SO SHALL IT BE WHEN THE SON OF MAN IS REVEALED

AS IT WAS IN NOAH'S DAYS, SO IS IT NOW

13 – 1222M (BTL)

Preached 22nd Dec, 2013

We thank You for the grace by which you have given us a good morning. We shall open in our Bibles in the book of

2 Timothy 3:1-5 KJV

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Let us pray : Our heavenly Father, we wait again upon You this morning as we gather here, believing that by Your grace we're gathering in Your holy presence and that You will be among us. We pray that your grace may provide for all our needs - all our burdens,  problems, battles, etcetera – that we humbly yield to You. For You are our war Captain that ever fights for us. We pray that You may help us gain another step forward in our calling experience. That which You intend to fulfill amidst us that will enable us attain the desired victory. For I pray trusting that Your divine presence shall be with, because we have asked in the blessed Name of Ishi Jesus Christ. Amen.   

May the Lord Jesus Christ bless you all. We thank Him for giving us yet another amble opportunity this morning, as we begin again in this place.

I believe there's a great Something that is supposed to be fulfilled, and we are being shown and involved. El has His plan or will He intends to accomplish this time and has separated us in this place as His instruments of use in His progressive work. 

Now, it is great thing to be involved in such a divine cause and course!

Imagine and think about it broadly. Suppose you lived in Noah’s time and you were one of them who were building the ark, with your eyes seeing the shining light of the hour then. You were sure the rain was coming, but you were building the ark anyhow!

How would you feel? You were for sure it would rain because it had been revealed to you, which you believed. Being one of the ark builders and noticing its completion… how would you feel finally when you saw animals begin entering the ark made?  Your heart would be pulsating, you know, greatly!

You might not be full of joy, but that assurance of, “I’m safe though it is coming!” That  assurance, that hopebof being sure of what you were doing, and know for certain your assured salvation, could be a pillar and ground of safety! You say: “Although a mighty flood, that will submerge the whole world is coming, this ark here will be safe: so will be its occupants!”

Then you would see the animals begin coming in, how would you feel?

A double excitement, certainty!

What self preparations will you make?

You will just be there, maybe tongue-tied, with everything set in place, as the animals do enter in.

Then, you finally entered in and took your position, knowing the world knows nothing about it. For sure,  tell me, how would you feel?

So, as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be  when the Son of man is revealed.

He said they continued planting, harvesting, buying, selling, building, marrying and being given in marriage until Noah entered in the ark, and were all swept away by the flood. So shall it repeat at the end; though now it’s fire and not justbwater.

Although we say,  “As it was in the days of Noah…” but we fail to see that there was Noah, the ark  and those that entered in! So what people don’t realize is that whreas the rest of the world didn’t know about it, Noah was aware and involved in God’s Programme in his days! The whole of Noah’s family, including his sons Ham, Japheth and Shem, knew what was going to happen and they practically and truly entered in the ark!

So if He says,  “So shall it be when the Son of man is revealed, at the end of time, as it was in the days of Noah,” then we should know and understand that the world won’t know and acknowledge ‘the end time message of the revelation of the Son of man' – Jesus Christ as a Noah on earth! For Jesus Christ is the true son of consolation, who would truly saved us from the toils of our hands because of the curse. His ark-building message, a tale to the world then, as is 'the Capstone revelation message of the Son of man’ at the end time.

The unbelieving world would lament and complain saying, “The very idea of building the ark is inconceivable conventionally! What is the ark for? How can such a thing save us from a flood? They thought his preaching was extremism, demanding too much of the people!”

They thought the God of love won’t destroy the whole human race by a flood, but He did!

So, that is what the unbelieving world always feels about the God’s revealed truth in every age.

The denominational world would equally and blindly quote saying, “As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be when the son of man is revealed,” while fullfilling the same scripture negatively! There was a Noah then, and we must have a Noah now! People only see the negative things that then happened, but fail to see the messenger that prepared the way for escape. Certainly such a messenger will be there! Who is he? The son of man!

They are busy in the worldly; all they mind is flesh and blood, till the ‘Capstone revelation ministry of the Son of man' – the ark of safety is fulfilled - is done and the elect has entered!

And as it was then, so shall it repeat! A Noah again on earth today and the world knows nothing about it! The ark of safety is about finished yet the world is dead asleep! The elect about to enter yet multitudes are daydreaming about money, riches, pleasures, power, popularity, prosperity, and all. They are so busy with everything else. The one thing needful they know not! Poor, miserable, blind and don’t know it.

