The Fullness Of Time

I can truthfully say within my heart that God has given me much revelation. And the mysteries of God have been sweet to me; not just a hundred, not just hundreds, but thousands of beautiful deep, mysterious revelations. God has given it to me. And I feed on it everyday. I am one of those that walk in heaven, that live in heaven, that enjoy heaven. And glory to God, like I said, I could just dance any time. Wouldn't be no problem for me, because I feel it dancing all inside of me, you know. I try to hold my composure and act like folks around you, but I tell you what, I could just dance and dance and dance and dance and dance. And like I say, when I get by myself and you ain't around and can't nobody criticize me, I dance and dance and dance. I do. You say, "Brother Pike, do you really do that?" I'm afraid that I do. Let's give me another hand. Hallelujah! Sometimes, you know, you just have to do it, because you praise Him in the dance and you feel that wonderful thing, and I shut the door and Sister Betty, she can't see me, then I just, praise God, I mean I have myself a time. So it's all over me, it's all in me, it's everywhere because it's so wonderful. Wonderful is this wonderful blessing of Almighty God. I guess that's like Brother Branham used to say, once he gets by himself, he did the same thing, you know, down around the trees he'd go like a wild Indian.

And it's just so blessed to be a Christian. It's such a freedom. It's such a relaxation. It's such a peace. It's a joy that passeth all understanding. You look and you say, "God, I'm free. I'm free. He that the Son made free is free to do, or free indeed. And I'm free." I'm actually free of my sins. A lot of people, you know, they feel like they sin everyday, and they have to go to God everyday and ask for forgiveness of sin everyday. And that's fine. I go to the Lord and I ask Him to forgive me of my trespasses and my sins and my wrongs and whatever you want to call it, you know, I ask Him to do that. But really, when I'm going to God to do that, I'm really thanking God. I go to God to thank Him because He did forgive me of my sins, and I go to God to thank Him because He did take away all of my anxieties of life and all of those things that could hurt me in life. See? To give Him praise and to give Him honor. We sing that song, Give Him praise all ye people. So then, I go to the Lord that I might praise the Lord for what He's done for me. And I'm not just saved from one revival to another revival, and I'm not just inspired from one service to another service. Glory to God! I just chuckle on the inside because it's so sweet to me, you know. And it's so wonderful to me. It's joy unspeakable. The deep calling to the deep at the water spout of God. How many of you know that we're God's water spout? Out of the wells of salvation you can draw water with joy, and the great wonderful Spirit of God, that we cannot see with our eyes, that great deepness of God, is calling to this deepness that you cannot see with your eyes, and at the water spout of God the deep calls to the deep. See? And these wonderful things come forth, for out of the heart comes forth the joy and jubilance of Christian living. Out of the heart comes forth the issues of life, and the Bible says that we should do our diligence to keep our heart, because out of our heart comes forth the issues of life. You know, if a press is running, out of that press comes forth the daily issues of that news paper. And as to what you are and what you are going to be and what God has for you in life, it comes forth as an issue of life daily out of your heart, and it's up to you, as to what you do and what you say.

So again, we go to talk about the Word of God. As the hunger, as to the thirst so is that that God will give, for if you hunger and thirst after the things of God, God will speak to you accordingly. But if you do not hunger and thirst, He cannot speak to you. And we'll just exhort you a little bit as we said, or we'll just preach to you a little bit and that will be it. But when you hunger and thirst, it's more than that because from God, from the breasted one, El Shaddai, comes forth this wonderful, wonderful milk of the Word and the deep revelations of Jesus Christ. Now, I remind you again of this. They asked Jesus, the disciples said, Why do You speak to these people in parables? Seeing that Jesus was speaking to the people in parables, and the Bible said without a parable spake He not unto the people. In that God is a Spirit, anything that we might say would be parabolic, as to bring forth God. And seeing that everything in the earth is symbolic of that which is spiritual, in that the Bible said all of the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly understood by the things which do appear, even unto the eternal Godhead, so that we are without excuse. Then Jesus spake to them parabolic because He knew they would crucify Him if He plainly spoke to them. And they not having eyes to see and ears to hear, how else could He speak to them anyway? So then, He said things to them in parabolic speech. And then the disciples to whom He had explained these things, as to telling them the wonderful mysteries, they said, Why is it you speak to these people in parables? They said, They don't understand what you're saying. He said, It is not given unto them to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but unto you it is given. So then, beloved friend, unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God.

I just turned right over here to Revelation 10 and I'm going to read a little bit from Revelation 10. Chapter 10, the book of Revelation, the first verse. 

[Revelation 10:1-11: "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: 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. And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings."]

Now, you know we sometimes wonder why that it was bitter to the belly. But if you remember, the Bible says that God put the old serpent on his belly. And the Bible said that all of the labor of the people is for the belly, because the belly craves it of them, and the mouth craves it of them. So then, we know that this thing is bitter to the belly, because the old serpent, the old generation of vipers today is on their belly and they're intellectually indoctrinated, as to lust, as to covetousness, as to gullibleness, and their evaluation in life is wrong and they do not understand. They do not see when good comes because they are a generation of vipers. And that means that the gospel is bitter to the belly. David said, Let their table be made a snare unto them, eating and drinking in the last days, marrying and given in marriage. And the whole world, the Bible said, an adulterous generation, a sinful generation. So then, we know that we're living in the last days.

And we read here in Revelation 10, it says that in the days of the voice of the seventh angel. We refer to this many times. What is this angel, as we just take a minute or two here. What is this angel? Who is this angel? What is being said here? It says that in the days of the voice, and yet according to the Bible these angels had trumpets. But this is where we learn what the Bible means when it says lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show My people of their sins. When we read in Revelation 8, when these seven angels came to get the trumpets, see, it indicated voices, that there was going to be some voices that was going to be in the land. So when we get down to the seventh trumpeter, it said, In the days of the voice of this angel. Or it says, In the days of the sounding of the this trumpeter. So then, we find that these five angels, as of the seven, is sounded, and the last three of these angels, as to the seven, or that is four of them had sounded. The last three of these is called the Woe, woe, woe, which is the three woes of the book of Revelation. And between the second woe and the third woe, which is the six and the seventh trumpet, then this great angel intervenes, with one foot on the land and one foot on the sea and he lifts his hands to heaven and swears by Him that liveth forever and ever that time should be no more. And he said, And in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, then this will be the finishing of the mysteries of God. Whereas the Bible said and the things of God have an end. So then, that means that they can be comprehended. The world is ever learning, never coming to the truth knowledge.

