The Loud Voice of the Resurrection Pt.2
I CORINTHIANS 15:51-52
51 ¶ Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, (There will be a group of believers (at the end of this age of where we are now) that will be alive at the time of the rapture, and that faithfully held to the message of the seventh angel) but we shall all be changed, (whether we are alive or asleep at the time of the rapture, we will all be changed by the sounding of the voice calling to us)
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (Notice - our physical body change comes after the sleeping saints have risen, so this is what we are looking for right now, we are looking for the resurrection of the sleeping saints, because we know that the same voice of sounding of the seventh angel’s message that has already caused us to be resurrected from dark denominational tombs, it is this same voice of the message of the hour that will soon awaken the sleeping saints and call them from their graves – this event is eminent. It is just as much a miracle to be raised from dark denominational tombs as it is to be raised from a physical death)
Amplified Bible
51 Listen very carefully, I tell you a mystery [a secret truth decreed by God and previously hidden, but now revealed]; we will not all sleep [in death], but we will all be [completely] changed [wondrously transformed],
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at [the sound of] the last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [who believed in Christ] will be raised imperishable, and we will be [completely] changed [wondrously transformed].
MATTHEW 27:50-53
50 ¶ Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 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 rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
The Loud Voice of the Resurrection Pt.2
We have learnt without a doubt that resurrection comes by the voice of God calling you…
JOHN 5:24-25 28-29
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life (All the believers’ of the last 2000 years of seven church ages who have received and believed the word that came through their messenger for their age – we know for sure that they are the ones that will be a part of the first resurrection.
**They heard and believed the word that God sent them in the time that they lived in, and so this (according to the scripture) is the qualifying requirement of what omits them from the judgement of what takes place after the millennium at the general resurrection – this is Jesus himself teaching us about this), and shall not come into condemnation (this condemnation is referring to the judgement that follows the general resurrection at the end of the millennium); but is passed from death unto 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.
The “now is” is the current revelation of God revealed for each age – the fresh manna.
“The hour is coming” is the future seventh angel’s voice.
(Jump down to verse 28)
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, (this verse is showing us clearly that resurrection comes by hearing the voice of God calling for your body to come forth from the grave - whether you hear it now by the sounding of the loud voice of the message of this hour, or you hear the voice of God call you from the grave at the general resurrection by a command for ALL to come forth 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.
***Last week we spoke about how that at the time of the rapture (of the time 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 loud voice of the message of this hour that has already sounding forth but has to unfold out in its full manifestation of prophecy in a 3 fold manifestation of a shout, and a voice, and a trump.
**What this message has done for us by calling and gathering an end time bride together in this hour by the ‘shout’ phase of the rapture cycle, this same voice of the seventh angel’s message will also awaken the sleeping saints under the “voice” part of the rapture cycle, because Christ is doing all three by the same voice of the message of the hour as He descends – this is what’s been going on all these years.
PROVERBS 25:2-3
2 ¶ It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. (we spoke on this scripture on Wednesday night - God loves to hide the mystery of Himself in the things of His creation, in the stars, in nature, in botany life, and fish life, and animal and bird life. In art and in literature, and in the spirit and nature of all the living creatures of His creation.
**We talked about all the many different languages that exist of what God is the author of them all. We spoke about how that there are certain languages of communication that come already installed within things, like the language of human facial expressions – no one has to be taught that language because we come with that language already installed within us from little babies. Many animals come with their methods of communication mostly preinstalled.
*We know that a king is a person that has power to find out and to search out secret things – he has many resources at his deposal, and so we are also kings and priests of God, and God has equipped us with the spiritual and mental resources to discover His glory – God wants us to discover Him, that is what He has designed us for)
3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable. (**There is an unlimited capacity for us as sons and daughters of God to discover the glory of God in the works and mysteries of His creation and in the mysteries of His word)
**So when we look at the scriptures, God has concealed in the symbol of the shout, voice, and trump, of 1st Thessalonians 4:16 the mystery of the glory of what takes place at the time of the rapture - of what the glory of this shout, voice, and trump actually looks like in reality form.
