(Singing:)  "Let Your anointing flow through me . . .

Come on, everybody in this place, let's lift up our hands to the Lord.  Lift up your hands for just a moment, if you will, in one mind and one accord.  

We bless You, Lord.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  You're so worthy and wonderful to be praised, oh God.  We glorify You.  We magnify You, oh God.  

Wonderful is the Lord.  Wonderful is the Lord.  Wonderful, wonderful . . .  Hallelujah.  We fill up this place.  We fill up this place with our praises.  We fill up this place by lifting up our voices to glorify Thee, oh God.  For we recognize that when the praises go up, the blessings of the Lord come down.  

When we sow to the heavens, heaven sows back to the earth.  We sow to the heavens tonight with our praise, with our praise.  With the fruit of our lips, we sow into the heavens.  With the fruit of our lips, we declare the goodnesses of God.  With the fruit of our lips, we bless the living God.

We exalt the living God.  Hallelujah, hallelujah . . .  Wonderful is the Lord.  

(A little bit more.)  

We worship You.  We worship You.  We want to create an atmosphere for You to move, for You to speak, for You to reveal Yourself.  We want You to reveal Yourself.  

Hallelujah, hallelujah . . .  (Tongues)  Hallelujah.

We sow to the heavens.  We sow to the heavens.  We sow to the heavens.  Hallelujah.  

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord.  Thank You for Your refreshing.  Thank You for Your refreshing.  Thank You that all we have to do is sacrifice just a little bit of praise.  You come in on the sacrifices of our praise.  

Hallelujah.  Hallelujah . . .  Wonderful is the Lord.  Hallelujah.

Thank You, Jesus.  Thank You, Father.  Hallelujah.  Bless the Lord.  (Tongues)  

When we look at praise as something that we want to hurry up and get done with, there is no way in the world the Lord can come.  Now that doesn't mean you have to drag it out.

I think sometimes in the praise and worship service, you can have a lot accomplished in twenty minutes.  A lot can be accomplished in twenty minutes.  And in thirty minutes, even greater things can be accomplished.  

I don't mean you have to drag it out.  It's not about the length.  It's about the attitude of everybody - everybody in the house.  It's the attitude of everybody in the house.  It's not just the one who leads.  It's the attitude of everybody in the house.

And when we look at it as though, "I hope I can hurry up and get it over.  My feet are aching" . . .  (And I know they are.)

But when we focus on that, the Lord can't come in.  That's right.  When we're looking all around, checking out everybody's blouse and shirt, and seeing what they wear, and watching the children, and doing all the things, there is no way the Lord can ride in on that.

But when we concentrate . . .  Sometimes if we just put forth a little bit of . . .  It doesn't take a whole lot.  No, it doesn't.  You see?  It doesn't take a whole lot.  Just a little bit of focused, concentrated praise.  

And if you practice that in church, it'll be easier for you to practice that in everyday life.  In your everyday life, it only takes just a little bit of giving God, for a few moments of time, a little bit of praise and attention, lavishing a little bit of attention on the Lord, and He comes in.

You believe that?  Then say, "Amen."  

(Thank you all.)

I want to read tonight from Revelation, chapter 4, a very familiar portion of Scripture.  You hardly even would have to turn there.  But while you're getting ready to read with me, let me welcome those . . .  A great number of people have joined us for the stream.

We thank God that things are getting back to normal with our webpage.  Perhaps everything may not be . . .  The last time I checked, our ministry e-mail wasn't working yet, but I know it's coming.  But everything else is certainly working better than it did for the weekend.

It wasn't a coincidence, I'm sure, that everything shuts down on the day that we needed it to be available.  God has a purpose.  He can get glory out of even the things the devil tries to do to hinder us.  Amen?

So we're probably going to be in better shape than we've ever been before.  We've learned some of where we were weak in the server situation and all that kind of stuff.  And we probably won't ever have to face it.

Brother Billy flew down yesterday to Fort Lauderdale.  When he got there, the hard drive was not available.  And they wanted to originally charge $400.00 for the hard drive that had our information on it.  It wasn't there.  It was in Miami.  It was supposed to be ready for him.  

And he couldn't get a car . . . would have had to rent a car just to go a few miles to pick it up when it finally did make it.  

And someone was giving him a hard time.  A supervisor overheard and got involved and was able to see that the hard drive was hand-delivered to him at the airport.  

He only had a short window of time to fly out because President Bush was flying in to be in that area overnight which would have completely shut down the air space over Fort Lauderdale.  

And so it was just timing.  And I'm sure he worked late in the night, early hours of the morning.  And we still have to get the audio and video up.  It would take eight or nine hours, I think he said, to upload that ? maybe through the night tonight.  But we're well on our way.  God is good.

(Amen.  Thank You, Lord.)  

We want to welcome the saints of God on the video stream, audio stream and telephone hookup.

So that's about twenty streams going out tonight.  Isn't the Lord wonderful?

I think we have 271, or something like that, registered streamers.  

I saw some time ago . . .  I saw it again today . . .  But while I was gone, I saw where a brother who interpreted for me twelve years ago in Poland had registered for the streaming and wanted to be able to view.

He specifically said he would like to view some of the services.  I haven't seen him in twelve years.  Have only heard from him about two times in twelve years.  And he found the webpage and wanted to be in contact with us again.  And that's very special.  I appreciate the Lord for doing that.

Have a lot to share tonight.  It's already five, six minutes after eight.

Revelation, chapter 4.

1.  After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

2.  And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

3.  And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

4.  And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

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.

6.  And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts (living creatures is the true translation) full of eyes before and behind.

7.  And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

8.  And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

That just about covers everything, doesn't it?  

9.  And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,

10.  The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

11.  Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Father, we thank You for Your Word tonight.  We thank You for what it means to us.  We thank You that it's a living reality.  We thank You for what You're doing in our midst.  We pray, Lord, that You'll bless our time together in the Word tonight, that You'll bind every hand of the enemy, that You'll give Your servant clarity to speak a clear Word that can be discerned by the Spirit of God that resides in each of our lives.

