Preached on 20TH MARCH, 1998 At THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN “THE SUPREME NTELLIGENCE” © BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE THE LOST SHEEP OF ISRAEL
When the Messiah shall turn to Israel, He shall put away the transgression of
Jacob. Is that not scripture? THERE SHALL COME A DELIVERER FROM ZION AND SHALL TURN AWAY THE TRANSGRESSION OF JACOB.
2. He is saving them for His Name sake back to that same land which He promised to give to their fathers. Today, have we seen them back? Is it because of their righteousness?
3. Let us see what will happen to Ephraim. I was reading in My family before Brother Joseph came in. And He has been coming for some time now. I showed them where the problem started. I showed them the inheritance of Dan.
4. Now, I will show you where Jacob left Ephraim without a blessing. Jacob cleverly abandoned Ephraim but blessed Dan. Gave him a portion but refused to give Ephraim a portion. Let us go to the scripture and know whether it is true.
5. Genesis 49, where Jacob rebuked his children. Genesis chapter 49 verse 16-17. “Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel…”
6. Have you seen it? Dan was formally abandoned. But now, Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
7. “…Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.” KJV.
8. Verse 27. “Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.” KJV. Amen.
9. Have you seen it? Ephraim was completely omitted! If you go to the children born to Jacob and Joseph, Ephraim was named. I want you to note it very well. I traced this thing before Pastor Joseph. If you like, I will trace this thing again.
10. Genesis chapter 48 verse 13. “And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near unto him.
11. And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
12. And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,” KJV.
13. That is exactly where I want to get. Let us move back to chapter 46. The entire children of Jacob are what I want to get. They are very many. From verse one.
14. At your own time, you can read it. What I want to get there is this: Jacob just abandoned Ephraim. Then, this Ephraim that was abandoned, the Lord remembered him.
15. Jeremiah chapter 31 verse 9-10. “They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
16. Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.” KJV.
17. Verse 16-20. “Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
18. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
19. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20. Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a pleasant child? For since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.” KJV.
21. Have you seen what God said? The Lord said His bowel has been troubled because of Ephraim. If you should trace the history of Ephraim very well, God said, “Far be it from me if I should forsake Ephraim. Ephraim is my first son.”
22. I want you to pay close attention to what I am saying. What time is it Church? Ephraim has become a Gentile nation. As long as Ephraim was not numbered among the both side of Israel, Ephraim is a Gentile nation. Yet, Ephraim has Jehovah as God.
23. Whether they will believe it or not, Ephraim has Jehovah as his God. Joseph did not get Ephraim through a strange woman. Ephraim was not born under a curse. Rachael had two sons, Benjamin and Joseph.
24. Then, Joseph went to Egypt, married and had children: Manasseh and Ephraim. There is no way Jacob will say he doesn’t know who Ephraim was. If Joseph was alive, will he disown Ephraim?
25. Let’s go closer. Isaiah 63 verse 16. “Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.” KJV. Amen.
26. Now, they know very well that God is their father. Jehovah is their father. Though Abraham be ignorant of them, Jacob could not acknowledged them to his children, but they still know that Jehovah is their God.
27. THE JEWS WERE STILL BRAGGING THAT JEHOVAH BELONGS TO THEM. WHEN JEHOVAH DECLARED HIS MESSAGE, THEY REJECTED HIM. HE TURNED TO THE GENTILES, GENTILES BELIEVER’S HEARD THE TRUTH AND THEN EMBRACED HIM. IF THEY ARE NOT FROM GOD, WILL THEY HEAR GOD’S WORD?
28. I know My sheep, my sheep heareth My voice and they follow me. This is God’s sheep that has been abandoned in the Gentiles land. Call them the lost sheep of Israel. Amen.
29. Now, He sought us, He has found us. The same way He gathered His people there, the same way He is gathering us here. He that is gathering the people there is God because the God who scattered them is the God who is gathering them. He that is here gathering us is God also. I don’t know if somebody is getting what I am saying?
