Bible Believers' Newsletter 1351
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we are delighted to fellowship with you around God's unchanging Word. Our subject is "Revelation Chapters 1 – 5". Chapter 1 is all but over, Chapters 2 and 3 were fulfilled in 1963 and Christ's end-time Bride has been in the rapture for the past 62 years. On another day we will outline the history of chapters 2 and 3. It is later than you think. Chapters 4 and 5 are also fulfilled".
This week China and its allies celebrated the eightieth anniversary of their victory in World War II. Bible believers are aware that according to Revelation 11:14 the Western world must soon proclaim Peace between the participants of World War II. Our non-Semitic, anti-Semitic masters are anxious to conquer BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in pursuit of global hegemony. Our apostate Western puppets, the USA, UK, EU, Canada, Australia and New Zealand serve the hidden hand that pulls their strings.
To indicate the lateness of the hour verses 15-19 state, "The seventh Trumpet angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign forever and ever . . . And the Gentiles were angry, and Your wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that You should reward Your servants the prophets, and the saints, and them that fear Your Name, small and great; and should destroy them which destroy the earth. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of His testament: and there were lightning's, and voices, and thundering, and an earthquake (sinking Los Angeles), and great hail".
Revelation 6:12-17, "And I beheld when He had opened the Sixth Seal, and, there was a great earthquake (Los Angeles); and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places." As earth moves on its axis blackening the sun and causing the stars to appear to fall, generating lunar volcanism. "And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"
This will generate tsunamis which I expect will devastate the east coast of Australia. The "three unclean spirits like frogs woes" Fascism, Nazism and Communism in World Wars I and II "came out of the mouth of the dragon (Imperial Rome), and out of the mouth of the beast (Catholic church), the great whore, mother of harlots (her once Protestant daughter churches) and out of the mouth of the false prophet (the first Pope). For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. "And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon".
"And the Angel poured out the Seventh Vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightning's; and there was a great earthquake (Los Angeles), such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great".
I pray you will be blessed by this revelation.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.Your brother-in-Christ
Anthony Grigor-Scott
Afghanistan Earthquake
August 31, 2025 — An Mw 6.40 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. The epicenter of the quake was located in Kunar Province. It had a hypocenter 5 miles beneath the surface. Several geological and structural factors led to a relatively heavy impact for the earthquake's relatively moderate size, with more than 2,200 deaths, 4,000 injuries and 8,000 collapsed homes; almost all of the casualties and destruction occurred in five districts, almost all buildings were damaged or destroyed, nearby provinces suffering damage and casualties. It was the deadliest earthquake since 1998. Full story: wikipedia.org
China in the New Era – Sovereignty, Solidarity and Indivisible Security
September 4, 2025 — The commemoration on this day of the victory of the Chinese people against the Japanese Empire in 1945 has coincided with the summit in Tianjin of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization signifying a decisive victorious step towards a new era of international relations. The summit represents a strategic convergence that will finally allow the nations of the majority world to move forward and achieve the full human development of their peoples in conditions of security and peace.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has always emphasized security and stability as fundamental factors for the development of all areas of the national life of its member countries. But they also promote them very seriously as essential factors for establishing more just and democratic international relations. The interaction in Tianjin of China, India and Pakistan, together with their other partner countries, demonstrates that any incidental differences between them, even sharp differences do not prevent consensus and cooperation on objectives of greater importance for the Common Good of their Peoples.
The positive results of the SCO's performance are not limited to the populations of its ten member countries (Belarus, China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) because they are shared among the entire Eurasian region. That is why the two observer countries (Afghanistan and Mongolia) and the 15 dialogue partner countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cambodia, Egypt, Kuwait, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Laos, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Turkey) also participated in the Tianjin Summit in the SCO+ format, along with other countries such as Malaysia.
Quite rightly, President Xi Jinping, when he addressed the Council of Heads of State and Government of the member countries, recognized their respective contributions to peace and stability in the region and the world. A central concern of the Summit was the increasing abuse of unilateral measures by Western powers to manipulate international trade and punish third countries unilaterally and arbitrarily. In Tianjin, the SCO leaders recognized that the world is at a crossroads, and pledged to work together to promote genuine multilateralism and mutually advantageous cooperation.
