For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1 Thess 4:16 KJV
Three stages of the coming of Christ, three events of his coming: the shout, the voice of an archangel and the trump of the Lord. Now, many miss the mark by looking at these events literally. They expect first some great noise in the sky some day, followed by a literal voice of the archangel… Just a sound. Then finally, within the same 24hr day, they expect to hear a literal sound of a trumpet. That is not true, for these things are symbolic.
The day of the Lord is a long period of time called the end time. It is just like saying the day of Noah, the day of Moses, the day of David or the apostolic day… These are not 24hr days! So is the day of the Lord. It is the day of redemption; it is the day of judgement; it is the day of full atonement; it is the day when heaven and earth pass away; it is the day of Jubilee; the acceptable day of the Lord. Certainly, this is a long period of time.
The shout is the cry of the herald of his second coming. As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, so there is a herald of his second coming. A herald is also called a crier, because he has to shout to announce the soon arrival of the king. The shout is therefore the ministry of the herald, a message that prepares the way for Christ’s coming.
As at now, that is already fulfilled. William Branham the Baptist was the second forerunner. He already prepared the way, the spiritual way for the second coming. He levelled the mountains, filled the valleys, smoothened the rough places and straightened the crooked. How? By the unveiling the works of the antichrist from the beginning to his time; by exposing Satan’s tricks by which he has been deceiving the church; by pointing back to the true revelation of the Word of God, and by the unfolding of the antichrist mystery from the seven-sealed book. That ministry started in 1933 and ended in 1965. By 1965, the ministry of the shout was done. He left behind a clear highway for the king. The ministry of the shout was over. Next we expect the ministry of the voice of the archangel; the voice of the Word in flesh. As at now, that ministry is ongoing. After that, we expect the ministry of the trumpet, and that is the Pentecostal ministry of the Holy Spirit in fullness of its power.
The first Pentecost was only an earnest, we are looking forward for the fullness of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. That will usher in an apostolic ministry such as has never been imagined. That is the trumpet of the Lord, it is the Holy Spirit ministry in fullness of his power bearing witness unto the truth. It is the trumpet of the final jubilee. The Holy Spirit declaring the acceptable day, the day of the Lord, the day of complete freedom; for where the Spirit is in fullness, there is the fullness of liberty. That is the day of redemption. Not a 24hr day please! It is a dispensation of redemption. A day when God will fully be revealed through the hearts of men. There we go!
For the way He came the first time, that is the way He ever comes. For the scripture says He comes by Water and Blood, and the Spirit bears witness… In His first advent, John the Baptist was the Water Message, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, that is the shout… What shout? The scripture calls it the shout of the king. The Word made flesh was the voice of blood, and the Holy Spirit descended to bear witness… Water, blood, Spirit.
At the second coming, the message of Branham the Baptist was the shout, it was a ministry of water… A Baptist you know, just like John, restoring back the right Baptism and not only that but Baptism represents the washing of water by the Word, so the shout restores the Word as water for washing to get a people ready for the Lord. Yes, the ministry of the Baptist of Ohio was the shout of the king in His second coming… A coming which even angels know nothing about! A top secret.
Now, if the shout was a ministry of the Water of the Word, then certainly the Voice of the arch-angel must be a ministry of the Word, for it is the Voice of the Blood that speaks better things than Abel’s. That is the voice of the Word in flesh. After this ministry has been fully fulfilled, then the Holy Ghost arrives in fullness to bear witness of it among many. Oh, what a Pentecost then! What a trumpet! What a Jubilee then! The dead won’t help but shoot out to also bear witness among the living saints… It will be a ministry far beyond the Pentecost of the apostles. It will finally send Satan to prison anyhow. Exactly! Oh, I feel like shouting and hollering all over the place now!
Look! John the Baptist was the earnest ministry of the shout, but when Branham arrived it struck the fullness, struck the seven peaks! Struck the seals! Oh, it went plump into the very heavens as he was caught up seeing the departed saints. It laid bear the antichrist malady from Genesis to revelation. If you compare the message of John the Baptist and that of Branham, John’s message seems a drop in an ocean. Isn’t it? Why? John was in the earnest, but Branham arrived with the fullness of the shout.
