THE LAST DAY CHURCH GOES TO THE HEADSTONE

14-0622M KDY

 

[This Message was preached at a place in Bungoma, Kenya in a house fellowship on the Morning of 22nd June, 2014 by Brother Joshua. The message is 03hrs 41mins and 41secs long]

 

Amen. May our Saviour Jesus Christ bless you all.

I thank Him because He has kept all of us. We thank Him for His grace which He has provided this day for us here and for having cared for each one of you to be present here.  I thank Him for the grace, I thank Him for the blessings which He has bestowed upon us at this moment in such a time; and much more so because we are in a battle, and it is quite a battle which we cannot assume. It is a real and great battle, and we cannot take it for granted. But we know that He who has gone ahead of us is one who cannot be defeated; and that is why we depend on Him and trust Him because we know that He is the victor and that the end of it all we are also overcomers. We cannot be defeated, but we shall be overcomers because He says that He is there; and that because He lives, we shall also live. Now, because He lives in us, we will find ourselves in the same status of being alive as He is.

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We thank Him so much for the light that shines today, the light of the revelation on God's Word bringing us to the very point where Job says; “Do you know the way to the place where light dwelleth?” That is the way that takes you to the place where light comes from – the very source of light. We thank Him so much for bringing us to the very encounter of that source of light. He has brought us so close to the source of light. We thank Him for the amazing grace because we know that it is not the way we would have chosen or desired or conducted ourselves to be able to find it, but that light shines on us because it is by grace that we have found mercy before Him – just by that grace. 

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Now before I read my scripture, which I am still pondering over whether I would say much on the scripture or not, for we just always leave it free like that.

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I just happened to have pumped into this book. You know sometimes I print many of them and they all go out and I remain without even one copy. So, I pumped into this, and I read quite a big portion of it from yesterday; that is My Pilgrimage which is the autobiography of Brother Seth. I really had a fellowship upon it from yesterday just reading it over and again. I just want to read these ending paragraphs a bit. I didn't think it that way until when I read it yesterday. That is when the thought came to me and I thought I should read it to you, so that you also contemplate on it the way I am contemplating. Does it have any meaning the way I am thinking about it? So, it just ends that way. And he says:

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That third incident occurred soon after the December meetings when I got home, it was a dream. In this dream, the scene was at school. It was at the start of a new Term, and I was on duty together with another gentleman in the dream. So, we learnt that inspectors were to visit the place. We made frantic efforts to put everything in order, but we had not gone far when the officers arrived. My colleague whom I was on duty with was called to explain something to the visitors. Then the scene changed, and I found myself in an open field kind of square and enclosed by buildings on all the four sides. My attention was drawn to three strange visitors who had just landed from an unknown place in space. They were two men and a woman. I stared at them very curiously wondering what kind of people these could be.

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Then the scene changed again, and I was told by something to look up. High in the sky, right above my head, was a huge object that was wrapped up in a kind of canvas material which was tied on both ends the way sweets are usually wrapped. It was orbiting in the space like a balloon preparing to land. Soon I saw it land in the eastern direction from where I was. Immediately it landed, I was gripped by such love like I have never felt before since I was born. I found myself holding a man whom I understood that he had been an enemy before, but had now become a brother and the love I had for him was beyond words to describe. I woke up out of that dream still feeling the impact of that love in my heart and on my nerves. The feeling stayed with me for nearly two minutes. I thought the rapture was about to take place. I woke up and went and stood outside for some time. Finally, the feeling left me and I came back to myself. I have ever longed to have a feel of that love again.

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That is how the autobiography ends, you know. Now, I know of the dream, you know sometimes you attribute things to what you know about God dealing with you, or His dealings with the age or the generation or something like that. It is strange that these two men and a woman were landing from outer space, out of this world.  They landed in that square building, and it is strange that they were two men and one woman. That is very strange, and I was thinking about that also. Then the wrapped gift which comes with an impact of love that you cannot be able to describe. That follows that ministry. Joshua, Caleb and Mary? Then the headstone is divine love? Is it? I don’t know.

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So, I think it has some meaning to this end time; now that we are fighting for something. The capstone, you know, comes down like that as Brother Branham used to draw that pyramid, then he made those seven stages from Paul, Martin, Irenaeus, Columba, Luther, Wesley and then finally the seventh is Branham. Then he put the hanging capstone up there which is not yet so much joined to the whole house, and then he wrote in between that: Love. So, you know that is that perfect love, and it means that there is that promise yet to descend from above. It is a gift wrapped like a sweet; and love is sweet. But there has to be a ministry here on earth because there were two men here and woman. I'm thinking about it. So, I didn't know, and I can't interpret things which I'm not sure that God has told me to interpret. 

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So, about this, I'm just contemplating; I'm not interpreting anything. But when you find me telling you; ‘Now this means that …’, then you know that I know it is scriptural and right. I could have checked up the scriptures and the signification of God to me; then I'll tell you what it means. But sometimes you tell me a very wonderful dream and I just stare at it with no understanding. I just leave it because I don't get it. However, sometimes it can be a little crude dream which seems to have no meaning to begin with, but then he just comes and signifies everything and puts everything clear, plain, black and white and says this is that and that is the other. And the scriptures come up to back it up; then I understand the dream. 

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So, I know it has to do with something. I am going to read this here from The Spoken Word is The Original Seed just to get people contemplating on it. I am not telling you the interpretation of the dream. I am telling you that it is contemplation, and I like contemplating. Oh, great contemplation!

