The Dove Sign
As John the Baptist so was William Branham the Baptist
23rd Dec. 2012.
Songs of Worship No. 41: It was a song which was prophetically inspired and because of that it keeps on bringing our mind to the promises of El in this end-time. We shall sing it as we worship in a simple humble way. Noah had drifted On the floods many days, He searched for land In various ways; Troubles he had some, But not from above, God gave him His sign On the wings of a dove. On the wings of a snow-white dove, God sends down His pure, sweet love, A sign from above, On the wings of a dove Jesus, our Savior Came to earth one day; He was born in a stable, In a manger of hay; Though here rejected, But not from above, God gave us His sign On the wings of a dove. Though I have suffered In many a way, I cried for healing Both night and day; Faith wasn’t forgotten By the Father above, He gave me His sign On the wings of a dove. Amen. It was a prophetic song sang with inspiration and it keeps on pointing to something ahead that there is that sign from above and we know that finally it will have to be manifested or will have to come to its place; that sign from above. It was on the wings of a snow–white dove and it was a sign to identify (like John the Baptist was sent to fore-run the first coming of Jesus Christ) the Messiah: it was a dove as a sign, and Noah was given a dove as sign and that was victory, after he had gone through the flood and so on, then the dove came down and was given a leaf plucked off from an Olive tree: an Olive tree means oil which is the representation of the Holy Spirit: it shows that it is that which El gives as a token for His love. After the baptism of water, the flood, the Holy Spirit came upon them. Yes, that dove was the sign of the Holy Spirit to Noah. He had just been baptized through the flood, so God gave him the token of the Holy Spirit… the dove with the olive leaf meant the Holy Spirit. Then you find that the same thing comes after Jesus had been baptized, and was somewhere praying, and that dove comes down upon him to show John the Baptist that that is the Messiah. That dove upon Jesus was the fullness of the Holy Spirit… the fullness of the anointing. He was born and named Jesus… but on river Jordan, after his baptism in water, the Holy Spirit came upon him: he was thus born of the Spirit, born again, and became the truly anointed one; that is the Christ. So, he was now Jesus Christ. Born of water, and of the Spirit! So He was baptized first and went somewhere praying. The sign never came on him while he was in the water, like sometimes they may draw the drawings and show that as He was being baptized the dove descended upon Him from heaven in the very water, it wasn’t so: the Bible says it different. It says, after He was baptized and when He was praying; am sure He wasn’t praying in the water. So that means that after He was baptized and went out of the water, somewhere by the banks may be, just around the same place and when He was praying the dove descended and John beheld it coming down from heaven and abode on Him. So He was baptized by John the Baptist first then when He went out of the water and was praying, the dove descended upon Him and that was a sign from the Father and that is His love upon His Son, because He says: “This is my only begotten Son, in whom I am well pleased.” He is the beloved therefore He gives Him this sign of a dove. So that was the second time, the sign of a dove in the Bible, then lastly Brother Branham was given a sign of a dove and that was showing something about His ministry, like as John the Baptist came to fore-run the first coming of Jesus Christ; he was forerunning the second coming. So that sign must finally come to the message which was to be fulfilled because he was fore-running the 2nd coming of Jesus which is a mystery and that mystery is in the 7th seal. Now when time comes for that mystery to open, the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ, that sign will take place. That sign will point somewhere and that token will not miss because it was a token in the ministry of the fore-runner Brother Branham, and that token wasn’t for John: but he said that whoever sent him to baptize showed him that on whosoever the Spirit like a dove will come from heaven and abide upon Him, that is the one whom he was preparing the way for. You see, it was not a sign to come to identify John’s ministry but it was a sign to identify a ministry which he was a fore-runner to. He was fore-running the first coming of Jesus and so that he could know who He was, because he didn’t know Him, he was given a sign. He had just been staying in the wilderness, so he didn’t know who Jesus was. May be somebody somewhere had told him of some story of how He was born but didn’t know Him by face. So that it can be so exact, he wasn’t to go around asking who He was and where He came from, no! He was just told that whoever you will baptize and a dove comes from heaven and abides on Him, He is the one. Don’t ask the names or try to find out, just continue baptizing along the way you will come and the sign will identify that particular messenger. So, now we find that this end-time, Brother Branham baptizing and at the same time fore-running a message, the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ, which was sealed in the 7th seal, and when he came to it, was told, don’t reveal it because it will interfere; because the devil will take a hold of it and mess it up. You know it is better that it should be fulfilled first, and then it is unfolded. But if it is known first, the devil will come in and meddle with it… you realize it was going to be critical moment; a time which was going to be so tricky. It was going to be the end of all things and the devil will do all that he is able to try to interfere. So because of that, it was kept secret… you know if it was to be revealed then the devil will have an upper hand against those who will believe it, and will completely distort it. They wouldn’t know what to believe. That is why it wasn’t revealed; it was something to come to be revealed when he is here already. El reveals mainly what is going on and shows you the past, then shows you at that time what is going on, but the future He keeps it secret. So, the 7th seal was to be fulfilled in the future just like much of the 6th seal also. Those portions of the 6th and the 7th seal which were yet still to be fulfilled, which were still mysteries for the end-time, the prophet was not given to reveal, he was told: stop there, go no farther. He was trying to hint something and he was told to stop because it was not pertaining to that generation, it wasn’t pertaining to his message. It was pertaining to another message in another generation for some other people and because it was going to pertain to some other people, he was forbidden to reveal it. but when he came to end of his ministry, being a messenger to fore- run, being that he was like John the Baptist, Elijah, the sign of a dove a dove had to accompany him in a way of showing him on whomsoever, that ministry or that message where the dove will come from heaven and abide: that is the message, for that end- time seal. As I have shown you He was baptized in the water first. Let us read it in the Bible: Luke 3: 15 – 22. 15And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not; 16John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: 17Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. 18And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people. 