LET’S DO IT AGAIN

BUT RIGHT THIS TIME!

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Message delivered on September 21, 1997

Manila, Philippines

©1997 by Ben Howard

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LET’S DO IT AGAIN

BUT RIGHT THIS TIME!

Let’s turn to the Book of Revelation, Chapter 10, and we’ll read some in the Word of God. We just trust that God will add His blessings to the reading of the Word. I want to begin reading in Revelation 10: 8-11, and take this little thought, Let’s Do It Again but Right This Time.

The children of Israel started into the land of Canaan, but they didn’t get there as soon as they should have, because of their disobedience; so they had to go into the wilderness for forty years, but God brought them out. This types out the seven church ages, and the bride being called out. Solomon spoke of the bride coming out of the wilderness, “Who is this that cometh up out of the wilderness leaning on her beloved?” (Song of Solomon 8:5) That’s the bride. The same thing happened with the church as it did with Israel. Now reading, Revelation 10:8-11, it says, “And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. (Here’s my text verse.) And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again (Thou must prophesy again.) before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.” I want you to notice, the word again means, it has already been preached at another time. This has been done before. Also, notice the word prophesy, which means spiritual preaching, testifying, etc. Do it again! Let’s do it again, and let’s do it right this time!

Now let’s get some scriptures in 2 Corinthians, Chapter 11, and then we’ll just go on a little journey in the Word of God. The early Church started, but they didn’t make it. Instead of going on into perfection they went into the dark ages. They went through the seven phases of the seven church ages, but here we see her back again, and this time He says, “Eat the little book,” and then, “Prophesy again.” So let’s do it again, and this time do it right!

So in 2 Corinthians, Chapter 11, Paul is speaking to the church in his day. He is telling them what was going to happen, and what did happen. Paul says, 2 Corinthians 11:2-3, “For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” As the serpent beguiled Eve and got her off the Word, another route had to be taken; so did it happen to the church. Likewise Paul said, “I espoused you.” Espouse means engage. Paul said, “I engaged you; I got you engaged to Christ as a chaste virgin.” And the purpose of an engagement is that ultimately there will be a marriage. (I believe the marriage of the Lamb is about to take place in this last day.) Paul preached the Word of God and gave it to the church and started the church on its journey. Then God took him off the scene, but before he left the elders there at Ephesus he said, “There are men among you right now, that as soon as I am gone, will rise and try to draw disciples after themselves. They’re grievous wolves, not sparing the flock.”

I want to the saints here in Manila, Philippines, here’s what I like about the ministers I talked with earlier. As I addressed the ministers of this great city of Manila, and the surrounding areas this afternoon, you were gracious to me as I explained my reason for being here and also answering your questions and concerns. It seemed like everybody had a good spirit. Everybody wants to get behind this thing. We know that we are nothing and Christ is everything. If we get together and get our shoulders to the wheel, we can see a mighty move of God here in the Philippines that won’t stop, until it sweeps the whole world. Let’s do it again, and right this time, and when we do it again this time, we’re not going to have big I’s and little you’s; and I’ll follow this preacher and you follow that preacher. We follow Christ! He set in the church the five fold ministry for the perfecting of the saints.

Now as Paul ministered the Word of God, as God so ordained it, he left us fourteen books that are specifically for the Gentiles. All the Word of God is for us, but some of it doesn’t deal specifically with us (us being Gentiles), and some of it has already been fulfilled, but Paul said, “I am the apostle to the Gentiles; I magnify my office.” He said, “I laid the foundation; let every man take heed how he build thereon.” In Acts, Chapter 26, Paul is relating how God struck him down on the Damascus road; he said, “God has sent me to the Gentiles, that I will be a light unto them, delivering them from the power of Satan.” So Paul came forth with a message, and laid it out here. It should not have only got the church engaged, but ultimately got it married to Christ. It was the same way when Moses brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt – they started into the land and God would have had them in there in a very short space of time, but they disbelieved, they grumbled, they complained, and God sent them into the wilderness where they wandered forty years. But, after forty years they came out, and they did possess the land; they did it right the next time. They went into the land believing God with faith and with power.