BaShem Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach.  In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we pray.  Amen.  And the church said, "Amen."

You may be seated.

Well, I worked hard, I thought, Saturday night and Sunday morning.  And we get home on Sunday afternoon . . .  

By the way, my wife is not sick.  She plans to be here yet.  We noticed that our brand new air conditioning system at home was not cooling.  And we think that . . . it looked like a wire or something had been chewed in the back.  

We have lots of varmints.  We have critters.  I mean, we're in a neighborhood, but it's like a wild animal kingdom around our place.  

I have a possum.  Just for your information, I have a possum.  I think it's a female who lives . . .  I'm not going to tell you why I think so.  

It has more to do with her disposition than it does her anatomy.  I haven't seen her close enough to know her anatomy.

I think maybe that I have seen her when she was protective.  I think she was protecting something.  See, you got mad too quick.  

But she owns the place.  She doesn't think that she has to sleep in the daytime all the time.  She knows that we're not going to harm her, so very often in the morning she's still walking around through the yard, up the hill and under the gazebo.  

I have another critter that lives under my bay window in the front.  I now have got to do something about it because I noticed today that he has removed part of the insulation.  

So there's only a piece of sheet rock between him and us.  So we've got to do something about that.  We don't want to go in the den one day and see him sitting . . .  Whatever "him" is, or "she-im" is, or whatever it is.

Then I have two raccoons with . . .  I had a raccoon with two babies ( I don't know if they're all around) who like to go into the fig tree.  

And it looks like some wires have been chewed.  So my wife called, and they said, "Since it's a new unit, we'll send somebody out.  They'll be there within the hour."  That would have been seven o'clock.  I don't know if they have come or not.

But when I got home on Sunday night . . . just kind of sat around and relaxed and fellowshipped here on Sunday afternoon.  Got home on Sunday night, still . . .  My body still wants to fall asleep very early in the evening because it's seven hours difference, that we're learning to cope with, in Jerusalem.  

I'm getting almost to dose off.  And my wife has already dosed some probably.  And she comes back to life and she says, "Hum.  You didn't tell very much about your experiences this weekend."

I said, "May I suggest that you buy the tapes.  Listen again and you'll hear a core of what I experienced."  

But I said, "I also mentioned carefully that I was not going to throw something out that was not, you know, grounded in the Word of God, the foundation laid in the Word, because I don't want to have to do it a thousand times."

I want you to see the relevance of it before you hear all of the experience.  I tried to hit some of the highlights.  I don't know when we're going to get to it exactly, going through it step-by-step, but it'll be some time in the near future.  Next thirty, forty-five days, you should have heard it all.

The first experience, a night vision, lasted approximately three hours.  And to tell it in its entirety would probably take about six.  So I have to break it down into pieces.

Before I even say anything tonight . . .  I want to speak about the Throne.  I want to start speaking about the Throne tonight.  But before I do, I want to share a couple of things with you that I believe the Lord has put in my heart today that I should mention it.

It came yesterday.  But I believe that the Lord has put in my heart today that I should take time to fill you in.  I think you'll find it interesting.

How many of you understand that the gifts and callings of God are without repentance?  Now basically what that means . . . it really goes together with a Scripture that says, "The spirit of the prophet is subject unto the prophet."

There are many different interpretations to both of these Scriptures.  But basically, let me say that people are born with gifts.  And the gift is from God.  The devil cannot give you a gift at birth.  Gifts come from the Lord.

The ability to see into another dimension, into another realm of the spirit . . . it is given to you at birth.  It is not something that you pray and all of a sudden God gives you.  It's something you are born with.  Your awareness of it grows as you grow.

And you are able to distinguish . . .  As you mature in the Lord, you're able to distinguish and recognize times in your life that the Lord was showing you something.  You say, "Hey, that was the Lord.  That was God showing me.  That was the leadership of the Lord in my life."

Brother Branham explained it this way.  He had at least two, that we know of, interactions with fortunetellers.  And both of these fortunetellers told Brother Branham that he was born under a sign, a specific sign.  And that he was . . . basically, he was a seer - that he was able to see.

Brother Branham described his office as that of a prophet.  And he said that a prophet was built differently than anybody else - not any more special, just different.  

There is a very small gulf or gap between the consciousness and the sub-consciousness of a prophet.  A normal person has a greater span between his consciousness and sub-consciousness.  

But a man, or a woman (as a prophetess), who was born with that kind of special office, being the office of a prophet (we're going to talk about that in the next few weeks), their consciousness and sub-consciousness is very close together.  

And it's easy for them to move back and forth between those realms.  Not at will, necessarily, but as the office matures in somebody's life, they have a little bit more control over when and how and for how long they move back and forth between those realms.

You know, Brother Branham learned that if he could just do a little something distracting, or say a little something distracting, he could kind of cut off the vision.  

And the reason why he wanted to do that is because there were times in his ministry that he would be going into vision for hours and hours and hours.  And it was such a tremendous strain on his physical body that there were times that he had to do that.

We all know the example that we give sometimes, when he was speaking privately to Brother and Sister West, that he reached up and kind of took a hold of the control for the windshield wiper.  Asked Brother West, "Do you know why I'm doing that?"

Brother West acknowledged as though he did know, although he wasn't quite sure.  And Brother Branham never really gave the explanation.  But we gathered enough from his sermons that he mentioned those kinds of things - breaking those visions.

He would set at certain times, sometimes, for people to come and knock on the door of the hotel so that . . .  And he would sometimes go to dinner . . .  He would set a time to go to dinner before a meeting just so he could have a little bit of an interaction and break that cycle.

He must have really flowed in a tremendously high level of the prophetic.  And the rest of us in the world who have any form of prophetic unction in us at all, we must be very immature in our gifts and callings.  But we're working on maturity.

So I said all that to say this.  I've also had a couple of experiences with someone who was a fortuneteller.  And they . . .  Brother Branham said, "The gift that's in their life is from God.  The ability to know the future, the ability to see into the future, is a gift from God."

