A Faith That We Never Had Before
HEBREWS 1:1-2
1 ¶ God, who at sundry times (sundry times = by many portions, by many times and in many ways) and in divers manners (diverse ways, by many different ways) spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (Notice - not just in the prophet’s by the word of their prophecies, but also by their lives of how they lived and the experiences that they went through that were recorded in the bible, because their experiences became the scriptures, and that is how God spoke to us though them.)
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
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216 Dear God, I thank You for these things, Father. You give Noah the sign, You gave the world the sign, and You gave me a sign. And the next day, seeing that eagle flying, O God, there's a Message coming forth now, and I pray, God, that You'll let the Dove lead (Notice – the dove and eagle together – Noah was an eagle being led into the new earth by the message of the dove, and right at the end of Brother Branham’s life we see the dove leading him too). Grant it, Lord. It's led me to a faith I never had before. I know, God, I know it's going to be all right; so I thank You for it, Father.
217 And, tonight, send down Your Message again, Lord, on the wings of the Dove of the Word.
A Faith That We Never Had Before
God sends a message by a dove – and we know that the dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit.
In the bible, a dove was used as a sacrificial animal.
A dove was also used to bring a message, like the message that the dove brought back to Noah of the new world, and by that message, that dove led him into that new world.
Some of us need to be led into a new world in this hour – a new world of victory, and new world of health, a new world of freedom from sin.
Last week we looked took the subject “I believed, help though mine unbelief” from the story of the man that came to Jesus with his son that had the dumb spirit – he believed with all his mind, but real faith comes from the subconscious realm of the heart, and that is what he needed the Lord to help him with, he needed to be led into that faith by the help of God, just like God helped Gideon come into faith, and David come into faith.
And we saw how that brother Branham in the last 6 months or so of his ministry, he moved up a level with his understanding of faith – because people had become to have faith in him and his prayer rather than faith in the word of God, but he was soon to leave the earth, so he had to take the bride into a deeper understanding of what faith really is.
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105 Now, faith is "a revelation from God." Now, faith is a revelation. There's where I want to stay, there, just a moment. It's a revelation. He has revealed it to you by His grace. It's nothing you did. You didn't work yourself up into faith. You never have faith; it's give to you by the grace of God. And God reveals it to you, therefore faith is a revelation. And the whole Church of God is built upon the revelation.
Opening scripture:
HEBREWS 1:1-2
1 ¶ God, who at sundry times and in divers manners (by different portions throughout the Old Testament and by many different ways) spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (It wasn’t just by their prophecies that God spoke to us, but also by the happenings of the experiences that they went through. So it is not just by a prophet’s direct message that God speaks to us, but also by the experiences of the prophet’s life that he has recorded in the word for us)
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
An example of a life lived can be far more powerful than many thousands of words, just like a picture can speak a thousand words.
So a good portion of the bible is a book of word pictures of the lives of people, and their lives spoke to us and revealed the mystery of God.
HOSEA 1:1-6
1 ¶ The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
2 ¶ The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD. (She didn’t start out as a wife of whoredom – she became that as time went on)
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. God was showing Israel by the his message to them by the events of the prophet Hosea’s life - “in divers manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets”.
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46 And, brother, we're... All Christendom is looking for the coming of the Lord and the rapture of the church, all that's got any knowledge of the Word. Well, if we can't have faith enough for Divine healing, how we going to have a rapturing faith? Oh, I believe there's a great calling coming forth.
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79 And I believe we're on the borderland tonight. I was wondering about all my meetings and things, how I had to cancel them out. I truly believe, before the church can have the rapture, it's got to have rapturing faith. We can't even have faith for Divine healing, let alone rapturing faith. Got to have a faith that'll change and quicken this body, and be taken away. I believe there's a church on its road tonight, a power of the living God, that men will speak the Word here and there, and it'll flash like lightning. And a church is coming out, not a psychologist, not some of this put-on, make-belief; but a real, true, genuine, anointed Holy Ghost, called-out church. Amen.