You know the story of how Joshua took the children of Israel over, the walls of Jericho fell, the river dried up, and there was a mighty move of God. Let’s do it again, and right this time! When the children of Israel started through at their first attempt to take the land; they failed, but the next attempt they came out and took the land with a great victory.

THE OLD CORN OF THE LAND

Now during the time when Israel was going through the wilderness, they ate manna. It fell every day. That was their food, and manna was a good tasting food. It was sweet and good, but the thing about manna was that it would only last for one day. After one day it would breed worms, and they’d have to have more manna more manna the next day, more manna the next day, except for the Sabbath day when they could gather it up for two days. Manna is what they lived on through the wilderness journey, but the Bible says that when they crossed over Jordan and they came into the land of Canaan, the manna ceased to fall and they ate the old corn of the land.

Well, that’s what Revelation, Chapter 10, is about—the little book—it’s the old corn of the land. We’ve been through seven church ages and God sent messengers one after another, one after another, keeping us pushing forward, pushing forward and the manna kept on falling, and the people kept on coming through the wilderness, then in the last days she (the bride) comes back into the land and gets the original Word again. Israel, before they went down into Egypt, they had the old corn of the land. They didn’t have manna. Manna was only a substitute food to get them through the wilderness. The original is the old corn of the land and it will keep for thousands of years under right conditions, where manna would only keep for one day. So the original Word of God is preserved and kept. I believe there’s a book (scroll) that’s been sealed for two thousand years; and it’s going to come forth and produce a church like the early church, and not only will we be engaged, but we’re going to get married! The marriage of the Lamb is come!

So we read here, when Paul engaged the church he said, “I fear, lest as the serpent beguiled Eve that he’ll do the same to you.” (2 Corinthians 11:2) And he did. It was through the spirit of iniquity, the white horse rider that was revealed in the first seal; that spirit of iniquity went forth and got right in there, and acted so much like the real church that they could hardly tell the difference, and he kept pulling them away, until he took them into the dark ages, but she (the church) is coming back again.

Now we read some things in the Book of Revelation that wasn’t written in the letters of Saint Paul. When Paul wrote the Word of God, when Peter wrote the Word of God, each one of them spoke of the coming of the Lord as though it was very, very soon to take place. Paul said, “The coming of the Lord is at hand, and it is so close you don’t have time to do all of these things.” That is in Romans, Chapter 7. Also, when Peter preached the Word of God he said, “The coming of the Lord is at hand.”

Now here we are two thousand years later, and I believe the Lord owes us an explanation of why He didn’t come. Don’t you? If you tell me you’re going to come, and then you don’t come, I want to get a phone call or a letter from you. I want to know what happened, what the reason is that you didn’t come. So the Lord gave us an explanation of why He didn’t come. It is recorded in the Book of Revelation, and it was because the church had fallen away. We read in the very first chapter of the Book of Revelation that Christ comes, and there John sees Him as a High Priest, for the first time he saw Him as a High Priest in that manner. He’s revealed in the church ages; and the very first church age, Ephesus, says, “Thou art fallen from thy first love.” So Jesus was manifested in a very extraordinary way through the office of a High Priest. He could mediate between God and man all the way through as He highlights the office of High Priest in the first chapter of the Book of Revelation, and not only that, but there’s something else seen in the first chapter of the Book of Revelation that was not seen before. John began to write about seven Spirits before the throne, and they weren’t spoken of by the great servant Saint Paul. As John speaks of it, those seven Spirits are the seven spiritual angels to the seven church ages, and as each church age rolled around God sends a man (an earthly messenger), and He sends a spiritual angel to back up that man, and to go with that man to see that the Word of God (manna) is made available for that age.

