THE MYSTERY OF AREA 51

Thought for the book taken from the message

delivered on January 24, 2016

Dawsonville, Georgia U.S.A.

THE MYSTERY OF AREA 51

Good morning to each of you. May the blessings and the peace of the Lord be upon you. Today we want to begin our reading in 1 Corinthians, Chapter 15, starting with Verse 51. This is one of the scriptures that we read quite often; and the reason is because this is the area of time that we are in. My title today is a strange sounding title, and it is something that we hear much about on television and from reading in some of the scientific magazines where they write about a place they call Area 51. Well, I want to minister on the spiritual Area 51. So the title of my message is, The Mystery of Area 51.

Area 51 is actually a place where some people say that an alien spacecraft was brought to after it supposedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. They say there were aliens inside of it that were killed and their remains are concealed there. There are so many fictitious stories of this sort that are told about this place. This site of Area 51, to the best of my understanding after watching a documentary about it on television, is the Nevada Test and Training Range, which is part of Edwards Airforce Base (that’s what it is called now), which is about eighty miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. Employees refer to it as ‘the site’ or ‘the ranch’ or some other code name, which only adds to the mystery of Area 51. Many people have written over the years about this so-called alien spacecraft crash site, claiming they have been witnesses of what happened and that they have seen aliens there. And to some people’s delight, such tales only add fuel to that imaginary world. So there is a mystery surrounding Area 51. It has aroused curiosity about what is so secretive about this mysterious place. So it makes for a big mystery story and it gives people something to talk about in their idle time.

Well, we have something better to talk about, and it’s not a fictitious story; but it is a very reality! We talk about “our scriptural Area 51,” which is Verse 51 of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 15. That’s one of the scriptures that I want to read to you today. Again, my title is, The Mystery of Area 51.

The Apostle Paul said, “Behold, I shew you a mystery,” and it is in this verse that God lets us know by revelation that we are now in this area of time as we see this scripture being fulfilled. For we must recognize the part that we are fulfilling in order to become that part of the Word. And now we do recognize the part that we are fulfilling; for it is the sounding of the last trumpet that we are now hearing in this spiritual Area 51. This revelation is made clear to those that have a spiritual ear tuned to the sounding of this last trumpet, which shows that there are three parts to the spiritual coming of the Lord, as related to us by Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump (trumpet) of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” And then when we look at 1 Corinthians 15:51-57, we see that Paul only mentions the trumpet part of the 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 scriptures. He didn’t mention the other two parts, because the Word that came through those two parts have now been gathered into this trumpet part of the message that is sounding forth. It’s at this time that we are gathered together, both the living and the dead, in Verses 51-57 of this end time scripture. Now that we have arrived at the sounding of this last trumpet, we know for sure that we have come through the area of the shout, and the area of the voice of the archangel. This scripture in 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 interprets itself to those that are ordained and are part of it. So it’s clear that we are in the area of the trumpet sounding. But before I say anymore about it, let’s pray before reading.

Heavenly Father, we come praising you and thanking you, Lord, for your goodness upon us. Lord, we could never, ever, if we had billions of years (which we will have in the future when we get our glorified body and all these things take place), but we could never thank you and praise you and honor you enough. We will always have praise in our hearts for you. Like the song we sang earlier, “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine, Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine. Watching and waiting and looking above, filled with your goodness, lost in your love. This is my story.” O God, what a story this is! So I pray this morning that you will bless us as we read your Word, and may you anoint us to bring from it the things that you have ordained for this day. We ask it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Now let’s read our scripture and watch how it unfolds itself. I want to showcase (put on display) Verse 51, because we are talking about a secret or mystery that remains unsettled until revealed, and this is the area of the Word that applies to us. And since Paul is talking about a mystery here, I thought it would be real good to entitle it, The Mystery of Area 51. I promise you, when people see this title on our website, they will begin to look, because Area 51 draws so much interest amongst the people wanting to know what happened there.