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E-4 …If we can't have faith now for healing, how are we going to have rapturing faith? Hmm. We've got to have faith for the little things first, before the great things. So there'll be something that'll cause... That's onl--that's in God's providence; I do not know. But I seen a demonstration of it recently, and that's what I want to tell you about.
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E-15 And O God, grant today, that when we can all come together, and see all those nine spiritual gifts moving through the Church, operating the whole Church Body. Then we'll have the rapture. Then it will be culled out, and we'll have the rapture. If we can't have faith for Divine healing, how we going to have faith for rapturing faith? The Church has got a ways to go yet. But I believe God will do it.
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E-20 Why, I believe the time will soon arrive, that when healing will be--a miracle healing will be such a common thing... We've got to get some rapturing faith in the church to get away from here one of these days.
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411-20 Hattie Wright, the other day, she didn't ask for nothing. She was just setting there, but she said the right thing, which pleased the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit spoke back and said, "Hattie, ask anything that you will, whatever you got and you want. Find out whether this is real or not. Ask anything (the healing of her little crippled sister setting there all drawed up; ten thousand dollars to keep her from digging on them hills over there; the youth restored to her well run-down body); whatever you want to ask, you ask it right now. If It don't come and give it to you right now, then I'm a false prophet." That's--that's--that's something, isn't it?
Jesus said, "Say to this mountain..." And you've heard the--about what's been taken place; that's the ministry that we're entering into. We're way up the road now. Soon the coming of the Lord Jesus. And we've got to have rapturing faith in a church that can be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye to go out, or we'll not go. But don't worry, it'll be there. It'll be there.
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128-2 {75} And then there's coming forth seven mysterious thunders that's not even written at all. That's right. And I believe that through those seven thunders will be revealed in the last days in order to get the Bride together for rapturing faith (Remember that the seven thunders are the revelations contained in the seven seals – don’t make it something more or less than what we are told it is in the message. Brother Branham said that it will be these Divinely revealed 'mystery-truths' (the truths contained in the seven seals) that will literally turn the hearts of the children to the Pentecostal fathers – because a truth revealed is what gives you faith); because what we got right now, we--we wouldn't be able to do it. There's something we've got to step farther; we--we can't have enough faith for Divine healing hardly. We've got to have enough faith to be changed in a moment and be swept up out of this earth, and we'll find that after a while, the Lord willing, find where it's written.
Faith comes by hearing the word, but that word must be a specific word in due season for you, not just any word – a word in season how good it is, because the same principle must apply to you as an individual as it does to a church age.
In other words, for you to have faith for anything, it requires you to hear a specific word in the right season of your life for that faith to drop into your heart – God doesn’t change the way he does things, if he did it like that for an age, then he will do it like that for an individual or a local church or anything else.
If you wanted faith in Luther’s day for justification, then you could only get that faith by hearing Luther’s message. If you wanted faith for Sanctification in Wesley’s day, then you had to hear Wesley’s message because Wesley’s message lead them into the faith of sanctification.
So in this day, if you want rapturing faith, then there is only one provided place in this day where you can get it, and that is in the message of this hour.
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…. What this Bible has promised, that's the Truth. See? Now every Word is true.
12 Now, I may not have faith enough to make every Word of It act, but I certainly wouldn't stand way of anybody that did have that faith. Enoch had faith enough, one day, to take an afternoon stroll with God, and just kept on walking, went up Home without dying. Now, I think the Church has got to come to that, to a Rapturing faith. I may not have that faith just now, but I sure wouldn't stand in the way of somebody that did have that faith. (He was admitting that his own faith was not at that level yet and that he needed help from God to grant it to him – it cannot be any different with us)
13 So, we trust that God will give us great faith, and, tomorrow that there will not be a feeble person left in the building, when they come through for prayer. We'll just believe that. And now if we'll believe it! Now, I've seen that so many times!