Trade figures demonstrate the strength of the relations of its member countries at the regional level. For China, its trade with the SCO countries has reached almost US$900 billion, more than 14% of its total trade. India's average Gross Domestic Product growth has been around 7% for five consecutive years. In contrast to the poor performance of other regions of the global economy, average GDP growth of the SCO countries in 2024 exceeded 5% and industrial production increased by 4.6%. In 2024, together, China, India and Russia contributed 24% of total global trade which was around US$33 trillion in that year . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
Vladimir Putin's 'Giants like India or China' Message for Trump: 'Unipolar World Must End'
September 4, 2025 — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday renewed his call for a multipolar global order, citing the growing weight of economies such as India and China and stressing that no single power should dominate international politics or security.
"Everyone has equal rights in this multipolar world. Yes, there are economic giants like India or China. Our country is among the top four economies in purchasing power parity. But that doesn't mean anyone should dominate politics or global security. Everyone must be equal," Putin said at a press briefing after a four-day visit to China . . . "This new multipolar world should not have any hegemons. No one is speaking about this, not in BRICS, not in the SCO," he added, positioning these blocs as platforms for equitable international relations. His remarks were widely seen as a veiled criticism of Western sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine conflict, as well as tariff policies of US President Donald Trump, which have strained ties with countries including India and China. New Delhi, in particular, faces economic uncertainty after Washington imposed a 50 per cent tariff on Indian imports, plus an additional 25 per cent linked to its purchase of Russian crude oil . . . Full story: hindustantimes.com
The Dawning of a New World Order
September 2, 2025 — Many Western political leaders and pundits continue to indulge themselves in the fantasy that the US is in control of its destiny and is an unbreakable hegemon. You may accuse me of exaggerating, but I am shocked by the number of seemingly sane, sober, well-educated Americans who continue to believe that the relationship between Russia and China is ephemeral, and that with just the right amount of pressure Russia will be easily persuaded to abandon China and join the West in its plan to subdue the Chinese government and people. It is a #@bs! crazy notion in my opinion, but there are a large number of folks who embrace this nonsense . . . Donald Trump's foreign policy is turning into a serial production of debacles. Case in point: India. The short-sighted decision to hit India with 25% tariffs, and an additional 25% penalty, has energized India's political class to distance themselves from the United States . . . He will not submit to US threats or bullying.
As part of moving BRICS forward, India's longstanding, contentious relationship with China . . . and China now behaving more as friends than as enemies . . . BRICS, along with the SCO, is busy constructing an alternative to the post-WW II international economic and political system that has dominated world affairs for the last 80 years. While many in the West foolishly dismiss these gatherings as meaningless, Russia, China and India are quite serious about creating an economic, financial and international political system that is no longer subject to a veto by the United States or Europe . . . Watch 2 min. youtu.be. Full story: larrycjohnson.substack.com
80 Years on – China's Victory over Japanese Empire
September 2, 2025 — Summarizing the complex significance of China's glorious victory in 1945 against the aggression of the Japanese empire and world fascism requires taking into account the international events at that historical moment, along with the national reality and the regional context. Multiple factors interacted to determine and achieve the historical outcome of the surrender of Japan in 1945 fourteen years after the beginning of the Japanese aggression in 1931 with its invasion and occupation of Manchuria, a northern region of China rich in natural resources. Beyond the defeat of the Japanese empire, the war against Japanese aggression resulted in the total emancipation of the people of China thanks to the triumph of its People's Revolution and the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
The system of international relations prior to the Second World War readily accommodated and facilitated the colonialism of the imperialist powers. The colonial powers of Europe occupied most of Africa and Asia. US governments had colonized Hawaii and the Philippines and permanently intervened in Central America and the Caribbean, a region where their military occupied Nicaragua and Haiti until 1934. In fact, at that time, the ill-fated League of Nations accepted as a legitimate principle the doctrine of "spheres of influence" including the Monroe Doctrine. This reality made the hypocritical denunciation by the great Western powers of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 completely useless.
Another determining element in the international relations of that period was the anti-communism of the North American and European ruling elites who accepted outright fascism in Germany and Italy for being highly compatible with their anti-communist ideology. The civil war in Spain from 1936 to 1939 showed that the European powers were more sympathetic to the fascist forces of General Franco than to Spain's republican democracy which included socialist and communist parties. The Japanese empire shared this US and European anti-communist ideological stance, such that, in November 1936 the government of Japan signed with Nazi Germany a joint Agreement against the Communist International.
