The Loud Voice of the Resurrection
REVELATION 10:1-3
1 ¶ And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven (This Angel is Christ himself (the Lord HIMSELF shall descend from heaven with a shout). An angel is a messenger, and a messenger comes with a message, and so this message that has come down to us in this hour is Christ in word form coming to be united with his bride body on earth), clothed with a cloud (we have seen that cloud in our generation): 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 (this opened book contained the names of all who are to be a part of the first resurrection from among the dead – it is the title deed to the ownership of the earth that Adam lost): and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
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 are the mysteries contained in the seven seals, and so the opening of the seven seals was the loud voice of the shout of the message that initiated the rapture cycle.
REVELATION 10:7
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.
The mystery is only finished when the people of the elect of this age receive the truth of what that mystery has declared by the voice of the seventh angel - it is these divinely revealed “mystery-truths” that literally turn the hearts of the children back to the faith of the fathers of what Malichi 4 prophesied for this day.
I THESSALONIANS 4:15-17
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout (A shout is a loud voice), with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
The Loud Voice of the Resurrection
We have been speaking on the subject of the Mystery of the Resurrection of the Sleeping Saints over the past two Sundays.
And it is important for us to realize that there is also a mystery of the resurrection of the living saints in this day also because it can be so easy to see someone else’s part of who they are in the scriptures, but it can be often much harder to see your own part of who you are in the scriptures – but rapturing faith isn’t produced in you by recognizing Malichi 4’s ministry of who he was for this day, or all the other groups of the last 6 church ages of believers who fell asleep under their messengers message, but it is being able to see your own life written of in the prophecy of whom the end time bride is spoken of to be in these last days.
In the “Rapture” message (1965), Brother Branham tells us that there were 3 raptures of the Old Testament – Enoch, Elijah, and Christ, Christ being the key stone because he died and then rose again and walk around on the earth and then was raptured up into glory.
Then in the New Testament there are 3 raptures also, the Old Testament saints that rose after Christ’s resurrection and were then raptured, and then the rapture at the end of the New Testament of the time we are living in now (this is the rapture that we are a part of now of which the cycle has already been initiated by the shout of the message), and then there is Moses and Elijah of Revelation 11 of the two prophets to Israel who also die and then rise and then are raptured up into glory.
ACTS 13:41
41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
**We have had a man in this generation that has been sent by God and has declare great things, and yet most of the world has in no wise believed.
So we have certainly arrived at a time in history of which this scripture is very relevant in that all the things that we have come to know by the revelation of the message of the hour. If we were to try to tell people everything we knew, it would be unbelievable for them – it would be like casting pearls before swine as Jesus said, because they would just trample them under their feet, yet we know that these things are true.
*When it comes to the reality of the resurrection, when we look around us, we are actually witnessing the resurrection of things all the time.
*We can see how the sun rises every morning in a resurrection, and we are constantly seeing how that new life is coming into the world of which is in effect a resurrection from nothing into something.
When we plant a seed and observe how that seed raise up into a reality of life and substance – the resurrection of life from a seed and then into a reality of substance. From a tiny acorn into a great oak tree.
*And then to know that the word of God is a seed that we have also planted into our hearts and lives, and so that seed of the word of God must also produce a reality of life and substance in its time and season.
I CORINTHIANS 15:21
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
Death for Adam was at first very hard to comprehend, but it is not hard for us to comprehend death because for the past 6000 years it is what we have all known as the norm. So, if death and corruption came by man, then the resurrection of man back to life and immortality again must also come by man.
In Adam we all died, in Christ we all live.
JOHN 5:25
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
***You make the transition from death to life by hearing the voice of the Son of God – and especially the voice of God for your day.
*At this time of the rapture of the gentile bride of Christ that we are living at right now, it is both the living saints and the sleeping saints that are to be awakened by an end time voice of God – and that voice is the voice of the message of this hour.
What this message has done for us by the shout phase of the rapture cycle that has called and gathered an end time bride together in this hour, this same voice of the seventh angel’s message that we have received will also awaken the sleeping saints under the voice part of the rapture cycle, because this message is the opening of the book that contains the names of all that died under their message for their day, and this message has declared those names already in mystery form – it is Christ calling them from the graves as he did with a loud voice at the grave of Lazarus.
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152 Now, it's the first thing, is the sounding. (He is speaking of the “Shout” and a shout is a loud voice which is the message of this hour that gathers the living saints together in a bride age, in other words, the message gathers the elect for this end time age together under that message – it resurrects them from dark denominational tombs – this has already happened and is still happening) The first thing is a trumpet and a... or a voice... A shout; and then a voice; and then a trumpet.
Shout: a messenger getting the people ready. (the message has been getting us ready for all these years)
The second is a voice of the resurrection: the same voice, that, a loud voice in Saint John 11:38-44, that called Lazarus from the grave.