30. These two events are taking place at the same time because we must possess that Eden at the same time. The Jews will not enter there before us, we will not enter there before them. All of us are heading to that place at the same time.
31. Right here, the living cannot prevent the death from rising up. The dead will rise up first, join the living. All of them will meet God in the air as living beings.
32. Many are not understanding what I am saying. We have come to the stage where you should understand Me. If you are understanding Me, I know. If nothing is coming out, I know. I am pulling you and I want you to pull Me.
33. All the while, I am trying to pull you, it shouldn’t be so. There is no consciousness in you. What you are praying for is what you are going to receive from Me.
34. Remember you are the one that is thirsty, I am not thirsty. You have come for the water, out of this bowels cometh living water. I don’t need you but you need Me. I can do without you but you cannot do with Me. It looks as if I am begging you in this faith.
35. After all, I told you that a day is coming when I will come here, one of the nights, if we continue in the vigil, I will not come down until daybreak. What if it is today? Maybe you are not happy that I am here. Then, I will come down and continue in your prayer.
36. I am still laying a foundation because I want to utter deep things that have not been heard since the world began. I want to answer two everlasting questions. No preacher has ever attempted it. Amen.
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WHAT TIME IS IT CHURCH? (1)
Let Me go back to the Bible again. A scriptural question demands a scriptural answer.
2. Now, we can see that the Jewish nation is going back according to God’s prophecy. The same God that scattered them, the same God has gathered them back, so that they will stop profaning (blaspheming) His Name in the Gentiles nation.
3. BUT THE NAME OF GOD IS PRAISED IN EPHRAIM BECAUSE HE HAS DECIDED TO USE EPHRAIM TO PROVOKE HIS RELATION TO JEALOUSY. IF YOU ARE NOT A CITRUS PLANT, YOU CANNOT BE GRAFTED INTO A CITRUS TREE.
4. SOMEBODY IS NOT GETTING WHAT I SAYING! CITRUS IS A FAMILY AND THAT TREE IS CHRIST. IF YOU ARE NOT IN CHRIST’S FAMILY, YOU CANNOT FIT IN.
5. NO MATTER HOW A CHIMPANZEE RESEMBLES A MAN, HIS BLOOD IS DIFFERENT FROM A HUMAN BEING. YOU CANNOT TRANSFUSE CHIMPANZEE WITH HUMAN BEING’S BLOOD. IS IT POSSIBLE? NO SIR!
6. Remember, because they were abandoned, where did Jacob abandoned him? Jacob abandoned him in Egypt in Africa. And then, migration is taking place.
7. Today, we know that some people in Imo state came to Onitsha to buy fish. As they continued, a time came when they settled in a place to buy their fish. Before they knew it, they settled down there. And their fellow brethren joined them there.
8. They got married, that is how they continued increasing and became a very big community. Thus, to go back has become very difficult.
9. That is why you can trace everybody to one person. That town in Nkwere in Imo State, it is Nkwerezunaka here. They have everything in common. That is why Nkwerezunaka is a small community. You cannot explain how they came to Anambra State.
10. It is applicable to people of Nkwore in Nsukka, a small community in Nsukka. They came from Aboh Mbaise. They got married and formed a little hamlet (a very little settlement).
11. Go to Nsukka, Udo Nsukka, you cannot see them anywhere around any other place. They have different traditions. That is how the people that are staying at Ugwuta now, every year, they carry yam, they come and …………….. that they are Onitsha indigenes.
12. Two brothers spread along River Niger road. One extended his own to Ugwuta Lake and then settled down. His brothers started coming to settle down there, they formed a big town. And that is why in that Ugwuta, in that Umudeyi, they have produced all learned people around Onitsha people.
13. The whole community there, come from Umudeyi including Arthur Nzeribe. So, we better be very careful.
14. I am saying that Ephraim is abandoned in Africa and there is no record that he went back to Israel. Ephraim has remained in Africa. Amen.
