The Great Redeemer Pt.3 – Earthen Vessels
II CORINTHIANS 4:6-7
6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness (What God did at the beginning, He has also achieved in this last age in that we have seen a great light shine from out of the darkness of a Laodicean age), hath shined in our hearts (there is a certain people on earth in this last age of which the truth of that light would shine and be revealed into their hearts), to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (This light is the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God of His creative and redemptive attributes - He has shown us His face in the cloud, and a person’s face reveals their identity, and whatever you behold, you are changed into that same image)
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels (Clay Pots), that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. (notice that this treasure of "the knowledge of the glory of God" in verse 6 has now been placed into the earthen vessel of a human beings heart – this is an eternal and priceless treasure that God has placed into a fallen human vessel – the greatest treasure placed into the lowest vessel.)
LUKE 21:25-28
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; (The eclipse of the sun and all these different things, the pollution in the atmosphere from all the cars and factories blocking out the sun and the moon, light pollution from all the cities – many things that speak of a future time of this industrial age that we now live in.) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (A time of perplexity (confusion – fake news) wars and earthquakes and hurricanes and title waves – the threat of nuclear war, the dangers of Artificial Intelligence)
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
The Great Redeemer Pt.3 – Earthen Vessels
Clay is easily broken – it is weak, just like our human bodies are weak because of the way we came into the world - by a fallen sex birth.
LUKE 21: 28
28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
This word “Redemption” in the Greek is the word - apolutrosis {ap-ol-oo'-tro-sis} = liberation procured by the payment of a ransom
We are living right now at the time of when (because of the opening of the seven seals in our generation), the great redemptive plan of God is now able to be fully revealed to a people on earth – what God had kept secret from the foundation of the world is now being revealed to a people who are predestinated to be able to receive it.
**We know that right now we are living between the time of Christ’s intercession and His judgment, between the church ages and the millennium – between WW2 and WW3 which is the second and third Woe of Revelation 9 and Revelation 11 of the 6th and 7th trumpet. Remember that Trumpets 5,6, and 7 of the last three woes are WW1, WW2, and WW3 – so we are right now between the 6th and 7th trumpet of WW2 and WW3.
*And so it was promised that during this time that this seventh sealed book (of which contained the secret that God had kept hidden since the foundation of the world) would be made known to and received into the minds and hearts of a special group of people on earth.
THE.FIRST.SEAL_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318
117-1 {1} Let us bow our heads now for prayer. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for this another opportunity to come to worship You. We are thankful to be alive and to have this great revelation of Eternal Life dwelling within us. And we've come tonight, Father, to study Thy Word together: these great hidden mysteries that's been hid since the foundation of the world; and the Lamb is the only One that can reveal it to us. I pray that He will come among us tonight, and will take of His Word, and reveal It to us, that we might know how to be better servants to Him in this end time.
*The bible is the book of redemption, and so all the stories in the bible were designed by God to teach us about the character of God and of His great redemptive plan for fallen man.
The mystery of redemption was so great that God had to spread it out by just putting a little piece of it in Ruth, and a little piece over in Jeremiah, and a little piece in Exodus, and a little piece over in Joshua.
So throughout the bible, God has been unfolding it to us a piece at a time, but when He gets to the book of Revelation, He then pulls it all together and gives it to us in symbol form in the little drama of what we read of in Revelation 4 and 5 of the Lamb paying the price and taking the book.
This one vision of what John saw in Revelation is tying a whole Bible together showing us that after God has finished dealing with the 7 church ages of candle light level, a great light would now be shone of a revelation that would be place into the hearts of an end time people after WW2, but before WW3 and the millennium, so we know for absolute certainty that we are now living in the day of redemption of which we can put on a new body and go back to Eden again.
*So right now is the time when Redemption is being revealed to a people on earth between His intercession of 7 church ages and His judgment.
When you see the Son of Man revealed in a cloud, look up and lift up your head, your redemption draweth nigh because that’s the Redeemer coming to redeem. Abraham and Sarah saw that same one appear just before Sodom was destroyed.
THE.FIRST.SEAL_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318
121-4 {31} …And this Lamb come forth and went over to Him that set upon the Throne that held the complete Title Deed of Redemption; and the Lamb goes and takes the Book out of the hand of Him that set upon the Throne and was--took and opened the Seals and opened the Book.
And then when that happened, we found out that it must have been a great a--a something took place in heaven, for the elders and the four and twenty elders, and the beasts, and--and everything in heaven begin to cry out, "Worthy." And here come the Angels and poured out the vials of the prayers of saints. The saints under the altar screamed out, "Worthy art Thou, O Lamb, for You have redeemed us, and now You have made us kings and priests, and we shall rule on the earth."
Look at the revelation that they received – the knowledge of their position in the new Kingdom.