Well, I’m going to tell you today what is happening in the spiritual Area 51, and this is the area that counts. This Area 51 is not talked about on the history channels or the scientific channels, and there are no aliens that came from outer space and got killed in a spacecraft here. But there has been an invasion from outer space, because the Lord Himself has descended from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and He brought with Him (God sent with Him) those that were dead in Christ that are to be part of the wife. But you can’t see them unless you are in the Spirit of God. So it feels good to be in Area 51. And it is not an air force base here; it’s a base where God’s people come together and worship Him in Spirit and in truth and have the joy and peace that belongs only to them.

All right, Verse 51 says (Paul writing), “Behold, I shew you a mystery;” Most people love mysteries. I, for one, love mysteries; especially the mysteries spoken of by Paul, who was the apostle to the body of Christ in that hour, which was the espousal period. God made us where we like mysteries. That’s one of the reasons we love our spiritual Area 51. It’s a fact that a mystery is something that always gets our attention. And Paul wrote about a mystery that is reserved just for us here at the end time. “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,” Now that is a mystery right there! But with the sounding of this trumpet it is no longer a mystery, because it makes manifest that there is a people that have absolutely overcome the death sentence, which means that we are not under the law that brings forth death. And for Christ the wife, this means that we that are in Area 51 are not under the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2 and Romans 5:13)

See, the law was given by Moses. And although sin and death was already here, it wasn’t made manifest (imputed) and brought to the surface until the law was given. And when the law was given, then sin was magnified; because it says, “Thou shalt,” and “Thou shalt not.” And as we know, most people in general try to avoid those do’s and don’ts. When Moses gave the law, it magnified the law of sin and death that’s within each human being. But now I’m talking about something that makes known and magnifies the grace of God, the freedom of God, and the liberty of God, where Jesus Christ came to set us free from that law. And by the grace of God He tasted death for every man. (Hebrews 2:9) And now the law of sin and death has no more dominion over us. (Romans 6:9) That is what Paul is writing about—Behold, we shall not all sleep!

Oftentimes people tell me, “It’s appointed unto men once to die; after this, the judgment.” They say, “Every man is going to die;” while others say, “There are two things certain in life—one is taxes, and the other is death.” But that’s contrary to the Word of God, because death is not certain; for there are some that are not going to sleep (die). The question is—Are you one of those?

Verse 51 again, “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,” Now when Paul is talking about ‘we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,’ he is talking about all those that are ordained to be members of the wife of the Lamb in this Area of Verse 51. And he told us that it’s when the trumpet is sounding that this takes place. This is when we choose our time and our place to overcome our last enemy called death. It could be asked, “Brother Ben, how is that possible for us?” That’s very simple. God has sent this message of the last trumpet and we choose to either accept it and believe it, or reject it; and the wife never rejects Him. And then we go forward with this message that defies all logic and defies all human imagination and defies even death itself. We can think of this as a new birth for this mortal body, which glorifies it and makes it eternal; just as the soul receives a new life upon accepting our Lord Jesus Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit, which makes our very soul (inner man) an eternal being. This was a great mystery to Nicodemus, who was a ruler of the Jews, when Jesus Christ told him, “You must be born again.” (John, Chapter 3) It was so earth-shaking to hear such words that Nicodemus could only ask, “How can these things be?” Jesus let him know that this was a work of the Holy Spirit. It is the same with receiving our new body; it defies all human logic. But the sounding of this last trumpet makes it possible! Remember, in Mark 9:23, it says, “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”

Sometimes people have daydreams or write a fairytale story about overcoming death. My wife, Barbara Jean, and I saw a movie a while back about some people that had found a well. And if one would drink the water, they would go back to being young. In the movie there were people that had drunk out of that well and fifty years later they were still young people. Well, in the Bible there is such a story; it sprang from Jesus saying, “If you drink this water, it will spring up in you a well of everlasting life.” Well, praise God, we have found that well and we are drinking of that water!