Let’s go to the first chapter of the Book of Revelation and we’ll read about it. We’re going to finish up in Revelation, Chapter 10, let’s do it again, but right this time! As we read here, you will see something that no other writer of the New Testament mentioned, and another thing I want you to notice is, this was not written in the days of Saint Paul. This was written some thirty years after Paul had died and gone on, after Peter was gone, and those apostles were gone. So here came God sending John out to the Isle of Patmos. He was an old man, near 100 years old. His mind was still sharp, because God was going to use him. John began to see visions. He began to write things that went beyond, and wasn’t directly connected with what Paul said, because the church had fallen away.

When the church had fallen away, God sent a substitute way and He put them under a survival law to live under. Not under the original law, because in the original law God kept the church clean. Ananias and Sapphira, you remember what happened to them; they sinned and fell dead. God kept the tares weeded out, and He kept a clean church. He kept a Holy church. He kept a church that was right, but in Matthew, Chapter 7, we find seven parables which relate and coincide with the seven church ages. We find that as the sowers went forth to sow seed, they sowed good seed to begin with – that’s your apostles, that’s your early men – there was nothing but good seed. But lo and behold, a little later the servants went to the field, and guess what they found growing? Tares among the wheat, and that should not be, in its original, because God kept the church clean. So the servants, knowing that, went to the master and said, “We found tares among the wheat; what shall we do?” The master of the house said, “Let them alone.” Now watch this. Here’s a change in plans. Here’s a change from the original. “Leave them alone and let them grow together until harvest.”

I used to be a farmer when I was younger, and I do know this, in growing a garden, if you have your beans planted, the weeds usually grow a lot faster. If the weeds grow too close to them and you pull them up, sometimes you disturb the roots of the plant and it stunts their growth; they can’t be moved sometimes during the growth process, but when the life has gone out of it, it doesn’t matter. So that’s why at the end time, He sends His angels to gather them up, but the commandment was, “Let them grow together until harvest.” Now that means this: The church could not come to perfection, the church could not be the body of Christ in the sense that Paul spoke of in the early church. Why? Because wheat and tares were growing together; and the commandment of God came and said, “Let them grow together.”

So we went under a survival law rather than a victorious law to be married to Christ, and we stayed under a survival law for two thousand years. That’s why the church went into the dark ages. That’s why they stopped using the name of Jesus Christ in water baptism. That’s why they starting using the formula of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; false baptism; denominationalism; they just survived, that was all they could do, and that’s all Israel could do while they wandered in the wilderness – just survive. Then finally one day, the time came and God called her out of the wilderness, and she went in and possessed the land.

HE LIFTED WOMAN BACK UP

The same thing happened in the Garden of Eden. There was a man named Adam, and he also had a wife, Eve. Instead of Eve becoming one with Adam, she became one first (had a fleshly experience) with the serpent. Therefore, she served on a lower level, on a survival law for thousands of years through the Old Testament. She couldn’t become one with a man in the sense as she can now, because she disbelieved the Word of God, and became one with a lower creature. Therefore, in the Old Testament she was under a survival law, but thank God there was a Mary, and she lifted the woman back to the state that she should have been in her original position.

In the Old Testament a man could have ten wives, and Lord have mercy, one is nice, but ten? (I had a good wife for thirty-four years and the Lord called her home a few years ago. I do miss her every day. She was a mighty wonderful lady.) Now here, in the Old Testament a woman fell just a little lower than man, because remember this, Paul said, “The man was not in the transgression, but the woman.” Therefore, a man could have several wives, and if he saw another one he liked, he could have her. That was in the Old Testament under a survival law. That’s the way it was in the Old Testament, typing what happened to the church, but in the New Testament there was a virgin named Mary. When the Word came to her, the Word said, “Thou art highly favored of the Lord. You’ve found grace in His sight. You shall conceive and bring forth a child. That child shall be the Holy One. He will be the Son of the Most High.” And Mary believed the Word of God and she un-done what Eve did. Eve sold the woman out a little lower, and Mary brought her right back to where she’s at now. Therefore, a man can become one with a woman and a woman one with a man. That man can’t flirt or make eyes at no other woman or anything like that, because he belongs to that woman, and that woman belongs to that man. Paul said, “The man doesn’t have authority over his body, but the woman. Neither does the woman have authority over her body, but the man.” That puts them exactly on equal footing. It means there’s no more polygamy, that’s illegal in the eyes of God. God brought her back like He did the church. Now she can be one with a man, she can go to God for herself, and she can have her own relationship with God and that communion with God, and she can be one with a man, and that man can’t make eyes at no other woman. Man and woman are equal in that sense, because Mary believed God, and God recognized that to lift the woman back up.

