, and with his face shining like the sun, showing that he is covered with the eternal glory of the Almighty God; and his feet as pillars of fire, showing that he bore our judgment on the cross at Calvary. All these attributes are given to help us identify the Holy One of God that is being represented and characterized by the mighty angel, and that is none other than Jesus Christ our Lord. We have two messages on this angel in the Scribe Magazine, and the first one is titled: THE ANGEL OF THE SEVENTH SEAL, whilst the other one is titled: THE ANGEL OF TIME: WHO IS HE? Brothers and sisters, this mighty angel comes down with the rainbow upon his head, conveying the very image and presence of the Messenger of the Covenant. That is why the rainbow is beside the throne of God in heaven. Contrary to Brother Hope's projection, God did not put the rainbow around the Throne in Heaven to remind Himself of His Covenant with man, for

58 Page 58 October 2016 God does not forget anything. The rainbow is displayed around the throne of God in heaven, to show precisely who is sitting on that throne; it is to reveal the identity of the one sitting on that throne, that it is Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, the Messenger of the Covenant. That is the essence of the rainbow around the throne of God in heaven! Period! At the end of the day, we must not forget that the projection in Revelation Chapter 4, is strictly a prophetic picture, as heaven does not look like that in reality, with four beasts around the throne, full of eyes before and behind. However, the truth also remains, that God also placed a rainbow in the sky, not for us, as Brother Hope would also have us believe, but as a constant and perpetual reminder to God; as a token of the Covenant He made with Noah, his three sons, and the earth, as Genesis Chapter 9, verse 11-16, states. The rainbow now acts as a law, one which rules how far the rain can go. Therefore, when the rain is falling, once the rainbow appears, the rain cannot do what it did in Noah's day, because God put the rainbow as a check. Yes, in verses 15-16, the Bible says that God placed it in the sky, as a token and as a reminder, that it may remind Him; but do not forget that the reminder works as a law, controlling exactly what the rain can do to the earth, and that is how the reminder works. Consequently, the world will never have the kind of rain and flood that will reproduce Noah's judgment. Never again will that happen, although fire is coming to purify this earth, having baptized it in Noah's day, justifying it. Coming back on course to consider the mighty angel, who has the rainbow around his head, the point is this: This mighty angel comes down, and it is his loud voice or loud cry, that fulfills the prophetic projection Apostle Paul made, concerning the second step that will take us into the rapture event, as laid out in the Book of 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4, verse 16: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with the voice OF THE ARCHANGEL What does the voice of the archangel give us, prophetically speaking? How do we apply it? That is precisely what Revelation Chapter 10, verses 1-3, gives us, just as it is written: And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand a little book open, (which is the Scroll of Redemption): and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And cried with A LOUD VOICE, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. However, before the seven thunders utter their voices, you must realize that the mighty angel first gives the Open Scroll to John. So, when you read Revelation Chapter 10, verses 1-2, you must connect it immediately with verses 8-11, before you go back to verse 3, to pick up the ministry of the seven thunders. Do you know why? Because the mighty angel will first give the Entire Scroll of Redemption in his hand to John, for his complete consumption, before the ministry of the seven thunders is activated. And what is that showing you? It is that Completion is in John! Listen to me Church: It is not the seven thunders that eat the Scroll; it is John that eats the entire Scroll of redemption. That lets you see that John has something above every

59 October 2016 Thunder. You are not hearing me. The fact that John and John alone ate the Entire Scroll of Redemption, lets you know that John has something above Every Thunder! Moreover, when that mighty angel comes, he is coming directly to John in Africa, to give him the Scroll to eat, and that ignites the prophetic ministry of John, which then gives us The First Fold Mystery of the Seventh Seal. And in turn, John will put the Universal Bride of Christ on notice, declaring: The Seventh Seal has been broken, and Christ is now off the Mercy seat, and we are now going to face the prophetic hour of the Seven Thunders. But it starts with John first bearing his prophetic ministry, being The First Fold Mystery of the Seventh Seal. Are you listening to me? So, what does that show you? It gives us the scriptural evidence that John is carrying the voice of the archangel, before the Ministry of the Thunders is activated, as the ministry of the Seven Thunders, is The Second Fold Mystery of the Seventh Seal. Therefore, the activation of The First Fold Mystery of the Seventh Seal, is what makes John a prophet to the nations, bearing a prophetic ministry to the kings of this earth, in order to tell them the mind of the eternal Spirit, in that junction of time, as the Final True Witness of God to the Gentile world, God's Ministry of Completion of the great work, spoken of in Habakkuk Chapter 1, verse 5, a ministry ordained of God to lead the Nation of the Bride to the rapture. We also have a message laid out in the Scribe dealing with this issue, and it is titled, THE THREEFOLD MYSTERY OF THE SEVENTH SEAL. And with this prophetic anointing, John is also going to the land of Israel for the Jewish connection, as led by the Spirit of God, turning the Gospel back to the Jews. I say that because we must still consider how exactly the Gospel will return back to the Nation of Israel. The Branham Movement do not want to see that God stops in Africa, on his way back to the Middle East, for God has a divine roadmap for the Gospel returning back to Palestine! This morning, I want to read an interesting dream to you relating to this truth. I have a reason for taking this route. Brothers and sisters, it is either you see something, or you do not. If you see something, and you stand against the truth, you will pay a price, because you will undo yourself, for this is about Page 59 our eternal destiny. If you do untoward to the truth, it does not matter that nobody knows it, even if it is in your closet, God sees, for no one can deceive God, and nothing is hidden from Him; it is certain that you will pay a price. I say that as a warning to you, that God is watching your attitude, and He will use your attitude in the closet to judge you. You cannot take offence for scriptural correction, otherwise, you will hurt yourself, for you cannot kick against the pricks. So, I do not care for what men say, and I do not care for what men do, because I have nothing to worry about, and nothing to fear, as long as I can find myself in the pages of the Bible. I can only pray that the Lord will help me to be faithful to Truth, and to the people He has set me to lead and guard. I know that I will be persecuted for this message, but I care less for what men do or say, for at the end, the truth of God will have the last say, and the elect Bride will have the last laugh. This morning, I want to read a dream to you. You must know that essentially, I have finished my message titled, JUST BEFORE THE CROSSING OVER. But let me give a serious warning. We cannot be facing the rapture event without a