19But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, 20Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.21Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,22And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. So you see the latchet of His shoes as a messenger, and how beautiful are His feet with the message which John was saying he was not able to loose. That is what the Bible says, how beautiful are the feet of the messenger that brings good tidings upon the mountains! So what is the latchet of that shoes which he is not able to loose? It is the seal of the message which he is carrying as a messenger and the message goes with the feet, as the Bible says your feet showed with the preparation of the gospel, which means the same as to put on the shoes and tie like that with a shoe lace. That is why he says he wasn’t able to unloose that: he is not worthy because the Lamb alone was worthy to bring that message; that is why he says am not able to lose the seal of His message. He says His fan is in His hands and will thoroughly purge His floor when He comes, you see, that is His message and will gather the wheat into His garner but the chaff He will burn in fire unquenchable. He has been thoroughly purging the floor since then, many ages continuously until the end-time He gathers them into a garner. You see in the time of Jesus Christ Esau is almost trying to kill Jacob. He was the king and here comes from the East some messengers crying: "where is He that is born the King of the Jews?" Yet Esau was there as the king. Esau and Jacob are still struggling, as it was from the beginning of the world: there was Esau and Jacob, those two spirits... and here as Jesus comes back to the world, Esau again appears fighting... and we expect when it comes to the end, that true Esau won’t miss! He is ever there striving against the truth when the seed is supposed to come to whom the promise was made. So an Edumean, which is Edom, Herod trying to kill Jesus, and he misses Him, and his sons who were heirs of the throne, goes for John the Baptist. So that just comes to me to commend on that. Esau, the sly creature, fighting the promised one. Now you can see He was baptized of John and when He was praying after His baptism... and am sure He wasn’t praying in the water, because after being baptized He could not kneel and pray in the water. So, obviously after being baptized He moved off outside the water and went beside the banks where John was or a little further a few steps, as He himself preached and said pray to your Father who is in secret and He will bless you openly. So am sure if that was His teaching, and there were people musing around and others coming for baptism, just like a public place, am sure He could not have just knelt beside the bank like that and began to pray while other people are pulling and pushing in a public place where others were coming for curiosity, others coming to question; so am sure He had moved some two three steps around the bank, behind some shrubs or something like that, knelt down by some stones and just bend down His head and began to pray; there heavens opened and the Holy Spirit comes from heaven in a bodily shape like a dove and comes down and abides on Him. As the Bible says on whomsoever you shall see the Holy Spirit come and abide on, the same is the Christ whom you have fore-run then. Now, the prophet messenger for the end-time just saw the same thing, the Bible strikes on the dot. The teachers in the Branhamite churches, they had not seen the meaning of that sign and it has never been known, yet it is just Bible and scripture. Here is John the Baptist and here is the dove to identify the ministry which he is fore- running. Now here is Brother Branham and is given again a dove. The dove could not have ever been for him, but you know they have always seen the dove for him. He was given a sign of a dove as a fore–runner; not as the one to fulfill what is fore–run but preparing the way. Now when the dove came, it never abode on him. Do you see that? That squirrel was dead somewhere on the trail and he saw it; it had jumped in the vision and hit on his chest and died, used to disturb him so much. But then as he went a little past that dead creature on the mountain, he finds that dove standing there on a rock. Now it never came down to abide on him, so that is the difference. Let’s read in the book of John: 1:29 29The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of El which taketh away the sin of the world. 30This is he of whom I said, after me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. 31And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. 32And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. 33And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. 34And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of El. Mark 1:7-12 7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. 8I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. 9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. 10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. So that ministry of John baptizing with water was so as the Messiah Jesus Christ be made manifest to Israel. That was to be the climax of everything. You see, he saw the Spirit, as the El said: whomsoever you will see the Spirit descend in the form of a dove and abide on Him that is He. That how He was identified, that is how He was revealed to John, by the Spirit. He remained a mystery as far as John is concerned, then until that time when the dove came to identify who He was, as I said it was the ministry climaxing. Why was he sent to baptize? So that he should be made manifest to Israel whom he was fore–running. Because at one time He was to come to be baptized with water as the Bible says, who came by water and blood and it is the Spirit that bears record. That Spirit finally came to bear record and it was the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, came down from heaven after He was baptized and He was praying, after John’s baptism upon Him. And when he was baptized by John in the water of washing by the word, and He went over by the banks of the river and when He knelt down to pray, as John watched, he saw the heavens open, then the dove came down and abode on Him. It was so exact and there could be no guess work. That dove had to come down to identify the next messenger and His message, and the message was so great; it was so important to the world. The message was so critical for that time because there had to be the lamb to be slain for the human race to be redeemed from the bondage of sin and the law. He was coming to do that so it was a critical event in time. So the Father Himself had to identify the Son and manifest him to those ones who were looking for Him, and John had to bear record of that because he was the fore-runner. Now the 7th seal being more secret and supposed to be sealed from everybody and everything; yet it was holding the mystery of His second coming. It was not allowed that the fore–runner should point something about it directly like John, because it was sealed and was supposed to remain completely a secret until that time comes: because the devil will interfere and do a lot of harm. So that is why it was kept a total secret as the prophet said it. That is why the sign was given to prophet Branham and he wasn’t allowed to say anything openly about it because the devil will catch a hold of it and the minds of people will go for it and will distort it. But when he was commending on it in that anointed message On the Wings of a Snow White Dove; he comes to a place where he says the white Eagle, the dove- leading Eagle. You see, the signs were pointing. Because here is a white dove then he goes and leans on a rock (you know we are waiting for the Capstone for Jesus is the foundation stone and the headstone); in the rock is written White Eagle, and he is told to lay his chest there and pray. Yes the signs were pointing. Then he says while preaching, exactly what the vision said the next message will come forth by. You know, John the Baptist and the next message whose shoe’s latchet he wasn’t able to loose. Then here he says, exactly what the vision said: referring to a particular vision which he was keeping secret; you know, the tent vision.