But they have a decision to make, like all of us, a choice to make with our gifts and talents - how we will use the gift, how we will use the talent.  And they choose to access that realm of information with a God-given gift, but not using it to glorify God.  

Sometimes they acknowledge God, but they've got such a very different concept of God - kind of like an Oprah Winfrey concept of God.

She is a wonderful humanitarian and a tremendous philanthropist, but she is very confused in her faith.  And she looks to the good of all religions - Hinduism, and all this different stuff - gurus and . . .  And she has great respect for the Dalai Lama, and the Pope, and all kinds of different things.  

And so this is usually the concept of those fortunetellers.  And we're not talking about astrology, necessarily.  That's a little bit different level of predicting, and so forth.

The reason why I mention that is because there are many, many gifted people in the earth right now.  And some of those gifted people we may not agree with all of their theology.  

We may not agree with all of their doctrine.  We may not agree with all their personal choices that they make in life.  They may not share all of our convictions.  They may not have seen the evening light as we have seen it.

But it doesn't change the fact that many of them . . .  Are you listening?  

It doesn't change the fact that many of them have genuine gifts from God to see into the prophetic realm.

Let's give the example of Martin Luther.  I mentioned it on Saturday night.  Martin Luther said some awful, terrible, vicious and hideous things about the Jewish people.
  
He was the original Protestant.  And yet his entire life, until his death, was still lived under many of the doctrines and catechisms that he had learned from the Roman Catholic Church.

He made some big changes like, "The just shall live by faith," but in many of his thoughts, in many of his sermons, he still, until his death, propagated very strongly the doctrines of the Catholic Church.

But there was a gift in his life to receive this great revelation that set us free from having to pay for our own sins.  

And for instance, Brother Branham talked to us about a woman and what her place was in handling the Word of God.  The Bible carefully tells us that a woman should not usurp authority over a man in the Word.  

We hear women who have been mightily used of God like Maria Woodworth-Etter, Kathryn Kuhlman and Amy Semple McPhearson.  

But we hear Kathryn Kuhlman saying something that's almost profound.  And she said, "You know I live every day with the reality that I was not God's first choice.  I was not His second choice, not His third choice."  She said, "I may not have even been His fourth or fifth choice."

Later in her life, she would go a step farther.  And she would say, "I was not God's first choice.  He offered this gift of faith and healing to four or five men.  And they all turned it down.  And I just happened to be the one who said, 'I'll be used.'"

Can anybody see that?  Can anybody see that you can be passed over by rejecting what God has for you?  You can really . . . you can really lose.  I just wonder.  

You know a lot of people lost, didn't they?  She did have a gift of faith and healing.  And they lost because they didn't want it.  They didn't want to pay the price.

I mentioned something that she said, on Sunday.  "God is not looking for golden vessels.  God is not looking for silver vessels.  God is looking for yielded vessels."  That's true - so very, very true.

Amy Semple McPhearson, who had a very unusual life . . .  She claims that she was kidnapped, taken out into the Mexican desert and left.  

She was at the beach one day, and she disappears from the beach.  She's found a great amount of time later walking down a dusty highway in Mexico.

Some people say she was kidnapped by an enemy.  Some people say she was there meeting a boyfriend.  

I don't know.  I wasn't there.  But I know that God used her in an outstanding way.  She had lots of problems.  Her mother was a very strong and powerful controlling woman.  And as long as they lived, there was this battle between their wills.

She had husband problems, because every husband is not as easy to conquer as some.  Some resist it.  Some just lay down and die.  

(I believe I'll take a little water.)

She was successful in raising up a movement called The Foursquare Gospel Church that's still alive and, in some ways, I guess, well today.

Brother Branham preached at her church, Angelus Temple, in Los Angeles, California, in 1956 a message called, "Azusa Jubilee."  

It's exciting to know that just a few weeks ago, at the same building in the same city, there was a celebration that took place in Angelus Temple celebrating one-hundred years of Pentecostal fire around the world.

I have listened recently to "Azusa Jubilee" in 1956.  And I hear Brother Branham crying out against the compromise of the Pentecostal world in merely fifty years.  I pray that he was busy elsewhere a few weeks ago because the things that he cried out against are just common practice, acceptable behavior, in the Pentecostal world today.

Brother Branham did not believe that a woman had the right to stand, to take authority over a man, and handle the Word of God.  But do you know what he said about Amy Semple McPhearson that night?  "I know that she is standing over the balcony of heaven looking down on this great gathering."

Here was a man who had the revelation that you can do God a service and not be in the center of His will.  He also had a revelation that a lot of Message people don't have.  (How ironic.)  

And that is that God can reward you.  He can reward you and even bless you for doing Him a service that is not according to His perfect will.

He rewarded her by letting her stand and look over the balcony of heaven and see what had come of the little ministry that she had started.  She was rewarded.  She's a veteran, so to speak, of another time.

Why are you saying all of that?  There is something that I want to make sure that everybody's clear on, that we're on the same page.  There is the possibility of this thing happening even today - that someone is not in the center of God's will.  

I believe that it would be the center of His will to choose a man to do this kind of work.  I believe it would be in the center of God's will to choose a man who is unmarried, or who has been the husband of one wife.  I believe that would be God's perfect will and His divine order.  The Scripture says that much.

But I recognize today that there are women that God is using for His glory.  Sister Ruth Heflin was used mightily for the glory of God.  Her mother, Edith, was used mightily for the glory of God.  And surely there are women today who are being used.

Do I believe it's God's first choice, His perfect will?  No.  It's against the Scripture that a woman would stand and use the Word of God to take authority over a man.  That's what's wrong.  It's not wrong for them to know the Word of God.  It's not wrong for them to share the Word of God.  It's not wrong for them to testify of the Word of God, exhort the Word of God, teach the Word of God even.

Look out.  But it's wrong for them to take the Word and usurp authority over a man.  That's what the Bible forbids.

So there's all kinds of different things.