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Oh, the blessed contemplation,

When with troubles here I sigh;

I've a home beyond the river,

That I'll enter by and by.

 

I've a home beyond the river,

I've a mansion bright and fair;

I've a home beyond the river,

I will dwell with Jesus there.

 

Oh, how sweet 'twill be to meet them,

All the ransomed host above;

Sweeter until to see the Saviour,

Praise him for redeeming love.

 

Though the world is filled with sorrow,

And the teardrops often fall;

There will be but joy and gladness,

Safely inside the jasper wall.

 

Though the hills are rough and stormy,

And the valleys dark and cold;

I must walk the path before me,

It will someday turn to gold.

                                                         [Calvary Hymnal #229]

You know I like prophecy because I want to see it being fulfilled. That is the problem with me. So, my eyes are never off the prophecy. I will always search for something which is being fulfilled in the day that I'm leaving in.

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So, he says: 

414 Now, here is what I’m trying to say to you. The law of reproduction, bring forth of its kind, Genesis 1:11. These last days, true Church-Bride comes to the Headstone, 

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That is the Godhead, because the headstone is the head. That which is at the very top in the capping position is the head; and the head of all things is the Godhead.  The head for all things in creation and in existence is nothing else but the Godhead; and He was never accepted in the Garden of Eden; He was never accepted by angels; He was never accepted by seraphim. There were angels and there were Seraphim as well as Cherubim; and they never received the Godhead. There you are! Always the Godhead was rejected through controversy and apostasy. First, apostasy was among the Sons of God, and you know Lucifer is also a son of the morning, just the same way Cain seemed to be the son of Adam. And that son of the morning raised rebellion in the beginning.

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Second, there was that controversy among the Cherubim; some of them left the truth of God, and that is why you have the kind of beasts like lion, like bear, like leopard, like dragon and all those other fellows like that in Daniel’s prophecy, because they fell from the truth.

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Then the fall descended down to the angels. Of course, angels were not the first to fall from the truth. The first to fall from the truth were those higher beings which were sons of God. And we know Jesus Christ never fell, but we know of another son who is called the son of the morning that fell from the knowledge of truth. That was Satan. So, the headstone was neither accepted nor received in his place among these beings.

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There was a little message one time which I was preaching; I don't know whether I am able to catch it, and even re-tape it again so that people can listen to it. We were preaching it long time ago when the message was just in the infancy. We were referring to the rejected headstone: The Hijacked Capstone Place in Eden. We preached it over and again that the place of the headstone was hijacked by the devil, contrary to justice.

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It is so easy to prove that the heads which we have now are the heads of destruction and perdition. We have apostate heads; whatever heads that we carry, our thoughts and our mind is the source of all wars and corruption. That is why, as Christians, we fight this carnal knowledge which is against the holy Word of God. 

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In the fall we received an evil head, but now that we have received the true Head, there is a lot of warfare in the camp.  Why are we ever fighting so much within ourselves? It is because Jesus is to take His place as head by getting in, and the devil does not want to leave because he is our former head and therefore, he stands his ground to fight. He cannot leave his inheritance to go freely like that. That is why all hell breaks loose when somebody becomes a Christian because a new Head is taking over from another one. The kingdom is being taken over. Somebody cannot just come and take over the kingdom from another person. There has to be a fight. That is why there is a lot of struggles in Kenya because one head is trying to take over from another head; and everybody is trying to be head.

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Remember democracy has no shape, because the state (wife) becomes married to one head, and before that head dies another one takes over. Now, how many husbands do we have in Kenya who are still alive? The whole thing is the picture of whoredom – one woman having many living husbands. Do you see that? That democracy is completely wrong? It is neither democracy nor dictatorship that is good – none of them is good. It is supposed to be the monarch kind of leadership, like David’s.  The right kingdom is supposed to be the monarch kind, like it was with David; when he died his son took over and then his grandson, and so on and so forth.

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That is the only kingdom or leadership that God accepted to bear with. That does not mean that it is perfect, because as it is of men so it cannot be perfect, but that is what God would bear with as far as politics is concerned. It is a monarch type of leadership; and the monarch should be the one that He has chosen. If he has chosen David then whoever follows after David, if it is Solomon, it is God to choose him and so on. 

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It is not even supposed to be the father to choose the heir of his throne. It must be God Himself choosing because He knows men’s hearts.  They should just wait before God expecting Him to choose one of them to be their king. Which kind of king will God choose?

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This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. Daniel 4:17 

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That is the kind of king that God would choose for any kingdom, the very basest of men! And that is exactly contrary to all democracy, dictatorship and the monarch… all of them scouts for some loft person, a thing which God hates, for the father of such that are high-minded is Satan.

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So whatever kind of politics, it is all wrong; but if there be some kind of monarch kingdom, then God can bear with that kind of leadership so long as He is the one who has chosen the king. Or else, He does not accept any because even the monarch, if it is not God-chosen, is evil.

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Now that God is the head himself, why should you have another head? Are you seeing that? That is what Gideon said. When Gideon had won the victory against the Midianites, the children of Israel desired that Gideon should reign over them as king.

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They said, “You have saved us from the Midianites, now rule over us”.

He said, “Nay! I will never rule over you, never my son or my son’s son, but God is your King to rule over you.” 

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He understood the whole matter spiritually. Oh, my! I hope we see it. He never accepted their election of him to be their head!” You see? That is it!