60 Page 60 October 2016 Lead Ministry, with all the confusion that is plaguing the Message Movement, and with the total confusion that has engulfed the religious world, globally, where every man feels he can preach and teach what he likes, for they think that God is dealing with them, despite all the babel they are creating among the people. Brethren, we cannot face the rapture; we certainly cannot be facing Glory Land, our Promised Land, without a Lead Ministry; no, not now that we are just about Crossing Over into the land of promise. And if you truly know that, your attitude will show. It is not what you say; it is not your words, because actions speak louder than words. It is that you will not argue on issues of truth that are so plain, holding to so-called revelations that are nothing but wild oats. I will be bold to tell you now: You cannot argue on issues of truth with God's Ending Witness, because he carries the Standard of Truth, the Blueprint of Salvation, under Jesus Christ, according to the will of God the Father. That is why I said to my brother, Brother Hope, that what he called a revelation, is not a revelation by any stretch of the imagination, for God did not give him anything. And he has been sowing a lot of confusion in his local assembly, sowing little oats. He had better stop it, otherwise, his ministry will caput as fast as he came in! Because God has not sent us to play dominoes with the Message of Life, and with the souls of God's people! You will stop the little oats that you are sowing, or you will kill the people standing with you! I love the men standing for the Continuity Light; but I love the Lord Jesus more, and I also love God's precious people, who have entrusted their souls into my hands, and on whose account I must be faithful. By the grace of God, I will not be guilty of any man's blood! You must know that I am one step ahead of every man in the ministry! If you think it is a lie, we are on the ground together. Brothers and sisters, JUST BEFORE THE CROSSING OVER, we cannot do without a Lead Ministry; for if natural Israel could not do without one, Crossing Over Jordan, how much more can spiritual Israel, the Bride of Christ that is ordained for the rapture, the Bride of this hour, not do without A Lead Apostolic Ministry. Are you with me? The sowing of little oats must stop in Owerri. And if the brethren in Owerri do not wake up, and realize that something wrong is going on, their lives are in their hands, for now I cry as their watchman: SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG IS GOING ON IN OWERRI!!! Here is the dream of our sister, Sister Theresa Chukwudumere: This dream was about five months before Brother Amos preached The Sun And The Gospel Movement. It was in the Church towards February ending to early March I cannot remember the exact date, just because I did not understand it, even though I was excited in that dream, because it was my first ever since I came to this way, to see Brother Amos in my dream. I told it to my family, and no one could say anything, because none of us understood it. I forgot the dream until 19th of July, 2015, when the message, THE SUN AND THE GOSPEL MOVEMENT, was preached. While the message was going on, the dream came back as a flash in my mind's eye. I came back to the house, and narrated it again to my children, and told them my experience in Church. Now this is the dream: In my dream, I

61 October 2016 saw Brother Amos, and my husband, and my eldest son. Four of us were set on a journey to the East from the West. Brother Amos was wearing working clothes, not actual outing clothes. (In other words, I was in my work apparel. And Church, spiritually speaking, that is what I am wearing right now, because there is serious work to be done, and there is a serious foundation being laid, one that needs to be completed. I am going to give you another dream after this, and I will close my message, as I have finished my message. Then I will send this tape around the globe, and let men do what they want with it. I say this humbly but firmly, for I did not ask anybody to stand for me. However, If you are going to stand with me, you are either going to stand and stand right, or we will have to part ways, because God did not send me to sow confusion, and neither did He send me to play politics with the Word of Life. He did not send me to create confusion in the camp of God's people, and He did not send me to play a game of dominoes either. He did not send me to do that, and by the grace of God, I will not be playing politics or dominoes with any man! So, if you have your own so-called revelation from God, one that is knocking off the Scriptures of Truth, and you do not want to drop the lie, then stay away from us; serve it to your people, and leave us in peace. I take the dream again): In my dream, I saw Brother Amos, and my husband, and my eldest son. Four of us were set on a journey to the EAST from the WEST. Brother Amos was wearing working clothes, not actual outing clothes. My sister, God did not move you to tell me this dream before now, because I needed it for today. You told me exactly when God needed you to tell me, and this dream is meant for now, and I say that because of the conditions on the ground. The dream continues): In that dream, we all came to Asaba, which is my Native Town, and it is the last town in the WEST from where you cross the Niger bridge to the EAST. (In reality, when you are travelling to the Eastern part of Nigeria from the Western part, Asaba is actually the last town you will reach before you get to the East, because the bridge that leads directly to the East, is the Niger bridge, one which links Asaba directly to the East. Page 61 By spiritual application, A s a b a s i m p l y types(represents) Africa, and spiritually speaking, Africa is the last Gospel Junction, the last Gospel stop from the West, on its way back to the Middle East, where it all started. In other words, in God's Masterplan, the roadmap of the Gospel's journey back to the East, is directly from Africa, making Africa the direct link to Israel, in Palestine, in the Gospel Route. Therefore, the Gospel Sun is now at its very last Gentile stop from the West, and once it leaves Africa, it will go directly to the land of Israel. The dream continues): All of us were going to my father's house. My village occupies the territory that leads to the crossing of the Niger bridge to the East, and there is only one way that we can take, and which anyone can take, to the East, no matter where you are coming from (Oh my! Brothers and sisters, when we are talking of the Gospel going back to the East, may I tell you this morning, that there is only one God ordained route for the Gospel of the Son of God to return to the Middle East, and that is the African Route. And whosoever wants to join this Life Train, will have to log on to the