It was in this historical context that the Western powers, in their customary arbitrary, interventionist way, recognized the right-wing nationalist Kuomintang party as the government of China. In 1927, the leaders of this party started a civil war with the explicit objective of destroying the Communist Party of China and pursued that war after 1931 instead of prioritizing fighting the invading Japanese forces in Manchuria. During this period occurred the legendary Long March of 1934 to 1935 by the armed forces of the Communist Party of China, which vindicated the leadership of Mao Zedong and made possible the victorious Chinese Revolution in 1949 . . .
Ten years ago, on the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's victory in 1945, President Xi Jinping stressed that "The Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War were a great duel between justice and evil, light and darkness, as well as progress and reaction." Ten years later, his words are even more relevant at another crucial historical moment for the liberation of the human spirit and human potential from the criminal fascism once more threatening the world, from Gaza to Ukraine and from Iran to Venezuela. That is the great significance of this 80th Anniversary, which is so justly celebrated by the peoples of the majority world, of China, Russia and all peoples of goodwill around the world. Full story: globalresearch.ca
Argentina's (Jewish) Darling, Javier Milei, Rocked with Corruption
September 2, 2025 — April 2025, Milei had the honor of meeting Soros Fund Manager and Trump's Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent. Bessent was adamant that Milei should close all ties with China. Why? Because Israelis continue to view China as a threat to their global hegemony. And so create demonizing propaganda. The warning to Milei was met by some cautious but choice words from China that Bessent was interfering with 'relations' and thus undermining Argentinean AND China trade.
It is notable that Bessent is/was a 'hedge fund manager' for Soros—he has zero foreign relations experience, zero economic experience, and zero détente. Out of his league. In the world of finance as I experienced there is a saying, "the C students hire the A students to run their businesses so they can do nothing." Bessent is the D student. With a bachelor's degree in political science, Bessent went to work for Soros Fund Management, a rather bizarre transition. He was a supporter of both (Jews) Hillary and Obama, failed twice in his own fund management schemes, and suddenly became a key advisor to Trump.
Xi Jinping is multiple grade levels higher in the pyramid—above Bessent. There is no match. Bessent is simply out of his league. But Bessent hasn't figured that out yet and continues to make a fool of himself. Without an economics background, financial background, or political background, he was nonetheless inserted into one of the highest roles in the US government as Secretary of Treasury.
In February, Trump asked the twice failed venture capitalist to create a US sovereign wealth fund with Jeremy Pelter. Pelter has a Master of Science degree and has worked in various roles within the government that have absolutely nothing to do with science, including SBA Director. Outside of the government his only other position was as "Field Operations for Boy Scouts of America." The duties of a field operator include facilitating the Scout method, and managing activities at high-adventure bases and other council camps.
Jerome Powell is running the US monetary system. He also has no economic or financial background. A lawyer by trade, Powell dictates monetary leverages based on 'economic indicators' for which he has little in-depth understanding and no education. Those indicators are based on falsely contrived manipulated statistics regarding employment and inflation (without considering energy and food). The game makers are facilitating major moves across the chessboard. The Trump DoD is back in Taiwan proclaiming China 'aggression'. Warships are positioned off Venezuela. Forces are aligning in the Baltic . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
Lethal Weapons. Ever-Increasing War Expenditures
September 1, 2025 — War continues to spread across Europe because it is fundamentally fueled by the very strategy that caused it to erupt. After the summit with Putin in Alaska, Trump said that if an agreement were reached between Russia and Ukraine, the United States would not send troops to Ukraine but would provide Kiev with air support and intelligence as a 'security guarantee'. Troops would, however, be sent to Ukraine by certain European countries. The US Joint Chiefs of Staff report that, in order to finalize this plan, US General Dan Caine has summoned the chiefs of staff of Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Ukraine to the Pentagon. The Kremlin has reiterated that it does not accept this plan: 'The military personnel sent to Ukraine,' said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, 'would be mainly from NATO member countries. And it is precisely NATO's expansion into Ukraine that has been one of the main causes of the current conflict'.
