Categories of Eternal Life - Pt.5
HEBREWS 11:8-10
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. (When you don’t know the outcome of what lays ahead, then it takes faith to obey God)
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (Abraham's home was a tent that he shifted from place to place like a nomad, and a tent has no foundation, it is a temporal dwelling place like this temporal body that we are living in on earth that we shift around from place to place. But Abraham was looking for an eternal city in an eternal kingdom with an eternal King and queen and with eternal subjects - he was looking for a city of which would never know change because it would be the pinnacle of perfection – you could never improve on it, and it would have everlasting foundations of whose architect and maker was God.)
MATTHEW 13:10-11
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
(The mysteries of the kingdom of heaven concern those who will inhabit the kingdom of heaven)
MATTHEW 25:34
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: (A kingdom prepared for a people – a kingdom designed by God to perfectly fit the people that will inhabit that kingdom – all that you could ever imagine and wish for will be there)
MATTHEW 19:14
14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
These are some of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven that are to be made clear at the sounding of the seventh angel’s message in the last days.
Categories of Eternal Life - Pt.5
*In studying the opening of the 5th seal, it has brought us into a clearer understanding concerning those who are to be saved under the many different categories of life that God has provided for in the scriptures.
**We have studied how that the message of the hour teaches us that there are other categories of saved people who will receive eternal life that were not even believers in Christ – yet they will be given white robes at the great white throne judgement and will enjoy a position in that great eternal kingdom that was prepared for them from the foundation of the world by God – that’s what the bible tells us.
*We saw how that Rahab who is a type of the end time bride of this hour became the bride of Salmon who is a type of Christ, and yet her family members who were also saved at that same time were not in the same category that she was in, but yet they were still saved.
**So God has writing the mystery of these different categories throughout the bible, because the bible is the book of redemption that contains all the names of every single person who is ordained to eternal life and is to be a part of that great eternal kingdom.
***Each of their names are written in mystery form under their respective categories of the scriptures that are connected to their manifestation on earth.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.THE.SEALS_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324M
473-2 {112} …the Book holds that mystery, and the Book is only unfolding it now, not each one's name, but what the mystery of the Book is while it's calling those names (For example - In each of the seven church ages, it was the word revealed through the messenger for each age that called the elected for that age, and the people that responded to the word for their age showed that they were in the elected of God category by the fact that they believed the word revealed for their day, and so then the same principle applies to the other categories of life, like the ones who were a help to the believers of each age, they manifested what category they were in by how they treated the people of God for their age. So each person lives out and shows their category according to the manifestation of what they lived out in their life). You find... You understand that now? See?
473-4 {115} The Book doesn't say, "Now, Lee Vayle is to be saved in time of this church age," or--or, "Orman Neville..." or--or whoever. No, it don't say that. (**The bible doesn’t have your literal exact name written in it – but it shows the mystery of what qualifies the elect for each age, because in each age God releases a certain truth of the word for that age, and the elect of God response to that level of truth proving that they are the elect for that age, and that reveals their name written in the book – and so it is the same for the other categories of life of what qualifies each of the other categories for each age - If you give a cup of cold water, then that is showing your name written under the scriptures of the category of the sheep on his right hand in Matthew 25) It just shows the mystery, unfolds the mystery of what the thing is. But we, ourselves, by faith believe it.
We found out that this group in Mathew 25 (who did good to the least of these His brethren), they were not born again people, yet had had their names on the book of life for the category that they were ordain to be in since the foundation of the world.