62 Page 62 October 2016 Gospel Light shining forth from Africa, for there is no other way for any person to be Bride. And from here, God is taking the Gospel straight to Palestine, because here in Africa is where it all ends for us Gentiles. Africa therefore gives us God's Final Witness, and hence, the Jewish Connector, as there is a direct spiritual bridge linking Africa directly to Jerusalem, for it is straight to Jerusalem from Africa. I will take the last statement our sister made): and there is only one way that we can take, and which anyone can take, to the East, no matter where you are coming from. On that singular road, my father's house which we all went to, was positioned directly on the road which leads to the East. (Now watch, and pay close attention): On getting to the house, we saw some people selling old broken screen television sets, something that even if you give it to a mad man, he will reject it. (That is exactly what some men are selling: They are selling stupid things; nonsensical revelations; kukurukukuru so-called r e v e l a t i o n s ). Immediately we arrived on the scene, they all ran away, leaving behind two men and a fair lady, who happened to be the wife of one of them, who tied her wrapper on her chest, standing and watching Brother Amos' actions, and the reason why we came. I saw fierce anger in Brother Amos' face. He took the T.V sets and started breaking them, giving to my husband and son, and they were all breaking them in pieces. I was the only one who was not breaking, but I was in agreement with the actions taken. As the work was going on, the two men and the lady thought Brother Amos would leave the work unfinished, and go away, so as for them to reoccupy. When it dawned on them that the work must be finished, and there would be no place in that house for them to sell their broken T.V sets, the woman said, Now that Brother Amos has driven them, where will they go? (You go back where you came from. You came from somewhere, and I am speaking spiritually now. Brothers and sisters, you should all be able to see the application of the dream, for it no longer needs interpretation. Our sister continued): the woman said, Now that Brother Amos has driven them, where will they go? Then I answered her saying, I thought you are c o m i n g f r o m somewhere. Go back to where you are coming from. After the whole house had been cleaned, we stood for a while, and a very big giant bird that looked like an eagle; anyone that sees it would say it is an eagle, but the four of us knew quite well that it is not an eagle. It came to fight, but Brother Amos was well positioned to wage the attack. It came the first time, Brother Amos could not kill it. But on the second time it came, he got it right on the neck, and tore it to pieces. The feathers scattered everywhere. Then Brother Amos looked at us, we all smiled, and we crossed Niger bridge, and entered to the East, and I woke up. Halleluiah! May God bless Sister Theresa, and may God bless her husband, Brother Patrick. This shows that we are not going to make the Jewish connection, with confusion going on in the camp of the Bride. Do not forget that we are carrying a Pure Gospel back to Israel, one that has been washed free of ALL Gentile impurities. It is nothing but a pure and extremely rich revelation that we are carrying to the

63 October 2016 East. Brothers and sisters, some men today are selling utter rubbish, which they are calling revelation, all things that need to be thrown out of the way, and which will all be thrown out, because our Father's house, which is the Church, the kingdom of God, will be thoroughly cleansed; thoroughly purged, purged of all creeds, dogma, traditions of men, and carnal interpretations that lead nowhere, but to the Lake of fire, for they are all leaven. Make no mistake about it, for I must assure you, on the full authority of the unfailing Word of God: There will be total peace and sanity in the Bride of Christ, with perfect unity, from coast to coast, brought about by the pure revelation which the ministry of the Bride will carry, ALL on account of the revelatory input of God's True Witness, under Christ, and by the Spirit of Christ. Saints, this is our Father's house, and the zeal of the Lord will eat us up! Brothers and sisters, what a dream! And this morning, I am in my Father's house, breaking television sets that need to be broken, all sorts of vision devices that are not of God. Television shows you something, for it is an instrument for projecting pictures; it projects things, for it is visual. But it is all false revelation that the ones in the dream are conveying; for they are all broken down television sets that need to be smashed to pieces. And that is exactly what we are doing now, and that is why, my sister, you could not give me this dream until now. I will share one more dream, and I will close. I have read it before, but I need to read it for this message. It is a dream the Lord gave to our brother, Brother Alozie Okpara. May God bless my brother. However, he shared it in a written testimony, and I feel moved to read it. He says: My first visit to Bible Faith Tabernacle, Shomolu, Lagos, was in the Year But before then, I worshipped in a church at Aguda, Surulere, Lagos. When I first got to the Aguda church was when the pastor preached a sermon on the Serpent Seed, and I never heard anything of such prior to that time. My wife and I continued, but noticed that after about two years, the sermon of the pastor was almost the same topic every Sunday. My wife was complaining, and wanted to stop, but I told her we should continue since Page 63 they made me one of the Building Committee Members, and at that time we were building a small project for the church. And my intention was to go back to the Redeemed Christian Church of God, after we finished up with the church project. Then I had a dream where I saw myself standing outside of the church premises. By my side was a man standing towards my right, and he was pointing to the church. As he pointed, I saw the name of the church appear in something like a banner, and he spoke and said, Your time is up in this church. Go inside and get your wife out. I then walked boldly into the church while the pastor was giving a sermon, and took my wife by the hand, and brought her out. Then the man standing by my side said to me, I WILL TAKE YOU THROUGH A SHORT CUT. And then I woke up. We decided to stay home. And after about three weeks, we heard someone talking about a Convention, and I told my wife to find out about it, so that we can go and view the place. So then, we came on the Sunday of May Convention, and it was a wonderful

64 Page 64 October 2016 experience. And I believe it is a shortcut to our soul salvation. (And I say Amen to that). When we got to the Convention ground, we saw a lot of people standing outside, holding conversations in their little groups. (That is how it should be, for we should be speaking often about the goodness of the Lord, and of the light that He has shed on our pathway, bringing us out of darkness to His marvelous light, as He has shown us the way of life. We have a lot to thank God for! Fellowship continues after service, for fellowship does not end with church service. Infact, I expect you to get together and say, Wow, we thank God for today; we thank God for the message. That is how it is supposed to be, for we are supposed to encourage one another, for iron sharpens iron. Moreover, we are not a cult, and as such, people are at liberty to fellowship with one another without fear. I continue my brother's testimony): When we got to the convention ground, we saw a lot of people standing outside, holding conversations in their little groups. And as we passed by, they were turning to greet us, giving us a handshake, and blessing us in the name of God. I was overwhelmed by that very act, because people we have never met were greeting us at every corner we passed. (That is how it should be. You see a visiting brother or sister beside you, you should greet that person, and make him or her feel welcomed in the Church. The very fact that he is a stranger, demands that you give him a warm welcome. You have to be warm to the person, for that is what Christians do. You are expected to do that, because we are not a cult; we are God's lovely people. Brother Alozie continued). I was overwhelmed by that very act, because people we have never met, were greeting us at every corner we passed by. We only but heard, God bless you brother, God bless you sister, while we hardly heard Good morning from people in our former assembly. It was a very warm welcome, and I saw love being expressed. When the service started, Brother Amos preached a sermon titled, THE PRESENT DAY IDENTITY OF THE SERPENT, and that revelation blew my mind. After the Convention, we started worshipping at Bible Faith Tabernacle, Shomolu, Lagos. And as we continued, I became troubled within myself, because I was wondering if we were really at the right place, coming from a white garment church background where they see visions, to an End Time Message Church, this place, BFT. Then I had a dream where I saw Brother Amos digging the ground, measuring. And in his hand was a plumb which he was using to get a balance. He was very busy with it, and he was moving from one end to the other, with too much dedication. I stood watching, and wondering what he was doing. And he was excavating the soil to lay a foundation for a building. There was grass that grew on the soil, but when he excavated, it stood in perfect straight line. Even the soil itself was in perfect straight line, and very smooth. I don't really know how best to explain it, but it was in a very perfect order. And I have never seen such, because I am in the business of architecture and building of houses, R e a l E s t a t e Construction. And even when we excavate the soil to lay a foundation, we have never gotten anything close to what I