So, the same applies for these last days: it would be the same thing… until ‘Noah’ – the Son of consolation of the last days, enters into the ark made by the Message of the Capstone revelation, even the Seventh Seal! And they, of the world churches, don’t know anything about what is happening.

Noah builds the ark as they mock and scoff; he enters the ark as they watch in amusement.

They passed near beholding the scene as they questioned what Noah was really up to. Though he preached righteousness, none believed him – thinking he had waded too much far into the strange waters! “If not, he's cranked up!” They vehemently concluded.

“So shall it be when the Son of man is revealed; they shall do to him the same things! They shall look at him the same way! They will think he has lost his head; they will think him a fanatic. They will laugh and make jokes about his preaching, until the ark of safety, the capstone ministry, is completed!

Think about it! Exactly the same thing now as it was with Noah! You better wake up! The son of man is the Word in flesh. That is how he is revealed! How? As the fullness of the Word, he is revealed today! Our Noah today!

His family, the elect of this day, are firmly standing with him building away on the capstone. Hallelujah! They elect are aware of their Noah! Their eyes sees the light clearly. The hour has come, and they know it! “My sheep know my voice…” see?

The rest of the world shall be building, planting, buying and selling, marrying and giving in marriage until the family of the end time Noah enters into the capstone ark!’

Do you see it? And now, the world of the last days will not know about ‘some family of Noah entering into some ark,’ until the fire-flood promised for the last days, comes and sweeps them away: which is the last day flood, the fire, comes and sweeps them away, while in determined religious ignorance they perish!

Why? They lack the love of the truth! Had any of them the love of God, they could receive Noah joyfully: the true son of Consolation! He will console us from all our burdensome toils of flesh and blood. Sure he will!

My! There we see our Noah with grey hairs. His ministry is done. The work he was sent to accomplish is done. The hour of entry is here! Any who believingly enters into the capstone ministry is safe, but all outside the headstone are lost!

So, as I said, how do you feel? Seeing you are one of the believers of that ministry of building the headstone ark, as you and the animals finally begin to enter! It should be a great exciting experience for you. A great revival moment!

Having a great assurance of safety, your heart will be so full of thankfulness and great peace: why? In the capstone you are safe while the rest is going to be swept away!

We are facing the same hour, the same times; we are going through the same seasons. Everything has just exactly come up as it was in the days of Noah: anytime the ark is ready, then you know that all is over.

And our ark must now be quite near being ready. By the look of things it seems the ark is almost ready. So be ready when you see animals entering! I don’t know which kind of animals will enter, but surely, the Creation – the whole Creature – that is man, animals and everything else, that are to be saved, will be saved!

Now this day, we want by His grace, to face that. We have been trying to catch up with it, although it is very extensive a ministry. I have not known just how to handle that last enemy - that caterpillar! I see the worm there, but how do you catch this fellow? He is there and has done a lot of harm in this world.  

Though he is very extensive and evasive, but the good thing is that the sword of revelation will finally track him down. The Word will catch with him … that worm of death, our last enemy.

Noah’s end of time ministry will catch him up… Yes, he will swallow death in victory!

And these mysteries in the Seven Seals Book – Seven Sealed Book – concern God’s redemption plan for man from the onset, and goes up to the final ending of it. And because the Seventh Seal was not opened, much of the rest of the Book remained hidden: as we did realize that he, Br. Branham, never even revealed the content of the Book! He only revealed the seals that hold the book closed, which tied or wrapped the book.

So, that is what the Holy Spirit has shown us! The Book itself remained intact, unrevealed! He never read the book, but only loosed the seals. And infact, one of the seals he could not loose. He was not given to unseal it. It was not time yet. The unsealing of the seventh seal belongs to the headstone ministry, the ministry he was forerunning. See? That one latchet he could not loose. It was the ministry that he was preparing the way for: what ministry? The second coming of the Son of Man; yep, the revelation of the son of man… our Noah today!

You know, when you open, unseal, untie or unwrap a book, you only loose the binders: the sealing or binding bands are unwrapped… that is declaring the binding force, “This seal is so and so: and it means thus!”

This white horse seal means this… that means the seal is loosed, is opened. But that is not reading the book content please!

 Seals wrap the book, the content in inside. Interpreting the meaning of the seal on a book is not the same as reading the book! That seems to me to be common sense!

