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3 2017 by Ben Howard All rights reserved. This book cannot be sold, nor in any way be used for the soliciting of funds. All scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version Bible Published by the Sound Of Liberty 7286 Hwy 53W, Dawsonville, Georgia U.S.A.

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6 Paul announced This would Be here 5 TaBle of contents THE GOSPEL FOR THE WIFE IN ISRAEL AT THIS END TIME...7 September 11, 2016 Dawsonville, Georgia SILVER AND GOLD HAVE I NONE, BUT SUCH AS I HAVE, GIVE I THEE...25 July 17, 2016 Dawsonville, Georgia GOD HAS WELL EQUIPPED US FOR THE JOB HE HAS CALLED US TO DO...37 August 7, 2016 Dawsonville, Georgia IF THE CLOUDS BE FULL OF RAIN, THEY SHALL EMPTY THEMSELVES UPON THE EARTH...51 August 28, 2016 Dawsonville, Georgia THE QUICK AND POWERFUL WORD FOR RESURRECTION AND TRANSLATION...65 September 4, 2016 Dawsonville, Georgia A LINE OR A BARRIER THAT DEATH CANNOT CROSS...73 October 9, 2016 Dawsonville, Georgia WE HAVE COME INTO THE PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD...87 October 16, 2016 Dawsonville, Georgia UNDERSTANDING THE PERFECT MAN OF EPHESIANS 4: October 23, 2016 Dawsonville, Georgia REACHING THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST October 30, 2016 Dawsonville, Georgia ANOTHER LIGHT FOR ISRAEL November 19, 2016 Glen Daniel, West Virginia THE LITTLE BOOK IN ANOTHER FORM November 20, 2016 Glen Daniel, West Virginia IS OUR GOSPEL RELEVANT FOR THE TIME WE ARE IN, OR HAS IT BECOME A RELIC OF THE PAST? November 27, 2016 Dawsonville, Georgia CHRIST THE WIFE OF THE LAMB WAKES UP THE SLEEPING WORD January 1, 2017 Dawsonville, Georgia

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8 Paul announced This would Be here 7 THE GOSPEL FOR THE WIFE IN ISRAEL AT THIS END TIME We are reading in the Bible today from the Book of Romans, Chapter 11. This chapter shows Paul expressing to the espoused virgin what God has ordained for the wife of the Lord Jesus Christ, including his revelation on what God was going to do for the nation of Israel in this last day. In the day and hour that we are living in, it seems strange to many of the Gentile churches that God is sending the gospel back to Israel from whence it came. We see in Matthew 10:5-8, where it tells us that God sent the gospel of Jesus Christ at first only to Israel in the days before the nation rejected and crucified God s Son (their King). Then, we see in the days of the twelve Jewish apostles that they, too, were only preaching to the nation of Israel. This was the case all the way up to Acts 11:19; for here the Word tells us that after Stephen s death, the disciples scattered to many places away from Jerusalem. And as they went forth, they preached the gospel everywhere to none but unto the Jews only. But after this, everything changed as Paul began to explain God s plan in a more detailed manner. Paul explained this in the Book of Romans, Chapter 15, showing that at this time, according to God s promise to the fathers of Israel, that Jesus Christ could only minister to Israel until they rejected Him as their King and had Him crucified. Romans 15:8 says, Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision (Israel) for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: After this, in Acts, Chapter 2, where we see Peter opening the door to the Jews on the Jewish Feast day of Pentecost by using the keys that were given to him by Jesus Christ. (Matthew 16:13-19) Later on, the Lord told Peter in a vision to go and open the door to the Gentiles, which is written in Acts, Chapter 10. Here is where we find this Gentile Pentecost taking place at the house of Cornelius as the gospel door was opened to the Gentiles. And this event also opened the door to Paul (who was not one of the twelve apostles), so that he could begin to fulfill what the Lord told Ananias in Acts 9:15-16, which was that Paul (Saul) would bear the name of the Lord Jesus Christ before the Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. Paul s job was to call out a people from both the Jews and the Gentiles to begin the process of gathering them together and espousing them by his message to Christ, which was a mystery that was unheard of by both people. It s here that God began to create by the Word a wife for His Son. And Paul s preach-

9 8 The GosPel For The wife in israel ing at this time applied only to those that would be part of the wife of the Lamb, which would include both the resurrected part and the living translated part of the wife in this time of the last trumpet sounding forth. God made this possible, because at this time of Paul s preaching, the Word broke down the middle wall of partition between the Jews and the Gentiles, making of twain one new man (Ephesians 2:14-15). This happened in the time of the espousal and is fully manifested in marriage in this last day, as the virgin was restored in preparation for this marriage of the Lamb, which has now become a reality for us. There are three chapters in the Book of Romans that Paul dedicated to this prophecy of the mercy and grace returning to Israel and what was going to happen to the Jews, as well as to the Gentiles. So in this respect, Chapters 9, 10, and 11, of the Book of Romans, are unlike his other writings, in that he gave greater details concerning Israel in this last day. So at the beginning of this message, I want to mention the fact that Israel as a people and a nation are God s chosen people and He referred to them as His wife, as shown in the Book of Jeremiah 3:20, and the Book of Isaiah 54:5. But our message today is not emphasizing this truth, as we will be dealing with those that come out of the Jewish religion and traditions. These are those that Paul referred to as neither Jew nor Gentile in the Book of Galatians 3:27-28 which says, For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Paul goes on next to the Book of Ephesians 2:14-18 which shows the one new man, where neither a nation nor someone s nationality holds an advantage in this new creation as the wife. Here, Paul is leading up to the revelation of the perfect man that is spoken of in Ephesians 4:13-16, which is the wife of the Lamb, consisting of a people that are baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ. (1 Corinthians 12:12-13) Paul s writing in the Book of Romans reminds us of his writing in the Book of Hebrews. He is dealing with the Jews (trying to give them his gospel), showing them how this gospel applied to them, by letting them see that many of these things were written in their law, which was pointing to this marvelous gospel and what was instore for them. Remember that at the time of Paul s writing, the Orthodox Jews were still having their services in the temple with their priests. And when it came to this gospel that Paul preached, it was rejected by the Jews, and for the most part by the Gentiles, except for the elected of God that were to be part of His spiritual kingdom. In the Book of Acts, Chapter 5, which was just after the day of Pentecost, to mention the name of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem was something

10 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 9 that could get a person killed. We see how the Orthodox Jewish elders pulled the apostles aside and whipped them and charged them not to speak anymore in Jesus name. Those Jewish leaders said to them, You intend to bring this man s blood upon us. So they whipped the apostles and let them go. But what did these brave men do then? They continued to preach Jesus Christ to the Jews, because they were found the next day giving witness in the temple. Eventually, they recaptured them and put James to death, and would have put Peter to death, but God sent an angel to deliver him all for this gospel and the name of Jesus Christ. It s important here to keep in mind that these Jews were the most holy people that existed in the world in that day; there were no other people that could even come close. But the sad thing is that when the real Word, Jesus Christ, came riding on a little donkey into the city of Jerusalem to present Himself as their King, they were furious that He would do such a thing, and they denied Him; even though there was a scripture that said this was how their King would come. I m sure they had read and heard it many times, because it was laying right there in the Book of Zechariah 9:9, which said, Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. He came to present Himself as their King, just the way God said He would according to the scripture; yet it so infuriated them that the Jews went about to kill Him. That s when the Jews made plans to capture Jesus, which they did, and brought Him to Pilate, who was the Roman Governor of Judea, to be condemned and put to death. But that wasn t at all what Pilate wanted; he wanted to free Jesus. And while thinking of a way to free Jesus, suddenly his wife sent word unto him, saying, Have nothing to do with this just man; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of Him. (Matthew 27:19) Pilate wanted to free Jesus and would have let Him go but for the protest of the Jews. Remember the story of how Pilate tried to wash his hands of Jesus Christ s blood when he couldn t find anything that He had done wrong, as all the witnesses that the Jews had brought forth could not collaborate their stories against Him. Pilate knew that the Jews wanted to crucify Jesus because of jealousy and that was the reason they had brought Him in. So Pilate came up with a plan. He brought a man named Barabbas, who was the worst of the criminals that he had, and along with him, he brought Jesus Christ, who had committed no wrong. And Pilate said to the religious Jews, It is customary at this time of year for us to show mercy and goodwill by releasing someone from jail, so which one

11 10 The GosPel For The wife in israel would you have me to set free? In Pilate s mind it was a forgone conclusion that they would choose to free Jesus over Barabbas, because Jesus was only being accused of saying that He was the Son of God; but Barabbas had committed many criminal acts. But Pilate s plan didn t go over well with the religious Jews (his plan would not be in line with the will of God). So Pilate saw his plan begin to unravel as the Jews said unto him, Release Barabbas. Pilate said, Then what should I do with this man Jesus, which is called Christ? And the chief priests and the elders, along with the multitude that they had persuaded, began to say, Let Him be crucified! Let Him be crucified!, until the whole crowd was worked up into a frenzy. That is when Pilate sent for a basin of water and washed his hands. Then he said, I am free from the blood of this innocent man. It was here that the Jews brought God s judgment upon themselves as they said, Let His blood be upon us, and our children. When they said that, they not only brought God s judgment upon themselves, but they included their children in this curse that they pronounced. And because of this, it keeps the judgment of God on the nation until their King comes back to this earth after the tribulation period. ( with the exception of God giving the nation a short time of revival for God s blessing to be upon them, and for getting back all their land in a miracle war as shown in Zechariah, Chapter 12, and also Isaiah, Chapter 60. Then there s the great intervention of God that is recorded in Ezekiel, Chapters 38 and 39, as God fulfills His Word to Israel and destroys Russia in the land of Israel, and two prophets of God prophesy to the nation.) Pilate wanted to free Jesus because he knew that He was innocent. And Pilate was the only man that had the authority to crucify or release Jesus and set Him free. So, he made the decision to crucify Jesus, and he delivered Him to the Roman soldiers, who whipped and beat Him and finally crucified Him. (Matthew 27:20-25) This showed the thinking of this religious nation. The judgment that fell upon the Jews happened because they rejected Jesus Christ, while allowing that spirit of iniquity to embody itself in their religious system which was cut off from God s blessing (much like the Gentile church world has been cut off in this day). Now we can see why God allowed the Roman Army to march in and destroy Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD; and also why God allowed the Holocaust under Hitler, which is shown in the Book of Revelation 6:9 (the first part of the fifth seal), in order to drive Israel back to her homeland. In order to get them back to the land that God gave them through Abraham, according to the Book of Jeremiah 16:16, He sent fishers to fish for them. And when they still wouldn t come, He sent hunters to hunt them in order to drive them back home, as the gospel

12 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 11 angel returned to restore the blessing of the gospel of grace and mercy back to Israel before God s final chastisement upon their nation and the whole Gentile world. Please notice that the judgment that happened in 70 AD to the Jews didn t happen until Paul came through this area preaching Christ Jesus to them, to call out an elected number of Jews to be the espoused virgin that would become the married wife of the Lamb. All the while, the Jews wanted to put Paul to death, just as they did Jesus. This helps us to see clearly the thinking of the Jewish nation at that time; and also, the thinking of Paul (Saul) before his experience on the road to Damascus with Christ. Paul was one of them, a religious Jew and a Pharisee, who went forth and persecuted the saints. But when he met Christ, all of that changed; he completely gave his life for the gospel of Christ. In Acts, Chapter 9, we find the story of Paul s experience. He was on his way to Damascus to haul the believers in Jesus Christ to prison and to death, and that s when his life changed forever Christ revealed Himself to Paul! This happened as Paul journeyed near the city of Damascus, when suddenly there shined around him a light from heaven (which was so bright that it blinded him for three days) and he fell down to the ground and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecuteth thou me? And Paul said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecuteth; it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Paul was astonished; and trembling he asked, Lord, what would you have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. Paul arose and was led by hand into Damascus, where he ate and drank nothing for three days. And in this city there was a certain disciple named Ananias that the Lord spoke to in a vision, Arise and go into the street which is called Straight and enquire in the house of Judas for a man named Paul (Saul), for he is now praying. But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard many things about this man, how much evil he has done to thy saints at Jerusalem. Not only that, but he has authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way; for he (Paul) is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel. So that s why we look at Paul s writing as being the only gospel for the espoused virgin that had been called out of Judaism and Paganism to make up the wife of the Lamb from both the Jews and the Gentiles. So having said all this, I want to entitle my message, The Gospel for the Wife in Israel at This End Time. Now when I m speaking of Israel in this respect, I m not specifically speaking of that land or a certain city in Is-

13 12 The GosPel For The wife in israel rael, because the Israelis are a nation of people. And of course, there is this wonderful land of Israel, which God gave only to Israel through His promise to Abraham and to his seed. So Israel will possess every foot of their land, and there will not be two nations to share the land that God gave to Abraham for His people Israel. And there s nothing to discuss or negotiate here; for it has already been decided that the land belongs to the Jews. But in this message, we are speaking of a selected people from the Jews, predestined to hear and receive the last trumpet message and become a part of the wife of the Lamb. And when we look at the wife of the Lamb, there are not two bodies to share the honor of being the Wife and Queen of our Husband and King, because that has already been decided. That s why I want to show you that being the wife is something entirely different from just accepting the Lord or accepting Christianity, because the wife is bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. This is the high calling that Paul spoke of. So when a Jew becomes a part of the wife of the Lamb, they don t say, I m a Jew. And when a Gentile becomes part of the wife of the Lamb, they don t say, I m a Gentile. Because all members make up one body; the high calling made manifest in the wife of the Lamb that we have now received just before the rapture. And being bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh is our message; it s the life of this last trumpet sounding as shown in 1 Corinthians 15: Yes, there are other parts of God s ordained family; but in our message today, we are looking at and dealing with only this aim in mind the wife of God s Son and this trumpet gospel message that has gone to Israel because this is the promise of God in this last day for the wife in Israel as she realizes that there s a fountain open to the house of Israel. (Zechariah 13:1) It s not a reopening of the fountain, it s a revelation of the fountain that was opened at Calvary. In other words, Jesus doesn t have to die again. (Hebrews 9:24-28) Under the Old Testament the priests killed a lamb and made a sacrifice every year. But that s not the case anymore; for by the revelation of what took place at Calvary, He perfected forever those that are in Christ Jesus. So there is not another fountain to be opened; but it is a revelation of the fountain that was opened at Calvary. And that fountain is flowing today. It is only now that the revelation of this fountain has come into being as the gospel angel has come again into Israel. (Revelation 7:2) This gospel angel has already come right into the area of Jerusalem and has begun to create an atmosphere for this gospel. And right now we can see the change in the spirit as this is taking place in that land. I praise God for the spirit of this gospel angel with the seal of God that is influencing this gospel situation in Israel. That s why we are talking

14 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 13 about the wife of the Lamb in Israel. We are not talking about a religious group; but we are talking about a group that is now hearing this trumpet sound (1 Corinthians 15:51-52). We are talking about a group that is bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And what I m speaking of here is entirely different from any religion. When a Jew or a Gentile accepts this message, right then their spiritual nationality is switched to being the wife of Lamb. This means that inside the fullness of the body of Christ, when revelation of the Word of God and the spiritual gifts are coming forth, He makes absolutely no difference in the application of these spiritual gifts, whether one is a Jew or a Gentile, or a male or a female, with the exception concerning the preaching gifts; because these gifts are only seen clearly when we see the original ministry as Christ set in the church shown in Ephesians 4:11. This is where we first see these ministering or preaching gifts which were given to men. God gave five offices for this purpose; namely, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. These gifts were working in part, even before the fullness of Christ was made known, starting in Revelation, Chapter 10, which shows the spiritual coming of Christ in His fullness as the Mighty Angel and culminating in Ephesians 4: For it s here that the whole body receives the gifts of the Spirit for the edifying of all the members of the body of Christ. It s important to note here that ministers throughout the seven church ages were to be, to a certain extent, like rulers over the people that were to the espoused virgin of 2 Corinthians 11:2-3. We know that Christ through Paul put in certain rules and regulations in the church and told the ministers to do this or that, and a preacher had to subject himself to those regulations. That s because the espoused virgin had fallen away from her purity and went into the church ages and needed more than leadership in her journey in a fallen state. She would need, in some cases, rulership. This rulership ended upon Christ s return to this earth as seen in Revelation, Chapter 10, and the wife reaching her fullness, bringing into being the last trumpet message. It was Christ through the Apostle Paul that set ministers in the church and told the saints, Obey them that have rule over you. And it was required of those saints to obey your overseers, which were sometimes called bishops, elders, and deacons. But then in 1980, here in Dawsonville, Georgia, right here behind this pulpit, the same Christ that put in rulership in the days of Paul came and took it all out and set the virgin free. Now we are married to our Husband the Lord Jesus Christ, and are the wife of the King of Israel and the whole earth. The way Christ Jesus took us out from under the church age law is shown in our book entitled, Bishops, Elders, Deacons, and the Fivefold Ministry. And

15 14 The GosPel For The wife in israel much of those rules were given to get the virgin through that long night of denominationalism. But here at the end time, Christ Himself has come with this gospel and those rules have faded into the past for the wife of the Lamb, and Christ Jesus has clothed His wife in fine linen, clean and white. And now He has let it be known by the sounding of this last trump of God that there is a people who are the wife of the Lamb. He lets it be known that we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And He lets it be known that the wife of the Lamb is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither male nor female, neither bond nor free, as we all have been baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ. And He has let us know that we have reached the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. And the perfect man receives and manifests the fullness of Christ and sets the laws of impossibility aside. The reason this is so is because the Spirit of the perfect man and the fullness of Christ has gone beyond engagement to marriage. And marriage is the greater of the two. So now a greater one is here and sees no law that could stand in the way of taking possession of eternal life with a glorified body. This message of fine linen that sets the laws of impossibility aside means that the blood which was spilled at Calvary has never lost its power, as it has now come into this body of flesh and bones to strengthen us for the changing of our mortal body. In other words, we are part of Him bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, and we have His mind. We don t even do our own thinking; we yield ourselves to Him and He thinks His thoughts through us by using our minds. And concerning His will for the wife, we have His thinking on this. And He has given us this gospel message, thus showing the will of God for the body as a whole. And this is taking place now. That s the reason we cannot be tossed to and fro; because we are walking in Christ and walking by revelation. Christ has given us the pure Word, thus making us part of Him and we have His mind. That s why those of the carnal Jews, as well as the Gentiles, can t see this revelation, and they have rejected Jesus Christ and are now persecuting the wife of the Lamb. So with this in mind, I want to begin reading in Romans 11: It says, For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they (the Jews) are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers sake. In this last day, it s very similar to the way it was in Paul s day, as we see what s taking place now. For by the Orthodox Jews attempt to keep the law, they are enemies of this gospel. In other words, what they are doing is so contrary and contradictory to this message for the wife of the Lamb, that they are denying the Lamb of God.

16 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 15 It is so necessary to understand that once we are purged from our sins, we should have no more sacrifice or conscience of sin. And to accept this means that we have to have a spiritual mind. Many times our carnal mind will try to put things back on us that the blood has taken care of. But we have to know that our sins are gone in order to have no more conscience of sin and that s because we are in Him. And to say we have sin is saying that Christ has sin. Because we are baptized into Him. He took all that was against us away, and He gives us His very own life and righteousness. Colossians 2:14 says, Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; Jesus Christ met God s requirement to rid one of their sins at Calvary. So we say the same as Paul did in Galatians 2:20, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. And also in 2 Corinthians 5:21, For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Now I want to read something that Sister Leah copied out of a particular book and sent to my wife, Barbarajean. I thought it was so good, I decided to read it to you. It says, Remember, He has invested heavily in you by putting His own life in you. Now He has put His mind in you, He has put His attributes in you. Let us walk worthy of the calling wherewith we are called. And she put the name of the book that she got that out of, which is entitled, Christ the Wife: A People without a Country (page 437), which was printed in Have you ever heard of that book before? It is such a wonderful book and shows by revelation how heavily He has invested in us. Well, what did He invest? His whole life. Just like a song that my wife wrote entitled, We ve Chosen the Time and Place, showing that Jesus went into the garden and prayed three times, saying, Father, I don t want to die. If it be thy will, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done to me. There was a chosen time and place for Jesus to overcome death. And after He had overcome, He said, No man takes my life, but I lay it down for you. And the angels came and strengthened Him. That is when He went to the cross and gave His life. That is why in this day, His wife prayed in the garden this time, saying, Father, now I don t have to die. According to thy will, let it be done to me. One in Christ, as I give myself to thee. He invested very heavily. And we have chosen the time and place to receive our full redemption, our glorified body, as we are hearing this last trumpet of God sounding. He made us absolutely a part of Him bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, clothed in this message that is fine linen, clean and white.

17 16 The GosPel For The wife in israel And inside this message we are not tossed to and fro. And this is the gospel that is for the wife of the Lamb in Israel. We know that there are different groups and different people there in the land of Israel and they are all presenting God in their various ways. But with the revelation presented in this message, it gives the wife the great promises which is only for her. That s why we have to get everything else out of our minds. We know that in this last day, according to the Word of God, that the Jews are going to build that temple back and they are going to have two prophets. These are two witnesses (the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks) standing before the God of the earth that is shown in Revelation, Chapter 11, and Zechariah 4: They will not be preachers such as we ve seen in this Gentile world, but they are going to be like Old Testament prophets, and their spirits will be similar to the spirits of Moses and Elijah. They will have power to shut the heavens that it rain not, and turn the water to blood, and smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they will. And they will rebuke Israel for signing a covenant with the antichrist at the beginning of the 70th Week of Daniel. They will show Israel exactly what s wrong with what they have done. And by this time, many of the Orthodox Jews will have begun to worship according to the Old Testament order, and they will build that temple back. But God will deal with them through those two prophets. And it is a fact that many of those people of Israel will hate those two prophets; and eventually the antichrist, whom Israel has entered into a covenant with, will rise up and kill those two prophets after they have finished their testimony. They will say, Now that we have gotten rid of them, we can resume our worship and way of life without being disturbed! And the dead bodies of the prophets will lie there in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord Jesus was crucified. Revelation 11:9 says, And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. It will be like a holiday to them; they will send gifts to one another and rejoice. But the spirit of life from God will enter into them and they will raise from the dead after three and a half days and stand upon their feet and cause great fear to fall upon all who see this great happening. Then there will come from heaven a voice saying, Come up hither; and these two men of God will ascend up to heaven in the sight of their enemies. (Revelation 11:3-15) But before all of this takes place, the Lord Jesus is getting an elected number of Jews that believe this trumpet message and are part of the wife in Israel who will be taken in the rapture. They will not be glorying in the fact that they are a Jew. I tell you the Jews are a proud people and that s

18 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 17 all right; I m not kicking them around for that. But the wife of the Lamb is not that way at all. She glories in the fact that she is the wife, not I m a Gentile, or I m a Jew. When it comes to being baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ then those things mean nothing. We are the wife of the Lamb, first and foremost; that is what our life is about. So whether we are a Jew or a Gentile, we are part of the body. His body, which is His wife, is totally different from any religious system. All these things are now happening because the angel with the seal of God has returned to Israel after his trip around the Gentile world, and his presence and influence has created an atmosphere for this last trumpet message. In Revelation, Chapter 7, we see that this angel has gone into the land of Israel with the seal of the living God. And now God is taking out of Israel a number to be a part of the wife for His Son. I want to say again that it s important here to understand that when I say wife, I am talking about something that is different from all the other groups in Israel that are a part of God s family. Now after the rapture, God will seal out 144,000 Jews, which will continue this revival by bringing the gospel message for the second part of the 70th Week of Daniel after the two prophets are killed. (Understand here that these 144,000 Jews are virgins. They are a different group of people than any others that God will be dealing with in Israel.) This group of virgins will not be involved in any denominational system that will be in existence at that time, and they will go forth and be a witness and preach the everlasting gospel that is shown in Revelation, Chapters 7, 14, and 18. They will be a people that will go all over the world and say, Fear God, and give glory to Him, and don t bow down to the beast, and don t take the mark, because if you do, you will have to drink of the wine of the wrath of God. And that message will be just tearing up the religious systems. The antichrist will think that when he kills the two prophets that he has gotten his problem fixed; but no, it just lights a fire under 144,000 Jews to go forth with their message. Here we can look back and see the spirit of iniquity working through a religious system in the day when they crucified Jesus Christ, as it was the Jewish religious leaders through the Roman government that crucified Him. They thought, Finally, we ve gotten rid of our problem! No, they weren t rid of it; because there were those that came forth in that day doing the same type works that Jesus Christ did. Jesus told His disciples this before He left. John 14:12 says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. We saw the words of Jesus Christ begin to come to pass in Peter as he walked down the street and as his shadow touched the sick they were healed. On an-

19 18 The GosPel For The wife in israel other occasion, a woman had died and he went and raised her from the dead and presented her alive. Paul also did similar miracles. All of these things happened as the gospel was going forth in that day. Then later we find as Paul went forth, he began to write about what God called him to do, telling us his job was to get a people espoused to Christ to be married to God s Son. And here I m not talking about the Jewish or Gentile Pentecostal groups that were in existence at that time as born again Christians, although some of the members of the body that heard Paul s gospel came out of the Pentecostal groups. It was to this called out group that Paul began to preach about a waterless baptism, which took them beyond what was preached at Pentecost in Acts, Chapter 2. Now I know that everyone talks about water baptism, and that s all right. That baptism has served its purpose, just like the communion and other rituals of the religious system, which was typical all the way through the seven church ages. This reminds us of how it was under the Law of Moses where they had to kill a lamb and had to do certain works and go through many rituals. And there was not one bit of saving power in any of it. Do you know what the Word says about these rituals? It says in Isaiah 28:8, For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. They have become a stench in the nostrils of God. Also, in Psalms 51:16-17, For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. See, all those works are nonsense. But there was a time when they did them and this was to help keep their conscience alive until the seed came. And when Jesus Christ came into this world, who is the seed of God, the rituals of the law came to an end. Now that we see the way the law and rituals of the Old Testament came to an end, we see it s the same thing that happened at the end of the seven church ages. This meant that the church age law was in effect until the fulfillment of the seed coming to us as seen in Revelation, Chapter 10. It is here where we see what Paul set in the Word for the fallen virgin the works and the rituals, which kept a people s conscience alive. Henceforth, there was a message that came to each age and made the blood applicable to them for the redemption of their spirit, and their body (which died), as they went into the Dark Ages to come forth again at this end time in the resurrection. So in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 10, Christ came in the form of the Mighty Angel back to this earth. That s when the angel which stood upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up His hand to heaven and swore that there should be time no longer. Here is where the Voice of Authorization spoke from heaven again and said, Go take the little

20 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 19 book from the angel. And we went and asked for the little book. And the angel spoke and said, I want you to eat it up! By this time, the church ages had ended, and the last message which was to the Gentile Laodicea Church Age had taken place. That s why we can hear this trump of God message that has taken us on to greater things, which has clothed us with the truth of God s Word, while all the religious element is only clothed with a denominational garment of ideas and opinions. They took the law and did their own thing. But now God s mercy is showing to the Jews this last trumpet message which makes each one who accepts it a member of the wife of the Lamb. This is happening as God has now shown this Gentile world that they are naked, blind, and miserable. And the sad thing is, they don t even know it. That is why it s only the predestinated that will hear this message. And to the elected, this message gives fine linen, because this message is the fine linen. See, what we are saying here is that this Word is only for the wife here at the end time, just as Paul had the Word of espousal for his day. Yes, this message that God has entrusted to me has gotten the virgin married to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. Paul let us know that what he said many times was for his day and his time; that there s part of it we can bring forward to this day, and some of it we can t. Some of what Moses said we can bring forward, and some of it we can t. Some of the things that Paul said in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 7, about If you are a virgin then stay a virgin, and I wish all men were as I am, was said for a certain time; for if everyone from that time on lived by that, then after about a hundred years there would have been no people. Some things were said for a temporary period of time; because Paul goes on further to say, I suppose this is good for the present distress. We can t take anything for the present distress and use it to undo something that God ordained and set in His plan for the reproduction of mankind. And even when we look at some of the things that the end time messengers, Brother William Branham and Brother Raymond Jackson Jr. said, we can bring forward some things, but some of it we can t; as upon their deaths their ministries gave way to this last trumpet of God message. Now in this day the sun has come up, the light is shining forth through the wife of the Lamb, and we are in a new day. We ve come into this condition where we are no longer a virgin. A virgin doesn t become flesh and bone of the man, because that only takes place at marriage, which we are now enjoying, dressed in fine linen, clean and white dressed for meeting our King and Husband in the rapture at His throne, as we have reached the fullness of Christ, unto a perfect man.

21 20 The GosPel For The wife in israel (Ephesians 4:13-16) As the Lord Jesus Christ was caught up to the throne of God and we are His wife, then we shall be caught up to meet the Lord at the throne of God. (1 Thessalonians 4:17) In 2 Corinthians 11:2, we can hear Paul as he spoke by revelation saying, 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. He expected to present the espoused virgin to Christ somewhere out in the future. But then Paul goes on to say in Verse 3, 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. And the same Christ that was speaking through Paul is presenting us to our Husband, the Lord Jesus, our King, as He has sent the fullness of His Spirit to us through the sounding of this trumpet message. This gospel message of bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh doesn t ask, Are you a Jew? No. Just as it doesn t ask, Are you a Gentile? No, when we re baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ, we surrender all our rights. We surrender our life; we leave our home and go home with Him. That is what the rapture is, we leave our home and go home with Him. But we have to go home with Him in the Spirit before there can be a physical translation. Colossians 1:13 says, Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son, meaning that we received a translation, and we were translated right into the fullness of the body of Christ and became bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh; and our next station is sitting by His side at the throne of our Husband and King, the Lord Jesus Christ. Let s continue on with Romans 11:28. It says, As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers sakes. They were enemies to the gospel then; but this trumpet message has changed all of that. But touching election, they are beloved of the Father. In other words, the Word has been written, God made promises to Abraham and said that certain things will be (as the tree falleth, there it shall be). Paul is speaking about what is going to be for the nation of Israel as a whole in Verses Verse 29, For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. This is what God said and He is not going to repent. He is going to do just what He said. Verse 30, For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief. They didn t want it, so God gave it to the Gentiles. Well, that angel left Jerusalem in Paul s day and went westward around the world to the Gentiles. Now the angel has returned home again to Jerusalem to those who had the gospel first. (Revelation 7:2) We can find in the Book of Acts, Chapter 13, how the Jews treated Paul s message when they came against Paul and Silas; for Paul said,

22 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 21 You ve blasphemed, and you have judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life. Lo, we turn to the Gentiles. And now the Gentiles have rejected this and blasphemed and, lo, the gospel angel has returned back into Israel as this angel is saying, Lo, it s time to go back to the Jews. This is the effects of that angel s coming back to Israel; for now there is a people that are getting hungry to hear this trumpet sounding. Yes, there is this message; there s a trumpet blowing, and it is blowing to get the predestinated Jews that are to be part of the wife of the Lamb, as they hear this message it makes them one with us who were called out of the Gentiles, and who are now identified as the wife of the Lamb, by being baptized into the fullness of the spiritual body of Christ. Here, I want to bring in about a night vision that Barbarajean had. She said, In the night vision, I was here at the church building in Dawsonville. In the bigger area between the pulpit and the pews, a woman had come in and set up two easels (a type of a stand that you can set things on in order to display them). One of them was holding a picture, and the other one had a horn laying on it. The woman had brought these two items to sell. When I saw the horn, I immediately picked it up and looked at it. It had Jewish engravings on it, with little tiny pictures of what appeared to be the faces of Jewish people all over the horn. I told the woman about the horn, This is very valuable. It s worth a lot of money. But she wasn t asking much for it; she just wanted to get rid of it. I said to her, I want to buy it. I ve always wanted to play a horn (trumpet). I picked up the horn and started playing it like I had been playing a horn all my life. There was such a beautiful sound, a romantic tune, coming from the horn. And my fingers were just moving up and down on the horn as I danced around the building. I tell you, brothers and sisters, keep your eyes open and your ears unstopped. Something wonderful is taking place in Israel for the glory of God! Let s continue on with Verse 31. It says, Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy, they also may obtain mercy. Now watch through our mercy, meaning what we have. In other words, they gave it to us by turning it away, and now the Gentile world has turned this gospel of grace away as the marriage of the Lamb came, but the wife loves the Word even more. The people of the Gentile nations, save a few, didn t want it; and now it has gone right back to the Jews. And this is happening after this Word has taken on flesh and bones. That Word that came down, the little book, took on flesh and bones in the wife of the Lamb. And we now say as Jesus Christ said, Except you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no part with me. The religious Jews said about Jesus Christ, Now we know that He has a devil. Well, that is what people think about us, the wife. But it s raining anyway! (Ecclesiastes 11:3) The clouds got full and it has begun to

23 22 The GosPel For The wife in israel rain, and we are worshipping God. The gospel for the wife is now in Israel here at the end time. And again take note that the gospel for Israel is no different from the gospel that we offered to the Gentiles first. The only thing is, the Jews have to realize that being a Jew isn t worth anything when it comes to this; and likewise there is no value in being a Gentile. Nationality is worth nothing; for there is only one thing that is worth anything and that is Christ being baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ. And when we are baptized into the body of Christ, there is neither Jew nor Gentile. That is the way it is; and we thank God for His working! Now you might be from an upscale family of the Jews or of the Gentiles, but it s like I heard some people talking while I was in a barber shop they were talking about a man that they said was a good man and they said, He is from good stock. Well, I m not concerned one speck about what kind of stock you are from. The only thing that matters is being in Christ, that spiritual seed of Abraham; for being a Jew or Gentile means nothing inside the body of Christ. I like what Paul said in Galatians when they were talking about being Abraham s seed through Isaac, saying, We be the seed of Abraham. Paul said, Abraham had two sons. One born after the flesh; but the other one born after the promise. He said, Christ is our Isaac, and by faith we are Abraham s seed which is Christ. Through Christ, we all have the spiritual promises that God made to Abraham, and now we also have His spiritual blessings. Spiritual blessings does not include the natural land of Israel that God gave only to the nation of Israel Whoever blesses you will be blessed, whoever curses you will be cursed. But the spiritual blessings are in the body of Christ; and we are marching to the tune of this trumpet blowing in this day. So world, give way to the Queen! Give way to the first lady. Give way; for here we come riding in the King s second chariot. Give way to the Word. That s us. So what are we preaching in Israel? The preaching is no different from what we are preaching now here in Dawsonville and in other parts of the world. We preach the wife s covenant. And we say, You Jews are the people that God chose through Abraham, and you were chosen to carry the knowledge of the one God. But now, through this gospel, we all together have this gospel that s for the Lamb s wife, and we are no longer Jew nor Gentile. This is the same gospel that Paul preached, saying that the middle wall of partition is broken down and the body of Christ is the one new man of Ephesians 2:14-15, who is living in the heavenly realm, in the midst of the paradise of God, and is joined to the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of all the earth. Amen. Heavenly Father, in the blessed name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we praise your

24 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 23 name and thank you, Lord, for your love, goodness, and mercy. I pray that you will take these words and use them for the glory of God. We thank you for telling us about the wife in Israel, and for this gospel that you have given your Son s wife, knowing that there are the different groups and there are different parts of your plan. But Lord, you have let us know that the wife of the Lamb, the body of Christ, is the same for the Jew and Gentile, because in the body of Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile, male nor female; we all have the same gospel, the same mind, and are all married to the same Husband, the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, take these words and use them for your glory. Amen.

