Under His Wings
RUTH 3:8-9
8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman. (This word “skirt” in the Hebrew is the word “wings”. “Spread they wings over thine handmaid”. Not wings like we would think as feathers in this case, but the outer parts of the garment. In other words, Ruth was requesting that Boaz cover her with a part of his own garment of what was his covering.)
PSALM 91:1-4
1 ¶ He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. (This word “shadow” is to do with protection – “shall abide under the protection of the Almighty”. And so this secret place of protection is also the place of where Ruth had laid down at Boaz’s feet – and so this is showing that there must also be a secret place of protection for us in this hour because - He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. We want to find where that secret place is for our day)
2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence (destructive plague).
4a He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust:
*Ruth requested that Boaz cover her with the wings of His garment (the outer parts of his garment) because that is where her trust was able to be placed, because as we found out last week that this request to cover her with his garment was actually a request for marriage – because when a woman becomes married, then she legally becomes the protection of her husband, and so Ruth was actually putting her trust in that position of her being his wife.
And so when Boaz covered Ruth with his own clothing, He was symbolically covenanting with her to marry her - and so her trust was established in that event because that event symbolised his promise of marriage and protection toward her. This was what being under his wings symbolised - marriage.
And it’s the same thing now with our marriage to Christ by this invisible union (the secret place) of the bride to Christ at this midnight hour.
EZEKIEL 16:8
8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee (Just like Boaz and Ruth – a marriage covenant), and covered thy nakedness (nakedness is to do with shame and exposure – of being unprotected): yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
Notice how that she became His, in other words, there was a change of relationship that took place of a oneness that had taken place between them by this covenant of God, of which now made God responsible for her protection. She was now under His wings.
Under His Wings
For the past couple of months, we have been taking the scenic route along the road of this journey from the subject that we began with at the beginning of May of “The Suffering of Uncertainty”.
And we did 4 services on that subject showing how that we are now living in an age of great uncertainty – All this fake AI generated lies of where now you can hardly tell of what you see online, whether it is true or not, and all this talk about future job uncertainty as well as all the wars and fuel prices and the cost of living and on and on – these things are very negative and will naturally cause people to become very uncertain. And so we are living in a civilisation that is suffering and almost drowning under this pandemic of the uncertainty of all these things.
**And so everyone is now suffering because of all these conditions of uncertainty. And this is why we took those four services on “The Suffering of Uncertainty”.
But God has made a way in this hour for us to be certain in spite of all the uncertainty that has gathered around us.
*We spoke about the gentile widow women of Zarephath, and of how that during the time of economic squeeze, she had come into a place of great uncertainty, and that was when she met Elijah the prophet. And by the message of his voice, he took her out of her uncertainty by her receiving his message of thus saith the Lord.
*And then we talked about how that that story also went on, and that she was the one of whom God had chosen to sustain the Elijah ministry of that day, just as we are sustaining the Elijah ministry of this hour.
**And so we can see that the mystery of our own lives was written underneath this story of the gentile woman.
*And so this is why that we can be sure that this story is actually a prophecy about us in this day – because for many years now, we have literally been sustaining that same prophetic Elijah ministry that God has sent in this hour by keeping His ministry alive in this day.
*Then we looked at how Joseph’s brothers had become very uncertain during the economic squeeze of the time that they were living in.
And remember that those hardships was the very thing that God was using to gathered them together - it was all this pressure of their circumstances that was squeezing them in order to show future prophecy for this hour, because that is what we have also seen in these last 100 years or so with the sounding of the trumpets of WW1 and WW2 (the 5th and 6th trumpet).
It has been the sounding of these trumpets that have gathered Israel for the revealing of Joseph (Christ) which is the 7th trumpet - and so all these things of this hour concerning Israel was showed to us in type by all these events in Joseph’s life and of the lives of his brothers, and of how Joseph had brought his brothers out from their uncertainty and into certainty.
On and on we went with that…
**The story of Ruth and Boaz is the same thing – Ruth was brought out of her uncertainty at the midnight hour when she heard the voice of Boaz speak his seven seals of redemption to her.
*And then we took a couple of service on “The Unconditional Covenant of God” showing how that Adam and Eve only had one rule to keep, and even though they were living in a perfect world with perfect sinless bodies, they still couldn’t even keep one simple rule under those perfect conditions. And so when it finally came to Abraham and his faith seed, God had to make His covenant with man completely unconditional, or there would have been no hope for any of us.
And then we did two services on “Removing the Scare” – of how that Joseph’s brothers were scared that He was going to punish them for what they had done to him – but Joseph removed that scare away from them.
*But now we are changing into 4th gear with this subject of “Under His Wings”.
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E-34 But we got a bomb shelter. Amen. You know what it's made out of? Feathers: under His wings (Amen.) to be carried away, a bomb shelter of safety, certainly... (not uncertainly – but certainly)
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E-8 …I'm directing you tonight to a real bomb shelter. You don't dig in the earth; it's made out of feathers--under His wings. That's the real bomb shelter.
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There is a shelter, and It's not made out of steel. It's made out of feathers: under His wings,
PSALM 91:4 Opening scriptures..
4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
And then in Ruth chapter 3 we read… Our opening scripture.
RUTH 3:8-9
8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman – again “cover me with the wings of thy garment”
***These “wings” that we are to be covered by is directly connected to our faith in the truth of the revealed word of this hour, because religion is a form of a covering, and God is the only one who can truly cover us with the right sort of garment – and he doesn’t cover us by man-made interpretations of scripture – like fig leaves, but he covers us by a revelation sent from God Himself to each age through the messenger for that age.
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40-2 Now, remember, the leaf--the fruit, the palmerworm eat (the palmerworm ate the fruit). The leaf, the locust eat. Now, the bark, the covering, the religion, the doctrine, the doctrine, the cankerworm got.
***So your covering is your doctrine – your teaching, and that is how Adam and Eve became naked, because they lost their covering of which was the true teaching and revelation of the word of God.
EZEKIEL 16:8
8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love (Notice here - a young girl that had become of the age of marriage, but she was naked in the sense that she was exposed and unprotected); and I spread my skirt (The wings of His garment, of His own clothing, or we could say, the covering of the true revelation of His word) over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine (this is speaking of marriage – a marriage covenant).
In the message – “The Invisibly Union of the Bride of Christ”, Brother Branham connects the reality of being married to Christ to that of being able to accept and receive the covering of His word.
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153 So, to be married to the Second Adam, Christ, the Word, you must separate yourself by death, from your first denominational husband (false teaching of the word), 'cause there isn't a one of them that can take all the Word of God.
Marriage to Christ requires the full truth of the light of the word.
**And so what marries you to Christ is when you connect with the revelation of His word for your age, in other words “cover me with the teaching and the revelation of the word for my age” because that is what the bride is dressed in.
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120 … I hope He'll crown my ministry with this, of letting me take the clothes of the Word and dress His Bride in the clothes of the Word and for His righteousness.
**What was it that caused Adam and Eve to become naked in the beginning? – It was when they left the true revelation of the word for the idea and lie of the serpent.
REVELATION 3:18
18a I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear;
REVELATION 19:13-14
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
**Notice of how that they were all dressed and clothed by the revelation of God for the age that they lived in.
**We remember that Joseph’s coat of many colours was taken and removed from him and dipped in blood just as Jesus bloodied garment was taken from him at Calvary’s hill by the Roman solders.
***And so like Joseph, Jesus’s garment was stripped from Him and he became naked, because that is what sin does, because unbelief in the word of God removes our covering.
***That is why that His garment in this hour is the revelation of this hour – and when that covers us, then that is His marriage promise to us.
**And we know this to be true, because Adam and Eves supernatural clothing left them when they disbelieved the word of God, and so God had to take the covering off of a lamb – the lamb’s garment, and so that lamb had to become naked so that God could cover His own children’s nakedness with the lamb’s garment, and that lamb also died, and so this is exactly what Christ did for us.
***And this is why the Lamb of God had to become naked at Calvary so that we could be clothed with the robes of the garment of His righteousness.
EZEKIEL 16:8 (read this again)
8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness (What did He cover her nakedness with? His own garment – and so this is Boaz and Ruth again at the midnight hour, and so this is speaking of a marriage covenant between God and man): yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
RUTH 3:8-9 (This scripture symbolises in type the pattern of every church age in that in each age God spread out the garment of the revelation of his word over His elected gentile bride of each age – the ribbons of blue, because the colour of blue is connected to the revelation of the word, because the sky is blue, and that is where the eagle flies, because everything in nature is speaking of something greater than itself – and so we are eagles that are to fly into the unlimited blue skies of the revelation of the word of God)
8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.
***Every elected person of each church age has been predestinated by God to be born into their ordained and designated age in order to be clothed by the revelation of the word for their day. And because of that, the power of God will cause them to manifest their part of the portion of the word allotted for the age that they were born into.
Joseph manifested the word in his life – but it was all controlled by God in that it wasn’t like Joseph was able to control all of the events of what happened to him in his life – but it was God that was in control of it all.
*And that is why he told his brothers that it wasn’t them that sent him into Egypt, but God.
**And so all of the people who have heard their messenger in their age of which will make up these seven church age gentile groups – they were all chosen by God to be a part of the first resurrection and be raised up in glorified robes and then be gathered with us so that we can all be raptured together and meet the Lord in the air.
*Yet let me throw something in here. All these ones from previous church ages, none of them knew about the thunders back in their time, because the mystery of the 7 thunders were held from them back there, because they are for our time now, but this is where the source of the literal rapturing faith comes out from for the whole body of the bride of Christ for the past 2000 years of seven church ages – it comes from out of the faith of the elect of this last age now of when those seven thunders would release that faith into an end time people.
***Because the opening of the word in these last days is what reveals all the names written in the book of all the elect of seven church ages. This is what the mystery of the seven thunders was sent for in this hour - to open up the book of the mystery of the entire bible.
When the thunders utter their voices, then the seals are opened, and the opening of the seven seals is what opened up the entire mystery of the entire bible – because that is what Revelation 10 tells us, because Revelation 10 is the opening of the word, it is the mysteries of the entire bible revealed through the ministry of the seventh angel to the end time bride.
*And the book (the bible) is the title deed to the inheritance of what Adam lost, and the Redeemer (Christ – the second Adam) is the one who paid the price to redeem back this inheritance that was lost by Adam, and so Christ takes back the deed that is the evidence of ownership.
Because in this deed is written the names of all the heirs of the inheritance and of what belongs to each one of them, because the bible tells us that this book has the names of the elect written in it, because you can’t make any claim if you don’t have any identification.
And so we have to look and see how people that lived before us found their names in the book, because we know that John the Baptist found his name in the book.
We know that John could preach about his name in the book because when they asked him, “Who art thou? Art thou the Christ? Art thou that prophet? Who art thou John?
John didn’t say, “Well, you remember there was the old priest, Zacharias, and the old woman Elisabeth, and they had a baby in their old age? – and I’m that baby grown up today, because they were my father and my mother.”
No – he didn’t speak of his natural birth and liniage. He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.” – in other words, he pointed to his name written in the book in prophecy form.
Jesus said, “What went you out to see, a reed shaken with the wind? A man with fine raiment? No. A prophet, and more than a prophet. Behold, I send My messenger before My face.”
***So Jesus placed John in the bible, and John put himself in the bible, and Jesus put Himself in the bible, and Brother Branham put himself in the bible, and the bride of this hour must also must put ourselves in the bible.
**But you can’t put yourself in the bible unless the bible is opened up to you to reveal your name written under scriptures of prophecy that pertain to this hour.
**And so if we are to see our names written in the bible, then we can only do that by seeing our life matching certain portions of the prophecy of scripture - because the word interpreted is the manifestation of the name.
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214 And the Name is in the Word because He is the Word. Amen! What is He then? The Word interpreted is the manifestation of the Name of God.
Malachi 4:5 was the word being interpreted and manifested in the life of Brother Branham - because the scriptures that pertained to his life was really just the record of his life in prophecy form.
**And this is why that no one can truly manifest a scripture unless they are the one of whom that scripture is speaking of.