REVELATION 10:1-4
1 ¶ And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven (this is Christ, the Lord Himself descending from heaven with a shout (1st Thessalonians 4:16), and that shout was symbolic for the literal message of this hour that came through the channel of the voice of the prophet of Revelation 10:7), clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, (This is the book that Christ took in Revelation CH:5, it is now opened, but the contents of that book must be revealed to a people on earth through the channel of the voice of an earthly messenger - it has to be place into an earthen human vessel)
3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
(*The seven thunders were symbolic for the contents of what was sealed in the book being sounded out and made known – and that is what we have literally received in this day by the voice of the messenger, we now know what those seven thunders spoke because this is what we have heard in this day)
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.
*Revelation 10 (being chronologically place between WW2, and WW3) shows us the Lord Himself coming down in the form of the revealing of the Son of Man to a people on earth in order to reveal to them His full plan of redemption (of what He had kept secret from before the foundation of the world) through the ministry of the seventh angel of Revelation 10:7.
**This chapter then goes on to show us an end time group of people of which the title deed to everything that Adam lost is given back to them again and what that looks like, in that if they take this book of the things that have been made known by the opening of this book, and eat the book (ingest its contents), then it is these people who will reign as kings and priests on the earth in the future millennium that is to come.
*God is wanting this revelation of Himself as the great Redeemer to be fully known to a people – that was His purpose before the foundation of the world – to share and to show the heart of His true nature.
When a people come to that revelation, then His great purpose for this hour is complete.
REVELATION 10:5-11
5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6 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 (Notice again, just before this seventh angel is about to sound, there is an acknowledgment of God as being the great creator, this is what we also saw in Revelation chapter 4 of where God was worshiped as a creator, but then in Chapter 5 after the opening of the seven seals, the worship changes to God as the great redeemer), that there should be time no longer: (when this event of this mighty Angel descends with a cloud, then time has run out for the full mystery of redemption to be held back any longer – there will be no more delay)
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 (that was the voice in Revelation 10:4 of the voice from heaven telling him to “Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered”.
*If we go back to Revelation 4:1 after the church ages had ended in chapter 3, John hears a voice calling him to come up higher in order to be shown prophetic things of future events. Now this voice in Revelation 10 is about to instruct him to eat the book, meaning for John to consume the understanding of the contents of the book that was sealed in Revelation 5 – the revelation of the Great Redeemers redemptive plan. And part of the contents of that book was going to reveal to John his own position in that plan of redemption, and that revelation to him of his part would release a rapturing faith into his heart. Brother Branham said that when the revelation of the seven thunders is made known to the bride, then the understanding of it would release a rapturing faith into their hearts), 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. (The book is now in a human vessel – God has placed this great treasure of the knowledge of Himself as the great Redeemer into an earthen vessel)
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.
The spirit of Elijah comes back onto Elisha – it’s a prophetic spirit.
**So we know by all of this that we are now living here in the time of the real redemption, and so when we look back at the different pictures that God has painted by the stories of the bible, then we know that He was painting those pictures by the image of what He was looking at in this day. When God painted the picture of Boaz and Ruth in the bible, He was looking at the real Boaz and Ruth in this day, just like an artist who paints a portrait of a maiden by looking at the real maiden.
***It is not that you are trying to be like the shadow, but that you are understanding your life because of the shadow.
*You are not trying to be like Ruth, you are the real image that Ruth was painted from.
If Ruth had known of this day, she would had wished that she could have been in your place, because Ruth’s husband eventually died, because Boaz didn’t conquer death, but in this hour, your husband (Christ) is the Mighty Conqueror who will never die.
EPHESIANS 1:9-14
9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
11 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:
12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which is the earnest (the down payment) of our inheritance (your eternal inheritance includes fellowship with God in that your eternal spirit will always be in agreement with His word throughout eternity because it is the same spirit of God that is also in you – oneness with God. And so we already have a portion of this within us now in this life by the revelation of this hour – the earnest, or the down payment of what is to come in the future. The new birth has given us a spirit that is able to agree with the truth of what God has sent in this day – but we will still struggle with the outer man of sin that we dwell in – the earthen vessel, but that will soon pass away and we will be given a new body by God that will match the spirit of God that He has deposited in us) until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
THE.BREACH.BETWEEN.THE.SEVEN.CHURCH.AGES.AND.THE.SEVEN.SEALS_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0317E
90-6 {145} And the whole thing here, the Seven Seals got the mysteries of God from the foundation of the world all sealed up in there, and revealed by Seven different Seals; that if God willing--let Him--let us pull back these Seals and look down through the Book and find out what it's all about. See? Oh, I hope we have a great time.
There the mystery of redemption is sealed until... This Book could not be broken until the last angel's message. The scroll's there, we knowed it was there. We know that it was redemption. We believed it was redemption.