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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 out from among the rest of the dead that will not be raised up until the time of the great white throne judgement.
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 at some time be in a resurrection (that is what Jesus taught plainly), but he is speaking of the “Out” resurrection from among the dead, in other words, of what we have come to know of as the “First” resurrection and not the general resurrection after the millennium.
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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 out of it, and 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 exact same voice fulfilling an advanced part of the rapture cycle. First the resurrection voice and then the trumpet voice.
*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 is what causes these events of the three phases of the rapture cycle 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. (The shout wakes the living saints. The voice wakes the sleeping saints. Then the trumpet calls all to the supper)
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. (Our faith has to ripen under the light of these teachings)
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.
*We want to look at this story of the resurrection of Lazarus with closer attention in the light of the revealed word of this day.
JOHN 11:19-29
19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. (Brother Branham said that Martha had a right to upbraided Him, to scolded Him, but if she had, then the resurrection of Lazarus would not have taken place.
*So we notice that just before the resurrection of Lazarus (and the resurrection of Lazarus is the type of the resurrection for this last day), Matha (a type of the living saints that are alive at the time of the rapture) had been provoked into a condition of offence of where she could have been offended because that Jesus had done a “no show” at the time of the worst trial of their lives – the death of their brother Lazarus.
**So this is showing us of the test that we are also to face just before this resurrection of the hour that we are living in (of this name calling out resurrection from among the dead.
*Job went through a trial of offence. Joseph went through a trial of offence also before he was resurrected from the prison house. John the Baptist was offended when he lay in the prison rotting after he had faithfully introduced the Messiah, and Jesus said about John “blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me”. Brother Branham laid in a hospital bed all broken up from a car accident for 6 days and then died amidst the prayers of thousands of believers who were then devastated at his loss.
***When you walk with the Lord, then offences will come your way because of the way God has to lead your life of which you cannot understand.)
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. (look how that they had listened to the teaching of Jesus and knew about the general resurrection)
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. (look what qualified her – it was her faith in the living word for her day that did it)
28 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.
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E-19 Remember, friends, your approach to any Divine gift will determine what you receive from it. See? What if Martha, that day, when she seen Jesus, and she went out there, and would rebuke Him and said, "Why didn't You come when we called You?"
Jesus had seen a vision about Lazarus. Do you believe that? Sure. Look, 'fore Lazarus got sick Jesus went away. They sent for Him. He just kept on going. They sent again, and He just kept on going. Well, if that'd be your pastor, you'd never speak to him again. But see, He was working the will of God. Then when He went away, after while He stopped, and He said, "Well, our friend sleepeth." He knowed just exactly how many days it would be. The Father had done told Him. Said just how many days it would be before Lazarus would be alive again.
He said, "Our friend Lazarus is dead. And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there, because you'd be after Me to go heal him. But I go wake him."
But when Martha met Him, look at her attitude. She went up there, looked like she had a right to upbraid Him. But she didn't. If she would the story would never been told. She fell down at His feet. She said, "Lord (That's what He was.), if Thou would've been here, my brother would not've died. But I know now, yet he's dead four days, the skin worms is done crawling in, the nose has fell in, so forth. If You'd have been here, my brother would not have died, but even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." That's the way to come (See?), humble.
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E-58 When Martha... When Mary, Martha and Mary's brother had died, Lazarus, when little Martha went out, she'd sent for Jesus to come, and He didn't do it. They found all kinds of faults in Him, seemingly. When she run out to meet Him, she had a right to say, "Looky here, we left our church to follow You, and now, my brother has... You've prayed for the sick and they been healed. And I sent for You to come pray for my brother, and You let him lay there and die. And he's been in the grave four days, rottening now." She had a right to, did she? Sure she did, humanly speaking. But what?
She knew that God was in that Man. She'd read those story of the Shunammite woman, how she knowed God was in Elisha, the prophet. So if God was in the prophet, surely He was in His Son. So she went out, and she said... When she met Him, she said, "Lord..." That's what He was. She respected that gift of God; she said, "Lord, if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to you." There you are; there you are.
Said, "Where have You buried him?" There you are.