Martin Luther was a Trinitarian.  Most of the seven church age messengers were.  Most of them baptized in titles.  Most of them had no revelation that we should be baptized in the Name of Yeshua HaMashiach, the Lord Jesus Christ.  

Most of them didn't understand the Garden of Eden, and they didn't understand the beginning of things.  They didn't understand the beginnings - the Garden of Eden, the Book of Genesis.  And they had no real understanding of hell, the end of things for some folks.

But in spite of their wrong doctrines, in spite of their wrong conceptions, in spite of their extreme or either liberal convictions, God placed gifts in their lives, and He used those gifts for His glory.

Sister Nancy has already sent out an update with a very brief summary of some of the things that were shared over the weekend.  And she's already been getting responses back.  Some of them from people that we wouldn't really expect to hear back from.

And one of the things that was a blessing was the revelation that the angels are being sent from God to announce our destinies, to reveal to us what God would have us to do.

They are not going to invade your life.  These angels who announce destiny are not going to invade your life.  They are not going to push themselves on you.  They are not going to force you into a lifestyle or a ministry that you're not ready for or have no desire for.

But if you have an ear to hear the mind of God for your life, it's about to be revealed.  If you've got a mind to know God's will for your life, I'm convinced that it's about to be revealed.

And I called home and I said to my wife, "I'm going to watch a thirty-minute program before I come home."  And it was an interview on "This Is Your Day."

Isn't that the name of Benny Hinn's program?  "This is Your Day."  And he was interviewing one of the prophetic people on the scene - one who is as far away from my comfort zone as anybody could be.  What I'm comfortable with is just about the opposite of what this young man is.

But I have read enough of what he says to know that he's accurate in many, many circumstances.  And I said I would watch him.  His name is Clement.  His first name is Kim.  He has extremely long hair.  He's an unusual musician.  He prophesies in an unusual way.  It is not at all my comfort zone.

We see what people look like on the outside.  We see how people behave on the outside.  And we think we know people.  But we don't really know people unless we know them by the Spirit.  Spiritual things are judged how?  Spiritually.

God, help me and teach me and help me to learn.

I think the Lord has always been teaching me, but I pray the Lord will help me to learn.  

Benny Hinn also is very different from what I'm comfortable with.  But I know that he has insight.  I know that one of the reasons why he has been blessed is because he has a special respect for those that God has used in the past.  You never go wrong when you give honor to those who have made a way, paved a way, and pioneered the work of God - given their whole lives to be used of God.

And that is one thing that Benny Hinn has always done.  He loves to get these old people, those who are still alive, on his program.  And he loves to keep them there for a week.

He has two programs.  I'm not talking about his crusade program.  I don't know what that's called.  It has a name.  But he has an interview program that he does.  Comes on thirty minutes, I think, a day on TBN, or you can see it over the Internet.

For instance, hadn't been too long ago he had Sister Gwen Shaw to come and stay a whole week.  And I think she had just broken her leg, and they had to carry her in and out of the studio.

But he just loves to pull from these old people who have done something for the Lord.  He likes to interview.  He has a three-hour interview that he did with Oral Roberts.  

And he asked him, "Tell me the good and the bad.  Tell me the mountains and the valleys."  And he really enjoys honoring and learning from those people.

I have personally heard him say wonderful things about Brother Branham's ministry - powerfully strong things about Brother Branham's ministry.  

The focus of it is they were talking about two men who are about to leave the scene and that their leaving was going to be a sign to the whole world that something was changing.  

And if you'll remember, a prophecy was given in the middle of a sermon here not too, too long ago that was fresh from the Lord.  

It's not something that we wouldn't already kind of know because of what we've heard from the Message of the Hour.  But it came as a Rhema.  It came as a fresh Word from the Lord.  

And maybe you're not as aware of this analogy that Brother Branham gave.  I think everybody in here who has studied the Message knows that he talked about Billy Graham and Oral Roberts.  

He said they were men of God.  He had respect for them.  He loved them.  He had nothing against them.  But he said that they were messengers to Sodom to call out . . . to call out some folks from Sodom.

And isn't it ironic that Brother Branham has been off the scene since 1965?  We're talking about forty-one years later.  And the men that had really a smaller purpose are still alive and still preaching.  

Now it's just announced, you know, that Billy Graham did his last sermon some months ago.  But I've heard since then that he's feeling pretty good, and perhaps he'll do something else.  Hadn't died yet, so maybe he should organize something else, he said.

Can you imagine?  Just kind of waiting on the deadline.  It's kind of a strange thought.  

Oral Roberts is in his eighties.  His wife has already passed away.  And he still looks pretty good.  Make-up on television can do some wonderful things.  And he still has a ministry.  In fact, he just had a book published not too long ago.

It's amazing.  Forty-one years after William Branham left the scene, we've got the two messengers that went to Sodom still alive and still functioning in some form of ministry.

But the Lord spoke here and he said, "Their passing will be a sign."

Maybe you're not aware of the other analogy that Brother Branham gave.  He also said that these two men's ministry was typed in the three angels, or the three messengers, that appeared to Abraham - a different story.

We're not talking about Sodom and Gomorrah now.  We're talking about this great appointment that took place at Abraham's tent.  Remember?  And we know that one of those was God in a theophany body.  The other two were angels.  And Brother Branham said several times that the ministry of Oral Roberts and Billy Graham typed those two angels.  

But he said, "God sort of stayed with Abraham."  He ministered to Abraham.  And there was a transfer of power and authority into Abraham's life.  It was typed by the physical changing of his name from Abram to Abraham, the "h-a-m."

And Brother Branham also pointed out that Billy Graham had the "ham" in his name.  And, of course, Brother Branham had the "ham" in his name.  

And Abram changed to Abraham.  Really, we've talked about it before.   What that was - it was the "ha."  It was "ha" that was added to his name.  And this "ha" is the breath of God.  So God breathed His breath into Abram, changed his name to Abraham - the breath of God is in him.  

And then Brother Branham talked about this ministry that took place there when the back was turned, so to speak . . . when one of these messengers turned his back in the sense that Sarah was inside the tent.  He had no way of seeing Sarah in the tent, and yet he knew and discerned that she laughed.