65 October 2016 saw Brother Amos do in the excavation that he made. As I continued to watch him in that dream, I saw a foundation of the house which he laid, so perfect than anything, it stood in place. And from that foundation sprang up a very perfect building. (Because once the foundation is perfect, the building will be easy to erect, and it will stand perfectly: Block after block, and the building is up, and it will be a most spectacular spiritual building ever! But the foundation laying takes time, and is most crucial. My brother continued): I was screaming, because the building was too beautiful and perfect! And he turned to me and said, You can continue from here. When I got up from that dream, I just said to myself that Brother Amos must be in construction business just like myself. (And it is true, spiritually speaking: We are constructing something serious right now, and we do not want anybody to mess up our foundation). I just said to myself that Brother Amos must be in construction business just like myself, until months later when I came across a Scribe titled, John: The Foundation And The Plumbline. Then I finally understood the meaning of the dream. I came across another Scribe titled, Genesis: The Eden Of Angels, and when I finished reading it, I got an answer to a question that has been burning in my heart for ages about the dinosaurs. And when I asked my former pastor, he just embarrassed me by saying, Brother, why are you asking questions like the Pharisees and Sadducees?, just because they did not have any answer to that. Another testimony is the issue of the end time John. It was very difficult for me to comprehend. In my mind, I was just saying, This people have started again. Which one is John? (It just reminds me of the early saints. You know in the Early Church, saints were saying, Brother Paul said this Brother Paul said that For how did they reject false apostles? It was by the teachings of Paul, for his message was the standard. Let me conclude the testimony of Brother Alozie): Another testimony is the issue of the end time John. It was very difficult for me to comprehend. In my mind, I was just saying, This people have started again. Which one is John? And when Brother Page 65 Kingsley would be preaching, he will be saying John, John, John. And I was just saying within me, That Brother Kingsley is just lifting up flesh, and kissing up to Brother Amos, because I did not know better. I was just having all that thought while the sermon was going on, and Brother Kingsley just said, some people here are just like Thomas, They are doubters. In my mind, I just said, You are the one that knows about that. This issue of John really troubled me, till one afternoon, after praying for answers at home, it was like a vision, and I saw Brother Amos. He was at peace, and was just smiling, resting his head on the chest of a man who I could not see his face, because it was too bright. And a voice said to me, Look, who do you see? And I answered and said, That is Brother Amos. The voice answered back and said, THAT'S NOT AMOS, THAT IS JOHN. Then I realized that it was Apostle John, the beloved apostle, that rested on the chest of the Lord. Since then, I strongly believe that Brother Amos is being used by God to fulfill the ministry of John at this

66 Page 66 October 2016 end time. God bless you. Shalom. May God bless Brother Alozie, and may God bless his wife, Sister Nonye. It is a wonderful testimony, and we thank God for His wonderful dealings in the lives of His children. As I often say, the supernatural will have a lot to do in this move, for God will confirm His move to His people, for it is all on their account. And when God deals with His children in a supernatural way, to confirm His move, there is no devil that can take it from them. Just think about the dream the Lord gave to our sister, Sister Theresa, which is the first dream I read. It is a wonderful dream, and it is one in which God confirms the Truth about THE SUN AND THE GOSPEL MOVEMENT. It also confirms the prophecy which the Holy Spirit gave through Raymond Jackson, at the Fall Convention of September 2003, speaking of A STRANGE THING the Lord will do in the earth, something that will TEAR DOWN the traditions of man's thinking. And if that is not what God is doing in the earth right now, then I do not know what else God is doing. The prophecy declares: My children, this is another occasion that I the living God, have provided and set for thee, the establishment of my purpose. I have said in former times, that as the days draw near, I will do a strange thing amongst My people; THINGS THAT WILL BEGIN TO TEAR AWAY, THE OLD TRADITIONS OF MAN'S THINKING. For I say to you my little children, THIS IS THE WAY THOU HAST NEVER WALKED BEFORE. As such, it is a way we cannot walk without a God given Guide, a God given Lead Apostolic Ministry, as you just cannot make it on your own, particularly in this Final Lap to the rapture. And with all that is going on right now in the Continuity Movement, the dream of Sister Theresa is made plain; for with the developments on the ground right now, we can see all the crooked television sets that we are breaking, for they need to be broken. The television is supposed to be a means of the projection of truth, for it speaks of visions and revelations. Therefore, I will say this to one and all, and that is strictly to those following the Continuing Light of Jesus Christ: If you believe this ministry is what you say it is, I beg you, please show some respect! If you have proved it over time, and you know that it stays firmly, uncompromisingly, and consistently with the Holy Scriptures; and you also know that if I do not know something, or if I am not sure of something, I always tell you that I do not know it, or that I am not sure, then, you should already have built enough confidence in this ministry. But on the other hand, if I tell you that I know something, scripturally speaking, because the Lord in His mercy has dealt with me on it, to give me the truth of it, then you cannot argue with me on it. You cannot; otherwise, I will ask you: Who is carrying the Standard? As Apostle Paul asked, I also ask: Came the Word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? It does not make sense to fight the Truth, and it is too late in the day to mess around with the Word of Life, for this is not a game! This is the hour JUST BEFORE CROSSING OVER. Surely, God must have a Man to carry His Truth, as His Faithful Witness, at this most crucial junction of time, an extremely dark and Satanic hour, as God never leaves Himself without a True Witness of Truth! That is why I started this message by saying, you cannot follow God