MATTHEW 25:34
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
God know who they would be from the very beginning
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At the very start of our study, let it be known that there is NOT ONE Scripture that teaches that God is presently compiling a record of names. This was all done before the foundation of the world, as we will point out shortly. Also, it is not a question of simply involving ourselves with two groups of people both of whom had opportunity to receive eternal life, wherein one group received it and had their names placed on record while the others who refused did not have their names so placed. We will actually show by Scripture that multitudes who were not even born again will go into eternal life. As strange as this may sound, it is certainly true. We will also show that there is a group of people whose names having been placed on that record before the foundation of the world, CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE THOSE NAMES REMOVED (That is the bride category – it is clear to see here how that the message of the hour is teaching us about the different categories of eternal life); but will also show that another group WHOSE NAMES WERE ON THAT RECORD BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD WILL HAVE THEIR NAMES REMOVED. (These will be certain people (of whom only God will be the judge) who knew the truth but refused it like the 300 ministers who saw the truth of water baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ but then went back to their respective churches, and for the sake of a good salary and a nice home and a new Cadillac every 2 years, they continued to preach baptism in the titles of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in order to please their denominational headquarters. It’s the same spirit that Elvis Presley had on him when he sold out his gift from God for a fleet of Cadillacs and a million dollars)
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Now we can see why the redeemed (bought back by original owner) bride (she was in Him as Eve was in Adam) cannot ever have her 'member-names' taken off the record. She is part of Him. She is in the throne. She can never be judged. Every one in the bride is a member of Him and He loses none. But that is not so concerning "the all" in the Book of Life. For amongst them are even those like Judas etc. who have a part in the record but their names are removed. We can see those who come in the last days, and after having done wonderful works, Jesus will say that He never knew them. It is not that He was not aware of them. His omniscience precludes that; but they were not fore-known as in the bride; and neither were they fore-known as amongst the righteous of the second resurrection. They bore no fruit (because they were outside the Word--did not abide in it) and they, therefore, were sentenced to death. Then as we have previously shown there are those who stood for the bride and were an aid and comfort to her. Those had their names remaining on the Book of Life and go into life everlasting. Finally there are those such as Pharaoh who never had their names on the Book of Life and these are cast into the lake of fire also.
*Last week we spoke a little about the baby category group – all babies and young children under that age of accountability go to heaven, and they will all live in that great kingdom of heaven eternally.
MATTHEW 19:14
14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
**That is why that there will be billions of people that will live eternally in the kingdom of heaven that had died on earth prematurely as babies and infants and young children.
*This is why that God placed the event in the life story of the prophet of his little baby Sharon Rose Branham dying as a little baby in order, he allowed that to happen in the prophet’s life to open up this truth to us. Remember that she died as an 8-month-old baby on this side, but then received an adult body on the other side showing us that there are no babies in heaven.
MY.LIFE.STORY_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0820A
E-122 And she said, "Don't you remember your teaching of immortality?"
And I said, "Oh, who are you?"
And she said, "Down on earth I was your little Sharon."
I said, "Sherry, that's not you, honey?"
She said, "Yes, it is, daddy."
**God is able to look ahead down the road of each person’s life on earth and then choose in his great wisdom to take them home as young people because he can see things down in their lives on earth that would not be good.
HOW.CAN.I.OVERCOME_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-12 SUNDAY_ 63-0825M
122 Like the little Stadsklev baby, when they sent over here. And Mrs. Stadsklev said, "Brother Branham, I called from Germany." There was an American army, with one of their jet planes setting out here at the field, would fly me to Germany and back, in a day. He was a chaplain. And the baby was laying, dead. And that little mother screaming, she said, "Listen!" Said, "I know. I stood right there and seen that woman hold that dead baby in her arms, that died that morning. I seen Brother Branham walk right out there, lay hands on that dead baby, and it come to life." Said, "This is my baby, Brother Branham." Never been a death in their family. See? And this little thing took sick one morning and died that afternoon.
Here was all of them standing around, and giving prophecies and things, "The baby is going to raise up," and all like that.
123 I said, "Well, that's mighty nice, Sister Stadsklev. But let me see what Father says."
I went out to the woods. And I prayed. Come back in; she done called two or three times 'fore I got back the next morning. Nothing.
The doctor said, "All right." Said, "If that's it, if you have faith like that, lady, we'll never let the baby leave the hospital. Let it lay right here. You stay right here with it. That's all right."
Brother Stadsklev went and seen the army major. They said, "Sure. We will fly him over, and bring him back."