And he talked about Billy Graham and Oral Roberts represented by these other angels.  They came and they left.  

But this impartation, so to speak . . .  (I'm using a modern word, but it surely fits in with what concept he was bringing out in this message.)  But this breath of God, this impartation of God, stayed with Abraham.  It was a gifting that was placed in his life.  And there are many, many times . . .

And I don't have time to go from one to the other, but let me just read this.  And then I'm going to read you the prophecy that was given on international television.

In a message called "The End Time Sign Seed," preached, strangely enough, in Tifton, Georgia:

"Jesus said, 'As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man.'   There was two angels went down to the Sodomites.

"Remember, Lot once walked with Abraham.  The church once walked in fellowship with Christ with the Word.  But they sold out their birthrights for denomination.  Now, she's selling the whole thing and organizing into one big confederation of church."

He said, "That's exactly what happened to Lot.  He went down there.  Two angels, (Oral Roberts, and a Billy Graham, as it would be in this day) went down there, and placed the Gospel to them.  What happened?  A disgrace even came out of it.  

"But Abraham . . .  One stood back with him.  There's One that he called God.  And the sign that He performed there before them . . ."

"The sign that was performed . . ."  What was the sign that was performed at Abraham's tent?  Knowing the secrets of the heart.

Brother Branham called that the sign of the Messiah, the Messianic sign.  The sign of the Messiah was to know the secrets of the heart.  And this happened there at Abraham's tent.

He said, "It proved what he was.  Abraham was the elected because he was . . .  Abraham had the promise."  

Anybody in the house got a promise?

"And now look," he said, "this is Abraham's seed.  The promise was not only made to Abraham, but his seed.  Not his seed Isaac, it failed; it proved it did.

"But the seed, the faith that he had: no matter what the circumstances was, how against the nature it was, how much the doctor said it wasn't so . . .  Abraham, after he had the promise given to him, when it was impossible . . ."

And he goes on and talks about not having children, and the church has been sowed with something that doesn't have the Word . . .  And he talks about the foolish virgins and the . . .  And on and on it goes.  

And there are many other places where Brother Branham kind of types that ministry of the Messiah, the Messianic sign, the Angel that stayed, or God staying with them while two go on.

Now if this was given in a Message Church, okay, that's wonderful.  But this is, again, given by someone who is as far away from what I'm comfortable with as possible.  But this was a prophecy that was given.  

He's just sitting in a chair, talking with Benny Hinn.  And he starts prophesying.  And he said,

"The Spirit of God has been waiting and hovering and looking for a place to rest His feet.

"God has been looking, as He looked in the days of Noah, 'Is there a place that I can rest My feet?  Is there a place?'

"And God said, 'Now I have found a place, a place where I can release what has already been waiting to happen.'

"Creation has been waiting for this hour.  Creation has been crying out for the manifestation of the sons of God, crying out for the manifestation as the earth has never seen.

"Jesus has been at the right hand of the Father, praying and interceding that this day would come.

"And God's Spirit says, 'This is the day that you've been waiting for.  This is the hour that you've been crying out for,' says the Spirit of God.  'For when I subtract from the earth, I will multiply.'"

Now they've already had this discussion without calling the names of two . . .  And they said "two anointed men of God who are on the scene, who are alive today."

But then the prophecy comes.  And he said:

"Even as I subtract these two great lives that have been carrying My anointing . . ."

"God said, 'As I subtract, at that very moment multiplication shall begin to take place.  And the earth shall say, "Surely the Lord God of Israel lives.  He reigns.  He heals.  He delivers."'

"God says. 'This is your hour.'"

And then he goes a step further.  We can watch this.  He said:

"Look to the summer of this year.  For even as there is subtraction, so there will be multiplication."

Now we're not interpreting this, but it appears as though he is saying these men may be removed this summer.

We don't know.  Doesn't even matter to me when.  But we already have heard it's a sign.  And when we go back and hear what the prophet of God said, we can really say it's a sign because these other messengers have to go on their way so that this impartation from God can come to Abraham's seed.

That's good.  That's good.  That's good news.  This God lingered with Abraham, breathed on him, ministered to him, declared and produced multiplication in him.  And this is, you know . . . to me it's so exciting because that's good right there.

But what did Brother Branham call the Bride?  Over and over and over and over again, what did he call the Bride?  The royal seed of Abraham, the sons of Abraham, the royal sons of the Promise - over and over again.  Hallelujah.

Over and over again, he spiritually taught us that we were the spiritual descendants.  He said, "Not Baptist, not Methodist, not white, not black, not European, not this, not that, but the royal seed of Abraham . . ."  

"That's the kind of blood," he said, "that's flowing through my veins."

Wow, what a spiritual inheritance.  Hallelujah.  But it comes by impartation.  It comes by a release.  This prophecy even said it.

He said, "The Spirit of God is saying, 'I've been looking for a place to rest My feet.'"

If you'll go back to a series of messages that I've preached about "The Holy Anointing Oil" and "The Ingredients of the Holy Anointing Oil". . .  

And I've preached a sermon about "Good, Good, and Very Good" and "The Order of the Apothecary" and "Fresh Oil," and all of this.  

And I spoke along about the same time about this Noah's Ark and about the dove searching for a place to rest its feet because of the nature, the pure nature of the dove.  He wasn't satisfied.  It wasn't that he . . .

Remember it?  Does anybody remember me preaching it?  Oh, my.  If somebody else said it, you'd be so happy about it.  You'd be so flying high.  But my pastor said it . . .  Five years ago.  Old stuff, huh?

In that sermon I mentioned it wasn't that the dove had no place to put his feet, because don't you know that the waters were full of places that he could have put his feet?

"What kind of places?"  The dead carrion.  The dead, floating, bloated, rottening carcasses of flesh, both human and animals, that had been destroyed in the Flood.  And if the dove was really typed . . .

Listen, he sent out a raven first.  And the raven didn't come back because it wasn't in the raven's nature to be picky.