There have been many people over the years that have searched for the fountain of youth; showing that somewhere hidden within man’s psyche is the desire to stay young and live forever. Well, God told us He would renew our youth as an eagle, and now we can soar into the heavens where all things are possible to them that believe; and our faith has grown exceedingly to where the promises for this hour are coming to pass.

Remember, Abraham and Sarah were the ones that Paul wrote about in the Book of Romans and in the Book of Hebrews. (And we are a seed of Abraham through Christ.) They were old; Abraham was as good as dead and with Sarah it ceased to be as with women. She was in menopause, and may have been for many years. But one day, someone came and told them that the promised son would soon be born; for it was time for God’s promise to be fulfilled. Then something happened to them—Abraham and Sarah had their youth renewed. We always say that God changed Abraham and Sarah back to young people. I don’t know how much their appearance changed, but God made them feel like young people again. But just as promised, Sarah conceived and nine months later Isaac was born. God’s promise was now fulfilled. Then forty years later, Sarah went on to be with the Lord; and at that time Abraham sent his faithful servant to get a wife for his son Isaac (which types out with the Holy Ghost going out through the message of Paul, calling a people together to be the wife of the Lord Jesus Christ). And Isaac was married to Rebecca. Then Genesis 25:1-2 shows us that at that time Abraham remarried and had six more sons by another wife named Keturah; thus showing that the gospel is going to go back to Israel again. So it was then, just like now, as we see the Word is beginning to be fulfilled in Israel as all the players are in place in the Middle East. And at the same time, we have entered into Area 51, and have found our peace and joy and tranquility in this Word. Amen.

So here in Area 51 is where Paul tells the mystery—“we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.” Now let’s look at that word all; we don’t look at it as meaning all Christianity in general. We don’t look at it as all humanity or all those that talk about Jesus Christ. No. But here we are talking about the wife of the Lamb, who can say (just as Paul said), “I’m crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” That’s what the message was about last week, entitled, What Have We Gotten and What Have We Given in Exchange for Our Soul. It was about submitting our self, giving our life to Him. “He that saveth his life, shall lose it. But he that loses his life for my sake shall save it.” We lose the carnality of this natural life and we gain the spiritual life of Christ. We give up our fleshly desires for the things of Christ, and then the Lord becomes our very own life—it is Christ living in us, and we are living in Him—the Hope of Glory! In other words, “I’m crucified with Christ, yet I live. But yet not I, but Christ liveth within me.” And, “I am dead and my life is hid with Christ in God.” Those are the ones that Paul is talking about in 1 Corinthians 15:51, “we shall not all die, but we shall all (all living members of the body of Christ) be changed.”

In Verse 52, Paul tells us how it is going to be, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,” and then he tells us when it is going to happen—“for the trumpet shall sound.” And we choose to believe this and embrace it and walk in the light of it. Remember the message, Choosing the Time and Place to Defeat Our Last Enemy Called Death—we do this by choosing to hear and accept this last trump of God message; being baptized into the fullness of Christ that has tuned our ear to this trumpet sounding. This is also the message that brings up the dead members of the wife, which happens just before we are changed into our glorified bodies.

Watch what Verse 52 says, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound (that answers the when), and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” Only in Area 51 does a change take place. We shall be changed! Death is not involved here (except the dying out to our self-life). When we reach this point, the mystery is fulfilled in us as we hear the trumpet sounding and we totally give ourselves over to God and what He is doing in this hour that we are now living in. Praise God! That’s in our Area 51.

