The Mystery of the Resurrection of the Sleeping Saints Pt.2
ACTS 13:35-39
35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God,
fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: (David’s soul went to be with his fathers, but his body on earth was corrupted in the grave)
37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
REVELATION 20:6
6 Blessed and holy is he that 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 is an out resurrection from among the dead. The general resurrection is when all the dead are raised up.
I CORINTHIANS 15:51-52
51 ¶ Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (Weather we have died or are still alive at the time of the rapture, we will all be changed – we will have glorified bodies)
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. (You don’t have to figure out how God will do this – this scripture is the creative word of God that is impossible to fail, and so God will perform that event for you when the time of that event is purposed by God)
JOHN 5:28-29
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
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.
Notice how that resurrection comes by hearing HIS voice – Jesus is speaking here of the general resurrection at the great white throne judgement.
So the secret to being raised up is to first hear HIS Voice. That is why this message is the voice of the resurrection (of the out resurrection from among the dead), it is the loud voice that calls the sleeping saints of 2000 years of 7 church ages out of the graves by calling their names in mystery form. This message has called all the names of the elected bride of 7 church ages by the voice of the seventh angel.
The Mystery of the Resurrection of the Sleeping Saints Pt.2
**We want to look a little into this subject of the mystery of the resurrection of the sleeping saints of the specific group of the Gentile bride of Christ over the last 2000 years of Gentile church age history that have all individually lived out their age, and believed the message God sent for their age, and that served God’s purpose for their age, and then fell asleep in Christ - they died with the message of their age firmly establish in their hearts – that message was the quickening power that would cause their bodies to be resurrected at the time of the first resurrection of when they would hear their name being called by a VOICE.
ACTS 13:35-36 Opening scripture…
35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, **God’s will is that we serve Him in the age and generation that we are born into, because all that serve God’s purpose in their generation will have a resurrection.
**And the greatest way to serve God is to believe His word of the light that He has shone in the age you are living in, because it’s not so much what you do in your life of what you achieve, but it is what you believe because your belief is an integral part of who you really are.
The bible says that without faith you cannot please God, but faith in what? Faith in the word that God reveals for your time and season. Noah please God because he believed in the message of that hour, and so his works of building an ark came from out of his faith – all the others of Noah’s age failed to please God because they disbelieved the message that God had sent through His prophet for that hour) fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: (His soul went to be with his fathers, but his body on earth corrupted in the grave)
**We know that the secret of the time that we are living in is that the sounding of the message has already taken place, it is the cry at the midnight hour of Mathew 25, it is the shout of I THESSALONIANS 4:16 that has already initiated the rapture cycle that cannot be stopped. This event of the sounding of the voice of the message of the hour has already gathered a people by the sounding of that message, and our lives are the very proof of that – denominations have no understanding of this.
**We who are of those who have received this message have witnessed the rising of the SON light in this day, we are not relying on church age candle lights anymore because the SON of the revealed word by an end time prophetic ministry has risen in the hearts of the elect for this age - this is the good news of this day – it IS the rising of the SON.
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97 "Because I live, ye live also," speaking to His Wife. "Because I live, ye live also." What a resurrection that that was! And what a resurrection this is, to be quickened from the dead, "to be made alive in Christ Jesus," by God's quickening Power.
The rapture consists of a 3 part event of a shout, voice, and trump. The shout is the message of this hour sounding forth.
**And the event of the “Shout” of the message has achieved a spiritual resurrection in this day for an elected people that have received this end time message that God has sent to earth at this specific time and season.
*And so we (as message believers) are a people who have come out of the darkness of a nighttime period of seven church ages into the rising of the SON light of the resurrection of the reveal word of this hour by hearing a voice in this generation. Jesus said “MY sheep hear MY VOICE” – because that is always the evidence that identifies HIS sheep in every age, it is those who are able to hear HIS voice.
**The bride age can only be a reality because of a people who have heard the voice of God in these last days – a people who have received the revelation of the light for this hour into their hearts and lives.
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125 The Spirit of God that moves among the people, quickens the mind of the person to the promise of God. (Quicken means to give life to. Your mind by the spirit of God is able to see the message for your day – and that word revealed for your age is spirit and life within you that will resurrect and change your body from mortal to immortality)
132 But the real, true quickening Spirit that comes to a believer, quickens him to God's Word, that's back to eagle Food again, right back to where he lives. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
ROMANS 8:11
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
This word “resurrection” means to bring up the same thing that went down.
The same sun that sets in the evening is the same sun that rises in the morning after the darkness of night has passed.