The Bride of Jesus Christ . . . we're very, very, very peculiar and very, very picky about where we rest.  We're very discerning and discriminating about where we find . . . hallelujah . . . about where we find our rest.  

The dove . . .  See, there's been a blending of natures.  He talked about the nature of the dove and the lamb.  Oh, my.  All that old stuff, all that old stuff . . .  Why do you want to listen to all that old stuff for?

But, my, how old stuff can become new.  Hear the things the prophet preached in the fifties, and they're new.  And they're fresh.  And they're being declared to a people who . . .

This same sign that Abraham saw in his tent, that same sign was in the earth in the ministry of this little preacher.  He did the very same thing that the Angel of God did to Abraham.  He turned His back and discerned the secrets of the . . . and hearts of the people.

I preached . . .  This is what I'm about to say, and it went over like a lead balloon in the early nineties.  Let's see if it will float tonight.  Let's see if it will float tonight.

Isn't it amazing that what sunk like lead in the early nineties just might float in 2006?  Wouldn't that be something?  Fifteen years sure can make a difference.  

But I talked about "What is the sign of the Messiah?"  The prophet of God gave us examples from the Scripture - this God who appeared to Abraham in his tent.

And what about this God who appeared and said to Nathaniel, "I saw thee when you were under the fig tree.  You are a devout man.  I see you.  I knew you."

"How do you know me?"

"I saw you, Nathaniel, when you were under the fig tree."

The very same sign.

The woman at the well.  (Remember these?)  The woman at the well.  He didn't know anything about that woman.

There was a whole lot . . .  Hey, it was just like that in the Bible days like it is today.  There's a lot easier way to get where you're going right now in Israel than to pass through Samaria.  

They just about closed off that part of the West Bank because even while we were there they caught two or three terrorists coming down from that area with bombs to Jerusalem.  And they caught them and wouldn't let them in.

It's dangerous, really - now more than it ever has been with Hamas in leadership.  And it wasn't dangerous in the day of Jesus, but it just wasn't very convenient when you were heading to the Galilee to have to go all the way through Samaria or vice versa.

But Jesus said, "I must needs go through Samaria."  And believe me, that wasn't just a tiny little city.  That was a whole region.  Samaria was a region.  

But Yeshua knew exactly where in Samaria He needed to go to.  He ended up near Shechem, modern day Nablus, at the foot of Mount Gerazim and found this Jacob's well and met this woman.  And you know the interaction they had.  And He starts telling her, "Go, get your husband."

"Oh, I have no husband."

"You have well said that you have no husband.  For you have had five husbands, and the one you're living with right now is not even your own."

He just read her mail.  How could he do that?  Because he was fulfilling the type.  He was fulfilling the shadow of what happened in the ministry of Abraham and other occasions in the Old Testament.  This was pointing to the coming of the Messiah.

Well, the Messiah came.  And when He came, He did exactly what happened to Abraham by this God in a theophany body.

And we saw that very same thing happen in our generation.  

I can still hear my granny tonight.  1964 - she was in Birmingham, Alabama.  It was '64, wasn't it?  

She heard "A Trial" and "Spiritual Amnesia."  And she said in one of those meetings she saw Brother Branham - said, "I'm not going to do this for show, but I just want you to see what God's doing here."

A lot of this . . . we can't even find some of these things on audio tape.  But my granny was never in any other meetings as far as I know, as far as she said to me . . .  I asked.  And she didn't know a lot of this so she was telling me, I believe, honestly what she saw.

And she said, "He turned his back and he went all the way down a row.  He just chose a row and went all the way down the row with his back turned and told each person their name.  Some of them their address and where they were from and what their needs were."

What did that mean?  It meant not that Brother Branham was more than a man, but it meant that the Angel of the Lord who was standing with him on the platform was more than a man.  

It meant that this angel that had come to minister to him and through him was more than a man.  In fact, it must have been the same Angel, the same thing living again.

It must have been Jesus raised from the pages of history and proving Himself a current reality.  Right?  The sign of the Messiah.  Amen.

And this is what sunk in the 90's.  Here goes.  "That's the sign of the Messiah, the last sign" - first sign - in the hand, the last sign - knowing the hearts of the people.  

"If you can't get them to believe you this way, this is what will happen.  This is the sign of the Messiah.  This will testify that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

I love this.  I'm going to take five or ten more minutes here and then let you go.  I'll finish that prophecy in a moment.  I'll be preaching about the Throne another time.  

But I just love this.  I appreciate what I've heard.  

Every neo-Pentecostal, classical Pentecostal group in the world, every Charismatic group in the world loves this Scripture.  

Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."  

But I like what I keep hearing Paul Keith Davis preach.  He said, "Everybody in this building can quote Hebrews 13:8.  But I doubt there's a half a dozen people who can quote Hebrews 13:7."

Isn't that amazing?  I like some of those verses.  Do you know what Hebrews 13:7 says?  It says,

7.  Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

Notice the language - "Remember."  

Notice what Hebrews 13:7 tells us to follow - not the men but their faith.  "Follow their faith.  Remember those who have the rule over you."  

In original language it implies "who have come before you," which could mean in physical age, birth order, or it could mean those that God has brought before you into your life.  

It could mean those who lived before you lived.  But the instruction is that we should remember them who have the rule over us who have spoken . . . (again, a past expression) who have spoken unto you the Word of God.

We should follow their faith, considering the end of conversation.  Notice, "their" is added by the translators, but - "considering the end of their conversation."  

That's Hebrews 13:7.  Look at what Hebrews 13:8 is - "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."

Doesn't it almost appear that these Scriptures have nothing to do with each other?  They seem to be totally irrelevant.  But in fact, they're very relevant.  

The way, honey . . . the way that we're going to come and bring others to the reality that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever is to remember those that God has brought before us.

And "to imitate" is the word in Greek translated into English - "to imitate their faith."  

And you've got a group of people out there who for more than forty years have thought they could do it by wearing cowboy boots, and a belt buckle, and a cowboy hat, and visiting the holy sites, and sitting in the right place under the right preacher . . . they could imitate these things.