So then, we find that in the days of the voice of the seventh angel then the mysteries of God should be finished. Why should the mysteries of God be finished? Why is there a mystery of God to begin with? You know, we tell you that the original rendering says, And the secret of God shall be finished. And then we go back to where the Bible said he that abideth under the shadow of the Almighty shall dwell in the secret places of the Most High. So then, we learn something here as to the mysteries of God, that if I abide in the shadow. What is the shadow of God? And Paul speaks of everything in the world being typical, or symbolic, allegoric, which is called a type, or which is called a shadow. And he that abideth in the shadow of the Almighty shall dwell in the secret places. Or that is, if you can get into the types and shadows, like Paul, then you can understand revelation because the shadow is the veil. And the veil has to be taken away, and getting into this, it will bring you the wonderful mysteries of God. So then, we see something great and mighty happening. What happened to Paul the apostle? He found out that at Calvary the veil had been rent in twain, and because the veil had been rent in twain then he realized that he could enter into the holy of holies, that this veil that cut him off from the holy of holies it was now gone, and he could enter right into the very presence of Almighty God, and being in the light, we could look back on the shadow and we could understand the revelational things of Almighty God. So then, Paul saw everything as a typical, or symbolic thing. So he waxed bold and he said, concerning the things that are present in the world, All of the invisible things of God, as to the spiritual world, are clearly understood by the things which do appear even to the eternal Godhead so that we are without excuse.

Now, this is because he entered into the revelation of the Lord. I have entered into the revelation of the Lord. I have gone beyond the veil. Brother Branham one time, laying on the bed there, something was said, Would you like to see beyond the veil? He said, Would do me so much good, and up beyond the veil he went. And he said he looked back and saw the veil, which is the body laying there on the bed, and he entered up into this wonderful place to where he saw old friends and old acquaintances, people that had been converted under his ministry and there they set him on a throne, and then he spoke of seeing Jesus, and then it was said, He's up a little higher. Remember, the man child is caught up to the third heaven, and we've been teaching as of late concerning the first heaven, the second heaven and the third heaven. Paul said we are a teacher and a preacher. And they said of Jesus, Rabbi, we know that Thou art a teacher sent from God. And whenever I can, I try to teach these things. Out on the field, I have to preach evangelistic because those people don't know anything about the mysteries of God and we're just preaching conversion. But to you it's given to know the mysteries, because it is the mysteries of God that is going to translate you into the marvelous kingdom of God.

It is said here that at the sounding of the last trumpet. Now, when will this trumpet sound? We see that six of these trumpets sounded, then it said in Revelation 10:7, in the days of the voice of this last trumpeter. In this time, or season, the Bible said, the mysteries of God are going to be finished. Great is the mystery of godliness, for the Bible said to wit that God was in Christ Jesus reconciling the world back to Himself, for great is the mystery of godliness for God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached to the Gentiles, caught up into heaven. So then, we see that it is a great wonderful thing that is taking place. And we're the people, this is what excites me! A lot of people don't seem to be excited. They're so busy eating and buying and selling and going and so carnally minded, as to that which is enmity with the Spirit, that they are not excited. But, folks, I'm excited, because when you get into this, then you get excited. You know, a person goes down to the races, horse races, car races, whatever it is, they sit there, they really get excited because that's their world of vanity. But with me it's different. I get into the Spirit of God and I see these great wonderful things, and I see the changes and I get so excited that I just forget to get up off of my knees. Sometimes I go there like we say, we go there when we get home after service, and I get on my knees and I get so excited, I get so carried away, and I think, Lord, I can't leave from here. This is too exciting, you know. And sometimes, though I might dose, or might not, whatever it might be, and then six or seven o'clock in the morning I find myself sometimes not even wanting to get up then, but I see the light breaking through, you know, and I say, "Well, this is another day. We've got to do something." But the excitement is so great that the night just passes away like it wasn't anything. Like Moses on the mountain for eighty days and nights, it just whoosh, went away like that because he was in the presence of Almighty God. So then, I get excited over these things, and when I come here to talk to you about them, I'm excited because these things are in my heart and these things are in my life and I'm incorporating these things within my lifestyle. So I'm excited about it.

So then, we see in Revelation 10 and 7 that the mysteries of God must be finished. Why must they be finished? Because the church must be translated and the translation of the church depends on these mysteries. That's why it is so different with Paul. It's so different with him, as to the ministry of Peter, for as the gospel was given to Peter, as to the Jews, so came the gospel unto Paul for the Gentiles, as to go and get a bride. And it's so different. So different that even Peter, Paul blamed him to his face. He confronted Peter and blamed him to his face because he said he was to be blamed in that he did not understand this great wonderful mystery of God, even though he had the keys to the kingdom. And Paul brought out the allegoric types, and he asked the people, said, Who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth? And then he said to those people, If righteousness come by the law, Jesus Christ is dead in vain, because we already have the law. And then he reproved Peter and the Bible said that, as to this dissimulation, it was so great that even Barnabas was carried away with it. And Paul began to expound the gospel and preach concerning Hagar, the bondmaid and Sarah, the free woman and began to preach the wonderful allegoric types to bring out the revelation to show just exactly where Peter was at and what Peter was doing in leading the people back into bondage under the bonds of the law.

So I say to you from time to time, I say, "Folks, let's go back to Calvary. Let's get back to Calvary. Let's talk about Calvary. Let's talk about the wonderful things of God." What is this at Calvary? This angel is saying, And time shall be no more. What is this about Calvary? Who is this great angel with one foot on the land and one foot on the sea? There has never been a gigantic person like this, never. Never has there ever been an angel like this. But see? This takes us back to Calvary where the mysteries are finished, and it takes us back to Calvary where the veil has been rent in twain, and it takes us back to Calvary where time is no more, when Peter said, Ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world is come. And where the Bible used the terms, In the fullness of the dispensation of time that God sent forth His Son, made of a woman and made under the law. And the Bible said this was in the fullness of time. And when Jesus hang at Calvary, like this, between heaven and earth, as to say, And time shall be no more, for He said, Father, it is finished, and He fulfilled every jot and every title of the law. And I take you back again to Daniel's prophecy when the angel stood there four hundred and eighty-three years before and said, Messiah shall come, and Messiah shall make an end of sin. And of course, when you make an end of sin, that means time can be no more, because time comes in with shadows. Time comes in, as we say, with the little dial clock. It comes in with shadows, and so from the expulsion, as in the garden, then time sets in, because shadows comes in. Or that is to say, Satan, the intellectual power of infiltration, gets into the mind of humanity, gets into the body of humanity, and thus we see the veil of death. So the only way to eradicate this veil of death, as to say, the body as flesh, as beast, between the inner spiritual being, as to the inner man, and God, then there has to be an eradication of the body. God knowing that He couldn't just come down and destroy our body, He made Him a body of His own. It was called the Son of God. God in His fullness tabernacled in that body. And God lifted that body up and He nailed it to Calvary and He smote it with all His fury, and then the body of this death, Paul said, is no more. That took away the body of this death, therefore the body of this death is gone, as to the beast body, as to that which was called the bastard child. That is, He was made my sin that I might be made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

And so then, the world passed away because with the end of sin, with the end of the law, that is the end of the world. And Peter said, Ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come as he got revelation. As he looked back in the days of Noah, as to the first two thousand years, he said, And these are they upon whom the ends of the world came. And the world is overthrown with water. And then in our day, or that is in the day of the Lord when He was here on earth, we say our day because this is the day that the Lord has made. Then Peter said, Ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world has come. And so then, the second thousand years and the world passed away. So then, lot of times we get into the water, the blood, and the spirit, or we get into those things as to what the Bible speaks of as when we say these bear witness in the earth. And we get into these things as to the revelation as to show these things.