So God has picked the woman back up and He has given her the authority over the man’s body, and the man has authority over hers. That is in the union of marriage. That’s exactly right. The woman has her place in God, and she can become one with a man, and a man can become one with her. Now I’m typing out Christ and the church here. When Jesus Christ left, He put the church under the very exact same law that He was under. He said, “These works that I do; and greater works shall you do, because I go to the Father.” Jesus also said, “I in the Father, the Father in me, I in you, and you in me.” They became one, and that’s what Paul said in Ephesians, Chapter 5. He was speaking of how a man and woman, though they be two, they become one flesh. They become totally one (body, soul, and spirit). He said, “This is a great mystery, but I’m speaking of Christ and the church.” That’s the way Christ and His church is, they become one.

EXPLANATION OF WHY HE DIDN’T COME

We’re going to do it all over again - we’re going to do it right this time! We learn from our mistakes, don’t we? We’ve got a message; that message points us right straight back to the Word, back to the Bible, back to the power of God, back to baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, back to the gifts of the Spirit, back to those times when the gifts would lighten up the sanctuary, and the saints were rejoicing in the presence of God.

He said that He was going away, but He will come again, and He said, “The coming is at hand.” But He didn’t come. Two thousand years later He still hasn’t come in the physical sense. So He, being the honorable Savior, owes us an explanation of why He didn’t come. He gives it (the explanation) to us in the Book of Revelation. He gave us the capstone book. He gave us an explanation of why He didn’t come, and He starts off in the first chapter; He introduces a new truth that hasn’t been introduced before. It wasn’t introduced to Paul.

Now Paul had a message, and that message got sealed away with seven seals. God said He would open the seals and give us back the book in the last day. Do you believe He’s done it? I believe we’ve got the little book back, and I believe we can eat it, and I believe we can prophesy. I believe we can do it over again, and I believe we can do it right this time! He said, “Eat this book, and then prophesy again. Do it over again!

Revelation 1:4, “John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before His throne.”

Now that one verse introduces a truth, it plants a seed that’s going to grow all the way through the Book of Revelation. For the first time, there’s the mentioning of seven Spirits in the New Testament, and it wasn’t mentioned by Paul. These seven Spirits are before the throne and they send greetings to the church. These seven Spirits, seven angels, develop throughout the span of the church ages, and we see, as we can follow these on, as the opening of each church age, God speaks to the angel of the church. When the Book of Revelation was written, Paul had already been dead for some thirty years, but there was a church at Ephesus, and there was a pastor there, and there was a spiritual angel. There were seven of these churches and seven spiritual angels, and in each age there was an angel that came down. This first earthly angel was Paul, who was the messenger to that first age, the first church age, but he had already wrote the Word, laid it in there, and gone off the scene, but there were seven pastors of these seven churches of Asia (at the time John was writing), and that first spiritual angel came and gave that pastor a message, and told that pastor exactly what to do, and it typed out that first church age.

Revelation, Chapter 2, under the angel of the church of Ephesus, it says in Verse One, “Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks.” Verse 2-3, “I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.”