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26 25 SILVER AND GOLD HAVE I NONE, BUT SUCH AS I HAVE, GIVE I THEE We re reading the Word of God today, starting in the Book of Acts, Chapter 3. This was just after the Jewish Feast Day of Pentecost, at which time Christ had come to earth in the first leg of His spiritual coming as the Holy Ghost, coming into those that would accept Him and be born again. This could only happen after Jesus died and gave up His soul His ghost. This was as He said just before He left, I am with you now, but I shall be in you. As His disciples were gathered in one place and all in one accord, suddenly there came a sound of a rushing mighty wind from heaven and it filled all the house where they were; and there appeared little licks (cloven tongues) like as of fire that sat upon each of them. Notice that. It sat upon each of them, rather than one big pillar of fire coming upon one man; but here everyone received their portion. And so is it today as Christ came in Revelation, Chapter 10, in His fullness as the Mighty Angel, to be in a form that we could be baptized into, which is our marriage to Him. And now we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, with every member (joint) in the body of Christ supplying that which is ordained for them. So in looking at the children of God and what Christ did for us, I want to title this message, Silver and Gold Have I None, But Such as I Have, Give I Thee. We are going to see that in Acts, Chapter 3, Peter didn t have any silver and gold, but what he had was a revelation of the working of Christ. Let s read Acts 3:1-2. It says, Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; He was brought and laid at that place for a reason. He wasn t there just to be there; he could have been out on the street somewhere else. But he knew that when the people were going into the temple to pray, they would want to be religious and do something, so they would throw some coins to the poor fellow. Verse 3 says, Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. He didn t want to miss a single person going into the temple. He probably thought, I ve got to get everyone. Who knows? This one may be the one to drop a twenty dollar gold piece in. So as Peter and John were about to go into the temple,

27 26 The GosPel For The wife in israel the lame man asked for alms. And Verse 4 says, And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. The man probably thought he was saying, Look on us, we re poor too; we can t help you. Look on us! That was an unusual request. The man could have said, I don t want to look at you; I just want some coins to put in my tin cup! But he didn t say that; Verse 5 says, And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. They stopped and talked to him, rather than throwing a coin in and walking on by. He looked on them expecting to receive something from them but he wasn t expecting to receive what he got; because he got more than he asked for! Hallelujah! And God always gives us more than what we ask for when we are asking in the spiritual realm. Not only does He meet our needs, but He meets our needs plus! In Philippians 4:19, it says, But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. But there is another scripture in Psalms 37:4 which says, Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. He gives us the desires of our heart. We may desire something that is not particularly a need, but because He loves us He throws an extra coin in the cup! Verse 5 again, And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. Verse 6, Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. The lame man probably thought, Now wait just a minute here, fellows. It so stunned him that he didn t look around; he just kept looking at them. He didn t try to get up and walk. Let s see what Peter did next. Verse 7 says, And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: The man wasn t about to try to move on his own; he needed a little help. Sometimes we need a little help. That s what preachers and every member of the body is for; we are to edify one another and we are to lift up one another. So the man lying there, he heard some words, but he needed a little help with receiving it. When we put legs on our words we cause this Word to come alive; and then we have more than just the dead letter of the Word. I ve got a message that I m going to preach someday about the Word that is quick and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword. First, it gets in you (your spirit and soul) and begins to discern thoughts. And then it gets into your joints and marrow (flesh and bones), which is the changing of the body into glorification. All right, it says here in Verse 7, And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: (Now watch what happened when Peter did that.) and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. The man thought, This isn t a normal person. This isn t a normal day. And I m telling you today, it s not a normal day that we re living in. There is a super-

28 SILVER AND GOLD HAVE I NONE, BUT SUCH AS I HAVE, GIVE I THEE 27 natural God that is doing exceedingly abundantly above anything that we could ask or think, and healing is the children s bread. It is our birthright. And this miracle testified that God is going to do something for these natural bodies. Not only is He going to heal them, but He is going to change them in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. Praise the Lord! Many times things happen to us and we think that we re ready for the graveyard. But then somehow we just keep looking to God and keep moving forward and He makes things work out for us. People that know about me having a heart attack, which severely damaged the left side of my heart, want me to be careful, saying, Don t do this, and Don t do that. But when they see me going on and living a normal life, they don t understand it and I don t either! But I do know this, God said in the Book of Isaiah that He takes that stony heart out of us and gives us a fleshly heart. Well, let s put that into reality here! He can give you a new heart! Glory to God! So this man here, he was lifted up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. In other words, he was absolutely healed by the power of God. How was it? By the spoken Word. Now watch. Silver and gold have I none, but Peter had something. And I m telling you today that you ve got something. So what we need to do is to really use the faith that we have. God gave every man the measure of faith, so we take our faith to the Lord and He gives us His own faith. It connects with the faith that He has given us, because our faith comes from God to begin with. He gives every man the measure of faith. So we ve got something to begin with. We ve got something to hook on to and work with. This faith that we have is of God, so it will hook on to the faith of the Son of God just like the Spirit that we ve got, the Holy Ghost, which hooked on to that Mighty Angel of Revelation 10:1. That made it possible to be baptized into the fullness of the body and become the very wife of the Lamb. That s when we were no longer tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine; and now we speak the truth in love. In 1 Corinthians 4:20-21, we find Paul saying, For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod (a stick), or in love, and in the spirit of meekness? Now that is quite a question, isn t it? Well, there were times coming through the church ages when a rod was necessary. But when we re baptized into the body of Christ, we ve passed the till of Ephesians 4:13; that s when we came into the fullness of Christ where we all have the same mind, and where everything we do is for the edifying of the body of Christ. And the body has begun to grow up into Him even the head; meaning that our think-

29 28 The GosPel For The wife in israel ing and His thinking are exactly the same. This is Holy Ghost thoughts. So Peter spoke the Word and it came to pass. He said, Get up; you re healed. Verse 8, And he leaping up stood, Suddenly, something began to happen to his ankle bones and his feet as he leaped up! That s how I feel sometimes when I get anointed of God. I had a dream some years back that I went to a building supply store and there were loads of plywood which were stacked one on the other. It was a big stack about three feet thick; it must have weighed thousands of pounds, because just one piece by itself would be very heavy to lift. I walked up to the stack of plywood and stuck my arms under it (like someone would do with a forklift) and lifted the plywood with ease. It seemed that it weighed absolutely nothing. That s when I preached the message entitled, Giving Honor to Those That Did the Heavy Lifting for Us. I tell you, there s been some heavy lifting going on! And the whole thing is the working of God. When I was born it was said that I weighed about two or three pounds. And in the mountains everybody was born at home; women didn t go to the hospital to have a baby. My mother was in real bad shape at the time and they thought she wouldn t make it, and they didn t think I would either. So they just kind of laid me aside. It was told to me that they kept me in a shoebox. But my dear sister, Stella Mae, said, I believe I can pull him through. So she started working with me. She began giving me a sugar-tit, which is made with a little cloth rolled tightly together and dipped in butter and milk and sugar. Then she got me to where I could start drinking real milk. She helped get me growing. So here I am today good and healthy; and maybe just a little overweight! See, God starts with something little and He brings it forth. I m telling you this just to show you that God is real! If He has a purpose, then don t worry about whether He can fulfill that purpose or not; leave that to Him! Just believe God by accepting the faith of the Son of God. Now since we have accepted the faith of the Son of God we are saying, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20) Okay, I examined the faith of the Son of God and not one time did He ever have a failure. Every time it was just right. And the reason I believe is this: Jesus said, I do nothing until the Father shows me. In other words, He was led by the Spirit. He didn t just go out here trying to heal everybody. When He went to the pool of Bethesda, there were sick folks laying all around. And this one man there attracted His attention for some reason. He might have had a vision about this man before He went. Nevertheless, He was led of God. The man was lying there on his bed

30 SILVER AND GOLD HAVE I NONE, BUT SUCH AS I HAVE, GIVE I THEE 29 and Jesus said unto him, Will thou be made whole? And the man said, Sir, I have no one to help me into the pool. When the angel comes and troubles the water, while I am trying to get there, somebody gets in ahead of me and I have to go back and wait again. Well, watch Jesus. Jesus just looked at him and said, Take up your bed and walk. Can you imagine? I m sure it shocked the man. But lo and behold, those words that Jesus spoke began to take on a creative power. Whatever was ailing the man began to be fixed, and he was completely healed. And the man took up his bed and walked towards home! Now this man s great miracle had taken place on the Sabbath, and when the Pharisees and Sadducees saw him carrying his bed they began to rebuke him saying, It s the Sabbath day; it is unlawful for you to carry your bed. And the man said, I was over there at the pool; I couldn t walk and a man came to me and said, Take up thy bed and walk. So I got up and I was healed! And they asked, Who was the man that told you to take up your bed and walk? He said, I don t know who the man was. I didn t ask His name. Then later that same day, Jesus found the man in the temple and said unto him, Behold, thou are made whole; go and sin no more, unless a worse thing come upon you. Then the man departed and went and told the Jews that it was Jesus that had healed him. And therefore, the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to slay Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. And Jesus said to them, My Father worketh hitherto (up to this time; until now), and I work. Then sought the Jews to kill Him even more, because He had not only broken the Sabbath, but He had called God His Father, therefore making Himself equal with God. (John 5:1-18) There s a power today; and it is absolutely as real today as it was then. The fact is, God has moved a people into a place where we are called upon to even look death in the face and say, O death, where is your sting? Now that is big; isn t it? O death, where is your sting? And then those that have gone down by the way of the grave will say, O grave, where is your victory? There will be a resurrection and those that are part of the wife of the Lamb will come forth and then we shall be changed and caught up together to be with our Husband and King where He sits on the throne. Let s continue on with Acts 3:8. It is so good, we don t want to miss it. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have (the things that I m saying, which are coming from God), give I thee, in the name of Jesus Christ get up and walk! And now in this message, I can see that people have gotten up and began to walk spiritually. Let me tell you this now: When you begin to

31 30 The GosPel For The wife in israel walk spiritually, you re not saying, My preacher said I need to do this or that. What the preacher says, that s good; but can you walk? Now I am saying, Such as I have, give I thee. You get up and walk, yourself. That s what we need to do. We need to get in that Word for ourselves. We ve got the books and tapes and videos, which is the Word (scripture) for the wife of the Lamb. That s why some people listen to the tapes and read the books every day. It s feeding them; they re walking. Remember here that it was Peter that said, What Paul wrote is scripture. And much of what Paul said wasn t even spoken before he said it. (2 Peter 3:15-16) And now in our time there s been something wrought of God for the wife. Yes, there is living Word being spoken that has come from the integrity of the heart of God. There is this message of such as I have, give I thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, get up and walk spiritually! You ve got two legs; so use them to walk in this truth. So with a little help from Peter, that man rose up on his feet. His feet and ankle bones received strength. Well, I m telling you something today, this message of such as I have, give I thee, is causing your spiritual ankle bones to receive strength and now we can leap to our feet and begin to praise and glorify God! Amen! So as we see that Peter by revelation spoke to the lame man and he walked, so did Paul also speak the Word by revelation. He said in 2 Timothy 2:1-8, while writing to the espoused virgin and preaching the Word of God, These things that you have heard me say; commit them to other faithful men who will commit them to other faithful men. He had something to give them. And it s the same today, we have something to give. And I m not talking about filthy lucre; I m talking about a revelation from God that s this trumpet message. The Pentecostal people were a zealous people, but they didn t have much knowledge. They had a lot of noise, but not much substance. Paul had some substance! When Peter said to that man, Get up and walk! he had some substance. He didn t say that guessing; he knew. He had been with Jesus. In Acts, Chapter 5, the apostles were put in prison; but an angel came and got them out and told them to go and speak in the temple all the words of this life. And when the officials came and found them not in the prison, they returned and told the others. And when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they brought the apostles before them saying, You have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and are intending to bring this man s blood upon us. And they took the apostles aside and whipped them and charged them that they should not speak in this name of Jesus anymore. But they had some substance about them. Peter said, I ve got one thing to ask you, Sir. Which is it better to do,

32 SILVER AND GOLD HAVE I NONE, BUT SUCH AS I HAVE, GIVE I THEE 31 obey God or man? Judge you. He shut them up right in their tracks. And after whipping Peter and John, they let them go. But Peter and John were found preaching again immediately. And the Bible says, With great power, God bore witness of the resurrection. They went forth preaching, He is risen! He is risen! And now He has come back to live in our hearts. And He told us, The things that I do, and greater things shall ye do, because I go to the Father. (Meaning the Spirit of Christ is doing the same thing in and through His many member body.) In that day, licks of fire came upon all those in the building and they staggered out into the street praising and thanking God. And some of the people said, What can we do to get this? Peter said, Repent every one of you and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (Acts 2:38) And about three thousand lined up there and got baptized! Now in this last day, Christ came in the fullness of His Spirit with everything that was in the man Jesus Christ. He has provided a spiritual baptism into the fullness of the Spirit of the Lord Jesus, which is shown as the Mighty Angel of Revelation, Chapter 10. This coming shows, for the first time, both legs of His Spiritual coming, and is a Spirit that we have been baptized into; thus making us a member of the body of Christ. This is accomplished by receiving the sounding of this last trumpet message. Now there is no more baptisms for the wife. This simply means that we are baptized into the fullness of Christ shown as the Mighty Angel (a total spiritual coming) that makes us the wife, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And now we can, and do, express the Lord Jesus in the earth. This is made possible by the fact that we are now Christ the wife of the King in this mortal body. God saved this for the end time, and it is for none other than the Lamb s wife. That s Ephesians 4:13-16, which shows that we have reached the fullness of the stature of the man Christ Jesus. This fullness also includes the resurrection of all the bodies of the members of the wife of the Lamb. And at this end time, each of those theophanies are united together with we which are alive and remain as the person of Christ in the earth. This is God s plan for the wife at this time of resurrection. So the spirits of these just men that have just been raised from the dead will be brought up to speed by the hearing of this last trumpet message. And now we all, the dead and the living, have reached the full knowledge of the man Christ Jesus. And He has given us one mind. That s why we which are alive and remain are not tossed to and fro anymore, because He has given us the little book, which is the wife s part of the wonderful Book of Redemption, whereby we could grow up into Him in all things. And now that we have eaten it, our minds have been

33 32 The GosPel For The wife in israel cleared up. As soon as we ate that little book it began to pull down all thoughts that go contrary to the things that God is doing. It has caused us to bring every thought into captivity to the revelation of Christ. This trumpet message will also syncretize the resurrected members of the wife that passed away in death in the past ages, those that died not having this fullness but seeing it afar off and with faith knowing that they would come forth from the grave. And at this time the body will supply anything that is lacking to make the body one in faith with the enlightened members that lived to see and experience the trumpet message that would complete the full picture. See, inside the body of Christ we are individuals. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 12, that the body is one but it has many members and each member has its own function. You ve got your function in the body. So it s up to you, up to us, as members of the body to be submissive to Him. He doesn t take our mind away. He doesn t take our will away. We just surrender our will to His will. And we surrender our thinking to the Word. I am telling you today, Such as I have, I am giving to you, in the name of Jesus Christ, spiritually get up and walk! You re in the body of Christ; you ve been baptized with that super baptism, that perfect baptism! Water baptism is not perfect, but it does suffice for resurrection, see. That s what Paul was saying in 1 Corinthians 15:16, For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: He was saying, If the dead are not going to rise, then you don t even need to be baptized; so why are you baptizing? Then he said in Verse 20, But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of them that slept. Now that was a different category than Verse 51 of this same chapter Behold, I show you a mystery (a waterless baptism), we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. Now that puts us beyond natural baptism. It puts us in the place where we re baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ, and that s not for resurrection; that s for translation. See, there is something going on today; and God is doing it in such a way that it is a mystery. This is unfolding step by step by step. Such as I have, give I thee, in the name of Jesus Christ, get up and walk spiritually! Look around you, open your eyes! Look at the picture that God s Word paints. This picture of such as I have, give I thee lays it out there perfectly. We can see exactly where we are living. O what a great treasure we found hidden in Paul s field (message)! Now that we see where we are living in revelation, we know that there was one man, and one man only, that spoke of a rapture in Paul s day; so don t run and ask Peter about it and think he s going to give you more revelation on this, because he pointed us to what Paul wrote, saying,

34 SILVER AND GOLD HAVE I NONE, BUT SUCH AS I HAVE, GIVE I THEE 33 It is scripture. Amen! Somebody said, Well, Peter said that Jesus is going to come back to this earth; the heavens have to retain Him until He comes back to earth. Yes, and Peter was one hundred percent correct. But he wasn t the messenger to the espoused virgin to Christ Jesus that has now become the wife of the Lamb. Paul was that messenger; and he did his job well in his day. But now the blowing of the trumpet (horn) has gotten us married by what you are hearing such as I have, give I thee! Now I am giving you a message that will change you in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, that will cause you to look death in the face and walk right by it. There is a death angel, but he hasn t got one speck of power over you unless God permits it. Through the sounding of the trumpet message, we have become a people that death has no power over, because we are we which are alive and remain that are not going to die, but we will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, as we have passed that little time slot that says, It is appointed unto men once to die, which was a pronouncement upon our first parents in the Garden of Eden when they sinned, and it was passed on to all mankind as a natural law. (Hebrews 9:27) But Christ took the law and rendered it null and void for the wife here at the end time by giving us the little book to eat, which has clothed us in fine linen, clean and white, which is that prefect righteousness as we have become the Lamb s wife. Now you can understand my joy, and why I say, Such as I have, give I thee! Look around you and see where we are at. Look at that Word and see what has been fulfilled in our very day and hour. Look what He has given us with our baptism into the fullness of the body of Christ by the sounding of this last trump of God. And now the Son of God is saying through His wife, Such as I have, give I thee. So let us keep this scripture before us that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever and there is a living Word being made manifest in the wife of the Lamb, as we are the living epistles. In 2 Timothy, Chapter 2, since Paul was going home to be with the Lord, he is telling Timothy that it is God s plan for the church (the espoused virgin) to all speak the same thing, that there cannot be a difference in what is taught in each congregation of believers. So Paul began to tell Timothy to preach the things that he had heard him preach. Paul continued instructing him that everyone that he preached to was to preach the same and pass it on down the line starting with Paul and then to Timothy, and then to all the others that would dare preach the gospel. This was instruction to the espoused virgin that had fallen from God s original plan as it went into the church ages. But it soon fell even from these instructions. But that was the best they could do until Christ

35 34 The GosPel For The wife in israel Himself came to teach us and give us His own mind as seen in Ephesians 4:13-16 where we don t have to be told to be a repeater, but that Christ Himself will teach us as we are baptized into His Spiritual body. Let s read 2 Timothy 2:1-2, Paul is telling Timothy, Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, What he is saying here is, but such as I have, give I thee. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. In other words, There cannot be a difference in belief. But the church fell away even from those instructions and went into the Dark Ages. But when Christ came back in Revelation, Chapter 10, He baptized us into His body and we became the wife of the Lamb and have reached the fullness of Christ and have left behind us even those instructions and began to speak the prophetic Word for this hour. Paul, while in prison writing, he gave us a prophetic utterance and said that these instructions were till we come into the fullness of the stature of the man Christ Jesus. Here I want to make mention again about the message I preached entitled, Bishops, Elders, and Deacons, and the Fivefold Ministry, in 1980, in a convention that we had here in Dawsonville. And all the ministers that had attended were saying, This is Christ in the earth. I ve never seen anything like it. There are some testimonies on the audio of the message; if you want to listen to it you can hear what was said. But the thing is, that message told them that bishops, elders, and deacons were for the church ages. Paul said in 1 Timothy 3:15, These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly, But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. In other words, Paul was saying, Do this until I return. But see, Paul didn t return; but Christ has. It was Christ that imposed that church age law on them to preserve them through the church ages. But in this last day, He came and loosed them from that church age law. But the real thing that was laid in there was the fivefold ministry. And man doesn t call them; they are called of God. See, whoever wanted to be a bishop or a deacon or even an elder, if they went through certain rituals and were appointed, they could be that. Yes, that served good through the church ages, but look what happened. The enemy got in there, then they got a pope and cardinals, and off to the Dark Ages they went. But now for the wife, that s all taken care of. God allowed Christ through Paul to put that church age law in to preserve them in their fallen state by giving them something to keep their conscious alive until Christ returned in Revelation, Chapter 10. But He said there will come a time when

36 SILVER AND GOLD HAVE I NONE, BUT SUCH AS I HAVE, GIVE I THEE 35 time is no longer for wheat and tares to grow together. Then He came and took the church age law out, right before the wondering eyes of the people. We re not under the church age law. Here s what Paul also told Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:3, Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. (In other words, don t be wishy-washy; stay true to Christ the Word for your day.) No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. Just imagine some general in the army saying, Well, I know we re having a war here, and there s a lot going on, but my Aunt Susie is getting married and I ve got to take a leave and go to the wedding. And I think I ll go visit my mother while I am out. No; if you are pledged to be a soldier, you be faithful to the calling. We have become the wife of the Lamb and nothing else in this life matters, because this is the most important thing that you will ever come in contact with. You may come in contact with important people, and you may obtain certain things in this life, but there will never, ever, be anything come before you that is this important. The trump of God is sounding and this is what brings forth those that are in the grave and changes we which are alive and remain. It s a message; it s the knowledge of God, and we cast down everything that exalts itself against that. And that means anything that would be contrary to it. Even as Paul told the saints in his day, Think on these things. In this day when we let the Holy Ghost lead, our thinking is going to be the thinking of Christ. So let s pray. Heavenly Father, we come to you now at the close of this message. Lord, I just commit this message into your hands and ask that you take it and use it for your glory. We ask this in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ. God bless you. Amen.

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38 CHRIST THE GREAT CONNECTOR BETWEEN MELCHIZEDEK AND JESUS 37 GOD HAS WELL EQUIPPED US FOR THE JOB HE HAS CALLED US TO DO Let s turn to the Book of Luke to begin our reading, and I want to take this thought, God Has Well Equipped Us for the Job He Has Called Us to Do. He doesn t send us to do a job without equipping us to do it. I want to start this subject at the place where God sent Christ to the earth to anoint His Son, Jesus, and at the time of His baptism by John, Jesus and the Christ became one in a seamless transition. Now Christ is the anointing; and He was the one that came through the Old Testament and anointed different men on many different occasions. There s one scripture that I often wondered about in times past as to its meaning, which is found in 1 Corinthians 10:4, where Paul spoke about Christ as that Rock in the wilderness that followed the children of Israel and Moses smote that rock and natural water came out. God smote that Rock on Calvary and the living water came out, the very soul of Christ, and that is what we are partakers of. So before going any further in the message, let s have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, as we come to you now with your Word open before us, we pray that you will move by your Holy Spirit. You ve called us and ordained us and have helped us throughout the years to walk in the light of your Word. I pray, Lord, as we are looking into your Word that you will furnish your anointing like you always do, to bring to pass that which you have ordained for us, in Jesus Christ s name. Amen. Now this anointed message is the top of the line. And when I say anointed message, only those that are qualified can preach it. Even Jesus Christ could do nothing without the anointing; for He said, I can do nothing without the Father. But God furnished that anointing. So Jesus had to have the anointing. And one thing we know is that God supplies the anointing to all the wife of His Son. We began to see this anointing of the Holy Ghost beginning on the Jewish Feast Day of Pentecost, and since then God s people have had access to the Spirit of God through time. And even though the espoused virgin fell away and went into the Dark Ages, yet within it they had the sufficiency of God that got them through trying times. Because of the fall, they went into the Dark Ages, but God brought them out, saying, I will restore, and that He has done. Now that the restoration has taken place, then Christ gets His wife and anoints her by a spiritual baptism into the body of Christ. So not only do we have the Holy Ghost within us; but we ve

39 38 The GosPel For The wife in israel been baptized into the fullness of Christ. And we are rejoicing and giving honor to Him! I want to begin reading in Luke, Chapter 4, Verse One. It says, And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit, as the Holy Ghost had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been crucified and glorified as John 7:37-39 tells us.) returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, When we look at John the Baptist, we see that he had to have the anointing of God, too. John didn t know about Jesus at the beginning, until God revealed it unto him. John said, And I knew Him not; but He that sent me to baptize with water said to me, whoever you see the Spirit descending upon and remaineth, that s Him, that s the Son of God. (John 1:33) So here is the Son of God, Jesus, being filled with the Spirit of God (Christ), being led into the wilderness. Verse 2 says, Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. Jesus had the most important job. John announced Him as the Lamb of God, and anointed Him as the Savior. It s here that we see Jesus before He went out to begin His active ministry He had to really go through a testing for forty days. He was already full of the Spirit; the fullness of Christ came into Him when John baptized Him. I want you to notice, God had a special work for Jesus to do; and He gave Him a special anointing to do that work. That is why Jesus said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. (Luke 4:18) Let s continue on with Verses 3-4. It says, And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. This is very important, because Jesus is not going to be moved one way or the other; His heart is fixed. (Like King David said in Psalms 108:1, O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. ) Nothing could change Jesus; nothing could make him go differently. But the devil evidently didn t know this. Because everybody that the devil had ever tempted, somewhere along the line he tripped them up. But here was one man (Jesus) who was going to stand His ground. And God has given us the anointing to stand our ground in this hour. He has equipped us to be here in a modern world with all the modern gadgets and all the nonsense that is going on around us. He has equipped us to be right straight up and down a Christian; for we are dead and our life is hid with Christ in God. In the things that God does, He gives trials and tests all along the way; and it is all for His purpose. And we are going to see here how the devil tempted Jesus and how Jesus overcame. Verse 5 says, And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed

40 GOD HAS WELL EQUIPPED US FOR THE JOB HE HAS CALLED US TO DO 39 unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. Now that is power right there. God allowed the devil to do this to Jesus. Satan showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the world in a moment s time; everything flashed before Him. Remember, Jesus was a man, and He was hungry, too; so the devil was going to try to take advantage of His weakened condition. And that is the way the devil tries to do. He hardly ever comes to us when we are on the mountaintop and shouting the victory. But he comes at us in times when he senses we are low or weary; maybe when we are sick, or when we are discouraged over something, or even when we are fasting and praying. He comes at us when we are feeling weak. See, the devil is no fool. The Bible says, The children of this world are wiser than the children of light, in the things of the world. The reason being is because we don t live in that worldly realm; we have been delivered out of it. We only operate in that realm to use the things that we need to get us through the world. But all the while, we know our riches and our life is in Christ. So the devil is going to try to kick Jesus around a little bit. The devil wasn t going to stop messing with Jesus Christ, because his aim was to stop Him. Here it s important to remember that Jesus is our example. He had laid aside all His claim to God; He laid aside His deity. Here, He is just as a man, and here comes the devil. Jesus had to prove something here. If He had been here in all His glory and all His power, He could have spoken the Word of God and the devil would have been obliterated. And even God charged the angels to leave the situation alone, don t go to Jesus yet, because this is a trial that He must go through. It is very important for us to understand that sometimes when we go through a trial, a testing, it is very necessary. We are children of God and we are in the hands of God and we trust God; and if He lets a trial come our way, then we quote that scripture, the trying of our faith is more precious than pure gold. There are many people that don t want to accept that, because anytime we find ourselves in a trial, we want to get out of it. And we will. Because there is no temptation that has befallen man which is not normal; and with every temptation He will make a way of escape and make a way to bear it. There is no time where something is going to come our way that is going to knock us off our feet; for we are going to survive no matter what. We are already survivors; we are already victorious! Hallelujah! The Bible says, This is your victory; even your faith. We know this. So should we worry about backsliding? Absolutely not. Yes, we will make mistakes and stumble along the way at times, because that is the course of man. We will do that; but we have a power, we have a source, and we stand here in faith. That is the only way for faith to be built within us the trying

41 40 The GosPel For The wife in israel of your faith. Faith can t grow unless it is tried. Here, Jesus is at one of the worst moments of His life out there in the wilderness alone after fasting for forty days and here comes the greatest tempter that there has ever been and ever will be, which is the devil himself, who is Satan. He said, If I can succeed here, then I can handle everything else. Because if this be the Son of God, and I succeed over Him, then nothing can stand in my way. The devil wasn t for sure if this was the Son of God. God hid certain things from Satan, because the Bible says, If the princes of this world would have known that Jesus was the Prince of Life, they would not have crucified Him. Because the day that Jesus was crucified, that was the day that Satan was defeated. That was the day that death was defeated. That was the day that victory was assured to you! Hallelujah! That was the day that our translation which the Apostle Paul spoke about was assured. Romans 6:9-10 says, Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. And we are in Him. So the devil was trying to succeed in coming up against Jesus. And now he is trying to succeed in discouraging the wife. This message of the last trump of God is so out-of-step with denominational Christianity that it makes us look foolish; it makes us look like we are off course. It makes us look like there is something wrong with us. Well, what they call something wrong with us is really something right with us; we don t blend with the worldly religious spirits. For we have come out from amongst the world, and we are filled with the Spirit and baptized into the body of Christ and we are the wife of the Lamb. Amen. Let s continue on with Luke 4:6. It says, And the devil said unto him, all this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will give it. Actually, Satan is lying here. He did strip the power from Adam there in the Garden of Eden; but God didn t give it to him. God didn t give Satan this earth. Yes, he is the prince of the power of the air; but this earth still belongs to God. This earth still belongs to the children of God and soon we will take it over. Satan says to Jesus, I will give you all this power if you will just yield over to me. Well, the thing is, I wonder how many have accepted that. He will promise different things if you will back off a little bit, if you won t go along with certain things. But here is this message of the last trumpet of God and it is so extreme, because it tells us that we are Christ the wife. And now we are dead and our lives mean very little and we count all things as dung. God has put us inside the body of Christ and He has equipped us. He has given us power, He has given us the Word, and He has given us a ministry. And in this last day of the living ele-

42 GOD HAS WELL EQUIPPED US FOR THE JOB HE HAS CALLED US TO DO 41 ment of the wife, He has given us a message. It started out with a shout; and continued with the voice of the archangel. And after those two stages, here at the end time the trumpet of God has begun to sound. And at the sounding of this trumpet, the dead in Christ will be raised and we will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. That trumpet is sounding today; that Word is here, and it s pushing everything back. And there is nothing that can stop it or hinder it; even though it is allowed to be tested, it s allowed to be tried, and it s allowed to look just as bad as it can look to the church world. But yet God is putting it on display. Yes, Satan is allowed to come and try us but he is a defeated being. Even when he tries to destroy Israel during the middle of the 70th Week of Daniel, and he is cast into the earth, the Bible says that he (Satan) has but a short time, therefore he goes about to try to destroy everything. But the earth is the Lord s and the fullness thereof. The earth doesn t belong to Satan and it will never belong to him. He only owns his people and the carnal things of the world. But right here in the midst of all the chaos that is going on around us, there are a people that have peace, peace, wonderful peace, coming down from the Father above! There are a people that have victory and they know that the one that they are dealing with is defeated; they know where he is going, and that he can never rise. And we have the knowledge to know that Satan is allowed to do certain testing and tempting. But the more he tests us, the more he tempts us, the greater our victory. The harder the trial, the greater and sweeter the victory! So we have victory and we have peace. Does it look bad sometimes? Yes, but we just rejoice more. Hallelujah! Like an old song says, When it looked like the sun wouldn t shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the sky! God s Word and ways always prevail. The thing we do is realize where we are at and that there s nothing more powerful in this world than the Word whose time has come to be fulfilled. Here we see the Son of God whose time had come to defeat the devil and put him to an open shame. And after this, Satan is totally defeated. Yes, Satan gave Jesus trouble. The spirit of Satan (the spirit of iniquity) was working in those Pharisees and Sadducees and they told Jesus, You are Beelzebub! They gave Him all kinds of trouble; but Jesus always obeyed God. He had one thing on His mind and that was to do what the Word said; and there was no power to keep Him from doing just that! We find that Satan even influenced Peter. This was in the days before the Holy Ghost was given. Jesus said, The Son of man must go to Jerusalem and there be crucified by evil men. Peter said, Lord, this shall not happen to thee! See, Jesus knew the plan of God, that He

43 42 The GosPel For The wife in israel would go to the cross. He said, For this purpose came I into the world. Jesus spoke to the spirit that was influencing Peter, Get thee behind me Satan. Jesus knew what He had to do and nothing was going to stop Him. The cross couldn t stop Him. The cross just opened it up and spread it out to everyone. He had within Him the Holy Ghost. His human spirit and the Spirit of Christ became one. He was a human being, just like we are, who lived upon this earth and defeated Satan on every turn. When He died on the cross the Bible says that He released the Holy Ghost. When He said, Father, into thy hands, I commit my spirit, the Holy Ghost was released and sent right into the church. We see that in Acts 1:8, where He had told His disciples before He left, There shall be given unto you power, after the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and you shall go forth and be witnesses of me. Then in Acts, Chapter 2, we see that what He said was brought to pass. We are not out here wondering if we can make it or not. Our victory is already assured. Will we have trials? Yes, and we wouldn t be worth a pinto bean with a worm hole in it if we didn t go through some trials. That is destined for us. Because the suffering of this world is not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us, and which now is being revealed in us. There is this message of the last trump of God going around and around the world. How did it get here? It came down from heaven. God ordained it! Many people from the different countries are downloading from the website the book entitled, Christ the Wife: A People without a Country; I guess they want to know who this is without a country. Well, here we are, take a good look at us. Our country is the Lord Jesus Christ; it is invisible. We have come inside the city of the heavenly Jerusalem, and we ve come to the spirits of just men made perfect. We are a spiritual people and our Captain has gone before us and has pushed back all the enemies. He didn t just tell us to do it; He was the leader, He went first, and said, Follow me! The Word teaches us to follow in His footsteps; for He neither sinned nor was guile found in His mouth, and He cared nothing about the things of the world. Unlike some of these men today that are calling themselves ministers of God and making themselves rich by selling their gospel and turning the grace of God into lasciviousness. It s quite different from the humbleness of Jesus and of Paul. When Paul went somewhere, he didn t go with first-class transportation. One time there were some people that were with him that sailed on a ship; but the Bible says, But Paul walked. In most cases Jesus walked everywhere He went, and even rode on a little donkey into Jerusalem to present Himself as their King; that was just before they crucified Him. Now we present

44 GOD HAS WELL EQUIPPED US FOR THE JOB HE HAS CALLED US TO DO 43 ourselves as the wife. Can you imagine what people think? They think the same thing they did when they saw Jesus coming down the road there on a little donkey, and the people saying, Hosanna to the King! But the religious leaders and those of like spirit said, He s not our King! Jesus came absolutely opposite from what they were expecting; but He came just like the Word of God said He would. It was the same thing when He was born. They expected Him to come and put the enemy down. Well, they weren t as much interested in His coming to start His Kingdom as they were of getting out of the Romans hands. Some of them said, If this be so, maybe He (Jesus) is the one that will deliver us from the Romans. But Jesus came and did His job. Again, I want to bring in what John said (I love it so much), I knew not who He was; but the one that sent me to baptize told me that whoever you see the Spirit descending upon and remaineth, that s Him. I bear witness that He is the Son of God (the Lamb of God.) Today, can we bear witness that He is the Lamb of God? If we can bear witness of that, can we bear witness that we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us and gave Himself for us? We are not just conquerors; but He equips us well for what He sends us to do. And in this last day He has sent us to do something, which is to become totally surrendered to Christ, get rid of the works of the old man and be a group of dead people walking around dead to the world and the things of the world, but alive unto God. Here was a man, the Captain of our salvation, who went out there in the wilderness and fasted forty days while the devil came to Him and tried Him in every way. But He stood; and He stood for you and me. That is why no temptation can overtake us and knock us off our feet. Yes, Paul was given a thorn in the flesh to buffet him; but that was all for his good. And if we get a thorn in the flesh, let s praise God for that thorn in the flesh. We may not know what it is, but we have a remedy for that. Paul prayed. He prayed one time and he didn t get the answer. He said, Lord, take this away (whatever it was that was aggravating him). He prayed three times. Then God spoke to him and said, Paul, my grace is sufficient for thee. Paul got the revelation, This thorn in the flesh is a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should get exalted because of the abundance of revelation. Well, we have an abundance of revelation today. We may go through some trials; we may go through some difficulties. Satan s hands are not tied that he can t tempt us; but his hands are tied that he can t destroy us. And if God gives us a trial, the angels of God know it; because God gives His angels charge concerning us. The angels are ministers sent to minister unto them that are heirs of salvation. But they know when to

45 44 The GosPel For The wife in israel say, Satan, back off, and they know when they should back off and let God give you a trial. If God allows the devil to give you a trial, then there is a little something that needs building in you. God has His x- ray machine and He can see what you need and what you need to get rid of. The Lord knows and the angels know. So if there is a little something that needs touching in our lives, we may need to have a little trial to get victory over it. I m so glad that He doesn t leave us on our own, and I m so glad if it takes a trial, some heartaches, whatever it takes, He will get us through. Jesus Christ is the greatest man that ever lived, and He was the only one that could do the job He did. And in this hour there is only one message, the last trump of God, that sounds and causes the dead to rise and the living to be changed. And it is going on now. There s trials, yes, but none of these things move me, because my heart is fixed and I count all things but dung. And I will sing and give praise to God, even with my glory! (John 17:22) I m talking about the wife of the Lamb here. And to me we are on display now and will be recognized by those that God ordained. Because when Jesus came forth from the dead, He was seen of many (on one occasion, five hundred at one time); not to everyone, but to those that were chosen to be witnesses. There will be those that know about this, and some of them will realize how foolish they have been in not rallying to the cry and not coming when the trumpet was sounding. Now there is a rallying call today and it is the voice of the trumpet. Not only is it rallying us; but it is the rallying call for those that are in the grave, as the dead are hearing this and have begun to move around. It s just like the vision of those dry bones in the Book of Ezekiel. God gave Ezekiel a vision of dry bones that were scattered throughout a valley and told him to prophesy to the bones. Ezekiel began to prophesy to those dry bones and they began to move around. And when the prophecy was over, every bone was in its place, and from them came a mighty army. Now we are prophesying again. There is something holding us together; it s the sinews of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then Ezekiel prophesied, Let flesh come upon the bones. God breathed the breath of life in them, and then they stood upon their feet and became a mighty army. There was a moving; there was a shaking! And there is a moving and there is a shaking today that has shook us and has got us in place; it has brought us into Ephesians 4:13-16 where the body is edifying itself. We are edifying one another, and God has well equipped us to do that. Like the song says, There s a place you are called to labor, though it s small and little known. Yet it is great because God is in it and He will not for-

46 GOD HAS WELL EQUIPPED US FOR THE JOB HE HAS CALLED US TO DO 45 sake His own. Everything is working together; absolutely working together perfectly! That is what God is doing to us. Sometimes people want to scourge us, but God keeps pouring on the blessings the books, and the audio and video messages have gone around the world. There is a little message called the last trump of God (little is much if God is in it). How did it happen? A little barefooted lad that stepped out of the mountains with a fourth grade education and with long hair and a dirty face announced, God has called me to preach! And everybody laughed me to scorn. My father said (and I don t know if he was making fun of me or if he was serious), If you are called to preach, you better go and get a necktie and some preaching license; you don t want to be bootlegging the gospel! And now look at this gospel more than fifty years later, it has gone all around the world, to every nation. Who did it? It wasn t me; it wasn t anyone else. It was the Lord that ordained it and thus it is. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever! So when I read about the trials of Jesus Christ, I see that He stood the test; He overcame for us. We don t have one worry in the world of overcoming. We ve already overcome in Christ. In Romans, Chapter 6, Paul indicated that when Jesus Christ died, we died with Him. How did we die with Him? God reckoned us with Him then. Hallelujah! When He overcame, we overcame. When He raised from the dead, we raised from the dead; and we can t die anymore. Amen. That was for the soul then; but now it is for the body, also. He said in the last day a trumpet is going to sound (1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4, and 1 Corinthians 15: Area 51), Behold, I shew you a mystery (a secret). And bless your heart, Paul is the only one that preached of this mystery. And this last trump of God message is revealing it. In that day there was one voice, one writer, one Lord and one Spirit, as Paul was the one writer that wrote to the espoused virgin in his day. And now there is one writer, one voice, and one message that is making the trumpet of God live and it is sounding out through the wife of the Lamb. There was a shout, which called us out of denominationalism. Then came the voice of the archangel (and we know that the archangel is Michael, who stands for the people of Israel shown in Daniel, Chapter 12, and Revelation, Chapter 12.); so a revelation came that showed Israel s place here at the end time under the second part of the fifth seal. But now there is the trump of God; and as it is sounding the dead are going to rise. And we which are alive and remain are going to be changed. Do you believe it? I m not going to read the rest of what happened in Luke, Chapter 4, when Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil, but

47 46 The GosPel For The wife in israel I will tell you this: Jesus Christ overcame every temptation. And then God told the angels to go and minister unto Him. They went unto Jesus and strengthened Him. God had equipped Jesus to take a message forth. And now God has this message; and He has equipped us to preach to all nations, and He has equipped the wife to receive. And now He is equipping a people to be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. We have no excuse, we are well equipped; we have a message of Christ taking on flesh and bones. Those souls (spirits of just men) that have gone on that are part of the wife, they are hearing the same thing we are hearing; they are becoming one with us in the Spirit. And when they arrive, there are a people here that can teach them anything they need to know that they don t already know. Some of them died in the Dark Ages not knowing this revelation, as they hadn t gone through the mystery of marriage. But the trumpet is blasting, and they can hear the trumpet sounding! And any lacking in their understanding, we are well equipped to help with a heart full of love. At the resurrection we will be gathered together. And then we will be caught up. That is what is taking place. There is a people who will soon see the dead walking among us, because there is a voice saying, Come on forth. It s time. This is the trumpet message. This is what you have waited for since the day you went into the grave. Everything that was in that body in the way of sin, in shortcomings, it decayed away with the body, and those members are going to come forth with a perfect body. And here we are to join in to be one with them. We will get acquainted with them in the bodily form. They may say, How about this? I didn t know this in my time. Well, we are well equipped to tell them; we have that anointing. When we leave here we will all be shouting together, having revival together, and all dressed in fine linen, clean and white. We all. See, they can t become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh until they take on their body, as that part decayed away in the grave; there is part of them missing. But here, we are all whole. And with us, the living, God has put it upon us that we get rid of the old man while still living, and we present our bodies a living sacrifice. The scripture says to put off the old man and put on the new man. And that new man is Christ the wife of the Lamb. I have so many things to say to you; but I don t have time today to speak of them all. It s like a well that you are trying to drink dry because the water tastes so good. It is an artisan well, springing up into everlasting life; the more you drink, the more there is to drink. The more you shout, the more reason there is to shout. The more revelation you receive, the more revelation He can give. So we are walking around as revelated beings. That is why we are so far from the things of this

48 GOD HAS WELL EQUIPPED US FOR THE JOB HE HAS CALLED US TO DO 47 world; they mean nothing to us. The last trumpet is sounding and it has a specific job to do. It s not to correct the world. This message is for the perfecting, for the building, for the marriage. The last part of the spiritual coming of Christ, the trump of God, gets a living people married to the Son of God as His Christ wife. Now I want to say this: What we are teaching, if those that have gone on before us in death don t know all about these things, you are well equipped to teach them. Not just the preacher; but you are. He equips you. You can give your testimonies Yes, there is a trumpet sounding. Yes, that is what has brought you up from the grave. Whatever is lacking, we can supply because we are the wife and they are part of us. The Word of God says that together we will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air (which is at the throne of God). And there is no lacking in the body. I want to read one other verse in Luke, Chapter 4. Verse 17 says, And there were delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias, And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, There is a place in the Word of God that is written for us. There are many people that have not found the place that is written for them, yet. But if you are the wife of the Lamb, you have found the place, the source, the living water for you. It is going forth. Through the website you can find it in audio, video, and book form; also you can get it through the cassettes, cd s and mp3 s, and paper-back books. There is no excuse for lacking. It is going around and around the world. There is a place that is written and it is written for us. And what is written for us is in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, Behold, I shew you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, And at the time this trump of God is sounding, the shout and the voice of the archangel have already taken place, and this message, the trump of God, is to change a living people and to raise the dead from the ground that are part of the wife. And we are well equipped. The Bible says that it is going to happen. And now the voice of the trumpet is confirming it and bringing it to pass. Some people say, I know that it will happen, but I don t know who it is going to happen to. Well, I feel sorry for you if you don t know who it is going to happen to. It just so happens that I know, because it is revealed. John said, He that sent me to baptize said unto me that when you see the Spirit descending and remaineth, that s Him. See, that is the time. And they gave Jesus the book, and He knew exactly where to go in the scripture, and He knew it was the ordained time for it. He said, This day this scripture is fulfilled. He said, This day! Can you see that it s this day that the trumpet is sounding? It s this day that this

49 48 The GosPel For The wife in israel scripture is fulfilled Behold, I shew you a mystery, the trump of God shall sound and the dead are going to rise and the living are going to be changed. And then there is a cry, O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? This is the time; this is the hour this day this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. Let s go on to Verse 18. Watch God, because He is going to equip Jesus. He equipped Him to get through the trials. He equipped Him to defeat the devil. And now He has another job for Him to do. The trial that He went through didn t get this particular job done; but now God is going to equip Him to do this job. (God is not going to send us forth unequipped. If He sends you forth to do something, He will give you the tools to do it with and there will be no lacking; therefore you will have no excuse.) Verse 18, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; Now watch. God anointed (equipped) Him to do it; and without that anointing He would still be a carpenter; but here came the anointing. And that anointing is on the wife of the Lamb, and it makes all the difference. That anointing came down in Revelation 10:1, a Mighty Angel, and we were baptized into that anointing. (Whoever you see the Spirit descending upon and remaineth that s us!) That Mighty Angel took on flesh and bones; and it is the wife of the Lamb. And that is who we are. We ve been equipped; we ve been anointed. We go forth and obey God and see the very things done that God has ordained. Now what we have come through is good for us, as the footsteps of the righteous are ordained of the Lord; and we were ordained before the foundation of the world. I preached a message some years back entitled, God s Success in All His Failures. Yes, God started out with Adam and Eve and it looked like He had a failure; but it was successful. Then later the earth got in bad shape and God had to send a flood and destroy that wicked generation; then God made another start. It looked like a failure but it produced Noah, a righteous man with a new start. God has well equipped us to do what He has ordained. We are well equipped to hear and sound forth this last trumpet message. We are well equipped to walk right into the translation of these mortal bodies. See, we can t do like they did in past ages. They died and were to be resurrected unto a new life. So the revelation that we are in now is the new life for them. This is that new life. We are now well equipped with the revelation of the Word that is for us, for this day, and we are expecting to see the dead walking right among us, because they will be raised first. In the days that Jesus came forth, the risen dead were on the scene for forty days, raised from the dead into their glorified bodies. I don t know how long we will be here after the wife saints are raised and we are

50 GOD HAS WELL EQUIPPED US FOR THE JOB HE HAS CALLED US TO DO 49 changed, because the Bible doesn t say. But however long it is, it is going to be sufficient time to get done what needs to be done. Wouldn t it be great to have a revival with the risen saints sitting right among us? Continuing on with Verse 18,..he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted (Now do you believe that part? There are some people that are broken hearted; but thank God there is some balm in Gilead. There s some healing power. He sent something to heal the broken hearted. And He has equipped us to do the job. If you have a broken heart, there is healing.) to preach deliverance to the captives (That s those that are bound with something and can t seem to get free. Sometimes they have to go to the grave to be free. But God has freed them anyway.) and recovering of the sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, A lot of people have been bruised over time and are carrying certain things around with them. Well, I can tell you about a man that came to deliver them that are bruised. I m telling you about a message that can deliver and set free; it has the power to do it. It has the power to say, Dead, get up out of the grave. Come on and join this revival; it s too good to be enjoying by ourselves! Verses 19-20, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, See, there is a book that is closed. We ate the little book. There are those that say, I m looking for the little book to come. No, it has been eaten; and we became that. So that part is closed out. And now we are saying, Except you eat our flesh and drink our blood, you have no part with us. We are the wife of the Lamb. We have a book entitled, The Chronicles of the Tenth Chapter of the Book of Revelation, and it shows how Revelation, Chapter 10, was fulfilled. Let s go on with Verse 20. It says, And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue was fastened on him. What was He doing? He was fulfilling scripture. When you are fulfilling scripture, bringing this, then you get the attention; especially if they are of God, this Word will get their attention and nothing else in life will matter. Verse 21, And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. We find on the day of Pentecost that Christ came back in the form of the Holy Ghost and separated Himself for each one of them to have a part of the Holy Ghost. But before He left in His glorified body, He told His disciples, You shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost will come upon you to bear witness of me. Now that applied to those that received the Holy Ghost. But now we are baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ, so double that for us. We are well-equipped! This is so good today. Not only did God equip His Son; but He was an example of what God will do for us, sons and daughters of God. Jesus came forth with a new body. Well, Paul said that our body is to be

51 50 The GosPel For The wife in israel redeemed. They are waiting for the redemption of the body; and this day, this scripture is fulfilled. Heavenly Father, we come to you, and I pray that you will move by your Holy Spirit. O God, I pray, that you will take these words and use them. And may we all see the Captain of our salvation and how that you equipped Him, and how He in turn equipped us. He said, These works that I do, and greater works shall you do, because I go to the Father. And He equipped us with the Holy Ghost, the power of God, the very life of Christ, and has ordained us to stand forth in this hour. Help us to be all that thou has ordained us to be, in Jesus Christ s name. Amen.