15. There is another sheep I have that is not of this fold. They, I must also bring that they might be one flock and one shepherd. Was He (God) referring to the people that are still there? He was born a Jew and lived under Jewish law. Yet, he had another sheep that was not of the Jewish fold.
16. I know My sheep, My sheep hear My voice and they follow Me. Not all Igbos or all blacks belong to Ephraim. Not all that are claiming to be Jews are Israelites because in Isaac shall thy seed be called. We will see how some came from Isaac and from Jacob but they are not of our fold.
17. They have our tradition, they have our colour but they don’t belong to us. They are from Esau. Do you know that according to the plan of God that Nigeria belong to Edom?
18. What you are hearing bearing the Name of God is a small minority. Looking at them it appears they fall from heaven. Check the tradition of the nation they are in, the custom, the language, there is no place you can trace where they came out from in that nation.
19. I am saying that a gathering is taking place now. Brethren you see in the North, they are given the language of the people where they found themselves. But their custom is quite different from the custom of the people there.
20. If you look at their physical appearance, they look like all of us. You can hardly believe that they are Hausa. If they should sit down here now, nobody will make the mistake of calling them Hausa. And if you check where they come from, they come from a little group. They are in the minority in their own home town. They are a small hamlet, and in that small hamlet, they form Christ community.
21. For example, Nsem is just a very little hamlet made up of only so-called Christians. You know what happened? They only have Baptist Church there. If you go to Dadin Kowa, they have COKI, they have Grace of God. They don’t look like Hausa. Their tradition is different from the Hausas.
22. If you go to Zonkwa, you will see little Christian community. I am coming to something.
23. But I am saying that God who permitted Ephraim to be left here heard the cry of Ephraim. And God is the Almighty, His face has seen Ephraim, what Ephraim is doing.
24. Now is the time of your salvation. That is why He is gathering him and at the same time gathering the Jews to make sure they don’t lose the same Ephraim again.
25. He has loved Ephraim before making Ephraim first born among many brethren. If Jehovah is their Father, Jehovah must have first born. Whoever that He redeem first is the first born. Amen.
26. When He shall turn to the Jews now, Ephraim will no longer be a stranger in the Household of Israel. Because what He has redeemed all these years is what Ephraim will bear as a new message.
27. What Ephraim has been feasting with will be preached anew (fresh, again) to the Jews. And when they suffer in the hand of the heathens, they will be desiring to go back again. They will now weep. While Ephraim will come with rejoicing. Amen.
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IT IS THE TIME OF
GATHERING AND SEPARATION
What time is it Church? We can predict everything accurately well, predict events accurately well, but we can hardly predict the hour we are in.
2. The Lord scattered Israel, the Lord promised to bring them back.
3. Before I go into that message, I want to touch something. Three Days Journey.
4. St. Luke chapter 13 verse 31 through 35. “The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
5. And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected. Nevertheless I must walk today, and tomorrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.” KJV. Amen.
6. I will work the first day, the second day, AND THE THIRD DAY, I will perfect my work. Go and tell that fox, I do cure and heal but on the third day, I will perfect it.
7. The moment the Church attains perfection, will He remain here again? Leaving the Church here is useless nonsense. The moment the Church attains perfection, it will perfect God.
8. I am saying, Israel are being gathered now, the Jews are being gathered now for your sake. I said “for your sake” because the period God allotted to the Gentiles to triumph over Israel is about to be over.
9. And when that time is over, there is no lineage of Jacob that will be found in Gentile land. As long as Ephraim is here, the triumph is not over because God must redeem His own. He is the redeemer of His people.
10. That is why He is gathering Ephraim and gathering the Jews also so that the period of the Gentiles land will end at the same time.
11. The moment the Gentiles triumph ends, God will usher in His wrath. The wrath of God will now descend on the Gentiles for they are now children of disobedience. And God Himself will usher in Everlasting Righteousness among His people.
12. People have been teaching heresies all these years. They have been teaching people to believe that there was no plan before God will gather His people. Even before God formed His people, people have been living here. But those people do not belong to God.