So we know that God had to lead his prophet into a greater faith for his own personal healing – because up to that point, all he could do was visit all the doctors – why would a “faith healer” be visiting all the doctors he could find that he thought could help him – God was allowing this for our benefit, because not even brother Branham could have faith for his own healing without the help of God to lead him into that faith.
Look at the message – On the Wings of a Snow White Dove” preached on the Sunday evening of the 28th of November 1965 at Brother Jack Moore’s church in Shreveport Louisiana.
The symbols of all the dreams of the different brothers that had come to him previously was God helping him and leading him into a faith that he never had before, that is what led him into this faith that he needed in order for his body to be changed from his sick condition after the “six inches” or 6 lots of 7 years of suffering.
**So God was showing to us by the life of his prophet that there would be six thousand years of man’s suffering upon the earth, and then after that the seventh dove would appear which is the coming of Christ, and when we see him arrive on the scene, that we know that he is here to lead us to a faith that we have never had before by the symbols that he is revealing to us in this hour because Malachi 4’s message is promised to restore the faith.
MATTHEW 3:16-17 to MATTHEW 4:1-2
16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
MATTHEW 4:1-2
1 ¶ Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
So the dove led Jesus into the desert and into suffering, because that same dove continued to lead him, and 3 years later it led him to the cross to be crucified, just like the six doves that brother Branham saw, led him into what he suffered with his stomach condition.
So those six doves, one after another, every seven years for six times (over a 42 year period), led brother Branham into suffering, and that is why he tells us that all his life he had been looking for that seventh dove, because the seventh dove would be the one that came with a message of a word that contained the faith for him that he lacked for his own healing.
So when the symbols of that dream and message where revealed to him at the end of the “six inches”, and that seventh dove appeared, that seventh dove led him to a faith that he had never known before, a faith that brought about his healing – the message of that dove released a faith into him that brought him out of his doubt and into a perfect faith for own personal healing.
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45 Now, I've always talked about the dove being the symbol of God, and the crow being the symbol of a hypocrite.
God was speaking to him in all these symbols:
A six inch long weasel looking creature that jumped into his stomach – the six inch lone weasel represented six times that he would suffer in his stomach over a 42 year period.
And then there were the six doves, and they even formed the letter S upon his breast, God hid the revelation of his healing in these symbols that he would reveal to his prophet right at the END of his life.
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177 And then the next morning, I raised up in the bed and looked around, I looked over in the twin bed; my wife over there, she hadn't woke up yet. And I was looking out the window towards the great Catalina Mountains there where I live, and I looked up there where the Angel of the Lord put that Sword in my hand, where the seven Angels that you see in the picture appeared, great things taken place.
178 And I looked, and as I looked, there I was standing by that tree again, right where that squirrel was. I looked up there, I thought, "That's that squirrel's den." And I thought, "Wonder if he's still up there?" in the vision. I raked the side of the tree, out he come. And before I could even bat my eye... He was the oddest looking squirrel I ever seen; now, you'll have to know my ministry to know these symbols and things. He jumped at me but he missed me; he missed my mouth, hit on my chest and fell off.
179 And as soon as he did, I heard Something said, "Go to the Catalina Mountains."
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193 Well, the little animal that I saw was six inches long. The string of doves that Mom saw was six, six is incomplete. I knew that someday I'd see that seventh one. That was man, suffering; so on and on it went.
God is speaking to his Prophet through all these symbols, and it was this that was leading him to a faith that gave him an assurance that he could stand up against what the doctor had said to him about that he could never get well. After those symbols were revealed to him, he knew beyond any doubt that he was healed, God had revealed it to him through the revealing of these symbols.
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205 And the next day Something said, "Go back to the mountain."
206 And that day instead of going one way, I was led to go another way. And I was standing there; and looking, setting in the front of me, and there set that seventh little, white dove, looking right at me. I rubbed my eyes, I said, "Surely, it's a vision; surely, it is." I looked, and I said, "Little dove, where do you come from?" Just as pretty and white, could've been a pigeon; whatever it was, away in that wilderness.
207 God Almighty, Who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, Whose servant I am, and His Word laying here, open before me, know that I tell the truth and lie not.