52 UTTERING THE THINGS CONCERNING MELCHIZEDEK THAT NEEDED TO BE TAUGHT AGAIN 51 IF THE CLOUDS BE FULL OF RAIN, THEY SHALL EMPTY THEMSELVES UPON THE EARTH The Place Where the Tree Falleth, There it Shall Be We are reading today in the Book of Ecclesiastes. This book of wisdom is said to be written by King Solomon; and I see no reason to dispute that. There are many sayings in here that are really good. Most of it stands alone as just a bit of wisdom and was also profitable as instructions to his son. The writing of Ecclesiastes is not like the writing of Paul. Some of the translators wanted to leave it out of the Bible because they didn t see how it was connected to the other books. But to me, I couldn t do without the Book of Ecclesiastes because it is part of the whole. Yes, there might be some things that are not understood as to what Solomon had in his mind; but then there are other things that just fall right in line yes, yes, yes! And I want to speak about a couple of those things. So I want to take a thought from Ecclesiastes 11:3 and entitle it, If the Clouds Be Full of Rain, They Shall Empty Themselves Upon the Earth. Now he is not necessarily speaking of It s coming up a cloud and it is going to rain, because that is something that would be obvious; but he had a different thought in mind. And what we learn from reading Verse 3 is that when the time comes for something to happen, it will happen. Now let s pray before we go any deeper into the Word of God. Heavenly Father, once again we come to you. And, Lord, as always, we come with thanksgiving in our heart, giving glory to you; because to you we owe all the glory. And we gladly give the glory. Not so much that we owe it; we just love to praise you, love to glorify you, and love to thank you because you are so good. I just pray this morning that you will not only anoint me to speak, but that you will anoint the hearers, and that we may all benefit from the reading of your Word and from the ministering this morning. We ask this in Jesus Christ s name. Amen. Now I want to begin reading in Ecclesiastes 11:1. It says, Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days. Again, this is not talking about going out to the seaside and casting some bread out there upon the water. No, these are deeds cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will return back to you. We take this to mean our work that we are doing; it could be deeds or the work of the

53 52 The GosPel For The wife in israel Lord. I thought about this when I came across a letter that I had found inside my Bible where I had put it not too long ago. The subject header of it is entitled, Appreciation. The letter came from a place called, Rukunjiri, Uganda, which is near the Rift Valley. The Rift Valley is kind of like our Grand Canyon that we have here in the United States. It s a part of the earth that has been pulling apart over the many years and has made a very long rift through the continent of Africa. It s an area that gets rain quite often; and there are banana trees growing everywhere. I have personally been in the different places in the Rift valley. There are people there that take the bananas and make what is called banana whiskey (which is like what we call Moonshine liquor here in the United States). I didn t go there to get any banana whiskey; but after preaching, they took me to do a little sightseeing. Anyway, in this letter a brother was thanking me for explaining about the 70th Week of Daniel, and for sending some materials, in which there was an audio message entitled, The Dangers and Pitfalls of Being too Judgmental, which really blessed him. He thanked God also for the anointing under which it was delivered; and he liked the way that I presented the messages. It really blessed us to receive his letter. We didn t post the letter to our website, as we don t do that. It would be all right to post them on our site; but I look at it this way: If I write you a letter, if it is to you personally, I wouldn t want it to be all over the world in a few days. So if someone writes to us, then it is between them and us. We don t post it out there, and that is just the way it is. So after reading this letter, Ecclesiastes 11:1 came to my mind, because the message entitled, The Dangers and Pitfalls of Being too Judgmental had been preached quite a number of years ago. It was bread that had been cast upon the water and now had returned and come back around to bless us again. Sometimes we are too judgmental on things, aren t we? And sometimes we misjudge things. This reminds me of a dream I had at the end of July in 2015, which showed me to be careful about judging by appearance. In the dream, I was planning to have some trees trimmed and maybe even taken down. I put the word out about what I wanted done. Then one day I was sitting in the house and there came a knock at the door. I got up and went and opened the door and there stood a young man that looked to be in his mid-20s or less, and I noticed he had a folder (notebook) in his hand. He said, Sir, I m here to apply for the job of trimming trees. Upon analyzing him and his size (very small), I thought to myself, This is probably not the man for the job; but since he has made the trip over here, I will get him to trim a few of the lowhanging limbs. While standing there with him, he opened up the

54 IF THE CLOUDS BE FULL OF RAIN, THEY SHALL EMPTY THEMSELVES UPON THE EARTH 53 folder and began to show me photographs of what he had done in the business of trimming and topping trees. I was shocked at what he could do. I then realized that I had grossly underestimated him. Judging from his size and age caused me to arrive at the conclusion that he was not the man for the job. But after beholding what he could do, I realized that I had misjudged his ability. Then I woke up. Sometimes we misjudge by appearance. But according to the photographs, he could do more than anyone that I could think of hiring for the job. So many times, we judge too quickly on certain things, and learn later of our misjudgment. Here, I want to tell about another dream I had approximately a month ago, which I have not told publically. I had a dream that the resurrection of the members of the wife had taken place (which I believe is close), and I saw some of the people. And to my surprise there was my (natural) older brother, James. When he was alive here on this earth, he was one that would serve the Lord for a while and really be in it, but it seemed he just couldn t hang in there for a long period of time. The fact is, he was the one that encouraged me to go to church when I was young, and he helped me in the things of the Lord. When I saw him in the dream, I thought to myself, This can t be. Because at the time of his death, he had turned heavily to drinking alcoholic beverages. So, I thought, This can t be so. But I looked and there he was. He was kind of like he was before he passed on, kind of standoffish a little bit. In the dream I was sitting around a table with some of the saints that had been resurrected and I motioned for James to come and join us, because he was standing off from us like he use to do before he had passed on. That was his nature. Many times he felt like he was not worthy to come in and worship with us, especially if he had backslid. In those days, when we first came into the gospel in the 1950s, people would often backslide and go back to their old way of life. And we were told that if one sinned that they would lose their new birth and would need to be born again all over again. But now we know if a person gets born again (just like their natural birth) one time, that s it! They can t be born again twice. In the dream, I thought, This can t be so. But there he was with basically the same nature, standing off a little bit, about twenty feet from us. I said to him, Come on. Come on and sit down! And then he smiled and came on. See, that was kind of his nature before he died. I got to thinking about Jesus having a similar nature in His resurrected body as He had in His natural body. We see Him talking with the disciples on the way to Emmaus. When they had reached their destination, Jesus made as though He would continue on the way; but they constrained Him to come in

55 54 The GosPel For The wife in israel and stay with them, and He did. He sat down with them to eat, and when He broke the bread in a certain way they recognized it and knew who He was. Notice, they didn t know who He was until they saw the way He was breaking the bread, then they recognized the resurrected Savior. Many times we can misjudge. We could misjudge the woman at the well that Jesus spoke to. We could misjudge the man that was condemned as a thief that was crucified with Jesus. He evidently was quite a criminal to be put to death like that; but somehow he had something in him. There were two thieves put to death, one on the left side and one on the right side of Jesus Christ. But this one particular man had something in him that the other one didn t have. The one man said, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other man rebuked the one man and said, Don t you fear God? We are receiving justly; for we are receiving due reward for our deeds; but this man has done nothing. And he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, today you shall be with me in paradise. (Luke 23:32-43) This man was a trophy of God s grace. So when this man died, he went down into paradise, which was a separate part of hell or the place where souls were kept before Jesus Christ came and died to pay the sin debt. But after Jesus went down and preached to the spirits in prison and rose from the dead, He brought all those redeemed souls up out of hell and took them and paradise up with Him. And all the other souls that were left there in hell are eternally lost. There s one thing about this man whom Jesus saved while on the cross, he didn t have to stay in prison very long; for he was there for only about three days and nights. Because when Jesus rose from the dead, He brought those Old Testament saints up with Him, those that had died in the Lord. He cleaned that place out of all the people that belonged to God. The Bible says in Ephesians, Chapter 4, that when Jesus Christ ascended up on high, He led captivity captive. So just as He preached to the spirits (theophanies) in prison (1 Peter 3:19), there was still some teaching going on after they were resurrected with Him and walked this earth for forty days. For during those forty days, He taught things that pertained to the Kingdom of God. The thief that was crucified along with Jesus probably knew very little about these things of the Lord, and he probably needed just a bit of teaching concerning the things of Christ. Let s read Ecclesiastes 11:1 again, Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days. There are hundreds of sermons that have been preached and have gone all over the world by postal mail and through our website; and now they can be heard all over the world.

56 IF THE CLOUDS BE FULL OF RAIN, THEY SHALL EMPTY THEMSELVES UPON THE EARTH 55 From time to time we get letters, and we can see that when the bread is cast upon the waters it will accomplish what it is supposed to. This bread means the Word of God. Cast the Word upon the waters and it will accomplish its purpose when we are in the will of God. Let s continue on with Verse 2. It says, Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. It seems Solomon is telling his son to share what God has blessed him with while holding back enough to keep for himself in bad times. He was telling him to be a responsible person, taking care of those that depend upon him; his family being first priority. Now here is where I m getting the title to the message, Verse 3, If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: The clouds emptying themselves relates to what is promised when the conditions are right. That s when it will come into being. and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. This means that certain things are going to be certain ways as is determined by God in every situation that pertains to the will of God. So before going any further, I want to drop something in right here that happened a couple of days ago. I was needing to cut the grass in our yard, so I put my work clothes and work boots on. I told my wife, I m going to cut the grass. She said, It s just too hot to get out there. And it was very hot; it was in the mid-90s. I said, I think I will be all right. Then she said, I think you ought to wait until its cooler. Please don t go. Please wait! Well, I was going on to cut it anyway. See, I m a little stubborn; I will admit that part. I think stubbornness is a good attribute as long as it is kept in check. I believe it is an attribute that comes from God, if used right. Well, I stepped outside, and it didn t look too cloudy and the sun was shining real bright. Then suddenly, it began to rain, and it rained as hard as I have ever seen it rain. Well, I came back inside. I thought, The grass is wet, so I ll wait and do it another day. So I came back upstairs and took my work clothes and work boots off and changed back into my other clothes, then I sat down in the recliner. I sat there watching it rain for about thirty minutes; then suddenly it stopped, and the sun came back out. For about an hour the sun just shined real bright, so I said to myself, The grass is dry now, so I can get out and cut it. But it was still very hot; that sun was just beating down. So I got ready to go again. I changed back into my work clothes, put my work boots on, and there I went. I tell you, you are not going to believe this, but it s true anyway. No sooner did I go downstairs and start out the door to cut the grass, it suddenly began to rain, rain, and rain! So I turned around and came back inside and up the stairs, and I met my wife coming through the house. She said, I didn t

57 56 The GosPel For The wife in israel have to ask you not to do it; someone else told you not to. So I changed back out of my work clothes and work boots and went and sat back down in the recliner. And do you know what? It suddenly stopped raining. But there wasn t any grass cutting that day. I finally got to cut the grass the next day, which was much cooler outside. So it eventually worked out. See, if the clouds are full, it shall rain. Maybe all of that happened about my wanting to cut the grass in order to bring this message to my attention. God lays things in His Word and He lets it lay there and it builds up and it builds up to the time it is to be fulfilled. And when the time comes for it to be fulfilled, the unwritten conditions bring to pass the written Word. Did you hear what I said? The unwritten conditions bring to pass the written Word. Now when we look at what was written for this day, we see it is happening as Ephesians 4:13-16 has come alive for us. Now I want to go to the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 7, and read about a prophecy. This prophecy is about the Lord giving a sign, which He cast upon the waters, and it just laid there for hundreds of years. So here is a promise that God gave through the mouth of Isaiah. And I want to bring this in because I love the fact that when Jesus Christ our Savior was born (Him being the central figure of all the Bible), it split history right down the middle between BC and AD. It started a new thing. Isaiah 7:14 says, Therefore the Lord himself (notice, the Lord Himself) shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Now every virgin in Israel could have prepared. They could have gotten their garments ready for a baby, and they could have gotten the baby diapers and the baby bottles ready, saying, I hope I will be that virgin! Remember, this prophecy was given 742 years before the scripture was fulfilled. See, when it s time, it is going to rain. When the clouds are full, get out of the way, because there is going to be a cloudburst. The scripture fulfilled exactly what was said. So when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law. Listen, I m going to make a statement and I want you to take this right. In order for the Word to be the Word, it has to be in season. Otherwise, you can just quote it and Paul called it, the dead letter of the Word, which is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And unless it is in season, it can be misused. I ve come through Pentecost and saw many good people go down roads of disappointment because a scripture says a certain thing and they tried to bring it into being before time. The Bible speaks of the lion and the lamb dwelling together; but if we try to put them together before the time, that lion will devour that lamb so

58 IF THE CLOUDS BE FULL OF RAIN, THEY SHALL EMPTY THEMSELVES UPON THE EARTH 57 quickly that it will make your head spin. But when the time comes, I promise you, the lion and the lamb shall lay together; and even the bear and calf shall feed together. All these things shall be in their time when the clouds are full, it will begin to rain to bring in the great millennium. In the Book of Deuteronomy 32:2, it says, My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Now let s fast-forward 742 years. I want to read in the Book of Luke 1:26-28, and then Matthew 1: As we read in Luke and Matthew, we can see how these two books come together showing the birth of Jesus, and the conditions surrounding this important event. But if we just read one of them, we don t get the whole picture. If we only take Matthew, then we will never know that there was an angel called Gabriel that came down and said to Mary, Thou art highly favored of God, and you will conceive and bring forth. But Matthew brings in Joseph, and how Mary was big with child, and the child being born, and the conditions surrounding this beginning of God bringing His Son, the Lamb of God, into the earth. See, when it rains when it was time He came. Let s begin reading Luke 1:26. It says, And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, Now the reason he is bringing in the sixth month is because Verse 13 of this chapter is telling about the angel Gabriel coming to Zechariah and telling him that Elizabeth shall bear him a son. This was six months before Gabriel came to Mary. So John was born six months before Jesus was. Verses 27-28, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin s name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. I tell you, if Gabriel comes and tells you that you are blessed; then you better believe you are blessed! We are blessed in the Lord, and the clouds are full and it has begun to rain for us in this end time. And soon there s going to be a cloudburst! That s why we are seeing just what the Word says being fulfilled. Because it is the Spirit. These things that we now see and hear have come into being because of the season of time. Continuing with Verse 29, And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. I think she stayed calmer than I would have if Gabriel came before me. When Gabriel came to Daniel, he fell down as a dead man; but the angel touched him and said, Get up, I want to talk to you. Then another time, after a visitation, Daniel stayed sick for three days. But Mary seemed to take it well. God prepares us for what He wants us to do.

59 58 The GosPel For The wife in israel He kept Mary from having a heart attack, because He wanted to use her in the future. Verse 30, And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. Well, in reading the Word and believing the Word, the Lord has given us the same favor with Him in the Spirit, because we believe the Word of God that He sends. I tell you, the clouds are full and it has begun to rain and the promises of God are coming to pass. And there s a people receiving it and are walking with God. And they are seeing all things come into being as God has promised. So the clouds were full for this prophecy of Isaiah, and here came the angel visiting Mary the clouds were full, and the raining of the Word of God fell upon her. Verse 31, And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. (Isaiah called Him Immanuel, meaning God with us.) Verse 32, He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: Verses 33-34, And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? She was sane enough (and God saw to it) to talk back to the angel. You have to be sane to talk to an angel. Mary was sane and sensible with her reasonable conversation with the angel that came direct from God. I love that. Verse 35, And the angel answered and said unto her (He came with the answer. I like Gabriel; he is one of my favorite angels. There s Michael, the one that stands for Israel. But I have a special feeling for Gabriel. Gabriel took the time and explained all this to Mary. There s one thing about it, he always comes with an answer.), The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. It s raining; it s raining; it s raining! That s what Mary could have said it s raining! First, the angel came to Zacharias to tell about John; and then here came this scripture concerning the very Son of God. All of this scripture that laid back there for over 700 years, suddenly it was right here coming to fruition. And that is the same thing with us today. Many of these things that have been written for our day has already come to pass; such as there s going to come a seventh church age messenger. Yes, it rained and he came. And now there has come into being all this that is written for us, which worked its way through Revelation, Chapter 10, as this rain fell, showing the spiritual coming of Christ in His fullness as the Mighty Angel. And now we are seeing it rain on Ephesians 4:13-16 and Revelation 19:7-8 for this day. Verse 36, And, behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also conceived a son

60 IF THE CLOUDS BE FULL OF RAIN, THEY SHALL EMPTY THEMSELVES UPON THE EARTH 59 in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. Zachariah and Elizabeth were old but God just renewed their youth. The rain was falling so that this could happen and their son John would become the forerunner of Jesus. But with Jesus, this was just a straight out miracle, because this was the Word made flesh; this was the Savior of the world coming into being. This was the one that would die as the Lamb of God, and this made Him worthy to take the Book of Redemption and redeem us all back to God. When the clouds are full, it will rain. And now there is some rain for us, because the clouds are full. Verse 37 says, For with God nothing shall be impossible: Now I want to ask you, Do you believe that? I think about what Brother Don told us about an event that happened to him and his father back up in the mountains many years ago. They had an old truck and the clutch went bad and stopped working. Back in those days there were not many auto parts stores where they could get a clutch, and it probably would have taken several weeks to get one mailed in. Well, after they got out of the truck, they just happened to notice there in a freshly plowed field was a clutch sticking up out of the ground as though someone had dropped it down before them. And it was the exact kind of clutch they needed! So they put it in and went on their way. Hallelujah! See, that s our God. How can we keep from shouting the victory every day? How can we help but praise Him? How can we contain our excitement? He is the great God that meets every need, and He does some things just because He is God. And that s what He was doing with Mary. So in Verses 36-37, he told Mary about Elizabeth, so that she would have someone to share this miracle with, because Elizabeth was going to have a child, too. And concerning both Mary s and Elizabeth s miraculous pregnancies, God let it be known, It s of me. Verse 38, And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. Be it unto me! Can you say that this morning, with all of your heart, with all your strength, and with all your might? Can you say, Be it unto me according to thy Word, Lord; let the rain fall; let the cloudburst come? The clouds are full, it s raining! Be it unto me! Help us to fulfill that which you have ordained for us in this day and this hour. I remember the dream that I had where I saw a king walking towards me and he was just freshly crowned. And I walked up to him and said, I am ready to do whatever you would bid me to do. It was a king like they had in Israel in days gone by; for he could have said, Cut that man s head off, or he could have done something else. But he said to me, Thou shall ride in my second chariot, and I want you to be keeper

61 60 The GosPel For The wife in israel of my papers. And there they are, back there the books! It has rained and it has produced a crop. The Word has been sown and now it is bringing forth. Now we come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves! Now let s go to Matthew and read where Luke left off. These two books were written a couple of years apart. Remember, Luke was not one of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. Many people seem to be surprised to hear that Luke wasn t one of the twelve apostles, but he wasn t. Matthew 1:18-19 says, Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. (Notice, Luke didn t bring any of this in. So if we just read Luke, we miss part of the picture. And it is the same if we just read Matthew; we will miss some real good things. So we have to read them both.) Verses 20-21, But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream (Gabriel has more work to do.), saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS, for he shall save his people from their sins. I really love this. He shall save His people from their sins. Watch. Verses 22-25, Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: And he knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS. Do you see how good God is? This was in a day when they still had some morality about them, Joseph said, What am I going to do? Mary has definitely been unfaithful to the espousal vows. No, I can t go through with the marriage; I ve got to stop this thing before it goes any further. How can I get rid of Mary without totally destroying her? Then here came the angel always on time. God never lets us make mistakes that are detrimental. He didn t mind Joseph thinking like that, because that was normal thinking. But when he actually began to put legs on what his thoughts were to bring them into being, here came an angel in a dream, saying, Fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. So we see that when God puts something in His Word, it s the unwritten conditions that bring to pass that written Word. On the Jewish Feast Day of Pentecost the Word says that the Holy Ghost came; but it doesn t say what all would be when the Holy Ghost got here. It doesn t say,

62 IF THE CLOUDS BE FULL OF RAIN, THEY SHALL EMPTY THEMSELVES UPON THE EARTH 61 Peter and John will be going up to the temple and there will be a man lame from his mother s womb. See, this was not written anywhere until after it took place. The apostles said to a lame man who was asking for alms, Silver and gold, have I none. But such as I have, I give it unto thee. Get up and walk! And the man began to leap and dance and praise God! These are things that were brought into being, although it was not written that it would be. We take what Philip did down in Samaria while preaching the Word. And the Bible doesn t say anywhere prior to this that they were going to have a big revival there. But he was having a big revival and the whole city was rejoicing, and then an angel of God came to him. And that angel said, Go down into the desert, and there will be a man. But it doesn t say anything in the Word about what would happen when he finished his work in the desert. But the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God, picked Philip up and he was found over in another city preaching the Word. That s the real Word. That is God s way of bringing that Word to pass and making that Word live. I ve been looking at a condition concerning the two beasts that are spoken of in Revelation, Chapter 13. One of the beasts that came up out of the sea has ten horns; and the body of that beast goes all the way back before Rome became an empire. And that one beast that came out of the sea had seven heads (seven forms of Roman government as it came through time), and ten horns, which are present tense governments (that are present now). They give their power over to the antichrist to rule. But then we read Verse 11 of that chapter, and here is an entirely separate beast he has been like a lamb, but he begins to speak like a dragon. Well, if we listen real good to one of our presidential candidates we might hear the lamb beginning to speak like a dragon in this presidential election. This means that something will cut the United States (the lamb beast) away from that European beast, because it has to be two separate beasts at the end time. In other words, it changes from globalism to Americanism. So let us keep our eyes open to see the next thing God will do here. There are so many of these things I could get today of how the Word came and it was filled exactly. There was Jesus when He was born, and how He lived thirty-three years here in order to show us human beings how to live for God. He lived such a life; like the people will in the millennium. And when Christ came upon Jesus, there was a seamless transition; then He began to be called Jesus the Christ. And I m telling you today, This scripture of 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 concerning the end time is now being fulfilled; the resurrection and the translation and the catching away this day this scripture is fulfilled. Now you say, Brother

63 62 The GosPel For The wife in israel Howard, you have stepped out on a limb, haven t you? No. Let s go to the Book of Luke again, Chapter 4 (and this is after Jesus came out of the wilderness after being tempted of the devil for forty days). Verses 16-21, And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. (I love that to heal those souls that have been bruised through time. We ve taken our knocks, our hits. And some people let it linger a little longer for different reasons. And we all have certain bruises. Like our precious Sister Atha said before she went on to be with Lord, I ve got knots all over my head; but I ve got peace, after coming through a long journey.) And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. Notice here, Jesus saying, This day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears, was not the ending of His ministry, but the beginning. Now did you catch what I said? This is important. Jesus said, This day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears, and He went forth healing the sick and raising the dead. And He had a three and a half years ministry after this. That began His ministry; not ended it. In other words, a cloudburst had come to that scripture. When the clouds are full it will rain. Now the clouds were full and then it began to rain, and that rain fell for three and a half years. There was something started. It s the same thing today it has begun to rain. It doesn t mean that it is all done; it means it has all begun. Do you see what I am saying here? I don t want you to take me wrong or misunderstand me. But what I m saying is when Jesus said, This day this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing, all eyes were upon Him. His ministry started then and lasted three and a half years. It didn t end there; it started there. This day! In other words, the anointing came upon it. That scripture was fulfilled, but not the ministry; for it took three and half years plus the forty days that He was here after resurrection. Do you see that? Do you see that when the clouds are full, it will rain? Meaning when it is time for something to come to pass, that is the way it is. I preached a message recently entitled, There is Nothing More Powerful than the Word Whose Time has Come to Be Fulfilled, and nothing can stop it; for with God, nothing shall be impossible.

64 IF THE CLOUDS BE FULL OF RAIN, THEY SHALL EMPTY THEMSELVES UPON THE EARTH 63 We ve cast our bread upon the water. That is what Jesus did. See, Paul cast his bread upon the water. He said there was going to be a rapture. He said there was going to be a translation. He said there was going to be a resurrection. That s for us; and we are going to be without spot, without blemish. And John said that we would be dressed in fine linen, clean and white, which is the righteousness of the saints His wife has made herself ready. This day this scripture is fulfilled. It has come into being, and we are living right in the midst of it! The clouds are full of rain and it is raining, and we are participants of it. God bless you. We see how if the clouds be full, it shall rain upon the earth, and cast your bread upon the waters and it will return unto you those are spiritual things. We see that when the scripture was written, saying a virgin would conceive, an angel came and brought it to pass. But there was nowhere that it said that she would be engaged to a man named Joseph. There was nowhere that it said that an angel would have to come and get Joseph straightened out on it. The only thing that was written was a little seed Word, and then the rain brought it to pass. Just like Romans 11:26-36; it shows that the gospel goes back to Israel there was a little seed Word. And now the rain has begun to bring certain things into being; for the gospel is now returning to the Jews. Let s pray. Heavenly Father, it s in the blessed name of the Lord Jesus Christ that we pray, and we thank you for your Word. We thank you for your goodness and mercy upon us all. May we walk worthy of the calling wherewith we are called. And, Lord, we thank you and say with your servant Paul that we weren t worthy of this grace, but you deemed it differently, you gave us the grace anyway. And we are so thankful for it. We bless your name and we praise you. May you reveal this message to your children. Amen.

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66 CHOOSING THE TIME AND PLACE TO DEFEAT OUR LAST ENEMY CALLED DEATH 65 THE QUICK AND POWERFUL WORD FOR RESURRECTION AND TRANSLATION We thank the Lord, honor Him, and glorify Him, because there is no other name given but that wonderful name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank God for all things; it is just so good to be part of Him. I m going to read in the Book of Hebrews 4:12, which speaks about the Word of God being quickened; and I want to entitle the message, The Quick and Powerful Word for Resurrection and Translation. The Word is not active Word unless it is quickened. It is the dead letter of the Word, until the Spirit comes upon it to quicken it and make it live. Then, and only then, will it produce. Otherwise, it is not going to produce, because it has to be in its time and in its season. In other words, when the time comes, it will rain. When this happens there is nothing more powerful than the Word whose time has come to be fulfilled, and nothing can stop it. But until then, it will not bring forth what is written to be. In the Book of Isaiah 7:14 there is a prophecy which says, Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. There was no profitability in that scripture for any virgin until it became quickened Word. We find the quickening of that scripture taking place when God sent the angel Gabriel to Mary. Luke 1:30-31 says, And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. She may have heard this scripture many times before, but no one had ever preached it as though it was getting ready to take place. This is like some today that preach about the physical translation and resurrection, quoting 1 Corinthians 15:51-55, Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality; then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? This scripture has laid there throughout the two thousand years of the seven church ages, and although they quote it, no one has ever taken it seriously by believing it is about to happen. They accept it as being the

67 66 The GosPel For The wife in israel Word because it is in the Bible; but when God quickens it, that puts legs on it, and it starts walking. That is what happened with Mary when the angel said, The Spirit of God will overshadow you, and you will bring forth a child. And she said, Be it unto me according to thy Word. Please remember here the dream I had of a freshly crowned king. I saw him coming towards me, and I walked up to him and said, I am ready to do whatever you bid me to do. Be it unto me according to thy Word. That s the way we talk when we have a pure heart. Let s pray before reading the scriptures. Father, we come to you now with your Word opened before us, asking you to take and bless this Word. May I speak words by thy Spirit that will be beneficial to your wife. This we ask in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Now let s begin reading in Hebrews 4:12. It says, For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword. Notice, this is Word that has come alive for the wife of the Lamb in this hour. (And there are scriptures that will be quickened when the 144,000 Jews preach the everlasting gospel in the last half of the 70th Week of Daniel. As with the millennial reign, when its time has come to be fulfilled, the scriptures pertaining to it will be quickened. But until the Word is quickened, we are just reading the Bible; for we know the Word has to be quickened for us to have perfect understanding. And when it s God s time, it becomes quick and powerful it takes on a life to bring to pass what is written.) piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, Notice, this is strictly referring to the inner man here. So what we are seeing in the first part of this scripture is the Word of God getting into the inner man, which is our soul and spirit. Then it says, and of the joints and morrow, showing it gets into the outer man. This clearly shows that there cannot be a middle wall of partition between the inner man and the outer man. So now just before the rapture, we begin to understand that there is no middle wall of partition between our soul and the Holy Ghost; there is perfect unity within us. We understand this because He is quickening that part of the Word that we may receive it; for it is the Word whose time has come to be fulfilled. As the Word for the wife of the Lamb is being quickened, He makes us such a new creature that we lose sight of this world; and the things of this world mean nothing to us anymore. We have one aim, one ambition; for there is nothing that we are living for but our Husband, the Lord Jesus. Yes, we work to make a living, and we have responsibilities, but we are just going through the motions while we are praising the Lord. Now the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, that s the inner man; but then it gets into the flesh. See, we become bone of His bone and

68 THE QUICK AND POWERFUL WORD FOR RESURRECTION AND TRANSLATION 67 flesh of His flesh. Again, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit (inner man), and of the joints and marrow (the outer man), Remember, the soul and spirit is not joints and marrow. Joints and marrow is having reference to the body. Paul said in his day, We wait for the redemption of the body. And now we have come into that hour as we have eaten the little book for the glorification of our body. When talking about the redemption story, I have said many times that we are not fully redeemed unless and until the body is redeemed. Many, such as the espoused virgin who fell away from the original Word, will be redeemed as they go by the way of the grave and are resurrected. No matter what condition the body is in, as it goes to the grave and decays away, God is going to raise that body and bring it back. It doesn t matter if there is nothing left of it, because God knows where everything is. He creates a spoken Word body and puts all the same attributes in each one, and the same individual personality, as they will still be an individual. When we look at Jesus after His crucifixion and resurrection, we find that He still talked and acted the same as He did before His death. The fact is, the disciples didn t know that He wasn t just another man until He began to break the bread in the same manner that they had seen Him do before His death and resurrection. In other words, the nature that was in that resurrected body had many of the similarities of the body that went into the tomb. Keep in mind here that I m speaking about the joints and marrow, which is in the outer man. Now we see that at Calvary through Jesus Christ, God redeemed the body along with the soul and spirit. This Word is quick and powerful, discerning between the soul and spirit. Yes, the Word says that it gets in the joints and marrow. Ephesians 5:29-32 says, For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. We are His flesh and bones; that means the Word has gotten into the body, as we present our body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service. And we bring all contrary thoughts into captivity to the obedience of Christ. We don t let contrary thoughts take a predominant place in our mind. I heard this saying many years ago and it has always stuck with me, You can t stop a bird from flying through the air, but you sure can keep it from building its nest in your hair. A contrary thought may come through your mind, a thought that you don t want anything to do with. But you immediately cast down imaginations, and the high thing that

69 68 The GosPel For The wife in israel exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. And we are now seeing inside the body of Christ that those type thoughts have trouble penetrating our minds, because more and more we have the mind of Christ. We are safe in Christ; we are dead and our life is hid with Christ in God. Now that is what this Word of God is doing; it s bringing into being a mind that thinks on the thoughts of Christ. So how can we become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh? Well, the trump of God shall sound and if we have ears we can hear it now, Behold, I show you a mystery (a secret which is revealed by this last trumpet sounding forth.), we shall not all sleep (die); but we shall be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. That means that while we are yet living we receive a glorified body. And now the Word has gotten into the joints and the marrow. The same Spirit that got into the soul and spirit has now gotten into the joints and marrow it s the quickening Word. And we are the quickened Word, walking around here and talking, standing right here as Christ in the earth, and only He is seen in us. That s why we are the very body of Christ itself. Amen. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 12:27, You are the body of Christ. Some might say, How can that be? Well, the Word is now quickened in us and we bear witness that we are the body of Christ, so that answers that question. Soon we will see resurrected saints walking right among us, just as it happened before. There is a precedent for making that statement. When Jesus Christ rose from the dead, then all those Old Testament saints came up with Him. The Bible says, The graves were open. That means that something came out of the graves. We find this in Matthew, Chapter 27. It says that the resurrected saints went into the city and were seen of many. They bore witness that the resurrection had taken place. We find in the days of Paul that the people were getting away from the trumpet (the Word) that was sounding; and the spirit of iniquity got on the people who wanted to build their own kingdom. And some of them began to say, The resurrection has already passed. They might have said, We can show you in the book that the Apostle Matthew wrote that the resurrection has already taken place. But see, there are three parts to the first resurrection. The resurrection of Jesus and the saints that were in prison was the first part. Then there is a resurrection for the wife of the Lamb in this hour. And beyond that, there is a resurrection for all the other saints in God s spiritual family. It s all included in what is called the first resurrection. That is why the Bible says in Revelation 20:6, Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of

70 THE QUICK AND POWERFUL WORD FOR RESURRECTION AND TRANSLATION 69 God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. Oh my, this Word makes me want to start shouting! But then I ask, Can a 77 year old man shout and still be alright? Yes, remember I am a 1939 model that has been brought up to speed by the sounding of this trump of God message. See, the Word is quick and powerful! Now there have been seminaries throughout time which have served a useful purpose in times gone by, because they taught the written Word; and people tried to live by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and that was good. But in this day and hour the world doesn t even go by the tree of knowledge. Tell them to read Romans, Chapter One, which deals with some of the moral issues of today. Remember here that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the written Word that has not been quickened. No, they don t care what it says. It doesn t make a bit of difference to them, because they re going to do as they please. Well, this shows they definitely don t have the quickened Word, because they rejected the written Word. They have never eaten of the tree of life, and have now rejected the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The Bible doesn t mean anything to them. But here came the Lord Himself in the fullness of His Spirit in this last day, and He began to quicken the Word and bring it to life to those who love His Word and are called according to His purpose. This Word is so quickened that it will even quicken those that have gone before; those that are in the graves will rise up first and be walking around among us. The Bible says that we will get together; our gathering together unto the Lord the dead and the living in the same category, all with glorified bodies. No doubt we will see them and talk to them before we are changed, and I m speaking here only of the wife. If something more is needed, we will be here for them just as they are here for us, because we are all members of one body, which is the wife of the Lamb. We know what this Word says, but how can we bring it to pass? How can the living be changed? How can it be so? Well, let me tell you, it can t be so until the Word becomes the Word that is quick and powerful. God quickens the Word; and quicken means He makes it come alive. Much of the Word has laid there all these years, but now it has gotten up and started moving. Just like that scripture in the Book of Isaiah, Behold, a virgin shall conceive; it laid there for 742 years, and nobody could do a thing with it. They could quote it all they wanted to, write stories about it all they wanted to, and they could never get anywhere with it. But then, when Gabriel came, he said, Now is the time. He came and put the anointing on it. It came time for God to bring that scripture into being; and nothing, nothing, nothing could stop it! It came forth, and there was a virgin that conceived.