13. When Abraham was called out from Babylon and was mandated to go to another land which is the land of Canaan, God warned him, “Do not pattern yourself after the inhabitants of that land for they are heathen.”
14. Abraham met those people there. Yet, they were not the people of God because God was about to raise a people for Himself.
15. CAN GOD RAISE A PEOPLE FOR HIMSELF AND THEN THROW THEM AWAY? GOD CAN NEVER GIVE US A PORTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.
16. I AM SAYING THAT WHILE THOSE PEOPLE WERE EXISTING, ADAM AND EVE WERE EQUALLY EXISTING IN EDEN.
17. I don’t know whether somebody is getting Me! Satan was there, God was there too. Satan was on earth; Adam and Eve were on earth. Adam was not in heaven while Satan was on earth. The war between Satan and God has been taking place wherever God has been dwelling.
18. When you read it that Satan was pushed down on earth, somebody may be tempted to think there was a place God pushed him down, then all his hosts came down with him.
19. They were wondering whether God is somewhere else. There was no place like that. Check your Bible very well, the heaven was the place God was having fellowship every cool of the day all the time. Where was that place? Is somebody catching the revelation?
20. I told you, I will say deep things that are hidden. Anywhere God is, that place is heaven. Who is here today? God! Where are we sitting? Heavenly places. With who? God!
21. The prophet said, “You must find Him in the Church but you must go in there.” The whole war God has been fighting with Satan is here.
22. THE LORD CREATED THE EARTH NOT IN VAIN BUT TO BE INHABITED BY HUMAN BEINGS. AND IT IS NOT IN THE MIND OF GOD FOR PEOPLE TO DIE. THEY WERE NOT CARRYING IMMORTALITY IN THEM. THEY WERE LIKE GOD HIMSELF.
23. THERE WAS A TIME GOD WAS NOT CARRYING IMMORTALITY. IF HE WAS HAVING IMMORTALITY THAT TIME, HE WOULDN’T HAVE GIVEN UP THE GHOST ON THE CROSS. THERE, IMMORTALITY BEGINS.
24. Let Me leave that one. Let Me continue with the message. You know it is a very lengthy question. What hour are we living in? What time is it Church? And it is the time of gathering of God’s people. It is equally the time of gathering of Satan’s people.
25. Because Satan himself has to come in the form of a human being and his people will hear his own voice. And they will gather around him. God also will come in the form of a human being, his own people gather around Him.
26. God’s people will gather around God’s word, devil’s people will gather around gallows. Manmade doctrine that cannot be found in God’s Word. Satan and his people will be opposed to God and His people. God and His people will be opposed to Satan and his people. Is the line not clear now?
27. Who is the accuser of the brethren? Satan! He is here with us. He is accusing us daily. He is here. Go out and open your mouth now, he will call you a rogue, call you a liar. He will call you all sorts of things. Has he changed? No!
28. Where he exalted himself and wanted to be worshipped is still here. Where he tempted Christ is still here. It has been a war because Satan has always wanted to be worshipped. Today, has He stopped? No!
29. And the Bible said, “He masquerade himself as God’s angel.” God’s children are God’s angels. I am saying that three-quarter of the world is now in the hand of the enemy.
30. Divide the world into four, three-quarter of the world are now following the Evil One. Or even more than that. But it cannot be more than for the Bible cannot tell lies. Three-quarter are now following him, one-quarter are now following God. What a sympathy!
31. At the end, it is going to be God. What time is it Church? I am saying, it is time of gathering. The time of separation. It is the time of the separation of the wheat from the tares.
32. If I don’t answer this question, I will not go to the tares. The parable of the wheat and the tares will make little or no meaning. Amen.
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WHAT TIME IS IT CHURCH? (2)
Now, two days I must work, and in the third day, I will perfect My work. Let us go further.
2. Ezekiel 37 verse 1-8. “The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, and caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
4. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
5. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
6. So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
7. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.” KJV.
8. If you go further, you will see how breath came into them at last. This part of the scripture is referring to the withered tree. And that tree is the nation of Israel.
