The Different Categories of People within the Message Ranks
The Perfecting of the Saints Pt.3
MATTHEW 24:45-51
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? (Notice – a faithful and wise “servant” (singular) of which the Lord has made ruler over his household, and of which this servant would give them spiritual food in due season – when would this take place?
At the time of the coming of the Lord of when the marriage was about to take place - just as we also find of what took place at the time in Genesis 24:10 of when Eleazar (the faithful servant of Abraham) was ruler over “all the goods of his master” at the time of being sent to get a bride for the promised son, Isaac. And so this servant (singular) here in this verse of Mathew 24:45 represents the ministry of the seventh angel – William Branham)
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. (Speaking of this one-man servant ministry – and he is blessed because all that he loved, and all that ever loved him, God would give him as a reward for his service)
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
(He is repeating this again - like how Eleazar was the ruler of all of Abraham’s house and goods)
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; (This is now speaking of a different servant to this first servant in the previous verses, because this servant here is referred to as an evil servant, while this servant in the previous verses was a good and faithful ministry that fed God’s people with spiritual food in due season, and so this “evil servant” represents another type of ministry category within the ranks that would also be represented in this end time hour)
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; (Notice, His “fellowservants” - this servant here is a part of a group of servants, because it says his fellow SERVANTS (plural), and so this is the 5 fold ministry that comes after the head servant has given his message of spiritual food. And so this “evil” servant begins to smite on the 5 fold ministry that God has given for the perfection of the people according to Ephesians 4)
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, (Notice – He is still the lord of that servant, but this servant and the ones that he rules over miss out on being raptured due to a lack of rapturing faith because they failed to see the seventh seal, because the seventh seal is the mystery of the coming of the Lord)
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites (they were not hypocrites, but they are appointed to a portion of time in the tribulation period with the hypocrites – in other words, they end up in the foolish virgin group): there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The Different Categories of People within the Message Ranks
The Perfecting of the Saints Pt.3
This subject of "The Different Categories of People within the Message Ranks" is dealt with quite extensively in Mathew chapters 24 and 25 and beyond.
Mathew CH:24 is the seven seals written in word form, while Revelation chapter 6 and chapter 8:1 is the seven seals written in symbol form.
EPHESIANS 4:11-13
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Fullness produces oneness, and oneness is marriage – “until we all come into the fullness of the oneness of a marriage union with Christ”
We have been dealing with the subject of how that God uses the chemicals of the circumstances of our lives to child train us, because life is like a big school room that God is useing to shape our character and is prepare us for our eternal life in that great kingdom that is soon to come, and so will use the weakness of our fallen human bodies with its weak and fallen characteristics as a tool in his hand in order to impart to us the fullness of the knowledge of His saving grace – because He is the Potter, and we are the clay in the Potters hand.
And so we have been looking at these 3 realms of where His saving grace is manifested in the believers life – of our past, and then our present stage of what we go through of the struggles in our daily lives, and then our future change into our new bodies.
II CORINTHIANS 1:10
10 Who delivered us from so great a death (past tense – he has saved us from our sins), and doth deliver (present tense – He saves us from the troubles and scrapes that we get ourselves into as we go through the journey of our lives): in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; (future tense – he will save us from our bodies of sin and death by giving us immortal and sinless bodies to live in for eternity)
Notice – 3 different area of past, present and future of where God manifests to us his great power to save us to the uttermost. And so we learn by the ups and downs and the struggles of our lives that HE is truly a saviour.
JOB 14:1
1 ¶ Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
PSALM 34:17
17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. This is the ongoing picture of the story of out lives while we are on this earth and under these conditions of character development.
** In this service, we want to try to go straight to the point of this subject of the perfection of the saints of where God uses the 5 fold ministry for this work of bringing his elected people to a maturity of faith.
*Because the prophet of God told us that in order for the resurrection to take place in this end time hour, this bride must come to perfection – and remember that perfection does not mean being able to live a sinless life, but it means that you are to come to a maturity of faith in order to meet the challenge of the program that God has for the age that you are living in.
THE.STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1014M
53-1 You get it? These people who died in here are depending and waiting on us. So this church has got to come to perfection in order to bring the resurrection, and they're under--souls under the altar, waiting for this church to come to its perfection.
