The Rapture of the church refers to that time when a trumpet shall sound, and our
Lord Jesus Christ will descend from heaven with a shout and with the voice of the archangel,
and we believers who are alive at such time will rise to meet our Lord in the air, while our
mortal bodies are being changed from corruptible into glorified immortal bodies.
This is a literal future event as prophesied in the succeeding Scriptures:
I THESSALONIANS 4:16-18: “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
Also in I CORINTHIANS 15:51-54:
“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall
be changed. For this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on
immortality. So when this corruptible shall have
put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have
put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass
the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up
in victory.”
A SECRET “CATCHING AWAY”
Yet only those who are prepared and are predestinated of God to go in the rapture
are the ones that will know of the exact time and actual day of this event, for it will be a
“secret” catching away of the Bride of Jesus Christ. This event will take place just
before the coming of the Great Tribulation (sixth seal) and right before the Anti-Christ
system takes control over all the whole world’s religious and political systems.
I THESSALONIANS 5:1-11: “But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have
no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so
cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then
sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they
shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as
a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor
of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let
us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an
helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation
by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live
together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as
also ye do.”
THREE COMINGS OF JESUS
Jesus Christ comes to earth three times. He also comes in three Son’s
names namely, (1) as “Son of Man” (Prophetic Dispensation to Israel), as (2) “Son of
God” (Holy Spirit Dispensation to the 7 Church Ages), and as “Son of David” (during the
1000 years of His Millennial Reign).
THE FIRST COMING
The purpose of Christ’s FIRST COMING was to “REDEEM” His Bride by the
shedding of His blood at the Cross of Calvary.
Revelation 5:9-10 states –“And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy
to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed
us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast
made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”
THE SECOND COMING
The SECOND COMING will be the Literal RAPTURE of the Church. it is the
“CATCHING AWAY” of Jesus’ Bride which literally comes out of the Seven Church Ages just before the Tribulation Period strikes the earth (1 Thessalonians 4:16-
18).
THE WISE VIRGINS
End Time Message believers don’t believe that the Bride of Christ will
go through the Tribulation Period. The Bride will leave this earth before the thing takes
place. The Bride is forgiven, justified, sanctified and is baptized with the Holy Ghost. Jesus
Christ already died for her, and her tribulation has already been paid by Jesus Himself at the
cross of Calvary. Jesus gave His life in exchange for His Bride. As we are “bones of His
bones, and flesh of His flesh”, the Bride therefore, we will no longer go through the
Tribulation Period because she has already gone through the sanctification process through
the sacrificial Body of our Lord Jesus Christ. “Jesus was made sin in order for her to be
made righteous”. The Bride types the Wise Virgins of Matthew 25 who made it to the
Wedding Supper because they had “oil” in their lamps. “Oil” signifies the “Baptism of
the Holy Spirit” through the revelation of the Word.
THE FOOLISH VIRGINS
The Foolish Virgins are the ones who will go through the Tribulation
Period to die for their faith for they will be left behind. The Foolish Virgins are those
Christians who have failed to receive the “OIL” or “Baptism of the Holy Spirit” in these last
days because they have rejected this End Time Message. They remained in their
denominational creeds and dogmas until one day they will realize that denominationalism is
the “Image of the Beast”.
Once they realized such a tragic thing, they will start looking for the “oil” but it will
be too late. The rapture must have been past during such time and the door closed. They
were left behind “weeping, wailing, and gnashing their teeth”. Being therefore left behind,
the AntiChrist will devour them and persecute them for their faith. Nowhere to hide, they will
be purged and tortured unto death unless they deny their testimonies as Christians and
receive the “mark” in their hand and in their forehead. These events will all transpire during
the Tribulation Period, while Israel’s 144,000 elect is also being called out by Moses and
Elijah from Judaism into the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 25:1-13 speaks very well of this event:
“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which
took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise,
and five [were] foolish. They that [were] foolish took their lamps, and took no oil
with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom
tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold,
the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and
trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps
are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, [Not so]; lest there be not enough for us and
you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to
buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the
marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord,
Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch
therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”
The assurance of being included in the rapture depends on whether
you belong to the Wise or to the Foolish Virgins. Faith is a revelation. The foolish
virgins will still be saved but they will give up their lives in death, and be given eternal life at
the second resurrection (judgement bar). But the Wise Virgins shall rise in the first
resurrection and will live and reign with Christ until the Millennium.