But tonight we're speaking of the fullness of time. And in the fullness of time, in the fullness of time. The Bible said in the dispensation of the fullness of time God sent forth His Son that was made of a woman and made under the law to redeem them that was under the law. I like that song, Redeemed. I'm redeemed by the blood of the lamb. I'm redeemed by grace divine, glory, glory, Christ is mine. All to Him I now resign for I have been redeemed. Redeemed them that was under the law. Remember, the law brought a curse. How many of you are familiar with the fact that the law brought a curse? And everyone that's trying to keep the law, even those that were circumcised in the days of the Jews, were debtors to keep the whole law, which placed them under the curse, and inasmuch as no man has ever kept the law, or no flesh can be justified by the law, then all that's fallen from grace are under the curse. But we're not under the curse. See? Because we're not fallen from grace. I'm not under the law. Jesus folded up the law. He fulfilled every jot and every tittle. The Bible said and the law shall in no wise pass until every jot and tittle is fulfilled. And Jesus came and fulfilled it and then said, Father, it is finished. And thus the law was folded up and laid away, and because it was laid away, then I'm not under the curse of the law. I say again, as I said to you this morning, sin comes by transgression of the law. Transgression of the law is sin, and where there is no law there is no transgression. And where there is no transgression there is no sin, and where there is no sin, there is no sting of death, and where there is no sting of death there is no death.

So then, we've passed from death unto life, and today we're alive forever more. Let's give Him a hand. Four hundred and eighty-three years and Messiah came and He made an end of sin and then John the revelator saw this, Saint John the Divine, and John said, He that is born of God cannot sin for God's seed, even the Lord Jesus Christ, the seed of faith, the Word, it remains in him the Christian, and the Christian cannot sin because he is born of God. Therefore he keepeth himself and the evil one toucheth him not. He cannot sin because he cannot transgress the law. I remind you again, Paul said if the Gentiles by nature keep the law, shall they not then be justified rather than the Jews who have the law by letter and do not keep it? So then, the Holy Ghost, as the Spirit in Christ, He fulfilled every jot and tittle of the law and then He came into my heart, sealed my inner man, as the spirit, to where the evil one toucheth me not. Never at any time does Satan ever touch me, because God has sealed me with light and light and darkness has no fellowship. So the Bible said grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby thou art sealed. That is to say, as to the inner man unto the redemption of the body, or until the change as to the Thessalonians change, which the Bible refers to as the purchased possession. The Lord has already purchased the body. He's already paid for it, but as Job said, I'll wait for my change. But the inner man has already gone through a new birth.

And I remind you once again that the new man, that is the man on the inside, has gone through the new birth, and he has been born again, but your outer man, this outside image, the body of this death has not been born again. It cannot be born again because it is at enmity with God. It is flesh, and flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. And so then, we know that the only way for this body to get in was for Jesus to pay the price for the redemption of this body and then take us on over to the Thessalonian change, which means the adoption, to wit the redemption of our body. Or that is, to come to the understanding of this revelational tutoring, that there is a mystery and that the body has already been purchased, that it is the purchased possession and that it's going to be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump. Or that is to say, it is of Adam, the first man Adam, and in Adam all die. For the soul that sinneth shall surely die. But in that the Lord has redeemed us from the curse of the law, then death has been taken away. So then, that means that I am free from the law of sin and death, and my body, it must go through a change. And it will go through a change, but in that adoption is by the law, then we have to wait until the Jews come back in, because they are the law of God, and they are on the law side, and when the law went out the Jews went out. So then that means that we must wait for the law, in that if the casting away of the Jews at Calvary was the reconciling of the world, what will the receiving of the Jews be but life from the dead? We are waiting for the Jews to come in to signify the resurrection. At that time then our bodies will be changed, as to the adoption by the laws of God. In that the law has already been fulfilled in us on the inside, as to that Christian individual, as to the spirit, the angelic person, then it will be made manifest as this life of Christ into our mortal genes, and the Bible said we shall outshine the noonday sun. And everyone that hath this hope within him purifies himself even as the Lord is pure.

So we see what a wonderful salvation this is. And we say again, as to remind you, four hundred and eighty-three years and then Messiah came and He made an end of sin, but the prophecy was four hundred and ninety years upon thy people, Daniel, which is the Jews. But God not counting the time while they are out of their home land, when four hundred and eighty-three years come, the Jews dispersed and went into all the world. They were driven out of the presence of God, blinded in part until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. So we see that the last two thousand years of the six thousand years, which is the finishing of God's labor, is then given to the Gentiles, less seven days as we would say, to bring in the millennium, as to the tribulation period just before that. So then, we realize that where we're living now that Mr. Bush, as I said, calendar wise, on his second administration will run right into the middle of the last week, as before this seventh millennium, or as we call the millennium reign coming in. All right. When we look at this, we see that something is taking place, and if it's that close, in that we're in the nineties, and that would be in about ninety-three, the starting of that thing, as to calendar wise, then the church has to go out of here. It has to be translated out of here, or that is, the change must come, because inwardly you've already been translated, like Enoch into the marvelous kingdom of God. The law and the prophets until John. Death was conquered in your behalf at Calvary, and then your inner man has been translated into the marvelous kingdom of God, and it's all over for you because the body of that death, it's there no more. The body has been buried in the lovely name of Jesus for the remission of sin.

It's like I was telling my wife today. You know, not to remit your sin, but for the remission of sin. There is no remission for sin without the shedding of blood, and what took your sins away wasn't the water. It was the blood, but you're baptized into His death to be identified with Him, as to be dead to the world in the body, that the body of death is gone, and that you are baptized for the dead, see, to show that your sins have been remitted. It shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

So we see this great wonderful thing taking place at Calvary. It's so great and it's so mighty. What is this? It's the revelation of Jesus Christ. That's why Paul, immediately after Calvary, had such a unique ministry, as to the ministry of the mysteries of the revelation of Jesus Christ, and such a one was caught up to the third heaven saying, It's not me. It's not me that speaketh but God that speaketh from within me. And it's not me living but Christ that liveth, and I'm now bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. Paul had been bruised so much, been whipped about five times, stoned with stones, until he was a dead man, you know, but God had taken over, and even when he was stoned to death, picked him up that it might be Christ living that it might be that thing of the resurrection. Then we spoke as to what God had done, Jesus choosing twelve apostolic leaders as a foundation of that great city. And then from that time, the lively stones of the church being built upon these foundations, as into a holy priesthood, as to that pyramid city of New Jerusalem, up to Paul the apostle, which was in the third heaven, having the oversight, looking down, here Paul being the great seer, or the all seeing eye of divinity. We brought that out as it is on a dollar bill as to what it means, you know. The certain thing on a dollar bill, we brought it out as to what it meant, and as to the capstone, we brought that out the other night. And the thing that we did not bring out is, down at the bottom of it there is the scroll of 1776 where it says, Novus Ordo Seclorum, see? Which means a new order.

