The Revelation of the Rapture
PSALM 27:1-5
1 ¶ A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. (This term – “eat up my flesh” is drawn from the comparison of the fierceness of wild beasts rushing on their prey – in other words “a strong motive of violence” like what is told that existed in Enoch’s and Noah’s day, and what is also prophesied to exist in this end time age also where the earth would be filled with violence again)
3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. (Notice - Violence, persecution and war)
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble (disagreeable times) he shall hide me in his pavilion (A place of shelter - until the storm be passed): in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
God is our rock - a rock is a revelation that cannot be moved, “upon this rock I will build my Church” said Jesus,
II PETER 3:3-4
3 ¶ Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
The Revelation of the Rapture
Introduction to this subject in this service –
How this subject came about…
We were talking about how many raptures there were in the bible, and then I happened to hear another minster preach a little on this subject during the week, and so then I have been trying to study a little on the message of “The Rapture” preached by Brother Branham in 1965 – This is a very key message in the canon of the message.
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65 But, to the Church, the Bride, the Rapture is a revelation to Her. It's revealed to Her. That, the revelation, the true Bride of Christ will be waiting for that revelation of the Rapture.
We know that the revelation of the rapture has already been placed in the message of the hour in word form, but the waiting is for the people to come to an understanding of what has already been opened and taught by the message. Just like when Jesus had risen early Easter morning, but the elect for that age had to then come to the understanding of what had already taken place – that was the work that continued during that entire day of the resurrection was to open their understanding of what had already been opened.
*We must remember that the rapture has been a mystery that God has kept sealed as a secret down through the years of the seven Church ages until this age of when the seven seals have been opened and all the mysteries that were kept secret in the Bible are to be made known through the ministry of the seventh angel’s message.
God would keep this revelation concerning the rapture back from the people until the time that it was needed to be understood in order for that rapture to take place.
God does not release faith for a prophetic event until it’s time for that event to happen and the people that are predestinated to that event are upon the earth.
**And we must remember that that is also why the rapture is only for the bride, because it is a revelation that is only given to a certain group of people who have received the channel that God has used for these mysteries to be reveal through in these last days.
***It still amazes me as to how some message preachers still think that people of the denominations will also go in the rapture as a part of the bride of Christ when we know that rapturing faith cannot come through a denominational teaching. Rapturing faith only lays in the message of the hour because the rapture is a revelation that is released to the people through this message only. And so if any message preachers are still holding to the idea and teaching that you can receive rapturing faith from a denominational source, then that is false teaching and will have the same result on their people as any other false teaching of the word – things won’t end well for that group.
Did any other group go in the ark of Noah apart from Noah’s group who were under the shelter of his revelation for that age?
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81 Now, the Rapture is only... This Rapture that we're talking about, is only for the Bride. Remember, the Bible said, "And the rest of the dead lived not for a thousand years." This great Rapture! If there's not a Rapture, friends, where are we at? What are we going to do? What age are we living in? What promise do we have? There is going to be a Rapture. The Bible says there will be. And It'll be only for the elected, the Elected Lady, the Bride in this day, that's pulled out, the Church.
So we want to Study this message of “The Rapture”. This message was preached by brother Branham in Yuma Arizona on the 4th of December 1965, just 3 weeks before he was taken from the earth. In this message, he makes some very astounding statements.
***So after brother Branham reads these two opening scriptures (that we have also just read in our opening scriptures), he begins by talking about how that scoffers would arise in these last days for the purpose of causing confusion and doubt to the unfailability of the word of God.
II PETER 3:3-12
3 ¶ Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of (they don’t want to learn or be taught about it, they would rather stay ignorant of the real truth of this hour, and besides, there is way too much Netflix for them to watch anyway, so they just don’t have the time for the things of the Lord), that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 ¶ But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 ¶ The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (Remember that in Noah’s day, Methuselah live the longest of all men (969 years) because the prophecy was that when he would die then the flood would come. So God in his long suffering kept Methuselah alive for the longest time of all men – noticed how that it was the children of the unbelieving parents and all the innocent animals of that time that would have to suffer and pay the price because of the unbelief of that generation by their rejection of the prophet that God had sent to them for that time)
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night (That’s this secret coming of Christ in the form of the revealing of the son of man that has taken place in this age of whom the forerunner has introduced to us in this hour.