But the commission, the mandate, was not to imitate those that had gone before you.  It was to remember those that had gone before you and imitate or follow their faith.  

And then the reality comes - Hebrews 13:8, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."

I have a revelation that there's going to be a fresh revelation of Hebrews 13:8 - a fresh revelation.  

And it's going to come by remembering those that have had the rule over us, those who have come before us, and by imitating their faith.

For these things to be spoken in today's religious . . .

This is what I preached in the '90's that sunk.  I said:

"Okay, if this is the sign of the Messiah, discerning the thoughts and secrets of men's hearts, and we have been told over and over and over again we're Abraham's royal seed, we're the manifested sons of God, we're coming to full adoption, the Spoken Word is restored . . ."

But more than that, more than that, he said, "Oh, Super Church.  Don't forget that Super Church," and "If the vine ever puts forth another branch exactly like the original . . ." and all these promises that we've had.  

And we found out Sunday morning that the only way the Bridegroom can come into the Chuppah is for the Bride to invite Him.  The only way our marriage can be consummated to the Lord Jesus Christ is for us to open up the door and make ourselves available for intimacy with Him.

You with me?

And above all those things that he said we were going to be, and that we should be, and that we're going to do . . .  In all these things did he not call us . . .  Over and over and over again, did he not say that in the End-time this little royal seed of Abraham, the sons of God manifested, should raise up and be as what?  Messiahettes.  

And didn't he give definitions of Messiahettes?  What was the definition he gave?  Remember?  What?  Little Messiahs.  

Somebody said, "What in the world do you mean?"  

I simply mean a chip off the old block.  You're looking more like your father every day instead of your mother.  That's the revelation that's about to sweep forth.

For too many years the church has looked like her mother.  And who is her mother?  That harlot.  No, no, that whore.

The Bible said she was a whore and she was the mother of harlots.  Didn't it?  So the mother was a whorish woman, and she gave birth to little whorish women - harlots.

And what is that?  It's those denominational systems that have substituted and replaced the purity of the Word of God for creeds, dogmas and traditions - doctrines and traditions of men.

And so, for too long the church world has looked more and more like it's mother.  

Let me tell you something.  Oh, I won't.  No, no.  

This is what's happened today.  All of these Protestant denominations who are so proud to be protesters of the Catholic Church - and they smell just like the Catholic Church, they look just like the Catholic Church . . .

The Orthodox churches are proud of the fact.  In fact, they teach . . . not Orthodox Jews, but the Orthodox churches - Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, and on and on and on, there, it goes on . . .  They boast and they even say, "We pre-date the Catholic Church.  We're older.  We're the oldest church."

You know, really, historically, the Coptic church is one of the oldest churches in history.  And it's an Egyptian Orthodox church.  And the people are very, very . . .  The real Coptic people are very, very dark skinned.  And they live in Egypt.  And they're very, very orthodox in the sense that they've got all these traditions and . . .

I don't hang out at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but we had some time to kill before an appointment at the Temple Institute, I think it was.  And we were very close.

And I said, "Where shall we go?"

And Sister Nancy said, "Well, you know, we could take them to the Church of . . ."  

I said, "Let's do that.  It's a very quick walk from where we are."  And we went.  

And the Roman Catholic Church has Easter one Sunday, Holy Week before.  And all the Orthodox churches in the world celebrate Easter Sunday a week after, and they have Holy Week the week before, the week after the Roman Catholics.

So there were still a lot of Orthodox people in Jerusalem - thousands.  Listen, there were thousands of Roman Catholics that came for Easter and thousands of Orthodox people who came for Easter.  

I mean to tell you tourism is high again.  Pilgrims . . .  There were literally . . .  I think somebody said perhaps sixty-thousand, or more?  That's a lot of folks in one little tiny place - the Old City of Jerusalem.

And so anyway, while we were there . . . when we went in, we still saw the anointing stone.  And it's a stone that both the Catholics and the Orthodox believe that Jesus' body was laid on and anointed.  

And so they come in on the anointing day, and they pour precious perfumes and oils on that stone.  And then they take their scarves . . . because the Orthodox people, the real traditional Orthodox women, cover their heads . . .  I guess you know that the real traditional Roman Catholic women cover their heads when they go to church with a black scarf.  This used to be that way in America even.

And we saw lots of them - lots of traditional Catholic women with their heads covered and lots of traditional Orthodox.  And they briefly take these scarves off, or handkerchiefs or aprons or whatever, and they sop up the perfume and they carry it home.  And it's supposed to be holy and special.

And when we walked in there that day, there were women . . . pitiful.  Precious women who don't know any better are down there wiping up the stone and kissing the stone and crying.  Tears are running down their faces because they think that perhaps the body of Jesus laid on that stone.  It's sad.  It's so sad.  They're kissing that . . .

And real tears because they're remembering His agony and His passion.  And they just want to get close to something that He touched.  

I said to Benjamin, I said, "I'm fixing to go over there and let that woman touch my hand."

And, of course, he said, "What do you mean, Daddy?"

I said, "She's . . .  Honey . . ."  Because you know, the kids are critical like you . . .  I mean it's just ridiculous looking, grown women down kissing a rock and being so . . . you know, just so emotional.

And they're standing in line by the hundreds, just to get in and see this cramped little thing that they call a tomb.  And it's really a little odd.

And I said, "She's just trying to get close to something He touched.  I ought to go over there and give her a big old hug.  If she just wants to be near something that Jesus touched, she could come be near me.  He's touched me."

In fact, she's trying to touch something that he came in contact with when He lived on the earth.  But she could have contact and fellowship with me because, not yesterday, not 2000 years ago, but today He lives inside of me.  And they don't understand that.  It's so tragic and so sad.

But they're just like their mother.  You can't tell them all apart.  They're just like their mother.  But we're coming to a new hour of revelation where the Bride, the Church called out of the church, the remnant called out, the remnant, that true Third Exodus, the true Third Exodus, is going to be a revelation where the people of God are going to start looking like their father - not like their mother, that old Roman Catholic system - their father.

