The Mystery behind the History of our Lives Pt.2
MATTHEW 12:40-42 Picking up from last week…quickly background
40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
(The history of Jonah’s life became the prophecy of Christ’s future, and then the prophecy became history in Jesus life – Jesus knew this: Ecclesiastes 1:9 – what has been is that which shall be)
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
**This queen of the south will be raised up (at the great white throne judgement) as a witness against an entire generation by the history of her life by showing respect to the gift of God revealed through the ministry of a man.
**If you have shown respect to that same gift of God in this generation, then that history of the Queen of Sheba has repeated itself again in your life also. If a greater than Solomon is here now, then a greater than the Queen of Sheba must also be here now.
ECCLESIASTES 1:9-10
9 ¶ The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Modern events of this day are made clear to us by the word that has been revealed to us at this time by the seventh angel’s message.
The Mystery behind the History of our Lives Pt.2
We are living in the days when we have seen the revealing of a greater than Solomon in this hour – and so we know for sure that their must also be a greater than the Queen of Sheba here also.
If a greater than Boaz is here now, then there must also be a greater than Ruth here now.
*There must also be a greater than Rebecca here now
*There must also be a greater than Esther here now
*There must also be a greater than Abigale here now
*There must also be a greater than Sarah here now
*There must also be a greater than Mary here now
*So this Queen of Sheba was a woman that when she heard of this great gift, then she responded to the voice of God for her day, and she was willing to travel on such a long journey to get to that gift of God. And so this is showing us of a people in this hour who are also willing (after they have heard the voice of God for this day) to pay a price and to travel on a long journey from 1966 to 2022 to come to the revelation of what we have received in this day.
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260 "In the very day that the Son of man is revealed." Revelations 10:1 to 7, read it when you get home, "the seventh angel's Message, opening up the Seals." What is it? Not the angel is the Son of man; but the messenger is revealing the Son of man. Can you get it separated now? That's where it seems to be so hard for you, you see. Not the Son of man, Himself; but the seventh angel, the seventh messenger, is revealing to the public the Son of man, because It's left the shuck. He can't organize It. It's the Grain, Itself, again.
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262 Notice, the very day when this messenger... Not when he starts on, but when he begins to declare his Message. See? The First Pull, healing; Second Pull, prophesying; Third Pull, the opening of the Word, the mysteries revealed. No more, there is no more higher order to reveal the Word, than prophets. But the only way the prophet can be vindicated is by the Word. And, remember, the Third Pull was the opening of them Seven Seals, to reveal the hidden Truth that's been sealed in the Word. Do you see it?
Some people have been in this message for 40 years and still don’t see it, even though we have been told these things clearly by a vindicated prophet – just like Jesus disciples were told things clearly and still didn’t get it - it can only come by the Holy Spirit making the word for your day clear to you personally, and that is the difference between the wise and the foolish virgins, it is the Holy Ghost who promised that when He would come, that He would lead you into the clarity of the word.
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It will require the ability to hear from God. It will require supernatural instruction, not just a student comparing verse with verse, though that is good. But a mystery requires the teaching of the Spirit or it never becomes clear.
**So these events of the Queen of Sheba’s life was a mystery that was to reveal the mystery of the history of your life in this hour.
*The events of Ruth’s life at that harvest time are the same events and history in the lives of an entire end time bride of Christ at this harvest time.
***When God opened the seven seals, He revealed the entire mystery behind the history of the book of Ruth, and by doing that, he also revealed the mystery behind the history of your life – and this is all for the purpose so that you will come to know yourself in the same way that God knows who you are in this hour.
I CORINTHIANS 13:12
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
***What was written in the bible concerning the events of Jonah’s life was actually God writing a future prophecy of Christ.
So just as the events of Jonah’s life became a recorded history in the Old Testament that was to repeat itself again in the events of the life of Jesus Christ, in the very same way God has written the mystery of your life in the lives of many of the characters of the bible also.
A virgin (Mary) conceiving after hearing an angel’s message is also a mystery of a virgin bride in this hour conceiving seed after she has also heard the seventh angel’s message in this day. On and on we could show you that all through the bible it is speaking of this last day bride people of which you are a part of that history.
*Sometimes (in your own personal life) you may even be running from the presence of the Lord like Jonah was, but even in your rebellion, God is still able to write the mystery of the word into your life even under the most rebellious conditions of your life.
**God will make sure that your life and the prophecy of the entire bible concerning this hour will dovetail together to prove that you are the interpretation of that prophecy – but only God can reveal that secret to you and show you that you and that word are the same thing.
*It is not the size of the church you are in, it is the experience and the identification of your life in the scriptures.
ISAIAH 7:14
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
***For 800 years, everybody could talk about a virgin conceiving by reading the scripture of Isaiah 9:6, but it was only Mary that came into the experience of those events in her life, and so the details of that prophecy only became clear to Mary.
*Only Mary could tell you about the angel appearing to her, and only Mary could tell you about the baby growing and moving inside her womb, and only Mary could say when her first labor pain occurred, because outside that experience a person couldn’t give you all those details of Isaiah 9:6, yet anyone could read the word of Isaiah 9:6 and come up with all kinds of interpretations – but Mary knew who she was.
***So Isaiah 9:6 was not just teaching for Mary, it became an experience for Mary of her everyday life that became a part of the history of her life, and that experience is what confirmed to her that that scripture was talking about her – she was that portion of the word made flesh for that hour.
**Brother Branham came to know that he matched all the scriptures of Elijah. He was the uneducated woodsman like Elijah, he was the man against immoral women, he had the carbolic acid dropped on his head by the barber so he ends up with a bald head. He lived in the time of a modern Ahab and Jezebel – all those things that were written in the bible were also written in the history of his life also.
***Brother Branham life on earth was from 1909 to 1965.
So from the birth of the Prophet in 1909 to the time of his decease in 1965, that is a history of 56 years that he lived out.
*But the supernatural part was that scripture was being fulfilled in his life and in the events of his life – that was the mystery behind the history of his life.
**And this is what makes the Word so precious to us, because you realize that these things are God’s secrets that are only for those who He brings into the secret of it. And so this is what Jesus was opening up to those on the road to Emmaus who couldn’t connect the history with the prophecy of the word – and this is what He is trying to do with us also.
LUKE 24:10-31 pick up from last week…
10 It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
11 And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. (Notice here again from last week – the witness of these women held very little respect among the men because in the old times a woman’s witness was not considered to be something that you would put a lot of trust in – but we see here that God chose these woman to be the first witnesses of His resurrection, and then to go and tell His disciples showing that woman have a very special part to play in the program of God)
12 Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.
13 ¶ And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. (God can open your eyes to see, and He can withhold your eyes from seeing)
17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: (Notice how that he used the word “trusted” as in a past tense – in other words, “we feel like that all of what we have trusted in has now fail, and this is why we are so disturbed and are sad”) and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;
23 And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. (They could have been happy if they had believed these women, but they didn’t believe them, because it takes God to reveal Himself to you personally, you cannot get it second hand from some other church member, you will remain sad until He personally reveals Himself to you by the opening of the word and making it clear to you.
**The ministry of Christ in this hour has been rejection by the denominations, and Christ has been made to suffer a second crucifixion of the word again – His public ministry of 1948 to 1965 of this day is now over, and so since that time from 1966 to 2022, Christ has been revealing himself to individuals as we have walked along with him all these years, and have also been saddened by the events of this day that we have mostly not understood – we thought the rapture would have come a long time ago, we never thought things would go like they have gone with so many leaving the message and different things)
24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
(Notice carefully how they are retelling to Jesus the history of the recent events of what had been going on in their lives up to that time – but it is clear that they had no idea of how that many scriptures had been prophesied for that hour had been fulfilled at that time)
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
(These two on the road to Emmaus knew the current events, but they did not understand the mystery behind the current events. They were only understanding things in a historical way of what had taken place, but they were not understanding by the revealing of the mystery of how God was fulfilling the prophecies of the Old Testament scriptures in those events)
28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
(All the time they were walking and talking with Him, and He was opening the scriptures from Genesis to Malachi, and yet they were not aware of who it was that was teaching the word to them along the road)
30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. (He was revealed to them by the breaking of the bread)
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126 Now it was getting along towards evening time. You know, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. It was then that He opened their eyes to know that Hebrews 13:8, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. At the evening time, events are made clear by the prophecy. What's taking place in the modern hour can be easily identified if you'll just believe the prophecy of the hour.
127 "Yes, fools, slow of understanding, slow to believe (you keep pondering over it), to believe that all the prophets said about the Messiah, wouldn't it have to happen?" Now He checked these points all back and showed what the prophet said that would happen. Then they begin to understand.
**We know that from the birth of Jesus in BC 4 to the departure of Jesus in AD30 that there is mystery that He lived out of the fulfilment of many scriptures that had been prophesied of Him throughout the whole bible up to that time – in the volume of the book it was written of Him.
But when the history is being made, it is a mystery at the time that it is being made in the lives of the people that it is being made in, but then God comes around later on and reveals the mystery behind the history after it has been lived out.
**So after His life on earth was finished and the history of His life had been lived out, and all the prophecies of the Old Testament that spoke of Him had been lived out in His life, Jesus is now walking with these two on the road to Emmaus, and He takes the laws, and He takes the psalms, and He takes the prophets, and He begins to open their understanding that they might understand the scriptures concerning the events of the time that they were living in – in other words, the prophecy of the word reveals the current events – modern events made clear by the prophecy.
**These two disciples had been a part of the experiences of the ministry of Jesus, their live over the past few years had been associated with the events of Jesus life, and so they knew the history of everything that Jesus did, but yet it would take the opening of the word to connect the mystery and the history together to show them of what they had been a part of.
***The mystery was that there was this supernatural element that was taking place all throughout the history of Jesus life - Jesus was fulfilling Scripture – the history of Jesus life was matching the prophecy of what the lives of the prophets had foretold by the events of their lives.
****So the fulfilment of scripture for this day is the mysterious part of your life that God is performing supernaturally in the events of your life, yet you are unconscious of it, and many times it is so hard for you to see it unless He opens your eyes to it – and so this is the knowledge that He wants to bring to your understanding by the opening of the word to you personally to show you that you are a part of the word for this hour - the word that has proceeded us is the same word that has prophesied of us.
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96 … all kind of things going forth; all kinds of signs, all kinds of wonders, how you going to tell the difference? Watch the Word for this hour. That's how you take...
97 Watch Moses, how he could have told Balaam. Watch Micaiah here, how did we know he was right? The Word, before him, had prophesied that for Ahab.
And the Word, before us, prophesied these organizations for this day, and this curse upon them. And the things that would take place by His truly anointed Church, will have the Word, a Word Bride. Here we are. Here it is, today, just as it was then.
***When we look at all the events and the lives and the history of all the believers of the Seven Church Ages, they all lived their lives as believers under their messengers, but they were all unconscious of the mystery of what part of the word they were, so their faith could not rise to a rapturing faith level, but at the end of the Church Ages, Jesus comes and opens the mystery of all that was happening during the seven church ages, how that God was sealing away a people for his name (His bride) in every church age under their messenger.
*In every age the people of God overcome the deception in that age by the true revelation that came through the messenger of their age.
*The ones who had the ear to hear what the Spirit was saying in their age and who caught the message of what God was speaking to them through the messenger, it was their faith in the message for their day that sealed them under their messenger.