**This age is a night time age of spiritual ignorance and the rejection of the word, and the darkness of that rejection and ignorance has settled upon the minds of people of the world like a black cloud of darkness and death, but then to those who have received the revealed word of this hour, it is a time of the greatest light of the enlightenment of the truth); in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. (Notice that this is referring to a global cataclysmic event, this isn’t just judgment on an individual, or a family like with Achan, or a city like with Jericho, or even a nation, but this judgment is upon the entire world globally, so we know that it would be the entire world that would collectively be found guilty and come to judgment)
11 ¶ Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
MALACHI 4:1-2
1 ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
We can see the contrast of these two groups - of they that do wickedly shall be stubble, and those of whom would have respect to his Name in this hour of which the son of righteousness would arise with a healing revival ministry that would continue on into the maturity of the revealing of the son of man.
MALACHI 4:5
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: (A Great day for the bride, but dreadful to those who are ignorant of the light that has come in this day – we see these two opposing groups)
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33 Now we see that, the reason that this subject is so lightened at, is because that the prophet here has said that in this last days these scoffers would come saying these things. See? It's predicted, the reason the people are acting today the way they're acting. Why, you certainly are expecting it, because the Bible said that. "In the last days they'd be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, despisers of those that are good; having a form of godliness, and denying the power thereof: from such turn away." Can we look for an impersonation of Truth? Certainly.
34 When Moses went down into Egypt, to deliver the children of Israel, with only a stick in his hand for vindication, with the God of Heaven behind him, he performed a miracle. There come impersonators behind him, and doing the same thing he did. See? Now, they come second, after he did it first. Then they come around, because they were copying after what he did, impersonating the original. We find that.
All the fantastic things of the inventions and the scientific magical like advancements and glitter of this modern age has caused the people to become hardened to the real move of the supernatural of God that we have witnessed in our generation.
*So Brother Branham is addressing these two groups as we can see in this quote below.
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64 Did you know the Protestant and Catholic church is predicted, in the last days, to be blind, the same thing, to the Scriptures, with Christ on the outside, trying to get in? "Because thou sayest, 'I am rich, and have need of nothing,' knowest thou not that thou art miserable, poor, wretched, naked, and blind, and don't know it," Revelation 3. There you are, back to the blindness again, trampling over the things of God, as if (they) It didn't mean nothing to them, scoffing and making fun of It. That's what the Bible said.
65 But, to the Church, the Bride, the Rapture is a revelation to Her. It's revealed to Her. That, the revelation, the true Bride of Christ will be waiting for that revelation of the Rapture.
66 Now, it is a revelation, for the revelation is faith. You cannot have a revelation without it being faith. Faith is a revelation, because it's something that's revealed to you. Faith is a revelation. Faith is something that has been revealed to you, like it was to Abraham, that could call anything contrary to what had been revealed to him, as though it wasn't so. Now, faith, that's what faith is, is the revelation of God. The Church is built upon a revelation, the whole entire Body.
**So we know that the end time prophet of this age was commissioned (as John the Baptist was) to make known to the elect of this day the revealing of the son of man – “your message will introduce Christ to the elect of this age, thus fulfilling the revealing the son of man again in this age”.
***This was the misunderstood part that the world failed to see because the secret coming of the Lord in this day would not come by the form of Jesus of Nazareth (that would certainly not be a secret), but the same Jesus of Nazareth would be revealed in this hour to his elected bride, not by his corporal body, but by the revelation of the word that would be sent through the message of the messenger.
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117 And now that's the age that we're living in right now, the seventh church age. Now, it's all to be manifested in the grain of wheat at the end, another come back. Now, if you take Luke the 17th chapter and the 30th verse, He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man, when the Son of man begins to reveal Himself." What is reveal? Make His revelation of what He is in this day. Reveal, out to the people, the Word that's made known for the day.