So the trumpet sounds and the dead are going to rise. I love that part. In the past, I would wonder why the dead would rise first and then we would be changed. But now it’s made very clear to us. It is because the living (we which are alive and remain) prophesy to them with this message. It is the living part of the wife who tells them to rise from the dead; for it is when the trumpet sounds that this takes place. So they are hearing the same trumpet that we are hearing, because they are in the same place that we are in. God sent them back with Christ when He came to marry His virgin, and we have become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh in this perfect marriage of both the resurrected and the translated members. That’s the ‘all’ of 1 Corinthians 15: Area 51-52. Because amongst the dead that know Jesus Christ and are a part of the wife of the Lamb, Christ brought their theophanies back to earth when He came in His fullness. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-17)

When Paul preached his message, part of it was to the people that were living and listening then, because they were the engaged virgin of his day. But another fold of his message (which was prophetic) came into being when he was in prison. Oh, some of those ‘prison books’ are so good! Some of the things that he wrote didn’t necessarily apply to the people living then, for he was prophesying, although he may not have even known it. So when the virgin fell away, God laid the revelation away in a secret place tucked inside the Book of Redemption, which is the part that’s known as the little book. God sealed this little book away within the Book of Redemption for the wife here at the end time, both the living and the dead. God let Paul write it as though it was going to happen to them right then and there. That’s why Paul said, “We which are alive and remain.”

Now I want to read Verses 8-9, in the Book of Colossians, Chapter One. It says, “Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit (the love of the things of God). For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;” So as we have arrived at this place, we don’t forsake that part of it, because that is communion (fellowshipping). In the Book of Malachi 3:16-18 it speaks of the book of remembrance that God made. But this wasn’t necessarily a book of remembrance of those that talked to the Lord often; but it was made for them that spoke often one to another—that’s fellowship. He looked down and saw that perfect fellowship which is shown in Ephesians 4:13-16, and He made a book of remembrance and made sure that all those names were in it; those that were fellowshipping one with another, edifying one another, building up one another, and speaking to one another.

Notice, at the end of Verse 9, those words, spiritual understanding. Because spiritual understanding only comes from the Spirit of God. For no man knoweth the things of God, but only the Spirit of God knows them. Verse 10, “That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;” That’s why every time we meet together, every time we hear a sermon, every time we read the Word being anointed by the Spirit of God, we are increasing in the knowledge of God. Verse 11, “Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;” There has to be that joyfulness in there. Some people say to me, “Well, Brother Howard, I don’t have much joy; I have many problems.” Sometimes the more problems we have the more joy we can have in the Spirit of God, because we realize if we stay in this natural realm these problems are going to pull us down, so we just get in the Spirit of God by praising God and walking closer to God, understanding what the spiritual will of God is for us. Verse 12, “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet (worthy, suitable) to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:” Notice, we are partakers of the saints in light—God is light. Jesus Christ came as the light of the world. We are partakers of the saints in light. So that in light is important; especially in this Area 51. And we are the light in the City of Light.

In the Book of Hebrews 12:22-24, it tells about a spiritual area and what is going on in that area of the Word. And along with the angels and the spirits of just men, there’s Jesus Christ, our Husband and King, who died on the cross as the Lamb of God, to make possible what Paul was writing about concerning the redemption of God’s family, with the wife of the Lamb being first and foremost in this wonderful glimpse into this spiritual Kingdom of God’s workings.

I want you to notice Verses 12-13, “which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,” We don’t walk in darkness, but we walk in light. He has ‘delivered us from the power of darkness.’ That means darkness can’t control us. The deeds of darkness, the deeds that don’t edify, they can’t control us. God has delivered us. Watch how He did it. “who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:” So if the Word tells me that I’m translated, then I’m translated. We are translated into the Kingdom of God’s dear Son. We have arrived here as shown in Ephesians 4:13-16—and this is Area 51. All these other areas have already come to pass, the first two parts of the spiritual coming of Christ have fulfilled themselves. And now we have come to Area 51 where Paul said, “Behold, I shew (tell) you a mystery,” and the mystery (secret) is this, “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.” That’s what takes place only in Area 51. Then Paul reaffirmed this when he said, “We are translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of His dear Son. Now, can we believe that we are translated? Yes, we can!