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In the whole existence, you find that there are two heads fighting one another. And you know Jesus Christ, revealed as the Son of God, was never accepted and received into His place as the head of this creation. Why? Because there was a great controversy, revolt and rebellion.

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Therefore, ever since, there has never been peace in this creation. That is why it has never been possible to have peace and unity in the creation. The whole kingdom has never been in unity, and there has never been harmony in it. It’s been chaos all along because the right head was rejected, and the wrong head was accepted; and it is the wrong one that is reigning. Imagine! Oh, the whole thing is marriage and divorce. Some husband took over the wife of another husband, and you think there could be peace! There won't be any peace. They will just continue fighting until one kills the other.

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Notice, how there is confusion, wars and strives among all creatures is because of the wrong head that all were crowned with, be it beasts, birds or creeping things.

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The devil came in cunningly and used all sorts of lies to deceive God’s wife. He had money and everything; and that is what he used in the Garden of Eden against Eve, by showing her some kind of program that will make her to be wiser, you know, if she gets married that way. So, that is what has happened from the beginning; and that is why there is chaos everywhere. That is why there has never been peace in the creation of God; there is fighting, throwing up of things and that kind of confusion continually. Things just keep falling apart, and no unity among them because the true head is rejected. But there are others who come up in the name of heads and they fight and rival the true Head and are accepted to be head over the whole creation – the whole house. They come in by cunningness and lies. They are liars! But God does not strive. His Son Jesus Christ does not strive. Therefore, He gives them place so that they may show their colors, that they are liars. 

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Now, when they have worked out all their schemes, engaged all their efforts and have manifested themselves clearly – at the end of the day, when all is manifested, then He comes on and says: “Have you not seen for yourselves? So, who is the true one? It is not that I'm just against everybody, but you have seen for yourself all the heads that have reigned over you all these years; you can now compare them with me and tell who is worthy.”

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That is why we must have 1000 years on earth for the millennium rule so that Jesus can reign for a thousand years alone, for us to we compare. Let the people now decide who is who, and who is worthy. He doesn't have to strive and fight battles to take over. He just says: “Now I have given you enough time, you have been the king of this earth and the people have seen it till your time is now over; therefore, just leave so that I can also reign, and we let them be able to decide, so that they can vote in an informed way.  Let the people decide who is the true head, by the style, manner and prosperity of his leadership.” But then devil adamantly refuses that kind of agreement, and says he is not going anywhere!

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That is when he is taken by an angel and chained for 1000 years in the pit, until the thousand years are over. He is not willing to give chance to Jesus Christ to also reign; and that is why that angel comes down with a chain, binds him and drops him in the bottomless pit so that Jesus has a time to reveal and manifest His kind of kingdom on earth. Oh, there will be peace without measure! There'll be love flowing like a river! There will be happiness, joy, holiness, pureness all over, and there will be no corruption on earth again! And then people will say: 'This is it!' Even those who are not saved will see for themselves and also say; “This is it, this is the kind that we want”. That shall be when Jesus Christ comes to set up his kingdom on earth. 

So, he says:

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414 Now, here is what I’m trying to say to you. The law of reproduction brings forth of its kind, Genesis 1:11. These last days, true Church-Bride comes to the Headstone, will be the super Church, a super Race, as they…nears the great Headstone.

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The other day I was looking back into my bible, and I never knew that I wrote that dream there. You know, I had been trying to look for the very word that I used in the dream. That dream in which I told you that Brother Seth had printed a book and I was given it in a dream, and I knew very well that it was Brother Seth who had printed it and he send it over to me; yet it was in the dream. Then I got my Bible the other day, I was opening behind it, and it was, you know, all covered like that. So, I happened to look behind the Bible, the first leaf from the other side then I was surprised that I had written the dream there just after dreaming it in the very words that I had in the dream.  So, I read them, and I was quite surprised.

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He said, “You think this is the statistics of the last steps of the prophet on earth? This is not the statistics of the last steps of the prophet on earth, but this is what he said Take Up The Pen And Write.” And on the same leaf I tried to draw the pictures of what I saw in the dream. The cloud head, the lion and the little baby seated like that on his four limbs. So, he said that this is what he said, ‘Take up the pen and write’. What I am reading here is what Bro Branham was told by the Holy Spirit to take up the pen and write. That was before the Seals were opened.

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He was in a certain dilemma and had exclaimed; ‘What can I do, now that everything has failed since the world began, and Jesus has no bride? What shall we do? Every church has failed; every system has failed; every people have failed, and now if I just tell the people that everything has failed and then I say, “Let us rise up and pray,” what will they do? Shall we say then Hallelujah and Amen? Everything has failed, Hallelujah?’ 

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He was telling God as he was praying in the closet somewhere, trying to get a message for the people; and that was somewhere in 1962. As he was praying like that, a message came flowing showing how Eve and Adam fell, how Israel fell and finally went for other heads. When they had been given a true head they rejected Him and wanted another head in the son of Kish. It went on like that proving how all the denominations and churches down to the Catholicism and the rest of them have failed, and that they have been failing all the time. Then finally came to the Pentecostal church which had just fallen. 

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Then being at that point, it looked like everything has fallen into apostasy, and religions which are false had taken up the place of the true church. And he said I have reached at the end of the limb. So, if I preach to them like that, showing how all the church has failed since the Garden of Eden up to today, then at the end of it all I say; ‘Let us rise up and pray’; then what will they do?