So then, here we see this pyramid city which is the bride of Christ, lively stones built up into a holy priesthood. I remind you again where the Bible said and I will remember you when I come to make up My jewels and spare you as a man would spare his son. And so then, built up into this holy thing, we see Paul, having established those churches, and then they were chosen for the church ages, and then at the end of the church ages, we find Paul the apostle, and yet not Paul, but Jesus, the Christ, standing in the midst of the seven candlesticks, or that is to say, within the midst of the church ages. So again we see Paul as this great and mighty angel, with one foot on the land and one foot on the sea, and the head up to the throne, as to the third heaven, the child up here as to symbolizing the head, because the head is the knowledge of God, as to the revelation of Jesus and Paul was the one that went for a bride. You could say that was Paul's bride as to Paul's revelation, but the Bible said it was the revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave unto Jesus Christ, that that inner most revelation might reveal to Him that He was God. And today, as to your measure, that same revelation, in that you pray that God will grant unto you the Spirit of revelation, it comes forth as to the measure that you allow it to be on the inside of you, to reveal to you that you are God Almighty, as to bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh, members in particular, whatever the measure might be, that you are His flesh and bone and that you alone dwell in that revelational light that no man can approach unto, whom no man has seen nor can see, because the god of this world has blinded their eyes that they cannot see when good cometh. So then, the eyes of their understanding they cannot see, whereas the Bible says, I remind you again that this light shined in the midst of this intellectual darkness, but they comprehended it not. But it said unto children of light, That you might comprehend the heights, the depths, the length and the width, with all children of God. So then, that's what we're doing, as to the unveiled mysteries of God, then we're comprehending the mysteries. We're understanding the mysteries because we are they that dwell beyond the veil, or we are they that dwell in heaven. And that is why the Bible said you are not of this world. God has chosen you out of this world, hid you with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the restoring of all things. And the Bible said ye that are in heaven rejoice forever more, for I have made you to sit together in these heavenly places. All right.

So then, we can see here, great is the mystery of godliness. Paul, here he is as to say, Jesus, that great angel, for His head is there at the throne. Jesus the head of the church setting on the throne and the Bible said concerning this angel, there was a rainbow about his head. And then seeing this great foot that was in the flesh and this great foot that was in the spirit, as to say the land and the water as to symbolically speaking, and here He is with His hands stretched out, knowing that He is the great and mighty Christ. There He is, see? And He is swearing at Calvary, with His hands lifted up to heaven, that it is now finished, Heavenly Father. The stone, the capstone, coming crying, Grace, grace, grace. And there He stands at Calvary with His hands lifted up to heaven and suspended between heaven and earth, there He stands saying, And the fullness of time, for the Bible said and when time was no more, it would be the fullness of time, and that God would send His Son in the fullness of time, in the fullness of the dispensation of time. And that He would gather all things in heaven into the ark, and all things in the earth into the ark. And all things, whatever it might be in the earth, under the earth, in heaven, all into the body of Jesus Christ. So we know that in that ark went the creeping things down in the bottom, as Noah. And the Bible said this is as the waters of Noah, in that that was a symbolic thing of Calvary. And we know that into that level, as to where the door was found, there went another type of people, as the walking things, and we know that in the upper chamber, as to where that little light was of the window, there went the flying things. So we know that in heaven, or the angelic, as represented by the birds, and we know that in the earth are the walking, as represented by the beasts in that man relates to the beasts because of the fall, and unless he's a son of God he's nothing but beast, and some brute beasts made to be taken and burned, and we know that in the lower part of the earth, as to those that go under the earth, are the weasels and the snakes and all of those things that hide in holes. So we know that in Christ Jesus that everything was taken into His body. The creeping things of darkness was taken in, and those things as to the earth was taken in, and those things that were heavenly.

So then, He made in His body, as to that which was the image of sin, to trap the creeping things and to take them down into the lower part of the earth. Thus He was made sin as God withdrew from Him, and He was smitten because of that sinful image, being my sin that I might be made the image of righteousness in God, or in Christ Jesus. Then we know that in this He gathered all things in the earth into the body of the Lord Jesus, regardless to what it was, as to that which would encompass the people for His blood upon Calvary, upon the seat of atonement today has allowed grace to be over the entire world, as to the cover of the cosmic. He had forgiven the sins of the world. And the Bible said He hath taken away the sins of the world, in that He folded up the law and laid it away. So then, we know that while the blood is on the seat of atonement, we know that sin cannot be seen by God, the Heavenly Father, for God so loved us while we were yet in our sins that He gave the blood of His Son for us, the life of His Son. Or that is to say, when He come for us, we were among the sinners and He had to pour out the rain upon the just and the unjust to cover all of them with His grace, gathering them into the radius and confines of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, though He had to take them all in that He might get to us, and He's still working with us. And the very day that Lot went out of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible said, the fire and the brimstone immediately came down, which the very day that we're actually changed in our body, that will be the end of the grace on the sinners because there won't be any elect among the sinners anymore. And immediately, that's the expulsion, because when the blood is taken away, the grace and the light is taken away and they are no longer in heaven, but they are then in gross darkness, as to intellectual ignorance and not even enough understanding to find a medical relief in that there will be no healing medicines in that day and death cannot bring them the relief, as to die out of their miseries through the tribulation period.

So I say this again, and lots of times when I say this, I go over to say that I know when I say this people draw up on me. Nevertheless, the Gentiles are in heaven. At their ball games, they are in heaven. At their frolics, they are in heaven, because the rain is upon the just and the unjust. The grace of God is upon all the world and that is heaven, and they eat and they drink and they frolic and they turn the grace of God, as to this dispensational grace, into lasciviousness. That is to say, they don't do the right thing. They don't say the right things. They don't go to the right places, but they take advantage of the grace of God and turn it into lasciviousness, as to their own gullible lust and desire. And I say again, as I always say, if you don't believe that you are in heaven right now, wait until you get into hell, and when you're in the lake of fire, and when you are tormented beyond the wildest imagination and people are gnashing on you with their teeth and you can't get a swallow of water, you can't get anything to eat and you can't get any relief from your pain and misery, then you'll know how to differentiate between heaven and hell. So then, we find first heaven, second heaven, third heaven, but remember that grace will soon be over. The blood will soon come off of the seat of atonement because the church, as to Lot, will go out of Sodom and Gomorrah. This is a world of gays and soon the church will be taken out. Already they have been taken out, and already they are not in this world. They have been chosen out of the world. They are chosen out of the flesh and they are not in the flesh. They cannot ever come into condemnation, because there is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ, which are not in the flesh but in Christ. And the Bible said you are not in the flesh, therefore you cannot walk after the flesh, for you are not in the flesh. And in that you cannot walk after the flesh, you cannot fulfill the desires and the lust of the flesh. You are in the Spirit and you walk in the Spirit and God has rent the veil in twain. I say again, the Bible says made within Himself two, or both, twain, Lord and Christ. And then, as to make of this Paul said, one new man. But that by putting away sin, the Bible said, He rent the veil in twain. Or He separated the Lord from the Christ, or the body from the Spirit, that you might be separated as individuals, your spirit from your body, your spirit into heaven as to the things of God and your body of death buried in a watery grave that it may never be counted against you again as sinful flesh.