67 October 2016 without following a man somewhere, for this Entire plan of Gentile redemption, and even the Entire plan of Jewish redemption, started with ONE MAN, and it ended with ANOTHER MAN. For the Jews, it started with Moses, and it ended with Joshua; and for the Gentiles, it started with Apostle Paul, and it is ending today with Saint John. Full stop! I repeat: The plan of Gentile redemption started with ONE MAN, Paul, and it is also ending with ONE MAN, John. Church of the living God, I show you the absolute Truth of our God, The God OF TRUTH, for whatever starts must eventually end; and whatever has a beginning ministry point, must also have an ending ministry point. I do not expect the Branham Movement to accept this Truth, and I am not addressing them either, for God left them on the shelf a long time ago, because of their stinking and apostate attitude to the Holy Scriptures, their utter disdain of the Word of God. That is why God gave Brother Branham a vision of the Bread of Life, and God told him concerning the Movement: They won't eat the bread of Life ANYMORE. I also do not expect folks within the organized systems of religion to understand this Truth, or even to accept it, for it is their place to oppose it, as God is not dealing with them to get a Bride ready for the rapture. Moreover, I am not preaching to them, for all that remain of God within their systems of religion, are only foolish virgins, as the gamut of them are tares, who are nothing but fodder for burning, on the Day of the Lord. However, I expect the Bride of Christ to understand the ways of God, and of His plan of redemption, for redemption has a divine plan, a divine Blueprint. It is obvious that it is the leadership of the Pope of Rome, that the organized religious world will accept. That is why over 1.2 billion people are following the Bishop of Rome, with so many countries, all whose Heads of States are subject to the Roman Pontiff! Yet, the truth remains, that you cannot walk this way by yourself, otherwise, you just will not make it to the rapture: You will not Cross Over! Take it from me, for there is no one who will make it as Bride today, in 2016, who is not following The Present Truth of Jesus Christ! Saints of God, I repeat for those who have ears to hear: Scripturally speaking, IF it is about attaining the Page 67 rapture, you cannot but follow one man somewhere, who is God's True Witness, ALL on account of the Truth of the Holy Scriptures that he is carrying for the universal body of God's people; because it is the unchanging pattern of God, and it is vindicated by the Holy Bible! You must see God's plan of Gentile salvation, because God has a plan for obtaining the fulness of the Gentiles ; He has a plan for obtaining their completion, their fullness, and it is in the hour of John, as completion is in John. And to those who think we are trying to make somebody what he is not, I will simply tell you now: You cannot make any man anything, for unless God gives a man something, he has absolutely nothing that God will accept. As it is written: A man can receive nothing, EXCEPT IT BE GIVEN HIM FROM HEAVEN! Secondly, you must understand, that a lot of responsibility lies upon the Beginning Ministry of salvation, just as it also lies heavily upon the Ending Ministry, for they are two most crucial points of redemption. Hence, these two ministry points, are entrusted by God with a lot of responsibility, all which are laid out in the written

68 Page 68 October 2016 Word of God, and as such, they are verifiable! And if a certain responsibility or work is being ascribed to a man, you can search the Scriptures to see if that is part of his God given work or not! For example, let us take a close look at Apostle Peter. In Matthew Chapter 16, verses 17-19, the Lord Jesus gave him the keys of the kingdom of God, which is the Church. And as I have been saying since the days of Brother Jackson, the keys are precisely three. One key was for Jerusalem and Judaea, and Saint Peter used it in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost, when he gave his inaugural sermon, and three thousand souls were brought into the kingdom, for they were saved. The door of eternal life was now opened to Jerusalem and to Judaea, following the instruction of Jesus Christ, setting forth the precise course the Gospel was to go. The second key was for Samaria, for when he learned that Philip had gone there to preach to them, and they had received Christ, and had been baptized in water, he, Apostle Peter, went to pray for them to receive the Holy Spirit, and many souls were filled with the Holy Spirit, adding the Samarian elects into the kingdom. The third and final key was used for the Gentiles in Caesarea, in the household of Cornelius, as recorded in Acts Chapter 10, when Saint Peter was led by the Holy Spirit to Caesarea, and the Holy Spirit came upon the elect Gentiles gathered in that house, bringing Gentiles into the kingdom. This gives us the three keys, and their precise application. This scripturally proves the workload Saint Peter bore. Consequently, we can see that Peter was the Holder of the Keys into the kingdom. Again, as recorded in Galatians Chapter 2, verses 7-8, we also see that Peter was The Apostle, or the Chief Apostle, of the Nation of Israel, out of the twelve Jewish apostles, for it is written that he received, The Apostleship of the circumcision (the Jews). Finally, Peter was also the Gentile Connector, as recorded in Acts Chapter 10, when the Lord dealt with him supernaturally and prophetically, to go to Caesarea, to preach to the Gentiles, thereby opening the door of eternal life to the Gentiles, before the ministry of Paul, which God ordained for the Gentiles, could then start. Hence in Acts Chapter 15, Peter boldly and rightfully claimed in the presence of all the other apostles, without any opposition, as recorded in verse 7: And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago GOD MADE CHOICE AMONG US, THAT THE GENTILES BY MY MOUTH SHOULD HEAR THE WORD OF THE GOSPEL, AND BELIEVE. This made Apostle Peter The Gentile Connector. Brothers and sisters, all these Scriptures confirm, that Saint Peter fulfilled three main roles: Firstly, he was the man with the keys into the kingdom. Secondly, he was the chief apostle to the Jews. And thirdly, he was the Gentile Connector, for God used him to fulfill all these roles! So, I ask you: What are you going to do about Peter's major role? Are you going to reject him because you think he is taking too much upon himself, or because you think that he is just trying to make himself what he is not? Or are you going to call him a Nicolaitan? Come on! You must understand, saints, that God is sovereign, and as such, He can designate whatever role or roles He wants to the man He wants, and we just have to accept it, for God is God, and He is perfect in ALL His ways! For

69 October 2016 as long as the roles are laid out in the Scriptures, as it is the Holy Bible that lays out the entire plan of redemption, including God's logistics, as a true child of God, it should be fine with you; and that is also what is absolutely fine with me! I can have no problems with the Holy Scriptures, because it is my very life! That is the Word by which I have been born again, born anew, for as it is written in 1 Peter Chapter 1, verse 23: Being born again, not of corruptible s e e d, b u t o f incorruptible, BY THE WORD OF GOD, which liveth and abideth for ever! So, how can I have a problem with the Word of God, when it is who I am? Just how can I have a problem with the incorruptible seed of the Word, when I am part of the Word, an expressed thought of God on the earth? That is why, as a true seed of God, who understands the ways of God, you have to see the Truth of God, and stay with the truth of a True Witness of God, for the Lord never leaves Himself without a true witness. Saint Paul was a true witness of God in his day, and you cannot deny that Apostle Paul went to Habakkuk Chapter 1, verse 5, and applied it to his ministry. And if Paul could rightfully do that, why can you not see its ending application? Our God is Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, and consequently, He does not change His ways, for He is perfect in all His ways. That is precisely why I also went to the same prophecy of Habakkuk, to show you its precise ending application, declaring to you that Revelation Chapter 10, verses 8-11, gives us the Concluding Ministry Point for this Great work of universal salvation! What makes this untrue? If it has a precise beginning application, why will it not have its precise ending application? Why do we believe that the ministry of Revelation Chapter 10, verse 11, is what constitutes the ending ministry point for this great work of universal salvation? It is because that is the man whom Jesus Christ himself gives the Entire Scroll of redemption to eat, in his written prophetic revelation, showing us plainly and undoubtedly, that completion is in John's Ministry! And the Lord has to use somebody! Somebody has to fulfil this prophetic Scripture, for somebody has to be John! How can you argue with that, IF truly you are a Bible believer? Brethren, when Page 69 we even consider the great and most serious work of the writing of the Holy Scriptures, the inspired Word of God, Jehovah God in His omniscient and sovereign mind, started this inspired writing, using Moses, the man who gave us the Torah, the first five Books of the Holy Bible, from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Deuteronomy, and the Lord completed the Bible record using John, the man who gave us the Book of Revelation, which is the Last Book of the Bible. The Lord used one anointed vessel of clay to start it, and He also used another anointed vessel of clay to finish it! It is the same way God accomplishes the work of universal salvation! The work of Gentile salvation which God used Paul to start, the Lord is completing it using John, and you have to see The Plot of this divine Work! You have to see precisely where we are in time, within God's revealed programme of redemption, as children of Light. That is the very reason THE WRITING SPIRIT of God, the Spirit that inspired the writing of the Entire Scriptures, is now here with us at this very end, inspiring the revelational unveiling of the Holy Scriptures, expressed in a writing gift, for the Bride of this end