THE THIRD COMING
THE THIRD COMING of CHRIST refers to ARMAGEDDON WAR until the
consummation of history to the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ and His Bride when they come
back to earth again to defend Israel against its enemies. This event is stipulated in the
following scriptures:
REVELATION 19:11-16 - “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse;
and he that sat upon him [was] called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge
and make war. His eyes [were] as a flame of fire, and on his head [were] many
crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he [was]
clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the
armies [which were] in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine
linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should
smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress
of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on [his] vesture and on his
thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
This third coming of Jesus Christ will also be the time when the earth shall burn and
the “righteous walk upon the ashes of the wicked” to commence the Millennial Rule of Jesus
Christ. II PETER 3:10-13 spoke about it:
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the
heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. [Seeing]
then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all]
holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt
with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and
a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
THE FIRST THREE RAPTURES
The FIRST RAPTURE was when ENOCH was caught away to heaven before the Flood came in
Noah’s days (Genesis 5:24).;The SECOND RAPTURE was when ELIJAH was taken away alive
in a chariot of fire (II Kings 2:11) leaving his mantle to Elisha.
The THIRD RAPTURE was when the Old Testament Saints (Abraham, Sarah,
Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and others) rose up from the dead during the time when
Jesus shouted with a loud voice at the cross of Calvary. The graves of those saints
were opened and their glorified bodies arose and appeared unto many.
MATTHEW 27:50-53 - ”Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice,
yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to
the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were
opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the
graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.”
In order for these O.T. Saints to be transported beyond the curtain of time, their
sins had to be totally blotted out. The blood of bulls and goats in the Old Testament never had
the power to do that. It just covered their sins temporarily and they always had to offer a
sacrifice every year in order to maintain their cleanliness before God. They had to wait for
that “Perfect Sacrifice” to come, the “Lamb of God” Himself who takes away the sins of the
world. Jesus’ precious Blood finally released them from the guilt of sin. All of mankind’s sin
problem was settled when Jesus died at the cross (John 3:16)
THE FOURTH RAPTURE
The FOURTH RAPTURE took place when our Lord Jesus
Christ himself finally ascended up into the heavens, as it is
written in the Book of ACTS 1:9 to 11- “And when he had
spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up;
and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they
looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two
men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of
Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus,
which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in
like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”
THE FIFTH RAPTURE
The FIFTH RAPTURE, is that which is spoken of in I THESSALONIANS 4:16-18 and
I CORINTHIANS 15:51-54, which concerns all the true Bible-believing Christians who had
lived from the Day of Pentecost throughout the confines of the Seven Church Ages until
this day. This Body of Believers is composed of the saints who died for the Gospel during
the Ephesian, Smyrnean, Pergamean, Thyaterian, Sardisean, Philadelphian and Laodecian church ages, along with the living saints that are still in our age, the Laodecian
Church Age. All these saints are bound to meet the Lord in the air comes rapture time. They
are the ones who are spoken of in “the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which
are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air”.
Only the wise virgins are considered in this
FIFTH RAPTURE. These are those who have received
“OIL” in their lamps, which is the “Baptism of the Holy
Ghost,” by heeding and believing this End Time Message
and hearing what the Spirit speaketh through the Seventh
Angel Messenger of this age. This “OIL” is the basic
requirement for one to go in the Rapture.
THE SIXTH RAPTURE
THE SIXTH RAPTURE will transpire when the Two Witnesses (Moses
and Elijah) of Revelation 11 will have come to Israel to call out the 144,000 Jews
back to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Remember that the Jews were blinded to this truth
until the fullness of the Gentiles be fulfilled. Moses and Elijah will come to Israel to testify to
them about Jesus Christ being their true Messiah. They will show signs and wonders
following their ministry.The AntiChrist will hate these two prohets and will kill them, but God
will raise them up again after three days and be caught up into heaven. Make no mistake
about it. Here it is written in REVELATION 11:3-12:
“And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a
thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two
olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any
man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if
THE SHOUT, THE VOICE & THE TRUMPET
There are the THREE SIGNS that we need to watch out concerning the RAPTURE.
While Jesus is coming down to earth, He does all three signs. Revelation 10:1 to 7
parallels with this event. This event is also known as the SEVENTH SEAL, the
coming of the Lord. Notice that in the sventh seal (Rev 8:1) there was silence, a
hush in heaven, no angel singing or praising, for almost the space of half an hour,
because Jesus at this time comes down to earth to finish all His remaining plans
for mankind.