Who is your father?  God Almighty, the One who breathed breath in you and let you live.  We're going to start taking on His attributes and His character.  

"I've heard all that before."  

Well?  Glad you have.  But in the nineties, it sunk.  Because I went so far as to say, "If this is the sign of the Messiah, knowing the secrets of the heart, and God has called His Bride in the last days to be little Messiahettes, does it not stand to reason that they will have to walk under the same sign that the Messiah did?

So I said, "Don't be surprised if you don't see this gift manifested in the ordinary lives of those who are really the Bride of Jesus Christ."

I said that in the nineties, Sister Gloria.  And it just went "over the heads."  "Because that makes it sound like you're trying to be like Brother Branham."

No, no, no.  I have set my aspirations, I have set my affections and my goals, a lot higher than on Brother Branham.  

I put my goals and my affection and my desires, and what I want to be, and who I want to be, much higher than that.  

I want to go right back to where he got his from.  I want to be like Jesus.  That's where we've got to go is to be like Jesus.

And in order to do that then we're going to have the gifts that operated in Him - the Giver living inside of us, even greater than a manifestation of the gifts.  

Someone said to me recently, "Sometimes I make up my mind that I'm not going to preach John 4 any more until I do it - until I can do it, until I can live it, until I can demonstrate it."

John 4 was the sign of the Messiah - Jesus meeting the little woman at the well.

I said to this person, "What do you mean by that?"

He said, "Well, don't you see, don't you think . . .  I mean, I don't know what people think, but don't you think that this is some of the kinds of revelation that God wants to . . . ?"

Of course, I believe that.  And I preached it, and it went down like this.  But I've got a feeling . . . something tells me that it's going to fly this time because it's going to be heard by people who don't have the background.  

And I close by finishing this prophecy.  (9:20.  Oh, my.)

"God says, 'As I subtract, at that very moment multiplication shall begin to take place.  And the earth shall say, "Surely the Lord God of Israel lives, He reigns, He heals and He delivers."'

"God says, 'This is your hour.  Look to the summer of this year.  For even as there is subtraction, so there shall be multiplication.  And the earth shall feel what they felt thousands of years ago.'

"'What Abraham connected with, what Moses connected with and what Paul connected with,' God said, 'you shall see acceleration of this in this day and age.'

"Surely in these last days My Presence shall come as it never came before.  A door has opened, and yes, an adversary stands there.

"But God says, 'The adversary has been declared null and void and out of power because this is My hour, this is your hour,' says the Spirit of the Living God.  'Come on, this is your day.'"

Well, it's a very powerful Word, no matter where it came from.  I really feel that the theme of it has come from the Lord.  And I believe that when this subtraction does take place, it will be a multiplication.  

It starts off by saying . . .

Let's love Him a moment.  Hallelujah.  Come on, let's love the Lord a moment.  (Tongues)  Come on, put your hands up.  Oh, let's surrender to the Lord a moment.  Hallelujah.  (Tongues)  

Just come to the organ, Marybeth, or the piano - either one.  Doesn't matter.  Hallelujah.  

(Singing:)  "The heavens are open and I see Jesus . . ."

Hallelujah.  This prophecy began by saying that the Spirit of the Lord is looking for a place that He can rest, that He can place His feet.  

And then He said, "I found that place . . ."  And it sort of refers to this dove of the Spirit.

And it wasn't that the dove couldn't find a place.  It could've rested on any of those floating, bloated, rotten bodies and had a rest.  The raven found a place.  But it was so contrary to the nature of the dove that he could not defile himself with that that was rotten and stinking and nasty.

So he comes back.  When that dove is sent out, when the bird goes out the last time, it comes back with an olive branch which is a sign of peace.  The dove is a sign of peace and the olive branch is a sign of peace.

But this tiny little tender branch in his mouth is a sign also of a new beginning.  'Cause the earth has now been drowned by water.  And it proved that the water was receding and new life was coming back to the earth.  Isn't that right?

And that's a beautiful type.  So if the Spirit of God has found a resting place, then it wouldn't be difficult for us to prophecy and to declare tonight that a new beginning or a new cycle or a new generation or a new ministry order, a paradigm shift or whatever the terminology is that's so acceptable today . . .  It would not be hard at all for us to declare that if the Spirit has found a resting place, then something new has already started happening in the Spirit.

The heavens are opened.  The heavens are opened.  Hallelujah.  The heavens are open.  And we're watching for this sign.  You know, God said when Mother Theresa went home it was a sign.

And now we have a word to confirm words that have already been given.  When we see these two messengers to Sodom, these two men who represented the other two angels that appeared to Abraham . . .  - just represented, just a symbol form.

When we see them move on, then this other One imparts or breathes His life or places Himself in a much more powerful way than Abraham had ever known before - a real multiplication of the life of what we now know as the Messiah.

We've got something to praise the Lord for.  Could you just do it?  No one telling you what to say.  But could you just lift both hands and audibly magnify the Lord?  

We love You, Lord.  We love You.  We acknowledge You.  We recognize You.  We bless You.  We glorify You.  We worship You.  Hallelujah.  Blessed be the Name of the Lord.

Come on.  We've got bigger mouths than that.

We glorify the Lord.  Hallelujah, hallelujah . . .  Come ride on our praises.  Oh, mighty God, come ride on the praises of Your people.  Great Eternal One.  Ride on our praises.  We exalt You.  We lift You.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.

Oh, help us.  Glory, I say.  (Tongues)  Confirm Your Word among us, oh Lord.  If this is a fresh touch of You that You've been sending, then we just ask You, oh Lord, to come and walk with us in these days and confirm Your Word with healing and deliverance and miracles and signs and wonders.  Confirm it by bringing it to pass.  
                                
(Singing:)  "You're beautiful, Jesus . . ."

Have you looked at Him lately?  I've seen Him tonight.  I see Him in His Word.

(Singing:)  "The heavens are open . . ."