Loosing the seal is interpreting its meaning, but there is the inside content of the Book, even the Seven Sealed Book! That is the ministry of the son of man at his second coming, for he comes to claim all that he redeemed. All the redeemed are written in that book. All and their inheritance are within the book. The heirs of life and the treasures of life are within the book.

Thus, the book must needs be declared and read:

Revelation 5:4 KJV

And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

See? First, there is the opening, the ministry of loosing the seals, clearing the way for the coming king: removing all obstacles; leveling the mountains, filling the potholes that the antichrist has made; removing all the antichrist mines, all the crooked, all the rough places… that is the work of the forerunner! To unseal the book, the work of redemption! But when he arrived at the seventh seal hill, he was stopped. His buldoza ground to a hault… see? He had no means by which he could tackle that one… it takes the Word himself to thresh that final obstacle. It’s the work of the second Noah!

So the inside content of the Book was never read nor declared to us by Brother Branham, because that is what he was forerunning! Amen! He’s running ahead of a Secret Something! Then how could his ministry be all-conclusive as a forerunner? It only behooves a little common sense to see that the content of the book could not be read by Branham! Why? That is the work of the redeemer! It is the redeemer’s work to claim what he redeemed! Not Branham please! It’s is the second Noah’s work! The rainbow messenger!

Brother Branham foreran the Seventh Seal, that the mystery of the second advent: that makes part of the ministry of the headstone.

That would be the White Eagle's ministry, as testified by the forerunner himself!

If indeed Brother Branham's ministry, as a harbinger,  exhausted everything, then what would be the work or use of the one he ran ahead of? And by extension, why hasn’t the rapture taken place ever since? Why are we still toiling in sin? No consolation yet! No please, Branham was not an eighth person, he was a seventh person. But Noah was an eighth person, so is the second Noah!

The simple knowledge by the Holy Ghost upon the scriptures, is that Prophet Branham by his message, foreran the White Eagle’s message, which is the Capstone revelation message: it is the Revelation of the Seventh Seal by the Rainbow messenger as in Rev.10 – Who is Jesus Christ, the Covenant Angel on earth again in the Name of Joshua! Or can it make sense that Prophet Branham foreran himself to prepare a way for the same self? For after finishing preparing the way, the Bible says, “The God whom you seek suddenly comes to His temple!”

Far be it that Brother Branham was God, leave alone Jesus Christ! He sharply rebuked that spirit that tried that allegiance to him. He was not the son of man, but was sent before him! Now it the time to behold the face of the second Noah!

Yes, it is true, as the Seventh angel forerunner, he had quite a portion of God’s Spirit, but Jesus Christ has the Father’s Spirit unlimited! That is why the Father gives him the whole dove!

It is just like saying Moses brought the children of Israel to the desert wilderness, then opened up Jordan and brought them to the Promised Land. In that case, he foreran himself… so contrary with the scriptures! One shows, another reaps!

Now, you must know one thing: there is no perfection unless the only head brings it. As earlier declared by the Holy Spirit through the Prophet forerunner Branham, the End time Church goes to the Headstone!

And what is the Headstone? It is the Godhead ministry on earth! And that is the only ministry that can bring perfection. No other ministry can. Talk about the five-fold ministry of apostles, prophets, pastors, evangelists and teachers: “… given to some for the perfecting of the body; for the work of the ministry, until we all come to the unity of the body of Christ and the stature of a perfect man,” - nothing! The religious demagogues constrain and misconstrue it to refer to some local church leadership somewhere, which is not it. The fullness he is talking about is this: that first you bring in the legs; then the body and then the hands, using different ministries to gather all the body members together, in ages, as they roll by. And when all are gathered in – then the fullness of time comes – ushers in perfection in completion!

Now, the body cannot be perfected elsewhere! We know that the hand cannot be perfect in itself nor can the leg or body by itself be. Perfection has to be only in one place: and that is in the head! It is the head that brings perfection, and therefore, the Godhead is it that perfects the whole body of Christ.

So, there has to be the ministry of the Godhead in this world in these last days! That Godhead means God has come down on earth as the Messenger of Perfection – One that brings Perfection!  

It also means God has come in the fullness of the Godhead; you see, not just the Father, the Son or the Holy Ghost! Why? Because the Holy Ghost has always been there since Pentecost. Not just the one attribute of the Godhead, but the whole Godhead bodily holding Itself as One. Father, Word and Holy Ghost in one.