71 70 The GosPel For The wife in israel So how can we bring it to pass, Brother Howard? We can t; but He can. We can t put corn on a cob; but God can. We can t make honey like a bee; but God can. Many things we can t do; but God can. No, we can t bring the Word to pass; but God can. And when the time on God s clock strikes the right number, there is no way that you can keep the dead from getting up. And there is no way that you can keep the living from being changed. There is no way that you can stop us from being caught up. And now this Word has come and is quickened; there is no way that you can stop us from being bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. See, those that are in the grave can t become His flesh and bones until they are raised. And when they are raised they are Word bodies that have an earthly connection with a mind that thinks as a glorified person, as the living members receive our glorification. Yes, at just a little nod of His head our mortal bodies will be glorified. Now do you see that the Word of God is quick and powerful? Verse 12 again, For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, Do you see the difference in the quickened Word? Joints and marrow has nothing to do with the soul and spirit. It has to do one hundred percent with the body the outer man. So it s still raining! The message last week entitled, If the Clouds be Full of Rain They Shall Empty Themselves Upon the Earth, showed that this cloud is full and it has begun to rain. And we are not using an umbrella for this rain; for we are getting soaking wet and are saying, I m just rejoicing in the rain in the one I love! We are not foolish; but we re wise in the Lord, because we have received that doctrine of the Lord that falls like rain. In the Book of Deuteronomy 32:2, it says, My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: And that is what it is now; it s falling like rain. Let it rain on me, let it rain on me, let the Spirit of the Lord rain down on me and quicken that Word! The Word of God is so good; but unless it is quickened, it won t come to life in you. The Word came to life in Elizabeth upon hearing the news of the Word growing in Mary. You can learn to quote John 3:16, but it has got to be quickened in you to produce. We which are alive and remain shall be changed, that Word is quickened unto us. I m talking about the wife that is caught up. I m talking about what is taking place now as God has quickened this Word. We know that the world is not going to see Jesus until He comes back with His angels in flames of fire, taking vengeance on those that know not God. So when He comes that way, every eye shall see Him then. But before this, the wife is going to the throne of God to take our posi-

72 THE QUICK AND POWERFUL WORD FOR RESURRECTION AND TRANSLATION 71 tion beside Him, clothed in fine linen, clean and white. Revelation, Chapter 19, John said that heaven was opened and he saw one sitting upon a white horse who was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness judged and made war. And coming with Him were armies which were in heaven and followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, clean and white. And there is only one group that is dressed that way and that is the wife of the Lamb. The rest of them are in white garments or white robes. So after the Word got into the soul and spirit, and joints and marrow, then it says, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. See, there cannot be the spirit of iniquity in the body of Christ, because the spirit of iniquity always has bad intentions. This Word is a discerner of thoughts. So, that is why you need to get rid of those thoughts that are not godly. If you are thinking on something that is not godly, just go ahead and say, Lord, cleanse me! If the heart has bad intentions, it is full of iniquity. What is the intent of your heart? It should be to serve Him, obey Him, do His will, and please Him. Your intentions has got to be, Just serving Jesus is all that matters, and your life will never be the same. This Word has been caught up into the air. We are the message; and the message is in the air. Now in the natural, when using the website, there s the media called the cloud. That s where our audios, videos, and publications are. So it can rain anywhere in the world! It s no wonder people come on the website and get these messages and listen to them over and over. Thank God He made a way where people all over the world can get the Word. When one of these messages pass through that cloud, and there is somebody that loves the rain and needs the rain, it will begin to rain on their garden. Thank you for coming to meeting today. For we have been called out of the world, called out of denominations, called out of false beliefs. God bless you. Let us pray. Father, we thank you for another privilege that you have given us to speak your Word and to talk about your Word. I pray, Lord, that you will put your blessings upon it; that you will quicken it. Unless you quicken it to the hearts of hearers, it will be in vain. But I pray that you quicken this Word for thy glory, in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

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74 73 A LINE OR A BARRIER THAT DEATH CANNOT CROSS The Lord is so good to us all the time, and we thank Him and praise Him for what He is doing in this hour. Today I m going to be speaking on A Line or a Barrier That Death Cannot Cross. We want to start this message by reading in the Book of Exodus where God turned loose the death angel, the destroyer, on Egypt because they had refused to obey the Word of Lord which told them to let His people (the children of Israel) be released from captivity. And although God imposed this death sentence upon every firstborn in the land of Egypt from the firstborn of Pharaoh, unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon, and even all the firstborn of the cattle our good and merciful God gave them a way to escape that death sentence. And this was the very first time that a group of people were given a way to escape death in the natural realm. This miraculous event took place just before the deliverance of Israel, who were God s chosen people from Egypt. Now God is doing a similar thing for the wife of His Son. This is the mystery that He has revealed by the Word which was reserved for us; it is this last trumpet message, which is sounding forth in 1 Corinthians 15: He has given us a total deliverance from death; whereas in Egypt, He only gave them a temporary reprieve from death. So God s people were temporarily made safe from natural death. But before we read the Word today, let s have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we pray in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the name that is above every name, which is the key, Lord, that you have given us; for you said that there is no other name given under heaven whereby we must be saved. And, Lord, there is power in your name. And as the apostles went forth, they used the name; they always prayed and spoke the Word in the name of Jesus Christ, and Lord you blessed them. So today we come to you in that name, asking you to put your blessing upon the Word as we speak it. Lord, I pray that you will open the spiritual ears of the people that this is meant for, and that each one will receive from thy bountiful hand, that which thou hast provided for us today, in Jesus Christ s name. Amen. In the Old Testament, God let many things happen that serve as types and shadows, of which we have in Egypt, showing a group of people overcoming death. That s why we sometimes glance back over our shoulder and get some good thoughts out of what took place in other ages, remembering what Paul said in Romans 15:4, For whatsoever

75 74 The GosPel For The wife in israel things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Even though we are reading today about Moses time, it shows at that time the hand of death was stayed (stopped) on a people. Even so now there is a condition for the hand of death to be stayed; for the clouds are full of rain and are emptying themselves in the earth. And as we read this today, we see this condition. Now let s turn to the Book of Exodus, Chapter 12, and begin reading in Verse 12. It says, For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, Now I want you to notice in this chapter that this was a natural happening to a natural people. You might ask, Brother Howard, aren t we in the Spirit? Why go back to the natural? Well, during that time, that was something that happened in the flesh, and our physical body is still in the flesh. And now in this last day, Christ has made us bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh as we came into the fullness of the body of Christ. And now there is a natural happening to a spiritual people. The children of Israel were natural people, absolutely; and death couldn t come near them. Notice that death couldn t come near them. And they knew that death couldn t come near them. Now that was really something to be thankful for. And this is the revelation that the wife of the Lamb gets in this hour. Paul prophesied about a spiritual land that death couldn t enter. (1 Corinthians 15:51-52 and Ephesians 4:13-16) This is where he said that the dead shall rise first, and then we which are alive and remain shall be changed. This was laid in the Word so that we would know that even our flesh couldn t die. The Word that speaks of overcoming death has now been quickened to us, the wife of the Lamb. Again, Verse 12, For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, (Now I want you to notice this night; for there was a set time. They weren t guessing; they knew exactly what was going on. And in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, we see that at the time the trumpet sounds the dead are going to rise and we are going to be changed. So we won t be shocked at what is taking place.) and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. I tell you, there are many gods in this land that He is going to execute judgment against before we get to that great millennium. Verse 13, And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. Here God was bringing a separation as He let the death angel come through the land of Egypt. But He gave protection for those that would hear His Word and come inside the door that had the blood applied to

76 A LINE OR A BARRIER THAT DEATH CANNOT CROSS 75 the door post, which death could not pass through. Let s go to Verse 21. It says, Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. This is something which tells us that there had to be a lamb, and there had to be bloodshed (for when I see the blood I will pass over you). This shows us that the blood of Jesus Christ, who is the real Lamb of God, was shed to bring redemption to God s family. Since the blood was shed, we take full advantage of it, and it doesn t cost us a thing; just be obedient to God. Verse 22, And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. Notice, we have to pass through the blood. We have to come in. And when we come into the fullness of the body of Christ, then we are no longer the espoused virgin, but we are the married wife. And there s one thing about it when we are inside, we don t come out fooling around with the denominational gods of Egypt. We stay right there and are protected (and it doesn t cost a thing to be there) and the death angel passes right over us and we escape the death sentence that is put upon all the world. We know that the Holy Ghost is given for the salvation of the soul; and we still have the Holy Ghost, thank God! And the Holy Ghost is sent to lead us and guide us. And that is what the Holy Ghost is doing this morning He s leading us and guiding us. But wait; there s more the Holy Ghost was only the first leg of the spiritual coming of Christ. But God didn t make this mystery of 1 Corinthians 15:51 known until this last day at the second leg of the spiritual coming of Christ. This was something that Paul didn t explain in full as it wasn t written until the Book of Revelation, Chapter 10, showing that it is for the end time wife. So now we see clearly the second leg, which is the fullness of Christ coming in the form of the Mighty Angel, as He set His right foot upon the sea and His left foot upon the earth. This prophecy of Revelation, Chapter 10, was written many years after Paul had gone to be with the Lord. But before He went on to be with the Lord, he gave a prophetic utterance that would come to pass for us who are living, and it wasn t to come to pass until now, as this Word of we which are alive and remain is being quickened; and we are the people receiving it. And now there is a line drawn. This trumpet message draws a line or creates a barrier. And we know this because we have come to for the trump of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, and we shall be changed. So if your question is, Is the trumpet of God sounding? The wife without any hesitation answers with a re-

77 76 The GosPel For The wife in israel sounding, yes! Now when we look at the children of Israel down in Egypt, we see that they went through the door where the blood was put around it; and death couldn t come through the door. The Word was protecting them. It says, Smite the lintel (top part of door) and both sides of the door post. In other words, Take that hyssop and dip it into the blood and put it around the door opening. And once we go in there, the death angel can t come in unto us. The death angel will have to pass over us. That s why I read the scripture, When I see the blood, I ll pass over you. When I see that you are in the body of Christ, when I see that you are married to Him, when I see that you are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, when I see that you are hearing the trumpet message, when I see that you are hearing the Word and have become part of the Word, then don t worry about the death sentence anymore. There is no use to worry! Many people worry about different things. I was talking to Brother Clifford here and he said to me, I guess I don t worry about anything. I said, Yes; I have been learning over the years that it doesn t change anything. When we worry about something it doesn t make it any better or any worse. And when the situation works itself out, we find out that whether we worried or didn t worry it came out the same. This shows us that certain things are going to be a certain way. In other words, If the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be. I love the scripture in the Book of Philippians 4:6, which says, Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Don t let anxiety get on you; shake it off if it tries to get on you! The things that are going to come, many times they are going to come anyway. So we can worry about this or that, but it is not going to change the outcome. I have been there myself, too; and I m not saying that I won t ever worry about anything else. But I m saying this, I m learning that my worrying is for the most part in vain. I m learning that worrying can kill faith. I m learning that worrying can drag us down. When God saw the blood on the doorpost, the death angel passed over all that had the blood applied. Yes, we might hear the wails of Egypt with all the things going on and people dying all around, and we might want to get worried or get scared. But no, all we have to do is look to the doorpost. And if the blood is there, that is a barrier, a line that the death angel, the destroyer, cannot cross over. This is like when Jesus went to the garden and prayed, and the death angel was there ready to grab Him and take Him away in the natural. But when He prayed, God suddenly let Him know that He didn t have

78 A LINE OR A BARRIER THAT DEATH CANNOT CROSS 77 to die. He let Him know that He was empowered to call twelve legions of angels to deliver Himself. But had He done this, He would have been the only person to ever have a holy ghost. Jesus spirit was holy and the fullness of Christ was dwelling in Him. We could say, He had everything fixed. God gave Jesus a choice; He didn t have to die. But Jesus knew by revelation what the scriptures said concerning Himself. If He had saved Himself, He could not save others. The chief priests mocked him with the scribes and elders, and they said, He has saved others; but Himself He cannot save. If you are the King of Israel, come down from the cross, and we will believe you. And also, the one thief that was being crucified with Jesus said, If thou be the Son of God save thyself and us. Well, if He would have saved Himself, He couldn t have saved anyone else. So He let Himself die, so we wouldn t have to die in our sins. He said, For this purpose came I into the world. Not my will, Father, but thine be done. And upon being crucified He cried with a loud voice, It is finished, and gave up His ghost. That is what we have today; that is the Holy Ghost. This precious gift of the Holy Ghost was let loose and it was made available after the blood was shed at Calvary. Jesus said to His disciples before He left and was taken up to the throne of God, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. (John 14:12) Well, they didn t know how it would happen or how it would all come about. But they found out on the Jewish feast day of Pentecost when the Holy Ghost came, because they went forth healing the sick and raising the dead. And all that were sick were brought and laid on the street; and as Peter walked by, his shadow fell upon them and every one of them were healed of whatever was ailing them. And now we are seeing the greater works. We were praying the other night for Sister Leah (prior to this I had been thinking on Peter s shadow passing over the people, and when his shadow touched them, they were healed). In the prayer, I said, Father, let this prayer pass over our sister. And as the prayer passes over, let it be as Peter s shadow was, let it bring complete healing. And I spoke the prayer by inspiration. If Peter s shadow did it; why can t our prayers? I want you to watch here in the Book of Exodus, Chapter 12. They had come in, into a place that death couldn t come. And I am telling you that we have come into a place where death can t come. We have become the wife of the Lamb. Even while it was happening with the children of Israel while in Egypt, they were in the natural realm. This shows us a picture of what is happening in this hour in the natural

79 78 The GosPel For The wife in israel realm, as the dead are raised and we which are alive and remain are changed our bodies being in the natural realm are changed into glorification, just after the other members of the body are resurrected. Now there are two parts to our salvation. The Holy Ghost brings one part; but the fullness of Christ is the other part He came in Revelation, Chapter 10, and we were baptized into the fullness of His body, which revealed unto us both legs of His spiritual coming. So now there is full salvation for the spirit, soul, and body, because we have received the fullness of the stature of the man Christ Jesus. This means that we have become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And we which are alive and remain that are hearing this trumpet sound have overcome death. We are not going to the grave, but we shall be changed in a moment and in the twinkling of an eye. Because we not only have the Holy Ghost but we have the fullness of Christ. We have come through that door and we see the blood on the doorpost; and as we have come in, the death angel cannot pass through the place that God has prepared for the wife of His Son. The death angel can t get into the fullness of the body of Christ. We are hid with Christ in God. Let s continue on with Exodus 12: It says, For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer (or allow) the destroyer (or the death angel) to come in unto your houses to smite you. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever: So the death angel that destroyed the firstborn in Egypt has no power over the wife of the Lamb. And as we look at this in the Book of Hebrews, Chapter 2, we see how that Jesus by the grace of God tasted death for every man. So if we go ahead and die anyway, somewhere we are lacking something. Right here on this, I want to bring in the fact that they killed a lamb and it was to be without blemish, a male of the first year. And it couldn t be an old broken down lamb. In other words, it had to be the best they had. It had to be a perfect healthy lamb. That is what Jesus was when He died. He was a perfect healthy lamb, a man that was able to make good decisions. He was the Lamb of God; and He said, I will go to the cross. Father, I will obey you; for I have come to do all thy bidding. So He did that for us. (It s the same with the wife of the Lamb as we are here to do all His bidding.) And one thing that I want to say about this lamb the blood was shed to keep the death angel away. But God also said that they cooked the meat from that lamb; and they ate the lamb (that Word), and that gave them strength. Now I want you to watch. When we came into this last day and were baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ, He gave us food. He

80 A LINE OR A BARRIER THAT DEATH CANNOT CROSS 79 gave us the little book, and we ate it, and it gave us strength. And this shows us what the eating of that lamb was. The blood kept the judgment off. The blood kept the death angel at bay. We want to eat that Word. Jesus said, My body is meat and drink. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood shall not die. Jesus continued talking to them, saying, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not the bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven, and gives life unto the world. This bread (Word) that I give, you shall eat and live forever. (John 6:31-32, 48-58) So those that ate what Moses gave, they died, all except the elected whose souls were saved by the shedding of the blood of the lamb. We see a similar happening with the Gentiles during the seven church ages, as those ages received only enough of what Paul gave to keep their souls alive as they were taken in death, until the time of the resurrection of their bodies. Moses gave us a type of this when he saved back a golden pot of manna that would never perish; it wouldn t breed worms. Every bit of manna that fell would breed worms if it wasn t eaten on the same day, and on the Sabbath it would last for two days. But the manna that was in the golden pot that was put into the Ark of the Covenant would never die, it would never breed worms, it gave life; and each one of the priests would be able to eat just a little of it. That s the way it was with Paul s message until the fullness came. The Apostle Paul laid a prophetic message in and it was caught up and reserved in heaven, and it is called the little book. It was kept inside the Ark of the Covenant (the Book of Redemption, shown in Revelation, Chapter 5); but it was brought down when Christ came in His fullness, which is shown in Revelation, Chapter 10. And now that the seven thunders have uttered their voices and the mystery of the seven church ages of Matthew, Chapter 13, and Revelation 10:1-7 have been made known to make room for the Voice of Authorization which spoke again, it shows that the silence in heaven of Revelation, Chapter 8, and the opening of the seventh seal have already taken place. Then the voice from heaven said, Go take the little book and eat it up. As soon as this was said, we gladly obeyed, and we ate it up! Then He said, Prophesy again. And we began to prophesy as we left Chapter 10 of the Book of Revelation and came into Ephesians 4:13-16 where we have reached the fullness of the perfect stature of the man Christ Jesus. And these messages that you are hearing and receiving show that we have eaten the little book and kept on moving into this quickened Word that is for resurrection and physical translation, which is the eternal Word of God. That s prophecy.

81 80 The GosPel For The wife in israel In the Book of Zechariah 13:1, we find that there is a fountain that is open to the house of Israel, and it says, In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. This is speaking of the day that we are now living in. The fountain was open in the days when Jesus Christ died on the cross. And that fountain is the blood of Jesus Christ. It was open then, but Zechariah 13:1 shows that it gets renewed; it s made fresh. It s a fresh revelation of a fountain that is flowing back to Israel. So as the gospel goes back into Israel with the power of the Word, once again this gospel (key) opens the door of revelation and the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed there on Calvary. This puts the blood on the doorpost for the wife of the Lamb that is in Israel. There are certain things that are happening in Israel now; and there is going to be much more. (The Book of Joel speaks about when they see God begin to move and the judgments begin to strike that all the while there is a revival going on.) There is now a people that are hearing this message that is for the wife of the Lamb. We are neither Jew nor Gentile, as the middle wall of partition has been broken down and we are baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ. And we don t go through the death sentence, but we shall be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, and be caught up to meet the Lord at His throne, while the two prophets (the two witnesses, the two candlesticks that are before the throne of God) do their part, which is a different working of God. (Revelation, Chapter 11) But it is the same power of God that works His own will in all His children. So the same Word goes back to the nation of Israel. Now as this prophetic part of Paul s message has broken down the middle wall of partition, there is neither Jew nor Gentile, as both people make up the wife of the Lamb. And today that is something that many people have problems understanding. Why? Because it s a mystery; just like the fountain that is open to the house of Israel. And it wasn t just opened in this last day, but it has been open since crucifixion. The revelation of what happened was lost; but now the meaning of it has been restored back or renewed for the closing of this age. Now I want to get back to showing that both the Jews and the Gentiles have become the one body of the fullness of Christ as we accept the Word of God that is given to the wife of the Lamb. It was in Rome where Paul s ministry began to shine and where much of the prophetic Word began to come forth. He said, These things were hid in God (not hid in the Word, but hid in God). And that is what God is revealing today, things that have been hid in God. It s been hid in God that there would be a little group of people called the wife of the Lamb; not the

82 A LINE OR A BARRIER THAT DEATH CANNOT CROSS 81 carnal church world, but those called and chosen from both the Jews and the Gentiles to be married to God s only begotten Son. God sent this message that is gathering the people together for their baptism into the fullness of the body of Christ, and this group passes under the lintel; and when the death angel comes by, it has to back up. I want to get to this point here; not only was the blood of the lamb put on the doorpost, but they ate the Lamb for strength. See, the eating of the lamb. That is the eating of this Word. The Lamb is Christ. And the eating of this Word gives us strength. That is why we listen to these messages over and over, the Word for this hour, this trump of God message it s important to eat this Lamb. You have to eat this Lamb to get this strength. In other words, the Word is Christ, this message is Christ Christ the wife of the Lamb; and we want to eat that Lamb, who is the Word. The Lord is so good to us that He sent us a message to give us that strength. We look at it from this standpoint you come in through the door, you come through the blood, then you don t need any works to keep the death angel at bay; it s the fullness of the Spirit that does that. This is one thing that we want to see that is recorded in the Book of Romans, Chapters 9-11; for these three chapters show that the Jews sought it by works; they thought they had to do certain rituals. But Christ is the end of the law to everyone that believes. Now can you believe that? The only thing that Moses and the children of Israel had to do to escape the death sentence was to come inside the house where the doorpost had the blood on it. They didn t have to do any works. (They did the works before they went in, because they had to kill the lamb and then put the blood around the door post. Then after they got inside, there were no works going on there, so they praised God and ate the lamb.) They just had to come through the blood and come in, and that would take the death angel away. Now overcoming the death angel is not the only thing we have in this hour; but we are growing in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord, and we believe God s Word that is coming through this trumpet sounding. We believe God and are changed! O what God wrought in Jesus Christ when He raised Him from the dead. (Ephesians 1:20) Even in Moses day, the children of Israel had to have faith when they came into the house. They believed Moses Word; they believed if they came through that door that was the barrier, a blood barrier, and the death angel couldn t get passed that blood barrier. Well, this message is a door. Some years back, I had a vision, and I saw a key dangling before me. My wife and I had gone to bed and we hadn t fallen asleep yet, when suddenly, I saw a key dangling in the air

83 82 The GosPel For The wife in israel before me. I lifted up my hands and was reaching for it and talking out loud during the vision to my wife, There s a key. I see a key. My wife said, What are you talking about? I said, There s a key; don t you see it? She said, No, I don t see anything. There it was, right there before me; and I kept trying to grab hold of it, but couldn t. I needed about an eighth of an inch to be able to reach it. But it wasn t time yet. Then I came out of the vision. This is something that God has now given to us. This is the key (the little book of Revelation, Chapter 10) that unlocks the mystery of marriage to a body of people that are neither Jew nor Gentile (a people without a country), thus creating the wife of the Lamb. The Word of God says in Proverbs 4:18, But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. And we have come into that perfect day. This message opened the door to come into the fullness of the body of Christ and all of God s blessings for us as our inheritance as the King s wife. When you hear this Word and believe this Word, you are coming through that blood made fresh, that fountain made fresh by your personal revelation. The body of Christ has come through the blood and the death angel has to pass over us. That is what the Passover is about. God said, When I see the blood, I will pass over you. But then He said, Eat the Lamb. If your family is small, two or three families get together and eat that lamb. See, eat that Lamb and it will give you strength. If you are by yourself somewhere, eat that Lamb. If you are in a group, eat that Lamb eat that Word, and rejoice in the Lord! God has made a way for this message to be put in the cloud, the internet, and it can be heard anywhere in the world. This Lamb, the Word for this hour, will absolutely cause you to become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, spirit of His Spirit, mind of His mind, and that royal blood will flow right through your veins. And you can t die when you eat it, because it does away with the death sentence. See, the blood has been shed and its effects continue the fountain is still flowing. Jesus Christ doesn t have to die twice. But what it is it s a revelation of that blood that was shed. It s a revelation; it s an eyeopener! Just like the two disciples that were on their way to Emmaus. They walked with Jesus all day long; and they loved what He was saying so much that their hearts were burning from the gracious words that He spoke, that they wanted Him to come in and abide with them and rest and eat before He went on His way. But Jesus made as though He was going on. These disciples weren t going to take no for an answer, so they constrained Him to come in their house and eat with them. And Jesus finally gave in to their pressure and came in and sat

84 A LINE OR A BARRIER THAT DEATH CANNOT CROSS 83 down. He took the bread and broke it in a certain way that they had seen Him do before, and suddenly their eyes were open and they knew Him. See, that is what it is! The blood of the Lamb (what took place at Calvary) will never lose its power. When we speak of the blood in our day and our time period, it s not the chemistry of the blood anymore, but it s the Spirit of the blood, which is the life of the blood. So the predestinated Jews in this day realize it takes the blood of the Lamb; and that blood was shed at Calvary. We find in the Book of Hebrews, Chapter 9, that there is no more shedding of blood; but to them, it s as though it is just happening, because it is that fresh. I say to any sinner, anyone that loves the Lord, anyone that is led by the Spirit to accept Jesus Christ (for no man can accept Him unless the Father draws him) that blood will be just as powerful as it was on that day that it was shed on Calvary. Remember here, I m not talking about the chemistry of the blood so much. In the Old Testament and through the seven church ages, it was talking about the natural blood. And only in recent years have we been bringing in more and more that it s the life that was in the blood that made the literal blood effective. And the doorpost is not a natural doorpost anymore; because by one Spirit, we are baptized into one body. And here is a message that will do just that! In the Book of Ephesians, Chapter 4, beginning with Verse 13, it shows that we are in a different working of God than what we have been in. We ve come through that door where the blood was on the lintel and each side of the doorpost. In other words, we ve walked into the place where the death angel cannot come. Verse 13 says, Till we all come in the unity of the faith, Watch, there is a till there. In other words, Paul is telling us how it was and how it s been till we get into this place. (In Egypt, God smote the firstborn of Egypt, and the children of Israel would have died like all the rest, but there was a certain time they could go in and the death angel couldn t penetrate couldn t get through the barrier. The point is, everyone that went in and walked through the blood, it did something for them. There was an invisible shield. And when the death angel came, it had to automatically stop.) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: When we came to the knowledge of the Son of God, then that brought us to the place where we are now. We have the knowledge that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born of a virgin named Mary. And God had Jesus to live an ordinary life, in the sense that God let Him lay aside His deity; and Jesus lived here for thirty years before the anointing of Christ came into Him. But when the Holy Spirit came within Him (which was the very Christ of the Bible), He became Jesus

85 84 The GosPel For The wife in israel the Christ. Then after He was crucified, He became the Lord Jesus Christ, because after He was resurrected, He said, All power is given unto me, in heaven and in earth. (Matthew 28:18) In other words, God took the limitations off and He could use the power as God Himself would do. Notice, before crucifixion, Jesus Christ had the Holy Spirit, the Christ. And the Spirit was given to Him without measure to accomplish the will of God and to obey God. Before Jesus went to the cross, He said, At this time, I could call twelve legions of angels and destroy all those that seek to put me to death. But did He do it? No. He did the will of God. And He is our example. And now the fullness of the Spirit is given to His body in the earth without measure but only to do the will of God and to obey God. And we say with the mind of Christ, Not my will, but thine be done. And I realize that the only ones that this message is revealed to is the wife of the Lamb, those that are ordained, those that are baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ, and those that are hungering and thirsting. So if you are hungering and thirsting for these great things, then this message is for you. This message is going all over the world; it s the blood on the doorpost. We come into it, being the selected group that is spoken of in the Bible we which are alive and remain. We find this in 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4, and then we bring that over to 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, where it tells us what is in store for we which are alive and remain and how our physical translation is going to be. Paul said, I show you a mystery, (This was a mystery that was hid in God before the world was.) I show you a mystery, that we which are alive and remain are not going to die, but we are going to be changed. How is it going to happen? By this trump of God message that is sounding forth; the dead in Christ are going to rise first and we are going to be changed. Here we are talking about coming inside the body by being baptized into Christ by His Spirit. That s coming inside; that s our crossing over to where the death angel can t come through this barrier. It can t touch you. And we have to know this for ourselves. We have to know this by revelation in order to have faith for ourselves. We will see this trumpet message for ourselves as part of the wife. If there were some (and I don t know if there was or not) that didn t go into the house, if there were some that didn t put blood on the doorpost, the death angel would not make any difference between them and the Egyptians; for there was only one place of safety and that s where the death angel can t go. And there is still only one place; it s being baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ. That means being baptized into this message, hearing this trumpet sound, eating this made fresh

86 A LINE OR A BARRIER THAT DEATH CANNOT CROSS 85 Lamb of God, which means the Word for this day and hour that we are living in. Again, Ephesians 4:13, Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: The point here is the wife of the Lamb has the works of Jesus Christ because we are the wife of the Lord Jesus bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. We ve got the same flesh that He s got. We ve got the same bone that He s got. We ve got the same Spirit that He s got. Why? Because we are Him these twain shall be one flesh. (Ephesians 5:30-32) And that is what has taken place. Let s continue on with Verse 14. It says, That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, If you are still being tossed to and fro, then you are still bringing some of that natural mind with you. Put your mind in that Word; walk with the Word. If there is a little shadow of doubt, then rebuke that shadow of doubt; because this is the door, this is the place, this is the house; this is the way, walk ye therein. We ve come through the door, we ve come through the blood that was made fresh, made real again to us. Now in this message, we have noticed that the children of Israel went into their house where the blood of the lamb was applied; the blood had built a barrier and death could not cross it. They had escaped this awful plague. When Paul spoke of overcoming death, he could see that once the blood was applied as God showed, we could say, O death, where is your sting? O grave where is your victory? Yes, Paul prophesied about this. And he said, We which are alive and remain shall be changed. Do you believe that? Then if we which are alive and remain are to be changed, then something has to stop that death angel (the destroyer) that destroys all others. Now there s a people, the wife of the Lamb, who has no doubt; for we have heard the trumpet sounding and we believe. Therefore, we are rejoicing in the Lord and are shouting the victory! So again, the title of my message is, A Line or a Barrier that Death Cannot Cross. There is a barrier that the death angel cannot cross. There is a line drawn there is this message it s the Word. Some might ask, Where is that message, Brother Howard? Some others say, I thought it would be this way or that way. No, it s what we are hearing; and it s in simplicity. It s the way God always does things. It s the knowledge of the Lord. This is not for the world; it s simple and it s taking place now and here it is. I hope that this has helped you. I pray that as we go forth today, that the Spirit of the Lord goes with us. In the Old Testament, God had to tell the Jews, When you walk in the way, talk about the Lord. When

87 86 The GosPel For The wife in israel you lie down, talk about the Lord. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7) But for us, there is nothing else to talk about; for now with our baptism into the fullness of Christ, it s hard to stop talking about the Lord long enough to get anything else on our mind. And that is so wonderful! That is what is on our mind, that s what we talk about, that s what we love, because that s who we are and that s what we are eating, that Lamb, that Word. And now it is expressing itself through us. And I m referring to the Lamb as being the Word for this hour. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we bless your name, and we thank you for your love, goodness, and mercy. And I pray, Lord, that you will take these words and use them for your glory. And may it bring a new hope to the people s hearts. Let us all realize that we have come into the house, the blood has been shed and we have walked through that door, and the death angel can t get through. We ve come to the place in time where it is a reality. So I pray, Lord, that you will bless us and help us all, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

88 INTRODUCING CHRIST TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE 87 WE HAVE COME INTO THE PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD We re reading in the Word of God today from the Book of Ephesians. In this book, we find that Paul avoided, for the most part, writing about any rules of do s and don ts to the espoused virgin, because it s a revelational book written in a prophetic manner. It s the same way with the Book of Colossians and some of the other books that Paul wrote while in prison. These letters came at a time when he wasn t out fighting with the denominations or religious systems. He was a prisoner in Rome doing what God ordained him to do in the last part of his calling in the apostolic ministry. So having said that, I want to take a thought and entitle it, We Have Come into the Perfect Knowledge of the Son of God. This is one of the things the Word says we must do as we are baptized into the fullness of Christ. I remember very vividly when we would look at Jesus Christ as though He was the second person of three persons in the Godhead. We were taught that Jesus Christ was the second person in the Godhead; then there s a third member of the Godhead called the Holy Ghost. But we never could get it put together in a way where we felt good about it. But here in the Book of Ephesians, the Word of God talks about the full knowledge. And now God has given us that understanding; because we have come to the time where we have reached the fullness of Christ. It s at this time that we are in this fullness rather than in part. When Paul spoke of in part, he let us know that when that which is perfect is come, we will see this Word in its fullness very clearly. Now let s pray before reading the Word of God. Heavenly Father, we come to you, thanking you and praising you for your mercy and for your goodness. Lord, as we open the Word of God and look into the Word, we thank you for your mercy upon us and for granting us thy precious Word. We can say with your servant Paul that we didn t deserve this mercy, we didn t deserve this grace; we didn t deserve any of these things, Lord. But you didn t give unto us mercy and grace because we deserved it, but you did it because it s after the council of your own will. And now Lord, it seems that you have made us trophies of your grace in this end time; and we thank you for it. Now, Lord, we re going to speak on your Word here, and as always, we depend upon the anointing of God to say something that will bless your children. In Jesus Christ s name, we thank you for granting us this great grace that is upon us. Amen.

89 88 The GosPel For The wife in israel Let s begin reading in Ephesians 4:13. It says, Till we all come in the unity of the faith, Here Paul was talking about spiritual things when he said, till. He said, This is the way things will be till we come to a certain place. And we have come to that place. There have been specific things that have happened to show us this. One of the things that Paul spoke of was the spiritual coming of the Lord; and he spoke of it as being in three parts the shout, the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-17) And then we look over into the Book of Revelation, Chapter 10, and we find a Mighty Angel coming down from heaven. This is the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ coming in His fullness. He is seen here in angelic form, clothed with a cloud and a rainbow was upon His head, and His face shined as it were the sun, and His feet as pillars of fire. In His hand He had a little book open, and He set His right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth. And since this has taken place, it has changed the thinking of the wife in a special way, helping us to realize that now as the Lamb s wife, we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. God began to show the revelation of the two legs (fullness) of His spiritual coming. And as John continued to write about this Mighty Angel, he said that He cried with a loud voice as a lion roaring; and when He did this, the seven thunders were revealed. And we ve come through that time period. Then He gave us the little book to eat that hadn t been available before. I preached a certain message in 2009 in Zimbabwe, way out in the country so far out that I thought to myself, Do you mean there is a church out here? And to my surprise there was a church, and a good sizable congregation out there where you would think no one would be. And the people were enlightened on the Word enough that when we preached, for the most part, they knew what we were talking about. There I preached a message, Obtaining That Which was Previously Unobtainable (which is available on audio and video). Get that word previously. Well, that is basically what this till means in Ephesians 4:13, which shows us the fullness of the spiritual coming of the Lord. He gave us a little book that was not obtainable till (meaning it was not previously obtainable until) He came down and the Voice of Authorization, the Almighty God, told us to go to the angel and take the little book. It was showing John, who at the time was typing out the wife. But later, John didn t have to type the wife, because the fullness of Christ came and we became the embodiment of the Spirit of the Lamb, the Christ in the earth. And this revelation is to the wife alone. So Paul is writing here of how things have been. But then he goes on to say that there is coming a time when it s not going to be like this; there is going to be a change. And he made it clear by saying, We look

90 WE HAVE COME INTO THE PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD 89 through a glass darkly, but when that which is perfect is come then we will see eye to eye. There are other scriptures laid in the Word indicating that Paul was looking for something. He said in Philippians 3:12-14, Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Paul had his part of the gospel and he knew the limitations of it, but he also knew that what God had promised He would do. He realized that he wasn t going to be living to partake of this part; but would be here in the resurrection to partake of it; but he said, I espouse you as a chaste virgin to Christ that I might present you to one husband. Well, he didn t get the fullness, but he left us a message that got the virgin engaged to Christ and started us on down the road toward this marriage that we are now enjoying. Continuing with Ephesians 4:13, Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man (perfect understanding), unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: Now that shows we have reached a place where we have obtained that which He has ordained for us just before the rapture. Now watch as we look at this today. The first thing that he says here is that we come into the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God. Now the knowledge of the Son of God is something that hasn t been made known very well up to this time. Jesus said, All things are given to me of my Father: and no man knows who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. (Luke 10:22) So the complete knowledge of the Son of God hadn t been made known until this hour. And to see this revelation in the Word in its fullness, we go back to the man Melchizedek that Paul began to speak about in the Book of Hebrews, Chapter 5. This man was an expression of what Christ would be when He came in the flesh. In Chapter 7 of this same book, it says that Melchizedek was without beginning of years and ending of life. That means the one that Paul was talking about had a Spirit that didn t die. Also the Word of God says that he had neither father nor mother. Now what does that tell us? Melchizedek was a created being of God that He used for a specific purpose. And what Jesus did in the garden, this man Melchizedek did a similar act, as Paul explained to us in his writing in Hebrews, Chapter 5. We see that Jesus prayed in the garden, and this man Melchizedek offered up strong crying, also. And he didn t die. Melchizedek overcame death like Jesus did there in the garden. The difference here is that when Jesus overcame death, He

91 90 The GosPel For The wife in israel then voluntarily (using His own will) died for the sins of the people; whereas Melchizedek didn t die. He was a beautiful type of the wife who does not die. Now Melchizedek could not be our Savior for these reasons. First of all, he wasn t born; he was created. He wasn t part of the normal human family. And he wasn t tried and tested in all points like as Jesus was. In Philippians 2:5-8 it says that Jesus became a bondservant. In other words, He laid aside His deity and became just like an ordinary man. I ve said before, and I hope you don t mind me being repetitious it s like a man that is extremely wealthy, who had enough money that he could give a large sum to many people to help them. But he knew that it would only serve a temporary purpose. That s why Jesus became a servant; He got out there and showed us how to live. The Bible says that He is our example. So this would be like a rich man saying, No; I m not going to give you money, but I m going to get in the ditch with you and show you how to do this thing, show you how you can make it. And that goes back to a proverb If you give a man a fish, he s got something to eat for that day. But if you teach him how to fish, then you don t have to give him fish anymore, because he will catch his own fish now. Now don t miss this. This is a statement that will bear in here heavily. Jesus became a servant; and everything He did was strictly by faith in God and not by certain rights that He had. He told us, These things that I do, shall ye do, and even greater things. That s the thing I really want to bring across to you. Jesus did things by faith. And Paul said, These things that I do are by the faith of the Son of God. Galatians 2:20; that s a good scripture I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. The faith of the Son of God is tested faith which never knew a failure. So here is something solid and stable; and at no time can we say, Don t expect to do the works of Jesus Christ, because that was Jesus, God s Son. That s the reason He could do it. No, He laid down His rights of being God s only begotten Son and became just like us, in order to be our example. When He was baptized by John and Christ came into Him, God gave Him the Spirit without measure, yet He still did the things that a normal man would do, aside from the miracles, the power of God, and preaching the gospel. In other words, He didn t come down here just speaking things into existence and speaking things out of existence; but He showed us that it was by faith that He did what He did, so that we could do the same thing, according to the will of God, if we used the same faith that He used. And that is His faith the faith of

92 WE HAVE COME INTO THE PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD 91 the Son of God. Jesus Christ lived His life here, being tempted and tested in all points, and showing us how to live like the Son of God. He said, These things that I do, and greater things shall ye do because I go to the Father. Meaning, more of these things shall ye do, because we are more in number. We ve seen that (starting on the day of Pentecost) as the apostles went forth preaching the gospel and the sick were healed and even the dead were raised. They didn t have a single failure they were operating by the faith of the Son of God. Well, that comes by being obedient to God, and being led of the Spirit. Here I want to mention the story of Jesus as he healed a blind man. The Pharisees wanted to know who it was that healed him; and when the man that had been blind told them that it was Jesus, they said, We know that He has a devil. And the blind man said, Whether He has a devil or not, I don t know. But all I know is that I was blind but now I see! And I think many of us can say we were blind but now we see; or we were blind in part but now our vision has become clear. See, that s what Paul was talking about here till we come to a certain place, then there is an understanding that comes with our movement in Christ. Now we cannot understand the Son of God unless we have some revelational understanding of Melchizedek, because that s part of it. Paul brought this together in a way where we by revelation can understand what we are reading. In the time of Paul s writing, he realized that one would have to have revelation to get the meat of the Word as he showed Christ in both Melchizedek and Jesus. So Paul said, Of whom I have many things to say, which are hard to be uttered, seeing that you are dull of hearing. At this point, I want to suggest to you that you might want to read our book The Wife s Covenant, because there are two chapters in it speaking of Melchizedek, which are Christ the Great Connecter Between Melchizedek and Jesus, and Uttering the Things Concerning Melchizedek That Needed to Be Taught Again. Paul told them, You can t receive this now. That was showing that there was something about this Melchizedek that was great, that was wonderful, and that was needful. But it takes a revelation to understand it. And the people in Paul s day that he was writing to couldn t receive it at that time. But now in this hour, there is a body of people who are receiving it. And it is bringing great joy. So here we find the knowledge of the Son of God. And first of all, we want to realize the Son of God did not come into existence in any way, form, or fashion until a little baby was born of a virgin named Mary. That was the beginning of the Son of God. And even before God ever anointed Him, He let Him live thirty years here; and He had favor with

93 92 The GosPel For The wife in israel the people. He grew in stature in favor with God and man. But when Christ came into Him, it was the same Christ that was with Melchizedek, and it was also the same Christ shown as that Rock (stone) in the wilderness. (1 Corinthians 10:4) So this Christ that was the stone in the wilderness, took on a soul and became a permanent part of the Lord Jesus Christ. (And that same stone (Christ, the anointing) in the wilderness that helped the children of Israel, later became a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense to them, as shown in Romans 9:31-33, as they sought the righteousness of God by the works of the law.) We see that Jesus had a nature that was good, as He presented Himself to God. This is why Paul said for us to present our body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable. The man, Jesus, had a nature that fit perfectly and seamlessly with the Christ that came into Him at baptism. So when Christ came in, Jesus began to be called Jesus the Christ, and He went forth and did the works of God. Then later He was called the Lord Jesus Christ, especially after He raised from the dead; for after He had resurrected, He said unto His disciples, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. (Matthew 28:18) So we see God blending together the Christ with His Son. And now the Son was as eternal as the Christ has always been. So as we get the knowledge that this man Jesus Christ (the Son of God) had the same Spirit in Him that was on the man Melchizedek, we see how the actions of Melchizedek and Jesus resembled one another very closely. (Hebrews, Chapter 5) So Melchizedek had a specific purpose, just as Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God had. Notice there is no place, no indication, anywhere in the Word of God that Melchizedek was the Lamb of God. And we don t receive the spirit of Melchizedek as a person; although we receive that Spirit that was in this created person, which was Christ. But Jesus Christ, who was born as a human, and He alone, is the Lamb of God, and He had a soul that He developed by the life He lived. And when we receive the Holy Ghost, we receive the life of that soul, which is eternal life. And we are embodied with the Spirit of the Lamb of God in this hour as the wife of the Lamb. Now we begin to get understanding of Jesus. Was He eternal? Yes, but it was in Word form until born of Mary. Jesus was eternal in the sense that we are eternal. In Ephesians, Chapter One, it says that God predestinated us in Him before the world was. And neither the Son, nor any of us, came into being as a preexisting soul. Jesus was not a preexisting soul. A soul is what you build as you go through this life; so just the Spirit of Christ apart from the man Jesus didn t have a soul for it was a spirit, an anointing, the power of God. That s why God never takes our mind away from us. He never takes our mentality away

94 WE HAVE COME INTO THE PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD 93 from us in the sense that He makes us be a certain way and we don t have any control. No, God didn t make us that way. And I like the way He made us because it gives us liberty and choices. So Melchizedek had the Spirit of Christ in him. And that is what came into Jesus when He was baptized; and from then on He wouldn t have to die. That Spirit of Christ worked with Jesus just exactly like it did with Melchizedek. But Melchizedek was a created man that did not have a soul that he could send back on anyone to give them eternal life. Melchizedek didn t die and he offered up strong crying unto God and was heard. Well, Jesus did the same thing and He was heard. And when He was heard, He said, I could call twelve legions of angels at this time and save myself. But said, But for this purpose came I into the world. In John, Chapter 18, when Judas (the disciple that betrayed Jesus), along with a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came to get Him there in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus was ready to go fulfill His purpose. Peter drew his sword and cut one of the servants of the high priest ear off. But Jesus just reached down and put his ear back on and told Peter to put his sword away. And He went with them and was tried without a lawyer. That s why I ve always loved the song, I ll be a friend to Jesus. My life for Him I will give. It says He stood there without a friend. There was no one to defend Him. They asked Jesus, They say you re the Son of God; are you? He never did deny it. He knew what was about to happen because He had told Peter not long before this, The Son of man must go into Jerusalem and be put to death by evil men. That s when Peter said, Not so, Lord! But Jesus came back with, Get thee behind me, Satan. Thou knoweth not the things that be of God. It wasn t that Peter was Satan; he was the great apostle who had been given the keys to the Kingdom. But that spirit that was trying to get Jesus not to go to the cross was a contrary spirit that was influencing Peter; because Jesus had said, For this purpose came I into the world. He came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost. And there were many opportunities He had to defend Himself; but He said, The will of God be done. Many of us, if we faced death and we could call twelve legions of angels, what would we do? Well, that would depend on our purpose. We overcome death because He overcame it. Hebrews, Chapter 2, says, He tasted death for every man. Notice, Jesus using His own will died. He died for us, so if we go ahead and die anyway, then we are lacking something. When Jesus was facing death, He prayed in the garden, Let this cup pass from me (in other words, He didn t want to die). But He knew the will of God and His purpose. Here was the fullness of Christ standing there, He didn t have to die in the flesh; for He had overcome.