We want to look at Enoch in Genesis – because Brother Branham tells us that the first rapture started with Enoch as being the seventh from Adam, and if we notice that that rapture happened just before the earth was globally destroyed, so we know by that that we also have to leave the earth just before this would is again globally destroyed the second time.
***So we know that Enoch must have caught the revelation of the rapture for his day or he could have never been raptured – so whatever was revealed to Enoch back then is the same thing that is also to be revealed to us today because Enoch was the shadow that this end time bride cast all the way back there, because in this age we are no shadow to anything.
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104 Now let's notice whether we're in the last age, or not. Now we find out, if we turn back in Genesis, about the, oh, about the 5th chapter, you can also turn to Luke and find out, that Enoch was the seventh from Noah. Enoch.
There catches the serpent's seed. For, if Cain was Abel's son, then he was the eighth. See? But nowhere in the Bible it said that Cain was Abel's son... or Cain--or Cain was Adam's son. Because, that, the Bible said, "He was of that evil one." And Adam wasn't the evil one. See? "He was of the evil one."
105 Now we find here that Enoch was the seventh from Noah, which was a type of the church ages. Now, all of the rest of the six men, before him, died, but Enoch was translated. Enoch was raptured, the seventh, showing that it's the seventh church age that takes the Rapture. Now, there's no doubt, we're in the seventh church age. We all know it.
106 Now, it's the seventh church age that takes the Rapture. All of the other six died. But Enoch was translated, because, "He was not found. God took him." But Enoch, raptured, was a type of all of the rest of them dying. But the--the end-time Bride will be called out of the... The rapturing, without death, will be called out of the seventh church age, which we are now bearing record of that age. Oh, my! Let's dig in now, real deep. See?
107 Now, here, also, a type of the seven church ages, which, in Revelation 10:7, that the great mystery of the Book was to be unfolded by the seventh angel's Message.
**So there is a great mystery to be unfolded to us in this age by the seventh angel’s message, and so we know that Enoch also had a great mystery unfolded to him because the first bible that Enoch had was first written in the stars – the Zodiac.
***So in order for Enoch to write the second bible in the symbol of the pyramid, he had to first have the first bible of what was written in the stars opened to him – just as the bride of this hour has had the written word opened up to us by the seventh angel’s message in order for that word to change its form and become written and transformed into the flesh of an end time people in the form of the pyramid of the statue of a perfect man.
***Remember that when Jesus came, he was the word made flesh. So the word didn’t change, it just changed its form from word to flesh.
***So when Enoch built the pyramid, it was the same word that was written in the stars changing its form from stars to pyramid.
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E-52 Now, I've been to Egypt, and in those pyramids... How I could take all afternoon. Now, I don't believe in doctrines of pyramids. I'm only making a parable. But as you notice that pyramid, it never did receive the stone. Enoch built that--that pyramid or in his days. They can't figure it out.
Now, they got all kinds of religions on it, like they have on the zodiac. But everything in... God wrote three Bibles. The first one was in the heavens; the second one was in the pyramid; the third one's on the earth (referring to the written bible), and every one of them agree with one another.
***So if we have seen the written bible of this day that was sealed in Revelation 5 opened up to our understanding in this hour, then we also know that that would have been the same revelation that Enoch would have understood from the revelation of the first bible of the Zodiac – and that is why he could have written the same revelation again in the Pyramid, and that was what pleased God because of that revelation, and that was why God took him because of his testimony that he pleased God because of the revelation of the word.
GENESIS 5:21-24
21 ¶ And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
HEBREWS 11:5-6
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
***Three things that were unique about Enoch.
1- He walked with God by his agreement of the word that was being revealed to him from the revelations contained in the Zodiac.
2- He pleased God because of his personal faith in the revelation that he had received from God concerning the entire mystery of redemption.
3- And he had had Fellowship with the first Adam.
****So from the Zodiac to the Pyramid to the written word, and then from the written word to flesh in the body of Jesus at the end of the Old Testament, and then from the written word of the bride part of the word to flesh again in bride form at the end of the New Testament – and when the two are joined together, then the pyramid is capped and completed, the entire mystery reveal of him and her.
Lord willing we will continue this subject…