Immediately afterwards, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte traveled to Kiev, where he held a press conference with President Zelensky. During the conference, Rutte stated: "Our support for Ukraine is unconditional and continues to grow, including through a flow of US lethal weapons financed by NATO's European allies and Canada."
Three arms packages, each worth $500 million, have been provided so far: one paid for by the Netherlands, one by Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and one by Germany. More packages will follow. Allies are supporting Ukraine's defense industry and investing in ways that strengthen both your security and your economy.
"We are working with the NATO command in Germany to ensure that your armed forces have what they need, both today and in the future." Immediately afterwards, Canada purchased a fourth package of US weapons for Ukraine, bringing the total value to £2 billion and filling the coffers of major US arms industries.
At the same time, the European Union has provided Ukraine with an additional €4.05 billion: €3.05 billion through the Ukraine Facility, and €1 billion from the reinvestment of proceeds from frozen Russian assets. Since February 2022, the EU and its member states have collectively invested €168.9 billion in Ukraine. Ursula von der Leyen has guaranteed that 'Europe will stand by Ukraine every single day of the war and every single day of the post-war period.' These enormous war expenditures, consisting of public money, are funded directly and indirectly by European citizens through taxes and cuts to social spending.
At the same time, the European Union has provided Ukraine with an additional €4.05 billion: €3.05 billion through the Ukraine Facility and €1 billion from the "reinvestment of proceeds from frozen Russian assets". Since February 2022, the EU and its Member States have spent a total of €168.9 billion on Ukraine. And Ursula Von der Leyen guarantees that "Europe will stand by Ukraine every single day of the war and every single day of the post-war period". These and other enormous war expenditures, consisting of public money, are paid for directly and indirectly by European citizens through taxes and cuts in social spending. Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: On this basis Russia will invade the US mainland shortly after the Day of Pentecost and as prophesied the Pentagon will surrender. If Ukraine receives this defense guarantee, even without official membership, the danger to Russia will be existential, leaving no alternative but to use force to defend the Russian people and borders. The Ukraine is the homeland of non-Semitic anti-Semitic self-styled Jews.
Trump makes Israel Great. President Declares that He 'Can do anything'
August 31, 2025 — Last week Donald J. Trump declared that as president of the United States, he believes he has the "right to do anything I want to do." The assertion explains a lot in terms of how an unhinged Trump regards himself and his office and it should serve as a warning that more ego-driven inanity is yet to come. Trump's most heinous crimes are related to foreign policy, most particularly his complicity in Israel's genocide of the Palestinians as well as his continued arming of Ukraine to prolong the slaughter in its war with Russia.
It now appears that Trump might be arranging to arm Kiev with US-manufactured "extended range" cruise missiles capable of hitting targets deep inside Russia, to include both Moscow and St Petersburg. In a typically bizarre outburst Trump has opined that Ukraine is losing because it has been on "defense" and needs to shift its thinking of taking the "offensive" which the US will apparently assist. And Trump continues to throw threats about sanctions and military action at virtually everyone in the world that he encounters. Can World War III be creeping ever nearer, replete with nuclear weapons on the front line?
And then there is stink of unprovoked aggression elsewhere in the world, to include the bombing of Iran and the recent dispatch of three warships toward Venezuela. Has either country threatened the United States? And relations with India and Brazil have also taken a dive due to pressure and insults from Washington. And there is always arch competitor China waiting in the wings for a shift of US military might in its direction while even little Greenland is not safe as Trump has stated that he is seeking to acquire it. Last week the Danish Foreign Ministry called in the US Ambassador to complain about Washington's efforts to destabilize Greenland, which is a Danish possession. How utterly appropriate is it that Trump wants to rename the Defense Department, calling it by its old name the War Department!
Given Trump's track record, astonishingly, while speaking at a Cabinet meeting, Trump's special envoy and business associate Steve Witkoff actually said to the president and those assembled with regards to the upcoming Nobel Peace Prize: "There's only one thing I wish for—that the Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since this Nobel award was ever talked about. Your success is game-changing out in the world today, and I hope everybody wakes up and realizes that." . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
US Kicks Off Migrant Deportations to Rwanda
August 28, 2025 — Rwanda has received its first batch of illegal aliens deported from the US, as the Trump administration accelerates efforts to remove rapists, gang members, cartel members, terrorists, and others who entered under the Biden-Harris regime's disastrous open-border globalist policies that flooded the nation with millions of unvetted migrants from the Third World. Seven illegals deported arrived in Rwanda, with 250 more expected . . . The Trump administration has negotiated deals with a dozen countries . . . Full story: zerohedge.com Comment: Australia ships illegal aliens to small Pacific Island.