I have always attributed to that because when he says “what the vision said the next message.” And there is no place where we find, as we read his books, where he relates a vision that says the message will come forth by a white Eagle. That means he was referring to a vision which he alone knew, and that must be the Tent Vision. When he went into that little tent, you remember in that tent vision, when other things had gone on until finally great campaigns coming on through, but finally he was told to descend and go in that particular small tent; some little tent there within the big one. Then he was told to go in that particular closet. Then he couldn’t understand why it should be in that small little canvas tent. Then he was told, doesn’t the scripture say that if you pray, don’t be like hypocrites who stand before people on the streets and pray to be seen, he says they have there reward. But if you pray, go in a closet; pray to your Father who is in secret and He will hear you and bless you openly?
So the angel standing by Him commanded him to go into his closet. Now the prophet and the angel in the vision descended in that particular tent and said whatever he was told while in their he will never disclose, he was to die with it. He went there and he was told a mystery. But here he is real charged with the Holy Spirit and the anointing is upon him preaching the message of the Snow white Dove then he comes to the end and is commending exactly on what the vision said the next message will come forth by. So he was told something to that effect. When the pillar of fire came in that particular canvas tent and him together with that angel, the Holy Spirit told him something. That angel told him this and that will come to pass and you don’t tell anybody about it. Now, John was send to identify a messenger that was to bring a message and the message was about redemption, and the messenger had the message of redemption. John could not loose it. Now, the end of time fore-runner comes and is given a sign of a dove, preparing the way to point to a message and the prophet confesses he wasn’t worthy to loose the latchet of the message! The Seventh Seal! Therefore, he points to it. But since it was to remain a total mystery; no body knows but it is just happening: he was told not to say anything about it. Here in the preaching of the message of the snow white dove at the close of his ministry, a few weeks to the end of his ministry, about three and a half weeks; just about the time he had to leave this world. That is when he gives that hint because the Holy Spirit knew that some of those things will finally be used in the next message: we need to have some areas of prophecy some marks to point at to help us to have faith. So when he says exactly what the vision said the next message, it was the tent vision in that particular little closet; that the next message will come forth by this kind heavenly messenger. Then he says the dove–leading Eagle. Now do you know that they did not understand the statement? The statement says, Dove-leading Eagle and the teachers reverse it, Eagle-leading Dove. You have seen some drawing on some books, some fellows writing, they are part of Brother Branham’s message, but they have their own way of interpretation. They print some messages and they draw on an Eagle and the little Dove is in front leading a big Eagle. It was always very funny to me, that kind of picture, I could not welcome it. The stress should go to the eagle. An Eagle that leads a dove: the English meant that, so when somebody reverses it, he is not getting the English right. So that is the end-time message. What the vision said the next message will be preached by him. If Luther could say the next message will come forth by, he was not the one to preach it; it was Wesley. And if Wesley had to say the next message will come forth, then he wasn’t the one to preach it. So it wasn’t the message of the prophet and after all his entire message was already over. He had been given the 7 Church Ages, preached and revealed them, finally he was given the unfolding of the Seals, preached all of them and when he came to the 7th Seal he was told; shut it up and don’t say anything about it. So he had preached his message! What other next message was he going to preach? You can’t preach two messages, and there is no way one messenger can preach two messages.