 

Everything is defeated, so do we leave and go eat, drink and merry because there is no victory?

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You know, like John was crying on the isle of Patmos because there was no man to open the Seals. 

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Then at that time, brother Branham was told by the Holy Spirit, who used to talk to him so vividly and evidently, and said; “Take up the pen and write.” So, he took the pen to write, as the Bible says that the Word of God was written by the holy men of God when they were moved by the Holy Spirit. So, the Holy Spirit moved upon him to write the things about another generation that was to come after him. For if there had been no other generation, Brother Branham could have never been taken away. If Jesus’ day is a 24-hour day then Brother Branham was supposed to stay there and point to the sky; ‘behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world’. Otherwise, why take him away and Jesus’ day is a 24-hour day? Why take a forerunner like John away – John pointed to Jesus directly, baptized Him and left the scene. And because many people were still following John and doting their eyes on him because they were so used to John, thinking that Jesus, who was introduced by John, was not just meeting the qualification of a Messiah, so God had to take him away. Same thing with Branham, for there was to be a ministry after Branham, that is the capstone ministry.

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The Jews could not receive Jesus as the promised one. It only clicked one time when they ate bread, then they said; 'Sure the ministry is now shaping up properly because we can see Moses now. He is going in the right direction and now He is giving us bread; then the next thing you'll begin to see some kind of warfare, or an uprising against the Romans!' So, they wanted to crown him king. They wanted to bring many people together and blow trumpets and say; 'Now we have a king; he is the king of the Jews! And you Romans, off you go because we have the man who can give us bread to feed seven thousand of us from just a little fish and bread. This man can flush off these Romans out!' 

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That is a kind of kingdom they were waiting for, but John continued a little while still baptizing here and there; and Jesus was also baptizing somewhere else. Ah! No; that could not work. That is why John was quickly taken to the prison. You see? Because that was going to bring confusion. Jesus is here baptizing while John is also still doing it elsewhere. Therefore, some of the disciples of John were not really convinced that Jesus was the Messiah. Same thing today. Nevertheless, the elect were convinced. Brothers like Andrew, John, Peter when they found Him, they said; “Come and see whom we have found.” Then Nathaniel wondered; “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” He was told to come and see.

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As John the Baptist was standing there with two of his disciples, John and Andrew, he said, “Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.” They left John and followed Jesus. That is how they were supposed to act because John said, “I must decrease and he must increase”, but most of his disciples stuck on him thinking that maybe he had missed a point in trying to refer to Jesus as the Messiah.  That is why, while in prison, he sent again also some disciples to go and ask Jesus properly whether He was the Messiah or not. Same thing happening today! The disciples of the forerunner today do not believe the very promises pointed to by Branham!

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Listen a bit carefully now. God bless you and help you to see the vision.

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If the prophet was forerunning a Jesus who was to descend from heaven and appear in the clouds and His ministry is just in a moment of time to change the people into the rapture, then there was no reason why the forerunner was to be taken off the earth. He was supposed to minister and prepare the people until he points them to Jesus Christ the Messiah descending from above. 

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Now, Brother Branham being a forerunner, was taken away as we know, leaving behind a church on its own, and then confusion set in, then what had he prepared? In which way has he now prepared the church and how is the church going to be ready to crossover to meet Jesus in the air? Because they believed that Jesus was going to come in the air; and that was all – nothing else. So, they must just continue looking in the air expecting him from there and yet they are getting more confused day by day. 

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What we are saying here is that if Jesus was to appear in the sky after Branham, then Branham was supposed to stay there with them until Jesus comes in the air and he points to them saying; “Here He is, the Lamb of God or the King that comes in the Name of The Lord.” But we are simply saying that it was not so because God knew what was going to happen next. That the day of The Lord, the coming of Jesus, was not a 24-hour day, just like the first coming, and therefore there will be continuity of His Word. He will take over from where Branham left and move on to victory. The capstone will have a ministry on earth; therefore, Branham should decrease as the one with the capstone increases. Branham had prepared the way for the coming in of the headstone ministry by Jesus Christ.

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So, He took him out of the way so that things can settle for the next Ministry. It is simple and straightforward like that though most of John’s disciples today don’t see it. Because the state was too volatile by then, and those around Branham were getting so worked up, and their spirits were too high for another message to come in right away in the new ministry, so, God had to quieten the people and make them settle down; then the waters had to be shaken off the umbrella, and everything be calmed first so that people could sit down with new expectations, and then quietly something begins shaping up again to bring in that great climax of the ministry that was pointed to by the forerunner, because there is a work that he has to accomplished.

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Now, let me just leave it there because there's a message on it and one time we shall listen to it, why the prophet was taken away abruptly, and why it had been necessary to be so. There are many things right in there; if you watch the Seventh Seal, and you'll see all that there. But now I am just addressing one thing, that the headstone was not received from the beginning. And just look at yourself and the war in you as a Christian, when you try to receive Jesus Christ as your head, when you are trying to be submissive to Jesus Christ; when you are surrendering to Jesus that He should be your King and be the head, then you realize that there is quite a lot of resistance to your mission from some quarters in you.  That is the devil doing that, for he still has some place in you, striving to remain your head; that is why we need that capstone ministry to bring in perfection by divine love!