70 Page 70 October 2016 time! Otherwise, I will ask you: What do you think the Scribe Magazine is about? What do you think is producing the Scribe? Come on! That is a writing anointing, expressed in a writing gift! What these hypocrites, this grossly apostate religious world does not understand, and will not accept, for they just do not want to believe, is the fact that God is still sending men, major ministries, dispensational ministries, as in times of old, because the plan of redemption is not yet over! They confine God to the pages of history, as if He is dead, and as if He is impotent and irrelevant, or that His revelation has been exhausted, when the Lord our God is infinite! They confine God to the Old Testament, when the God of the Old testament is the God of the New Testament, for the God of the mountain is also the God of the valley! They do not want to believe that God is still sending major ministries, Lead Ministries, when the plan of redemption is not yet fully accomplished! Moreover, they forget, that during the Old Testament era, the only era they see that God sent major ministries, it was an hour of mere shadows, an era which set a type of the New Testament Dispensation, and as such, God must have major promised ministries under the New Testament, Lead Ministries, throughout the Dispensation of Grace! For until the great plan of universal salvation is over, it is a Scriptural fact that God will continue to have major ministries! Why can they not see that? This unbelievable and apostate Gentile world just do not want anybody to have any pre-eminent position in the ministry, and hence they deny anyone having any major ministry, but that all should be on the same level. But that is not going to happen in God's kingdom; because even the angels of God, who are an innumerable host, and with different angelic orders, are not all on the same level. That is why, according to Daniel Chapter 10, verse 13, they have principal angels over them, chief princes (chief angels); and still higher than these, are archangels, such as Michael and Gabriel; and yet still, there is a Lead Angel, who is Michael, THE Archangel. Jude Chapter 1, verse 9, says that! Think about that! And if angels, who are much greater and much more powerful than human ministers, have a Lead Angel, how much more will human ministers have a lead ministry! If God's angelic family have a lead angel, how much more will God's human family, particularly the Universal Nation of the Bride, have a lead ministry! Think about it, although you are not going to change the perception of the men out there, for as Brother Jackson often stated, Gentiles are a foolish people! Yes, they are, for they have never had a true understanding of God to begin with, unlike the Nation of Israel, God's firstborn. Gentiles have always been steeped in idolatry! And today, they have gone right back to the idolatrous and sodomite heathen condition that they were in, before the Gospel came, with all their witchcraft and demonic tattoos! They are simply a sad people! What they do not realise, and as I stated earlier, is that the times in the Old Testament Era when God sent major men, Promised Ministries, only foreshadow the New Testament Era, and as such, God must also have Bible Promised Ministries today, Dispensational Messengers, and not just at the beginning of Christendom, when we had Apostle Paul! But today, they want to confine God to the pages of history, as if

71 October 2016 He is dead, and as if He is just a memorial God, who sent major men in times past, but who has ceased doing so today, leaving every man imaginable to run the show, as if God has become irrelevant with regards to His great plan of salvation! That is precisely why to date, they accuse William Branham of making himself Elijah, and they also accuse us who are the followers of his message, of making him Elijah, all because they are blind to the promise of God, when as a matter of Scriptural fact, he is indeed Elijah! They say we are deifying and worshipping him, and are lifting him up beyond measure, when we have not made him our Lord, or our Saviour, but we have only recognized his ministry as Elijah! This pack of unbelievers! What an apostate world! This evil spirit has been here for a long time, which is why they crucified Jesus Christ for making himself the Son of God, when indeed, somebody had to be the Son of God! (John 10:36). Yes, some folks in the Branham Movement may be worshipping Brother Branham, but we are certainly not part of such an idolatrous people, as it is idolatry to worship any man, other than the Lord Jesus Christ, whom we worship, on account of the incarnation! Nonetheless, the truth remains, however, that the religious world confine the ministry of Elijah to the days of old, not even realizing that God is using the major ministry anointing of Elijah five different times, at five different junctions of time, from the Old Testament days, right up to the New Testament days; and that even in the 70th Week of Daniel, Elijah will be used for the Nation of Israel, for a final time! And IF you truly see Elijah of this end time, the Elijah to the Gentiles, by the dealership of the Spirit of God, you will most certainly also see the Paul of the end time, the Chief Apostle, as well as John, the Lead Apostle, the man whose ministry brings Continuity and Conclusion to the plan of Gentile redemption, as there must be a terminating ministry point! Fight that as much as you want; but you will not make a difference to God's plan of redemption, for God simply goes on accomplishing His revealed plan, leaving all unbelievers behind to continue scorning and scoffing! Now chew on that for a moment! Saints, I am making a serious point, and that is this: Going in the rapture, or Page 71 Crossing Over to Glory Land, is much more than mere wishful thinking. You will have to see something, and also stand for something, as there is a Bible Promised Ministry ordained as the Guide for this hour of Crossing Over, all under Jesus Christ! That is why I said, in the Book of 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4, we have the prophetic revelation of the three steps into the rapture laid out. However, as living saints, we will hear only two steps: We will hear the Shout, and the Voice of the archangel. The living will not hear the Trump, because it is for the dead, although we will be changed under the effects of the Trump. But nevertheless, we will not hear the trump, as it is not for the living saints, but it is strictly for the sleeping saints. When the trump sounds, it will only sound in the corridors of heaven, in order to prepare the sleeping saints in heaven, for their descent to earth, as it is what brings their souls from paradise to the earth, to be united with their bodies in the graves, by the quickening power of God which will come upon them, and they will rise first. Do not forget that all this is happening, ever before any living saint knows that anything is going on, for