The Bible has just one message for every messenger. One characteristic of the message just like Moses; come out of Egypt into the wilderness, then Joshua enters into Canaan. So those were two different messages and that is why they had to have different messengers. Moses could not preach that message of Joshua of entering in, his was Exodus! It is contrary. David had a message and all of it was one. You cannot divide it into two; and if you compare with the message of Solomon they are different. Solomon had his own message, proverbs. The same applies to all characters in the bible. Each had a different message. So that is what the prophet had fore-run and would be identified by the White Dove. He said the Eagle represents the word in revelation, the revealed Word: and identified by this Dove, the Spirit from heaven. So he pointed ahead, as a messenger fore-running, to the next message, which was to come and bring perfection by the Head-Stone of that White Eagle. Exactly! The White Eagle is the Headstone. That is why he said the white granite because he was pointing to the Headstone and upon one stone shall be seven eyes, the Headstone. Now, what is so special about an Eagle? It is so much about how he climbs high and swift in flying, goes higher than any other bird, but that is not all about him. There is also so much about his eyes being sharp. Therefore the prophets are referred to as Eagles. An Eagle as a prophet, it is not so much about his powerful wings, but so much his sharp eye-sight; because that goes with the revelation of the Word. That sharp eye-sight is what gets the revelation of the Word. So upon one stone seven eyes of understanding the mysteries of El to be revealed. That is what he says the next message will come forth by. Do you see the continuity of the scriptures! Next message after Brother Branham. He said it will be a total secret when it begins and surely it is vindicated. Now, it will only be known by those whom it will be send to by revelation. Other messages were not total secrets. Luther’s message, everybody knew about it and they knew what he was preaching, justification; and for Wesley, they knew he was preaching sanctification and so on like that in other ages up to brother Branham. When the 7th seal comes as a message it will be so much a secret, so much in a seal that nobody has any idea about what message is being preached. Even those who may fight against it, those who may come up rejecting and kind of reproaching it; they won’t know what is being preached. Do you know that? If it was Lutheran they knew he preached justification by faith but not by works. If it was Wesley they knew that a man must be sanctified and become blameless, same to Pentecostals and Brother Branham, they knew what he was preaching. They preached to the world. But do you know that this end-time message, even the contradictors don’t know what they contradict, because they have not even heard it? they only hear rumors, may be somebody comes from among us and begins to say, you know they say this and that but they don’t know the message itself so it remains a secret, in a closet. So he says the next message will come forth by the White Eagle, and will be identified by the White Dove. Now don’t you see when the world Geographical maps were finally unfolded to the Bible? When Scriptures were interpreted upon those maps, then you find it goes on to great mysteries in the Bible beginning with the four living creature with four faces; about the lion, the ox, the man and the Eagle. Shows that Africa then goes over to lion with Eagle’s wings (America), and then goes to the bear (Australia), Leopard (Asia), then the dragon which is Europe. Then finally a woman on the waters, and above that woman northwards you see that White Eagle spreading wings like that, Greenland and the island is so much covered with snow. It is only recently when some of the snow has began to melt because of warming up but it is almost all under snow, just white throughout the years. They even build houses using that snow, they just chop off and make a block and use it to make a house because they are just ever like that as stone. They press them together to join, then they form a house and go inside and it is warm because there is no much conduction of heat outward, so it becomes warm. And if this woman you can see her quite on water and is called Britannia, which means a seated woman with a trident, which is a three pronged spear which a gladiator uses. That woman on the water is a gladiator. If that is clear like that then every other mystery just falls in line. Then this white Eagle with his wings like that spread; then finally when we looked at the Southern end we find there, there’s a white dove; completely snow-white and she is exactly a dove with a its peak.
Go on your map where they show that Antarctica and look at it carefully. You will find it is exactly a dove; everything to it. Here, way in the north a white eagle-Island and here, way in the South, a white-dove Island. Those things could not be there for nothing. It was finally to vindicate the message. You find the white Eagle flying from the north and that is exactly his position. And here is the Queen of the South and Solomon, Solomon comes from the north and the Queen is from the south. Those things are signs on the way that we should believe the message; that we should not doubt anything about the message because it is proven. It was prophesized it will come to pass and here it is! Therefore the message was sealed even to the Branhamites, they don’t understand about this squirrels and doves because the message is sealed unto every eye. They don’t see that John the Baptist had a sign to identify the next message and that is the only way they can see it. If they don’t see it that way then they have not seen anything. If they have to see, then the teachers in that message should teach that as John the Baptist was forerunning the 1nd coming of Jesus Christ and had a dove to identify the next message, so also Brother Branham being a forerunner of the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ was given a sign of a dove which will identify the next messenger or message. You know they can’t say that because they will be betraying themselves. They will be contradicting themselves, because they say there is no other ministry, it is all over, and they just meet Jesus in the clouds. They don’t understand, the Bible speaks in mysteries and riddles, as it says the trumpet shall sound and in a twinkle of an eye, they do not understand that that trumpet may not be just a sound blowing out like that but it is a message! Those are mysteries in proverbs and parables. They don’t realize a trumpet can mean a messenger with a message. There is no doubt that he fore-ran and was given that dove to show what the next message will be and we are so grateful that everything is pointing to it, even the Geography of the world points to the message and the messenger, and to the end–time events where we are standing finally. So, if we see it just line up like that and the Holy Spirit comes down continuously and closely and keeps you in the line; keeps you fellowshipping on those scriptures unfolding: then you will know that you are following the truth, then your faith is planted by the rivers of waters of life which shall not be moved. On Christ the solid rock I stand. It is not sinking sand but a solid rock! Has proved itself that it