He is referring to 2000 years of church age saints that have lived their lives and died in faith under their messengers. And so the work of the enemy would be to stop this last age church group from coming to perfection under this last day messenger, because then that would keep the resurrection from taking place so that all the sleeping saints that have died since the time of Christ would never get to be raise up, and then that would break the plan and purpose of God for this hour.
*Remember – that Satan is constantly trying to prevent the word of God from coming to pass, from the smallest thing in your own personal life, to trying to stop the entire resurrection of 2000 years of sleeping saints from being raised up.
*This is also why he is trying so hard to wipe Israel off the map, because he knows that there are a 144,000 elected Jews that are living in Israel of whom will recognize their seventh trumpet – Christ. And so he thinks that if he can somehow nuke the place, then that will stop the prophecy from happening concerning the 144,000.
And so this is why that when you see any ministry or movement that is against Ephesians 4 of the work of the 5-fold ministry in this end time hour, then you know that that is not a good thing, but it’s actually an evil thing because the bible calls it evil, and it is evil because it is motivated by a motive that is for the purpose to try to disrupt the plan of God.
MATTHEW 24:23-24
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. (Jesus is answering the disciples’ second question of what they had previously asked Him of what His second coming would look like – the sign of it. And so He is telling them that His second coming will not be in the form of a corporal bodily appearing so that you could say Lo, here is Christ, or he’s over there, and so we know that we are not to look for it in that way)
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. (Again - don’t be fooled into thinking that you have to go somewhere special – like how some ministers believe that you have to go to their church or something or you won’t make the rapture – the rapture is a global event)
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Jesus is telling us exactly what the second coming of the Son of man will look like – it will be as light shining from the east to the west, and light is the revealed word of God. And so His second and secret coming would be in the form of a message that would reveal the light of the word of God of which would unveil this mighty God to us – a message of the light of the revelation of the word that would be ministered to an elected people all around the world, because it would be that at the evening time, it would be light for the elect)
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. (This is the eagle age, the bride age. It’s a people of this last age with an eagle anointing that have gathered around the fresh kill of the revealed word of God for this hour, of which he has sent into the world through the ministry of the seventh angel of Revelation 10:7)
*Mathew chapter 24 (from around verse 23 on) is dealing with the seventh seal of which this seventh seal has made known to us the mystery of the coming of the Lord in the form of the Son of Man ministry that has revealed Christ to us in these last days.
*Malachi 4’s ministry was sent to us like John the Baptists ministry was sent to do, and that was to introduce Christ to us in these last days – to reveal Him to us of who He is in this day, and Christ is always the anointed word for the season.
*And so the bible tells us that His second coming would be as light shining and not in the form of the corporal body of Jesus, and that is why Jesus warns us that if someone tells you that to look for a corporal body out in the desert or in some other place, then don’t believe that person, because that is not the way His second and secret coming would be.
MATTHEW 24:36-37
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. (This was the great secret of which the seventh seal held – and many people stop there, but then he tells us that that the secret of it lays in the events of what took place in the days of Noah)
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (In Noah’s day, there was a man with a prophetic ministry that was sent into the world by the name of Noah, and it was he and the group that stayed with his message that went over into the new world after the cataclysmic judgement ended the known world of that time. And so it was Noah and his group only that God would reveal to them the day and the hour of when they were to be taken up from the earth – and so Jesus is telling us that this is to repeat again with an end time group of people who are under a prophetic ministry in this hour also. And so this secret of the seventh seal of the mystery of the second coming of Christ would also be made know to an elected people who are under a prophetic ministry in this hour)
MATTHEW 24:42-51
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
*And so from Mathew 24:23 on, Jesus is dealing with these different categories of people of the last days that will be associated and living at the time of His second coming – because the first part of the rapture process was the shout of the message of which was the Lord Himself descending from heaven with a shout, and this event has already taken place by gathering a people under the sounding of the voice of the seventh angel’s message.
*But then within that full body of people that have been gathered by this voice (shout) by the end time messenger, around half of the entire group we are told in Mathew 25 will be made up of a foolish virgin group category, and this foolish virgin group is made up of different sub category groups of people from within the many different message camps.
Remember, that the maturity of this hour (of which the 5 fold ministry are required for the perfection of the saints according the Ephesians CH:4) is for the bride to be united with Christ (which is the revelation of the word for this day being made fully known to her.) This was what we saw with the story of Rebekah being united with Isaac at the evening time hour after that she had followed the ministry of Eleazar – Isaac was fully made known to her by his unveiling.
