Month: April 2020

I was recently following a thread on a social media platform and was amazed how people could misquote the prophet, William Marrion Branham. It is very sad. Hearing they hear but cannot understand.

We can listen to the prophet’s tapes. We can read “THE SPOKEN WORD” books. But we must tune our spiritual ears to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying (that is, to hear the Logos or expressed thought) behind those Spoken or Written words (Rhema). Therefore, unless you have got the Logos of what the prophet was saying you cannot possibly “say what he said”. Truly, “he that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches”.( Rev 2:29)

It is not wrong to quote the words of William Branham. However, to try and prove a doctrine or a teaching based on his statements alone shows that one is ignorant or has no understanding of the truth of God’s Word.

Let’s take a closer look at the Scriptures which the Prophet brought out to show the “two covenants “about Marriage and Divorce.

The FIRST COVENANT is (Genesis 2:24) “Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

Jesus added, “Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined, let not man put asunder” (Mathew 19:6). One man and his wife joined in one flesh was God’s original covenant, In the beginning.

The SECOND COVENANT is found in (Genesis 3:16) “Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. This was after the fall when they sinned. ”There was  nothing mentioned about God making a “Polygamy” Covenant .

If a man in the Old Testament lived under the Jewish Law, he could have many wives. But then he had to live sinless under the Law, a School Master. No man succeeded in doing that. Under grace it is one man and one wife, Grace is a better covenant as Grace provides us with a Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Many also point to the fact that  say King David in the Old Testament married many wives, a man after God’s own heart. David, the King  represented Christ sitting of his father’s  throne He married five hundred wives. David with his five hundred wives. Solomon is the son of David in the natural, which represents Jesus Christ, the Son of David in the spiritual.

The fact the Law allowed men to marry many wives, women could not even have one more husband. He’s the original creation, not her. Not one of those women could have one more husband, but that one husband could have a thousand wives. Types and shadows of Christ as the husband married to many members of his body, Bride

Contrary to popular opinion, the truth on Marriage and Divorce is quite straight forward in the Bible. The will of God is for one man to marry one woman and be faithful to one another until death (Mathew 19:6, Rom. 7:2). Jesus and St. Paul taught that remarriage is only allowed in two cases.

1. That a widow or widower may remarry another believer who does not have a living spouse (Rom. 7:1-3). This is because a widower is no longer bound to their previous spouse because that spouse has died, and they are free to marry again, only in the Lord.

2. A man may put away his wife and marry another if she did not confess any fornications she committed before they were married (Matt. 5:32, Matt. 1:18-21), because their vow would then be void due to dishonesty.

There are no New Testament Bible examples of any believer being remarried while having a different living spouse, since that would be adultery. There are no New Testament Bible examples of any believer being allowed to remarry because their spouse committed adultery on them. Adultery does not loose someone from the law of their marriage vow. If adultery takes place in a marriage, the couple must seek forgiveness and remain together, for if they separate and marry other believers, they have committed adultery.

A couple can separate or divorce for sound reasons other than fornication, but their only options are to remain separated or reunite (1Cor. 7:11). A couple who separates and remarries for any other reason than the two reasons listed above are living in adultery and must repent or they cannot inherit the kingdom of God (1Cor. 6:9-11, Gal. 5:19-21).

At select times in Bible history, God has given grace and forgiveness to His own people who have not followed His Marriage and Divorce requirements, either due to their ignorance or willful sin. In Moses day, God suffered His people to give a writing of divorcement (Mathew. 19:7-8) and God still accepted them (Deut. 24:1-4). In the days of St. Paul, God allowed Paul to give his judgments about Marriage and Divorce due to the present distress of those times (1 Cor. 7:6,12,25-26). We believe the same grace and forgiveness extends to believers today who were either ignorant or disobedient to the marriage requirements of God. If they confess their marriage-related sins, God is faithful and just to forgive them (1 John 1:8-10) and then they are instructed to “walk” the rest of their days in the marriage relationship wherein they were “called” and enlightened to the truth of God’s Word regarding Marriage and Divorce (1 Cor.7:17-24).

Shalom!

Isn’t it amazing that we come into this world by default as sinners?