Getting the Bride together; and then the resurrection of the dead, see; to be caught up with It. Now watch the three things takes place. The next is what? Was a trumpet. A voice... A shout; a voice; a trumpet.
JOHN 5:24-29
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word (for the age that they lived in), and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (If you have believe in the word that God sent through the messenger for your day – if you heard that voice for your age, then that is what qualifies you for the first resurrection of which you will not be a part of the judgement of what takes place at the second resurrection. Remember that your faith will be tested by time and by the trials of life.)
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming (a future time), and now is (presently), when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. (this is a compound scripture)
(We know that at the end of the millennium, the general resurrection will take place, and all that have ever lived on the earth will be raised up at that time for judgement.
But for all those who are to be a part of the first resurrection, there is an hour coming of when there will be a voice of God sound forth that will call each of their names out from among the dead – this is what the message of this hour has come to do, it has come to identified each member of the gentile bride under their messenger.
*The “and now is”, part has been taking place since the time of Jesus right up to this time now in that the members of the gentile bride have all been quickened in their time and age by hearing the voice of God of the message for their hour being sounded out by their messenger.
*A message sounded out for each age that planted a living word seed of God in the hearts of the gentile elected bride for each age – that is the quickening power, and now they are all resting and waiting for a future hour of when the voice of this message will call them all by their names out of the graves.)
26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; (The son of man ministry has life in himself, and he imparts that life to his subjects by the voice of his word for their age)
27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, (Don’t be surprised at this, because everyone is going to be in a resurrection – Jesus is speaking here of the general resurrection – this is showing us clearly that resurrection comes by hearing the voice of God calling you from the grave whether you hear it now or at the time of the great white throne judgement)
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
**Resurrection comes by hearing the VOICE of GOD.
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164 Therefore, the Message calls the Bride together, see, the shout.
And the trumpet...
The same One, He, with a loud voice, He screamed out with that shout and a voice, and woke Lazarus. With a loud voice He cried, "Lazarus, come forth." See? And the voice wakes up--wakes up the sleeping Bride, the sleeping dead.
**Brother Branham tells us plainly that the same loud voice that woke up Lazarus from the grave is also the same loud voice that wakes the sleeping saints of 7 church ages.
And for us as the living saints of this last age who have recognized and received the word for our day, we have already heard that voice of the resurrection, and it is the message of this hour, and it has already raised us up out of the darkness of denominational tombs.
JOHN 11:11
11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
So when we study how the son of man ministry woke Lazarus out of sleep in that day by the sounding of the loud voice of the Son of Man, then we can know for sure that it is the same voice in this day that will cause the resurrection of the “sleeping” saints that have died over the last 2000 years of seven church ages - they are also to be woken at this time by that same voice – but what does that voice look like in this hour. The bible tells us “In the days of the VOICE of the seventh angel”. This angel’s voice is the voice of the resurrection for this hour – it causes both the living and the sleeping saints to be raised up.
**So we want to look at the first resurrection event and also get some scriptures on this to prove that this is so.
PHILIPPIANS 3:7-11
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 ¶ And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
**Paul is not saying here that he is worried that he will never be in a resurrection, because every person that has ever lived on the earth will be in a resurrection – that is what Jesus taught, but he is speaking of the “Out” resurrection from among the dead, in other words, the “First” resurrection and not the general resurrection.
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Paul does not evade this truth for he most clearly says in Philippians 3:11,
"If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead."
Now this statement is most peculiar. We all know that we are ALL going to be in a resurrection whether we want to be or not. All will be resurrected. So Paul could hardly be saying, "If by ANY MEANS I might attain to a resurrection of the dead." The truth of the matter is, he is not saying that. The literal reading is, "If by any means I might attain to the 'out-resurrection' from among the dead." This is not the attaining to the general or second resurrection, but attaining to the first resurrection, of which is said, "Blessed and Holy is he who hath part in the first resurrection, on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with Him a thousand years." The first resurrection has nothing to do with the second death. That is at the end of the thousand years when ALL THE REST of the dead live again. And in that day there will be those who come forth to eternal life and those others who are caught in the second death.
Berean Literal Bible Translation
“if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from out of dead.”
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E-30 Look at Him. Here it is; get it. I can hear Him scream with a loud voice, way out there in spirit land, "Lazarus." I believe if He hadn't have called him by name, there'd been the general resurrection right there.
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151 The same voice that summoned John, "Come up," the same voice that said to John, "Come up," is the same voice that'll summons the church someday (Amen.), summons the church.
Also, the same voice that summoned John to come up, is the same voice that summoned dead Lazarus out of the grave, that same voice of the archangel. Christ is the voice of the archangel, "voice of the archangel." See? Oh, that trumpet voice of Christ summoned John to come up, the same voice summoned Lazarus. Did you notice at the grave of Lazarus, He spoke with a loud voice. (Not just said, "Lazarus, come forth." [Brother Branham imitates weakness--Ed.]) "Lazarus, come forth!" It summoned him from the dead.