72 Page 72 October 2016 under The TRUMP, and as it is written in verses 16-18: The dead in Christ SHALL RISE FIRST: THEN (and only THEN), we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. Brothers and sisters, THE DEAD WILL RISE FIRST, after which we living saints will be changed! And as we speak this morning, the spirits of the dead saints are in glory, for they are resting up there in paradise. As it is also written in verse 14, Jesus is coming back with them. Therefore, commonsense will tell you, that for Jesus Christ to come with the souls of the sleeping saints, many of who have been resting in paradise from the beginning of the Grace Age, something must awaken them in heaven, to prepare them to come down to pick up their bodies, and it is the Trump. This is when they come down from heaven with Jesus, and whilst Jesus remains midway in the air, they are united with their bodies in the grave, and are resurrected FIRST, ever before the living saints know anything! It is their appearance to the living saints, that lets us know that this is the very minute of the rapture! For with their appearance to us, just as it happened in Matthew Chapter 27, verses 52-53, our change will immediately be ignited, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, (ALL happening under the Last Trump, or at the Last Trump), and THEN we will be caught up TOGETHER with them, FOR WE ARE GOING UP TOGETHER AS ONE U N I T E D A N D INDIVISIBLE GLORIFIED BODY! Thus saith the infallible and unquestionable Word of God! This is the revelation of the chief apostle to this age, and it is also my revelation, for it is the position of the Holy Scriptures! Consequently, as living saints, you must know that we will not hear the Trump; but we are changed and translated under the Trump, AFTER the sleeping saints in glory are first brought back, reconciled with their bodies, and raised up FIRST; and then we are changed, before we are now caught up TOGETHER with the resurrected saints in the clouds, TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR. That proves that we do not hear that trump! It is the Shout and the Voice of the archangel that we hear, and all of that pertains to our getting ready for this glorious rapture event. I have gone down this route to ask you this: Just how are you going to talk about the rapture, which is Our Crossing Over, when you have no clue to the Shout, and you have no clue to the Voice of the archangel, when Archangel Michael is coming directly to John in Africa, with the fully open Scroll, for his total consumption? Come on! How are you going to smell the rapture, which is to Cross Over, when you do not want to accept the Truth of the Holy Scriptures relating to this event, being material and fundamental Truths of our Crossing Over? And before you bring in the Seven Thunders, you will first listen to John, for John will be the Lead Thunder, being God's Last Gentile Witness, and the Final Gentile Holder of the Baton of Truth, the one who takes the Gospel back to the Nation of Israel! Consequently, you have to realise, that there is no Thunder that will be telling John anything that he does not know, as he is the man with the Blueprint of the Open Scroll of Redemption; for John shows the way for the

73 October 2016 Entire body of ministry, all under Christ, according to the Scriptures, being the Anchor Man for the Crossing Over of the Gentile Bride. And indeed, it is our time to Cross Over! In this very junction of time, and in this final racial junction of the carriage of the Gospel, we have been brought to a crucial Ministry Point, JUST BEFORE THE CROSSING O V E R T O T H E HEAVENLY LAND. Therefore, we are all faced with the Crossing Over Ministry, and consequently, there will be no Crossing Over for anyone, in any part of this globe, white, black, yellow, or brown, without the followership of the Present Bible Light of God's Ministry of Completion, as it is the absolute standard of the revelation of Jesus Christ, for the true universal Bride ordained for rapture. Call me any names you want to: Truth is still the Truth! Brothers and sisters, I have laid before you nothing but the Truth. As I stated earlier, the Denominational folks do not know anything about these things, and moreover, this message is not for them, for we are not speaking to them, because they are not following Jesus Christ in any divine revelation of his Word, and neither is God dealing with them to get a Bride for His Son, Jesus Christ; but you know these things, and you are the ones the Lord is dealing with and speaking to, for you are the ones following Jesus Christ in the Continuity of his Scriptural revelation. What then should be your attitude? I want to plead with every man in the ministry around the globe: If you say you believe this Final Move of Jesus Christ, I beg you, you had better give heed to the Truth of the Word of God, for it is our Absolute, our Standard, and you must stop peddling Page 73 carnal things, throwing spanners in the works, for the Lord has given the Bride peace, and unity of divine Scriptural revelation. If you do not give heed, you will be worse off for following John: You will be stripped, and you will fall by the wayside, for this is not a game, and God is not playing dominoes! Let us bow our heads in prayer. (Brother Amos prayed). The Lord bless you. APPRECIATION: I want to use this medium to appreciate all the brethren working selflessly and tirelessly, on the production of the Scribe Magazine: Sis. Joyce Omoboriowo: 1st Editor. Bro. Victor Cole-Showers: 2nd Editor. Bro. Jerry Ovoh: 3rd Editor. Sis. Bunmi Adenle: Transcriber. Sis. Yetunde Ogundele: Typist. Bro. Johnson Ekunola: Format Layer. Bro. Gideon Ekunola: Graphics. Bro. Dipo Olokunola: Scribe Web Designer & Manager. I also want to appreciate two of our Church workers, Bro. Chris Dougha, and Bro. Ansalem Nnaji, for their dedication to the work of God. May God Almighty bless each and every one of you, and be gracious to you, and may He clothe you with His salvation. Amen. - Bro. Amos Omoboriowo