So we see what God has done for us. He has taken away our sins. Our sins are gone. They are underneath the blood on the cross of Calvary, as far removed as darkness is from dawn. They're in the sea of God's forgetfulness. That's good enough for me. Praise God! My sins are gone. Messiah came, made an end of sin four hundred and eighty-three years later from the time of the prophecy, and then we find that little space in between the four hundred and eighty-three years and the seven years of tribulation. Seven years separated from the four hundred and eighty-three. One day, the seven years is coming back to the four hundred and eighty-three and it's going to make four hundred and ninety years that will be determined upon the Jews, as to the prophecy of the angel, and that will be the end. That will be the end, but right now that little rent veil, as between the four eighty-three and the seven, and now it is a dispensation of heaven. It is the church ages and the fullness of time came and the world passed away. And Peter said, Ye are the people upon whom the ends of the world have come, and this is heaven. All the way from Calvary, all the way over here.

And so then, ye are they that dwell in heaven. And John, when he looked, even the devil was in heaven. He saw him over in the twelfth chapter of the book of Revelation and he saw the dragon in heaven. And he saw the woman heavy with child, as being Israel, or that which was to bring forth, as to the hundred and forty-four thousand that's to meet the Lord Jesus on the mount of Zion. And so then, we see as the church heavy with child, ready to bring forth there in this wonderful atmosphere of God. As you see the church today, see Mary going up to be taxed, heavy with child, about that time you see the IRS and the heavy taxes, as we predicted years ago it would be at the time of the birth of the man child. That is to say, they that are coming into the revelational mind of God, even the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, which of course is the third heaven, as to the third mind, these, all of these as to coming to the birth. The woman, as the church, she is under the blood. She is in the days of grace. She is in heaven. And the red dragon, as to the old serpent that's on his belly, that old blood life, is laying in there, that old intellectual thing of the tree of knowledge and diplomacies of life, and it's laying in there right at the mouth of the matrix to devour the child just as quick as it comes forth. But the Bible said when the child was born, even as to the headship, even Jesus, it went straight up to the throne and went up to the third heaven. In that heaven and earth must pass away, we know then that the second heaven must pass away because Lucifer being in it has defiled it and it must not be anymore.

You know, it's a strange thing, but when you speak of the word heavens passing away. The Bible speaks of the heavens being on fire and the heavens passing away. The Greek word for that, as to Uranus, which is the root word for uranium, which is the principal thing as to atomic power, or particles that goes back to that thing of heaven, or the heavens rather, passing away. So then, we see that there is something that is taking place, and we realize that in the day we're living in and the hour that we're living in, that that old intellectual dragon is in there saying, as I say so often, every time someone gets into the church, or a child is born into the church, as to something for God, the old red dragon, the old intellectual mind, the old blood life, as to that of passions is saying, "Let's make a ball player out of him. Let's make some kind of a celebrity out of him, put him into some kind of a position to where he'll be a dignitary, or let's do some thing with him." That old intellectual mind that devoured Adam and Eve, as to death, in that the Bible said the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die, for to be carnally minded is death. That thing is ready to devour, that thing is ready to kill, but now with this new thing coming, the Bible said, and Satan shall wear out the saints of God and then they shall rise and take the kingdom and they shall possess it forever and ever. When shall this be? At the sounding of the last trump and the days of the voice with the finishing of the mystery of God, for great is the mystery of godliness. And Paul said, We are made a stewart of the mysteries.

So then, as to coming to the thing, as to the acknowledgement of the mind that you belong to God and that you have a right to understand your privileges, and being children, as to heir and joint heirs of Jesus Christ, then, now, beloved, are ye the sons of God. And what a great honor God has bestowed upon you that you have already passed from death unto life, already the children of God, already the sons of God and already have been translated into heaven, into the marvelous kingdom of God, and the world that was in you has already gone out of you and now it's the kingdom of God within you. So then, you are already in the great inheritance of God, as having received all things that pertain unto life. So then, we realize that we are the children, as the song writer said, that God has set free. And we already have all things that pertain unto life, and that our shield of faith can already quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, and that we can already say what we will and doubt not in our heart and it will come to pass and we'll have whatsoever we say. Jesus said, If thou canst believe.

So what then are we saying? We are saying, as I said this morning, that we've been baptized for the dead, and I brought out how that they that were under the law cannot be made perfect without us. So we see that the expulsion is almost at hand. Jesus said at Calvary, I beheld him, even Satan, as lightning fall from heaven. Or that is to say, I've destroyed him that hath power over death, or that is to say, the body of the Lord Jesus represented that serpent of Moses and the old dragon, and God withdrew from it and smote it and done away with it and forever the old dragon is gone out of heaven. He is no more in the presence of the Father. Jesus died out of the presence of the Father, as the serpent hanging upon the cross, that I might live in the presence of the Father eternally. And that, as it was with the brazen serpent, back to the brazen altar of the evening time, the lamb offered upon that as to God, the consuming fire, the fire that could never go out under the altar in the days of Israel. So we see this brazen serpent, as it was in the days of Moses, that if anybody looked upon it then the bite of those serpents would not bother them. So we're free from the old demon spirits that would like to inhabit our body.

I say this so often, the whole dispute is over the body. The Bible said and the dispute was between the devil and between the angel over the body of Moses. And the whole dispute is as to whether Satan will have the body, or God, the eternal Spirit will have the body, in that the body of the woman is that which reproduces, as to the image of the husband, in that he is the head of the body. Jesus the head of the church, the great mystery Paul spoke of concerning Christ and the church. So then, we know that this last trumpet had to sound. When it sounded, that was to be the finishing of the mysteries of God, because the things of God have an end. Brother Branham came in the end time to bring us great wonderful things, being symbolic of Jesus. We brought this out concerning Moses and that Jesus was on the other side of Calvary, that there was no Calvary until Jesus went to Calvary and that as the angel said, Having forerun my first coming, John, then you're going to forerun My second coming. Which again places that thing in the same perspective, bringing it back again as to the spirit of Elijah, in that John came in the spirit of Elijah. And then we see, that having brought this out in detail on tape, as you have it, it indicated that though the light came and though the light was within Jesus that the world did not comprehend the light. And the light shined in darkness, Him being the light of the world, but the darkness comprehended it not. And so then, when you and I were born into this kingdom of God, thus we have become the light, in that the law and the prophets were until John, since that time the kingdom of God has been preached and men press their way into the kingdom.