is a solid rock, the old ship of Zion has proved herself that she is able to sail through the waters, meet the waves and go over the top of them. The winds have been rough? Really a stormy sea. But the old ship of Zion has been climbing the storms, climbed the waves like she is sinking but she doesn’t, and finally the waters are calming showing we are nearing the shore! Amen! So we can believe it. Trust in your Savior, in your El who shows you these things! What He preserved for us, that we should be preserved by what He has preserved. It is not for the world. This is not a gospel for the world. The gospel of the world of the gentiles was over and Brother Branham was the last – his message goes to the whole world and that ends it. Now the next message is for the Jews to gather them in their homeland; an Exodus-kind-of message so that is what remains for the world-wide evangelism, it will just be a message to gather the Jews by those trumpets blustering and plagues bringing them to the homeland. Elijah and Moses the two witnesses go there to city of Sodom and Egypt. That is what remains there: but the 7th seal was sealed and it was to be given in secret and a particular people were to receive it who are not the public, the churches or denominations. No! Special elected people to hear the message and receive it and act upon it because El is going to fulfill His purpose which just needs a few people, do you see that? Just like Mary bringing forth Jesus! That message wasn’t to come to several women or girls or a whole church begins hearing that we are here and we are going to have this and this; It was specific, Mary. Even if another girl had to know about it, it wouldn’t help anything. They wouldn’t all of them be used as virgins to conceive one Son. One girl was necessary. Two girls could not be used at the same time for that kind of purpose. So the end-time also there is something and it doesn’t have to take the world, or the public or the churches, no! Because it is just to finish His work, to perfect all the saints. In perfecting them, He doesn’t have to have a whole congregation or many churches in the world pulling and this one pulling. It is hard to maintain a message among many churches, but a hand-full, that will do it. When El wants to fulfill a major promise, He takes a hand-full. Look at Abraham, one house. He takes a few who can be trained and able to receive the commandment and whom He can direct and guide and show the way simply and follow. That is when the great purpose can be fulfilled.
I just want to say that I thank Him so much, our Father in heaven that He has lead us this far by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit upon scriptures and has vindicated it by His signs, even the geography of the world has shown the message of the hour must come by a White Eagle and go and call a white dove group of believers, little church (white Dove). So it is proved even by nature like that; so that now we have no doubt about it and it becomes a real rich blessing. I thank Him for His care that He has taken upon us at this end of time. You may not see with your eyes nor understand with your understanding so much about His care, but He has real taken a lot of care that we should not be lost, confused, we should not be overtaken by the world but that we should receive Him as our salvation and receive the riches of His grace, serve Him, walk in His light; blessed assurance Jesus is mine! Now I want to point out to a few end-time promises which you know; so I just want to rehearse them like in Matthew 24: why I am rehearsing is to see your position; on Christ the solid rock and He is the word and is identified in the scripture. So you want to have somewhere where you are strongly founded, you build your house on the rock and when the waves of darkness, stormy winds of darkness come they cannot pluck you up. Just like today, the message went on, the way a preparing, finally Noah was ready, he entered into the ark with the animals and the world never knew what was going on. And that is exactly with the world today. Does the world know anything that is going on? Whether the ark is getting ready almost? The birds and the animals are almost coming in to the ark. So look at the scripture and as it was in the days of Noah, and knew not, are you seeing the stress? The stress is not so much about Noah himself or the water but it is showing that no man knows even the angels in heaven but the Father only. So as it was in the days of Noah and the ark was being prepared until Noah entered into the ark and the world knew not until the flood came! So shall it be when the Son of man is revealed! The world shall not know until the judgment shall begin sweeping before they wake up and ask questions, those who are religious. They will not know it until Noah and his family enters into the ark. Noah was the ark-messenger; so we expect an ark-messenger at this end-time. They will not know until he is in the ark and the judgment begins to sweep and they just run to and fro. Matthew 24: 34 – 5134Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.36But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.37But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.40Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.41Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 44Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.45Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?46Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.47Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.48But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;49And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;50The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,51And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Now, Noah was busy with the ark, the message of the hour. So the Bible says watch because you don’t know the hour just as it was in the days of Noah. Like in Noah’s days it was to build an ark; but at the end- time generation like the generation of Noah, the believer of that gospel of Noah are supposed to build on an ark, but it is a different ark. Noah was watching by building the ark which was the message of the hour. Here is a tabernacle that is supposed to come up right and that body within the tabernacle and that is a mystery. Here is the message to bring up all the saints to come up to perfection in such a tabernacle coming up with the image of Jesus Christ upon them. So there is a messenger in this end-time as it was indicated by the prophet Brother Branham in the prophesy by the Holy Spirit; the next message. End of time message, a little group receiving a message that should shape up, bringing up end time promises to be fulfilled up. All the promises of El fulfilled to perfection where every saint gets perfected. Other scriptures like in Mark. Mark 13: 31 - 31Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.32But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. 34For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. 35Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.37And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. The mystery of the 7th seal is the Father who only knows, not even the Son. There are mysteries which the Son does not know until the Father reveals; He also prays and gets revelation as He was serving here on earth. Do you see how you build your ark? How do you build the ark for this end-time escape? By taking heed, and there must be something to take heed to. You can’t just stare in the air and be watchful; so what are you watching for? The scripture is indicative. There will be a voice, a commandment. There has to be some trumpet sounding and you take heed to that trumpet! He wouldn’t have said take heed to nothing. Take heed to the word and it can’t be just Bible teachings because those don’t prepare you to be ready for your hour. They have never! There must be a voice so that you take heed to. Like he says in Hebrews, let us take the most earnest heed to the things we have heard preached by the apostles in that very season, the message! So when He says take ye heed, it means there will be something for you to take heed. Do you see that? That is your duty, which is the responsibility in the hour when the Son of Man is to be revealed. That is your responsibility and that is your work to take heed so that you can’t miss the mark. And when you take heed, you must be listening. You must be hearkening to something; you must be keenly following a revelation unfolding. So you take heed and watch and pray. That is three steps. How can you just watch? There has to be guidance, leadership, a reference voice. There must be something to take heed to, and then you watch. Because you are listening, you are hearing, the message is being preached therefore you take heed and stand. You keep yourself awake watching for His coming! Watching for His returning, there must be something to keep you watching: that is the message of that hour. Am sure if you take heed to the message of that hour, you will just come up watching. Just obey the voice of that hour and you are watching and that will lead you into prayer. You will keep yourself meditating because there is something, a voice speaking to you and take heed to that commandment. Do you know what that does, it just gets you ready? Don’t look at theological arguments and moralists; it is grace working on a believer! Grace in your heart and that Grace makes you ready. Light is shining and you are just following the path, you are just following the proceedings. So there will be the spoken word that you will have to take heed to, and once you hear and take heed then it ushers you into watching. That message keeps pointing you to the promise so that you take heed. It also keeps rebuking the world off you so that you should not slumber in the world. It keeps you stirring you up and disturbing you; pushing you like that so that the sleep does not come into your eyes. Keeps bunching the condition of the world so that you should not rest in it and seek things of this world. Why? So that you can watch and pray and be ready. So whatever you take heed to will get you to be ready and will show you the times, finally He will arrive and reveal to you the mystery. He commanded the porter to watch, and the porter is the man on the watchtower like prophet Habakkuk; I will stand upon my watch so that I know what I may answer when I am reproved. So that is your watching like on the watchtower; night and day without slumber. What is night? That is darkness, but when you are watching you have light. Your lamps are burning so you just keep watching. So He commanded the porter being the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit brings His testimony to every generation, and Luther was watching by the Holy Spirit, Wesley was watching, by the Holy Spirit on the tower, the same to Pentecostals and Brother Branham; all day and night on the watchtower by the Holy Spirit. Now this hour you can’t watch without the Holy Spirit! Keep your lamps burning, and oil must be in the lamps before there is any burning. He is the porter that watches and you aren’t going to watch without the Holy Spirit! How do you watch without the Holy Spirit and you don’t have eyes without the Holy Spirit. You don’t have light without the Holy Spirit. You don’t have eyes to see without the Holy Spirit! So how can a blind man watch? See how scripture is upon scripture, here a little and there a little with stammering lips with another tongue. If you have eyes which are not seeing then your watching is in vain. The Holy Spirit is the oil in your lamp and that is what keeps you awake; keeps the lamps burning and keeps light shining in your house and in your body and therefore you are awake all through!
The Holy Spirit who is the porter who was commanded to watch, he doesn’t watch in the air; he watches through his servants! Do you see that? That is why I was pointing back, that Luther was watching because the Holy Spirit was with him with a message to take heed to, so that he was preaching a message which the Holy Spirit was preaching through him. And by that message, the people around him, the believers, were kept awake because they received the same Spirit. Therefore they were kept awake and took the most earnest heed and they were watching for His 2nd coming though He never came that time. Wesley the same way was on the watchtower and the Holy Spirit was in him watching. How was the Holy Spirit watching? Bringing the message of the hour. Now this time which is the end of time; the Holy Spirit won’t fail to keep us watching! The Holy Spirit can not fail to keep the elect watching! Amen! Oh it so much real and Jesus is so real upon my heart. The Holy Spirit cannot miss to watch when now it is critical! How does the Holy Spirit watch? He anoints a man with a message and when the man receives the message, he preaches the message, witnesses the message and others hear and believe and come to the watchtower, and help him also to watch; they all fill the watch tower up there standing in the ward up there all night long with their lamps burning, helping each other. Oh, it is the Holy Spirit in you watching and keeps you awake. Do you know the Holy Spirit never slumbers nor sleeps? Therefore receive ye the Holy Spirit! Receive the porter! Receive the anointing! Receive the unction that unites you with Jesus Christ who is the messenger coming with salvation complete! Atonement complete! Redemption complete! Adoption complete! And all the kingdom of heaven coming in the clouds, and the porter is watching in the watch-tower. Oh, He left us with a porter who never slumbers and once He is in you; there is no slumbering in your eyes. The voice of the message does not allow you to catch any little sleep in the world of some things: that is the Holy Spirit and He is the porter and keeps you on the watch tower, keeps your eyes open and watching and lights burning on the watch tower. He doesn’t suffer you to slumber. So you must receive the potter if you are to keep watching. The Holy Spirit brings to you a message. The Holy Spirit does not just come to sound an empty sound! Keep blowing around with mighty rushing wind, firing you up and make you jump and roll on the ground and dance, speak in tongues and shout, have a lot of joy and stops there: that will be just like a noise. The real thing that the Holy Spirit comes to you with, brings unto you, is a message that keeps you awake. A message for the hour. A message that shows you really what you are supposed to be, how you are supposed to stand, walk and what the Master expects out of you. The Holy Spirit brings His commandments that you should walk like this, live like this, abandon this, the Holy Spirit is the potter and watches in you for the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ the Master. He is