( Romans 3:23) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; In another place it says in (Psalm 51:5) Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Job also declared in (Job 14:1) Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.  He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Our Lord Jesus Christ came into this world preaching that man needeth to be born again! (John 3:3) Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

So the question that we ask ourselves is; Why are we sinners even though we did commit any sin? And why there are deaths in the world? Methuselah could only live up to 969 years. And why do we need to be born again?

We can only answer these mind boggling questions by the Word of God which liveth and abides forever. (1 Peter 1: 25) But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Now for the answers, we have go back to the beginning. For there is a genesis of everything in this world.

The Lord God Created Man in his own image. (Genesis 1:27- 28) “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

How were they to be fruitful and multiply?

So in Chapter 2, Man was formed out of the dust of the earth and man become a living soul. We further read, God planted a garden eastward of Eden and placed man in it. (Genesis 2:7- 9) “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”

Now mention is made of Two important trees. The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge good and Evil. Are these Trees literal trees? For scripture must always interpret scripture!

For as much as man became a living soul, The Lord God commanded man to dress the Land, subdue and replenish it.

So God put man in a deep sleep and took the feminism part from him which is a rib and made a woman for the man.

Adam was created a son of God, because he was in the original creation He was created in the image and likeness of God. Created out of Nothing. However Eve was not because she was a by-product of the man. She was formed by a rib from Adam.

The Serpent was the most subtil of all the creatures that God had created. He was the only species who could talk. He was very much like Adam, although he was not created in the image of God as a son of God. He was Adam’s servant. Somehow he yielded himself to Satan as an instrument to seduce the Woman. (Satan knew that he could not deceive Adam who was an original creation of God, but he could get to him by working on his by-product, the Woman, who was a part of Adam.) And before Adam could get to know his Woman, Satan had beaten him to it by playing on the words of God’s commandment concerning the “trees”.

From the dialogue in Genesis 3, we can see that both the Woman and the Serpent actually knew that the fruits of every literal fruit-bearing tree in the Garden of Eden was good for food and could be eaten. They also knew that the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil” which was “in the midst of the garden” (of the physical body, and not the literal Garden of Eden), was forbidden. The eating of this “tree” would bear the fruit of death, as God had warned.

Hence, the Fall in the Garden of Eden caused God to conceal or hide the “Tree of Life”, the Divine Law of INTIMATE relationship which would conceive and produce Spiritual Life from Mankind (Gen.3: 24), “So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.” and since then all men have been born after the flesh by CARNAL (sexual) desire. And (Romans 3:23) “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” Yes, all of us fall short of that Shekinah glory of the Word of Life. We are all not born according to that “Tree of Life”. For this cause, the ORIGINAL SEED WORD of God in the Person of Jesus Christ was sent to mankind that they might believe Him and be born again of the Spirit and the Water of His Word. He was the Word of God God’s Divine Way, Divine Truth and Divine Life that was prefigured by the “Tree of Life”. To possess true life, we must be born according to the Word of the “Tree of Life”.(Peter 1:23) “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever”

Every person who is born into this world is born of the “corruptible seed” which Eve, being deceived by Satan, received out of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. But a true child of God is born again of a seed that is incorruptible, the Word of God (that is, the Logos) , The Original Seed, The Spoken Word, that cannot be destroyed for It lives forever as the Tree of Life.

There is no life outside of the WORD of God. (John.3:7) “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” and be in Spiritual relationship with that Man called Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He is the Divine Word, the Divine Person whom God has provided to restore mankind back to Life again. Spiritual union with Him, the “Tree of Life” will give you Eternal Life.

God bless you for reading,

Shalom!

The Holy Scriptures admonishes us to study very well and know what we believe so as to give an account to anyone who asks us of our faith and not just follow what the popular opinion says. (2 Timothy 2:15) Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.

Followers of the Lord Jesus Christ first of all need to study and also be able to rightly divide the Word of truth. We can only do this when the Spirit of truth is in us and guiding us into all truth thereby not leaning on our own understanding.

(John 16:13) Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I that he shall take have mine, and shall shew it unto you. A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.

The secular world is overwhelmed with information overload in the print media, radio and television and also those trending on social media and even on the world wide web, Internet. If our faith is not grounded in the Word of God, then our faith is built on sinking sand which is subject to shaking when the trying moments come.