Occupied
June 6, 2025 — Western civilization has been infected by a parasitic invasion of foreign ideals and values that have been introduced into our culture by a strange and morally degenerate people whose ultimate goal is world domination. Their poisonous tentacles now strangle every leading position and institution in the land, leading to the normalization of disgusting societal practices such as usury, transgenderism, pedophilia, communism, and the destruction of the nuclear family.
The rule of law is absent because the flow of information and money are completely controlled by one small group of people. America is no longer a sovereign nation, dual citizens control our government. We've been occupied. It's time for humanity to unite against our common enemy. Full story: rumble.com
Revelation Chapters 1 - 5
Revelation 1 - 3 describes Christ's Church from the Day of Pentecost AD30 through Seven Church Ages of mediation for ignorance of the fullness of His Word, terminating at the Laodicean Church in March AD1963. Jesus Christ is "the beginning of the creation of God;" His Wife the elect Church is the continuation of the same creation: the sinless last Adam and last Eve. The double line represents the foundational faith of the apostles and prophets. The following Seven Church Ages of PART- W_O_R_D are identified and named as are the seven messengers and the virtues or attributes manifest by the Message in each Age. The Capstone cut without hands represents our Lord Jesus Christ Who will break the image of man's religion in pieces and became a great mountain that fills the whole earth. The Capstone was not united with the Body of PART Word until the last elect Laodicean was sealed; then Brother Branham's THUS SAITH THE LORD quickened Christ's end-time Bride to maturity in the fullness of the Word.
Here we see the Capstone in union with Christ's end-time Bride crowning the Body of Church Age saints. No longer is Christ a Mediator in the office Son of God as He was throughout the Church Ages. He has resumed the prophetic office Son of man, and He is Judge. Brother Branham's Message "finished the mystery of God" (Revelation 10:7) and "that which was in part is done away with" (I Corinthians 13:10-13).
In Revelation chapter 4 Christ returned in the prophetic office Son of Man and Judge, His end-time Bride is caught up in the Spirit after the Church Ages into the threefold process of the rapture (I Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 1:10; 21:9; Ezekiel 1:1, 26). The Church Ages ended in apostasy (II Timothy 3:1 — 4:4; Revelation 3:15-20) whereas Christ's end-time Bride is caught up into a higher dimension above the limitation of PART-W_O_R_D and reasoning to faith which is revelation—understanding things that are to come. Maturity! Jesus told Nicodemus, "Unless a man is born again, he will never see or understand the kingdom of God" (John 3:3).
In Revelation chapter 5 Christ claimed the Book of Life containing the names of His redeemed New Testament saints foreknown from the foundation of the world. His end-time Bride does not require mediation because "the mystery of God is finished;" we have the fullness of the Word and we receive His voice. Revelation chapters 4 to 19 concern the Israel nation and the plagues at the end! Revelation chapters 19 to 22 are the Bride and Groom returning to earth for Christ's victory at Armageddon, binding Satan for a thousand years. Thereafter we will dwell together throughout the Millennium until the White Throne Judgment.
As God dealt with Abraham, so has He dealt with his seed. The stations of Abraham's life foreshadow and are parallel with Luther, Wesley and the previous Church Ages. He appeared to Abraham and confirmed the covenant under the shed blood. The Sardis and Philadelphian Church Ages were the blood age. Thereafter in the Pentecostal Age of Laodicea He made the promise of El Shaddai, "nurse from Me." The question was: Can you nurse? And they did not do it: they grabbed a breast from the very denomination they had come out of. Then the seed came to nurse that breast.
Abraham and Sarah had waited all those years for their promised Son. The last sign was God standing in the form of a Man who could discern the thoughts that were in Sarah's heart (Revelation 18:1-33; Luke 17:28-30; Hebrews 4:12). Sarah represented the church in our wicked and adulterous Sodom age. God veiled Jesus Christ behind William Branham and discerned the thoughts of the church that was behind Him. His two companions went down to Sodom to preach to homosexuals and unbelievers, a type of Billy Graham and Oral Roberts. God changed Sarah back to a young woman and Abraham to a young man so that they could bear their promised son, Isaac. This was the last thing that happened in Brother Branham's ministry before the rapture. The former rain of Revelation 1 – 3 in the Church Ages which are over.