The Godhead in the unity of wholeness or oneness comes into full and perfect revelation in the End of time Church. This is the only Church that can withstand the tricks of the Serpent-man. Outside that, there’s no standing, withstanding or challenging of the devil.

So, we have to be sober to realize what kind of ministry it takes! And let us therefore be obedient to the promised Headstone Ministry in the Bridal End Time Church! What is the Headstone doing? Putting  everything in its rightful place and position, without any missing mark on every scriptural line! So you should not think yourself perfect, when many things and scriptures are still just out of place, misconstrued and unbelieved. You see!

Now love is what brings you into perfection, not works! Perfection means that everything is in its rightful place and nothing is out of cater. That is the purpose why everything that went  wrong must be clearly unveiled, brought out and cleared. Everything that went wrong through which door, gate and place, has to be brought forth and be cleared out.

So, when faith takes a hold of the truth, you can’t avoid offending, and if you want to walk without offending, you’ll never be a Christian! For Christianity is an offense and a stumbling block to the world. Likewise is worldliness to Christianity. If somebody related to you, in some way, unbelieves a portion of the revealed promised Word that you believe, there’s no doubt, such will be offended and you will be hurt from such fights! Finally there has to be a clear-cut showdown. For every Word must finally be in Its place.

Perfection means perfect, wholly blameless or without any blemish – spotlessly clean! It  means your faith, as an anchor, holds for every bit of the revealed Word of promise for your day and hour! Perfection means perfectly in place - let nobody cheat you! It simply means every iota in its place and position, with nothing out of cater: every stone in its rightful place to the capping of the house, with no room for a weakening crack. If that is not its Biblical meaning, then this scriptural end of time work is misappropriate and out of context.

As promised through prophecy, the End Time Church goes to the perfecting Headstone! And when the Headstone comes, it will not suffer anything out of place. That’s why all these things are being revealed, besides being shown the harmfulness of the normal things, we thought were harmless! Some of those normal things and habits, apparently harmless, are just as harmful or even worse off, than those that are horribly displayed before us!

Perfection means walking by divine love a hundred percent - that means you  live by faith only! Meaning everything that you do must be of faith, by divine love, which does nothing else save God’s will!

The Biblical scriptures declare that whatsoever you do which is not of faith is sin: any action that is not faith in action or acting out of faith, is sin.

      Now Father, we are pressing on unto that perfect faith. With such faith, human struggling by knowledge is dead forgotten! Oh,  what a time that would be? But it has and goes with the challenges of the same time. There will have to be a lot of challenges then; but we will have to stand because faith will be given unto us!

      Father, we thank you for the leadership you have amidst us. Forgive us our transgressions and take away from us the destructive effects of the knowledge out of which we were born. Indeed, pardon us of all the ways we have conducted ourselves according to the knowledge of that evil tree. Therefore, we beseech Thee to speak unto us the Word of faith that will restore us in the way of living by faith only; with no room for the destructive wisdom of the knowledge of this world, even of the Serpent. That serpentine wisdom of Mammon adds to and subtracts from the God’s Word of faith. And it’s too deceiving for one to realize its offensive effect. Why? It is dressed in the ordinary daily chores that makes us failures in the way of victorious faith!

Now Father, we have seen how the devil transforms - hiding himself as an angel of light – yet he is total destructive darkness always hanging around. Father, we now receive, believe and accept, contending to attain that stature of living by faith alone. We can’t achieve that basing on our failing human standard of strength and ability, however hard we may try. That’s why we are awaiting the revelation of the faith – that expected faith light in us for Life. This we accept to live by and separate ourselves from the worldly ways of apparent help.

We accept the crucification of  all the worldliness; we accept putting stoppage to all faithless works ; and we so accept to sit and stay rested before Thee – waiting and receiving only from You always. For Thou can’t bring forth that which is wanting necessitating the involvement of a human hand. Neither could You make that which is deformed needing corrective completion and perfection by a man of flesh and blood. Your Word-work is perfect and perfects – thus we just but rest upon entering – no struggling to add to or subtract from the Spirit-Word work! Only that You give, the Faith-Word, will lead us into that place of perfect rest! Forgive us Father, as we continue staying in this place for fellowship.

We are, of surety, waiting and depending on You for Your divine enabling Providence. So now, our faith patiently looks up to You, Thou Lamb of El.