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The Cherubim fell, angels fell, Adam and Eve fell, Babylon fell, then the church after Pentecost like Babylon, fell; and every denomination finally has fallen, one by one, from the true head because they could not stay with the Word. For the only way to be united with God as your head is to fully unite with the Word. It is the receiving of the full revelation of the Word that destroys all the works of Satan from within you. But what is the prophecy here telling us? – it clearly says that the last day true church-bride goes to the headstone.

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Yes, look at this, he said: “the true church bride comes to the headstone will be a super church, a super race, as they near the great headstone.” What is the great headstone? I just wanted to kind of allow it to sink a bit. It is the Godhead! It is what the Bible says the eternal power, and Godhead which has always been revealed, but people don't realize and accept it as the headstone which has been revealed.

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Rom 1:19-20  Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 

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That is the headstone! It is the God of Jesus Christ who dwells in fullness in him. He has been fully made known to them: in nature, by creation and everything else, it has been revealed, but men don't want to receive the truth. So, they go for the lie; but the headstone has always been revealed, though it be a mystery.

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Col 2:8-10 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: 

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God is the head of all things! And He is fully revealed in Christ. Therefore, the headstone ministry is committed to Christ! He is the only one with the fullness of the Godhead revelation. In his first coming, he was the cornerstone, now he comes as the headstone! So, that great headstone is the final message; it will be a ministry; it'll be preached, because how does the headstone then come? How does the church go to the headstone? Is it physically? No. It must be by experience; it must be by baptism; it must be by a Message; it must be by God's Word, and it must be by revelation of the same headstone. We should look for the headstone message! That is what Branham prepared the way for!

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That is what he said ‘Take up the pen and write’; and this is not statistics of the last steps of the prophet. And he said that the seed has been sown into the ground and shall publish a book. Amen? So, that is the book that Brother Seth had printed because Seth means appointed seed and Jesus Christ was the appointed heir of all things. So, Jesus is the appointed seed and he had written a book. So, the way of writing a book or publishing it was sowing the seed into the ground. Elijah (Brother Branham) being a sower of the seed, sowed the seed and then it has to be published by and by. So, the book was finally published, and I was looking at it and it was published and whatever it was, it was alive, and it was about the headstone.

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Now, I just want to ask you a question now. What is this that has been going on about this great revelation of the headstone? Everything that was never known has been revealed; where questions could be asked, now answers have been found. 

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I was asking that other man who sent me a post and told me that the book of Revelation was an illusion; and I said, alright, I will answer him. Then I wrote him a very strong statement. I said, “Your own conscience cannot convince you that God is not there, leave alone you trying to convince another man.” Then he answered and said, ‘Let us agree to disagree.’ Then, I thought, it is alright, I will answer him more strongly next time. 

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So, recently I wrote him another elaborate post on what I had written earlier to him and said, “How can there be a positive without a negative; and how can there be a negative without a positive? I don't understand you, that there is a lot of negatives and there's no positive?” Life on earth is all negatives because there is death, sickness, sorrow, sin, corruption, and everything else; it is not perfect. Show me any perfect thing on earth! And whatever is not perfect, is imperfect. So, you want to tell me that we have the imperfect things only, and there are no perfect things? The word imperfect itself comes from perfect; so, tell me that there is no perfection and yet there is imperfection!

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You are behaving like a child who is trying to argue with a grown-up person saying, ‘ha-ha there is no such a thing as gravitational force’. Then you ask the child; ‘why?’ He says, ‘I have never seen it;’ Why? ‘I have never smelled it;’ Why? ‘I have never felt it; so, it is not there.’ So those are the kind of questions you people ask as you say that there is no God because you have never seen Him, and you have never tasted Him”.

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I asked him; “Now, have you ever felt gravitational force? There's a lot of evidence around you to show that there is gravitational force, yet you can’t see it; similarly, there is a lot of evidence around you showing that God exists, and you can't deny that. There is a lot of evidence concerning the eternal one that you can’t deny it. You cannot have negative in existence and lack positive. You cannot have imperfection without having perfection. You cannot have darkness without light. You cannot have evil without righteousness. If there is a lot of evil in this world, as we all know, there must be righteousness somewhere, to contrast it. That is what you are missing”.

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I wanted to tell him something. I said, “The most narrow-minded man is a modern scientific atheist. He thinks that all he can see with his eyes is the only thing that exists. He is so narrow-minded thinking that all that he can test scientifically and see is the only thing that there is in existence.”

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I said, “If you had an open mind, you should agree that other things can be there which you don't know. I said that there is not only one dimension, but there are many dimensions.”

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I asked him; “What about witchcraft; let us leave alone God. Any man who knows the truth about witchcraft knows that it is real, yet it is not science, and you cannot prove it by lab tests, yet it is there! Now, therefore there is perfection which is far beyond us, and we can only see it by faith. The sense of faith is more superior to the sense of your eyesight and if you got faith, you would understand the book of Revelation, that it is a bright sun shining”.

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I told him to come up high and stop hiding in darkness somewhere, denying the fact that there is the sun shining up here. I told him to come up high and see the sun that is shining and accept it.

Then he wrote back and said, “Thank you for sharing.” Then I thought, “That is alright. I'll stop there for now; he has said the right word.” Had he answered negatively, I would have picked on him again. 

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So, you see people don't want to accept the Godhead; they want to say that it is an illusion. Whatever they say, it is there! The truth is there! So, the Godhead is there, and this last day church goes to the headstone. It will be a super church and a super race. It will be a church which will go to the headstone and receive Jesus Christ to be the head. 

