The Last Will and Testament of God Pt.2
MATTHEW 24:27-29
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east (This word “lightning” simply means “light shining” as when the sun rises. And in biblical terms, light is when the hidden truth of the word of God is revealed and becomes clear to the mind and heart of the elected believer in their day), and shineth even unto the west (This light that is shining from the east to the west is the end time message of this hour that has shone into the hearts of people all over the world – and its truth has not been confined to a localized geographical area as is was in previous church ages); so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (The secret second coming of the Son of man would literally be this shining light of truth that would be received by an end time elected people and become incarnate in them for the purpose of the uniting of the Bride to Christ in a marriage ceremony.
And so this is what the ministry of Malachi 4 came to do; to introduce us to the person of Christ just as John the Baptist was sent to show them who Jesus was for his day – and it’s the same with the head reaper that introduced Ruth to Boaz in Ruth’s day, and also with Eliezer introducing Rebekah to Isaac at evening time)
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. (And so this end time eagle age group of the elected gentile bride of Christ have been gathered together by the sounding of the eagle scream voice of the truth of the message of the hour - and we know that we are being gather for the purpose of translation and rapture. But then immediately after the rapture has taken place, then the tribulation period follows – and so the very next verse speaks of the tribulation period)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mathew chapter 24 is the seals spoken by Jesus in word form of what Revelation chapter 6 is the seals being spoken of in symbol form.
*But then we notice that directly after the seals of Mathew 24, we find that Jesus in Mathew 25 immediately begins to identify the different groups who are to be saved of which will make up all the different categories of people that will inherit the kingdom of heaven.
MATTHEW 25:1-2
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.
The Last Will and Testament of God Pt.2
And we have just read how that after the opening of the seals in Mathew 24, Jesus begins to reveal to us in parable form all these other groups of saved people of whom we know will not be a part of the gentile bride of Christ group, but are of these other categories that will become the citizens and subjects of the eternal kingdom of heaven of which the King and Queen will rule over.
*And so Jesus in Mathew 25 begins the chapter by identifying the difference between the bride and the foolish virgin group.
MATTHEW 25:1-2
1 ¶ Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. (Lamps show us that it was evening time when this event was taking place – and so again it is showing us about the need for light at evening time, because the difference between the wise and the foolish was to do with the light that they possessed – and light is revealed truth, because you cannot see in this dark hour without the light of the truth of this hour)
2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
Then we go to the second parable…
MATTHEW 25:14-15
14 ¶ For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. (this parable is dealing with stewardship – what did you do with your talent, did you use it to serve others with?)
15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
(And as the parable goes on, we notice how that they were rewarded differently and proportionately according to the level of what they were talented with and how they advanced their talents for the benefit of their master. But then we jump down to verse 30)
30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
***And so the bible is making distinct categories of which many people will fall into these different groups.
Then there are more groups that Jesus shows us…
MATTHEW 25:31-34
31 ¶ When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
**It is clear to us that these scriptures are dealing with the different groups of those who will go on to receive eternal life and inhabit the kingdom of heaven with their varying levels of inheritances. And because they are not a part of the bride of Christ group, their relationship to God will be on a different level – and so their worship is different for each group.
***And so the mystery of this is that under all these scriptures and parables are written the names of people – but they are written under these scriptures in mystery form, because this is what the mystery of these parables is all about, it was about identifying the characteristics of the different groups and categories of all those who would inhabit the future kingdom of heaven – because when the title deed is read out by the seventh angel messenger at the opening of the seven seals, the title deed has to contain all that information of all the names of those who will be in the kingdom of heaven and what their position and inheritance will be.
**And so there also has to also be a people on earth who are able to comprehend and understand what the title deed is saying – because you cannot judge the people of the earth if you don’t know who is who and who gets what and what group gets what inheritance.
****And so every single name of every person that has ever lived upon the earth since Adam, their name has been written in the bible in mystery form and is identified under some scripture in the bible by what their lives reflected on earth, because the bible is the title deed book that contains the details of every person’s life and their position and inheritance in the future kingdom – but up until March of 1963 of when the seals were taken off that title deed, there could be no clear revealing of those names and positions and inheritances.
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.ON.THE.SEALS_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324M
473-2 {112} 8. Now. Brother Branham, is it true that--that every Jew born since Christ came will be saved, and who are the hundred and forty-four thousand? Are they the predestinated ones to be sealed with the Holy Ghost, and what is their mission?
There's about three questions in one there. But here is... First one is:
8a Is it true that every Jew born since Christ that came into the world is to be saved?