So then, we are the light of the world. But as it was, as with Brother Branham and the pillar of fire, as we brought out the other night, God looking at Israel through that pillar of fire, see, it was confined within the body, and all they ever got out of it was intellectual quotes, as to the law, and took away the spirit and the quickening of it. And when Brother Branham went away, as to those quotes, they were folded up, laid away, and like we said in that cornerstone when they got there, having a picture of the cornerstone where Brother Branham had placed the message within it, but when they got there, there was no more message. And I said that cornerstone had to do with Brother Branham, as the cornerstone of this end time revival, and of the little body of Brother Branham going back to the dust, back, as to the bones and the dust, lying in the grave. It was the little cornerstone, that the message had departed out of the body and now the great Christ has gone beyond the veil, as that of Moses, as to the lesser light, in that they seen this thing through the veil of the man of God, and they could not follow it.

So then, they could not understand it, as Brother Branham said even, I believe to Billy Paul, that even you don't understand it, Billy. But the thing is, when I saw them in the vision and all of them lined up at the grave and the darkness coming on them, and then later when I went into Indiana and there they were, sure enough, the followers in reality was at the grave, just the way that I'd seen it. And when I come in here, I was going to try to bypass and I thought, Lord, I can't disturb them because that's their pastor, that's the prophet that they love. That's the man of God, having seen his departure, spoken of his departure, as to the year that it would go off of the scene and the thing that would happen to him and the thing that would follow. I saw the thing, but there they were at the tomb and the evening was falling, because in the vision the darkness was falling. And I couldn't go this way because there was a fresh grave down here and I couldn't get through, and I couldn't go backwards because I would back over the tombstone. And I thought, My God! What am I going to do? And something said, You'll go just exactly this way, as in the vision, and when I went that way, I had to get out by all of them leaving. And I thought, Lord, they're going to be upset, but believe it or not, as I pulled up behind the cars, they gracefully got into their cars and they went away from the grave and left it all by itself as I went outside of the graveyard through the means of that entrance, or that exit.

So we know that this trumpet had to sound. Brother Branham coming, all of these things begin to fall into place, but the light shined in darkness and they could not comprehend it. And there it was, see, as to the wreck bringing the rent veil, as to the head split open, that this light might spring out to the church. And that as that light sprang out from Jesus at the crucifixion, there had to come forth a Christ, which was Paul the apostle. As Paul the revelator came forth to the members of the body, as to the church, this Spirit of Christ entered into Paul and up to the third heaven he went as the seer of that age, as the Christ of that age that we might have this glorious life coming down to us in this end time, and God giving us a symbolic thing, as to Brother Branham, as the return of that in the day of Brother Branham, and we see that as the thing that took place. And Brother Branham wanted so to finish the mysteries but he said, even in the thunders, he said, when they went by there was seven bangs, like that. And he said that they came forth in an unknown tongue and he could not interpret them. Which means that again, as we've said, that within the mysteries of the thunders is the rapture of the church. And as Brother Branham also said, this will not be revealed in that this is to come directly to the individuals. And we've made the statement that when it is not to be revealed, it is not to be revealed to them that are without. Them that are without, it's not given to them to know the mysteries of God. And Brother Branham being numbered with that, as to Moses bringing them out of Egypt with great signs and wonders, leaving them in a wilderness, as to the hunting and as to those things as unabridged, in trying to explain when they couldn't grasp it, or get a hold of it, and the wanderers today are wandering around everywhere.

And like Brother Gann that just come in from Singapore, said, and all over the world, everywhere, that they are fighting with each other and cutting with each other and trying to decide which is the preeminent. Which I made the statement, that with Jesus going out, the Jews went out, with Brother Branham going out, his followers went out, in that this thing that came in was not a Brother Branham following, it was the seed of the serpent. Jesus, as long as He walked with God, He was the Son of God. He done the great miraculous of God, and the pillar of fire as to His blood and the atonement was there and God was looking at the people through that blood. That is to say, baptized with fire and the blood, taking away their sins, as fire and blood runs together in the type. So then, while he was here, while he was on the scene, Jesus was doing these great things, but then there comes the time when He said, I am He. And with that as to the Gentiles knowing that as to the Jews they would crucify Him, He made it very plain and said, Lest you believe that I am He Ye shall die in your sins, and thus came, as we would say another god. And yet it was not another god, it was God, Himself. But in that they were giving the praise and the honor to the outer man, not knowing that was deity, then it brought the wrath of God. And as it was with Moses, it went ill with Moses when Moses said, Shall I bring forth water from the rock? Instead of saying, Your Father, your Heavenly Father will give you water. And so then, he was aggravated by the rebels and said something there. So we see Jesus had to do this, and with that the glory of God departed as He went to Calvary and thus He was made sin, as to the serpent, going back to Brother Branham as to that side, as to the serpent seed, and then the following sprang up as to that Roman Catholic power which was the serpent and that thing that was cast out of heaven as the dragon. And in the world today, it has continued until just recently that that old serpent has climbed up into the upper lentils, as through grace, getting into human beings that are under grace as to those that are without, and he is in the heavens.

So then, John saw him in heaven, as it was then with Brother Branham, as a repeat of the end time to show us that something had to happen. What is the finishing of the mysteries? As Jesus said there, It is finished, Father. As Jesus unveiled it that it might be preached to the church ages, as those seals on the back of that book, in that Jesus said, Lo, I come in the volume of the book as it is written of Me, O God, to do Thy will. That is to say, it is the seven seals of God, having to do with the church ages, or the candlesticks before the throne of God here as when He said, It is finished, and the book is closed and on the backside, as a scroll, it was sealed, each one with a seal, as to the backside, to close the book. And it is said in the revelation, as to the revelation of John, as he was exiled to the little isle of Patmos a few short years later, 96 A.D., here comes the lamb to take the book, because He alone can open the book. And when He loosed the seals that had been sealed, as to the seven seals of God, in that a seal is a Spirit, and the Bible said grieve not the Holy Spirit by which you are sealed, in that you also are an epistle that's known and read of all men. And of course, we brought out some things concerning the book and the books. But anyway, we see Him taking the book out of the hands of the Ancient of Days, and when He opens this book, as to the book of redemption, then we find that within this book that these wonderful things are there. That is, to the allegoric types of those things of the Old Testament that Jesus finished when nobody else could fulfill those things. Then it is found, as to the redemption, as to what Moses said about redeeming the land, and then coming to Pentecost, as to the day of the freedom of debts and bringing this redemption in as to this day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. Entering into the rest of the Lord, as we preached to you in the past. So then, we find that this book has been opened. The book, even Jesus, the volume of the book, it has been rent. It has been opened up. And as to those things that we see in this book, as to whose name is in the book of life, and as to the saints as the books are opened, as they stand to judge the world when it will be said, And whosoever has done this unto you hath done it unto Me, even as unto the least of you. So the saints will judge the world.

Realizing that this trump had to sound at Calvary, we see then that the trump did sound at Calvary. It did sound and the great angel stood there, see? Or that is to say, when the voice of the seventh angel comes forth. So it says, And in the days of the voice. Then we ask, "When will it sound?" I've told you a number of times that the Bible records that it sounded, for it says in Revelation 10 and 7, In the days of the voice, when he begins to sound, the mystery of God shall be finished. But just over in the 11th chapter, 11;15, it said, And he sounded, and when he sounded it is said, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and forever. So it's obvious that he sounded in the end of the world, and when he sounded that was the closing out. For when the veil is rent, the revelation comes, and John wrote about the revelation of Calvary called the expos‚, as to the Revelation of Jesus Christ, saying, The time is at hand. Or that is, the fullness of time at Calvary, that when the revelation comes, even in the end time, in our day the time is at hand. Let him that is unjust be unjust still and let him that is just be just still.