Let’s go to the Book of Luke, Chapter 17, and I want to begin reading in Verse 32. It says, “Remember Lot’s wife.” And we see in Genesis 19:26 where Lot’s wife surely did lose her life by trying to save it, as she went contrary to the angel’s instructions. Yes, she turned into a pillar of salt, and she lost all. Verses 33-34, “Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. I tell you, in that night (Jesus Christ is talking about a very special night here.) there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.” This is a hidden mystery about the rapture, and there is a certain point I want to make about it as we go further into the message, and it is very important, so don’t miss it.

I want you to notice, not any of the twelve apostles spoke of the catching away of the wife. But Paul wasn’t one of the twelve, he was the one that God chose specifically to call a people out of the Gentiles to espouse them to Christ to eventually become the wife of the Lamb. And as the Gentiles came into Paul’s gospel, they loved what he preached, because he told them that they didn’t have to be circumcised, and they didn’t have to keep the Sabbath, and they didn’t have to be concerned about their meats and drinks; for he said, “Whatever is set before you, eat and drink, and ask no questions.” So that went over real well with the Gentiles. And there were many of the Jews that began to accept it, also. And so the gospel that Paul preached began to call out a people to start forming the body of Christ consisting of both Jews and Gentiles. Please notice here that while God, through the message that Paul preached, was introducing a virgin to Christ, He was also busy working another part of His plan through the twelve apostles to the Jewish people (Israel).

We find that while Peter and the eleven other apostles were preaching to the Jewish church, God began to give a greater understanding to Peter concerning Paul’s place in His plan. We find this in the Book of Galatians 2:6-9 when Paul visited Jerusalem again to be in services with the apostles. At first they would not acknowledge his part in the plan of God; but God intervened by showing Peter, James, and John, Paul’s special place in God’s plan. Upon recognizing and understanding God’s plan more clearly, showing that as Peter had the gospel for the Jews (the circumcision), that Paul had the message for the Gentiles (the uncircumcision), they gave Paul and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, giving them their blessings, and they told them to go to the Gentiles.

Let’s read Verse 34 again. It says, I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.” In Verses 35-36 He says, “Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” Notice, here we see it will be night in some areas of the earth, while it will be daylight in another part of the earth, thus showing that the rapture is worldwide. There will be people in the bed asleep and the next morning wake-up and one of them will be missing; one taken and one left. Two women may be grinding at the millstone; and as they are grinding perhaps they are talking about what they might have for supper that their husbands and children would enjoy, then one may look around and find the other one is gone. This lets us know that God always leaves a witness by those that are left behind. There are three other things that He made clear here: The first thing is, whether you are asleep or awake you will go in the rapture if you are one of them. Then, the two women grinding meal shows that being male or female has nothing to do with whether you are raptured or not, because when you are baptized into the body, in the plan of salvation it is neither male nor female. And then, it is showing that when the rapture takes place, you don’t have to worry about whether it is day or night.

Brother William Branham, who was the messenger to the Laodicea church age, once made the statement that he believed the rapture would take place some morning between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Well, we could ask, “In what part of the earth would it happen between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.?” I have traveled much in my lifetime and I know for sure that the time is not the same in each country. So I will leave that right there without having any further comments about it.

I want you to notice, Paul was the only apostle that spoke of a catching away (rapture). Not any of the other twelve apostles mentioned a rapture or being caught away; only Jesus Christ spoke of it in the way we have just read about. Then when Paul began to speak about it, he gave us more details of exactly how it would take place, and when it would take place, and to whom it applied to. So the twelve apostles didn’t speak of a catching away, but they spoke of the physical Lord Jesus coming back to earth to set up His earthly Kingdom, which He will—but not until there has been a catching away. Then we (the wife) come back to this earth with the Lord Jesus after the tribulation, which takes place at the end of the 70th Week of Daniel, only then will the millennium or Kingdom age begin.