124 And there was a plane setting, waiting, to take me over that morning and bring me back that night, to Germany, to Heidelberg, Germany, for the resurrection of this baby. I said, "Sure, God can do it, but let's see what His will is."
125 Then I went out, prayed all night. Nothing happened. Come back the next morning; nothing happened. And I started into the room. Just then I looked there, and there stood that Light hanging there in the door. Said, "Don't put your hand on that. Don't rebuke that. That's the hand of God."
126 I got her on the phone. I said, "Sister Stadsklev, bury your baby. It's the hand of the Lord. It's God's will. Something would happen to that baby down along the line. You let it go right where God knows where it's at. You can go to it now. It lives, you won't. You leave it right like that."
Look at king Hezekiah in Isaiah CH38 and II KINGS 20 who God told him to put his house in order because on down a little further along his life’s pathway he would father a child by the name of Manasseh who turn out to be probably the evilest king of Israel.
The damage that the final 15 years of King Hezekiah’s life and reign did to the destiny of Judah was staggering. God knows the best time for you to depart from this world.
THE.SIXTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN SATURDAY_ 63-0323 (The 144,000 remnant Jews is a category of a predestinated group of their own, showing us that each category is a specific predestinated number. We know that the bride category is an exact number right down to the last one)
435-3 {317} Here it is in the tribulation period, and here stands them prophets to who has the control of the Word that God gives them. They can only speak as God gives them the Word.
Now, they're not gods. They're, temporarily the--amateurly they are, 'cause Jesus said they were. Said, "You call them gods who the Word of God came."
Well, look. That's the one that God brings the Word to. And when he speaks it, it happens. That's all. And here he is with a commission from God to smite the earth whatever he wants to. Oh, my. Stop the heavens, and he does. What's the matter? He's fixing to take the hundred and forty-four thousand out for redemption, out of the Book of Redemption. And that's under the Seal of redemption, in the Sixth Seal. That's it, my dear friends. That's that Sixth Seal, been so mysteriously...
There is also a specific number of foolish virgins that will also be redeemed out from under that sixth seal.
Once you see the pattern of one, then you know that that also applies to the other groups because God cannot improve on the way that he does something.
***Each one of those seven seals held a mystery of those who would be redeemed – that is why we call the bible the book of redemption because it was sealed up with seven seals that held the mystery of all those who would be redeemed of whose names were sealed up in the bible in mystery form.
*The first four seals showed the gentile bride of seven gentile church ages since the death of Christ.
*The fifth seal showed the saved Jewish groups of 2000 years since Christ of whom he had had to blind their eyes in order for the gentile bride to have a chance – just as Joseph got his gentile wife by his own brothers rejecting him, but in the end, they were all saved and lived together in the new kingdom.
*The sixth seal shows the 144,000 elected Jews who will receive the message of their two prophets and be martyred. It also shows the last of the gentile foolish virgin group that will be saved by martyrdom.
*Then the seventh seal shows the last day bride who comes into oneness with Christ by the revealing of the son of man ministry – that group is revealed by their ability to receive the message of Malachi 4.
We want to end with a look at the “good old doctors” category of eternal life that the end time message of the hour reveals to us.
ADOPTION.1_ JEFF.IN AD.1 SUNDAY_ 60-0515E
16 After Samuel had been dead for at least three to five years, and the witch of En-dor called him up, and she fell on her face, and she said, "You have deceived me, because you are Saul, yourself." She said, "Because I see gods." She was a heathen (You see?), "I see gods rising up."
And Saul couldn't see him yet, and he said, "What does he look like? Describe him to me." Said, "He's thin, and he has a mantle over his shoulder."
Said, "That's Samuel the prophet; bring him here before me." I want you to notice that Samuel had not lost any of his personality. He was still a prophet; he told Saul exactly what would happen the next day.
So, you see, death does not completely diminish us as we weep and wail and lament at the grave. It only changes our dwelling place. It takes us from a place to... What is age? If I live one more hour, I'll outlive a many sixteen-year-old person. I'll outlive a many five-year-old person. Age is nothing. We're just set here for a purpose, to do something.