And so the bride has made herself ready, keeping herself that the evil one toucheth her not. How is she then made ready? When she comprehends that in Calvary, to our part and inheritance, and the day of our birth into the world, and the day of our Calvary, and the day that we believe, it faith makes us perfect in Christ Jesus. Purifying our heart by faith, thus she is ready when she hears this as to the expos‚ as to who she is and what she is, for God has sanctified us by the faith in Jesus Christ, and the Bible said He hath sanctified us once and for all by the offering up of the body of Jesus. Therefore, lot of times I quote it like this, saying that, And God hath perfected forever them that are sanctified, having sanctified us once and for all by the offering up of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, having predestinated us in Christ unto good works, as to His workmanship. And the Bible said justifying us, sanctifying us and then the Bible said He hath glorified us, in that Jesus walked upon the mount there with Moses and Elijah, as to the transfiguration, and appeared in glory, as being the body of the church, the head of the church, not as from the manger, I say, to the cross, but from the manger to glory to show you that you didn't have to die, as to Paul said, a great mystery concerning the translation of the church and the change in Thessalonians, that Jesus came back down going to Calvary that I might not have to die. And whereas, from the manger to the cross for Him, it's from the manger into the heaven for me, and so I went up into the heavens. I joined that there where the head is, and I am hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the change of the body.

Many, many things we could say, because as I say, we've hardly got into our subject tonight. But saying these things as to repeat, going back as a review, trying to situate these things into your mind to bring them to a place to where we can bring out, as to what Paul called the mystery that we should not all sleep. The fullness of time at Calvary. You are the people upon whom the ends of the world has come, as to the revelation, the expose, for the time is at hand.

Remember there is a time to be born, there is a time to die, and you've passed from death unto life, and the world passed away, and time and shadows passed away, because the shadows are beyond Calvary. The valley of the shadows of those fallen angels, the world being a valley to God from the heavenly throne, a table prepared before us, as to this charity, this feast of charity, and the rod and the staff as to the Spirit, as to the Word, as to comforting us. We fear no evil, for He is with us. He will never leave us nor forsake us. As the angel, when He put the ring upon my finger, over when He showed me the death of Brother Branham, in Hialeah and then going on to Miami and the angel appeared to us, there when He put the ring upon my finger saying, I'll never leave thee, nor forsake thee, but lo, I shall be with thee in the time of trouble and in the time of need. And the Scriptures said I shall never leave thee nor forsake thee, but lo, I shall be with thee always, even until the end of the world. Could it be that the church is waking up, for when they awoke they saw His glory? The world is hard and fast asleep. Like the little story, as to the church sleeping, remember as to the pricking of the finger in the little story, and then came Prince Charming and the kiss of charity awakened the sleeping beauty. As to the bewitching, and the Bible said who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth? As to the bewitching, the witch brought the curse. And as to the fairy godmother in the little story, said, "I can't change that, but I will say at a certain time when something comes then she shall be awakened." Remember, the time of awakening now. When they awoke they saw His glory. When they awoke they saw His glory. If you can awake then you can see His glory. It's appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgment. We've died through Jesus Christ. Reckon yourself to be dead indeed unto sin, unto the world. Paul said the world is dead to me. The flesh is dead to me. Reckon yourselves to be dead unto the world for you are baptized for the dead, having put on the Lord Jesus Christ. No longer you living, but Him. Therefore you have met your appointment with death. And God looked down, the Bible said, heard the groaning of the prisoners, and in a day accepted God secured them, or succored them, that they would be without sin and couldn't die.

So, we can't die anymore, for sin is gone. But unto the world it's appointed once to die, for they've never been baptized in His lovely name, and they must meet that appointment as to death, but in that Jesus met it for us, then we went off to sleep. Having been baptized for the dead, then now we've gone off to sleep. That is to say, if we fail to see His coming, we go off to sleep, for many have gone off to sleep. Not to die, but gone off to sleep that Jesus, as He said, I will awake them. As He awoke Lazarus, He will awake them. But they that are dead shall never be awakened. But after the millennium, they'll be taken out. Their spirits are in hell. The ones that went to sleep in Christ, their spirit is in paradise. And they whose spirits are in paradise, having been baptized for the dead, when they pass off of the scene of action, they go to sleep and their spirits will come someday to re-enter the body to awake them. But they that are in hell shall not be awakened, not even at the change. But after the great millennium, a thousand years shall pass, and then God will call them out of the grave. That is to say, because hell is going to be cast into the lake of fire, then hell isn't eternal, but the lake of fire, the Bible said, eternal flames where the fire is not quenched and the worm dieth not. Therefore, their souls will come out of hell, for the Bible said and hell shall deliver up the dead that is in it, and the graves shall deliver up the dead that is in them, and death and hell shall be cast into the lake of fire. These were cast into the lake of fire alive. There shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. So then, you are blessed people today to be Christians.

Don't you feel that Jesus has triumphed over death? Death don't have anymore power over you. You've got power over all the powers of the enemy, and the Bible said death is an enemy. Remember you are free from death, now. The body of that death is gone. At death your spirit went back to God who gave it. Your inner angelic man, as the angels, is dwelling in heaven, hid with Christ in God whom the heavens have received until the time of the restitution. And what the change and the rapture is a revelation that will be revealed to you that through faith, as Enoch was translated, you'll find yourself in glory. The word rapture is not in the Bible. It is not a biblical word. It is a besetting word. It's a man made application, just like millennium is. If you're not careful, you'll sit around waiting for something that will never happen to you, because the church has misinterpreted even the natural word rapture. Folks, you are changed inwardly from glory to glory, like a person going to school, moving from understanding to understanding and light to light and glory to glory, to come to the full measure of the full stature of the perfect man Christ Jesus. What does the word rapture mean? Caught up. The word rapture means caught up, like you would be picked up off of the earth. Will you be caught up? Sure you'll be caught up. The Bible said He shall descend from heaven with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God, and the Bible said He shall come forth and the dead in Christ shall rise, and we that are alive and remain shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. Job said, I'll wait for my change. But folks, remember, this is a change from glory to glory, and the purchase possession is the body and it's already been paid for and you have to wit the redemption of the body. Those that do not come into the understanding will not wit the redemption of the body. They will not be changed, only the bride.