I want you to notice, He is bragging on them. “You’ve done this, you’ve done good, and you’ve done this…” It was not a message of condemnation. God is love. We want to feed God’s sheep with love and concern, so they will grow. Sometimes I believe we want to fight the goats so much that we forget to feed the sheep, but God told Peter, “Feed my sheep.” “Do you love me, Peter? Feed my sheep. Don’t fight goats; feed my sheep.” If you feed the sheep they’ll grow all right. And the Bible says, “God is love.” So that’s how we feed God’s sons and daughters. Jesus said, “By this all men shall know that you’re my disciples; if you have love one for another.”

In the minister’s meeting this afternoon, I believe we saw some of the love of God. I just felt such a good spirit that I would have liked to shouted. That’s just a little example of the love of God. It was said by the seventh church age messenger of this age, that nothing but perfect love will go there. I believe God wants to put His love in our hearts. We are getting down to the end-time. He gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers; and we are to typify Christ. Paul said, “Christ is manifested in me. You see Christ in me.” Paul was a type of Christ and so were the other ministers. Now if we are that, then we’ve got that same love He’s got, and we are willing to work with people. We’re willing to help people. We’re willing to do what we can for the bride of Christ, because the ministry is the male part of the body of Christ in the earth, and we are sent here to exemplify Christ. I believe it’s getting time for a wedding to take place. I believe the man typifies Christ and the woman typifies the bride. We as ministers should do good things for the church, which is the bride of Christ. So let’s do it again, but this time, let’s do it right. The second time around let’s get it right. We can’t afford to mess up two times in a row can we?

So here in Revelation 1:3, Jesus is bragging on them, but notice in Verses 4-5 (He’s rebuking them, and telling them they need to make some corrections)—“Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen,” REMEMBER THEREFORE FROM WHENCE THOU ART FALLEN.

The early church, what did she do? She fell away. Like Israel after they came out of Egypt, they failed to go in and possess the land. They said, “There are giants over there, we can’t do it, and they turned back and in their hearts went back to Egypt. So did the early Church. Israel wandered forty years in the wilderness, but finally they said, “Let’s do it right this time. Let’s go over in the land. Let’s do it right.” It was the younger generation that went in. The older generation didn’t believe God. I think God left us one of the most precious messages here. It calls us out of denominationalism, and calls us into the body of Christ, but praise God, He will keep on guiding us and leading us right in all these other things. Can the people look at us and say, “There’s the ministry! There’s the ministry that’s to lead us in. We’ll line up behind that.” You’re not going to line up behind somebody that’s fussing and arguing, complaining and belly-aching. You’re too intelligent to do that. You’re the bride. We’re united in the Spirit. God called us to unity. “Let this mind which was in Christ be also in you.”

The first age fell so low, it fell lower and lower until in the fourth age, in that thousand year dark period it fell to its lowest state, but God began to bring her out, under Luther, Wesley, and all down through there. He brought her out for one purpose; not to call her out of denominations and turn around and make another one. He called us out of denominations to produce, magnify, and to let the love of Christ manifest itself in us, and when this happens, then the church will begin to march again. I believe it’s time to march. It’s time to leave all our little differences behind and press for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let’s do it again, and let’s do it right this time! I believe there’s a people willing and ready to do it right this time. We know what it is when it’s done wrong. We know what it is when there is disunity among us. We know what it is when there’s an old root of bitterness among us.

What about you people here in this great city of Manila; are you loving one another so much that when people see you go down the street they say, “Those are disciples of the Lord”? Look at the love they’ve got for one another.” Or do you sit around and think of something to disagree with somebody about? There will always be something you can dig up and disagree on, but we are one. We’re one! We’re the church of the Living God, and the coming of the Lord is at hand! It’s time for us to labor together. It’s time for us to get our little petty differences behind us and go on with God. It’s time to see the church on fire for God. It’s time to see the church winning those lost souls out there that’s predestinated and ordained to come in, in the last hour.

Now watch this, when the church ages were over, John, being a type of the bride, was picked up into the Spirit into a higher level, showing by now she has come out of Babylon. She’s come out of the wilderness. Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness leaning on her beloved? I see a woman coming out of the wilderness leaning on her beloved, and that beloved is the Lord Jesus Christ, and that woman is the bride of Christ.