And so the seventh seal is the secret of the second coming of the Lord of the revealing of Christ of which has taken place in this last day for the purpose so that the marriage of the lamb can take place by an invisible union of the bride to the word which is Christ.
*And so we know that not all within the message ranks will go on into the maturity of becoming one with the bride groom (of the marriage of the Lamb that has come).
*And so Mathew chapter 24 and 25 and so on, gives us information regarding these different categories of people of which are in the message ranks but will not be taken up in the final stage of the rapture of the change of the body – we know for sure that they will all be saved, but that not all will go into the marriage, and so they will not be a part of the bride group, and so around half of the those who heard the shout of the message, and that came out of denominations and became virgins of an end time message (according to Mathew Chapter 25) will end up going through the tribulation period.
Remember that the marriage takes place here on earth by an invisible union before our bodies are changed and caught up to meet the Lord in the air, while those who were not able to “see” their way into the marriage (because they had no oil to light their lamp with (Mathew 25), went into the tribulation period.
**And so from 1965, we have seen these prophecies of Jesus coming to past by seeing people becoming separated into these different groups of which they are becoming mature in these different categories of which Mathew 24 speaks of the people who are associated with Jesus second coming.
And so that is why, that if we are looking to see the fulfilment of these events concerning this end time hour that were spoken of by Jesus in Mathew chapter 24, and 25 (and so on), then we know that we will have to look among the message ranks)
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. (the goodman is the master of the house, like Eleazar was the Master of Abraham’s house – and so this is identifying that there would be a head reaper of a master servant that would be over the household of the elect of God in this end time hour, but then there would also be other “heads” of leaders over groups of whom would not know about the secret of the seventh seal of the coming of the Lord of whom their house would suffer loss)
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. (Notice – this secret coming of the Lord of this end time age will be mostly miss because of by what “household – church group” they are a part of, and because that the head of their house doesn’t understand the secret of the coming of the Lord in this day – and this is why that we are to know that we are under a “goodman” of a household of whom it has been revealed to of the Coming of Christ in this hour)
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? (This here is no doubt speaking of Brother Branham’s end time ministry and of the spiritual food in due season of the end time message – we know this because he is addressed as a “servant” (singular) and not “servants” (plural) of which would refer to the 5 fold ministry)
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. (This is the head Eleazar ministry of this end time age – the ruler over all of the mysteries of the great Father of this end time age – but then there are also under servants who become great helps to that ministry)
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; (notice – a time of when the rapture had been delayed for many years – this is the time that we are living in right now)
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants (plural “servants”, the 5 fold ministry, this “evil” servant was not attacking the first single servant that was faithful (the ministry of William Branham), but he would be found attacking the 5 fold ministry – the servants, in other words, he is trying to discredit the ministry of Ephesians 4 by attacking the need for the 5 fold ministry because they can only see the one-man ministry of Malachi 4 and reject what God is doing currently by the ministry of Ephesians 4 that would follow the single “faithful and wise servant” ministry, and so they are in effect attacking the present-tense unfolding of what God is doing now.), and to eat and drink with the drunken; (The characteristics of this evil servant was that he began to eat and drink with the drunken - that’s not talking natural eating and drinking, but this is about the anointing that they have received to attack the mystery of the coming of the Lord in bride form, and they do that because they are not conscious of what God is doing now in this stage of the rapture cycle because they are looking back to a time of the one man servant of the Eleazar ministry and are trying to encourage us to only press play and obey and to reject the 5 fold ministry that God has raised up in this hour for the perfecting of the Saints for rapturing faith)
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites (notice – they are not hypocrites, but they are appointed a portion with the hypocrites, and so they will go into the tribulation period): there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (This is the tribulation period)
The written word is what we read in the bible – but the manifested word is that word which is a prophecy becoming history by being made actual in the life of the person.
And so what does this tribulation period look like…
There are many places in the bible that speak of this time.
In Malachi 4 it says…
MALACHI 4:1
1 ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
ISAIAH 13:6-11
6 ¶ Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
This scripture carries on over the next few verses to graphicly describe even worse things that will take place at that time.
MATTHEW 25:1-13
1 ¶ Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.