Now what is a Beast? In the bible, it denotes Power. It represents the restoration of the imperial power of the Roman Empire. This ten kingdoms empires covers the spheres of the territory of Western Europe. And its religious power is the Papacy of the Roman Catholic Church. This is also shown in the dream Nebuchadnezzar had where the fourth Empire was divided into legs of iron (western and eastern divisions and further divided into feet and toes of part iron and part clay (Dan 2)

The 10 toes represents the 10 horns of the beast. It is this last empire of the Babylonian system that will utterly be destroyed by a “stone cut without hands”; the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ on Earth when he will come to rule the nations with a rod of iron in righteousness.

(Rev 13:6) And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.

The expression” in their forehead” What does this mean? A tattoo or a microchip? Today many believe it is a microchip or a vaccination against a disease. A lot also believe Bill Gates who is a philanthropist and Multimillionaire, Co- founder of Microsoft is the Beast.

But is this so? That cannot be. In the natural realm there could be parallels. For some time now American government had been pushing to vaccinate, especially children for flu for decades. Many citizens have been against it.

It is solely a mindset, controlled way of thinking. In other words being controlled by someone else. If you cannot think for yourself you become a second hand person and have to agree with the religious system.

(Rev 22:4 ) and they (God’s servants) shall see his (God’s) face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

God’s name is not written on peoples foreheads. God’s name is in their minds ( revelation).

The mark of the beast is to oppose God’s revelation and get God’s name out of peoples minds and thinking

Thus, in the forehead is the mind. Marked in their forehead would mean dominating their thinking. Also the hand is marked as their thought control their actions. In other words the mark of the beast is thus mind control or brainwashing.

The anti- Christ who is one person will control human minds in the same way that God who is one person controls the mind of his servants.

The mark of the beast opposes God’s thinking and will thus seek to remove God’s name from people’s mind’s.There, God’s name would no longer be in their minds.

(1 john 2:19) They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.”

These wrong spirits were unable to remain scriptural. Their beliefs are not written in scripture

(Rev 13:17) And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

So we find here that, the beast is the dominating power of Centralized and Organized Religion. A toxic mixture of religious deception,political and mass of wealth.

The Vatican has risen in its spiritual and religious power and controls about 1.4 billion Catholics. Since becoming the smallest independent state in 1929, the Vatican city has become the world’s wealthiest global organization.The Popes recovered the power that the pagan Roman empire lost when the barbarians conquered them.

(Rev 13:3) And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

(Rev 13:8) Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”

A score is 20. therefore this number is 666. This is the number of a man. The beast system of man made denominational religion that is ruled by one man head, the pope. The mark of the beast in our forehead’s is when we absorb unscriptural beliefs of the denominational church systems that follow the example of the mother catholic church. The number of the beast is a secret code that hides the identity of one man who falsely claimed to stand in place of Christ. At all cost Christ must be removed as the head of the Church. ( Rev 17:5) And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Pope Gelasius 1 who ruled from (AD 492- 496) began to be called VICARIOUS CHRISTI OR VICAR OF CHRIST, simply meant he stood “in place of Christ”. What blasphemy! And this has become the official title of the pope.

When Jesus was asked about future events he first said that our biggest problem would be deception. The most subtle deception would come from church leaders. (Math 24:4-5) And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.”

For over a period of 1500 years, The pope had claimed to be “in the place of Christ”. Thus great masses of people had fallen into this religious deception after the last Apostle died.

History has proven that in 1871 the ladies of the royal Court of Belgium made a triple crown for Pope Pius IX who had declared the Pope to be infallible in 1870. On this crown is CHRISTI VICARIUS – INTERRA – REGVM, “This means He rules on earth in the place of Christ”. The number of the beast is the number of one man.

So Whenever a new Pope is crowned he is conferred with the title “VICARIVS FILII DEI” (meaning the “Vicar of Christ”) which when translated into the Roman numerals, their value adds up to 666.

V     I    C    A    R     I    V    S         F    I    L     I    I        D     E    I
5    1    100  –     –     1    5    –          –    1   50    1   1      500    –    1   = 666

The Mark of the beast is the number of a man. Watch Roman-ism, mystery Babylon.

God richly bless you for reading!

Shalom!