watching for the coming of the Master in you that is why that Dove is very much welcome. So He gives you the Holy Spirit. Until you have the Holy Spirit you are still asleep; you are still dead, you are still slumbering. Until you have the Holy Spirit you cannot watch, your lamps are not burning. Until you have the Holy Spirit you cannot know where you are at. You cannot even wait for Him because you don’t know anything about it, so that is why He gave us the Holy Spirit. That is why He sent us a revival to begin receiving the Holy Spirit. That is why before the message arrived, the Holy Spirit was here first so that the message comes while we are seeing and we receive it! Oh, praise be to His Name. He is so good; He is so kind and caring. He has done us only good. He went to a far country, left us with the potter and that is what helps us to watch. What is keeping you spiritually awake all this time? It is the Holy Spirit in you bearing witness of the message has kept you spiritually awake up to this hour. So all thanks to El, all praise to His Holy Name. Blessed be His Holy Name for such Grace and mercy. He sent the Holy Spirit to watch because we don’t know the hour but the Holy Spirit searching deep things of El; times and seasons keeps us in time and in step. You cannot watch alone so He commands the Holy Spirit to watch with you. Oh my! What a message for the hour! What bread in due season the Holy Spirit breaking to us. Receive it! What are you supposed to do? Watch! And now it is possible to watch. What is making it possible to watch? The Holy Spirit. We were baptized by the Holy Spirit, we received, were filled with the Holy Spirit and then there was a message, and the message is bread in due season, strong food. It is to give you strength, it is revelation, it is light. And that message which is the light of the hour and by the Holy Spirit coming like that keeps you alert. There is no way anybody can keep you awake in the spiritual way that we are walking. It must be the Holy Spirit and the revelation of the Word. So it is so wonderful and marvelous to us. He is so good to us. Why? He has given us something to take heed to. There is a voice among us which doesn’t allow your eyes to slumber so long as you have the Holy Spirit. When you try to put yourself in a resting condition, things are going to stir around you until you get so much uncomfortable. That chair is going to grow thorns; the Holy Spirit is going to awake you still. So we thank Him for the Holy Spirit. Therefore for us to watch, there must be a message, there must be bread in due season. There must be light. There must be oil in the lamps. There must be unfolding of the secret so that like Noah you build the ark. Let’s go in the book of Luke: Luke 21: 32 – 36. 32Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.33Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
I want you to catch something now; have you seen why the message has always been so much against anything in this world you trying to settle, and trying to accumulate things? But the message has always been get everyday what you can eat and what you can drink just for that day. Don’t be so much overcharged with tomorrow and try to develop or look ahead to building whatever. Time is not there and if again you go that direction you are slumbering. It is more so for the end because of the responsibility of what you are supposed to stand for: the message and what it is supposed to accomplish in you demands that. Don’t you see that what Wesley’s message was demanding was more than what Luther’s message was demanding? And what Pentecostal message demanded on the believer was much more than what Wesley’s was demanding and what Brother Branham’s message demanded on the Christian believer was so much more than what the Pentecostal message was demanding and that is why now when it end of time, then the message is going to demand from us much more than what Brother Branham’s message was demanding. So you should not compare yourself; you are not in that age, you are in a higher generation which should be more perfect and the message will demand more from you. A lot of the world must be removed from you. It demands for you to forsake much and also to cast away much and to separate yourself from the world much more than ever it was in the days of Brother Branham. To forsake things in which Brother Branham’s time were never forsaken. So you have to understand your day and its message. This is the message of your day; do not be overcharged with surfeiting. To be so much taken with the business of the world and therefore you slumber; that much care of this life what shall I eat or drink or my family, that makes you slumber. That is why the message of this hour is against that 100% and blusters it and condemns it. Sometimes we misunderstand a little bit. The message of the hour has always been against the world, against you settling in this world because we are preparing and getting ready to go! So what have we to do with this world? That is why when you look to the world a bit you get out of the way you begin looking strange among believers. Therefore, that is the message of the hour keeping us awake, keeping you sober. That day should not come upon you unawares. It only comes upon somebody unaware who is overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness of life on earth and with cares of this life. Those are the only people to whom it will come upon them unawares. And anybody overcharged; the scripture is always on the mark, anybody who is allowing his heart to be overcharged, overweighed with surfeiting or with the cares of this life or some drunkenness of business running up and down: that day will come upon them unawares. So a lot of business, you should not; whatever you do, but let your heart not be overweighed with that work. Let not your hopes be in this world; it should not be plans upon plans. Plans are always from the heart. Kazi za ulimwengu zinafanya mtu alewe. You don’t indulge but just do that which comes your way or that which the Holy Spirit leads or that which is naturally provided for and just for a simple life, not too much business, but daily life. Sufficient is the trouble of one day. The scripture means that there are some elect whom that day shall not come upon them unaware. It shall come upon them when they are aware of it; they shall be aware of the day. Who are those kind of privileged people, blessed; they are the same who receive eye-sight, the opening of eyes. The same are the ones who receive oil in their lamps. The same are they who receive the porter to watch and they are the same who receive the message that same hour of watching; the message to watch by, food in due season! They behold that day coming! They see it coming, they watch it coming! Because if He is telling you to watch, and He completely hides and pulls away and makes sure that you don’t see Him; yet He has told you to watch then what is the meaning out of it? So what am I watching for? Because He has told you watch for you don’t know the day He is coming. That means you should watch so that you should be able to see Him come. The potter watches by the gate. So when the Son of Man comes, Ishi, He is not a thief; He comes by the door of the sheep- fold and the porter to Him openeth, calls His own sheep by name. So that scripture there is a strong rock, so put your feet on it and never sink in sands. It is amazing revelation.