Now let’s get that last verse, Verse 37. It says, “And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.” Where, Lord? Many people want to know where—“Should I go over here or over there?” Through time, different groups have met in different places. They would say, “You have to go to this mountain, because the Lord is going to come back here.” “Where, Lord?” And He answered where it is. He said, “Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.” Notice, wheresoever. He showed us that at the time of the rapture it will be night in some parts of the world and day in other parts of the world, and that means the rapture is universal. Please understand, that there is no geographical spot on earth that we have to go to in order to be raptured, because we are already His flesh and bones by our marriage to the Lamb. And our gathering place has taken us inside the body of Christ by spiritual baptism.

The Apostle Paul is the one that preached the rapture. He was the one that was sent of the Lord to espouse a virgin to Christ Jesus to become the wife of the Lamb. He got her engaged in his day. But God sent this message of marriage in our day. Notice again that the twelve apostles looked for the Lord to come in the flesh. The fact is, Peter said in Acts, Chapter 3, “The heavens must retain (hold) Him (Jesus) until the time of restitution,” and that’s the beginning of the millennial reign. Jesus Christ in His physical essence cannot come to earth before then; therefore, we go to Him. We are caught up to meet Him in the air. Then we all come back together. This was not taught or preached by any of the twelve apostles who preached to the Jews; only Paul preached this part of the Word.

So now we know that Revelation, Chapter 10, is showing the spiritual coming of the Lord in His fullness. That is what is seen by John and is in fact the same spiritual coming that Paul wrote about in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17. He came back to earth in His spiritual or angelical form to be made manifested by taking on flesh and bones through His wife.

We have written a little book called, The Chronicles of the Tenth Chapter of the Book of Revelation and the Eating of a Bitter Meal, that clears all of this up for us. And since then, we have moved into Area 51. Paul prophesied, “We shall not all sleep.” In other words, the death sentence loses it hold. There is nothing to hold us. And only in Area 51 does the death sentence lose its hold. This is the time. In Verse 51 of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 15, Paul is showing (telling) a mystery (a secret), “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.” Meaning, “O death where is your sting?”

In the Book of Psalms, Chapter 91 (and I love this book), it talks about a secret place. They say that Area 51 in Nevada is a total secret. They have signs all over the place that say, “STOP—DON’T ENTER.” And if a plane tries to fly over it, they get a warning that they will be shot out of the sky. It is such a secret, such a mystery, and something to write and talk about. Likewise, in our Area 51 it is a total secret and has given many people something to write and talk about; but the wife knows the secrets of her Husband as she has His mind.

Let’s read Psalms 91:1-4. (And if the Book of Psalms is not part of your regular reading you might want to include it in some of your devotional reading; it will really bless you.) It says, “He that dwelleth in the secret place (Are you in that secret place? You are if you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. Those are the ones that go in the rapture.) of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.” Now watch Verse 4, “He shall cover thee with his feathers,” Notice that, “He shall cover thee with His feathers,” I was raised on a farm and watched a mother hen with her little chicks and how she would protect them. If a dog came through the yard, usually the chickens would always scatter. But if that dog came near the mother hen with her little chicks, she wouldn’t run. God evidently put something within that mother hen to cause her to protect those baby chicks and caused the dog to fear the mother hen. Because a hen would normally run when they saw a dog. But the hen that had the chicks would spread out those feathers and go towards that dog and many times the dog would actually turn and run. The little chicks were protected under the shadow of that mother hen’s wings. When danger came, the little chicks would run and get under the wings because they felt safe there. And the only way they could be hurt is if the mother hen was killed or badly wounded, because she was going to protect her babies. And nothing can stop our God, so we are protected. Continuing with Verse 4, “He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.” Do you see that secret place? We get under the shadow of His wings, and we are so safe there, nothing can touch us.