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Remember, God is supposed to be the head of all in creation, and there wasn't supposed to be any other man trying to be the head. You see? The only way God was to lead His people was to reveal Himself somewhere. Oh, my! That is the Message. Now, I better read the scripture. 

But before that, he says this:

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414 ... They will be much like, so much like Him, even they will be in His very image, in the order to be united with Him. They will be One. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God. Denominations can never produce This. This will be…They will produce their creeds and dogmas, mixed with the Word, and—and brings a hybrid product.

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415 The first son was spoken Seed-Word of God. He was given a bride. (I’m just reviewing. The Spirit now is picking up what I said. See?) A bride, produ-…to produce himself. She fell. See, that’s what…The bride was given, to produce himself again, another son of God. But she fell, by hybreeding, see. Produce himself; but she fell, caused him to die.

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416 The second Son, a spoken Seed-Word of God, was given a bride, like Adam. But before He could marry her, she had fallen, also. For she was put to a free moral agency, like Adam’s wife was, to believe God’s Word and live, or doubt It and die. And she did.

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The second son is the Spoken Seed Word of God and was given a bride like Adam. You see that? That is Jesus Christ figurative now like Jehovah's bride was Israel figuratively and the bride of Jesus Christ was the church at Pentecost, but before He could marry her, she had fallen also. She was brought to a free moral agency like Adam's wife to choose whatever kind of head that suits her: to believe God’s Word and live or doubt it and die. She doubted it and therefore died. 

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417 Then from a little group of the true Seed of the Word, God will present Christ a beloved Bride, a Virgin, a Virgin of His Word. And through them, and by them, will be fulfilled all that has been promised for His Word in the Virgin who knows no man-made creeds or dogmas.

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It is a prophecy; so, it must come to pass because it was the Holy Spirit which told Brother Branham to take a pen and write. We better wait for it, looking in the direction of the compass always. That was the prophecy for the next Ministry after the Branham forerunning Ministry.

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418 The Word of promise in Himself, like It was in Mary, God Himself made manifest. He will act Himself, by His Own Word of promise, so to fulfill all that has been written of Him, as He did when He came from the virgin womb. Type of the Spirit womb now, so will the Virgin now, accepting His Word, “Be it unto me as Thou has said.” Though it was said by an Angel, while it yet was the written Word, Isaiah 9:6 – 

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“Unto us a child is born and unto us a son is given.” Not Isaiah 7:14 please! That talks of a virgin shall conceive and give us a son, an Emmanuel, but here it is Isaiah 9:6: unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and government shall be upon his shoulders; he shall not die, not to be crucified. That is the end time promise but Isaiah 7:14 is the beginning, the cornerstone, back there in the morning – the first coming of Jesus Christ. Therefore, the second coming of Jesus Christ is Isaiah 9:6. That brings in the headstone! John the Baptist foreran the cornerstone, but Branham foreran the headstone! Yes, John the Baptist prepared the way for Isaiah 7:14, while Branham prepared the way for Isaiah 9:6. As Isaiah spoke about the first coming of Jesus, so he also spoke about the second coming.

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So, Branham wrote on, saying,

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419 They will love Him, love His, and will have His potentials, for He is their Head. And they are His subjects, subject to His Head. Headship of Christ was His.

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Notice what harmony! Jesus never did anything until seen of the Father, or, the Father showed Him first. Harmony between God and Christ, see, John 5:19. So will the Bride, and He shows Her His Word of Life. He shows Her, and She receives It. She never doubts It. Nothing can harm Her, not even death. For if the Seed be planted, the water will raise It up again. (Amen. Then I got a great big “Hallelujah!”) Here is the secret. The Word is in the Bride, and the mind of Christ, to know what He wants done with the Word. And She does it in His Name. She has THUS SAITH THE LORD. Then It is germitized, so the Holy Spirit waters It until It is grown and serves Its purpose.

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Amen. 

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Coming to that headship, you know, it must be perfect faith. Nothing can harm her, not even death because she has to go into the rapture. Remember those who will be in the bride will not see death! You can as well accept it; I don't care whether somebody dies tomorrow. Those who will be the bride will never die! I will not withdraw that statement that because sister so and so, or brother so and so has died. I never said brother so and so or sister so will not die; I have said the bride who will receive this Word, which is the headship of Jesus Christ, will be so far high above death. Why? Because they have corrected the mistake that was done back there that caused death because Jesus was rejected. Life comes when Jesus is fully received; so, how can they die when they have received it? So, don't be nervous and tremble around saying; ‘Now, so and so is so sick and the bride should not die’. Who told you that she is the bride? It is those elected of God who when they receive this promise that is prophesized here by the Spirit are received into the bride. Those who receive it, they will not die; they will go into the rapture. They will be translated alive and walk over Jordan. So, we are anticipating for that. That is all.  

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The mind of God is what brings perfection. Which mind is that, therefore? It must be the Godhead, and that is what has been ministered unto us, all along. You have seen that revelation go all the way to the beginning and showed you things which were never known from generation to generation, and that were hidden from the foundation of the world; how God is, how His invisible eternal existence is and how it was all in the beginning.

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Your science tells you that every action receives an equal and opposite reaction. So just keep still if you don't want things to come up opposing you. If you don't want fellows to come up against you, don't tell them anything or else anytime you come up and announce something, you must expect other voices to murmur back against it. So, action receives an equal and opposite reaction. When things were quiet and there was no action, there was no reaction. But once God acted, then there had to be a reaction because He was acting against.