95 94 The GosPel For The wife in israel But He died anyway. He lined up His will and God s will together. Now with us, because of what He did, we don t have to die a physical death in this hour, as the trump of God is sounding and is saying, O death, you can come no further; for Christ has taken on flesh and bone again through His wife. The blood that was shed on Calvary brings full redemption. So we use our own will not to die, because our will and God s will for us are the same. We, the living members of the body of Christ, have come into the fullness of Christ where there is no death. And it s at this point we are glorified by the sounding of the last trump (trumpet) of God to meet with the resurrected saints without ever having to die, as we the body of Christ overcome death. (1 Corinthians 15:51-52) Paul began to talk about Melchizedek, associating him with the Son of God, showing that it was the same Christ in both men; but each one was here for a different purpose. But the Son of God is the only one that is the Lamb of God. And He will be the Lamb forever and ever and ever; because we see the throne over in the eternal age, and the Bible says, It s the throne of God and the Lamb. But it s not shown by scripture anywhere that Melchizedek served any place in the plan of redemption after he set the type of Christ. But the type stopped at Melchizedek s disappearance after his Word was finished. And this created man went out of existence and was seen no more. But the Christ that was in him is eternal. The type was over with there. Again notice, Melchizedek had neither father nor mother, beginning of days nor ending of life. But the Christ that was within him is eternal. It was the same Christ that came into Jesus and that is now in the wife. Now here in this end time, we ve reached the perfect knowledge of the Son of God. And we can t have the knowledge of the Son of God without having the knowledge of Christ. Otherwise, we would have an eternal Son back there in the beginning with God, which existed only in God s Word. But Paul said that in the end time we would have the full knowledge of the Son of God, and reach the stature of the fullness of Christ. We would be the perfect man, Christ Jesus. In other words, we are going to express everything that was in Jesus Christ; and we can t do it without being baptized into the Spirit of the Lamb, as the Spirit of the Lamb embodies itself in us. In the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 53, the Bible talks about the crucifixion; it says, He poured out His soul unto death, that inner person of Jesus. And on the day of the crucifixion, when the last drop of blood drained out from Jesus, the Lamb, and life began to depart from Him, the Book of Luke 23:46 says, And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up

96 WE HAVE COME INTO THE PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD 95 the ghost. In the Old Testament when someone died, it s said about them, They gave up the ghost. The spirit and soul of man was spoken of very calmly as ghosts. And now people have all kinds of stories about ghosts. There s just one ghost that I am interested in, and yes, I have that ghost! The Bible calls it the Holy Ghost. In Saint John, Chapter 7, we learn even more about the Holy Ghost. Jesus said, He that believeth on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. This He spoke of the Holy Ghost which was not yet given, because Jesus had not been glorified, He hadn t released His ghost yet. The first time the Holy Ghost came to this earth, which is the Spirit of the Son of God, the Spirit of the Lamb of God, the first time that took place was on the day of Pentecost. And it was commonly said, We received the Holy Ghost. But now in the last days, God has revealed a mystery that s been kept secret all through the years, that there are two legs of the spiritual coming of the Lord. The first leg of His coming was on the day of Pentecost, while the second leg took place in Revelation, Chapter 10. And now there is a people that have come into complete unity, as we are now within this body. Let s pick back up with Ephesians 4:13, Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, That s what I m talking about today. We can t have the knowledge of the Son of God unless we know that Christ (the Spirit) and the person of the Son of God became one. And now in this fullness of the spiritual coming, He has made His abode in His wife. And there s many other things we could tell you about Christ; but to sum it all up, Christ has found His resting place in us, the perfect man. Now we can say, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: Watch. Christ couldn t have His fullness without Jesus. Jesus couldn t have His fullness without the Christ. We ve come to the full knowledge, unto the perfect man, and unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, the whole thing that s His gift to His wife. Now to sum up what we ve just been reading: The reason that we received the knowledge of the Son of God and became the perfect man and reached the fullness of Christ is because He came down in Revelation, Chapter 10, to take on flesh and bones again. We reach the fullness of Christ and that s our marriage to the Son of God. (Here I want to reiterate, and I believe that you will agree with me that it s as Paul in Philippians 3:1 said, Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. ) We ve got the fullness of the Son of God. We ve got the knowledge of the Son of God. And in order to have the knowledge of the Son of God, we had

97 96 The GosPel For The wife in israel to reach the full stature of the man Christ Jesus. And we received that fullness of Christ (and not just the first leg) when we came into Him (at our baptism into Him). The first leg is the baptism of the Holy Ghost which is for the salvation of the soul. Peter said, Repent every one of you and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is the guarantee for resurrection; but our baptism into the fullness of Christ guarantees translation, and it s to we which are alive and remain. Do you love Him with all your heart now? I appreciate you. I love you. And I want to thank you for coming out today. It s so wonderful to see you. Wonderful, why? Because we are part of one another. It s here in Ephesians 4:13 that the Word shows us three stages of what s necessary for our revelation and understanding of our King and Husband, as we received perfect knowledge of Him. First, the knowledge of the Son of God; and second, the perfect man; and third, unto the fullness of Christ by the Spirit that came into us. By this we get this fullness. The full stature again that s the wife of the Lamb, and that s us. Amen.

98 THE MYSTERY OF AREA UNDERSTANDING THE PERFECT MAN OF EPHESIANS 4:13 We want to begin reading in Book of Ephesians, Chapter 4, starting with Verse 13. This is the same scripture that we read last week when we spoke about how we have come into the knowledge of the Son of God; and today I want to bring the message another step, which I want to entitle, Understanding the Perfect Man of Ephesians 4:13. Now last week we spoke about the Son of God, and we dealt with the many things that Jesus Christ did as a man while here on earth. Then after His death, burial, and resurrection, the Apostle Paul came along and began to bring in a revelation of the perfect man that is shown in Ephesians, Chapter 4. Here Paul was not talking about Jesus Christ as He was when He walked on the sandy shores of Galilee. But Paul was talking about a group that would be baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ and express the perfect man Jesus Christ. So we see by the scripture and by revelation that we (the wife) are the fullness of Christ. Here it could be asked, Isn t the Son of God and the perfect man the same? Now let him that hath an ear hear the spiritual voice: When speaking of the earthly walk of the man Jesus (the Son of God), both before and after Christ came into Him, His life reflected the way that God wanted mankind to live. But when Christ came into Him in the fullness of the Spirit, it s here that we see the perfect man as the Father had ordained. This is what we show forth and express outwardly by possessing all the attributes of Jesus Christ, our Savior, Husband, and King. This means that we are a group of people in the earth today called the wife of the Lamb who walks and talks as though it s Jesus Himself here again. That s why we are called the perfect man; it s His wife expressing Him. So these are some of the things that I m going to be dealing with. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we come to you, praising you, and thanking you, Lord, for your love, goodness, and mercy. I pray that your anointing will be with us this morning in that special way, that I may say words that will be of a benefiting nature to the wife of the Lamb as you reveal your Word to us. I pray for the anointing; not just for myself, but for the body of Christ. And as your servant, Paul, spoke in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 2, no man can even know these things except it be revealed by the Holy Ghost. So, Lord, we are depending on you and looking to you and believing you and thanking you for this, in the pre-

99 98 The GosPel For The wife in israel cious name of the Lord Jesus Christ we pray. Amen. The Book of Ephesians 4:13 says, Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: Revelation is something that I love. It is a revealing that comes from the presence of God and we know when He is sending it; for it gives us assurance within our heart, and nobody can change us. Verse 14, That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive: We are not children that can be tossed to and fro anymore. A child can say one thing, and then change their mind about it fifteen times throughout the day. We find this in the Book of 1 Corinthians 13:11, which says, When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. In other words, became more stable and more mature. So when we get the revelation of Ephesians 4:13, we are no longer tossed to and fro. It s impossible for God s people that have revelation to be tossed to and fro. So we say, I know that I know that I know. Because it is Him. That is why it is important to have an understanding of this wonderful plan of God. And it s also necessary to understand and to possess the knowledge of the Son of God. And now the spiritual attributes of that same Son of God can be seen in the wife. Because it is His very soul that came into the wife; which was brought into us by the very Christ that was in Jesus making Him the Christ. So that is what we find in the Book of Revelation 10:1. The one that came down, the Word of God calls the Mighty Angel. But then it goes right on and gives the attributes of Jesus Christ He was clothed (shrouded) with a cloud (meaning that it takes a revelation to really know and see that He is here), and a rainbow was upon His head, and His face was as it were the sun, and His feet as pillars of fire. In recent times, I ve had people come and say to me, Brother Ben, I can show you, it s very simple; Jesus Christ comes after the tribulation takes place, and even Paul indicated that. Yes, he did. But that is only one part that is Jesus Christ, our Husband, and the King of all the earth. Yes, He comes after tribulation. But His Spirit, His attributes, came down to us, baptizing us into His body, in Revelation, Chapter 10, and we express Him in the earth before the tribulation begins. Thus we became the perfect man because we have His mind, we are His flesh and bones, and His spiritual blood flows right through our spiritual veins. So we see that we are called and chosen to be greater than being just a born again Christian. Paul even said that he was pressing for this the high calling of God. It didn t take place while he was still living

100 UNDERSTANDING THE PERFECT MAN OF EPHESIANS 4:13 99 here on this earth; but he foresaw it by revelation. Just like Abraham and some of the prophets of old that is spoken of in the Book of Hebrews, Chapter 11. They saw the promise afar off and believed God and pressed for that. Although they died not having received the promise, that didn t change the promise; because God put the promise in His Word for us on down the road in time. What is promised for us in our day may seem impossible when looking at the promise from the natural human reasoning and the human way of doing things. But we are in the Spirit and we look at all of God s promises through faith. God s promises are real! Even Paul said some things like, We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, which is impossible unless we move from the natural realm into the spiritual realm. Well, when a man came to Abraham and Sarah and told them that they were going to have a child, there had to be a change in their bodies; for Abraham and Sarah received strength. (Hebrews, Chapter 11) So God moved them into the spiritual realm, and Isaac was born in the natural. This miraculous event pointed to a Son that would be born hundreds of years later when a virgin named Mary came along and the Spirit of the Lord came upon her and she conceived and the Lord Jesus was born. And through Him we are the seed of Abraham. Jesus Christ is the spiritual seed. He is our spiritual Isaac. And through Christ we are made part of the faith of Abraham, which is now the faith of the Son of God. So by the faith of the Son of God, we are moved (translated) into the spiritual realm by a message, and it will bring forth a natural body change. When we look back and see these things that God did, it adds to our faith as we see it was all done by faith. Everything was done by faith. And all the works that Jesus did, He did by faith in God. See, He laid aside His claim of, I m the Son of God and I can do anything. He could have said this because of this fact He had a right to do anything He pleased, because He was God s only begotten Son. But no, He did what He did as if He were any other human being He worked by faith. The Book of Philippians 2:5-8 says, Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Notice, He took upon Himself the form of a servant. And all the things that He did, He did by faith in God. And He told us that we could do the same. The same faith that He had, we have. Because the faith in God that He had was tried and tested in every way. And now we have that faith that the Father was pleased with, which is the faith

101 100 The GosPel For The wife in israel of the Son of God. He gives every man the measure of faith and it is up to us to exercise that faith and to let that faith grow and to become what the Word says we are. Now as a human, we can doubt, and doubt and faith is something that has been in the world as long as mankind has been on earth. Doubt is still around; and it will be here until the time of the rapture, as God has ordained for His own purpose of giving us a chance to trust Him. The Book of James 1:3 says, Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Now this is where we have to say, I don t care about doubt. We say, I doubt my doubts. If we have any doubts; then we doubt our doubts. It s by faith; it s by revelation, and it is knowing that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Jesus said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. (John 14:12) Well, that is the same Christ Jesus that came back on the day of Pentecost in the spiritual form of the Holy Ghost. This was not the Son of man coming back to earth; this was Christ Jesus. I preached a message some years ago entitled, The Coming of Christ Jesus Precedes the Coming of Jesus Christ. That is what we are seeing here; the Son of man title doesn t apply to Him here as we see Him in the Spirit. What I m showing here by the Word of God is how this applies to us and how we are one by our baptism into the body of Christ; and the body of Christ in the earth is the perfect man. And this is the way we became the perfect man, the stature of the fullness of Christ. Some may ask, How do I do that? It s by receiving Christ as He reveals Himself in this message which Christ has given to us. We think like Him, because He sent us a message to convey His thoughts right through us, as we look to the revelation that He is giving. This is also how Paul knew to warn the espoused virgin in the Book of 2 Corinthians 11:2-3. It was by possessing the mind of Christ. He had to have the mind of Christ for laying the foundation that we have gladly built upon as the body of Christ in our day. And now we can gladly accept the glory of what Paul said in 2 Corinthians 3:1-6, You are the epistles of Christ. He went on to say, The letter (written Word) will kill. Because without the Spirit revealing it, the written Word becomes the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and it will kill, as it consists only of knowledge, and knowledge will puff up. But the wife will always believe the Word of God and receive the life thereof. Please don t misunderstand me here, because there is a knowledge part of the Word, and I love to read and hear the Word of God. But sometimes we get so much on knowledge that we miss the very thing that God is doing. It s when we get the Spirit of the Word and the Spirit

102 UNDERSTANDING THE PERFECT MAN OF EPHESIANS 4: of God gets in us, then things that s not even thought possible happens. I like the song, God Specializes in Things Thought Impossible, because the Word says, With God all things are possible; it s just a matter of His will. And now through the fullness of Christ Jesus, we have become the perfect man. Yes, the Word calls us the perfect man; and we have His knowledge. Again, I want to bring in here what I said earlier about the rapture and how Christ Jesus precedes the coming of Jesus Christ, to show that Christ comes before the tribulation period. (1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4; 1 Corinthians 15:51; and Revelation, Chapter 10) But the coming of Jesus Christ, the man, the King, and our Husband, is after the tribulation period. (I m talking about the man, the man Jesus Christ Yes, the visible man.) He comes after the tribulation and we as His wife come back with Him. (Revelation 19:11-16) But now, Christ Jesus has come in the fullness of His Spirit before tribulation ever begins. And there s a people that receive their baptism into Him and become members of His body. We go from water baptism to a spiritual baptism into the fullness of the body of Christ. We go from the natural to the spiritual. We go from walking by knowledge to walking by revelation. That s why it s only by revelation that we are the perfect man; and again, that s by revelation, that s by faith. And now the Word calls us the perfect man who has become the fullness of Christ. So we are the perfect man walking around in the fullness of Christ. And that s the inheritance that we have in Christ in this very day and hour. And it s by faith that we have walked into this. And it s by faith that we have all the attributes that was in Jesus Christ. We read of this in the Book of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 12, where Paul began to talk about the gift of knowledge. This wonderful gift of knowledge is not the knowledge of man. Because the knowledge of man is not a gift; that s something you learn. I can learn how to do things, but it s not by the gift of knowledge. Now God can take that gift of knowledge and blend it with the Holy Spirit, and we say, Lord, you know how to do this. God always works in simplicity. Jesus was a simple man; but yet He was a wise man, for He had the wisdom of the Father. So God gives these gifts. He gives the gift of knowledge. He just helps us to know. And we give Him the credit for letting us know what we need. So there is knowledge, there is wisdom, and there is the gift of faith. Faith is like muscles. We find Paul saying in the Book of 2 Thessalonians 1:3, Your faith growth exceedingly. Well, how did their faith grow exceedingly? They were praising and serving God. For our faith to grow we have to untie that faith with God s Word and Spirit. We have to let loose our faith; let it be what God intended it to be in this day and

103 102 The GosPel For The wife in israel hour. We are living in an hour where we have to live by faith. We know and we see every day that the whole world is falling apart the political system, economic system, and everything else that s not of God. The only thing that we have to look to that is sure, steadfast, solid, and unmoveable is the will of God as He makes it known to us by His Spirit. And when we possess that, we are no longer tossed to and fro, and we speak the truth in love. That means that we don t have any iniquity. Now at this time, we are walking as the perfect man Christ Jesus in the earth. Here, I m speaking only to the wife; because we have become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, spirit of His Spirit, and (notice, don t miss this) soul of His soul. And that is the great miracle of what happened at Calvary O what a great gulf God did span at Calvary. Yes, we receive of the very soul of Jesus; for when He was crucified He cried with a loud voice and said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. He gave up His ghost. That is what came back on the day of Pentecost the very soul of Jesus Christ. We see that it was but a very short time after the day of Pentecost that God brought Paul into the picture. He went forth with a message; and the message broke down the middle wall of partition between the Jew and Gentile. And when he broke that wall down, he brought the Word, and called out a people from all groups that would hear the Word. And now there s neither Jew nor Gentile in the body of Christ; we all are one in Christ. Someone might ask us whether we are Jew or Gentile. We re neither. We are the body of Christ, the perfect man Christ Jesus. And we have the faith of the Son of God, and the Son of God never had a failure, not one time; because He said, I always do the things that the Father bids me to do. That means that He didn t go about healing everybody or speaking to a mountain and casting it into the sea. He didn t go about doing just anything, because He only did what the Father said. That s why it takes revelation and knowing the will of God. In the Book of Romans it says that we don t always know what to pray for as we ought. But the Lord has given us a prayer. He taught this prayer and gave it to the disciples. The prayer that is always in season and is always right is, Not my will be done; but thine be done. And now we say, Lord, I m here to obey all thy bidding. Hallelujah! And if you mean that with all your heart, that you are here to do His bidding, then the prayer will be answered. Also, we use to say in prayer when we were getting ready to eat a meal, Bless this food for the strengthening of our body in the earth. But now since our marriage to the Lord Jesus, we say, Bless this food for the strengthening of your body in the earth. See, it s His body. We gave our body to Him; so it becomes His body. No longer twain but one His body.

104 UNDERSTANDING THE PERFECT MAN OF EPHESIANS 4: We see that when Jesus was in the wilderness after fasting for forty days and nights and being tried and tested by the devil, afterwards the angels came and ministered unto His body. And then in the Garden of Gethsemane when He was facing death and He overcame, He said unto God the Father, Let it be so; not my will but thine be done; and afterwards, the angels came and ministered unto His body. Notice that, they ministered unto His body. And now He has become us and we have become Him; one body His body. And that s the perfect man here in the earth. We re not perfect as a human being in the outer realm by ourselves; but we all together make up that perfect man, so just call us perfect. There was a minister that I worked with many years ago, and he was here in Dawsonville when I preached a message about the righteousness of God. I said, It s not what we have done or what we will do or what we are doing; but it is what Jesus Christ did at Calvary. Afterwards, as I made my way to the back of the building, he grabbed me by the arm and said, Brother Ben, I believe you are giving to much rope (lead-way) for people to do what they want to. We have to really preach this hard to let them know that they have to do this and that to be righteous. If you don t, then the people will do just any ole way and still say that they are righteous. I said, No, not if Christ is in them doing the work. He said, I see what you are saying; but it is not safe to preach that; because people can t handle it. The wife of the Lamb can. We say, It s not by any of our good works; but it is what He has done for us. He took our sins and gave us His righteousness. And if we say that we have sin, then we don t believe the Word, and we are saying that Christ did not take away our sins; so then we are not baptized into His body. But it is what He says about His own body that counts. The perfect man has no sin. If you say, I m laden with sin, then you are saying that Christ is laden with sin. And you are saying that what He did at Calvary is ineffective. You are saying that what He did is a good saying but it s not a reality. But the wife says, It s a good saying and it is the Word of God and it is a reality. We have no more consciousness of sin. The Lord Jesus is not going to come and die again once was enough for us! When we see this message of the perfect man, the only thing that we can say is that it is glorious; it is so outstanding, and amazing. We are a special people. The Lord Jesus made us special. We are special in Him. So if we are special in Him, and we are the perfect man, then what is wrong with saying, I m special, as long as we are talking about being in Him? We are special because we have what it takes to believe this Word and stand for it. There are people that admit that this mes-

105 104 The GosPel For The wife in israel sage is right, but won t stand for it. I had a man say to me, Brother Ben, what you are preaching is right; but the people are not going to receive it. Well, I m not concerned whether the people are going to receive it or not; because I know they will receive it if it s for them. And if it s not for them, we can t help it. If they don t receive it, it s because it is not for them, and it s not going to help them any if they try to receive it. Preach the Word, stand with it, let come what may. Give all the glory to God! We are living in a time beyond natural reasoning and natural knowledge. And as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. We are sons and daughters of God; but we are also the wife of the Lamb. Everyone in God s family is a son or daughter of God when we look at it from the standpoint of God, the Father. But when we look at it from the standpoint of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are the wife of the Lamb. And in being His wife, we are led by His Spirit and the natural things of life mean very little to us. Before closing out, I want to clarify once and for all about this perfect man. It s the wife of the Lamb; for we carry the attributes of the very Son of God to the point that in the earth if you see us, then you are seeing Christ. When Paul spoke, he spoke things that were not even written. He told us things that go beyond anything that the natural man would think is sensible. Paul said in 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4, that we which are alive and remain will be changed; and then in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, he said that this will happen in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. That s prophecy that will take place just before our catching away. And now that prophecy has been quickened in the wife of the Lamb to bring it to pass. Jesus died for us and we don t have to die. We have come into the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and are not going to die. This is so wonderful and so good! As we see the perfect man of Ephesians 4:13, it s Christ Jesus in His fullness in His wife in this day, and He has given all His attributes to the wife. That s what Revelation, Chapter 10, is about. And when He came, we were baptized into Him, and we take on His attributes as we walk and talk and sing and shout it s the perfect man Christ Jesus because we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, spirit of His Spirit, and mind of His mind. That s why it s said that we came to the unity of the Spirit; for we are walking with Him by revelation. So let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you and praise you. Lord, we don t have enough thanks and we don t have enough praise and we can t shout loud enough to even feel that it is sufficient praise that you deserve. But Lord, you look at the heart, and you see that we are willing and wanting to do your

106 UNDERSTANDING THE PERFECT MAN OF EPHESIANS 4: will in all things. Lord, take these words and use them for your glory, we pray in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

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108 IN CHRIST THE WIFE DWELLETH THE FULLNESS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 107 REACHING THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST In our past two messages, We ve Come into the Perfect Knowledge of the Son of God, and Understanding the Perfect Man of Ephesians 4:13, we ve shown in the Book of Ephesians, Chapter 4, our movement into the fullness of the body of Christ and how there is complete unity of the faith. And one of the first steps that took us toward this goal was to have an understanding of the Son of God and the Christ anointing that came into Him. This is very important; for Christ (the anointing) took on all the human attributes of Jesus the Son of God, while Jesus took on the attributes of Christ. This coming together of Christ and the Son took place in a seamless manner when Jesus was baptized of John and the anointing descended from heaven like a dove and abode upon Him. Likewise, Christ in the form of the Mighty Angel brought these attributes down to earth for the wife of the Son of God. This is shown very clearly in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 10, as Christ came back to earth in the fullness of His Spirit as the Mighty Angel to be the spiritual body of Christ that we were baptized into, which has made us His wife. And since Christ came in this manner, He has given us the knowledge of the Son of God. And with this knowledge of what God has wrought comes the attributes which the wife receives, making us bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh in our marriage to our Lord Jesus Christ. This is what Paul saw as the wife becoming the perfect man, because the Son is seen very vividly in His wife. Henceforth, God s wisdom provided a pathway for there to be a seamless transition as He brings all this plan together for the wife, which makes us a part of God Himself. So those are some pre-thoughts that I wanted to put in here before reading our scripture. But first, let s pray before reading. Heavenly Father, we come praising and thanking you for this opportunity to read your Word, to speak on your Word, and to speak the Word that you are giving in this day, in this hour, as this Word fits perfectly with what you ve already said in days gone by. So I pray for the anointing to minister the Word and for the anointing on the people to receive. And we will be so very careful to give you the praise for it, in Jesus Christ s name. Amen. Today I want to preach on, Reaching the Stature of the Fullness of Christ. In this message, I want to show that Paul wanted to make sure that we understood that he hadn t reached the fullness of Christ, yet; and he looked for God s Word to be fulfilled, just as was seen in the times of

109 108 The GosPel For The wife in israel the Old Testament which he referred back to in the Book of Hebrews 11:13. He said, These all died in the faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. In other words, they saw it, they believed it, they proclaimed it; even though they knew that they wouldn t be the recipients of it. But they were looking for a better resurrection. They knew that what God had promised was coming, and they believed it would be in a day like unto our day. So Paul said, There s a high calling of God and that s what I want. The high calling is to be married to God s Son and be the wife of the Lamb. And although this message of the high calling didn t take place in Paul s day, he prophesied about it. He knew about it; and he told us about it. The Spirit of Christ was in him so much that he said, I am expressing Christ in my mortal body. So he looked for the fullness of Christ; and although he didn t receive it in his day, he was able to speak about this fullness of Christ for our day. And now we have received what Paul said would be here. When looking at reaching the stature of the fullness of Christ, first we must have the full knowledge of the Son of God. And by revelation we now have it. We know that there is one mind and one accord in the body of Christ, and we have the understanding that we are now the perfect man. Does that mean that there s no more growth? Absolutely not! Because we grow and learn in the Lord. The Word says that we grow up into Him. In other words, we just find our place so that we will fit in our place like a hand fits a glove. We re not trying to push somebody else over to get in their place, because we are quite happy, quite satisfied, with where He has put us and we rejoice therein. Amen. Now I want to begin reading in Ephesians 4: It says, And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints; for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: What we have just read here is Christ through the Apostle Paul giving the wife-to-be her final message while she was still living outside the realm of the fullness of Christ. Meaning the espoused virgin was living in the time before the second leg of the spiritual coming of the fullness of Christ had taken place as seen in Revelation, Chapter 10. And it s here that we which are alive and remain became the wife of God s Son, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, by our baptism into the fullness of Christ. This happened after we passed the till of Ephesians 4:13. Also, it s here that all of these afore mentioned things of God come within the fullness of the body of Christ which we now have in this hour. So passing the till made the difference, and that s why we re here today.

110 REACHING THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST 109 So this move of God cleared the way for the freshly married wife to see the difference in the espoused (engaged) church and the wife that s baptized into the body of Christ. It was at this time that we had to adjust our thinking (mentality) concerning our church services for the Lord from the old way that it was done, to simply operating by inspiration as the Spirit would move us. There s a song that says, It was good enough for Grandma and it s good enough for me. Well, if we lived in Grandma s day, then it was good enough for us. But now we ve come over into the realm of the fullness of Christ and nothing else but this trump (trumpet) of God message will satisfy the wife. So when we see that Word till, it s like a big roadside sign to us. Paul said, This is the way it will be till. And we were brought to a certain point in the Word before we saw the roadside Word till; and here is where we are changed from being a virgin to being a wife. Well, what about the precious five-fold ministry of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers that brought us up to this point? Does the Lord do away with these callings? No, He doesn t do away with any of the gifts and callings that has helped us get to this point. When we arrived at this place of marriage, the ministering gifts are made part of the whole body of Christ and they receive their baptism into the body along with all the other members. This doesn t mean He does away with them; it simply means we ve reached the point that Christ Jesus brings all members with their gifts inside the body, as we all begin to edify one another in love while working together perfectly. Verse 13 says, Till we all come in the unity of the faith, This means that we come to the place where we are all believing absolutely the same thing. Many years ago (and some of you saw it), different men would come preach to us with their ministering gifts; and we were blessed by it. But we would hear many different thoughts presented about scripture; and although each one did well in their presentation, this did not coincide with what the Word said would be when we pass this till; because God s Word says that we would all believe the same thing concerning the Word. Now God said that He, by His Spirit, would bring us all into the unity of the faith. This brings to my remembrance something a man said to me. He said, I agree with you, Brother Ben, on your doctrine; but I don t agree with your judgements. Well, the Book of 1 Corinthians 1:10 tells us to all speak the same thing so that there is no division among us, and to be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgement. So in order for us to have perfect unity, we have got to be of the same mind and the same judgement. Now I m not saying if you like your steak well done and I like mine rare, or if you drive a Ford ve-

111 110 The GosPel For The wife in israel hicle and I drive a Chevrolet vehicle that we re not in unity. I m not talking in that realm at all. Those are not the things we are talking about here. We are talking about the Word of God; we are talking about the same judgment on this Word, the faith of the Word, the unity of the Word. So it says, Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. We are baptized into the fullness of Christ, and if there s something to be done or said about the Word, we want it to be strictly and totally in the will of God. We want to know what the mind of Christ is concerning it; and do it that way. So we reach the stature. And then here is the word fullness. So this is very important here, the stature of the fullness of Christ. Not the fullness of Jesus; because Jesus is an individual, He s a person, He s the King of the earth. But Christ is the Spirit that made Jesus the Christ, and now the Spirit of Christ is manifested in the wife of Jesus. Here, it s important to notice that Christ (the anointing of God) existed way back before Jesus was ever born. But Christ in other ages and in other forms had not become one with the soul of a human until He became one with Jesus the carpenter, who was God s only Son. Jesus was perfect with an undefiled soul, spirit, and body. This was the only human that Christ could connect with and be one with, without struggle. Now there could be (and was) a perfect seamless transition between God s Son and God s Christ. This is where Christ took on flesh and bones and became one soul with Jesus. This transaction produced the Holy Ghost and eternal life in all who by grace accept Him. So now we are baptized into the body of Christ and our works and our spirit resembles closely that of Jesus Christ in the earth that s the perfect man. Christ is the one that has moved us to this point where we are called Christ the wife, clothed in fine linen, clean and white. Paul was very confident in this; for he took it so far by saying in the Book of Ephesians 5:30-33, For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Notice, for we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. And that means marriage; not espousal. Paul said, I have espoused you, and that s the way the church went through the church ages; for she fell away from the original Word and went into the Dark Ages. Then God used seven messengers to give the elected their portion of the Word of God for their day. And they died and went to the grave. And all who are ordained to be the wife will come forth and be in the rapture. That s why Christ brought

112 REACHING THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST 111 back these spirits of just men when He came in Revelation, Chapter 10. And we see this also in 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4, as it says that those that sleep in Jesus will God send with Him (with Christ); so spiritually they are hearing the same thing that we are hearing. When they come forth from the grave, they re going to be clothed in fine linen, clean and white; and that strictly means that they will understand the righteousness of God and realize, it s not what I have done, or what I m doing, or what I will do; but it s what He s done for me. He clothed me in His righteousness, and to Jesus be all the glory! But now we have reached the stature of the fullness of Christ while we are living here on earth; and soon the dead will come forth and join us. Then at that time we will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. This means that we all have glorified bodies as we are caught up to meet the Lord at throne of God, or as Paul said, meet the Lord in the air. And this will take place some seven years before Jesus Christ comes Himself as the visible glorified man. And there s a group that comes back with Him that is clothed with fine linen, clean and white. (Revelation 19:11-16) There s only one group that this could apply to, and that is the wife of the Lamb; which means that we went up before the tribulation. (Revelation 19:7-8) And here we come back with Him, as His wife by His side, when He comes to take over His kingdom. That s why it was necessary to reach the fullness, so that our thinking would reflect this in the earth now. And in order for this to be so, He has given us His mind, which causes us to feel comfortable inside the body of Christ, and we can rest here with perfect peace while looking out on everything and seeing the shaking of all things taking place. Can you see the reality of that today? If it can be shaken, it will be shaken. Hebrews 12:27 says, And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. And the only ones that cannot be shaken are those who are on the Rock, those that have been baptized into the body of Christ, those that are in Him. In Psalms 91:2-5, David, for a short time, got in this place of the Spirit and spoke these words by inspiration, I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. He had the peace of God. And

113 112 The GosPel For The wife in israel the peace of God belongs to those whose mind is stayed upon the Lord. In the body of Christ, we ve got perfect peace. You say, Well, what if this happens or if that happens? What if an earthquake comes? What if a storm comes? We are kept in perfect peace, because our mind is stayed upon the Lord, and we trust Him. This means we have reached the fullness of Christ. And fullness here means we see both legs of the spiritual coming of Christ and are baptized into Him. (Revelation 10:8-11 and Ephesians 4:13-16) Now I want to bring in here about a dream I had some months back, and I preached a message on it entitled, A Higher Level of Divine Healing. At the time, I didn t feel to tell about the dream, but I will tell it now. In the dream I saw a young man that had an arm missing, and I went up to him to pray for him. And I just reached out and grabbed him by the shoulder where the arm was missing, and before I could finish saying all the words, in the name of Jesus Christ, I pulled out an arm and hand, as though it came right out of the shoulder. It was just as perfect as the other. Well, that s a higher level of divine healing; the restoring of missing limbs and body parts. And that speaks of resurrection, because that resurrected body is the Word. And if God wants to do some restoring before the resurrection and rapture, such as restoring missing arms and legs, then that would be so wonderful, even while we are being taught the ways of the Son of God, and understanding the perfect man, as well as reaching the stature of the fullness, fullness of Christ. We are expressing our Husband, our King, our Lord, the one that died for us, the one that will rule and reign in the millennium with His wife sitting by His side. Somebody said, I thought that the wife was going to rule all over the earth. Well, there are other people seen in the Book of Revelation who will be resurrected that will have some of this task. If you will read Revelation, Chapter 20, that s when the foolish virgins, and the tribulation saints, and all other born again Christians are raised. Yes, that is when all the others are raised that didn t come into the number of the wife. The Bible says, These are made kings and priests, and they will reign on the earth for a thousand years. (Revelation, Chapter 5) So the proper place for the wife is sitting by the side of the King; after all, He is her Husband, and He loves His wife who is His flesh and bones. And as the saints that were raised from the dead that is shown in Revelation, Chapter 20, see this beautiful sight, they are so happy for the King and His wife, and they glorify God. In the Book of Matthew, Chapter 25, we see foolish virgins, and they were so closely connected with the wife and will come to the understanding of their part in serving the King and His wife, and they will be very comfortable in this role. It shows here that all virgins were

114 REACHING THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST 113 called out; they all had lamps, but the foolish let their lamps go out. They even came knocking, wanting in. But the thing is, time had moved to the point where the marriage had taken place and the door was shut to them and they were left outside. Verses says that the foolish virgins came and began to knock and say, Open unto us, Lord. He said, I know ye not. In other words, they hadn t become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. And they didn t have His perfect mind as we are talking about here. They hadn t reached the stature of the fullness of Christ. They hadn t seen the full two legs of the spiritual coming of Christ nor did they eat the little book that God authorized us to eat. (Revelation, Chapter 10) All that we have in this hour is because Paul came as one to engage, to introduce, to lay a foundation. Nowhere does it say that Paul took it further than the foundation. But he did lay a foundation that we have been building on. Amen, we re built on a solid foundation. How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in His excellent Word. What more can He say than to you He has said, ye who unto Jesus for refuge have fled. In every condition, in sickness and health, in poverty s vale, or abounding in wealth. Amen, the foundation stands sure. Notice here, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: We have arrived. Now we adjust our mentality to that. If we don t adjust our mentality to that, then we are going to find frustration in our mind on certain things. That s why we ve got to have the mind of Christ. I don t find where Jesus ever doubted that He was the Son of God and what His purpose was. He knew why He had come into the world. We find Jesus saying in John 12:27, Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. And when it came time for Him to die, the human part dreaded it; but yet when He got through praying there in the garden, He said, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. (Luke 22:42-46) And He told His disciples, Arise, let us be going. And I say, Now it s time for us to arise and let us be going; meaning here, His complete will. And as He reached the fullness of God for Himself, so have we reached the fullness of the plan for us. He said, I ve fulfilled that which the Father sent me to do. This He did on the cross when He released His Spirit (the Holy Ghost) which gives His life (His Spirit) unto those that accept Him as their Savior. That s the Holy Ghost that we have today; and not just the Spirit of God as in the Old Testament, but the Spirit of God s own earthly Son now glorified. The King James Bible is the one that absolutely makes clear the difference between just the Spirit of God and the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

115 114 The GosPel For The wife in israel On the day of Pentecost they received the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Yes, they received the Spirit, the Holy Ghost; but that s only one leg, or one part. They received the Spirit and had the Spirit on them all the way through the ages. But prior to His crucifixion and resurrection, the Word says, The Holy Ghost was not released to be given until then, because He had not yet been glorified. (John 7:37-39) He had to die and the Spirit (ghost) went out of Him. And according to 1 Peter 3:19, He went down to preach to the spirits that were in prison. And suddenly there was a voice outside the prison gates that said, Open up! Let the King of Glory come in! And a voice from inside said, Who is the King of Glory? He said, The Lord God; mighty in battle is He. (Psalms 24:7) Here He comes! The great deliverer that Abraham talked about. All those that David, and all the others that belonged to God, talked about. Here He is. He went down and brought them forth. (Matthew 27:51-54) Where was His body during this time? It was laying right there in the grave. Right there in the tomb; He came right by the tomb and picked His body up. Yes, it was still there. Mary and some of the other women were going to put spices on His body; but lo and behold, the only thing they found was the cloth that He had been wrapped in. There stood an angel who said, Why seek ye the living amongst the dead? He s not here. He s risen! And then Mary saw a man walking in the garden and she thought he was the gardener. She said, Sir, if you have taken my Lord somewhere and laid Him, please tell me, and we will take care of everything. And Jesus spoke her name, Mary. And she recognized His voice, and knew that He was Jesus the Christ who was risen from the dead. (Has He spoken your name lately? He s speaking your name in relationship to this message, if you re to be part of the wife.) The one that died and resurrected now stood there in a glorified body. Jesus Christ was the Word made flesh. In the Book of 1 John 1:1, we can hear the voice of John giving witness and saying, That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life. And that s what we are; we express the fullness of the perfect man. How many know who the perfect man is? I know who the perfect man was, and I know who the perfect man is. We get Him that was we re baptized into Him, and we became the perfect man that is. And because of this, we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, spirit of His Spirit. And now we think with His very own mind. Now in Ephesians 4:14, it says that once we come through all of this, then we are no longer children. When it comes to the Word, we re not children just playing around. In other words, it s serious. So Verse 14,

116 REACHING THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST 115 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive. That s what the serpent did. He used his earthly wisdom that can t win. We re not tossed to and fro; for we know that we know that we know. And the reason that we know that we know that we know is because we have the mind of Christ, we have His knowing. And His knowing is perfect knowing. When looking at cunning craftiness, this is what is used by many of the modern preachers in order to try to fill up their churches. But Christ has given us a mind and we definitely want to use it to the fullness. The next verse says, Verse 15, But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: Even Christ His very flesh and bones. This would be hard to believe, unless we have the mind of Christ. Paul said, Ye are the body of Christ. Does that mean that we type out the body of Christ? Well, if we type it out, then who is this perfect man? No, it s not a type; it s a reality. Basically we ve come through the age of types and shadows and are now standing right in the middle of reality. And He has given us a mind that will think in this hour and adjust to the conditions that exist. Unless we are able to adjust to new conditions that exist, then we will be lacking. Verse 16 says, From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, There will be some things that we may be able to supply to those saints that have risen from the dead, even as they may be able to supply certain things unto us as we gain perfect understanding of this miraculous happening. Why? Because they are part of the whole, just as we are. And all members are going to be picked up to the throne of God to be with the Lord Jesus, our King and Husband. Yes, we re going to be picked up to the throne. The Word of God tells us in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 12, about the man child; and, of course, we know that it s speaking of Jesus Christ, for He was caught up to the throne of God. Well, that s where John was caught up as a type of the perfect man after the church ages were over. Revelation, Chapter 4, shows this to be true. Revelation, Chapters 1-3, deals with the church in its journey, and Revelation, Chapter 4, deals with it after the journey has ended. And John says he heard a voice talking like a trumpet. O I praise God for that talking trumpet; it has changed things for good. And if we are not willing to listen to it, it will leave us behind. But John said, I heard a trumpet talking, saying, Come up hither. And he saw the throne. Yes, he was caught up out of this earthly realm in his vision, thus showing that all members of the body of Christ are caught up literally to the throne of God in their glorified bodies as the time of the rapture comes into fulfillment.