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God...” (I Thessalonians 4:16)
The “SHOUT” refers to an “END TIME MESSAGE” that will prepare the elect, the
Bride of Christ, for the coming Bridegroom. “Come out from among them (denominations), My
people, and be not partakers of her (Whore and Harlot’s) sins and that ye receive not of her
plagues,” is the shout of the seventh angel, the cry of this last age. The Bride is now being
separated from all man-made creeds and dogmas, for Christ wants her virgin to the Word.
Not a whore or a prostitute. No, Christ will not marry a denominational pervert. He will come
for a Word-Bride, those who stayed pure with the teachings of the Bible.
The “VOICE” here is the voice of the SEVENTH ANGEL as spoken of in
Revelation 10:7- “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin
to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to His servants the
prophets”. This seventh angel is none other than the seventh messenger to the seventh
church age of Laodicea, which is William Marrion Branham. He was the one commissioned
by God to reveal all the mysteries hidden in the seven seals.
The third symbol, the “TRUMP” of God signifies two things: (1) “CALLING TO
A FEAST” or a (2) “PREPARATION FOR BATTLE”.
Once you receive the revelation of this Endtime Message, you enter into both
“dimensions” of feasting and warring. One, when you have been converted and been born
again by the Message, you have become a “rapture-bound” creature, bound to go into the
Wedding Feast in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb of God in heaven once rapture
time takes place. Two, you have been enlisted into God’s spiritual army and you have
become a Christian soldier summoned to fight a SPIRITUAL BATTLE against spiritual
wickedness in high places.
Religious denominations will begin to hate you. Just like how those Pharisees and
Saduccees hated Jesus and His Message in His days, these denominational organizations
will also persecute the true Bride of Christ today and will destroy her influence. They will call
you bad names such as “holy rollers”, “cult”, “heretic”, for the main reason that this End
Time Message exposes their folly of man-made traditions, systems, dogmas and creeds,
against the Word. But as Jesus told His apostles, “If the Master of the House was called a
“Beelzebub”, a servant is not greater than His Master”.
Truly, all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. There’s no
question about it. The children of disobedience will call you all kinds of evil things but the
Bride of Christ is rest assured by revelation, that Jesus will take her out of this world to be
with Him in glory. Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.
SIGNS THAT THE RAPTURE IS AT HAND
In Matthew 24, Jesus gave the apostles numerous signs relating to His
second coming. He told them that “this generation shall not pass away until all
things be fulfillled.” He was referring to the generation that will see Israel “the Fig
Tree” put forth its leaves. When Israel becomes a nation again, we are told to look up for our
redemption draweth nigh. This generation that will see Israel become a nation will not pass
away until all things be fulfilled.
Israel has been back as a nation since 1948. After years of sojourning, God
had forced the Israeiltes back to their homeland by hardening the hearts of Stalin, Hitler and
Mussolini during the second world war to pressure them and kick them out of Europe and
Russia. Israel has her own flag, the Star of David, which is considered to be the oldest flag
in the world. She has her own military, monetary system, and economy. Israel has had her
Jubilee in 1998. The rapture is already long overdue. But the Bible reminds us about the days
of Noah when the ark was closed, yet it did not rain until after seven more days. These silent
days were known to be as “preaching to the lost”, and the “third pull”. No one can enter, and
no one can get out anymore. “Let the filthy be filthy still, and let the holy be holy still”. William
Branham, the last messenger to the Gentile church age, was taken by God off the scene in
December of 1965. It was 40 years already in December of 2005 since then. Laodicean Age,
which started in 1906, had her centennial celebration last 2006. It’s later than we think.
AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF SODOM AND NOAH’S, SO
SHALL IT BE IN THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN
It is predicted that in the days when the Son of Man will return, the
condition of the world will be like “as it was in the Days of Sodom”. Immorality
and moral decay shall abound. Isn’t that the very scenario of our world today?
God destroyed the world by flood during the first 2000 years in the days of Noah.
He also destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah by fire because man’s thoughts were continually
evil.
MATTHEW 24:37-39, “ But as the days of Noe [were], so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered
into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be.
We see the same signs in the world today that she’s ripe for judgment. The rapture
will come anytime now. Read Matthew 24 and Luke 21 for they cover most of the signs that
signal Jesus’ second coming in our generation.