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Light shines against darkness; reveal righteousness then you will hear evil echo back; “Woo”! 

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“Oh! I thought I was alone here; how comes I'm hearing some sound against me?” That is how you'll be surprised. So, God knew that there was going to be a lot of echoes, so, He had to prepare well against the echoes because once He spoke that Word, it had to receive echoes from every corner, against it.

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Oh, all kinds of corruptions coming up, 'Woh!'  'Woh!'  'Hee! 'Am also here!' …These fellows have not been here, where are they emerging from? That is true, but the Word of God had acted, and it receives an equal and opposite reaction. You see it? You can't just act and fail to get the reaction. You can't! Even if you are just walking, you are acting and there is an equal and opposite reaction – friction on the ground, getting you going. So, sometimes some reaction is good because it gets you going. Without that reaction, you will slip and fall while trying to walk. Look at Christ’s first coming, it was an action, look at the numerous false reactions that have ever gushed out in the name of Christianity…where were they in the Old Testament?

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I believe that no one can persuade them different!

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We shall come to these prophets and false christs and they will persuade; and really persuade, but after she has got that headstone, they will persuade in vain. Persuaders will come, and as I said here the other day, I don't know whether it was here; but you just can't assume the devil; he is not a walkover! He will do anything, and you just must have the headstone and the mind of Christ or else when he is given a chance to display and work, you just can't stand; it will take the mind of Christ in you. You want to be safe in the time of temptation? Have Jesus Christ’s mind in you; that is the only way you'll overcome those deceivers. They can impersonate anything.

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Now, let me surprise you a little bit, but you’ll listen to the Message; it is here. But let me just inject this in, when those antichrists come, you can't know the difference by their character. Forget about character! They will outwit anybody when it comes to character; humility, meekness and loveliness; no true preacher will measure to them. They will outwit anybody in character. The Bible says they'll come in sheep's clothing yet inside they are ravening wolves. What is sheep's clothing? All that meekness, humility, goodness and loveliness. Remember the truth is not measured by how much kind somebody is; the devil is able to dress himself like that. He can dress himself in kindness and gentleness and talk to you so nicely and so comforting, till you say; ‘Here is a good preacher!’ Love is not the sign that somebody has the truth. You better now get that very clearly; don't be confused. These people will have two directions of the deception: they will have the anointing to work all miracles and then be as charismatic as they can be. That is to say miracles, signs and gifts will be working and that is one side of deception. Another side of deception is that they will be so kind, humble, meek and solid to that character until you have nothing to point at them that is wrong. So, you are left there in the field to discern what is right and what is wrong.

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Don't think that the antichrist will come as drunkards, adulterous men and all that. Nothing! You won't see that; they put on sheep's clothing. They have two sides in their deceiving: they deceive by signs, wonders and miracles and secondly, they deceive by putting on sheep's clothing. If you want to see a meek person, you'll have to go there. They are gentle, nice, welcoming, good and just lovely. And when they present their message, then you go to see them, they sit you down and talk to you so kindly, of how you must fear God and trust in Him. How that they have just come as humble ministers of God to help you to see the light; I tell you! It will take the eye of the Holy Spirit for you to discern them. I'm telling you the truth which you will acknowledge when those people come around; for they will finally come – they are just arising now.

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How can a whole catholic man receive the Holy Spirit and have all the signs of the Holy Spirit, and yet he is still a priest in the convent up to today? And when you read the testimony, I have it on computer, there is nothing to dispute about that man having the Holy Spirit by just any looks. He honestly tells the testimony how he was young and how he was disturbed, without peace; and finally, almost got married. Finally finds himself in the convent and went ahead to be a priest. He graduated and finally became a priest still unsatisfied and began to kind of lead the masses and the rest of it like that yet unsatisfied.

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He was still craving for something; so, he kept praying and saying: “Reveal to me Jesus – where are you? I want to find you somewhere; I am unsatisfied, please reveal yourself to me!” Went over praying and seeking, so poor and miserable; then one day he said; “There He was! Standing there before me and feeling me with love that you cannot tell!” Says, “Now I know Him personally and then as I’m writing now in fact I am just in tears. Oh, how He is so good and marvelous!”

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He tells the story like that. Then I thought he was going to tell me; ‘…next I resigned from my priesthood and I'm no more catholic.’ Instead, he said; “Now, the catechism, the Eucharist and the sacrament have become wonderful because of receiving the Holy Spirit.’ I said there he goes now; I will not believe him anymore. How can the Lord Jesus Christ vindicate anything about the Eucharist, the sacrament and all those little things? Yet the way he received the Holy Spirit, and not only the Holy Spirit, but the experiences he continues having are genuinely the anointing of the Holy Spirit upon the fellow. How he has remained a catholic, and even stauncher now because of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, is a wonder.

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Then other Catholics began to pour in posts saying, “That is it father, stand! That is what we are looking for! That is what we are thirsting for; please stand! In fact, you did so good to share with us that testimony and this is what we are seeking for!” Does it mean Catholics have begun receiving the Holy Spirit? Let that happen, then Pentecostals and Protestants will never see it!

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Let those convent people receive the Holy Spirit and begin to have signs and wonders walking slowly in sheep's clothing; I tell you the truth; they will outshine the Protestantism by far. Now they already have the multitude, you know, but they are not effective because they have nothing; they are just a form. But let that fire drop among them and the world will just swing to their side as sure as anything else. They can really deceive!