20 Well now, many of these little pretty-faced mothers setting here, some of them sixty or seventy years old, would say, "Well, what have I done, Brother Branham?" You've raised your children. You've done what you were supposed to do.
Maybe some old Dad setting here say, "Well, I've harrowed the fields; I've done this. I never preached." But you did just what God sent for you to do. There's a place for you.
22 Speaking to an old doctor yesterday, one of my doctor friends, buddies, eighty-something years old... And his sister-in-law is here at the church tonight, and she's been just a teeny-teeny bit worried about him. And I went to see him. And as soon as I begin to talk to him, he brightened up, told me about a hunting trip he taken many years ago up in Colorado, the very same country I hunt at. Just as brilliant and bright... And I said, "Doctor, how long you been practicing?"
He said, "When you were nursing." And way down I said... "And many a time," he said, "I've practiced taking my buggy; I put my saddle bags over my horse. I took the little satchel and I've walked."
And I said, "Yes, down along the creek banks, two o'clock in the morning with your flashlight, trying to find a house where a little child had a tummy ache or a mother in labor pains."
"That's right."
25 And I said, "You know, doctor, I believe, across this dividing line here between mortal and immortality, God has a place for good old doctors that's served like that." (Notice – “God has a place for good old doctors” – a “good old doctors” category of eternal life)
Great tears come in his eyes, and he started crying; he reached up his feeble hands and said, "Brother, I hope so." Across the land, God judges a man's soul, what he is.
Then I give him this satisfying Scripture. Many times, plowing through those dark muddy fields at night, trying to help somebody, maybe never get a penny for it, but it's all right. I said, "Jesus said in the Scripture, 'Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.'" And that is true.
*Brother Branham gave him a scripture for this category of what he would be under, showing us that there is a category of Eternal life for merciful people, there is a special place in the eternal kingdom for them – the bible says that they those who show mercy shall obtain mercy, and the scriptures cannot lie.
RECOGNIZING.YOUR.DAY.AND.ITS.MESSAGE_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0726M (This is a key quote in the message that helps to open up our understanding of what we want to end on this thought)
55 You know, the Jews were blinded for the very purpose that we could have sight. They were torn apart, and scattered, as a nation, and rejected their Messiah; that we might receive the Messiah, that there might be a people called out of the Gentiles for His Name's sake.
56 Now, the man comes forth, and the woman takes his name. These blinded Gentiles who can't see that Name, "the Lord Jesus Christ," in baptism! It's just too bad, but it has to be that way. The Jews, they had to--they had to not see that. There is only one can see it; that's the one who is predestinated to see it. Otherwise, you'll never see it.
The Jews could not see that being their Messiah. And, yet, they were scholars and theologians, man of great renown scholarship, read the same Bible that you read. Now, after it's been made known to us, we can see it plain, that was Messiah. But, they couldn't see it, neither can they see it today. They are prophesied to be blinded, too.
57 The church, this day, is prophesied to be blinded, to reject the evening-time Message. Revelations 3 said so, "Thou art wretched, miserable," notice the bride's condition the other night, or the church, "naked, blind, and don't know it." Lord Jesus, be merciful to us! The Bible said she was "naked." I never saw it till just now. Laodicea church was naked. And when she appeared the other night, she was "naked," never noticed it, "and didn't know it."
58 Oh, how thankful! How, no wonder we are so grateful! I feel that we're not grateful enough for the things that God is making known to us.
59 "Naked." And the visions said, showed me she was naked and didn't know it, and "blinded." As Israel was blinded so that the Gentiles could come in, now the Gentiles are blinded so the Bride can be taken out and Israel can receive the feast of Trumpets. Just perfectly!
***When we look at this thought that the prophet of this generation has expressed here, we realize that we are being shown something very important in that when someone is blinded to higher level of truth or to a certain aspect of truth, then they can only be judged by God to the level of the truth of the word that knew and that they held to.
***This is how God protects each category from people crossing over into another category that they are not ordained by God to be a part of.