Lord Jesus Christ will descend from heaven with a shout and with the voice of the archangel,
and we believers who are alive at such time will rise to meet our Lord in the air, while our
mortal bodies are being changed from corruptible into glorified immortal bodies.
This is a literal future event as prophesied in the succeeding Scriptures:
I THESSALONIANS 4:16-18: “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
Also in I CORINTHIANS 15:51-54:
“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall
be changed. For this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on
immortality. So when this corruptible shall have
put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have
put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass
the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up
in victory.”
A SECRET “CATCHING AWAY”
Yet only those who are prepared and are predestinated of God to go in the rapture
are the ones that will know of the exact time and actual day of this event, for it will be a
“secret” catching away of the Bride of Jesus Christ. This event will take place just
before the coming of the Great Tribulation (sixth seal) and right before the Anti-Christ
system takes control over all the whole world’s religious and political systems.
I THESSALONIANS 5:1-11: “But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have
no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so
cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then
sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they
shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as
a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor
of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let
us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an
helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation
by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live
together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as
also ye do.”
THREE COMINGS OF JESUS
Jesus Christ comes to earth three times. He also comes in three Son’s
names namely, (1) as “Son of Man” (Prophetic Dispensation to Israel), as (2) “Son of
God” (Holy Spirit Dispensation to the 7 Church Ages), and as “Son of David” (during the
1000 years of His Millennial Reign).
THE FIRST COMING
The purpose of Christ’s FIRST COMING was to “REDEEM” His Bride by the
shedding of His blood at the Cross of Calvary.
Revelation 5:9-10 states –“And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy
to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed
us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast
made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”
THE SECOND COMING
The SECOND COMING will be the Literal RAPTURE of the Church. it is the
“CATCHING AWAY” of Jesus’ Bride which literally comes out of the Seven Church Ages just before the Tribulation Period strikes the earth (1 Thessalonians 4:16-
18).
THE WISE VIRGINS
End Time Message believers don’t believe that the Bride of Christ will
go through the Tribulation Period. The Bride will leave this earth before the thing takes
place. The Bride is forgiven, justified, sanctified and is baptized with the Holy Ghost. Jesus
Christ already died for her, and her tribulation has already been paid by Jesus Himself at the
cross of Calvary. Jesus gave His life in exchange for His Bride. As we are “bones of His
bones, and flesh of His flesh”, the Bride therefore, we will no longer go through the
Tribulation Period because she has already gone through the sanctification process through
the sacrificial Body of our Lord Jesus Christ. “Jesus was made sin in order for her to be
made righteous”. The Bride types the Wise Virgins of Matthew 25 who made it to the
Wedding Supper because they had “oil” in their lamps. “Oil” signifies the “Baptism of
the Holy Spirit” through the revelation of the Word.
THE FOOLISH VIRGINS
The Foolish Virgins are the ones who will go through the Tribulation
Period to die for their faith for they will be left behind. The Foolish Virgins are those
Christians who have failed to receive the “OIL” or “Baptism of the Holy Spirit” in these last
days because they have rejected this End Time Message. They remained in their
denominational creeds and dogmas until one day they will realize that denominationalism is
the “Image of the Beast”.
Once they realized such a tragic thing, they will start looking for the “oil” but it will
be too late. The rapture must have been past during such time and the door closed. They
were left behind “weeping, wailing, and gnashing their teeth”. Being therefore left behind,
the AntiChrist will devour them and persecute them for their faith. Nowhere to hide, they will
be purged and tortured unto death unless they deny their testimonies as Christians and
receive the “mark” in their hand and in their forehead. These events will all transpire during
the Tribulation Period, while Israel’s 144,000 elect is also being called out by Moses and
Elijah from Judaism into the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 25:1-13 speaks very well of this event:
“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which
took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise,
and five [were] foolish. They that [were] foolish took their lamps, and took no oil
with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom
tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold,
the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and
trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps
are gone out. But the wise answered, saying, [Not so]; lest there be not enough for us and
you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to
buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the
marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord,
Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch
therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”
The assurance of being included in the rapture depends on whether
you belong to the Wise or to the Foolish Virgins. Faith is a revelation. The foolish
virgins will still be saved but they will give up their lives in death, and be given eternal life at
the second resurrection (judgement bar). But the Wise Virgins shall rise in the first
resurrection and will live and reign with Christ until the Millennium.