When Brother Branham sought to preach "The Feast of the Trumpets" the Holy Spirit said, that's not promised to the Church. That is for the 144,000 elect Israelites and their Elijah with Moses in the latter rain. That is where the miracles will take place. The Pentecostals are looking for miracles, but that will be for Israel under the ministry of Moses and Elijah (Revelation 11). They will smite the earth with curses as oft they will, and close the heavens for three and a half years so that it doesn't rain in the days of their prophecy. God will stand and fight for them and bring them out of "isms" and the world under a mighty hand as He did in Egypt.
We just have to wait on the Lord with our lamps trimmed and clear filled with the Holy Spirit, prayed-up every hour of every day, watching for the coming of that glad Millennium day. When our blessed Lord shall come and catch His waiting Bride away. O my heart is filled with rapture as I labor, watch, and pray, for our Lord is coming back to earth again. That's the hope of the church this hour (64-0823M, Q&A, par. 192-198).
Revelation 1:1-3, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His servants things which must shortly come to pass; and He sent and signified it by His angel (William Branham) to his servant John (who heard and saw William Branham reveal the Seven Seals in 1963)".
"John bore witness to the Logos of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw (in his visions). John types Christ's end-time Bride throughout the Book of Revelation, so where John speaks in the first person replace his name with your own -Ed.
"Blessed is the man who reads aloud (in the church), and they that hear the Words of this prophecy, and keep themselves true to the things which are written therein: of the time (for their fulfillment) is at hand".
Bother Branham said, "God inaugurated the Church on the Day of Pentecost: the Spirit should have remained in the Church through all seven Ages but they became formal, indifferent and denominated under Rome, uniting church and state together, causing centuries of persecution. They separated in the Reformation; nowadays they are cutting off the Spiritual and adding to the natural, until they are ready to unite again (Revelation 13:15-18). We're living in the last hours of the consummation of the church. The Laodicean Church Age ended in apostasy in 1963.
In Revelation 1:1 we were introduced to John who wrote "The Revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ," but it was Jesus Christ Who was revealing. "And He signified this by His angel to His servant John." We do not know who the angel was. The Bible doesn't say who the angel was. But we know that it was a prophet, 'cause the Bible later said, that, "I Jesus have sent My angel to testify these things which must shortly come to pass."
"Then when John started to worship the angel, he said, "See you do it not. For I am your fellow servant and of the prophets." It might have been Elijah (Revelation 22:6-10). It might have been one of the prophets. John was an apostle. But this prophet was sent. And John was an apostle—the nature of the rest of his epistles, prove that it was not John wrote it, because it doesn't have John's nature. Take First John, Second John, so forth, and read it. And look at the nature of that, then look at the nature of this. John was a writer and an apostle, but this is the spirit of a prophet. It's a different person, altogether. See? Wasn't John's writing. Wasn't John's revelation. It was God's Revelation of Jesus Christ to the churches. John was just a writer, a scribe, and the Book declares the same".
"Now, it wasn't addressed to John. It was addressed to the Church. At that time John was the pastor of the Ephesian church. And that Book is addressed to that church, not to John (60-1204M, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, par. 110-114, Revelation 19:6-10; 22:6-10).
I believe the angel of Revelation 1:1, 19:6-10 and 22:8-10 was the prophet William Branham who led John throughout the Book of Revelation.
In Revelation 1:1-3 we learn that God gave the revelation to Jesus Christ to show His servants things which must shortly come to pass, and He sent and communicated it through His angel (or messenger William Branham) to His servant John. In Revelation 22:7, 12-13, and 16 we learn, "Behold, I (Jesus) come quickly: blessed is he that keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this Book. And IJohn(replace YOUR name) saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel (Brother Branham) who showed me these things".
"Then he (Brother Branham) said to John (representing YOU), See you do it not: for I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this Book: worship God. And he said to me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this Book: for the time is at hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he who is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."
"And, behold, I (Jesus) come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are homosexuals, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie."
"I Jesus have sent My angel (Brother Branham) to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come. And let he that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely".
"When the Bible was completed, the angel came down and talked to John. Then Jesus Himself came, said, "I, Jesus, sent My angel to testify of these things. And now, close this Book, but don't seal It. For whosoever shall take anything out of It, or add anything to It . . ." That's God's Word.
Revelation 1:4-8, "John to the seven churches in Asia-minor: Grace unto you, and peace, from Him Who is, and was, and is to come; and from the seven portions of the Spirit that are before His throne; and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loves us, and washed us from our sins in His blood, and He has made us a kingdom and priests unto His God and Father; to Him be glory and dominion into the ages of the ages. Amen".
The word Jehovah signifies that God is always present, at hand for His people, as the faithful Covenant-keeping God. Behold, He comes with the clouds a material real symbol partly veiling, partly revealing the divine Presence (Daniel 7:13; Mark 14:62; Revelation 15:16), and every eye (not just believers) shall see Him, and they who pierced Him: and all the tribes of the earth shall wail because of Him (Matthew 24:30; 25:31-32). Yea, Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who comes, the Almighty".
Before the Sanhedrin on the occasion of His trial Jesus said to the high priest, "Hereafter shall you see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven" (Matthew 26:64). And as He was taken up from the Mount of Olives, a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, You men of Galilee, why stand gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven" (Acts 1:9-11).
The prophecy is distinguished into seven parts by the opening of the Seven Seals of the Book Daniel was commanded to seal up (Daniel 9:24; 12:4). Hence it is called "The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ," and Brother Branham's apocalypse of seven continuous prophecies in his books "An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages," "The Seventy Weeks of Daniel," "The Revelation of the Seven Seals" and other publications are apocalyptic.
In Revelation 1:9-11 we find John preparing to write "The Revelation of Jesus Christ" from many visions that lay the foundation for the critical review of the Seven Church Ages in seven epistles, the basis of the whole apocalypse. Paul was incarcerated on Patmos Island by the Roman authorities over a period of two years, AD95-96. John was in the Spirit in the Lord's Day—the destination of Christ's Bride of all ages when man's day is over. And behind him, or in the past, he heard a great Voice, unmistakable and clear as a trumpet saying, Write what you see in the vision into a Book and send to the seven churches.
"And I turned to see the Voice that spoke with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands." The Voice and the Person are one and the same: Jesus is the WORD (John 1:1-3).
"And in the midst of the seven lamp stands one like the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the breast with a golden girdle. His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire; and His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and His voice as the sound of many waters. And He had in His right hand seven stars: and out of His mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and His countenance was as the sun shines in His strength".
After Christ's earthly work of intercession is finished His people are redeemed. The Church Ages are over; He is in glory shouting "Come up hither to chapter 4!" Being preordained, Christ's end-time Bride is also redeemed. The Door of the missionary age is still open in heaven: "The mystery of God is finished!" we are predestined to the fullness of the Word. Lingering members of His end-time Bride do not require mediation. Throughout the Book John represents You, Christ's end-time Bride; we are in the threefold process of the rapture (I Thessalonians 4:16).
"And in the midst of the seven lamp stands One like the Son of Man, clothed in a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle". It is the Lord's Day; for John sees Jesus standing, not as a priest, but as the coming Judge (Malachi 4:5). The golden girdle is no longer girt around the waist where the priest must wear it as he ministers to God in the Holiest Place, it is around His shoulders, for He is not now the priest but the JUDGE. This took place 62 years ago, and 99.99% of ministers and congregations suppose Christ is still a Mediator, interceding for their ignorance of the fullness of the W_O_R_D, not understanding that part W_O_R_D and mediation was done away with in 1963 when Christ claimed the Book and finished the mystery of God in 1963 (I Corinthians 13:10-13; II Peter 1:12; Revelation 5; 10:7). John 5:22 has come to pass, "For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son." His service as intercessor is rendered. The priesthood is over. The days of the prophecy are finished. He stands girded as the JUDGE, and Christ's end-time Bride is in the threefold PROCESS of the rapture.
Some day those feet of brass will stand upon earth. And the Judge of all the earth He shall be, and with equity and perfection He will judge mankind. And there will be no evading that judgment. No turning of that justice. There will be no tempering of it. He that is unjust will be unjust still; he that is filthy will be filthy still. The Unchanging One will not change then, for He never has and never will. Those feet of brass will crush the enemy. They will destroy the antichrist, the beast and his image and all that is vile in His sight. He will destroy the church systems that have taken His Name only to corrupt its brilliance and crush them along with the antichrist. All the wicked, the atheists, the agnostics, the modernists, the liberals, will all be there. Death, hell, and the grave will be there. Yes they will. For when He comes, the books will be opened. That is when even the lukewarm church and the five foolish virgins will appear. He will separate the sheep from the goats. When He comes He will take over the kingdom, for it is His, and with Him will be the thousands times ten thousands, His Bride, who come to minister to Him. Glory! Oh, it is now or never. Repent before it is too late. Wake up from amongst the dead and seek God to be filled with His Spirit or you will miss eternal life. Do it now while there is time.
Most churches are anticipating the glorified physical Man Jesus Christ to descend from the heavens, but Jesus stated categorically do not look for a man (Matthew 24:22-28). In Revelation 16:15 He said, "Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame." A thief comes and steals away undetected: Christ came in W_O_R_D form through the lips of His prophet; Christ's Presence is with the saints wherever they are now. But Jesus' precious feet will touch the earth until He steps out on the nuclear ashes of the wicked into the Millennium.
Revelation 1:16, "And He had in his right hand seven stars: and out of His mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and His countenance was as the sun shines in His strength." The seven stars were the angels to each of the Church Ages of PART-WORD. They are under preeminence and authority in Jesus' right hand and THUS SAITH THE LORD, the Word comes from His mouth.
And he laid His right hand upon John, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am He that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven lamp stands that you saw are the Seven Churches Ages.
I Thessalonians 4:13-17, "Brethren, we don't want you to be uninformed concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve, as do those who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the Word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until His coming shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the Voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and thus we shall ever be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words".
Please open your Bible at Matthew 25:1-13, "The Parable of the Ten Virgins," or elect and non-elect believers who went forth to meet Christ the Bridegroom's unseen second or (Gk.) 'parousia' coming. Five were wise and took a reserve of oil (Holy Spirit) with their lamps while five were foolish and took insufficient oil or revelation of the Spirit with their lamps to baptize them into new birth. They were Justified, baptized in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ and sanctified by holiness, yet they were not baptized by the Holy Spirit into new birth by a clear revelation of "the present Truth" . . . what Jesus is doing now (II Peter 1:12). One may be a dedicated student of the "letter" of the Prophet's end-time Message, but like many ministers and their congregations without the "Holy Spirit" the shout of the midnight cry, "Behold the Bridegroom go out to meet Him," will be unrecognized.
The Message of Brother Branham, the Elijah of Malachi 4:5, 6b and Matthew 17:11, restored the apostolic faith signified on the diagrams above as the foundation of Christ's Church, and called believers out of Babylon (Roman Catholicism) and her (once Protestant) denominational daughter churches (Revelation 18:4; 17:5-8) into the fullness of the Word. Since "that which is perfect has come, that which was in part shall be done away" (I Corinthians 13:10). In Brother Branham's end-time Message (Revelation 10:7; 22:17-19) the shout, describes the Midnight Cry. And as the Prophet was baptizing the seventeenth person in the Ohio River at two o'clock one afternoon in June, 1933, he prayed, "Father, as I baptize him with water, You baptize him with the Holy Spirit." And as he put him under the water the Shekinah or Pillar of Fire manifest and a Voice said, "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun My first coming, your Message will forerun My second coming".
The "Voice of the Archangel" is Christ whispering His secrets in the heart of His beloved and placing the Message of the Prophet from Genesis to Revelation to bring us to maturity in the unity of the faith in preparation for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the great translation (Ephesians 4:13; Romans 8:19).
The Trump will be Israel's seventh Trumpet of judgment in Jacob's trouble (Jeremiah 30:7) announcing the Great Tribulation and marking the end of the Gentile dispensation with earthquakes of unprecedented magnitude since man was on earth, tsunamis, lunar volcanoes, and an eruption of the Pacific Ring of Fire calling the first resurrection of the sleeping saints, the manifestation of the Sons of God and our translation. nl1351.htm
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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full- time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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