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25 All Christianity is based upon resurrection. That's our hopes. Now let's find out why. The Creator has so set it in order, if we did not even have a Bible, we would still know that Christianity was right. (We would know that Christianity is right because all of Christianity is based on the resurrection, and it is also a fact that all of nature specks of the resurrection – the same God that wrote the mystery of the resurrection in the bible is the same God that wrote the mystery of the resurrection in Nature. The same sun that sets of an evening is the same sun that is resurrected the very next morning)
26 Now, resurrection is not replacement. Resurrection is bringing the same thing up that went down. If I should drop the Bible from the--the stand, on the floor, and catch some, another Bible, and replace it, that's replacement. But, resurrection, is bring the same Bible up that went down. And that's what resurrection means, "to be--to be raised up."
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163 …And just before the sun sets here on this western horizon, it'll be Light again. The same resurrected Lord Jesus will come in His same power. As He made Hisself known to Mary Magdalene and them at the beginning, He's making Hisself known in the power of His resurrection, at the end age. Where? In the end time.
***The same Lord Jesus that rose on Easter morning after his crucifixion is the same one that has risen again in these last days after he has been crucified again by the denominations – so His ministry is not a public stage performance ministry any more as in first and second pull of healing and miracles, but now His ministry is to reveal himself personally to each of his own by the speaking of His voice to them to reveal himself that He has risen.
*So what does the repeat of that look like in this day? it is the same thing. Christ has also been walking with us along the way for all these years like with the two on the road to Emmaus – but for some of us it can take many years before we recognize who this is that has been opening the scriptures and revealing the word to us all these years.
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.
***Directly after the resurrection of Jesus Christ there was a resurrection from the graves of many of the Old Testament saints of who had previously passed on, of who had lived out their portion of the word for their day – like king David, they had served God’s purpose in their generation, and so those of that world of which they had gone to after their time on earth was over (like Samuel and Abraham and Sarah and different ones), they came from that world and out of the graves and into this world again and then appeared to many that were in this world.
I THESSALONIANS 4:13-18
13 ¶ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout (we have already witnessed this event in our generation, we know what this shout was, so this is why we know for certain that the rapture cycle has already begun because this shout spoken of here we now know was the message of this hour being sounded out by the ministry of the seventh angel), with the voice of the archangel (This is the voice that wakes the sleeping saints – the shout wakes the living saints, the voice wakes the sleeping saints, a shout is simple a loud voice, so it’s the same message that wakes both living and sleeping saints – the sounding of the message this hour causes both the resurrection of the living and the sleeping saints), and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (this is why we can be very sure that the resurrection of the sleeping saints is very near, because the loud voice that brings about their resurrection has already sounded for them to hear it just like we have heard it)
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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130 … what is the shout? It's the Message going forth, first, the living Bread of Life bringing forth the Bride.
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141 The first thing comes, when He starts descending from the Heaven, there's a shout. What is it? Is a Message, to get the people together. A Message comes forth…
JOHN 5:28-29
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
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.
**Resurrection comes by hearing the VOICE of GOD.
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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.
We know that brother Branham refers to this story of Lazarus of his resurrection in John CH11 in connection with the shout and voice of I THESSALONIANS 4:16. And so this event of the resurrection of Lazarus actually shows us a mystery of the resurrection of this end time Son of Man ministry of this hour.
**We know that the very next thing that happens in chapter 12 of John is the event of the supper that takes place with Jesus and with the risen Lazarus which is showing us the wedding supper that takes place in the sky after the resurrection of this day.
JOHN 12:1-2
1 ¶ Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
This is showing us the wedding supper with Christ after that the resurrection has taken place by the loud voice that had been sounded out.
**Brother Branham tells us plainly that the same loud voice that woke up Lazarus is also the same loud voice that wakes the sleeping dead of 2000 years of church age saints – and as the living saints, we have already heard that voice, and it is the message of this hour.
JOHN 11:11
11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
He wakes him by a loud voice – “The Voice of the Resurrection”.
So when we study how the son of man ministry woke Lazarus out of sleep in that day by a loud voice, then we can know for sure that it is the same voice in this day that will cause the resurrection of the “sleeping” saints that have died over the last 2000 years of seven church ages - they are also to be woken at this time by a voice – “in the days of the VOICE of the seventh angel”.
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3 ... And oh, as we're standing today on the very brim of another war. Then the Church is standing on the brim, that most glorious resurrection, for we shall be caught up together with the sleeping saints to meet the Lord in the air, and forever be with Him.