See? So, you're not waiting for a rapture. You are moving in God from glory to glory until you are changed. The rapture has nothing to do with that. Even to your change, the rapture has nothing to do with that. The rapture is just one little thing that the body is caught up after the glory of God has finished with His work inside of man. Once the Spirit is finished with man on the inside, he will be standing there as a glorified human being, having gone through these wonderful things of God and the transitional change, and then he'll be caught up, as to that one little word rapture, as to be caught up to Him. So don't get beside yourself. Don't let something overthrow your faith. I'm teaching you that you must be, as Paul the revelator came to get the bride, being our overseer, you must be in that revelating church, to pray for the Spirit of revelation that God would enlighten your understanding to comprehend heights, depths and width because at the time of the revealing, at the time of the revelation, which was after Calvary, the time was at hand. That was the end of the world. John brought it in 96 A.D., as we say, he saw it. And now here it is over here in the end time, and all of a sudden it's being revealed again. And the mysteries are coming, which means the days of the Gentiles is at an end and that the revelation is at hand, which is the translation or the rapture of the church, which fits the calendar, in that the two thousand years are almost finished. Ten years and the six thousand years will be finished and seven years of that ten, calendar wise, pointing to the tribulation, so the church has had to do something. Something has had to happen to the church.

Brother Branham has been dead for twenty-five years this coming Christmas, and he said he never could understand the mysteries of the thunders. So those mysteries must be revealed to the church that it might change the church, and the mysteries must be finished at the change of the church when it was said that, 11;15, and the trumpet sounded and then the voice said, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our God, and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever, to show you where and when that trumpet sounded. Do you understand what I'm saying? We sing, And time shall be no more and time shall be no more. The heart of stone is rolled away at death by Calvary, to reckon yourselves to be dead indeed, unto sin, by the body of the Lord Jesus, buried with Him in baptism, baptized for the dead, your spirit went back to God who gave it. So where are you today? You are in heaven and sitting in heavenly places, and you are to rejoice forever more because you cannot sin. He that is born of God cannot sin. God took away your sins. Don't that make you happy? Because when sin went away, death went away. All the world is spending their money trying to perfect life, trying to prolong life and trying to find life. But folks, you have life abundantly, filled up and overflowing, and you've passed from that world of vanity and you're not in the world. He raptured you out of the world. The law and the prophets since John, then He translated you into the kingdom of God and we're preaching the kingdom of God and the name Jesus as an open door, as to the remission of sin, that ye should be in heaven. And the church has been in heaven from four eighty-three reaching over to the seven when the earthly perspective will come back in for the finishing of the seven years of tribulation determined upon the people of the earth; that is to say, the Jew. To bring in the everlasting righteousness, to seal up the vision, to anoint the most holy, as Daniel said.

So folks, you've been in heaven, but it wasn't revealed to you because as Paul said, it would have been out of season. Like little children, you had to go through your training and grow up, but in the day that it's revealed to you, even as Brother Branham said, once He finishes His work, Brother Branham used the term, then the revealed. Or that is to say, the Lord finishing His work on the inside of you, going through the church and the church world not even seeing it. Then when it's all finished, as you have seen it, in that they that are in the darkness of this world, having eyes they see not, having ears they hear not, in that Satan, Lucifer, the god of this world, the god of darkness has blinded their eyes, even their understanding, eyes of understanding that they cannot comprehend this light, as to the height, the depth, the width and the length. So then, as your day has come to enter into His rest, they that have entered into His rest have ceased from their own works. Israel did not enter into His rest. They could not believe that God could take care of the giants, and they feared the powers of opposition and their unbelief kept them out of the land of Canaan and God destroyed all the elders and they died in the wilderness. The earth open up, as to we say the flesh swallowing you up with your gullible desires, being made of the dust. And it swallowed them up and the children went into Canaan. And today the elders are dying in the wilderness with their intellectual ritualistics as to religion. And what is God doing? He's got a new birth, as to the children, and He's raising them up. The new birth, as the child caught up to the throne, and He's taking them into Canaan.

So then, you are free from sin and death. You are free from sorrow. You are free from corruption. You are free from error. No one can lay anything to your charge and you've been in heaven all the time. You've been in heaven all the time. He is above you. He is in you. He is through you, because you are His children. In Him you have your being, your state of being. Your life consists of Him. First heaven, second heaven and third heaven. Don't you understand? Jesus said, Is your heart yet hardened? Can ye not yet understand? This is a pilgrimage as to a transformation of mind from an earthly Egypt to a heavenly Canaan by the way of the wilderness of intellectual reasoning, confronting spiritual thinking and godly understanding as to eradicate the shadows and the infiltration to come out on the other side, as to be children of God. I wish we had time to go into it and really explain it. But folks, the time is at hand and the end of the world came at Calvary. And heaven came in and now you have developed to the extent that you can comprehend. And anytime you comprehend anything, as to say by His stripes you were healed, all in Calvary when you comprehend it, then it becomes effective in your body. You have to come to the preaching and to the knowledge. And when you come to the understanding, as to translation by faith, in that Enoch went away by faith, then comes the change, because it has taken roots in the heart, and with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and by faith you are translated into the marvelous kingdom of God. I am in the kingdom of God tonight. When this message, as to the mystery, is finished then with them time shall be no more, but with you it is finished at Calvary, for you that can see, as to whatever your measure is, thirty fold, sixty fold, hundred fold, whatever the measure of the mind of Christ is in you, as to the first heaven, the second heaven. I'd like to present you, Paul said, body, soul, and spirit blameless, or I'd like for you to go on to the full reward, or I'd like for you to go on to the full measure, or the full stature of the perfect man christ Jesus. I've espoused you to one, even as a virgin, that you might be spotless before the Lord Jesus. He that keepeth himself is spotless and the evil one toucheth him not. So, as to comprehend as to wit the redemption of that body, which is the purchase possession to bring the change in the moment in the twinkling of an eye.

Like Brother Branham said, I wish my lovely audience could be in this dimension that I'm in and see the things that I'm seeing as the vision I saw when I said, "Do you see these things in heaven?" I saw the great mass of people upon the earth and I realized they didn't see them. Brother Branham, the inner man was in heaven, walking in heaven, and the little body had to go to sleep when it's course was finished, being symbolic, the Lord Jesus near, being God manifested in the flesh in the earth according to His measure even as our Savior was God in the fullness so are ye today the members in particular as God manifested in the flesh, as to the measure of that mind as to whatever that spirit the sovereignty of that life that you'll receive.

I trust that something is beginning to dawn on you because for you to be the ones it's going to have to dawn on you. Remember that now. It must be preached. It must be heard. It must be believed and then by faith Enoch was translated, in that he should not see death. So then, let's believe. Jesus said, If thou canst believe. All men have not faith, but God has dealt unto every man a measure as to believing. But folks, mere believing will not take you into the kingdom of heaven, for the devil believes. But you must have faith, and faith cometh by the hearing of the Word, as to the heart. Man believeth with the heart and by faith you are translated into the marvelous kingdom of God, and that light breaking forth from within, glory to glory as to the revelation. It finally begins to shine in your countenance and wisdom makes your face to shine, as to this life of Christ as to the indwelling being made manifest in your mortal genes, even to the change as when He stood upon the mountain when His raiment glistened when it was so white as no fuller's soap in the earth could whiten it. From the manger to glory. What a beautiful thing God has done for the saints.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christ’s Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord