A Light to the Gentiles
AMOS 3:6-8
6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? (The message that God sent in this age was a trumpet that was sounded – and then look at the troubles that have followed the sounding of that trumpet)
shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? (God allows judgment to come upon a city or a nation that rejects his word – look at what took place with Sodom and Gomorrah, look what he will do with Los Angeles)
7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Before the Virgin Mary could conceived, God first reveal it to His prophet Isaiah.
The things that took place in the life of Christ - it was first revealed to the prophets before it happened, often hundreds of year later.
And in this day, before Los Angeles can sink, God has already had it spoken by a prophet in this generation.
8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy? (When God wants to speak, he already has a prepared prophet on earth to sound out what he wants spoken for that time)
ISAIAH 60:3
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
This bride age is the age of the rising of the SON Light – As the bride of Christ we are not living any more in the candle light of the seven church ages, and that is why it is very important that we preach from the opened book and not from a candle light church age book in this hour, candle light preaching won’t bring the bride of this hour to maturity, it will take the brightness of the rising SON light, and that is why the devil fights against the full revelation of the word being preached in this hour.
A Light to the Gentiles
A Sunday School lesson...
ISAIAH 49:6
6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
*This is speaking of Christ being given for a light to the Gentiles, but yet we know that it was actually the man Paul that took the gospel light to the Gentiles and not the man Jesus – and so this prophecy that would appear to be speaking directly of Christ was actually speaking of Christ’s ministry in Paul – so we want to look into this to help us see a little clearer how that the fulfilment of prophecy that can be prophesied of one person and yet be fulfilled in another, and then that same prophecy can also have duel fulfilment like how a virgin conceiving applied to Mary as well as an end time virgin bride that would receive the pregnation of the word outside of man’s denominational interference – the knowing of a man’s seed.
ISAIAH 60:1-3
1 ¶ Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
We are those kings of this age that will rule in the millennial age that is to come.
LUKE 2:25-32
25 ¶ And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Notice - Simeon applied this to Jesus of Him being the light to the Gentiles – like it would happen in his earthly ministry, but we know that Jesus never went personally to the Gentiles with the Gospel light, and also told His disciples not to go either.
MATTHEW 15:22-24
22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
MATTHEW 10:5-6
5 ¶ These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
ACTS 13:46-49
46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. (***God first sent his end time gentile prophet into the denominational world of this day, but when they rejected him, then it was only the elected Gentiles of this day who received him just like it was only the elected Jews of that day who received Jesus message of whom John the Baptist was the forerunner)
47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
**This prophecy was clearly Christ, but it was Christ in Paul’s ministry fulfilling the prophecy. So it was the ministry of Christ that continued on in others.
This explains to us why the prophecy can be spoken of for one person and fulfilled in another – like when David said that his bones stared at him, that prophecy was not fulfilled in David but in Christ at that cross.
**So all the entire prophecy of the word has unfolded down from Jesus to Paul and the disciples and the early church and all the way down to this time now into you and I, and so now there is a portion left of that prophecy to become history in your life and my life of the word for this hour of what the bride is prophesied to be because this is the age of the greatest light that has shone – and it has risen again on a gentile people of this hour.
ZECHARIAH 14:7
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
*Last week we finished our subject of “The Mystery behind the history of our lives” and we found out that the mystery that has been going on all along in your life is that God has been bringing to pass the fulfilment of the shadows and types that were spoken concerning what the end time bride would be at this time – the prophecy of the word for this day has been becoming history in your everyday life, and that is the supernatural part that has been going on in your life for all these years.
***So if you are a believer that is in the revelation of the word for this hour, it was actually the mystery of the history of your own life that was sealed up in the lives of certain characters in the bible, like Ruth, and Rebekah, and Sarah, and Esther - their history has been repeating itself again in this age in your life, and so God has been unsealing these great mysteries by the events in your life being lived out in this day showing you who you are in the word.
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.
**We know that the entire book of Revelation was Brother Branham’s Message in this day. In other words, the book of Revelation was the history of his life of the message of this hour, because it was he that was that angel that revealed the book of Revelation to John in reality form in this day.
**The mystery of the seven thunders that John heard but didn’t write, we have heard what those seven thunder voices have uttered in this hour. And so what John heard and didn’t write, we have heard again in this day and have written it – and what we have written is the message of this hour from the revelation of Jesus Christ to the 7 church ages to the opening of the 7 seals and all the way to the last message that was preached in 1965, and so this is the entire book of revelation revealed, it is this message of the hour.
…in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished…
All these hidden mysteries of the bible could only have been made known to us by God sending them through the ministry of the seventh angel who was a gentile prophet – and we are living in that time now when we have heard what those seven thunders have uttered – that is what the message of this hour is all about, it is those seven thunder voices sounding out the end time truth of the entire mystery of what was sealed up in the bible from Genesis to Revelation – that is the light of this age.
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…He didn't have to preach the Gospel by man; He could let the sun or the moon or the stars preach the Gospel, He could let the winds hum the Gospel. But He chose man! And He chose the way His Word came, and that was by His prophets which were predestinated and foreordained, being a part of God's Word, declaring the revelation of His Word to that age and that time. "For the Word of God came to the prophets only." Never does It come to a theologian. Show me the Scripture. It comes only to prophets. God cannot lie. So God wrote the Bible by His chosen method, and His Own chosen prophets; not the prophets man had chose, but the prophets God had chose.
50 Then Its believers watch for the fulfillment of what their prophet said, and that's identification that they are God's prophets. Because, first, they're inspired. Next, they stay exactly with the Word of the hour. Then that's his credentials. See, we went through that last Sunday.
GENESIS 11:1
1 ¶ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
We touch on the briefly last week how that the communication system of the whole earth was able to communicate together (maybe they had google translate back then as well) – and so this is what we have come to again in this day with the internet under the information revolution, because Satan wanted to have relationship with man and fellowship with man by communication and information just as God had fellowship and relationship with man by communication and information in the beginning with Adam.
So it is in this end time age when all the channels of information have been opened up both with Satan and with God, and so now Satan and his end time bride body on earth can have oneness and fellowship together by their agreement with his lying demon spirits communicating their lies to the people of this age, because Satan was the liar from the beginning in seed form, and so he will also be a liar at the end time in multiplied form. Remember that he deceived one woman at the beginning, but then he deceives the entire world of billions at the end.
**But then God is also having fellowship with his bride body on earth by the communication and the information of the truth by the message of this hour – that it why the truth of this message restores fellowship with God and man again, because the 7 seals that have been opened to us in this hour will never be sealed up again, and by their opening they have ushered us into an eternal church age where there is no end to the continual advancement of the word, and this is what gives us the same access to the mind of God and fellowship with God of what Adam had with God in Eden.
II CHRONICLES 18:20-24
20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?
21 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so. (Every denominational spirit that opposes the true prophecy of a vindicated prophet in this day is anointed with this same lying spirit of what came on these four hundred prophets)
22 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.
23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
This inner chamber represents like the best known place of safety from the enemy like what a bomb shelter would be in this day
REVELATION 6:15
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
So when God sounds a trumpet, and a prophet’s word is rejected in this day, then we notice that there will be no realisation that they are wrong until they are in their bomb shelters waiting for the big one to go off, because judgement always comes upon those who reject a true prophet that God has sent like in Noah’s time.
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161 Then the Gentiles wasn't looking for Him. We were heathens, with a club on our back. And we worshiping idols, we Gentiles. We wasn't looking for no Messiah, so He didn't come to us. The Gospel wasn't preached to the--to the--the Gentiles until Peter opened the Gospel to them at the house of Cornelius, long after that. And then Paul later said, "Lo, I turn to the Gentiles," after the Jews had turned him down.
162 Notice now. Don't miss this. Now this will help you if you'll just listen. Why didn't He perform this sign before the Gentiles? He did it before the--the Jews, He did it before the Samaritans, but not one time did He do it before the Gentile. But He predicted it would be done before the Gentiles (that is what has taken place in this day). For, what God is, He can't change. If He give that sign to identify Himself among the Hebrews and among the Samaritans, just before they was cut off from the Gospel, and we've had two thousand years of teaching of the Bible, and now the Gentiles has come to their end. It's the end for us.
**So we are speaking of the rejection of a prophet in this age that God used to show the same signs of the same ministry of what Christ showed to the Jews and the Samaritans. But just like the Jews rejected Christ back in their day and caused the Gospel to go to the gentiles –in this day we have seen the same rejection of Christ again in word form by the denominations, so now the gospel of the message is to turn back to the Jews.
**Notice how that the same ministry of Christ continues on in His bride body passing down from one member to another, and that is why the ministry of the Prophet of this day continues on in a bride ministry of this day – thou must prophecy again John – that is why we are to continue to grow and to mature in the revelation that God has sent in this day.
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152 And the God of Heaven promised the evening time would have evening Lights. Three years ago this mystery was a prophecy, "What time is it, Sir?" But now it's history. It's passed. The promise is fulfilled. What time is it, sir, and what's this attraction? God fulfilling His Word! He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Noah’s church was very small, but all that were a part of his church went over into the new earth because they believe in the prophet that God has sent for that time.
It is not the size of your church in this hour, because it has come back to a scattered few again; but it is the identification of your life in the Scriptures for this day that proves who you are.
**Christ came through the ministry of Paul to the Gentiles of that day to bring to pass the ministry of the light of Christ to the gentiles for that time.
And in exactly the same manor, God has sent the ministry of Christ again in this day through the ministry of his seventh angel prophet William Branham to the Gentiles of this time revealing the same ministry of Christ in his ministry – this is the great shining light of Christ that has shone into the hearts of an elected Gentile people of this hour.
But you and I are the continuation of that ministry to finish the prophecy for this hour.