THE THIRD COMING
THE THIRD COMING of CHRIST refers to ARMAGEDDON WAR until the
consummation of history to the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ and His Bride when they come
back to earth again to defend Israel against its enemies. This event is stipulated in the
following scriptures:
REVELATION 19:11-16 - “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse;
and he that sat upon him [was] called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge
and make war. His eyes [were] as a flame of fire, and on his head [were] many
crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he [was]
clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the
armies [which were] in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine
linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should
smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress
of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on [his] vesture and on his
thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
This third coming of Jesus Christ will also be the time when the earth shall burn and
the “righteous walk upon the ashes of the wicked” to commence the Millennial Rule of Jesus
Christ. II PETER 3:10-13 spoke about it:
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the
heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. [Seeing]
then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all]
holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt
with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and
a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
THE FIRST THREE RAPTURES
The FIRST RAPTURE was when ENOCH was caught away to heaven before the Flood came in
Noah’s days (Genesis 5:24).;The SECOND RAPTURE was when ELIJAH was taken away alive
in a chariot of fire (II Kings 2:11) leaving his mantle to Elisha.
The THIRD RAPTURE was when the Old Testament Saints (Abraham, Sarah,
Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and others) rose up from the dead during the time when
Jesus shouted with a loud voice at the cross of Calvary. The graves of those saints
were opened and their glorified bodies arose and appeared unto many.
MATTHEW 27:50-53 - ”Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice,
yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to
the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were
opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the
graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.”
In order for these O.T. Saints to be transported beyond the curtain of time, their
sins had to be totally blotted out. The blood of bulls and goats in the Old Testament never had
the power to do that. It just covered their sins temporarily and they always had to offer a
sacrifice every year in order to maintain their cleanliness before God. They had to wait for
that “Perfect Sacrifice” to come, the “Lamb of God” Himself who takes away the sins of the
world. Jesus’ precious Blood finally released them from the guilt of sin. All of mankind’s sin
problem was settled when Jesus died at the cross (John 3:16)
THE FOURTH RAPTURE
The FOURTH RAPTURE took place when our Lord Jesus
Christ himself finally ascended up into the heavens, as it is
written in the Book of ACTS 1:9 to 11- “And when he had
spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up;
and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they
looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two
men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of
Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus,
which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in
like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”
THE FIFTH RAPTURE
The FIFTH RAPTURE, is that which is spoken of in I THESSALONIANS 4:16-18 and
I CORINTHIANS 15:51-54, which concerns all the true Bible-believing Christians who had
lived from the Day of Pentecost throughout the confines of the Seven Church Ages until
this day. This Body of Believers is composed of the saints who died for the Gospel during
the Ephesian, Smyrnean, Pergamean, Thyaterian, Sardisean, Philadelphian and Laodecian church ages, along with the living saints that are still in our age, the Laodecian
Church Age. All these saints are bound to meet the Lord in the air comes rapture time. They
are the ones who are spoken of in “the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which
are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air”.
Only the wise virgins are considered in this
FIFTH RAPTURE. These are those who have received
“OIL” in their lamps, which is the “Baptism of the Holy
Ghost,” by heeding and believing this End Time Message
and hearing what the Spirit speaketh through the Seventh
Angel Messenger of this age. This “OIL” is the basic
requirement for one to go in the Rapture.
THE SIXTH RAPTURE
THE SIXTH RAPTURE will transpire when the Two Witnesses (Moses
and Elijah) of Revelation 11 will have come to Israel to call out the 144,000 Jews
back to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Remember that the Jews were blinded to this truth
until the fullness of the Gentiles be fulfilled. Moses and Elijah will come to Israel to testify to
them about Jesus Christ being their true Messiah. They will show signs and wonders
following their ministry.The AntiChrist will hate these two prohets and will kill them, but God
will raise them up again after three days and be caught up into heaven. Make no mistake
about it. Here it is written in REVELATION 11:3-12:
“And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a
thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two
olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any
man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if
THE SHOUT, THE VOICE & THE TRUMPET
There are the THREE SIGNS that we need to watch out concerning the RAPTURE.
While Jesus is coming down to earth, He does all three signs. Revelation 10:1 to 7
parallels with this event. This event is also known as the SEVENTH SEAL, the
coming of the Lord. Notice that in the sventh seal (Rev 8:1) there was silence, a
hush in heaven, no angel singing or praising, for almost the space of half an hour,
because Jesus at this time comes down to earth to finish all His remaining plans
for mankind.