God said in Ephesians, Chapter 5, He was going to wash her by the water of the Word. He was going to get all the spots and wrinkles out of her garment, and He was going to perfect her, becoming one with her. Paul said that it is a great mystery how a man and woman, two flesh, become one. That’s a marriage union that God gives.

Brother Branham preached a message on the invisible union of the bride of Christ, where Christ and the church come together in that intimate relationship and become one. Paul said, “This is a great mystery, but I speak of Christ and the church.” How much have you acted like Christ this morning? How much have you loved your brothers and sisters? How much have you encouraged one another? Have you called somebody and said, “How are you today, Brother?” Paul said, “These things that I do that my love might appear to all.” He wanted it to be known. He wanted to tell the church how much he cared about them. So, I tell you, we’re one. Husband and wife need to begin to exemplify that, because you’re examples of the church.

So John was picked up in heaven and he saw a throne, and one sat upon the throne. Once I was over in the state of Alabama (USA), and a preacher came on television and said that he was called up to the throne room and he saw the father, an older man, and saw the son, a younger man, and saw another throne, and on that throne was a pillar of fire. There were three thrones. I said, “I don’t doubt that he had the vision; I don’t doubt that he was caught up somewhere, but he sure wasn’t caught up to where John was! The Apostle John was caught up, and he saw ONE sitting on the throne. So the place that preacher went, wasn’t where John went. How many do you see? Do you see three thrones, three sitting on three thrones, or do you see one throne, and one sitting on the throne? Some people try to pick the Godhead apart into so many pieces that it just about gets the mind confused.

When Jesus preached the Word of God and Paul preached the Word of God, they didn’t go into great lengths trying to prove the oneness of the Godhead. What they did was this: Jesus asked His disciples, “Who do men say that I am?” They said, “Some say you’re John; some say you’re Elijah; some say this, and some say that.” But Jesus asked them, “Whom say ye that I am? And Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God!” Jesus said, “Blessed art thou Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father which is in heaven.” The best preacher in the world can’t give you a revelation on the Godhead, but if you get a revelation, it’s not a matter of how many words or how beautiful a vocabulary, it’s a revelation God puts in the heart. We believe in one God, one faith, one Lord. Let’s leave it there. Amen.

Now let’s get Revelation 4:5, “And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” Notice, all seven lamps were burning. That means all seven church ages has come forth and had their day.

Now going on to the fifth chapter of the Book of Revelation, and John says this in Revelation 5:1, “And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.” I want you to notice, this book is not unwritten, but it is written. We’re not looking for a book to come down and eat the book that’s unwritten. We’re looking for a book that’s been written way back in the early age when we tried to take the land the first time and failed. We’re looking for that same book to be brought back to us, and we are going to eat again. We’re going to possess the land.

God sent a messenger to this age and he said, “Go back to the original.” God isn’t going to give us another book. God isn’t going to give us another message. Paul is not going to come back and write fourteen more books, but we’re going to get a fresh anointing on the book we already have. God is going to take the cloud off, unseal it, and make it known. When the seals were taken off, it just revealed, made known, and brought back the same thing they had in the early church.

The church has gone through seven church ages. During the seven church ages, we got seven Spirits, seven seals, seven thunders, and all of those are laying there for tools to use in the wilderness and coming out of the wilderness. Who is this that’s coming out of the wilderness leaning on her beloved? It’s the bride! And we see here the seven angels, the seven Spirits, become so much in Christ that when we read here in Chapter 5, Verses 6 and 7, it says, “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.”

Now, what have we got here? Those seven angels worked so closely with Christ through the seven church ages, that when each one of the messengers came with a message, he brought the Word that caused the blood of the Lamb to be applied to that age. When Luther preached his message, in the fifth church age, they heard the Word of God, and God said, “There’s some that shall be clothed in white raiment (Revelation 3:5), I’ll not blot their names from the book.” Why? The blood of the Lamb was applied. This is made known to us here at the end time, so the bride will have a clear path to walk in. Let’s do it again, and let’s do it right this time!