And he answered, "Here am I." And he come from the dead, after he was dead and his body rotten.
That same voice said to John, "Come up here; I'll show you some things that's fixing to happen."
That same voice that shall sound when the dead in Christ rise, "For the trumpet..." The trumpet... What is a trumpet? The voice of Christ, the same One sounded and summoned him up. He heard the voice like a trumpet sound and said, "Come up hither." See how the resurrection will be? It'll be in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. That clear sounding voice, and He'll summons the church, calling, "Come out of it." That great summonsing voice, God, help me to hear it that day.
***If you have heard this voice “come up higher John” of Revelation 4:1, then that is the evidence that you will also hear the trumpet voice calling you to a body change at the last trump, because it’s just the same voice fulfilling an advanced part of the rapture cycle. The Shout, Voice, and Trump – He does all three as he descends, it’s the voice of the message of the hour unfolding greater and greater that cause these events to take place.
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152 Now, it's the first thing, is the sounding. The first thing is a trumpet and a... or a voice... A shout; and then a voice; and then a trumpet.
Shout: a messenger getting the people ready.
The second is a voice of the resurrection: the same voice, that, a loud voice in Saint John 11:38-44, that called Lazarus from the grave.
Getting the Bride together; and then the resurrection of the dead, see; to be caught up with It. Now watch the three things takes place. The next is what? Was a trumpet. A voice... A shout; a voice; a trumpet.
153 Now, the third thing, is a trumpet. Which, always, at the feast of trumpets, is calling the people to the feast. And that'll be the Bride's Supper, the Lamb's Supper with the Bride, in the sky. See?
154 The first thing comes forth is His Message, calling the Bride together. The next thing is a resurrection of the sleeping Bride; the--the ones died, back in the other ages, they're caught together. And the trumpet, the Feast in the heavens, in the sky. Why, that's the thing that takes place, friends.
155 We're right there, ready now. The only thing, the Church coming out, has got to lay before the Son, to ripen.
The great combine will come by, after while. The wheat will be burned, the stalks, but the grain will be gathered into Its garner. See?
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164 Therefore, the Message calls the Bride together, see, the shout.
And the trumpet...
The same One, He, with a loud voice, He screamed out with that shout and a voice, and woke Lazarus. With a loud voice He cried, "Lazarus, come forth." See? And the voice wakes up--wakes up the sleeping Bride, the sleeping dead.
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168 Now, there has been one rapture already passed. You know that? That, let's see if we can't read it, right quick. Let's get Matthew, the 27th chapter. And let's get about the 45th verse of the Matthew, the 27th chapter. Let's see if we can't get that right quick, and see if--if we can't get just a little bit out of this, would help us, right quickly. 27:45, I believe, I got wrote down here. Let's read.
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth...
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabach-...? which to say,... my God, why has thou forsaken me?
Some of them that stood by,... heard it, and said, This man calls... Elias.
And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink.
The rest said,... let us see whether Elias will come and save him.
Jesus, when he had cried... with a loud voice, yielded up...
"A loud voice." Loud voice! Watch.
When Jesus, dying, screamed with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks did rent;
And the graves were opened; and many of the bodies... the saints that slept arose,
And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
169 One rapture is passed.
Three has happened in the Old Testament, of them prepared, who the Word of the Lord came to. See? The Word of the Lord came to Enoch. The Word of the Lord came to Elijah. He was a prophet. See? The Word of the Lord was Jesus. See?
170 Watch in the Old Testament, them Old Testament saints now, when this rapture first taken place. Notice verse 50. His loud voice awakened the Old Testament saints just exactly like the loud voice wakened Jesus... or wakened Lazarus. See? The loud voice awakened.
And the second is fulfilled in Second Thessalonians, the 4th chapter. Let's just take a read, read it. We just read, a few minutes ago. See?
... I would not have you... ignorant, brethren, concerning those... asleep, that you sorrow not, even...
That's First Thessalonians 4:12 to 18. That, that will be the second Rapture. The second Rapture will be the catching away of the Bride.
171 The Old Testament saints has gone into His Presence, paradise done away. And the Old Testament saints ascended up, at His loud voice, when He screamed and give up the ghost; because (why?) the Sacrifice, the propitiation of their sins, that they had waited on, believing that perfect Lamb was coming. They had offered the Sacrifice, the Lamb. And when He died and yielded up the ghost, He screamed with a loud voice, and the Old Testament saints awoke.
Watch the shout and the voice over here, the same thing at His Coming. See?
"Yielded up the ghost." And when He did, the Sacrifice was perfect, and paradise emptied out. And the Old Testament saints came to the earth again, walked around on earth, and entered in with Him, at His rapture.