117 116 The GosPel For The wife in israel In the Book of John 1:1, it says that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And now we have the understanding that we are also a part of the Word. God put us in Jesus Christ; therefore we have already been crucified in Him, nevertheless we live. It s not us living, but it is Christ living that spiritual life through us. That s salvation. That s what we think about. That s what happened when we passed this till; we readjusted our thinking from church age law thinking to the thinking that takes us right back and sits us on the foundation that Paul laid. And the same Christ that helped Paul lay the foundation is here helping us build upon it just fine. Amen. Paul is the one that told us in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 about this time that would come when the trumpet sounds the dead in Christ will rise and we will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. Also, in 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4, he tells us that before the rapture, the dead are going to rise up and we will be changed; and together we will be caught up. Paul said that God brought (or sent) those that were dead in Christ with Him (with Christ) when He came. That s those that are part of the wife. He brought them with Him. That s why he said, We ve come to spirits of just men the spirits (souls) of those that went by the way of death. These wait for the resurrection as we that are alive and remain wait for our translation (1 Corinthians 15:51-52); for we are all soon to be raptured together to be with the King, our Husband. Let s go to Ephesians 1:11. It says, In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: Whose will? His own will. I am here by the will of God; not by my own will alone. We don t do these things by our will in the sense that our will is the prevailing will. We submit our will to His will and we are working according to the will of God. So we are predestinated according to His own will. It says, After His own purpose He predestinated us. It was His will to bring us the way we came. So if He got us here and it s His will, who are we to say, Lord, you didn t do this right? He did it exactly right! Now in Verse 11 it talks about in whom also we have obtained an inheritance. We ve obtained an inheritance in Him. And watch Verse 18 over here. It says, The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling (His calling in us), and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. Now watch here. We have obtained an inheritance. Here it s His inheritance in us. He has invested in us by giving us His mind. He has an inheritance in the saints His attributes, His gifts, His power and glory; even the glory that was His before the world was. (John 17:22) But watch, turn that coin

118 REACHING THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST 117 over! Now we ve got an inheritance in Him, because all that the Father has given Him, He has given to us. And our duty, our responsibility, is first to Him; and likewise, He has a responsibility to us. When a man and woman are married, he has certain responsibilities that he didn t have before, and she has certain responsibilities that she didn t have before. They have responsibilities to each other. They have an inheritance in each other. Can you see that we have obtained an inheritance? We inherit Him, and He s got an inheritance in us. That s why we don t want to do things that displease Him. We don t want to spoil or mar the inheritance that He has in us. We want to be one that He can pat on the shoulder and say, Well done. You ve pleased me well. Our precious brother Paul said, Now there s laid up for me a crown of life. And not only for me; but for all those that love His appearing. Paul went by the way of death to receive his crown of life. But we, the living part of the wife, receive the fullness of the crown of life at our translation. And now He has an inheritance in the wife, because we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, and we have reached the stature of the fullness of Christ with the knowledge of the Son of God. Hallelujah! And here we are today. We are called the wife of the Lamb. Amen. See, we ve got the mind of Christ. But we ve also got our own mind. Remember these things; let your thinking be adjusted to this new reality. It might not happen in one day, but we work towards bringing our mind into captivity to the thinking of Christ. We work with the Lord; we re standing together. Think from the standpoint of a new reality; and let s show forth His inheritance in us. He s got an inheritance in us and we have an inheritance in Him, so that means that we are partners. That means the man and wife is as it should be. We belong to Him and He belongs to us; we re joined by this trumpet of God sounding forth a message of love which has brought us up to a higher level. There s a higher level of divine healing, a higher level of mentality in the Lord, a higher level of the mind of Christ, a higher level of the unity, a higher level of being established where we re no longer tossed to and fro. All of it brings a higher level. As that song says, Lift me up above the shadows. Lift me up and let me stand. Till my feet are planted on higher ground. Praise God, we re on higher ground today. Let us have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we come to you at the close of this message. We thank you, Lord, for furnishing the anointing and for expressing your inheritance in us as we express our inheritance in you. Lord, as you put your mind in us, we yield our mind over to your mind, that it will become one mind. We thank you for it. And, Lord, we thank you because although you have given us your mind, you don t take our minds away so that

119 118 The GosPel For The wife in israel we can t function in this world and get through this life, but we keep our mind upon you and we keep the peace of God in our hearts. So we thank you for blessing us today, and we thank you for guidance and leadership. We thank you, Lord, that you ve blessed us and made a way for us when there seemeth to be no way, as you will continue to do, Lord. We just praise you and thank you in Jesus Christ s name. Amen. God bless you, saints of God.

120 THERE IS NOTHING MORE POWERFUL THAN THE WORD WHOSE TIME HAS COME TO BE FULFILLED 119 ANOTHER LIGHT FOR ISRAEL TO GIVE THEM ANOTHER CHANCE TO ACCEPT THE GOSPEL We are reading today in the Book of 2 Peter, Chapter One. And I want to speak on, Another Light for Israel to Give Them Another Chance to Accept the Gospel. Now to begin this message today, I want to start by telling about a visitor that came by some weeks back that was involved in a religious belief that didn t see the gospel going back to Israel, and he was talking about things that he believed would soon be happening concerning the move of God here at the end time. One of the things he said to me was, Brother Ben, Israel is not going to be saved; for they rejected Jesus a long time ago, and now they have rejected Christ. They are just going to continue in their old ways. But what he was saying was unacceptable to me, as part of the body of Christ, because it just wasn t so, for this simple reason it is contrary to scripture. The truth concerning the nation of Israel is that they rejected Jesus Christ as their Savior and King at His first coming, as did most of the religious people in Israel. But not all the people rejected Him then. And when it comes to the Jews rejecting Christ, we are looking at something different from what happened when the nation of Israel rejected Jesus Christ at His first coming. For neither Israel nor the Gentile nations has, up to this time, seen Christ manifested in the earth as the perfect man of Ephesians 4:13, which was not brought into being until after Revelation, Chapter 10, was revealed and fulfilled. This has put the Christ wife in the final ministry before the rapture, who is now showing forth the glory that God gave unto Jesus Christ. For now, He has given it unto us. (John 17:22) So when we look at the first coming of Jesus, we see that He came as a baby born of a virgin named Mary, who grew up into manhood as a carpenter in that Jewish society. During this time, God watched over Him as He was coming through those early years before He was anointed by Christ and began to do the work of God. Yes, He was rejected by Israel at that time as their Savior and King. But now I m speaking of Christ as He has come and is manifested in this last day, when we are seeing the fullness of Christ. Christ in this form has not been made known to Israel until now. But now they are given the light of this gospel, which is the revelation of Christ in the earth, as He has taken on flesh and bones through His wife to whom the Son gave His glory

121 120 The GosPel For The wife in israel to in this last day. So to make it clear, we are speaking of Christ as He returned back to earth in His fullness, hid in the form of a Mighty Angel, as seen in Revelation, Chapter 10. Here the Word is showing Christ in His fullness as a Spirit for us to be baptized into. And yes, unto Christ has been added flesh and bones, which is now the wife of the Lamb. This means that we are His Christ in the earth, or as Paul said, The stature of the fullness of Christ the perfect man. (Ephesians 4:13) This is the same Christ (Spirit and anointing) that was in Jesus, making Him Jesus the Christ. And now, just as the Word told us, there is a people on the scene that have reached the fullness of Christ. This simply means that we, by the Spirit, have become Christ in our marriage to the Lord Jesus. That s why we express Jesus Christ in the earth and are called the perfect man. Because all that Jesus was is expressed in and through His wife. So as we read today in 2 Peter, I want to highlight the timing of Peter s letters, as it is very important here to recognize that Peter was writing in about 66 AD, which was only four years before Jerusalem was destroyed. That was when Titus, the Roman General, marched in and destroyed it and took what was left of the Jewish people into captivity and sold them as slaves and they were scattered to all nations. After this, it became very hard to find Jewish Christianity. And in time, as the world went into the Dark Ages, it became even harder to find true Christianity, Jew or Gentile, as was seen in the years following the Jewish Feast Day of Pentecost of Acts, Chapter 2. Just a casual study of the history of the church shows this to be true. Most Jewish groups stayed with the Law of Moses as much as possible for them to do so, while the Gentile church world went back to their pagan religious ways. And as history shows, one of the mainstays of the pagan religion was their belief in the plurality of gods. Hence came the false trinity doctrine of three persons of the Godhead, which most social Christian churches have adopted to their spiritual defilement, while the Jews kept the truth of only the one God, but refused to accept Jesus Christ as His Son. Here s where the picture becomes very clear as we pick up the truth of the falling away from the original Word for both the Jews and the Gentiles, as the true Christians disappeared in the pages of history. Now let s have a word of prayer before we read the Word of God. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your love, goodness, and mercy. We praise you and appreciate you, Lord. We pray that you will move and anoint us and anoint the people. And may your Word come forth in a way that will be a blessing and edification to the wife of the Lamb and all those that hear. We ask in Jesus Christ s name. Amen. Now I want to begin reading in 2 Peter 1:12-15, before reading Verse

122 ANOTHER LIGHT FOR ISRAEL TO GIVE THEM ANOTHER CHANCE TO ACCEPT THE GOSPEL , which is our pivotal verse in this message. First, Peter says in Verse 12, Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. Now watch, Verses 13-15, Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle (meaning his body) to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle; even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. Moreover I will endeavor that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. Peter is getting ready to die, and wants to tell them something that is very important in order to give them understanding of what s coming in the future. He is looking forward and projecting something to take place that hadn t taken place in his day, but would somewhere out in the future. Now our pivotal scripture, Verse 19 says, We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. Now what is the meaning of what the Apostle Peter is saying about the Day Star arising in your heart? Was he speaking only of the Holy Ghost as was a witness on the day of Pentecost? I will answer that question by telling about a brother that said to me, Brother Ben, what Peter is saying in his writing about receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the Day Star arising in your heart is the same thing. But when we look back at the very time that Peter was speaking, that would be saying that the Holy Ghost hadn t come in that day. But Peter was looking to a distant time in the future and prophesying about what would be; there s no doubt about it. So in looking back to what the Apostle Peter was saying, we find that he had received the baptism of the Holy Ghost in 33 AD on the day of Pentecost. In Acts, Chapter 2, Peter was the first speaker after the Holy Ghost came and fell upon the disciples. They were waiting in the upper room of a house, when suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a mighty rushing wind and filled the place where they were waiting and praising God. There appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire and sat upon each one of them and they began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. They were rejoicing in the Lord so much that it overflowed out of the upper room and into the streets of Jerusalem. And at this feast of Pentecost there were Jews that had gathered from out of many different nations in Jerusalem and saw this as it was happening. They were astonished and confounded, because every man heard them speak in their own language, and they marveled at what was taking place. But some mocked and said, These men are full of new wine. Then Peter stood up and said, These are not drunken as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day, but this is that

123 122 The GosPel For The wife in israel which was spoken of by the prophet Joel. This began a mighty revival in Jerusalem for the Jews. Notice again, timewise this happened in 33 AD. This means that at the time of Peter s writing in 2 Peter, Chapter One, it was some thirty years down the road from the time that the Holy Ghost fell upon them, so when Peter wrote about the Day Star, he could not have been writing about the baptism of the Holy Ghost. This is very important here to show us that Peter was not saying you are going to receive the Holy Ghost if you do this or that. No, he was talking about something else to come a light, which is the Day Star. And now we know that the Day Star is the Son shining through the wife of the Lamb. So it s important to look at what Peter was saying, because now we know that the gospel has gone back to Jerusalem where it all started. Now after reading in the Book of 2 Peter, it brings to mind about a dream I had back in July of In the dream, my wife and I, along with some other people that we didn t know, were standing on a balcony watching the full moon which had risen, and it was a beautiful sight with the clouds coming across it. It looked to be larger and brighter than normal and it was giving forth much light. I stood with my wife, along with others that just happened to be there, and watched the moon for a while. And then below the moon, we saw another light coming up right behind it. And some of the people began to say, This can t be; because there are not two moons. And they began to get very scared. But my wife and I were just standing there looking in wonderment at this great sight, but not realizing that God was showing something that would spark a revelation in our hearts. We knew this was of God and we knew it was going to be good. But the people were getting all nervous, and they were saying, This can t be! This can t be! Because there s not two moons (or there s not two lights)! They got all shook up because they were just watching that beautiful full moon in the sky, and then to their surprise there came up another light right behind it! So they kept saying, This can t be! And that s what they are saying about the gospel that has gone back to Israel, This can t be! But Peter prophesied about another light about the Day Star arising in your heart a light to come. And this light is the wife of the Lamb, who has now become the flesh and bones of our Husband, the Lord Jesus Christ, and is expressing the Day Star as the perfect man of Ephesians 4:13. Now in order to understand what is happening in this day, it s important to understand that Christ came back again in this day, as Revelation, Chapter 10, shows. And there are some very important scriptures to get placed right, because when we are speaking of the coming of Christ in Revelation, Chapter 10, we speak of it with the understanding

124 ANOTHER LIGHT FOR ISRAEL TO GIVE THEM ANOTHER CHANCE TO ACCEPT THE GOSPEL 123 that this scripture is not referring to our Lord s physical coming as seen in Revelation 19: But it s a spiritual coming in His fullness, which we also see in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-16 and 1 Corinthians 15: Also, we must understand and keep in mind that the gospel angel seen in Revelation, Chapter 7, which John saw ascending from the East with the seal of God, is also on the scene today. These events have brought us to the final happening before we are raptured away. Notice how John described what he saw: After these things, I saw an angel ascending from the East, having the seal of the living God. This is the gospel angel with the gospel seal. This is also the angel that God used to mark time by. So what we are seeing here is that this angel of time has already been around the world after having gone through the different Gentile nations, and is now back in Israel where he left from two thousand years ago. This has created an atmosphere that has changed the mentality of those that God has ordained; to cause them to begin to look to God in a way that clears the pathway in order for this Word to be quickened as is seen in this message. And now the wife is seeing prophecy beginning to unfold right before our eyes as the gospel angel is now in Israel. There are Jewish people in the land of Israel beginning to recognize Jesus Christ. They are getting a revelation of the real Lamb of God. The Book of Hebrews 9:13-14 says, For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? Here, Paul is saying that none of these other rituals and sacrifices matter anymore, because Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God. By one sacrifice He has perfected forever those that are sanctified. And there s a people that are recognizing it. They have been awakened to it from sleep. We also find this in the Book of Zechariah, Chapter 13, of how this all comes about, as God has begun to move to make this a reality. The Spirit of God has begun to move and there is a people that are seeing Jesus Christ in a revelational form. And they have begun to realize what has happened, as this gospel angel with the seal of God has returned to Israel after being with the Gentiles for two thousand years. In the Book of Zechariah 13:6, it says, And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. They begin to see the one that was crucified two thousand years ago. They see that they crucified the Lamb of God and that He is the one that they rejected. He is the one that their high priest and religious leaders condemned, saying; Let him be crucified! Let him be crucified! And the Romans crucified Him.

125 124 The GosPel For The wife in israel But in this last day, as the Jews are recognizing Christ Jesus, God lets Him appear in a revelational way, so that they will see the wounds in His hands by revelational knowledge and understand what happened at Calvary. We find in actuality when Jesus rose from the dead that He didn t have any scars in His hands. This showed that there is only one way that someone could see Him like this, and that s by revelation of what Jesus Christ did for them at Calvary. Because when He walked with the two disciples on the way to Emmaus, they didn t see any wounds; they didn t even know He was the Messiah. Jesus asked them, What are you talking about with one another, and why are you so sad? And one of the disciples said, You must be a stranger in Jerusalem, otherwise you would know about Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet, and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death. We thought that He would be the deliverer, but now they have crucified Him. (Luke 24:13-35) Well, the point is, Jesus had no visible wounds that could be seen without revelation. We ve all heard the story of doubting Thomas, who was one of the disciples of Jesus. Well, he doubted; but later believed. Thomas said to the other disciples, Except I see in His hands the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, I will not believe. (John, Chapter 20) Later, Jesus Christ showed himself to the disciples again, and showed Thomas His wounds; and then Thomas believed. So Jesus allowed Himself to be transformed in a way for Thomas to see the wounds in His hands and side. Well, that s a similar thing that is happening in Israel in this last day, as they are recognizing Jesus Christ, their Messiah, and asking, Where did you get these wounds? They will say, Who did this to you? Who would be low enough to do this to you? Jesus said, I received these wounds in the house of my friends. The very ones He came and preached salvation to are the ones that had Him put to death. And now the religious systems in this day are attempting to, but without success, crucify Christ the wife that is here in the Lord Jesus Christ s stead. But we have been baptized into the body of Christ and are hid with Christ in God. And the tares can t find us to do us harm. Now Christ is back to offer forgiveness and salvation to Israel, and praise the Lord, the elected are going to accept Him. The Word says in the Book of Zechariah 13:1, In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and uncleanness. The predestinated Jews are recognizing that there is a fountain. So did He open another fountain there? Did He get the wounds at that time? No, He was pointing back to what happened at Calvary, and to the full benefit that comes with the revelation of Jesus Christ, the Lamb

126 ANOTHER LIGHT FOR ISRAEL TO GIVE THEM ANOTHER CHANCE TO ACCEPT THE GOSPEL 125 of God. And it s as though it just happened. There s a fountain open for sin and uncleanness, which is taking away the sins of Israel. Then what will they do? Zechariah 12:10 says that they will mourn and weep Look at what we ve done! How could we have done such an evil deed? How could we have missed the Messiah? How could we have crucified Him? And they will separate themselves, one from another, and they will feel so sorry that this has happened. There will be days of mourning after they realize that He was the Messiah, the one that their forefathers put to death by having Him crucified. The religious leaders said, He is of the devil and a deceiver. But now they are saying sadly, Jesus was the Messiah, and we crucified Him two thousand years ago. But great joy will come, because there is forgiveness! And now by revelation, He is back again to save and to heal. Yes, Jesus Christ is the one that was prophesied about. We see this in the Book of Zechariah 9:9. It says, Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. This is also referred to in the Book of John 12:15, which says, Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass s colt. Well, that is what Jesus did when He came into Jerusalem. So what did the nation do? They said, This is not our King. Crucify Him! What an embarrassment to this great nation of Israel, this great priesthood, concerning this fellow coming in dressed like a common man and riding in on a little donkey into this great city and claiming to be the King. O what an embarrassment! That s what happened at His first coming as their King and Messiah. But the elected in that hour recognized Him. And now it repeats itself again. The predestinated recognizes His coming to them in the wife of the Lamb as the Word is made flesh again. Yes, it is happening just like it has been spoken. And all we can say is, O the wonders of God! The Book of Romans 11:34 says, For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor? How could that great people miss it? And how could He take just a small group of people, like on the day of Pentecost, and spread that gospel into all the world, to all who would accept it? We see the Holy Ghost came on the day of Pentecost (the Jewish feast day); the Holy Ghost being a portion of the soul of the Lord Jesus Christ that gives us eternal life. But Christ is that great anointing and the Gentiles recognized Him as one that came after Pentecost, which was the Spirit that struck Paul down on the way to Damascus. And a whole new program of God began, and the Jews said, How can this be? But another light had come as the Lord told Paul, I have set thee to be a light to the Gentiles. (Acts 13:47-49) And now

127 126 The GosPel For The wife in israel God has set the wife of the Lamb as a light for this day. And this light reflects this precious Word that has broken down the middle wall of partition between the Jews and the Gentiles so that we can t say, I m a Jew and I have a right to it, or I m a Gentile and I have a right to it. No, because He puts us all under the wife s covenant as we are married to Him, while all others find their place in the family of God. So God makes His Word fresh again. He makes it as though it has just been spoken, although it was spoken more than two thousand years ago. The Jews see the Lamb, and they begin to weep and moan; and God pours out His Spirit upon that nation. And all those that are ordained, the predestinated ones, God will put the Spirit of grace and supplication upon them. And they will say, How could we have done it? We ve crucified the King of glory. But He says, That is all right, because it has all worked out for My glory. Let s read 2 Peter 1:14-15 again, Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. Verse 15, Moreover I will endeavor that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. It s amazing that God told both Peter and Paul that He was going to take them home. Paul said in 2 Timothy 4:6-8, For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. The departures of both Peter and Paul happened in about the same time period. This was before the beginning of the long journey into the Dark Ages, which the whole known world went through before the light started shining in the 15th Century in the days of Martin Luther, the fifth church age messenger, and has continued to shine up unto this day, as God sent other messengers. So Peter prophesied something for the future that would happen long after his life was over. Paul, also left us prophesies that would not be fulfilled in his day, one of which was the mystery of our marriage to God s Son with the wife consisting of both Jews and Gentiles here at the end time. Here I want to draw attention to a certain word of importance in this message. That word is until. It is here in 2 Peter 1:19, until the day dawn. This is a very important verse that is being fulfilled in our time. Peter had already said he was going home, and this was in 66 AD. It s very important here to understand that the saints that he preached to were already filled with the Holy Ghost and they were already established in present truth, the truth that Peter had for that time period. Notice, they were established in the present truth that Peter had. But what he says next leads us to believe that the Spirit of Christ was uttering a

128 ANOTHER LIGHT FOR ISRAEL TO GIVE THEM ANOTHER CHANCE TO ACCEPT THE GOSPEL 127 prophecy that was not to be fulfilled until somewhere out in the future, beyond the age that he was living in. Again, watch what he says in Verse 19, We have also (Now he is going to point to something else by using the word also. The Holy Ghost is great and wonderful; but here we have also) a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, Now I want to mention something that is very important for us to understand, something that took place at the end of the church ages, as we have been brought to this place in time where the Lord has descended from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God and the trumpet gets us all (both the Jews and the Gentiles) married to God s Son, Jesus Christ. At this point, we are no more separate people, but we are now Christ the wife. This takes place as the words of this little book of Revelation, Chapter 10, became flesh and bone in the wife; henceforth, the wife is the little book in another form. There s another light; and it has shaken people up. Yes, we saw another light coming up and we just waited on it and rejoiced in the Lord. He has put great grace upon us, and we have become the wife of the Lamb. This trump of God message has baptized us into the body of Christ, and we are now the perfect man, and have reached the stature of the fullness of Christ. So as the wife is seen in Israel, it is said about us, Jesus Christ is walking around in Jerusalem again, as we have all the attributes, all the gifts, all the love, and we are carrying this gospel that is being preached which is setting the predestinated hearts on fire. Please understand here that not everyone is awakened to the message of the wife, because there appears two prophets to the nation of Israel that are not part of the wife of the Lamb and that God uses for another part of His Word. But the thing is, the wife knows what the two prophets are going to do. They are not part of the wife s gospel; but we are pulling for them. And also after the message of the two prophets, we know that the 144,000 Jews will preach the everlasting gospel, starting in the middle of the 70th Week of Daniel and on to the end of this awful period. And although the wife is already raptured by the time the 144,000 Jews begin to preach, we are pulling for them. And we know about the foolish virgins. And we know that they waited too late, and they are not part of the Lamb s wife; but still we are pulling for them, because they will be persecuted and put to death for their stand for the Word in that great persecution of the tribulation period. So, as we said earlier, to the nation of Israel, God opens a fountain. Meaning, He makes the shedding of the blood of the Lamb at Calvary as though it has just happened. The Prophet Zechariah said there is a fountain open and where did you get these wounds, and they will

129 128 The GosPel For The wife in israel mourn. What the prophet is saying is that something has awakened the predestinated in Israel and they realize that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. And that is beginning to take place as we speak. These things have begun to come into being. So receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost was all that Peter knew about at the time of his writing. So what he said in 2 Peter 1:19 is strictly a prophecy that Christ was speaking through him. Peter was prophesying about a future time when Christ would reveal Himself as the Bridegroom to those of the house of Israel that were ordained to be part of the wife. This is a small number that hear this last trump of God message and are baptized into the body of Christ where there is neither Jew nor Gentile. This is the one new man of Ephesians 2:14-18, and the perfect man of Ephesians 4:13, which is the wife of the Lamb. Hence, the word until until the day dawn. So the Holy Ghost that Peter had was sufficient to bring him and the saints of his day through time with all the blessings thereof. But the wife is the small number that is seen as a body that is neither Jew nor Gentile in this day, while the main Jewish church continues to do the will of God in their realm. And now the predestinated part of the Jews that are ordained to recognize Christ in His fullness are seen as the spiritual part that takes on flesh and bones that God included as part of the wife of the Lamb. As this last trumpet sounds, we have arrived at a place in time where we are not talking about dying and coming forth from the grave, but we are looking for translation, as Paul said in the Book of 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, Behold, I shew you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. (This is for all living members of the body of Christ.) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Well, this is what is taking place now at this very moment. The trumpet is sounding God is moving in that special way; and that which Peter said would be here is now here. And there are Jews that are receiving the benefit of it. Now concerning the things that both Peter and Paul were looking at, we find that both men knew that there was more revelation to come at this end time. Paul said as much before he left for glory by the way of death when speaking to those that were to become the wife, which he made very clear as he prophesied about this end time. So on this part of the Word, please allow me to be repetitious. It s very important to understand that John had not recorded the Book of Revelation while Peter and Paul were yet living; and it would be yet another thirty years before the Book of Revelation would be completed.

130 ANOTHER LIGHT FOR ISRAEL TO GIVE THEM ANOTHER CHANCE TO ACCEPT THE GOSPEL 129 So seeing certain truths as is seen in the Book of Revelation is imperative for seeing the whole picture. This is especially true when looking at the wife of the Lamb and how the gospel goes back to Israel. The wife is shown dressed in fine linen, which is the righteousness that Christ gave only to the wife, which is only shown after the church ages. And now we have arrived at the time when all things are being fulfilled. We have eaten the little book and have become the physical part of the Christ that brought the little book down from heaven. And after eating it up, we became the little book. And now it s here in another form. That little book has become flesh and bones; and is what the wife of the Lamb has become. And here we are prophesying and it is coming to pass just like the Word said. We are living in an hour where the supernatural is taking place. Again, the title of my message, Another Light for Israel Gives Them Another Chance to Accept the Gospel. Yes, they get another chance, because this light has shined again for them. There s a new light that has come up, and it is shining through the wife of the Lamb. And it is shaking people up; they can t understand. There are those that say, Why are you preaching the gospel to Israel? They will never accept the gospel until the two prophets get there. Well, that is a lack of understanding, because the two prophets will have a different purpose altogether. They will prophesy to Israel and shut the heavens that it rain not in the days of their prophecy, and they will cause the sea to turn to blood. And all the while there will be those that are rejoicing upon seeing the great things that God is doing. They will scold Israel for making a covenant with the antichrist, that man of sin, the pope, and they will tell Israel that God is displeased with them for making a covenant with the antichrist rather than trusting God. And it won t rain a drop until Elijah calls for it. It s not the original Elijah; but it will be a man with the same type spirit that the original Elijah had on him. Also, the other prophet will have a spirit on him liken unto the spirit that was on Moses. (Revelation, Chapter 11) So the move is on another light has risen! Christ spoke this prophetic utterance through His chosen apostle to the Jews, and although Peter is not a part of its fulfillment, Christ through him spoke it. This other light (not the Holy Ghost) was something totally unexpected. This light causes many Jews to realize that Jesus Christ is the Jewish Messiah, King, and Savior. The Jews are so proud to be Jews; but there is a group of them that are baptized into this very message, the trumpet of God, and are a part of the wife, which is neither Jew nor Gentile. Peter s prophecy is coming to pass, completing the fullness of the body of Christ, which is now Christ the wife.

131 130 The GosPel For The wife in israel Someone asked me, How do we know that we are baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ? Well, that is a legitimate question. It s a good question. And here s the answer. The message is what baptizes us into the body, because the message is one with the body of Christ. How do you feel about the message? Do you believe the message? Are you in one mind and in one accord with this trumpet? That is the answer. In this body, there is neither Jew nor Gentile it s the new man of Ephesians 2:14-15, which is the perfect man of Ephesians 4:13. And as said earlier, this is a small group just like in Bible days. In the Book of Romans, Chapter 16, it tells about some of the Jews and Gentiles that had accepted Paul s espousal message and they didn t claim to be a Jew or a Gentile. They were part of the body of Christ as it existed under the first leg of the spiritual coming of Christ. Because the middle wall of partition has been broken down and now there is neither Jew nor Gentile. But that has nothing to do with the other Jews or the other Gentiles that are not part of the wife. I m speaking only of those that are elected and have been called out to be baptized into this trump of God message to be part of the wife of the Lamb. Another light has sprung up, and a revival is taking place. The gospel angel has gone into Israel. It has left the Gentile world, and that s why we see the immoral things going on like we are seeing today. And we know that there is nothing that we can do to change it. The only thing that is going to change the way things are going is that God takes this old world through the tribulation and destroys the worldly systems as we now know them. What we are looking at now is that there is hope for the Jewish people, and there s a new light, and the power of God is empowering us to take the Word and preach the Word with power, as Jesus said, These things that I do and greater things shall you do. Remember, I told a dream a couple of weeks back that I had about a man that was missing an arm, and I went up to him and he started to run from me. I don t know why. But I was going to pray for him, that God would restore his arm back. But I didn t even get a chance to pray. I just grabbed hold of his shoulder and before I could get all the words out, In the name of Jesus Christ, there appeared an arm, just like the other, perfectly restored. That s when I preached the message, A Higher Level of Divine Healing. Brothers and sisters, we have come into the Holy of Holies, because we are the wife, so let your faith soar unto heaven. By faith we can do all things according to His will by the faith of the Son of God that He freely gives His wife. We thank God for it! I heard a man talking the other day, and he said, Some people want to try to do things that are impossible. They remind me of Peter trying to walk on water. He should have known better than that. The Bible

132 ANOTHER LIGHT FOR ISRAEL TO GIVE THEM ANOTHER CHANCE TO ACCEPT THE GOSPEL 131 doesn t say that Peter tried to walk on water; it says that Peter walked on water. Peter saw Jesus and said, Lord, if that s you, bid me to come. And Jesus said, Come. And Peter walked on water to go to Jesus. I don t know how far he walked. But then he began to look around and see the blusterous waves and he began to doubt and he began to sink into the water. Jesus just reached and got him by the hand and said, Wherefore did you doubt? (Matthew 14:26-32) So we want our faith to stay strong in Christ. And only by the faith and knowledge of the Son of God do we want to operate, and do just as He says to do. There s another light, and this is that light that Peter, and also, Paul (who was in Christ s stead) prophesied about; and it is shining all over this earth, and will continue to do so until God s will is accomplished and we are sitting at the right hand of our Husband and King in glory as the wife of the Lamb. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we praise you and bless your name. We thank you, Lord, for another opportunity that you have given us to talk about your Word and to praise you. And all these things are a reality, because you have made it possible and you have given to us this light here at the end time. Now we praise you for reaching over to include the wife part of Israel, as Israel has awakened for a mighty revival, because the gospel angel has gone in and there is an influence for the Word. I pray that you take this Word and use it for your glory, in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

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134 MAKING THE FINAL PREPARATION FOR MEETING THE RESURRECTED MEMBERS OF THE WIFE 133 THE LITTLE BOOK IN ANOTHER FORM Today I want to entitle our message, The Little Book in Another Form, and I want to say some things up front before we go deeper into this message. We have had the written Word all along; but in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 10, the fullness of Christ came in the form of the Mighty Angel and brought something down from heaven that is called the little book. It is a prophetic message that we spiritually eat (because it is a spiritual book); so it has to be in us and live itself through us. We can hear the voice of Paul in his prophetic writing, where he says in 2 Corinthians 3:1-3, You are written epistles. You are the Word. You are the book. Now what we are looking at here in Revelation, Chapter 10, is that at first the little book was spiritual Word that was being shown to the Apostle John in a visionary form, who at that time was only a type of what the wife is here at the end time. God, by His Voice of Authorization, told John to go and take the little book and eat it up. And John obeyed this authorizing voice by taking and eating the little book. This was showing that the espoused virgin, from that moment, became one with her Husband, Jesus Christ; which means the wife has now become the flesh and bones of the little book and is seen in Ephesians 4:13 as the perfect man. This shows the manifestation of the wife of the Lamb after we ate the little book; thus the little book is in another form. Henceforth, we are the Word wife of God s only begotten Son, who was created from that special part of the Word, as Jesus Christ was. We see this special part of the Word in the Book of John 1:1-2. It says, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. And as Jesus was the created part of the Word that was with God, so has He taken this same special part of the Word and created a wife. Let s pray before reading the scriptures. Heavenly Father, we come praising you and thanking you for your love and goodness to us. We pray that your Word will go forth today and that it will bless the hearers, and that we all will receive from thy bountiful hand that which you are serving today. We ask in Jesus Christ s name. Amen. Now we want to begin reading in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 10, and connect it with last night s message, Another Light for Israel to Give Them another Chance to Accept the Gospel, in which we spoke about the Day Star as Peter saw it. But here in the Book of Revelation comes the

135 134 The GosPel For The wife in israel Word to John years after both Peter and Paul had gone home to be with the Lord. God put John on the Isle of Patmos where he saw Christ coming in a visionary form in his day in order to record it for those that would be living here at the end time when this would be an actual happening. And although he wrote this in 96 AD, it wouldn t be known until the end time when there would be a prophetic spirit upon the wife to understand it by revelation before the onset of the tribulation period. John also differentiated between the spiritual coming of Christ seen as the Mighty Angel of Revelation, Chapter 10, and the actual physical coming of Jesus Christ to begin His reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, after the tribulation period is over, shown in Revelation 11:15, and Revelation 19: This is seen only by revelation as God reveals His Word unto us. God had John to write the Book of Revelation in symbols so that it would be hidden, and no one could open this door to the revelation of it until God gave a key. So it s here in Revelation, Chapter 10, where the Word shows the fullness of Christ coming back to earth to be a spiritual body to be baptized into; and in His hand He had a little book for us to eat, so that we could become one with Him in marriage and have a body like unto His own glorious body. He says, Take and eat the little book. And as we ate the little book, we were baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ, which is our marriage to the Lord Jesus Christ. Now we have this message of fine linen, the sounding of the trumpet that says, Redemption has come! Now, only in Him do we live, move, and have our being. We are dead (but alive unto God), and our lives are hid with Christ in God; and that puts us outside the worldly realm, as we have been translated (moved into, or baptized into) another realm; or as Paul said in Colossians 1:12-13, Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. Notice, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. That s why we can t get interested in the things of the world. We are happy in our world. And all that we will ever need is in our world spiritually, mentally, and physically. We were translated out of the kingdom of darkness (which means confusion, uncertainty) into the Kingdom of His dear Son the Kingdom of Light. This is where we express ourselves as a new creature in Christ Jesus; for we ate up the little book and became what we ate. I preached a message in Bolt, West Virginia, entitled, What Happened to the Little Book? We ate it up! We became that. We are the little book that has taken on flesh and bones. Let s begin reading in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 10, starting in Verse One. It says, And I saw another mighty angel come down from

136 THE LITTLE BOOK IN ANOTHER FORM 135 heaven, clothed with a cloud (not everyone can see Him): and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: This is the signs of the Christ, as John saw Him in his vision, coming as a Mighty Angel to earth. This is the Christ that came into Jesus that we see in Matthew, Chapter 3, when John the Baptist baptized Him, and thus He became Jesus the Christ. So now we are baptized into Him, by one Spirit we are baptized into one body, and we are the fullness of the body of Christ. And just as Jesus became Jesus Christ, the wife who is baptized into Christ, became Christ the Wife in the earth this side of the rapture, and will be that forever. Verse 2, And he had in his hand a little book (We receive the fullness of Christ and the fullness of the Word that is for the translation of our mortal bodies that hitherto was unobtainable until it was brought down to us after the church ages were over; after the thunders had sounded their voices.): and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, This is showing both legs of His spiritual coming. The first leg (right foot) of Christ s spiritual coming, shown as the Holy Ghost, came on the day of Pentecost, and was restored back to the saints in about And then the second leg (left foot) took place here at the end time as the fullness of Christ came to earth. Let s continue on with Revelation 10:3, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. Concerning these seven thunders, there are many people that want to make a mysterious thing out of this, and God allowed them to think that way; for to them, it s supposed to be mysterious. They are not supposed to understand, because this is for the wife of the Lamb. The rest of the church world can only debate about the seven thunders, as to whether God has even revealed them or not. We often hear them say, Just wait until those seven thunders sound. The preachers that are without revelation say, Seven men are going to come forth and give us the revelation of the thunders and then we will be raptured. Sorry to disappoint you, but the seven men (thunders) have already come and gone. And they will not be back until the rest of the wife that has gone by the way of death are resurrected. Yes, we will see the church age messengers as they rise from the dead, because they are a part of the wife of the Lamb. Verse 4, And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. I want you to notice what they said were the seals that were taken off the Book of Redemption. That s why in Revelation, Chapter 5, we see the entire Book of Redemption, and it contains everything that Jesus Christ redeems

137 136 The GosPel For The wife in israel from Adam, all the way into eternity. That s why He (the Lamb of God) had to pull the seals off and open the Book of Redemption, so that He could take from it a little book, which He sent unto us by His Spirit Christ in the form of the Mighty Angel. It s important to notice here that the entire Book of Redemption was opened; but only the part called the little book was taken from it. The Book of Redemption contains all that Jesus Christ redeemed at Calvary; but He only claims His wife at this time. That s the reason that Christ didn t bring the entire Book of Redemption to this earth at that time, as all God s family is in the Book and will be claimed in their season. And when He brings the rest of the Book of Redemption, we (His wife) will be with Him, which is shown in Revelation 19: Now the Book of Redemption (the Big Book, the Bible) is never called the little book. But the little book was on the inside of the Book of Redemption; because it was there for the redemption of a specific people known as the wife of the Lamb. And it was brought down to us as our part of the plan of redemption, and given to us. But this didn t happen until the seven thunders (spiritual angels) uttered their spiritual voices through the earthly voice of the seventh church age messenger, William Branham, who had the spirit of Elijah on him. That s why it took the coming of a prophet of the Old Testament type order, whom the Word could come to as one man, as it was in the Old Testament where the Word came to the prophet. The Lamb broke the seals; but the Christ brought them down to us, using the prophet, William Branham, whom God called home in Since then we have been baptized into the body of Christ, which is the spiritual part of the man Jesus Christ. This means that we have reached the fullness of Christ. If you want to see Jesus, look at us. Not one person; but all of us together, everyone fulfilling their part. We are members of the same body. Continuing Verses 5-6, And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer. In other words, this time period has ended for the wife of the Lamb. These verses are very important, because they show the end of all religious denominations. Now we are not going to go through all of it this morning, due to the time, and since we have already established this in the books that we have written. But in Matthew, Chapter 13, Jesus Christ gave parables of how the church would come through that period of time, and how the mercy of God would allow the wheat and tares to grow together. And they remained this way right until at the end time, then God sent

138 THE LITTLE BOOK IN ANOTHER FORM 137 His angels to separate the wheat and tares so that they could no longer dwell together. And that is what the angel is saying in Verse 6. That time period of the seven church ages, the thunders, it is all over; and time is no longer for that type of arrangement, which was for the espoused virgin so now the living Word has come into Christ the wife. This is shown in greater clarity in our book entitled, God s Redeemed Family. So here in Revelation, Chapter 10, He gives us this little book; it shows our complete salvation spirit, soul, and body. It s the part of the Book of Redemption that belongs specifically to the King s wife. Verse 7, But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel (John is saying this in 96 AD), when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God (the seven church ages) should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. Notice, He said that it is to be this way until the seventh angel comes, and then the angel from heaven raises His hand to heaven and swears that this type of arrangement shall not exist any longer. God is not in the religious systems of denominations anymore. It s like the Old Testament, when the New Testament came (Christ came); then there was absolutely zero value in killing a little lamb and putting the blood on the mercy seat. Because Jesus died once and obtained eternal redemption for all. He obtained eternal redemption and there is no more sacrifice. In other words, there is no need to offer sacrifices anymore; the sacrifice has already been offered. And in John 19:30, it says, When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. Here is where all the sacrifices ended. We see that during the time that the gospel was moving through the seven church ages there was blood on the mercy seat for that fallen church. But then when the angel in Revelation 10:6 raised His hand to heaven and swore that time is no longer, that meant that the time period for that type of mercy (for wheat and tares to grow together as was seen in the church ages) was over. This means that Christ has come to earth in His fullness. And His light is now in the wife of the Lamb, which has caused the darkness to flee, leaving the soul in the light; this is where there is no darkness. No longer is the wife in the church ages where we take bread and wine to show God s mercy. This is similar to what is seen in the Old Testament where the high priest had to put blood on the mercy seat. This was a once a year ritual as Paul explained in the Book of Hebrews, Chapter 9, of which Verse 7 shows the high priest offering a sacrifice each year, while Verse 12, shows us that Jesus Christ only had to offer one sacrifice that would last for all eternity; thus, the types and shadows of the killing of the lamb was no longer needed.