      One time you are to dress us in fine linen, white as snow garments of righteousness and salvation. That, we know, is not our work – for our handwork can’t sew us those garments ; they are but revealed in the Word! And we are clothed in them by revelation, as we hear the preaching of El’s Word allotted us. Because faith comes by the hearing, and hearing by the Word : wherein the Spoken Word is turned into garments, when received by faith. How? Only Elohim holds that Perfect secret understanding – ours is to believe what He speaks. When clothed in them garments, all the devil’s nakedness removed from us. And You said, “Blessed are they who watch and pray, to keep their garments, lest, they walk naked in their shame of nakedness!” Now forgive and help us to be awake and watchful, to resist and repulse the devil, when he tries to initiate his faithless manoeuvres. Reason? The just [shall] live by faith! The garments of the righteousness of faith, are provided only upon the ground of faith! That is the reason the Bible strongly admonishes us against struggling for things of vain glory ; lifeless things ; perishable material welfare! But that we should first seek Elohim’s Kingdom Its righteousness – which truly dresses us against falsehood - and what we need, Elohim shall indeed supply.

      Father, we pray for the restoration of those garments to us – the garment of truth, even Christ’s body garment – which is the water of the Word-garment, that washes till we are shiningly pure white!  Father we pray that You may deliver us from this worldliness and clothe us with cloudy waters, which is Life eternal. So dressed in cloudy garments that do outshine the the sun in brightness, that nakedness with its shame and curse, is forever removed from us

      While before You, we are praying believing the testimony of Your Word, that we be removed of all that is called nakedness. For when nakedness goes away, both its shame and curse are also gone! We are then left dressed in garments of truth. That’s where the devil first fell us as the Creature. Thereafter, You promised restoration of all things saying, “I will restore all that the palmerworm, locust, cankerworm and caterpillar have eaten!” We are praying for that restoration now. Mercy unto restoration, we wait for You now – seeing You are showing us the way into the translation and rapture. It is imperative for us to receive those garments in readiness for that hour of being clad in linen, pure and white. As You said, "Behold the bride, the Larmb's wife, has made herself ready now! It is granted unto her to be arrayed in fine linen, pure and white, ready for the marriage supper of the Lamb!” Based on that Father, we pray to be forgiven all our works that are contrary to Your will. Forgive our faithless and wandering state that enslaves us on the use of the wisdom from that evil tree ; help us Father, to attain the stature of living by faith.

      But now we reckon our wanting state. We therefore pray for Your assistance because the situation looks like the Bible's carmel passing through the eye of a needle! Nonetheless, we confess our sins and pray for Your helping hand, though the situation may equate that of a carmel passing through the eye of a needle – may be willing to pass through! The door of escape being that narrow and small like needle's eye.

Now Father we pray You forgive our unbecoming acts, drunkenness and anything else we have done against Your will. Forgive our unbelief and circumcise our hearts from all uncircumcision, that we may become and remain only faith actors of Your Word.

Father, we are waiting on Thee. I have prayed for all of them, as we continue here in fellowship,  seeking for Your divine mercy in the light of Your revealed truth. We are searching for the light and faith of Your promised Word today. Forgive and enable us see the truth of our day, however little that may be. Although in a simple and humble way, but we are seeing the truth! We are praying over and again, if it pleases You, come and open our eyes to the present truth,  which was hid to the past generations. As we study the events of past ages, it should inform our decisions, actions and reactions, in the way of faith.

Now, forgive us Father, for we have confessed all our shortcomings.

      We are asking for Your assistance to enable us stand the ground of our calling. May You be for us and cause to happen that which we can’t do by ourselves. We beseech and implore You for blessings, victory, grace, faith, love and restoration to the original firm foundation, upon which You had established us before the founding of the world. Ishi Jesus Christ was and is that firm foundation. And now, we are awaiting Your mercy and grace, to enlighten and dress us up with the blessing garments of revelation! Because the lack of garments is in itself, a curse. The garments of the righteousness of faith and salvation, are the Father’s blessings upon His Son for us. And those blessings, of Your blessings, are to us garments, whereby we put on Christ, the Father's garment of blessings upon us! Thus, the blessings are the dressing or clothing of truth, which we accept to watch and keep.

The angels, in not being watchful, were as the Creature's garments lost, exposing it to nakedness! Then You have warned us to watch and pray, lest we lose our garments and  walk naked, exposing our shame. We receive Your Word of faith and blessings, while we wait for You now in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.