So the next time these seven angels are seen, the seven Spirits, they’re seen in 1963. Seven spiritual angels came right down from glory and appeared to a man, William Branham, the messenger to this age, and as they did, he was picked up in the revelation, and when they ascended back to heaven they made the face of the Lord. It came out in Life Magazine in 1963. It was a phenomenon. Nobody knew what it was, except for the bride.

How do you feel when you’re coming out of the wilderness? How do you feel coming out? How do you feel leaning on the shoulder of the Beloved? How do you feel doing it again, and doing it right this time? Amen. There’s a church coming out of the wilderness, leaning on the shoulder of her beloved.

POUR OUT THE HONEY!

The Word of God is to give us life, not to gouge each other with. In the days when David looked after the sheep, he talked about honey in one of the Psalms, pouring honey on the rock. There’s honey in the rock, Brother. It says that David would take a little honey out, pour it on the rock and the sheep would come and lick that rock, and as they got the honey, they got the calcium and everything they needed in their bodies. I say, “It’s time to pour some honey on the rock.” Let’s get around that rock and start licking! Let’s get some of that calcium and minerals that we need to survive in this end time.

Lord let it be as with Jonathan in 1 Samuel 14:27, while in battle, there was honey dripping out of a tree, and the Bible says that he put his rod in the honey, and put it in his mouth and his eyes were enlightened. We need to stick our rod in the honey. There are a lot of eyes that need to be opened up to the truth. You’re headed for a cliff unless you get rid of all this nonsense of fussing and arguing and get the love of God in your hearts and go forward. Come on, Folks, we’re not going to make it arguing and fussing around. Let’s pour some honey on the rock and watch the sheep get around and lick. You need to go around with songs and praises in your heart, making melody to the Lord. If you’re happy, you’re going to sing. You’re going to sing the praises of God. You’re going to walk with God. I believe God is going to pour some honey on the rock, don’t you?

To understand the Godhead, it takes a revelation. Jesus said, “No man…there’s not a single soul who knows who the Father is, but the Son, and there isn’t a single soul who knows who the Son is, but the Father. And the only way that you’re ever going to know Him is if He reveals it to you. Not so much if I’ve got so many words. I can study and study and think I’ve got it down pat. No. It won’t help a thing, unless God gives a revelation, because without a revelation, it is only carnal or mental (intellectual) knowledge, and this kind of knowledge sometimes fails to get converted into spiritual revelation. Amen?

Now let’s go back to Revelation, Chapter 10. I feel the union of the Spirit. I feel that we can take the land, don’t you? Because there’s a unified people marching around being led by Joshua. How many knows who our Joshua is? The Holy Ghost, Jesus! He’s the one you’ve got to have a relationship with. He is the one who died for you. He’s the one who leads you. The Bible says, “The Holy Ghost will lead us in all truth, and even show us things to come.” He is the leader!

Oh, some of us carnal Gentiles, we want some man to come forth that has all the answers. That’s the reason the pope is so successful. There is going to be one come with all the answers. There is one that has all the answers. His name is Jesus Christ. He can give us all the unity of the Spirit and the answers. He is the one. Jesus is the one, yes He’s the only one. Let Him have His way until the day is done.

COMING OUT OF THE WILDERNESS

Now I’m going to Revelation, Chapter 10. I want you to watch here—we’re coming out of the wilderness. John continues his writings here, and he says, Revelation 10:1-2, “And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: (We know that’s Christ.) And he had in his hand a little book open…” Not the whole Bible, the little book (a scroll). The whole Bible wasn’t sealed, because the whole Bible didn’t apply specifically to the bride. There is a portion that is just for a Gentile bride. Aren’t you glad that there is a message for us?