Remember that day is not a twenty-four hour clock day; it is a day for a message! A day for a promise to be fulfilled! Hallelujah! Don’t you feel nice in your heart? Don’t you feel like you are eating, having a nice super; no more need for any other super if I had to eat like this. It is a season for a particular promise to be fulfilled therefore with the Holy Spirit, your eyes opened, with oil in your lamps burning and there you are awake; watching and there He comes! The message is there, your eyes are seeing, you are welcoming Him, you are ready for Him, therefore you are not unaware. See, that is how you watch. The porter is making sure you are awake, watching, prepared and ready for His coming. The Holy Spirit is preparing a people for the coming of the Bridegroom. The Holy Spirit is El’s servant and He is working day and night to ensure that you are sober and quite awake. Why is the Holy Spirit so much insisting and so much pressing on you and so much holding up the stakes high? Because He knows the hour is just around the corner. Hallelujah! I just feel so nice! That’s why He is just calling and directing you all the time, stirring your heart all the time. He is the potter and knows the hour. Do know you that one thing the porter keeps is the time; and if you want to know the time you go and ask the porter. The watchman on the tower is to declare two things: the first one is the time, the season – which kind of watch of the night, then secondly, what is being expected, what is approaching. Amen. So what is that? Jesus Christ is coming and the Holy Spirit is stirring your heart! That day comes as a snare; and what is a snare? Is a trap laid there until somebody falls in it. But here to the elect, those whose eyes are quite awake, their eyes open; that snare is not a snare. Like that day to Noah wasn’t a snare; he was prepared for it. The message of the hour is so tremendous and so real. Don’t you see the message of the hour? Jesus constantly speaking about it and the mystery of the end-time.? 1 Thess. 5: 1 – 8 1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
As you soberly watch for His coming, not drunken like those who drink and sleep in the night, the darkness of this world, but you are watching. For in the breastplate we had the Urim that means lights and the Thummim which means perfections. That is putting on the breastplate of lights and perfections. Let your lights be burning, that is watching with lights and perfections because that light brings you to perfection, shows you the way unto perfection. That breastplate is of faith and love and we don’t walk by sight but by faith and come to perfection by the love of El. So the end of time promises made manifest, proven by scriptures. So we are so thankful, our hearts should be filled with joy, filled with the love of Word, the message, the love of Jesus Christ. We should be full of anointing; a revival should be in our hearts. We should be in a revival as we hear these things. We shall sing that song again as we go to pray and worship; Noah had drifted On the floods many days, He searched for land In various ways; Troubles he had some, But not from above, God gave him His sign On the wings of a dove. On the wings of a snow-white dove, God sends down His pure, sweet love, A sign from above, On the wings of a dove. Jesus, our Savior Came to earth one day; He was born in a stable, In a manger of hay; Though here rejected, But not from above, God gave us His sign On the wings of a dove. Though I have suffered In many a way, I cried for healing Both night and day; Faith wasn’t forgotten By the Father above, He gave me His sign On the wings of a dove. Amen. Just surrender and give yourself humbly to Him; you don’t have to pull and push for Him to give you of His blessings but just humbly and simply child-like-surrender to Him. Give yourself to Him, trusting in Him, hoping in Him and being assured of Him; you just tell Him your heart. Just turn over and tell Him your heart, presenting your desire, tell Him how you just want Him to fill you completely and lead you, guide and show you the way and just willing to be led. Tell Him that let the porter you have send abide in my heart to keep me watching, sober me up for your 2nd coming. Like a little lamb, guide me O loving Shepherd as I hear your voice and surrender to you. Send that heavenly sign, on the wings of a snow white dove, am watching and praying and I want to be ready and am taking heed to the Word you have sent, taking heed to the voice of your commandment. I’ve heard, I receive and am taking heed to what I have heard. If you believe the message and love Him, tell Him about it. Amen.