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God...” (I Thessalonians 4:16)
The “SHOUT” refers to an “END TIME MESSAGE” that will prepare the elect, the
Bride of Christ, for the coming Bridegroom. “Come out from among them (denominations), My
people, and be not partakers of her (Whore and Harlot’s) sins and that ye receive not of her
plagues,” is the shout of the seventh angel, the cry of this last age. The Bride is now being
separated from all man-made creeds and dogmas, for Christ wants her virgin to the Word.
Not a whore or a prostitute. No, Christ will not marry a denominational pervert. He will come
for a Word-Bride, those who stayed pure with the teachings of the Bible.
The “VOICE” here is the voice of the SEVENTH ANGEL as spoken of in
Revelation 10:7- “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin
to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to His servants the
prophets”. This seventh angel is none other than the seventh messenger to the seventh
church age of Laodicea, which is William Marrion Branham. He was the one commissioned
by God to reveal all the mysteries hidden in the seven seals.
The third symbol, the “TRUMP” of God signifies two things: (1) “CALLING TO
A FEAST” or a (2) “PREPARATION FOR BATTLE”.
Once you receive the revelation of this Endtime Message, you enter into both
“dimensions” of feasting and warring. One, when you have been converted and been born
again by the Message, you have become a “rapture-bound” creature, bound to go into the
Wedding Feast in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb of God in heaven once rapture
time takes place. Two, you have been enlisted into God’s spiritual army and you have
become a Christian soldier summoned to fight a SPIRITUAL BATTLE against spiritual
wickedness in high places.
Religious denominations will begin to hate you. Just like how those Pharisees and
Saduccees hated Jesus and His Message in His days, these denominational organizations
will also persecute the true Bride of Christ today and will destroy her influence. They will call
you bad names such as “holy rollers”, “cult”, “heretic”, for the main reason that this End
Time Message exposes their folly of man-made traditions, systems, dogmas and creeds,
against the Word. But as Jesus told His apostles, “If the Master of the House was called a
“Beelzebub”, a servant is not greater than His Master”.
Truly, all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. There’s no
question about it. The children of disobedience will call you all kinds of evil things but the
Bride of Christ is rest assured by revelation, that Jesus will take her out of this world to be
with Him in glory. Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.
SIGNS THAT THE RAPTURE IS AT HAND
In Matthew 24, Jesus gave the apostles numerous signs relating to His
second coming. He told them that “this generation shall not pass away until all
things be fulfillled.” He was referring to the generation that will see Israel “the Fig
Tree” put forth its leaves. When Israel becomes a nation again, we are told to look up for our
redemption draweth nigh. This generation that will see Israel become a nation will not pass
away until all things be fulfilled.
Israel has been back as a nation since 1948. After years of sojourning, God
had forced the Israeiltes back to their homeland by hardening the hearts of Stalin, Hitler and
Mussolini during the second world war to pressure them and kick them out of Europe and
Russia. Israel has her own flag, the Star of David, which is considered to be the oldest flag
in the world. She has her own military, monetary system, and economy. Israel has had her
Jubilee in 1998. The rapture is already long overdue. But the Bible reminds us about the days
of Noah when the ark was closed, yet it did not rain until after seven more days. These silent
days were known to be as “preaching to the lost”, and the “third pull”. No one can enter, and
no one can get out anymore. “Let the filthy be filthy still, and let the holy be holy still”. William
Branham, the last messenger to the Gentile church age, was taken by God off the scene in
December of 1965. It was 40 years already in December of 2005 since then. Laodicean Age,
which started in 1906, had her centennial celebration last 2006. It’s later than we think.
AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF SODOM AND NOAH’S, SO
SHALL IT BE IN THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN
It is predicted that in the days when the Son of Man will return, the
condition of the world will be like “as it was in the Days of Sodom”. Immorality
and moral decay shall abound. Isn’t that the very scenario of our world today?
God destroyed the world by flood during the first 2000 years in the days of Noah.
He also destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah by fire because man’s thoughts were continually
evil.
MATTHEW 24:37-39, “ But as the days of Noe [were], so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered
into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be.
We see the same signs in the world today that she’s ripe for judgment. The rapture
will come anytime now. Read Matthew 24 and Luke 21 for they cover most of the signs that
signal Jesus’ second coming in our generation.
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