So here, Christ came with the little book open, He put one foot on land and one on sea. There’s a 2,000 year span between there – from the first coming at Pentecost. Pentecost was the first leg of His coming. (I’m talking about in the Spirit here), and the second leg of His coming is the Mighty Angel. Between the time of the first leg of His coming and the second leg of His coming, the seven thunders uttered their voices. You might ask, “Brother Howard, do you believe seven thunders are seven men?” Absolutely! I believe seven thunders sounded right through seven men, and I believe it has already happened. It’s already happened! In each age there was a man out there that stood and uttered the voice of God. Then this last church age messenger said he would take all these mysteries and line them up and finish the mystery of God; which is the route the church took. The same seven angels that sounded through the earthly messengers (men), sounded or uttered their voices through the seventh church age messenger as God used him for the voices to sound through in 1963. Then God gave us back the little book and told us to do it right this time.

REMEMBER – THE LITTLE BOOK WAS WRITTEN

Do you love Him now with all your heart? Listen as we read here, Verse 3, “And (the angel) cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.” The seven thunders were sealed up. How many seals are on the book? Seven. Now what is it that was not written…? - Remember the little book was written within. Let me say it again, “The little book (or scroll) was written within.” It’s what the thunders said that wasn’t written. It’s the route the church took from the time it went into the dark ages, until God brought it out here in the last day. There stood a man in Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1963 who said that each night one of those messengers came down from heaven, and there were seven of them. It was a repetition of what had been in the seven church ages when their voices sounded through seven men. How does it feel when you come out of the wilderness? How does it feel to be leaning on the Lord?

So seven thunders uttered their voices and John said, “I was about to write.” And John was told by the voice from heaven, “Don’t write what the thunders said.” A lot of people say the little book is unwritten Word. No. The Bible says it’s written. The little book was written within and sealed on the back side. It wasn’t unwritten. It’s written. It’s just revealed to us and made fresh to us again. And God said to eat it!

LET’S RESET THE TABLE AND EAT AGAIN!

If you folks are ready to eat, we’ll set the table and eat. I enjoy eating. I can’t eat if there are arguments and stuff like that going on. I love to enjoy my meal and take my time. To me, eating is an adventure, and I don’t think the bride can eat good if there is disunity, fussing, or arguing going on. I believe she likes a good atmosphere to eat in. I always think a meal is better with flowers on the table. I like a candlelight dinner occasionally. I like things to be nice and a good spirit to enjoy talking and eating. I’m telling you, we’re eating a good meal tonight! But if this one is fussing with that one, etc, do you know what I do? As soon as possible, I excuse myself, because if I eat like that, it just doesn’t digest well. Unless there’s a good atmosphere to eat in, I just as well not eat. I just as soon go on another fast, but the Father will give us that good Spirit (good atmosphere) where we can eat this book in peace, if we’ll earnestly put forth an effort to see that the unity is not broken. Let’s let by-gones be by-gones. Let’s let water under the bridge, be water under the bridge. Let’s come together in the Philippines and put forth a unified front, and let a revival march forth that will go around the world. Brother, it is possible. It’s as much possible as it was for Jordan to open up and let the children of Israel go forth on dry ground.

When the thunders uttered throughout the ages, John brought the seven church ages right down, starting at the first chapter of the Book of Revelation, but it didn’t happen then, it happened through two thousand years. The messengers spoke through a two thousand year period, and when John heard them (the thunders) in 96 A.D., the Lord Jesus said, “I want this to remain a secret, because if it doesn’t, the church will know that they’re going to be here two thousand years, and we want to keep them looking for my coming.” – (Paraphrasing). When the thunders uttered they were sealed up, but in this day (1963) they were unsealed! And now that they’re unsealed we can eat the book! What is the book? Is it some mysterious revelation? No. It’s already written. It is Paul’s message made new to the Gentile bride.

Are you ready to do it again? Are you ready to do it right this time? Then let’s start by loving one another and being in unity and showing the world that we’re the bride of Christ! Thank you for giving your undivided attention to the Word and God bless you. Amen.

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