Jesus, in His first advent, was the Word in flesh. He revealed Himself in earnest. That is why the whole New Testament has been based on the earnest. But in His second advent, He brings the fullness of Himself in clear view. That is the voice of the arch-angel, the arch-messenger, a messenger of messengers, with those seven thunders! For the man with the seven Stars in his right hand has also the seven spirits of God, and He also has the seven eyes of God, and the seven horns of anointing… Certainly then He is the man with the seven thunders. What is that sevenfold voice in Him? The voice of the arch-angel, for He is the arch-messenger! Yes, it is the voice of the Word! For in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He is the very Word… The living, walking Word… The very Word that God Spoke out of His mouth to manifest Himself. He is the Spoken (not written) Word, the very original Seed. As Isaac was the original Seed of Abraham, so Jesus Christ is the Original Seed of God… Yeah, the written Word is called the Bible, but Christ is the Spoken, living, walking Word of God, riding on a white horse, leading the heavenly armies! The written Word is a dead letter, you can learn all of it but remain dead, but whoever has the son of God, the Spoken Word of God, has life in himself as Jesus has life in himself! Oh, glory to God!
Jesus Christ is the Spoken Word of God, the Original Seed to multiply into the sons of God like stars for multitude! The Spoken Word begins all, and the Spoken Word ends all… Spoken by the seven-thunder voice of the almighty!
The devil interprets and peddles lies about the written scriptures, misinterpreting and deceiving men in religious camps, but there is one thing he can’t touch, he knows nothing about it… What is it? The Spoken Word, spoken by the seven thunders! For Him has God sealed with His rainbow seal. He is beyond all knowledge, beyond all writings, beyond all religions, beyond all languages from Babel, Spoken not in English, not in Hebrew, not in any language of men, but Spoken in God’s own divine language! No man can learn that language save he who is filled with the fullness of God.
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
2 Corinthians 12:3-4 KJV
Look! If God Spoke His Word, which language did He use? Not man’s language, not even the angel’s language, but the Holy Ghost language! God’s language is pure and perfect, it has seven vowels and twenty four consonants exactly. So, no human tongue can utter it! No! Not even an angel! That is the language of the Spoken Word!
The devil has messed up Churches, including Branham Churches, by misinterpreting the written Word to them; he just makes them confused. You can’t perfect anything by the written Word… the dead letter. The devil by his shrewdness will always meddle with it… But there is one thing that is beyond Him, the Third Pull, the Spoken Word sealed by God’s own language! It is beyond all knowledge! God alone has the password to it! And He reveals it to whom He chooses. It can’t be read. It can’t be learned. It can’t be taught. So the devil has no way of reaching it. That is one thing that the devil knows nothing about.
Notice, that the devil has ever impersonated, not only the gifts of the Holy Spirit, but also the written Word… That is why he has filled the world with dead religions, each claiming the Bible yet far from the truth as darkness is from light. But there is one thing that Satan won’t make a religion out of it. What is it? The Spoken Word! Who is that? Jesus Christ! If we who are born again are written epistles, written not with ink and pen but by the Spirit, then how much more is Jesus Christ the very Word of God, not written at all, but simply spoken out of the mouth of God! He is the Spoken Word, the Original Seed from God the Father.
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
John 6:27 KJV
In which seal is the Spoken Word sealed? Not the first, second or third. Not the fourth, fifth or sixth. It is the seventh, the rainbow seal. The Third Pull seal, the seal of the Spoken Word, the very original Seed. Out of the seventh comes the Spoken Word!
All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Matthew 11:27 KJV
Jesus Christ, the Spoken Word of God, is sealed away from every theologian. They can learn and teach the bible and meddle with it, but there is one thing they can’t meddle with. It is beyond their heads. What is that? The voice of the arch-angel, the Spoken Word of God! It will never be written in man’s language, that mars it and gives Satan a chance to meddle with it and peddle lies. It is kept away from all and the same brings in the ministry of the third pull in fullness. Brother Branham had it in part, but we are looking for the fullness of the ministry of the unwritten Word… The living, walking Word on two feet… Praise the Lord!
Yes, the sons of the Word, in their fullness, when God in Christ has stepped in them, will be the brand new Bible Version which no man can read. They will be the published Word of God, published in their hearts. Not written, but the begotten Bible Version… A language that the devil can never learn whatever he does. That is the final Bible Version. For the first Bible Version was the Spoken Word, the only begotten of God, and He was planted to grow, mature and publish himself into many members, the sons of God. So, the generation of the Word of God will be the final Bible Version which can never be read by the adulterous eyes of religious knowledge. Believest thou these things? Behold it is on your doorsteps. Arise therefore and incline your ear.
The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it .
Psalm 68:11 KJV
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