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Now remember, isn’t it a wonder for one to receive the Holy Spirit and yet remain catholic? I could not understand that, but it was the Holy Spirit! Every testimony of it was correct even the way he approached it. He was so miserable praying and asking God to reveal Himself to him and fill him with the Holy Spirit – fill the vacancy in his heart. Finally, the Holy Spirit stands over there and he is all overwhelmed with anointing of the Holy Spirit until he can't know what to do. Then from that time he became so transformed.

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But watch now what I told you; don't you look at any sign; don't you look at any behaviour; the truth is not manifested by that. How do you know the truth? Go back to the Bible straight – the Word of God; not the love. Somebody can impersonate the love of God and seem to have it more than anybody else who has the true Word of God. So, it is not by our love, peace, gentleness, meekness, holiness or by anything else; all that can be impersonated, but the only thing that cannot be impersonated is the truth! The lie cannot impersonate the truth. The lie can put on all truth as far as showing off is concerned. The lie can be humble; the lie can be meek; the lie can try to be lovely; the lie can try to be gentle; the lie can try to show signs. However, one thing that a lie will never do is to agree with the Bible truth according to the Word for the hour.

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So, one day you will see it. Remember not to judge by how good they look like; you judge by which scripture they are standing on. Is it the truth or a lie; because they have to stand with the truth if they are true.

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So he says: 

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421 They do only His will. (Amen. I’ll believe that.) No one can persuade them different. They have THUS SAITH THE LORD or they keep still. Then they will do the works of God, for It is Himself in them continuing His Word to fulfill, as He did complete in His days. All things, when He was here, He did not complete all when He was here, for it was not time yet.

422 Now let us stand like Joshua and Caleb. (Now watch close. This is going to have a spiritual background.) Now let us stand like Joshua and Caleb, as we see the Promised Land coming in sight. It’s nearing the time to be given. Joshua, in Hebrew, means Saviour, and represents the promised end-time leader to take the Church over. Caleb represents the true believer who stayed with Joshua. God started Israel as a virgin with His Word. But they wanted something different. So did the last-day church.

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423 Notice how God did not move Israel until His Own appointed time. (Now listen. This is going to mean something.) Joshua waited for that time. No how matter, how much people might have said, “God gave us the land, the promise. Let us go now and take it.” They might have said, “Joshua, you lost your commission. You’re all washed up. Why are you not doing something? You used to do, know THUS SAITH THE LORD in a moment, and what was the will of God.” But this wise, God-sent prophet knew the promise of God, but also knew to wait for that promise, a clear-cut decision from God for his time. (See these parables. Now watch.) And when the time come, God gave it to Joshua, who had stayed with Him, by the Word, for He could not trust others. He could trust him. So will it repeat.

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​So I was just kind of reading that to just remind you maybe what I was trying to think about when I read the experience of this dream that I told you that Brother Seth had dreamt and put in his book here, the autobiography. Then I was thinking about that and wondered what the meaning of these two men from the outer space could be; and there is a woman among them. I thought maybe, I don't know – I don't interpret it, but I just thought maybe it has a meaning.  Maybe it meant something like that. Remember the love of God comes down after that, you know, to fill the hearts and make us one with Jesus Christ.

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Let me now read the Scripture for a few minutes. I don't intend to speak for long, but just according to those words that we have read maybe to make some additions, or some signification. Let us open in chapter 14 of the book of John.

John 14:5-12;

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Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

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Now, just a little while to express this thought here, and I just want to bring it back from where we have been trying to say something, that this is God’s way of bringing His own leadership or His own headship as the headstone to the world – to have that leadership among men, or to provide that leadership by the head which is the God-head among men. He has a way of doing it, and we just want to kind of pray over it, and see what He can tell us about this way that He has appointed to make himself known.

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Now what is God’s way of bringing that leadership or that headship? There is a way that He has. Remember, He reveals Himself, and has always revealed Himself through some man somewhere to show the direction; and the head comes like that to be known. He has always done it through a man somewhere to make Himself known. He never chose to reveal Himself through an angel. If He wanted, He could do that, but there is no mystery where an angel is in the characteristics of Jesus Christ, revealed on earth. No! Maybe somewhere else, but not on earth. When He comes, He does so to manifest the head. You’ll see it right there in Joseph clearly vindicated. When He shows the head somewhere, you'll see it there in Abraham, the father of all nations. You will see it in Isaac the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. You will see it in Jacob the servant of God. You will see it in Joseph there as the headstone.

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If you want to see the headship of Jesus, which is the headship of God, you will see it in a man because He always reveals it through men. From the beginning He chose to reveal Himself like that. He manifests Himself like that. If you were in the days of Noah and you wanted to see Jesus, where would you go to? Where the old man is building some kind of wooden box with some hammer, all the day long. If you go around that particular place, you'll meet there Jesus. If you want to see Jesus go around where that old man is on some mountain and knocking on some box, saying that; “this is an ark and we are going to be saved from the water which is coming to sweep this world by this ark here.” 

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And I want to tell you something. I don't want you to forget that; that's why I am jumping to the end time. There are great waters coming by and by, you better get near the ark; it is going to sweep this world like it has never been. There are waters coming and that is why that Seventh Seal is there like that on great waters. So, you better get ready for the flood. There is another flood coming and it will be a worse flood. ‘As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when the Son of Man is revealed’! Remember in the days of Noah a flood came over the earth. So, if it was that way, then as it was, so must it be today on earth in these last days.