139 138 The GosPel For The wife in israel Now on to Revelation 10:8. It says, And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. Here, there is the Voice of Authorization, and we understand how this came into being, into a living reality. There is a book that I wrote in 2006 called, The Voice of Authorization. It was preached in three messages, two of them at Midway, West Virginia, with the third one being preached in Glen Fork, West Virginia. And this three part message showed that the voice from heaven spoke again, saying, Now it is time, all of this is finished. Go to the angel and take the little book. Verse 9, And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. (watch what the angel says to John) 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. Verse 10, 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. That is something very different than what the church ages had. And we have already taken the little book and eaten it up. And that is what we became. In other words, that little book took on flesh and bones. We became the living Word, the wife of the Lamb, bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. (Ephesians 5:30-32) Paul said, This marriage is a great mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. This is a marriage. That s why we are the wife of the Lamb, the Christ in the earth, the wife of the very Son of God. That s why I say that we are not baptized into Jesus; but we are baptized into Christ, which is Spirit. Christ is Spirit, meaning the anointing. We are baptized into Christ, the anointing. That puts the attributes of Jesus in the earth through us, the Christ wife, and we are the little book. We are baptized into His body, and are now His flesh and bones. So in order to eat the little book now, it s as Jesus Christ said, Except you eat of my flesh and drink of my blood (Spirit of life) you have no part with me. Now it s Christ the wife that has the Word of eternal life, and it can only be received by the revelation of this flesh and bone message (where the blood is applied) that is being given only through the wife. (Ephesians 4:13-16, Revelation 10:11, and 1 Corinthians 15:51-52) That s why we have this message of eternal life which is that which was previously unobtainable. First, the angel had to say, Time is no longer, before we could receive that which was previously unobtainable. Then we ate the little book. And now the next verse says, And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. Prophesy again. In other words, we picked up the same type message of the unwritten Word (the same as what took place in Paul s day when he projected that this would be here) and

140 THE LITTLE BOOK IN ANOTHER FORM 139 brought it into fulfillment. I had a man say to me recently, You are trying to make yourself greater than Paul. This showed me that he didn t have revelation, as he was seeing only the man. Well, the point is, it wasn t Paul that was great, but it was Christ that was in Paul that was great. So if it was Paul that was great, and he was the one that was telling us these things of Christ, then we are in trouble, because Paul is dead (asleep). No, it wasn t Paul at all writing the things that he wrote; but it was the Christ in him, anointing him. He even said in Galatians 2:20, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. In other words, It s me; but it s not me. It is Christ in me doing the living (the works). Paul was a vessel, and God has used many vessels through time, so we must see the Christ, and not so much the vessel. We honor the vessel because of the position; but if we are listening to the vessel and not hearing the Voice behind their voice, then we are not really hearing. But behind the voice of this perfect man of Ephesians 4:13 is the Voice of the trumpet sounding for the last part of the message written and prophesied about in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 where it tells us about the shout, the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God. Also, in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, Paul says, Behold, I shew you a mystery, We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Now was it Paul or was it Christ? If it was Paul (him being a man), then it could be wrong or right. But if it is Christ, it is one hundred percent right. So we can t say Paul is greater, or someone else is greater. For now we are getting things that Paul didn t even have, that he only projected and we are now fulfilling it, because it is only for the living element of the wife of the Lamb. In the days when Jesus walked here, people began to tell him about how great some of the men were back in those days; men like Solomon, and David, and Moses. But Jesus said unto them, There is a greater than Solomon here now. And He wasn t talking about Himself as a man; for He was talking about the Christ that was in Him, and what the Christ made Him. Therefore, here is something greater than what Solomon had. So now there is something greater than what Paul had. Why? Because if we haven t come any further than Paul, then we are going to die like Paul. There are graveyards in that land; but in ours, we haven t found a single tombstone. We have no place to lay anyone away; for this trumpet message is to we which are alive and remain, and we are dwelling

141 140 The GosPel For The wife in israel inside the City of God where there is no death. Jesus Christ came and He overcame death for every man. And He gave us something to eat that causes us to live forever; both soul and body. So is there a greater than Paul here this morning? Yes, absolutely! But there is not one greater than Christ because by the fullness of the Spirit we are baptized into Him and have become His wife in the earth, and are receiving and speaking that infallible Word of God. Do you believe a greater than Solomon is here? In Luke 12:27, Jesus simply said, Consider the lilies (if you want to talk about how great Solomon was) how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. So consider the lilies, then it won t be hard to see the glory of Christ in the working of His wife, because He makes us as a beautiful lily. This is the work of God through Christ Jesus, and not the work of man. As long as we keep it in the realm of the work of man, then we can look for failures. But if it is Christ we are looking at, then in Christ there is never a failure! Once Jesus was anointed with the fullness of the Spirit of Christ that came into Him, He never had a failure. And spiritually we don t have failures; for it is Christ in the Spirit using human beings. He chose to use human beings with their failures; and He gave each human being a mind of their own that would blend with His mind. He made us an individual, special within ourselves. There s not two of you, just you; and that makes you special. There s nobody else in the world like you. Nobody else in the world has the place in Christ that you have, because everyone has their particular place in Him; and I am proud of the place He has given me. He didn t give it to me because I was good or something, but, the Bible says it was, according to His own purpose. That s in Ephesians, Chapter One. That s why we are here. That s why we believe. It s not something we decided to do; no, it s according to His purpose. He just worked things in our life and brought us around and gave us a heart for truth. He took that old stony heart out and gave us a fleshly heart, so that He could speak to us and lead and guide us by His Spirit. Let s read in 2 Corinthians 3:2. It says, Ye are our epistle (our Word that we write; you are. This is what Paul was saying. And then he says ) written in our hearts, known and read of all men: You re reading us. We are known and read of all men. We are the book. We have eaten the little book, being created from that special part of Word that was with God from the beginning. We are married to Christ; so now we are the Word with the Spirit of Christ in us, and there are no failures there. And then Paul goes on and says here, Forasmuch as ye are manifestly de-

142 THE LITTLE BOOK IN ANOTHER FORM 141 clared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. Notice, this Word is brought out of the Spirit and put in flesh; thus making the Word flesh and bone. We are bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh. Verses 4-5 says, And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; We are not sufficient of ourselves. (I love that!) Not a single one living, breathing, in the world today or has been since the time that Jesus was here, not a single one could stand up and say, I am sufficient to do this without Christ. No, but you are sufficient to do it with the sufficiency of Christ. There is no limit then. That s the sufficiency of Christ; and we are not doing it by our own works. So if God wants us to do some miracle, then we don t say, I did this. No, the sufficiency is of God. Give God the glory! And if God wants to restore a missing limb, give all the glory to Jesus! I remember years ago, when we were coming through the Pentecostal movement, it would be said among the saints, This preacher is coming to town and they say he really has the faith. He prayed for this one and they got healed. It becomes all about what the preacher did. Many times that s about all people are seeing. When the preacher is gone, the revival is gone. But God wants us to see Christ. Christ the hope of glory! I love Verse 6. It says, Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, This means the New Testament is a life we live; not just read. It was put in letter form, but it has to get off the pages and into us. Not of the letter of the Word; we can preach the letter of the Word all day, but if it s not Christ anointing and making that Word live, then it doesn t have its full effect. If one goes to a seminary, people will say, Oh, they know the Word. They teach the Word. What they say is in the Bible. Well, it doesn t make one bit of difference. It s not the letter of the Word, but it is the Spirit that comes from the Word. Last Sunday in a message, I said, Revelation springs forth from God s Word. That s what we are saying. If we only have the letter alone it will kill us, but if we get the Spirit of the Word it will give us revelation (life). In 1 Corinthians, Chapter 2, Paul clearly tells us that no man can know these things unless they are spiritually discerned, unless they are revealed to you by the Holy Ghost. So we are not going to know them with our own mentality; it doesn t matter how good we can preach, how good we can speak, how much we went to a seminary, and how good we can present a message they have to be spiritually discerned. Our vocabulary can be so flowery, so that one will say, My, my, can t that

143 142 The GosPel For The wife in israel fellow speak good? Well, that means one big zero without the Spirit of God. Continuing on with Verse 7, and we will get into some real treasures right here. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: Notice, Which glory was to be done away. So it was written to last until a certain time and be done away with. And the Word says, Christ is the end of the law of righteousness to all that believe. (Romans 10:4) So do we have a New Testament or don t we? The main thing to realize is that we are the living New Testament. If you look at us we are the New Testament in living form. We are the spiritual covenant of the wife. We re that Word. The wife s covenant written within the New Testament. That part of it. That s what Paul is saying here. Now much of what was written in the Old Testament was written for the people of that hour and would be done away with, such as the killing of the lamb, the burning of the red heifer, and the ashes sprinkled on the unclean. Those things were all types and shadows, and the Bible says, they are to be done away with. But it was a glorious thing in that day; the people shouted and rejoiced in those things. Who could ever think of such a wonderful thing being done away with? Even that great temple that Solomon built, when they sinned against God, here came King Nebuchadnezzar and destroyed it and burned the city. See, the glory was to be done away with. But we get something that is eternal; it s Christ in our heart. So the Bible is, yes, yes, a wonderful book! But now we are the little book. We are living epistles. You are what I m saying, It s written in your heart and read of all men. Verse 8, How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? That was glorious; but now we see the Spirit of the Word, the purpose of the Word. And the purpose of the law, yes, it stood; and it was a school master, Paul said. It was something to keep our conscience alive a school master until the seed came. And, praise God, the spiritual seed came into us through Christ Jesus. That s what has happened in this end time as the seed came back in Revelation, Chapter 10, and we were baptized into the fullness of the body of Christ. We are Christ the wife; meaning that Christ has incarnated Himself in us, His wife. Watch now. Verse 9. For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, And we could get an example here of what has happened in our day concerning the old time Pentecostals; where they would come to church and they would shout for an hour and a half, almost everybody was shouting. It was glorious. But it was to be done away with, because

144 THE LITTLE BOOK IN ANOTHER FORM 143 something was coming right behind it that would be so much more glorious. Everything else would dim when compared with us being baptized into the fullness of Christ. Paul said that ministration of condemnation was glorious, but much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. If we get this ministration of righteousness, we will know that it s not by our works, not by our do s and don ts; but He took our sins and gave us His righteousness. That is much more glorious than anything that has been written or that we ve seen hitherto. There s a people that the Bible says have no conscience of sin. Why? Because we know that Christ took away our sin and He is our righteousness. It doesn t mean that we are going to make every decision right or that we are going to do everything just like it ought to be done. But we have got someone that will stand for us. He took our sins and gave us His righteousness. God ordained it and purposed it this way; knowing that there would be a people living that has no sin. And that is glorious right there! And then Verse 10 says, For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect (Watch now. The Old Testament had no glory in this respect.), by reason of the glory that excelleth. In other words, it is just like night and day. We can look out here today and see all the trees, but at night we can see them only if there s a full moon or if we take a light. Look at the difference. That s the way it is with the difference in law and grace. Night has no glory when that sun comes up and we can see the flowers blooming and hear the birds singing. That s the glory that excels. We don t think about a dark night where we could only see in part; because this goes so far ahead of it that it s not even worthy for comparison. That s what this great grace is. That s what God has given us. That s what we have that is so much greater than the church age law consisting of certain baptisms and taking communion, and foot washing, and all these rituals we did to keep our conscience alive. But here He comes! Revelation, Chapter 10 here He comes. And now those church rituals have faded into obscurity. They have no glory in comparison with being Christ the wife. No, those rituals are not for the living wife that s married to the Son of God. And now when it comes to communion for the wife, we commune with Him without ceasing, by praying without ceasing. What we ve got is so glorious that rituals such as that is not even worthy to be compared to this full salvation of both spirit, soul, and body. The fact is, it sounds like foolishness to us. Yes, it is foolishness to the wife of the Lamb! To tell you to go back and do those rituals would be a lack of revelation; because there is no glory in them for us. Verses says, For if that which is done away was glorious, much more

145 144 The GosPel For The wife in israel that which remaineth is glorious. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. We don t try to beat around the bush about it. Some people say, You ought not to preach that. Even if you believe that, it would be better not to preach it. That is iniquity. That s trying to do something undercover. We use great plainness of speech, because we are not ashamed of Him. And we re not ashamed of what we believe For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. (Romans 10:11) That s us; we re the wife of the Lamb that has been baptized into the fullness of Christ that came down in Revelation, Chapter 10. And we are more than conquerors because He conquered for us. Verse 13, And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: I want you to notice that. It was so glorious. Moses face was just lit up. He came down from that mountain like God Himself coming down. It was so glorious, his face so shined. But even this glory faded away as time went by, giving way for something even more glorious, as the glory of Christ is seen in the New Testament. So this glory of Moses had to be abolished; the laws, the offering of the sacrifices, the washing of the pots and pans. Paul talked about that in the Book of Hebrews. Well, all of that was to be abolished; but yet it was glorious. But look what we ve got. That has no glory in comparison to what God has given us in this day and in this hour. Now watch the next verse. Verse 14, But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. Do you see that? Which vail is done away in Christ. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! You see, it was so glorious. That s why yesterday s message was good; it was glorious. But when you compare it to what God is doing for us, it has no glory, because this is so much more glorious. It s so great to know that we have no sins, we have no conscience of sin, we are as righteous as He is righteous, because He took away our unrighteousness and gave us His righteousness. Those that read the Old Testament, who haven t turned to Christ, the vail is still on their faces. That s why there s a people that are waking up. They say, There is a New Testament. There is something else besides the Old Testament. Oh, it was glorious; but look at this! It s so much more glorious. Now watch as we get another verse here. Verse 15, But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. See, we are not going to see these things unless Christ reveals them to us. When Christ comes into our heart, the vail is taken away. We see the Old Testament and we

146 THE LITTLE BOOK IN ANOTHER FORM 145 appreciate it. We see Moses, and say, Praise God for Moses. We see those prophets and praise God for them. But then when we came to this, it is so much greater. Greater than Solomon is here. Greater than Moses is here. A greater than the Old Testament is here. Now I m speaking about the rituals of the Old Testament, not the prophecies that are yet to be. The glory of this trumpet message is so great that in comparison to what has happened up to now, nothing else has any glory when compared to it! Verse 17 says, Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Do you believe that? Liberty! When we have liberty, we are not bound down. We are not fearful. We are not so full of anxiety. We are not wondering about tomorrow or saying, Am I doing this right? or Am I doing that right? No, He done it right. And He did it for us and we accepted what He did for us as being all sufficient. Yes, He is our Savior. Verse 18, But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed (that s what has happened to us) into the same image (and how do we do it?) from glory to glory (from revelation to revelation; that s what s been taking place now), even as by the Spirit of the Lord. When we first received the little book, we received it in the spiritual form; but now it s manifested in flesh and bones through the wife of the Lamb, so now the little book is in another form. Someone might ask, How does one receive the little book? If one receives us, they are receiving the little book, because we ate the little book and became what we ate. We are the flesh and bones of that Word, the wife of the Lamb. Now where is the little book at today? When you look at us, you see the little book. We are the little book because we are that special part of the Word. That is the Word that became bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Now this is so glorious that everything else has lost its glory in comparison; because this is another step forward, and we can t live in yesterday, and we can t live in tomorrow, but we are living in the present and He is an ever present God. And He is here today to lift us up above the shadows. And He has lifted us up. And He is here to let us know that we are free, that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. And the Spirit of the Lord is not only in us, but we are in Him. And where we are, there is the Spirit of the Lord. There is liberty for the wife of God s Son. And we are that. Amen. So let s pray. Heavenly Father, we pray that you will take these words and use them for your glory. We appreciate you, and we thank you, Lord. We honor you in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

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148 THE SPIRITS OF JUST MEN ARE MADE PERFECT BY THE SOUNDING OF THIS LAST TRUMPET 147 IS OUR GOSPEL RELEVANT FOR THE TIME WE ARE IN, OR HAS IT BECOME A RELIC OF THE PAST? Today I want to begin reading in Romans 11:13, which may seem like a strange starting place for our message that we want to entitle, Is Our Gospel Relevant for the Time We Are In, Or has it Become a Relic of the Past? Think about those words. Is this gospel that we re preaching relevant for this hour of time that we are living in? Is it up-to-date, helping to move us forward, and something that is absolutely necessary for the wife of the Lamb; or has it become a relic of the past? When I think about relics of the past in the gospel sense, I always think of the seminaries that at one time, when they were first founded, taught the Bible in a timely and relevant manner. They spent much time teaching the letter of the Word as it was seen in those days. It was the right thing to do at the time, because God was moving by His Spirit in the natural realm of the Word. But then the light of God s Word started moving further into the spiritual realm as He sent more truth, and they stagnated, because they refused to move forward with the light of God s Word. Then the spirit of iniquity came in and blinded them from receiving any further truth, and they became just a relic of the past. That s what denominations have become, relics of the past; because living Word, which is relevant for spiritual growth is not there anymore. Consequently, we can t get the life of the water of the Word from a stagnated well. There is no life-giving water in there. So now all they can produce are more relics, and not Christians that are vibrant and full of life. That s what the gospel that s relevant for our day does; it produces Christians that are vibrant and full of life. It never stagnates, because there s fresh water running all the time. In John 7:37-38, it says, In the last day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. So there is a continuing flow of revelation as we walk in the light of the Word. 1 John 1:5-7 says, This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. This tells me that the gospel of Christ always has life in it, which brings new life, and

149 148 The GosPel For The wife in israel there s always something greater ahead. Notice if we walk in the light; showing us that it s imperative that we walk in the light of the Word that is relevant for the time that we are living in. We re not standing still where the light has been; because that would make us a relic of the past. So that s what we re going to be talking about. But let s pray first. Heavenly Father, in the glorious name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we come to you now, Lord, thanking you for another privilege to stand up and be identified with the Lamb that died for us, and to be identified as being in the body of Christ, and one of those that are redeemed. We sing the song of redemption. And, Lord, as we stand here with your Word open before us, I just pray that you will put your anointing upon us, upon the Word, and may we be able by your anointing and by your grace to speak words that will be of a benefit to the wife of the Lamb. We ask it in Jesus Christ s wonderful, wonderful name. Amen. So we re starting our reading in Romans, Chapter 11. Remember the title, Is Our Gospel Relevant for the Time We Are In, Or has it Become a Relic of the Past? Now when Paul was speaking, his gospel was always relevant. Please understand that. It wasn t something that stagnated. So when Paul moved the gospel from the cycle of to the Jews only over into the realm of both the Jews and the Gentiles, this began a new day. (Acts 13:44-49) We see that early in Paul s ministry, he announced that he was the apostle to the Gentiles. This was necessary since the Gentiles were the ones that didn t have the gospel or weren t under a covenant. But since God had given Peter the keys to the Kingdom, he was the only one that could officially open the door to the Gentiles, as shown in Acts, Chapter 10. It was here that the Gentiles were accepted into the Kingdom of God, which gave them a part in God s plan of redemption. So now the gospel could be preached to both Jews and Gentiles in line with what the purpose of God was for each people. But I want you to watch the starting ministry of Paul. Let s just read and let him say it in his own words. Romans 11:13 says, For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: Now this is what Paul was saying as he went forth. He had to go out there and pull the Gentiles in; but also, as the gospel progressed on, Paul began to get a greater understanding of the purpose of God in his life. He began to see that it wasn t just to the Gentiles that he would preach to. He spoke more clearly about this years later when he was in prison; for he began to say, There is neither Jew nor Gentile in what I m preaching. (Galatians 3:28) This shows us that Paul s gospel stayed relevant throughout his life. For had Paul went to the Jews and told the congregation, I am the apostle to the Gentiles; I magnify my office, no doubt the Jews would think, Paul, you are speaking to the wrong congregation. By

150 IS OUR GOSPEL RELEVANT FOR THE TIME WE ARE IN, OR HAS IT BECOME A RELIC OF THE PAST? 149 this time in Paul s life, his gospel was for the body of Christ it was to both people. It s here that we can see how this gospel kept its relevancy. And towards the end of Paul s life, many of the Jews wanted this gospel. In Romans, Chapter 16, Paul began to mention some of the saints that saw what the purpose of his gospel was, that it was to the body of Christ that consisted of both Jews and Gentiles. So can we say that Paul was just to the Gentiles? Absolutely not. For in the city of Corinth, Paul met Aquila and Priscilla, who were Jews that had fled Rome. They had a church that was in their house, and there were Jews and Gentiles involved. Again, we see this in Romans, Chapter 16, which gives us a good clue about how his ministry began to reach out, and he was no longer one that would get up and say, I am the apostle to the Gentiles. For had he said as much, his gospel would have lost its relevancy. But he was one that said, There is neither Jew nor Gentile inside the body of Christ, because he began to move on in the Word of God, preaching the Word in the light of what God was doing then; thus his gospel didn t lose its relevancy. We also find that Paul and the saints that followed his revelation began to move from the natural rituals that were commonly taught amongst the Jews (such as meats and drinks, circumcision, and the keeping of holy days) as they sought after the righteousness of God. And his message began to take them beyond those rituals. He said, It s not natural rituals, but it is Christ in you the hope of glory! He kept moving with the gospel until he got to the place where he said, For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:3) He also said, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:19-20) He was making the gospel all-inclusive to all those that believed, as he wrote in Ephesians, Chapter One, where we see the beginning of the family of God in predestination. And as his revelation grew, he began to show us that we were with Him from the foundation of the world and we were predestinated in Him, and that it is all by God s good pleasure. So his gospel began to expand until it became relevant, relating directly and significantly, to the whole body. At first, its relevancy was to get out there and let the Gentiles know that God had included them in His plan, because the Jews were not about to do that, even though Peter had the keys to the Kingdom of God and he was the one that had to open the door to let the Gentiles in. In Acts, Chapter 10, we see that the Lord gave Peter a vision of a great sheet that came down out of heaven and there were all kinds of four footed beasts, creeping things, and fowls of the air. The Lord spoke and told Peter, Rise, kill, and eat.

151 150 The GosPel For The wife in israel But Peter said, Not so Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common nor unclean. And the Lord spoke again and said, What God has cleansed, call not common nor unclean. And while Peter was thinking on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee. Arise and go with them, doubting nothing. The men that sought after Peter had been sent by a Gentile man, named Cornelius, who had been fasting and praying, when an angel of the Lord appeared and told him to send to Joppa for Peter. So Peter came unto the house of Cornelius, and while he was preaching the Holy Ghost fell upon them. Then in Acts, Chapter 11, Peter returned back to Jerusalem to his Jewish brethren. Here we see the thinking of the Jews about what Peter had just done; for they began to scold him in a very bad way. They began to say, Brother, you went in unto the unclean. It s here that I want you to see the relevancy of the gospel as Peter explained why he did what he did in going to the Gentiles, when the Jewish brethren were saying unto him, You went in unto the unclean. Thou did eat with them. And on and on it went, making such a separation there, and putting the Gentiles so low, showing the Jewish mentality they had, by saying the Gentiles were dogs. Then Peter told them that God told him to go to Cornelius house; and he finished by saying, Who am I to withstand God? Then the other apostles held their peace. Here is where the relevancy of Paul s gospel began to shine; for there had to be some coming together to bring in those that were part of the body. There had to be somebody to bring relevancy to the gospel for the time they lived in; because in God s plan there was not just to be a Jewish people and a Gentile people. Paul waxed bold in his writing, and he said, God has broken down the middle wall of partition, and He has created a new man, which is not Jew nor Gentile. Now if Paul had continued to say, I am the apostle to the Gentiles, if he would have just continued on that line, his gospel would have become irrelevant. He couldn t reach out and do what God s Word said was to be done; which was to get a wife for His Son, who would be made up of all nations without differentiating between Jews and Gentiles, as they together are the wife of the Lamb. Now these things are very important in the time that we are living in. As we have come to this hour and the gospel has begun to reach out, we get a greater meaning of such things as the gospel going to the Jews. We can t get narrow minded and say that Paul was only the apostle to the Gentiles, because his very writings take it further on, beyond that. And those that followed the Word in that hour had to move on, otherwise what they had thirty years earlier would become just a relic. That s why he said that the Word of God is a living Word. In 2 Corinthians

152 IS OUR GOSPEL RELEVANT FOR THE TIME WE ARE IN, OR HAS IT BECOME A RELIC OF THE PAST? 151 3:6, it says, Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. The written Word (the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) will kill; but it s the Spirit (the tree of life) that gives life. The life is moving, and it gives light. We must walk in the light as He is in the light; then the blood of Jesus Christ will be applicable and there will be no sins. So if we say we re in light and walk in darkness, we are lying, and do not the truth. In other words, we ve got to stay where the gospel is relevant. Let s go to Romans 15:8. Paul is writing; he says, Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: This explains why Jesus told His twelve apostles not to go into the way of the Gentiles; but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. When a certain Gentile woman came to him seeking healing for her daughter, He said, This is the children s bread. I can t give the children s bread to dogs. She said, That s the truth, Lord; but could the dogs have just a few crumbs the children are dropping on the floor under the table? Jesus said, Woman, you ve got more faith than anybody in Israel. Go on home; your daughter is healed. This shows what the grace of God will do. So here, Jesus Christ, until His death, burial, and resurrection, was under a covenant to Israel. But once they rejected Him and delivered Him over to be crucified by the Romans, that opened another door for the whole world. Jesus came to confirm the covenant made unto the fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In Luke 1:31-33, the angel Gabriel came to a virgin of Israel named Mary, and said unto her, And, behold, thou shall conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David. The promises of what Jesus Christ is to the nation of Israel are too numerous to mention here; but it is very clear that He could not go to the Gentile world until He fulfilled His commission that God had promised Abraham, and David, and those prophets of old. In the Book of Psalms 69:20-26, God allowed David to be rejected, and in his writings he prophesied about what would happen to our Lord. Also, in Isaiah 53:1-12, he tells about Jesus Christ being rejected and brought as a sheep to slaughter. He died for our transgressions, so that we could have life. And once Israel rejected their King and Messiah, and crucified Him, and He resurrected from the dead, He was free to go to whomsoever He would. This opened the door to whosoever, which included all nations. Now we can understand Paul s place in the ministry. We see that Paul began to go into the Old Testament and find scriptures that referred to the Gentiles. We especially see him doing this in

153 152 The GosPel For The wife in israel Romans, Chapter 15, starting in Verse 9 and on through the chapter. I m not going to read them all here; but I m going to read some starting in Verse 15. Here Paul is confirming that he was standing there in Christ s stead, as far as bringing the gospel to the Gentiles. It says, Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God. He is saying, This is my job. This grace is given to me. This is what I am here for. Watch Verses 16-18, That I should be the minster of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed. Watch here how solid he was. He was just as solid for the Gentiles as Jesus Christ was for the Jews. But as time went by, the situation had to change in order to be relevant for the time period after Pentecost, and on down in our day. Because when we get over to the Book of 2 Corinthians, Chapter 11, Paul began to talk about something that he had never spoke of before. He began to talk about espousing a virgin to Christ. So we find Paul saying in Verses 2-3, For I am jealous over you with a 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 (deception), so your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. In other words, these theologians will try to explain everything away in order to destroy the simplicity of the Word, as the serpent did to Eve. The serpent twisted the Word around until the simplicity of the gospel was destroyed. And we see this same thing in the religious systems of today. That s why the wife of the Lamb can t be tossed to and fro after our baptism into the fullness of the body of Christ, because we have His mind. Amen. Here Paul continues showing us his purpose in God s plan. Notice Romans 15:16, That I should be. I want to push down real hard on that to make an impression That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles. He s saying, That s my office. I m to the Gentiles. I magnify my office. And now that this was made known, Paul could begin to explain to them in such a way that all the others could understand this, even to the point that Peter, James, and John gave him the right hand of fellowship and put their blessings on what he was doing for our Lord. (Galatians 2:6-9) So what Paul was now saying has become relevant as the gospel began to expand, both geographically and spiritually. And because of this, even some of the Jews began to come into the marvelous light of the gospel as Paul preached it.

154 IS OUR GOSPEL RELEVANT FOR THE TIME WE ARE IN, OR HAS IT BECOME A RELIC OF THE PAST? 153 Now in most every city around the Middle East there was a Jewish colony there. So when Paul went into the city and preached to both the Jews and Gentiles, he explained by the Word that God had also included the Gentiles as a people for His name, and that he was the apostle to them. And because many Jews came to hear what he had to say, there s no doubt that he would get questions when they heard him say that he was the apostle to the Gentiles. Some of the Jews would, perhaps, say something on this order, Paul, I see exactly what you are preaching, but I am not a Gentile. I am Jewish; nevertheless, every time you preach, I feel that burning in my heart. I love the way you are presenting this! But what am I to do, seeing I am a Jew and not a Gentile? This made it necessary for the revelation to be made known that in the body of Christ, there is no nationality; because inside the body there is neither Jew nor Gentile, just members of the body of Christ. This revelation would later be made known to Paul as it became relevant. In Paul s day it would have caused a dilemma to these Jews if God had not given him this revelation. Because here s why: Some of the Jews saw Paul s message of salvation is by grace without the works of the law. And they believed it just like he preached it. So it was time for Paul to expand, as it was obvious that God included the Jews in the gospel that Paul was bringing. The water had to keep flowing; for if Paul would have kept ministering to the Gentiles only, it would have caused his gospel to become a relic of the past. And the churches, also, would become a relic as they would say, Only the Gentiles can have the message that Paul is preaching. But it wasn t that way; for the elect received the revelation. Those like Aquila and Priscilla; they were Jews who heard Paul preach and God opened their hearts and eyes to this wonderful truth. When the elect heard Paul preach, God gave them understanding; otherwise, his gospel would have become irrelevant. And not only did Aquila and Priscilla accept Paul s gospel; but here came another man whose name was Apollos, and He was a Jew, also. He believed that John was the Elijah, and he believed in John s baptism. Apollos was preaching about John, so Aquila and Priscilla decided to go over and see what Apollos was saying. And once they heard him, they perceived, This man is lacking something, because there s another move of God. God is doing something else, and Apollos doesn t know it. Yes, there were several things that he didn t know. He didn t know that the Christ that John preached about had already come. And also, he didn t know that the Gentiles could now have the gospel. The Bible says, Aquila and Priscilla called him aside and expounded the Word more perfectly, and Apollos accepted the Word. That didn t make the Word more perfect; but it made his understanding more perfect. Amen.

155 154 The GosPel For The wife in israel Now in our day, whatever we do as the body of Christ has to be in line with what Paul projected (prophesied) for this end time. And we see that the middle wall of partition in the body is nonexistent. So if Paul would have continued on with his earlier statement of, I am the apostle to the Gentiles; I magnify my office. I am the minister to the Gentiles. That s what I m to do. God gave this grace to me for you Gentiles, then his gospel would have become irrelevant. He didn t say, All right Jews, you go sit down somewhere else. This isn t for you. You go on over there and listen to Peter, James, and John. I ve got something for the Gentiles. No, he was a man that followed after God, and he walked in the Spirit, and he began to understand that God s plan was to make of twain, one new man. And it was when he was in prison when God really began to open up much revelation unto him. He brought this wonderful revelation There s no such thing as a Jew or a Gentile when you come to what I am preaching. I m no longer just a minister to the Gentiles or to the Jews, I am a minister to the wife of the Lamb. Today, seeing this trumpet message by revelation means that we have come into the high calling. Paul said there is a high calling. He said, I haven t reached it yet, but I am pressing for it. He was still looking for more revelation, looking for God to show him the things he needed to know for the time he was living in. God has been so gracious to us here at the end time, and He has given us a gospel that is relevant for the time that we are living in. This gospel that we are preaching started in the 1950 s. If you listen to the tapes from over the past years, you will find that it kept it s relevancy in whatever point and place God was moving the church ages, the seals, and many other great treasures that have been revealed in Revelation, Chapter 10. This gospel stayed relevant because it moved on. We have not stagnated, because we have moved with the Spirit of God which has continuously kept moving that s the light. John said the light is moving. And Paul said, Ye are the children of light. He even went further and said, You ve been translated. Can you believe that? He was telling the saints in the Book of Colossians 1:12-13, Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. We re translated into light, His anointing. That s something that man can t give to us, but the Lord reveals His Word to us by His Spirit. 1 John 2:27 says, But the anointing which ye have received abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

156 IS OUR GOSPEL RELEVANT FOR THE TIME WE ARE IN, OR HAS IT BECOME A RELIC OF THE PAST? 155 Now do you see that the gospel is moving? In 1 Corinthians, Chapter 12, Paul brings something in that he hadn t brought in before. He says in Verse 13, For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. I want you to watch. Paul didn t bring in the fact about being baptized into the body of Christ until towards the end of his ministry, which Peter, James, John, nor any of the others never said anything about. Also, in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 15, Paul tells about a great mystery of the catching away of the saints (the body of Christ). Then in Galatians 3:28 (he brought in again about the body), saying, There is neither Jew nor Greek (Gentile), there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. In other words, we can t draw lines anymore when it comes to the body of Christ. We can t draw lines anymore whether one is male, female, black, white, Jew, or Gentile. So now God has sent this trump (trumpet) of God message, the fullness of Christ in the earth, to see that we have one mind. He put His mind in us to make this gospel relevant to us, and to give relevancy to what the body of Christ is bringing forth. He has made a way for it to get to many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings (kingdoms). He has made it possible to publish the Word of God that has gone all over the world, as we have been publishing for some forty years of this ministry. Thousands of books, audios, and videos have gotten into the hands of people all over the world. And, also, for the past several years, God has given us a website that is sounding forth this gospel. So this message is being preached day and night all around the world. It is the living Word of God, ever flowing from the throne of God, and on through the wife of the Lamb. He has given us the little book of Revelation, Chapter 10, which has brought us into Ephesians 4:13-16, where we are obeying Revelation 10:11 and prophesying again as God fulfills that scripture during the sounding of this last trump of God message. God has given a message. It is sounding forth the living Word of God that is for the changing of our mortal bodies. It s our message and each one of you are part of it. It is the body of Christ in the earth bringing forth this message, and we are all in it together. When your heart burns within you and you are saying, Yes, Amen, to this gospel, then that makes you part of it; that makes us one in Him. And I listen to you when you say, Brother Howard, I got this scripture. It just seems like the Lord just quickened this to me. And I take those things and use them. You re part of the body and I respect you as that. I respect you as being a member of the same Christ that speaks to me; for I know He also speaks to you. Even though He put leadership inside the body, that doesn t negate the fact that He speaks to all of the members of the wife

157 156 The GosPel For The wife in israel of the Lamb. Amen. So this is the gospel for me! Heavenly Father, we come praising you and thanking you for your mercy and goodness. May you take these words, Lord, and just bless them and use them for your glory. And may the people see that what Christ is doing in this hour is so relevant to our understanding, as the anointing came down in Revelation, Chapter 10, and He gave us the little book to eat, which baptized us into the fullness of the body of Christ. And now we thank you for making a way for the Word to get out to many peoples, nations, and tongues. And I just pray that you will take and use this message for your glory. And we bless your name and ask that all things be done according to thy will, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

158 THE LORD JESUS AND HIS CHRIST WIFE CHRIST THE WIFE OF THE LAMB WAKES UP THE SLEEPING WORD We are reading in the Book of Genesis, Chapter One, which is the seed chapter or the history of the genes where everything that has to do with the human race began, and it gives us a profile of God s plan of salvation. Today I want to take a thought that we will entitle, Christ the Wife of the Lamb Wakes Up the Sleeping Word. The Bible is sleeping Word until the time comes for God to bring it into the state of living Word by waking it up, which causes the Word to produce what is written to be for the present time. All the Word of God is good Word; but it is asleep until the light strikes that part of it. The Word can lay there dormant for thousands of years, until God s time comes for it to spring forth; then it will do exactly what the scripture said it would do. And we see that happening, right before our eyes, as we recognize the day we are living in and the Word of God whose time has come to be fulfilled. Now before our scripture reading, let us pray. Heavenly Father, we come praising you for this opportunity to stand up one more time and proclaim your Word, and praise you for your saving power. Lord, we pray that you will move by your Holy Spirit today, not only by anointing us to speak, but by anointing the people to hear. May each one receive from this Word today, that which thou has preordained, we pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. We find in Genesis 1:1, it says, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now that s the verse that stands alone within itself, because no one knows when the beginning was that He created heaven and earth. Here I want to tell about a preacher that my wife and I watched on a live broadcast. He started off his program by setting up a chart with an image of the earth as fire in the shape of a football. And he said, Now this is the way the earth looked billions of years ago. Then he told how it got round; and he said that after millions of years it began to cool off and that it eventually found an orbit around the sun. And on and on the story went, which to me is total nonsense because of this reason all he was doing was projecting an idea for debating; and in his lame attempt, he was trying to bring it across as though it was truth. There are even some people, especially scientists and those of like minds, who will debate whether there has ever been a flood or not, although it is clearly said in God s Word that He called a man named Noah and told him to build an ark and bring male and female of every

159 158 The GosPel For The wife in israel beast into it, because He was going to let it rain for forty days and nights and that every living substance He had made He would destroy off the face of the earth. Also, I saw where they were looking at certain maps and trying to find out where Sodom and Gomorrah should have been, and if God really destroyed them; or if there ever was such a place. Well, in God s Word we find where both Sodom and Gomorrah did exist and how He did destroy them because of their immoral and indecent ways. Also, I heard one man, who was against Israel, say, I don t think there ever was a Holocaust. Well, just a simple glance at history shows that it happened from about And we find God s Word speaking of what happened to the Jews under the first part of the fifth seal in the Book of Revelation 6:9-11. Also, here we see in Verse 11, the second part of this seal, which shows that another persecution will come upon the Jews during the 70th Week of Daniel. And many of these learned and educated people don t even know that; so they don t need to try to tell me what happened millions or even billions of years ago. When looking at religious leaders in the days that Jesus Christ journeyed here on earth, we find that they were good at reading the sky and being able to tell whether it would be fair or foul weather, but they could not read the signs of the times (even though they were always seeking after signs). Jesus said unto them, And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall none be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed. (Matthew 16:3-4) This shows that they were not the seed of God, but quite the contrary; Jesus told them, Ye are of your father, the devil. (John 8:44) Now let s speak of seeds in a more pleasant way, since Genesis deals with seeds. I want to say that many of us love to plant gardens. I remember my mother, as it was with her while she was yet living, she loved to tend to her garden every spring. She would get those seeds planted and watch them sprout and come forth out of the soil. But I noticed that when she planted okra seeds, which is a small seed but it has a very hard shell (shield) around it, she would have trouble sometimes getting it to come up. But she came up with a plan of how to get okra seeds to sprout and come forth just as beautifully as the rest of the seeds. She would soak her okra seeds in warm milk the day before she was going to plant them, which would soften the shell around them. Then in a few days that okra would come up; and the neighbors would say, How do you do it? I planted some of those okra seeds and mine just didn t come up very well. Well, what happened? That warm milk

160 CHRIST THE WIFE OF THE LAMB WAKES UP THE SLEEPING WORD 159 would soften that hard shell around the seed so that it could absorb the moisture and the warmth from the sunshine. See, there was life in that little seed, and it was the light that would wake up the sleeping seed. A while back, someone gave me a little card with this saying on it You can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in the seed. So the seed has the life in it, but it has to be woke up to make it come forth. Hence my title, Christ the Wife of the Lamb Wakes Up the Sleeping Word, which is the Word that is awakened by this trumpet sounding. Now when I was growing up, we would save our seeds from one year to another. My mother specialized in white half-runner beans; and she would save the seeds because she didn t want any part of that hybrid stuff. She wanted her seeds to be original. She would plant them; and when they produced, she would save a certain amount of them to plant the next year. Then in later years after we got electricity, we were able to purchase a freezer, and she would put the seeds in the freezer and freeze them, because certain seeds like black-eyed peas would get weevils in them sitting out at room temperature. So she put them in the freezer and they would be weevil-free come spring. That s why one could keep them year after year and they wouldn t wake up as long as they were kept in the freezer. But just as soon as you took them out of the freezer and put them in the ground, with the warmth of the earth, and the moisture from the rain, they would start sprouting and coming up out of the soil. Yes, soon there would be a little plant coming up from that seed. This is a miracle of God. You take a tomato, when you re eating it, you never think about the seeds in it; but one of those little seeds in a tomato will produce many tomatoes. My brother Billy put a tomato plant in a five gallon can on my back porch and put it in the sunlight, and that tomato plant grew very high; and there were so many tomatoes on that one tomato vine that we had tomatoes for many weeks. That s what the Word of God does. The Spirit of God wakes up the Word, and it begins to bring forth its fruits. Well, Christ the wife of the Lamb wakes up the sleeping Word, which is the part of the Word that is specifically for us, while the other scriptures sleep on until it is time for them to awaken. For example, we can t wake up the Word that is shown in Revelation, Chapter 11, concerning the two witnesses (prophets) that come forth in Israel at the beginning of the 70th Week of Daniel. To know about a revelation, and to experience a revelation, are two different things. So we know about that sleeping Word, but we can t wake it up and cause it to live. And we can t wake up the Word that is shown in Revelation, Chapter 14, of the 144,000 Jews that will go forth to preach the everlast-

161 160 The GosPel For The wife in israel ing gospel in the last part of the 70th Week of Daniel. We also know about that sleeping Word, but we can t get to the life of it and make it live either. But we have awakened that part of the Word that says, Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed (we which are alive and remain), In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:51-53) That Word has been awakened, and its leaves are growing on the tree of life today. And the leaves are for the healing of the nations. But the fruit on the tree belongs to the wife of the Lamb. Today scientists want to find out how the world came into being. Well, I can tell them by using only one simple scripture, which is found in Hebrews 11:3. It says, Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed (created) by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. So the Word of God tells us God created it! When did He create it? He didn t tell us when. He didn t share anything with us about the timing of creating the world, but we can say for sure that in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and if it was a billion years ago, who cares? It s here. We re here. If it were important for us to know, then God would have told us exactly when He created the heaven and the earth. He tells us what we need to know. And some things only God Almighty knows; and unless He reveals it, then man is just being presumptuous when telling us about how many millions or billions of years ago it was. Now watch as we read Genesis 1:1 again, bringing in Verse 2. It says, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Now the earth is God s workshop; and He uses it to work out His plans. Notice, it was in total darkness. Verse 3, And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Now what happened when He said, Let there be light? There was light! That Word woke up the Word that produced light. That sleeping Word woke up; and watch what it did. It says here in Verse 4, And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And He still does. We bring that into the realm of where we are living, where there is no darkness. We have been separated from the tares, and this means that we are children of light. In 1 Thessalonians 5:5, it says, Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Darkness is confusion. Darkness doesn t understand what is going on. So who is the light? After Jesus Christ left the world, He made us the light. Matthew 5:14 says, Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill

162 CHRIST THE WIFE OF THE LAMB WAKES UP THE SLEEPING WORD 161 cannot be hid. The light shines in darkness; and the Word says in the Book of John, Chapter One, And the darkness comprehendeth it not. That means it can t stop this light from shining. That s one thing the devil can t fight. If God says, Let there be light, then there is light. Regardless of how dark it gets in this building here, when we turn on these lights, all of the darkness flees away. Darkness can t comprehend it; and when the light comes, darkness just disappears. And that s what happens when Christ comes into your life; by revelation He quickens that Word within you and all the darkness begins to disappear. Verse 5, And God called the light Day, I like day; don t you? Every morning the mercies of God are new. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. This happened on the first created day that God made. But I want you to notice, the darkness he called Night. Paul talked about the children of light and the children of darkness. And 1 Thessalonians 5:5-8 shows that light and darkness have nothing in common. When Jesus came, the Word says, The people which sat in darkness saw a great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up. (Matthew 4:16) That is so beautiful. So just give us light! Yes, all my life I ve never been comfortable in the dark. I just don t like darkness. But everything, even darkness, has its purpose. Darkness is good for sleeping; for it is in that dark soil that the seed is sleeping or a scripture is asleep until God s ordained time to shine His light upon it and wake it up. So throughout the Dark Ages, the church has been asleep, but God sent a Word, sent a light to wake it up. The light started shining back again after the church came through the Dark Ages, the darkness of Catholicism. But in the 1500 s, God sent Martin Luther, and that s when a little spiritual light began to shine. Then here came John Wesley in the 1700 s, and more light began to shine. And in our very day, God sent the seventh church age messenger, Brother William Branham, with even more light to shine on the pathway for us to travel through the times of the thunders. Then later on, after the seventh church age messenger s work was finished, Brother Raymond Jackson revealed the second part of the fifth seal, showing us Israel s place in God s plan in the 70th Week of Daniel; and then God called him home after his work was finished. It was at this time that the Voice of Authorization spoke to the wife-to-be and told her to go and take the little book and eat it up and prophesy again, which we are doing. And now the light has brought us to our baptism into the fullness of the body of Christ as the wife of the Lamb, right up to where we are now. And now Revelation, Chapter

163 162 The GosPel For The wife in israel 10, is fulfilled. So it is daylight for us. It s a new day. We re children of the day; not children of the night. God kept the light moving for us. And now we have come through all the church ages, we ve come through the revelation of the thunders, and we have come into the fullness of Christ. (Ephesians 4:13-16) Not many people today believe the Word of God; but we are waiting for the resurrection and our physical translation, because we do believe God s promises. His light is still shining and will wake up every seed that He predestinated. Because the Book of Romans 8:28-30 says, By His foreknowledge He predestinated. In other words, God has already been to where our final destination lies. So the thing is, He predestinated; and He did it by foreknowledge. And foreknowledge means He foresaw, foreknew. He has been there and He knows that we will be there, because He has already seen us there. That s how He could put our names on the Lamb s Book of Life before we were ever born. Even before the foundation of the world, He put our names in the book. Ephesians, Chapter One, says we were elected. And why did He choose us? Because we were good? No. Because we had some special abilities? No. He chose us after His own purpose that He purposed in Himself. He s been there and saw that we would be there, so why would He have to wait until we got home to put our names in the book? He put our names in the book before the foundation of the world. Just as Paul said about Abraham, He called those things that were not, as though they were. Because it s absolutely a fact that what God said, is going to be. When Abraham s faith woke up the sleeping Word of God s promise to him that God would give him a son, the faith Word couldn t help but bring forth a son. When God speaks, the Word comes alive. That is what God does in this Word that is written down. Last week we had a message entitled, The Completion of Our Restoration Brought Us into the Fulfilling of Paul s Projection for Us. In that message we showed what was then in the restoration and the fulfilling of Paul s projection. That s what God projected in His Word through Paul. Understand here that projection is another word for prophecy. And at the time Paul said it, he was giving a projection; not a fulfillment in his day. We are not restored back to it, because it never was. Restore means to bring back to the original. But what we are talking about is brought back to its original projection. Notice that word projection. So we are fulfilling the original projection the prophecy. In other words, we have come into a place where the church has never been before. That s why in the Book of Revelation 10:11, the angel said, Thou must prophesy again. That part of the Word has produced its intended purpose. At this time, the Apostle

164 CHRIST THE WIFE OF THE LAMB WAKES UP THE SLEEPING WORD 163 John, whom God used to be a type of the wife of the Lamb has finished this type. And John (who was a type only of the wife, the perfect man of Ephesians 4:13) is gone forever, as far as the wife is concerned. There is no longer a need for a type, because the real thing is here, as we have reached the stature of the perfect man. And because of God s foreknowledge, He foresaw the need of the wife of His Son to understand the entire Book of Revelation. So He sent Brother William Branham with the shout of 1 Thessalonians 4:16, and Brother Raymond Jackson with the voice of the archangel of this same verse to continue clearing up the Book of Revelation in preparation for this last trumpet message, which clears up the mystery of the eating of the little book; and baptized us into Ephesians 4:13-16, which made us the wife of God s Son, which is the very Christ in the earth. The body of Christ is in the earth, walking and talking, and each of the members are fulfilling their part, each one adding to the blessing and strength of the body of Christ as part of the wife of our King and Husband. This is what the Bible says, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. (Ephesians 4:16) So we are doing our part of this prophesying. We are called for this purpose. I can t take your place, and I can t do what God has called you to do. And you can t take my place and do what God has called me to do. We, each one, have our own slot that we fit in, and no one else in the entire world (even the history of the world) can fit into your slot; for it is hewn out just for you. That s the love of God. Let s go to Genesis 1:11, And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. Now I want to say that there were seeds laying there, as we pick up the story of the earth in the time of Adam. So the earth s atmosphere was such that it could support plant life of all kinds. And Lucifer was the keeper of it. This earth was his domain under God s authority, until he sinned against God and rebelled against God s ways, by causing a condition in the earth that effected the angels and the animals that were roaming the earth at the time. And about the only things remaining of his kingdom are skeletons of large animals that once roamed this earth, and the fallen angels that followed Lucifer in rebellion. It s here that we see for the first time that spirit of iniquity, which in some cases resembles the Spirit of God. This is the same spirit of iniquity that Paul warned the espoused virgin about in 2 Corinthians 11:2-3 and Verses Also, Paul told us in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 that the spirit of iniquity does already work. Lucifer gave birth to the spirit of iniquity by his desire to try to take authority that only God gives as He sees fit. And to take this authority without permission

165 164 The GosPel For The wife in israel is iniquity, which God hates, and will never tolerate very long. Also, upon this earth were prehistoric men. They were not the sons of God, but they existed here, along with the animal kingdom, such as the dinosaurs. So when Lucifer sinned against God and His righteousness, God brought judgment upon the earth. He took it away from the sun, and it froze up. And it went through much turmoil before we pick up the history of it in Genesis, Chapter One, as God begins to deal with mankind by giving the earth to Adam, the created son of God. And the rest is history. So before this time, there was the ice age. And we see that there were seeds in the freezer; and they laid right there until God moved the earth back to where the sun began to shine on it. And that s when God spoke the Word whose time had come, and said, Let there be light! And then God started turning the earth in a way where it would be day and night, and He separated the water and fixed the moisture so that these seeds would grow. The seeds might have been there for millions of years, but when the sunlight began to shine upon the earth, they woke up and began to bring forth that which was ordained of God from the beginning of His wonderful plan for its final destination into eternity. We were a seed of God even when we were out there in the world. We were out in darkness; in the freezer where there was no light and no warmth. No seed in that condition could come forth and grow. In other words, you were a seed in God s wintertime. And it s the same way with the seeds in the earth; they may have been there (in His freezer) for millions of years, but if there is life in them, they will come forth at His ordained time. For this reason we say, By faith, we understand that God created the world. When was it? In the beginning. When was that beginning? Only God knows. But watch these spiritual seeds that have been frozen for years. There are people that go all through their lives knowing about God or Jesus Christ, His Son; not caring much about the things of God. You can t talk to them about God or about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; but they are not necessarily against God. They don t particularly care one way or the other. Well, that doesn t mean they are not a seed; it just means that the sunlight, the gospel light, has not shined on that seed yet. There are people in denominations and in different movements, but now this light is going forth and striking some of these seeds through the website. The website is getting very busy now. This is light coming forth; you are children of light. You are children of understanding. 1 John 1:7, says, But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son cleanseth us from all sin. In other words, the light takes away that darkness and confusion. If you

166 CHRIST THE WIFE OF THE LAMB WAKES UP THE SLEEPING WORD 165 are walking in the light, you are all right; there you have no conscience of sin. Because He took your sins, and in return He gave you His righteousness; therefore, you are a righteous seed of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21) God said that He would make water spring forth from the desert bring forth those seeds. I heard a man talking about going out West to the desert. It was in the spring of the year, and a little bit of rain had come through, which was unusual for that area; and it caused flowers and other plants to begin to come up. When the man noticed this unusual sight, he stopped the car and got a little jar of dirt from that desert land, and brought it back home and had it tested. The man that tested the soil said, This is amazing! Where did you get this? It has everything it needs; you can t improve on this soil. Mister, go ahead and plant your field. You don t need to put lime on it or anything else; just plant! It says in the Book of Isaiah 51:3, For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. God is going to send the rain, and the desert will blossom forth as a rose because there are seeds there. And there is soil there with everything that is needed for bringing forth life. In the millennium, the seeds of the desert are going to wake up and the desert is going to bloom and bring forth. But here, I am mainly talking about the spiritual seeds. We are here, and God has sent forth a message that has swept through and given us light; it has woke up the seed that is in us, and we have become a new creature in Christ Jesus. We thank God for this great grace of understanding, assuring us that we belong to Jesus Christ as His wife. And the projections that Paul laid out there for the espoused virgin of his day, are now alive unto the wife. God laid this trumpet of God message in the Word for us and now we are bringing it to pass. These projections or prophesies stayed sleeping Word for more than two thousand years after Paul spoke them, and only now have they begun to come forth. This is taking place as the water and the warmth provided by this message of this last trumpet is sounding out the light of the Word unto us. And as this trumpet sounds, it begins to bring to pass all the prophecies that Paul uttered to us. We are children of light and we rejoice in the light; and that s why sin cannot be in us. See, if we walk in the light what light? It s the light for our time period. If we walk in that light as He is in the light, the blood of Jesus Christ has taken care of our sins. We can say, I am as sinless as He is, because He fixed it for us. So the message of the trumpet of God awakened the seeds of revelation that s within us. Those seeds of revelation are now awake. They are

167 166 The GosPel For The wife in israel seeds that have been asleep through the years; even though we have been filled with the Holy Ghost. These seeds of revelation were asleep until the time of the sounding of the trumpet. This message wakes up and brings forth seeds of revelation that hadn t even been spoken yet. That s what Paul wrote about when he spoke in Ephesians 3:9 about the mystery hid in God. Notice, he didn t say, hid in the Word, but he said, hid in God. And now God is shining the light on mysteries that have been frozen (hid in God) until His Son s wife came on the scene to receive them. These seeds of revelation have now been awakened, bringing forth flowers that are blooming, and it s a miracle of God. It s a miracle so great that it s almost unbelievable! We can take a look outside now (we re in the wintertime here in Georgia, USA) and we can see that the leaves are off the trees and it looks like everything is dead. We can look out in the pasture; it s just brown, and looks like there is no life. It didn t die; no, God just put a law in it that when a certain time of the year came, that life would go down into the roots and hide until the warmth of the sun (until the message comes) to bring it forth again. And that message is the light of the Son, which is seen in His wife. Each spring of the year the earth speaks to the trees and grass and they come forth from their graves full of life. Sometimes we exclaim, I can t believe this! Notice, for instance, this big oak tree out here in front of the church building that we talk about sometimes, it s probably older than any of us here, and it has defied every storm that has come by. We ve had storms that have blown trees down, but this tree has stood there and defied them all. But when we look at it now, in this cold winter month, it looks like it is totally dead. There s not a leaf on it. Someone might say, That tree died. No, the life just went down into the roots; it s hid within the roots. And the roots are very long; they are about as long as the limbs on it. The life is right down there in the roots just waiting. It s waiting for the light to strike the big tree. It s waiting for the gospel of the sun. That gospel of the sun begins to be preached to it along about February and March, and you will see little buds coming out. Then they will say, That dead tree is coming alive again! No, it wasn t dead to begin with! It s the same with seeds for your garden; we could say, Those are dead seeds; they have no life in them. But when it s God s time for the light to shine on them just right, they will sprout forth. And in this light (the Word whose time has come to be fulfilled), we are sprouting forth! The life was there all the time; we just needed the rain and the warmth we needed the message; we needed the light! Now here in the Book of Genesis, notice, no seeds came up until the

168 CHRIST THE WIFE OF THE LAMB WAKES UP THE SLEEPING WORD 167 light of the sun struck them; and this didn t happen until He picked the earth back up in relation to the sun so it would begin to warm the earth again. Those seeds might have laid there frozen for millions of years. And I know seeds will last for many years, because as I mentioned earlier, my mother would put bean seeds in the freezer and this would preserve them until planting time. If she had more seeds than she needed, first she would share with the neighbors if they needed some, then she would save the seeds for next year and they would be just as good. And if she didn t need them the next year, she would save them for the next year. And maybe five years down the road, she could go pull those seeds out of the freezer, plant them, and they would come forth; even though they had been there for five years with no visible sign of life in them! But all one had to do was to put them where the moisture and the sunlight could get to them. Then watch what happens to those seeds that were thought to be dead, when they hear a message saying, Beans, come forth! And they will come forth, alive from the dead, and begin to produce what God has ordained them to. Well, there s a message in this hour for the members of the wife of the Lamb, and it is causing those seeds of revelation to come forth; and we are rejoicing with victory after victory after victory! For these signs shall follow them that believe Jesus said, They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. He said, Go forth, heal the sick, cast out devils, and raise the dead. Hallelujah, the light has come and quickened the life in that seed Word! We see it bringing forth in our day. The sunlight has hit the Word. Glory to God, and we are seeing things we ve never seen before; because there s a message here. There s the gift of miracles, which we have often seen in action. These gifts that we are seeing now will be more prevalent within the body of Christ as the time of the rapture nears. The light has quickened the Word within us and has brought into fruition the Word whose time has come to be fulfilled. And we can only describe it by saying, That was a miracle! Read 1 Corinthians, Chapter 12. It tells about nine different gifts. Everything that was in Jesus, when Christ came down, He put it in His wife here at the end time. But we (the body of Christ) didn t stop with just nine gifts and nine fruits, because there s twelve of these fruits mentioned in Revelation 22:2 that she bears and that she is us, the wife. In our book entitled, A Seamless Translation, there is a chapter in it called, The Lord Jesus and His Christ Wife, where we show that the twelve fruits is what has been produced by the Word of God as we have been baptized into the fullness of Christ. This is a gift that was reserved only for His wife. This is our wedding gift. And now we are eating and enjoying all the fruits of revelation, as the final three fruits are given unto us. It s at this point

169 168 The GosPel For The wife in israel that we can see twelve fruits on the tree of life as John saw it. Now again in Genesis, Chapter One, nothing brought forth, no seeds brought forth, until the light of the sun came. But when the light came, they began to bring forth. Now let me read a little bit more here. Verse 12, And the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Watch that! There s a seed. There is life there. The life is in the seed; it just needs the light to pass over it. When the light passes over it, glory to God, it will get up! That s why when we are asleep at night, we look like a dead person. But let the sun come up and begin to shine through the window in our face, and pretty soon we will wake up. Why? The light has come and woke up that sleeping seed. I ve had a lot of experience with natural seeds and how they work. I know that when a seed has been hybrid (crossbred) through time, it won t follow the perfect law of liberty. Because after being planted over a couple of years, they won t bring forth very well. But the original seed will be just like God created it millions of years ago, just as strong and robust as the beginning. It won t change. If it is original, it will stay that way. That s why we don t want to hybrid the Word of God. Keep it original. The Apostle Paul projected that there would be a people here on earth that when the trumpet sounds, those that are asleep in the grave will rise from the dead and we shall be changed. Yes, as those in the grave begin to feel this light of the trumpet sound (this message of the last day), they can t help but get up! Amen, you take those bean seeds out of the freezer and plant them in the warm earth with the sun on them they can t help but get up! You can get down there and talk to them, and say, Seeds, don t get up. You stay like you are. Don t sprout. They will defy every word you say. They are going to rise up from the soil, for the sun has a message for them. We put a seed in the ground, and look what happened to it. Well, we are a seed; we hear our gospel, and that gospel light sweeps over us. There s a message. We hear this trumpet sound. It wakes up the dead and shakes up the living. It gets us shook loose and gets us woke up. The dead comes up; then we know that the Sonlight has shined upon those graves and brought the seeds forth. This is the sunlight of the love of God. This message, the light of God, will bring forth the wife seed just before rapture. Other seeds, as long as the life is in there, will come up at their ordained time of resurrection. Some have become hybrid Christians through denominationalism. We are looking at somebody trying to get warm by a painted fire. The painted fire may look

170 CHRIST THE WIFE OF THE LAMB WAKES UP THE SLEEPING WORD 169 beautiful; but when we come in from the cold, we can t get warm by that painted fire. It takes the real fire of the Holy Ghost to warm up the wife of the Lamb for this hour as she says, All things are possible to them that believe. That s why I love that original! When we wake up the Word, we can speak the Word and it will be. Just like when Jesus was walking with two of His disciples on the way to Emmaus, talking about the prophecy of the death, burial, and resurrection of the Jewish Messiah that the Bible (the Book of Redemption) foretold as they walked in the way. Soon they arrived at the place where the disciples were to stay for the night. But Jesus made as though He would continue on down the road. That s when the two disciples compelled Him to come in and abide with them; and Jesus graciously relented and came in to break bread with them. And at that point, when Jesus broke the bread, the light struck the revelational seed that was in them and their eyes were opened. Now watch how God does things. See, a little seed brings forth. If you have one apple seed, you plant that seed and it will bring forth bushels and bushels of apples. It can populate the earth in apples from that one seed. And this is a miracle that can t be duplicated by mankind. This reminds me of a few years ago when we had a terrible ice storm here in Georgia. I was working on a book at the time and Barbarajean was helping me type it, so that we could get it to Leah, who was helping us proof it; and we were trying to finish it when the storm hit. It was freezing cold, and the wind was blowing, and it was raining ice (sleeting) with low visibility outside. The news was telling everybody that it was going to be really bad and they expected thousands to be without electricity. Well, Barbarajean walked out on the porch to look at the weather and our power lines. She saw how bad it was and that our power lines were coated with ice. She said that something came over her and she just bowed her head and prayed, Lord, when Elijah prayed that it rain not, it didn t rain. But then he called for rain, and it rained. And then when Joshua was in battle, you kept the sun from going down until the battle was over, and Joshua and the children of Israel won the battle. Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ, don t let us lose our electricity. I m not asking for ourselves, because we can do without it. But I m asking because of your Word that we are working on. Well, she came back into house and went back to typing. It was about ten minutes later that the phone rang and it was her mother, who lives about forty minutes from us. She said, You are not going to believe what just happened. I stepped out on the porch to watch the ice coming down, and suddenly it just stopped and the sun came out. It is the strangest thing I ever saw. Barbarajean asked her mother, When did that happen? Her

171 170 The GosPel For The wife in israel mother said, Just a few minutes ago. And Barbarajean said, That was about the time I was out on the porch praying! Afterwards, both she and I looked through the windows and saw the sleet had stopped and the sun was out. This sort of thing happens as one believes God for a miracle. The next day on the news they told that it was one of the worst ice storms in recent memory, and that thousands of people were without electricity, and some had even been stranded on the roadways. In other areas of our state, the ice storm lasted for a few more days. The ice storm had done damage all around us; except for our small area where the Lord caused the sun to shine! See, that s the way it is. Jesus walked on the water. That was power; the Word came alive in Him. He was the seed of God. All the way through He was the seed of God. And that seed Word came forth, that special part of the Word that became flesh. What did it take to sprout that seed? Now watch this seed in the Book of Isaiah 7:14 when Isaiah said, Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Well, that scripture laid there for 742 years, and nothing happened. It was just as sound asleep as it could be. Just like those seeds in my mother s freezer, or just like those seeds there when God began to warm up the earth and the grass began to grow. It just laid there; it was just like it was dead. But when the time came, hallelujah, here came Gabriel unto Mary and said, It s time for that Word to be quickened. He said, Behold, thou art highly favored of God. Thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a child and He shall be the Son of the Highest. She said, How can this be? I ve never known a man. He said, This is the work of God. (He s going to quicken that seed.) The seed is going to come into you and the Spirit of God will quicken that Word and you will bring forth a child, the seed of God, and God s only begotten Son. The seed sprouted, and nine months later, God s Son was born the King of the Saints. He is the seed; that spiritual seed of God that came forth when the time came and the light came, nothing, nothing, nothing could stop it! (Luke 1:26-38) And by the light of God s Word, we come to the place in the Bible where it tells about being the wife of the Lamb. We ve come through the church age rituals and traditions. But now the light has come. Christ has come back in the fullness of His Spirit and we are baptized into His body. And now natural baptism doesn t mean much anymore, because we left the foundation of the doctrines of baptisms and went on to perfection. (Hebrews 6:1-2) We have moved into a greater baptism. It s the baptism into the body of Christ, which water baptism was foreshadowing, until we reached fullness. (1 Corinthians 12:12-13 and

172 CHRIST THE WIFE OF THE LAMB WAKES UP THE SLEEPING WORD 171 is seen in Ephesians 4:13-16) Well, natural baptism was a good type. Just like we brought in recently of how the automobile makers will make a prototype of a car; they may make it out of plastic or whatever they choose to make it with. But the prototype is only made to look at, until the real car becomes a reality. So when the people come in and look at the prototype, and if enough of them begin to say, Wow, I want one of those cars; when will they be ready? Do you know what the company will do? They will set in motion the machine to start rolling out those cars! That little prototype car was a seed that sprouted forth, and now it s growing as the real car becomes reality. That s the way it is with water baptism. The Apostle Paul took water baptism to show us the truth about the perfect baptism into the body of Christ. See, the thing is, when the time comes for something to happen, it always happens. When the seed, that sleeping Word, that Word that s laying there, is awakened, it s unstoppable. In 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, Paul said, Behold, I show you a mystery. In other words, I m going to show you what s going to take place before it happens. He said, The trump of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise, and then we which are alive and remain will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. That s where we re at! That seed has come up! That sleeping Word has arose and it is producing a people that has the very life of that seed in them. This faith, the revelational seed, has started the resurrection and physical translation, showing us now that it is the season for our complete victory. In the Book of John, Chapter 11, it tells of a man named Lazarus who had died. He was a seed of God that God wanted to use to bear witness of the resurrection power. That s why Jesus purposely waited when Martha and Mary sent for him and said, Lord, our brother is sick; please, please, hurry and get over here as quickly as you can and heal him. But Jesus stayed until God told Him to go. And when He arrived there several days later, they said, Lord, if you would have been here, our brother would not have died! Jesus began to tell them, I am the resurrection. He will live again. They said, Oh, yes, we believe in the resurrection. We know that some day when the dead raises that he will get up. He said, I AM THE RESURRECTION! Where have you laid him? Watch this seed. Watch this Word that was laying there come alive and raise the dead. So Jesus went out there to the tomb of Lazarus, and He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus. Come forth! Lo, and behold, here came a man out with his grave clothes still on, and they had to unwrap him and let him go. (Notice, at Jesus resurrection, when He got up from the grave, He just left His grave cloth laying there; because He

173 172 The GosPel For The wife in israel had a glorified body and came right through them, whereas Lazarus didn t have a glorified body, so they had to unwrap him.) That spoken Word has power! It s real. Wake up! Let God wake that Word up in your life. How do you do it? Here s a message. Study this message. Pray. Listen to the message; talk about it. In the Book of Deuteronomy 6:6-7 it says, Talk about the Word when you walk. Talk about the Word when you re sitting at home. Talk about the Word when you lie down at night. So let s talk about Jesus Christ, our Savior, King, and Husband! As we have seen this Word come alive, we have come to the place in God where what we say is as the scripture, because it s anointed of God; just like what Paul spoke was scripture. (2 Peter 3:16) When Luke wrote the Book of Luke, giving a report, he said in Chapter 1, Verses 1-4, Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. Notice how God gave it to him, Those that were with Him from the beginning, they told me about all these things that Jesus did. Do you believe that God has woke up some Word that has been asleep? It is going to change you in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. It is going to make you young again. God said He would renew our youth like an eagle. So we want to wake up that Word that is in us. It certainly has awakened me in this last day. That s why I feel so good! (Singing: I feel good, good, good. I feel good, good, good. Every time I think about Jesus, I feel good!) God bless you. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, for the Word. And we thank you for being with us today. And I pray that you will take these words, Lord, and that you will use them for your glory, that somewhere, somehow, around the world, this light will wake up those seeds and they will begin to grow, and they will begin to rejoice, and they will begin to shout, just like a rain that comes to a desert it begins to blossom and come forth. And may this Word blossom forth in the heart of your wife, in the name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.

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175 174 THE GOSPEL FOR THE WIFE IN ISRAEL

176 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 175 OTHER PUBLISHED BOOKS BY BEN HOWARD THE WIFE S COVENANT A Compilation of Nine Sermons DON T MOVE THE BOUNDARY LINES BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS CHRIST THE GREAT CONNECTOR BETWEEN MELCHIZEDEK AND JESUS UTTERING THE THINGS CONCERNING MELCHIZEDEK THAT NEEDED TO BE TAUGHT AGAIN CHOOSING THE TIME AND PLACE TO DEFEAT OUR LAST ENEMY CALLED DEATH INTRODUCING CHRIST TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE: Repaying Them for Introducing Jesus to Us THE MYSTERY OF AREA 51 THERE IS NOTHING MORE POWERFUL THAN THE WORD WHOSE TIME HAS COME TO BE FULFILLED MAKING THE FINAL PREPARATION FOR MEETING THE RESURRECTED MEMBERS OF THE WIFE OF THE LAMB THE SPIRITS OF JUST MEN ARE MADE PERFECT BY THE SOUNDING OF THIS LAST TRUMPET: A Covenant within the New Testament Covenant THE CHRONICLES OF THE TENTH CHAPTER OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION And the Eating of a Bitter Meal A Compilation of Seven Sermons THE CHRONICLES OF THE TENTH CHAPTER OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION: And the Eating of a Bitter Meal THE MIGHTY ANGEL HAS FINISHED HIS COMMISSION AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB GOD S FAMILY OF BOTH ANGELS AND MANKIND

177 176 The GosPel For The wife in israel PROPHESYING AGAIN AFTER THE CHRONICLES OF REVELATION CHAPTER TEN THE THINGS THAT ARE MOST SURELY BELIEVED AMONG US ARRIVING HOME SAFELY AS THE SHAKING OF ALL THINGS BEGIN AGAIN, BUT TO THE REST SPEAK I, IN THE SOUNDING OF THE LAST TRUMPET A SEAMLESS TRANSITION A Compilation of Twenty-Two Sermons OUR COURSE BEGAN WHERE PAUL S COURSE ENDED WE ARE DEAD TO THE CHURCH AGE LAW TWO PARTS DIE BUT THE THIRD PART IS BROUGHT THROUGH THE FIRE AND GLORIFIED CAN WE RECOGNIZE THE WONDERFUL COUNSEL AND THE EXCELLENT WORKING OF CHRIST? God Bless the Farmer THE WORD IS RESURRECTED BY THE SOUNDING OF THE LAST TRUMPET THE BOOK OF REDEMPTION AND THE WISDOM OF THE WIFE OF THE LAMB THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB PUTS THE WIFE BEYOND THE TIMES OF IGNORANCE AND CARNAL RITUALS: But Now IN CHRIST THE WIFE DWELLETH THE FULLNESS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS THIS? The Knowledge of the Son of God THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE AND THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH RECOGNIZING THE END TIME CHRIST THE LORD JESUS AND HIS CHRIST WIFE CHRIST HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE GODHEAD A SEAMLESS TRANSITION FROM PAUL S MESSAGE TO THIS LAST TRUMPET MESSAGE OUR HIGH CALLING IS HAVING A WHITE STONE AND OUR NEW NAME CARVED IN IT THUNDERS 96, 60, 63, AND THE TRUMPET RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD A NEW AND EXCITING AND WONDERFUL WATERLESS BAPTISM A MESSAGE TO FACILITATE THE FURTHERANCE OF OUR JOY AND FAITH: The Unconventional Facilitator A WAYWARD SAINT COMES HOME BY PAUL S MESSAGE OF LOVE: Bringing Life to the Book of Philemon REVELATIONAL FAITH FOR HEARING THE PROMISED WORD FOR YOU RAPTURING FAITH HAS COME! A SEAMLESS TRANSITION BETWEEN GOD S CHRIST AND GOD S SON

178 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 177 CHRIST THE WIFE A People Without A Country A Compilation of Twenty-Nine Sermons ENGLISH LANGUAGE WHAT WENT AROUND HAS COME AROUND THE APOSTOLIC MINISTRY INSIDE THE BODY OF CHRIST WE ARE GOD S WORKMANSHIP CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS PRESENTING YOUR BODY A LIVING SACRIFICE BEING IN THE FLESH WITH ITS EVIL WORKS, OR HAVING THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT IN THE FLESH THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE LAMB S WIFE, IS A SANCTIFIED PEOPLE KEEPING YOUR SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY TOGETHER FOR ALL ETERNITY SUBMITTING OURSELVES TO THE MIGHTY CONQUEROR EATING HIS FLESH AND DRINKING HIS BLOOD CHRIST THE WIFE: A People Without A Country YE BELIEVED (TRUSTED) AFTER YE HEARD THE GOSPEL OF YOUR SALVATION GOD ADDED CHRIST TO JESUS AFTER HIS BAPTISM, AND NOW JESUS HAS ADDED CHRIST TO HIS WIFE AFTER HER BAPTISM THE DOCTRINES OF BAPTISMS PRODUCES ONE BAPTISM EDIFIERS AND EXHORTERS INSIDE THE BODY OF CHRIST THE THIRD HEAVEN AND THE NEW MAN: Being in Two Places at the Same Time THE WIFE OF THE LAMB IS EXEMPT FROM THE DEATH SENTENCE PERFECT SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCES A PERFECT FAITH AND A GOLDEN PATHWAY FOR THE WIFE GOD GLORIFIES THE LORD AND HIS CHRIST (WIFE) BEFORE ALL THE WORLD JESUS CHRIST THE GREAT UN-DOER! THE WIFE IS CELEBRATING THE END OF HER HAZARDOUS JOURNEY FROM THE NATURAL TO THE SPIRITUAL WE ARE BAPTIZED INTO A MESSAGE THE DAY STAR ARISING AND THE GOSPEL ANGEL SAYING, LO, WE TURN TO THE JEWS TWO APOSTLES TO THE WIFE, AND HER LEADERSHIP YOU ARE BLESSED BY GOD WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY AND THIRSTY KEEPERS OF THE KING S PAPERS A MESSAGE SO RADICAL THAT THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER FOUNDATION LAID FOR IT TO SIT UPON JESUS CHRIST WAS CREATED FROM THE SPECIAL PART OF THE WORD, WERE YOU?

179 178 The GosPel For The wife in israel DO YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO ENTER INTO SPIRITUAL EDEN? GOD HAS REVERSED HIS GOODNESS FROM THE GENTILES TO SEVERITY, AND HIS SEVERITY ON ISRAEL TO HIS GOODNESS NOW THAT WHICH IS TO BE DONE WILL NOW BE DONE A Compilation of Nineteen Sermons ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAUL ANNOUNCED THIS WOULD BE HERE A VOICE THAT BOTH THE LIVING AND DEAD CAN HEAR THE DROP DOWN BOX FOR THE LOVE OF GOD: How God Put a Face on His Love THE MULTITUDES HEARD JESUS ON THE SEASHORE, BUT THE PREDESTINATED FOLLOWED HIM INTO THE HOUSE JESUS WENT OUT OF THE HOUSE AND SPOKE TO THE MULTITUDES, AND THEN RETURNED INTO THE HOUSE WITH HIS OWN MANY SAY WITH WORDS AND ACTIONS, IT S OF GOD BUT IT S NOT FOR ME GOD S MESSAGE AND THE BEHIND THE SCENE POWERS TO BRING IT TO PASS CHRIST AND ANTICHRIST: DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE? GOD S SUCCESS IN ALL HIS FAILURES IF AT FIRST YOU DON T SUCCEED, TRY AGAIN! BE NOT ASHAMED OF THE TESTIMONY OF THE LORD NOR HIS MESSAGE/MESSENGER THE PROPER APPROACH BY THE PROPER PEOPLE TO THEIR PART OF THE TREE OF LIFE DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN THE BODY OF CHRIST IN ENGAGEMENT AND MARRIAGE NOW THAT WHICH IS TO BE DONE, WILL NOW BE DONE GIVING HONOR TO THOSE THAT DID THE HEAVY LIFTING FOR US RE-ENGAGED AFTER TWO DAYS, AND IN THE SEASON OF THE THIRD DAY WE ARE MARRIED TO CHRIST HISTORY S GREATEST COVER UP HAS BEEN UNCOVERED TO US THE GREAT FALLING AWAY: From the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil IT TAKES A HEAVENLY CALLING TO ENTER INTO HEAVENLY PLACES

180 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 179 CHRIST CAME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT AND IS VISIBLE AS THE WIFE OF THE LAMB A Compilation of Thirty Sermons ENGLISH AND CHICHEWA LANGUAGE UNLIKE EVE, WE WAITED FOR THE VOICE OF AUTHORIZATION TO EAT HE CAME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT TWO PARTS TO A WEDDING: Ceremonial and Consummation GOD S FOREKNOWLEDGE IN THE PRESENT JUSTIFIES HIS PREDESTINATION HE HAS MADE OF ONE BLOOD ALL NATIONS PAUL PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED, AND GOD GAVE THE INCREASE AS WE LABORED TOGETHER WITH GOD HOW CHRIST THE MIGHTY ANGEL TAKES ON FLESH AND BONES IN THIS LAST DAY FINDING THE LITTLE BOOK WITHIN THE BIG BOOK REACHING FORTH YOUR HAND AND TAKING THE LITTLE BOOK THE WIFE IS THE LIVING EPISTLE: A Landmark Message HOW JESUS DISARMED THOSE THAT WERE ARMED WITH THE BIBLE GOD S REDEEMED FAMILY THE WIFE OF CHRIST RECEIVES BOTH LEGS OF THE COMING OF THE LORD: Remember the Feet! WHAT KIND OF A SIGN ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? SOMETHING WE ALL NEED BUT DON T HAVE I AM NOT A WHIT BEHIND THE VERY CHIEFEST APOSTLES IF YOU RECEIVE ANOTHER JESUS, ANOTHER SPIRIT, ANOTHER GOSPEL IT S NOT THIS WORD IF THE FOUNDATION BE DESTROYED WHAT CAN THE RIGHTEOUS DO? REACHING THE END TIME AND THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST MY GOSPEL BECOMES OUR GOSPEL THE LAST TRUMP MESSAGE IS DELIVERED BY THE WIFE OF THE LAMB RECOGNIZING IT S THE LORD HIMSELF TAKING HIS WIFE THE SEAL STAMPED ON YOUR PASSPORT AUTHORIZES YOU TO PASS THE GUARDS: The Gatekeepers to the Tree of Life ALL THAT EVER SAID CHRIST HAS ALREADY COME BEFORE THIS ARE THIEVES AND ROBBERS I SUPPOSED THEY WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD BUT THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT A PERFECT COUPLE WITH A PERFECT MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN AND EXPRESSED IN THE EARTH THE GALILEAN AND THE REVELATION CHAPTER TEN COMING OF THE LORD

181 180 The GosPel For The wife in israel THE FINAL JOINING OF CHRIST TO THE ENGAGED VIRGIN/WIFE GOD GAVE IT ALL TO THE WIFE OF HIS SON PROPHESYING AGAIN BEFORE PAUL S PROJECTED PROPHECY COMES TO PASS: Beyond the Prophesying Unto Nations THE VOICE OF AUTHORIZATION A Compilation of Three Sermons ENGLISH AND CHICHEWA LANGUAGE WHEN AND HOW GOD SPEAKS AGAIN IN THIS LAST DAY THE FIVE FOLD MINISTRY FOR THE HOMELAND THE VOICE OF AUTHORIZATION INDIVIDUAL BOOKS ENGLISH AND CHICHEWA LANGUAGE THE INTERPRETED BOOK OF REVELATION I WILL NOT SPEAK OF THOSE THINGS THAT GOD HAS NOT WROUGHT BY ME IS THERE A FIVE FOLD MINISTRY, IF SO WHERE? AFTER TWO DAYS WE LIFT UP THE VOICE TOGETHER! WHEN PREPAREDNESS MEETS OPPORTUNITY BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY GHOST AND THEN BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST BISHOPS, ELDERS, DEACONS, AND THE FIVE FOLD MINISTRY BEWITCHED BY SATAN S RELIGION THE MERCY AND GRACE OF GOD WHENCE CAME THE WORD UNTO YOU HOW GOD LETS US SEE OUR FALLIBILITIES UNITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD AN OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET COMES TO A NEW TESTAMENT AGE THE WORD BOTH DOCTRINAL AND INSTRUCTIONAL THE TWO AND S AND THE SEVEN SEALS

182 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 181 ENGLISH AND TONGA LANGUAGE SUBMTTING YOURSELVES ONE TO ANOTHER ARE YOU A SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN CHRISTIAN? ENGLISH AND CEBUANO LANGUAGE AN OLD TESTAMENT PROPHET COMES TO A NEW TESTAMENT AGE THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT ENGLISH LANGUAGE CAN YOU TAKE IT? THE NATURAL CONSCIENCE AND THE SPIRIUTAL CONSCIENCE WHERE DWELLETH THOU IN THE MINISTRY OF HIS COMING? BEING JOINED UNTO THE LORD (IN THE CITY OF TETE, MOZAMBIQUE) CONNECTING THE DOTS ON THE COMING OF THE LORD THE HOLY GHOST AND PENTECOST GETTING THE EDGE THE CONNECT AND THE DISCONNECT OF THE JEWS AND GENTILES MINISTRIES OF/WITH SIMILARITIES THE BREAD BASKET: Who Has It? EATING THE LITTLE BOOK (IN KALOMO, ZAMBIA) HAVING THE RIGHT SLANT ON THE GOSPEL THE MINISTRY AND REDEMPTION THE RULE BOOK AND THE OX IN THE DITCH THE DEEDS OF THE NICOLAITANS POSSESSING THE KINGDOM OF GOD THE CREATION OF THE SEVEN ANGELS AND THEIR PURPOSE FALLEN FROM GRACE WHY JESUS CHRIST BECAME A LIVING SOUL: The Great Plan of Salvation THEIR VOICES FINISHED THE MYSTERY OF GOD THEIR MYSTERY AND OUR MYSTERY THE ANOINTED CHURCH LET US NOW TURN THE CORNER: Evening Light Before Sunrise TAKING ONLY WHAT BELONGS TO US AND LEAVING THE REST ALONE TRUTH, ERROR, AND APOSTACY THE MERCY AND GRACE OF GOD HOW CHRIST CONTINUED HIS MINISTRY TO THE JEWS AND TO THE GENTILES IT WON T MATTER AFTER WE MAKE THE CROSSING AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH PREDESTINATED AND MANIFESTED CHILDREN OF GOD LET S DO IT AGAIN, BUT RIGHT THIS TIME

183 182 The Gospel for The Wife in israel

184 The GosPel For The wife in israel at This end TiMe 183 AUDIO/VIDEO AND BOOKS At present this is a complete listing of published books by Ben Howard. If you would care to have a complete listing of audios and videos, please feel free to visit our website or write to our postal address below. Sound Of Liberty 7286 Hwy 53W, Dawsonville, Georgia U.S.A. TwoAnds@soundofliberty.org

185 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that He might have mercy upon all. He makes no difference in Jews and Gentiles when it comes to this gospel of Christ as far as being part of the wife. Romans 11:33 says, O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! No one could have known that God would raise up this people called the wife of the Lamb that is seen in Ephesians 4:13-16 and say unto this body, Take this gospel back to the Jews from whence it began; for it has reached its fullness in the wife!