Paul said, “I show you a mystery.” This wasn’t revealed in other ages, but it was saved for the wife of the Lamb in this hour. Here I’m reminded of a dream that a dear brother, named Claude Loggins, who passed away some years back, had. In this dream, he went into a store that sold men’s suits. Although the store was mostly empty of suits, they had one that fit him very well. And when he went up to the counter to pay for his suit, he made mention that they barely had any suits left. At that moment, the man at the counter reached his hand back under the counter and pulled out a very nice suit and showed it to Brother Loggins and said, “I have this one saved back for Brother Junior.” (That’s what Brother Loggins and other people called me during those early days.) Then he woke up out of his sleep.

This trumpet message has been saved for the people who are actually going to be changed, and for those who have died through time who are part of the wife—for they, too, hear this message, and they like the sound. This sound penetrates through all veils; whether a member of the wife of the Lamb is alive in their mortal body or whether their body is waiting in the grave for resurrection.

I said sometime back, “The dead are hearing this last trumpet message and have begun to move around.” And that’s true. We get an example of this in Ezekiel, Chapter 37, where God gave Ezekiel a vision, and in this vision he was picked up in the spirit and set in a valley full of dry bones. God told Ezekiel to prophesy to the dry bones; and when he did, they began to move around. What moved them? It was the prophecy—“Speak the Word and these bones shall live again!” And as he prophesied unto those dry bones, saying, “These bones shall live again,” those bones began to come together!”

Likewise, those of the wife of the Lamb that have gone before us in death, their bones shall rise again, also. But in this hour, more than just bones are going to rise! God will unite their spirits (theophanies) with their bodies and bring them forth. And then, we the living are going to be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. This is in Area 51, the mystery area. This is under the shadow of the wings of the Almighty. We are safe when we are under the feathers of the wings of the Almighty. This is the secret place of the Most High. That is where we are if we are believing the Word, walking with the Word.

We have read many times here in Ephesians 4:13-16 and in Hebrews 12:22-24. It’s here that we are brought into the secret place of Area 51. Ephesians 4:13-16 says, “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 fullness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.” Then Hebrews 12:22-24 says, “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”

Now I want to bring in a little more about what Jesus Christ said, “One shall be taken and one left.” I want you to keep this in mind—Paul was the only one that picked up on what Jesus said and brought this out about a people being caught up. And now we know, by reading what the Apostle John wrote some thirty years after God took Paul home, that after the catching away that there would be those that missed the rapture and are left here to go through the great tribulation.

The Apostle John being picked up in the Spirit wrote the Book of Revelation, recording the things which he saw. He was not writing his own words, but was only writing what he saw in his vision on the Isle of Patmos, showing a people in Revelation, Chapter 7, going through tribulation. Then the Book of Revelation, Chapter 11, shows two prophets coming to Israel. And all of this transpires after the rapture. The two prophets, more than likely, are on the scene right now; and they, no doubt, are being made ready to begin to prophesy their message, and may very well begin before we leave. But their real job will be after the rapture, because when they get through prophesying, this world is going to be in bad shape. And then in the middle of that week, after the two prophets are killed, there are 144,000 Jews that will go forth into the earth with an anointing on them and they will preach the everlasting gospel, saying, “Fear God, give glory to Him. Don’t bow down to the image of the beast, nor take his mark. Babylon is fallen and has become the habitation of devils.” You talk about a rebuking message! But we are in glory at that time. How did we get there? We went to Area 51, because God let Paul write certain prophecies, and now by this last trumpet sounding, He has given the wife the revelation; and by it, we have entered into this spiritual land, Area 51.

Let’s have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we do thank you today for your love, goodness, and mercy. I pray, Lord, that you will take this Word and that you will use it for your glory. And may we especially understand the points that we haven’t brought out before, such as “one taken and one left.” We have seen in your Word today that Paul was the only apostle that brought this out of the Word for us. I pray, Lord, that these words that have been spoken will add to the Word that we have already been bringing—that Paul was that apostle that was sent to get a virgin espoused to Christ. And now through the sounding of this last trumpet, we are married to our Lord Jesus. Lord, help us to receive the truth of this message and to be all that you would have us to be, and all that we can be in thee. In Jesus Christ’s name we pray. Amen

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