74 Page 74 October 2016 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore. Josh 3:4. DIRECTORY OF THE SCRIBE concluded 74. The Lead Thunder, And The Chronology Of Revelation 10 - Parts 1-3 (July 2014) 75. Revisiting Armageddon - Parts 1 & 2 (August 2014) 76. Why It Had To Be Fishers - Parts 1-3 (September 2014) 77. God In The Laodicean Age: The Year 2005 (Knowing The Objective Of God) - Parts 3 & 4 (Oct 2014) 78. See The Bigger Picture - Parts 1 & 2 (December 2014) 79. Who Is Considering The Seed? (January 2015) 80. Why Am I Here? - Parts 1 & 2 (January 2015) 81. God And Races - Parts 1-3 (February 2015) 82. Luke 17:30 - Parts 1 & 2 (March 2015) 83. The Prosperity Of Serpent Seeds - Parts 1-3 (April 2015) 84. Perilous Times Are Here!!! - Parts 1 & 2 (June 2015) 85. Perilous Times Are Here!!! - Parts 3 & 4 (July 2015) 86. The Mysterious Birthing Of The Ministry (August 2015) 87. The Day Of The Lord (September 2015) 88. The Four Blood Moons And The Shemitah Cycle (Special Edition) - Parts 1-3 (October 2015) 89. The Millennium - Parts 1 & 2 (December 2015) 90. The Dual Application Of Malachi 4:6B, Promise of Elijah - Part 1 (January 2016) 91. The Dual Application Of Malachi 4:6B, Promise of Elijah - Part 2 (February 2016) 92. The Dual Application Of Malachi 4:6B, Promise of Elijah - Part 3 (March 2016) 93. The Dual Application Of Malachi 4:6B, Promise of Elijah - Part 4 (April 2016) 94. The Householder (June 2016) 95. The Sun And The Gospel Movement (July 2016) 96. The Book Of Life - Part 1 (August 2016) 97. The Book Of Life - Part 2 (September 2016) 98. The way of Every Lighthouse (October 2016) 99. How Far Are We Into The Five Fold Ministry? (October 2016) 100. Just Before The Crossing Over (October 2016)

75 October 2016 Page The Walking Voice, Parts 1 & 2 (October 2007). 23. The Man That Was Caught Up, Parts 1 & 2 (December 2007). 24. Genesis: The Creation Of The Universe (January 2008). 25. Genesis: The Eden Of Angels (February 2008). 26. Genesis: The Eden Of Man (March 2008). 27. Genesis: Cain And Abel (April 2008). 28. Genesis: The Mark Of Cain (June 2008). 29. Genesis: The Mixing Of Seeds (July 2008). 30. Genesis: The Travails Of Ham (August 2008). 31. Why Continuity?, Parts 1-5 (September February 2009). 32. The Promise Of John - Parts 1 & 2 (March - April 2009). 33. The Spirit Of John - (June 2009). 34. John: The Angel's Feet Placing (July 2009). 35. John: The Eating Of The Scroll (August 2009). 36. John: Completing The Voice Of The Seventh Angel (September 2009). 37. John: The Foundation And The Plumbline (October 2009). 38. John: They Confessed And Denied Not (December 2009). 39. The Unseen Headship Of Jesus Christ (January 2010). 40. The Beautiful Bride - Part 1 (February 2010) 41. John, Angels, And Prophecy; Special Edition (March 2010). 42. The Beautiful Bride - Parts 2 & 3 (June 2010) 43. The Beautiful Bride - Parts 4 & 5 (August 2010) 44. The Beautiful Bride - Part 6 (September 2010) 45. Demonology: The New Face Of The Contender; Special Edition (October 2010). 46. The Beautiful Bride - Parts 7-9 (December February 2011). 47. Latter Rain (March 2011). 48. Joel s Army (April 2011). 49. An Unholy And Profane Sign (June 2011) 50. A Religion On Its Last Trail - Part 1-4 (July - October 2011). 51. He Preached To Spirits In Prison: Who Are They? Part 1 & 2 ( Dec Jan. 2012) 52. After Two Days (February 2012) 53. Who Are The Foolish Virgins? (March 2012) 54. Ham Is In The Covenant (April 2012) 55. The Hour Of Gold - Part 1-2 (June - July 2012) 56. Rapturing Faith (August 2012) 57. The Revelation Of God Is One (September 2012) 58. The Angel Of Time: Who Is He? (October 2012) 59. The Restoration Of The Serpent? (December 2012) 60. The White Throne Judgment (January 2013) 61. The Seventh Seal (February 2013) 62. The Threefold Mystery of The Seventh Seal (March 2013) 63. Sin Lieth At The Door (April 2013) 64. The Present Day Identity Of The Serpent (June 2013) 65. Doors In Door (July 2013) 66. Ezekiel 38 And 39 Battle - A Revisit (August 2013) 67. The Apostolic Ministry: Timothy And Titus. (September 2013) 68. The Application of Types And Shadows (Principles Of Types And Shadows) - Parts 1 & 2 (Oct. - Dec. 2013) 69. The Application of Types And Shadows (The Wilderness Experience) - Part 3 (January 2014) 70. The Application of Types And Shadows (Who Is This Melchizedek?) - Parts 4 & 5 (Feb. - Mar. 2014) 71. The Seven Spirits Before The Throne (April 2014) 72. God In The Laodicean Age: The Year Parts 1 & 2 (June 2014) 73. The Input Of Ham (July 2014)

76 Page 76 October Our Convention dates for 2016 & 2017 are as follows: May Convention: 19th - 22nd May, Nov. Convention: 17th - 20th Nov., May Convention: 18th - 21st May, Nov. Convention: 16th - 19th Nov., NOTE: Our address has changed. All are welcome to the meetings. If you need more information, or if you have any questions or any comments, please feel free to contact us. All correspondence should be addressed to: pastorbft@yahoo.com For those who prefer to write, our postal address is at the bottom of this page. We look forward to hearing from you. 1. The Foundation Of The Five Fold Ministry, Parts 1&2 (January 2007). 2. The Foundation Of The Five Fold Ministry, Part 3: The Uniqueness Of The Ministry (January 2007). 3. The Foundation Of The Five Fold Ministry, Parts 4&5: Testing For Faithfulness (January 2007). 4. Locating God: The Visitation Of God, Parts 1&2 (February 2007). 5. Affinity With Evil (February 2007). 6. Where Are We? (February 2007). 7. The Way Forward (February 2007). 8. The Plot, Parts 1-4 (March 2007). 9. The Seven Thunders In Relation To The Five Fold Ministry, Parts 1&2 (March 2007). 10. The Jewish Connection, Parts 1& 2 (April 2007). 11. The Third Pull (June 2007). 12. The Third Pull, And The Three Steps Into The Rapture (June 2007). 13. The Angel Of The Seventh Seal (June 2007). 14. They Came To Present Themselves, Parts 1&2 (July 2007). 15. The Invitation (July 2007). 16. The Promise To The Overcomer, Parts 1-3 (July 2007). 17. The Manifestation Of The Sons Of God (July 2007). 18. A Woman Rises In America (July 2007). 19. The Prophetic Ministry Of William Branham, Parts 1-4 (August 2007). 20. The Three Scribes (September 2007). 21. Ministerial Irresponsibility (September 2007). Directory contd. in the inner cover. Mobile.: ,