208 There set the dove, setting there looking at me. I walked around, I thought, "Surely, it's a vision." I turned my head, I looked back, and there he set there; them little, white wings, just as snowy as he could be; his little, yellow feet; and little, yellow beak; setting there looking at me. He was watching right straight westward. I walked around him like that, I wouldn't touch him for nothing. I walked on up the trail; looked back, and there he still set watching me.
209 Brother, as a son of Abraham, I consider not what the doctor told me, I'm going to be well, anyhow!
The book of Revelation is a book of symbols, and these symbols are to be revealed right at the end of the six thousand years of man’s suffering upon the earth, and these symbols are revealed in this hour to give a people a rapturing faith.
***So the way that God has dealt with man for the last six thousand years is no different of how he was dealing with his prophet William Branham, because being a prophet, his life had to be a reflection of the entire bible.
So at the end of the six thousand years of man’s suffering (and that is where we are right now), the symbols of the book of Revelation have been revealed to the bride in order to lead her into a rapture faith so she can go into the new earth in the millennium, and so at the end of brother Branham’s life, God is also revealing these symbols to him concerning his healing just before he goes into the new earth beyond the curtain of time – it’s exactly the same pattern.
It was the seventh dove revealing the symbols that led brother Branham into a faith that he never had before, and it is also the same dove revealing the symbols to us of Ruth, and of Esther, and Rebekah, and Tamar, and Rahab, and Sarah – it is those symbols revealed to us that is leading us into a faith that we have never known before – a rapturing faith.
***So if this pattern applies to man’s time upon the earth, and it also applied to God’s prophet to this generation, and it also applied to the bride of this end time age, then this pattern must also apply to us on a personal level, because God cannot do it all that way for everything else and not do it the same way for us – and this is the channel that we need to come into for perfect faith for healing or anything else.
327-1 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
Now this messenger of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7 is going to do two things. One: According to Malachi 4 he will turn the hearts of the children to the fathers. Two: He will reveal the mysteries of the seven thunders in Revelation 10 which are the revelations contained in the seven seals. It will be these Divinely revealed 'mystery-truths' that literally turn the hearts of the children to the Pentecostal fathers. Exactly so.
**The revealing of the word to us is what give us faith. So this must also apply to healing - so for us to enter a perfect faith, God must deal with us in the same manner that he deals with an age - he bring a message to us on the wings of a dove to reveal a specific word to help our faith raise up to a level where we can see the word work in our lives.
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225 Why, me an old man, suffered all my life, why did He heal me now? I believe I'll ride this trail again, I got to bring a Message! (Notice - that he is saying this is at the end of his ministry, he has mostly already brought the message to us, so this is the Holy Spirit speaking in him because now his William Branham’s part was nearly over, and that same message was now going to be eaten by the end time bride and be declared globally throughout the entire earth and in every nation by the corporate bride body of Christ) And I say to my Father, tonight, (as Junior seen in a--a dream the other night of the wings of this Dove, moving in these windows here), Lord, Your servant's reporting for service. Amen, I'm ready!
REVELATION 10:7-11
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
8 ¶ 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.
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
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.
11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
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225 Why, me an old man, suffered all my life, why did He heal me now? I believe I'll ride this trail again (in the form of the bride – the prophecy moving from the prophet to his prophecy which is the bride of this hour - just like the focus went from Eliezer to Rebeca, from Mordechai to Esther, from the head reaper over Boaz’s field to Ruth, from Revelation 10:7 to Revelation 10 8-11), I got to bring a Message!
Less than a month after he spoke this he was taken from the earth, but now that same seventh dove that led him into a faith that he had never had before for his healing, is now leading us in the same manner, a faith that we never had before for our healing and for the promised body change and rapture.
So it was that seventh dove that led him to this perfect faith, and the seventh seal which is also our seventh dove, is leading us not only into a faith for healing, but also into a rapturing faith by the symbols that he has revealed to us in this hour.
A Faith That We Never Had Before