No. Nothing will be saved, only those whose names were put on the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world, Jew or Gentile. (We must remember that Brother Branham is speaking in very broad terms here because we know that there are two sections to the book of life – the Lamb’s section of those who are of the group of His bride that He would not lose even one of those who are in that group, and so if your name is on that section of the book (the Lamb’s section), then it is impossible for you not to hear and receive the message of God for your day. But in the regular section of the book of life, there are many categories and groups of saved people, and in this section, names can be removed) See? That's all; the Book holds that mystery, and the Book is only unfolding it now, not each one's name, but what the mystery of the Book is while it's calling those names. You find... You understand that now? See?
(The opening of the seven seals unlocked the mystery of the bible that revealed all these different categories of groups of people who are to be saved from the highest position of the bride of seven church ages, and then the foolish virgins of the seven church ages and then those who use their talents for the advancement of the things of God and then also those that do good to the least of His brethren over the seven church ages, and even other groups that we do not have the time to break down right now such as the all the babies who had died, and many others. And it is important for us to note that all of these categories of groups have come out of every single age throughout history of the world)
473-4 {115} The Book doesn't say, "Now, Lee Vayle is to be saved in time of this church age," or--or, "Orman Neville..." or--or whoever. No, it don't say that. It just shows the mystery, unfolds the mystery of what the thing is. But we, ourselves, by faith believe it.
MATTHEW 22:11-13 (we read this scripture last week)
11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: (notice - a marriage is taking place)
12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. (In other words, you should not be here in this category because of the way you are identified, because God is very particular about these categories so that not even one person will be found in the wrong category)
13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
**This expression of outer darkness and the “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (as we showed last week) is the tribulation period that takes place after the resurrection and rapture of the Gentile bride of seven church ages.
*And remember, that the pattern of this has already been represented in all of the previous church ages, because during each church age there were minor tribulation periods that followed the rejection of the message of God that was sent through the messenger of each age that sealed the elect for their age.
***And so this “outer darkness” here is not speaking of hell in that the person is lost eternally, but it is showing us that there is to be a purging period that these sincere groups of people will go through, and this is what the sixth seal opened to us and showed us that there are people who are saved from under the six seal of these tribulation periods, just like when the 5th seal opened and we saw the Jews that were killed under the persecution of Hitler and Eckman that became a saved people out of the tribulation period of the Holocaust.
**And this pattern can also apply to us on a personal level, like how we saw when Brother Branham rejected the word of the Lord and listened to his mother-in-law, and then there was the purging of a tribulation period for him that followed that rejection because the way of a transgressor is hard.
***And so we need to understand that each seal (when it was opened) showed different categories of people that would be identified under those seals and of what their eternal positions are in the kingdom.
*And this is why that Mathew 25 (which is placed directly after the opening of the seals in Mathew chapter 24) begins to deal with and show some of these different categories of the different groups of the saved and even who the lost are.
**Because the opening of the seven seals is the revealing of the Last Will and Testament of God – it is the final word that ends everything.
*Once the final will and testament is read our, then it’s all “finished” - its ended
THE.SEVENTH.SEAL_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 63-0324E
556-2 {233} Notice, it's the end of the church age. It's the--the end of the Seven Seals. It's the end of the trumpets. It's the end of the vials, and even ends the ushering in of the millennium; that's on the Seventh Seal.
It's just like firing a rocket into the air, and that rocket explodes here, and it goes up, then it explodes again. It puts out five stars. One of those stars explodes and blows out five stars from it; and then one of them stars explodes, blows out five stars from it (See?); it fades on out. That's what the Seventh Seal; it just ends the time for the world. It ends the time for this. It means the time for that. It ends the time for this. It ends the time... Everything just ended up on that Seventh Seal.
****Everything ends with the opening of seventh seal – it’s not that time stops, but it’s over as far as what everyone’s position is, because the opening of the seven seals is the reading out of the last will and testament of God of which all the mysteries of God and the future kingdom and of each person’s position in that kingdom of heaven is made known to His elected bride, and it has to be made known to them in order for them to judge the people of the earth correctly into their respective positions and categories of eternal life.
I CORINTHIANS 6:2
2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?
*And so the opening of the word of this end time age reveals by symbol and parable form all the different groups of saved people from the bride to the foolish virgins and right down to the lowest levels of those that just give a cup of cold water to the least of His brethren. And so all these positions have been revealed to us of whom are to sit with Him in His throne and judge the world.
***But also for us, the opening of these seven seals is where rapturing faith lays, because by seeing the whole plan of this, and by knowing what group we are a part of in this hour, then this is what gives us the faith to know for sure that we are the ones who are called in this hour to literally be a part of the translation of the living saints of this last age – and so we know by this that we are literally the event of the rapture, in that it is impossible for the rapture to take place without you being in it, because you and the rapture event are the same thing.