9. From the time Israel committed sin against God; the Lord drove them out of the land He promised to give them. Israel ceased from becoming a nation of God. They have now mingled with their heathens with the customs and with their traditions.
10. Israel became accursed thing before God for the hand of God has left Israel. Israel has become dried up bone on the ground. Then, the Prophet called them, the Prophet was Almighty God. To see Israel in a vision.
11. He saw Israel as ordinary dry bones. He enquired of the Lord, this nation Israel looking like dry bones, is there any miracle that will happen that will make them to live again?
12. The Lord said, “Surely yes.” God will cause them to live again. “I will give them flesh, the bone will join again. I will give them breath, they will live in My presence.”
13. Today, we have seen the fig tree blossoming again! We can see the leaves blossoming again. Hold it there.
14. What hour is it Church? Down to the Gentiles, we can see the forgotten nation, hence we can now say, “Abba Father.” They are no longer strangers, they are no longer aliens but fellow citizens in the Household of God. Because the point of unity of the children of God is in the Church.
15. By the Church, all the children of God that are afar off, are scattered through the blood of Christ, see them coming back.
16. What time is it? Exodus 19 verse 10 through 11. “And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow,…”
17. Sanctify them today and tomorrow. How many days? Two days!
18. “…and let them wash their clothes. And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.” KJV.
19. Verse 16. “And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.” KJV. Amen.
20. The Lord actually came down on the third day. But the sanctification of the people takes place between two days.
21. 2nd Peter 3 verse 8. Prophetic days. “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” KJV.
22. Is it becoming clearer? Is it becoming clearer? Yes sir! Sanctify them for how many days? For two thousand years. Then, third year, I the Lord will come down before them. And the scripture bear record that the Lord came down after two days.
23. Thus, after two days, they attained perfection. They were with God. The perfect people make a perfect God.
24. If after two years we are not sanctified, do we have any excuse again? I am coming to something.
25. St. Luke 21 verse 24. “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” KJV.
26. “They will be brutally killed by enemy weapon and be taken away by exile as captives to all the nations of the world. And Jerusalem shall be conquered and trampled down by the Gentiles until the period of the Gentiles triumph end in God’s time.” LB.
27. “Some will be killed by the sword and others will be takien as prisoners to all countries. And the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time will come.” GNB.
28. Romans 11 verse 25-27. “There is a secret truth my brothers and sister which I want you to know. For it will keep you from thinking how wise you are. It is that the stubbornness of the people of Israel is not permanent but will last only until the complete number of the Gentiles comes to God.
29. And this is how all Israel will be saved. As the scripture said, “the savior will come from Zion and remove all wickedness of descendant of Jacob and I will make this covenant with them when I take away their sins.” GNB.
30. “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.
31. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.” KJV.
32. There shall come out from Zion a Deliverer, and shall turn away iniquity from Jacob. Note one thing, that the stubbornness of the Jews is temporary. Their unbelief is temporary. God did not intend to make it a permanent one.
33. And this time around, God didn’t say that they will repent before He will gather them back. But He said He will gather them back for His Name sake. And then, when they are gathered back, the Deliverer will now come from Zion. He will turn to them from Zion.
34. For Hebrews chapter 12 from verse 22 where we all come? “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God,…”
35. So the living God has a city.
36. “…the heavenly Jerusalem…”
37. the what? The heavenly Jerusalem.
38. “…and to an innumerable company of angels. To the general assembly and Church of the firstborn,…”
39. “…which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.”
40. That is all I want to take: that the Deliverer is coming from Zion. In other words, from the time He left them because of their stubbornness, wherever He has stayed till now, it is His own city, His own Zion. And the Bible called that place heavenly Jerusalem and the Church of the First Born.
41. William Branham said that God cannot be found outside the Church. The Dwelling Tabernacle is His Church, the general assembly of the believers. God is dwelling in the believer, God is not dwelling in an unbeliever. You cannot see God outside the Bride Ministry.
42. That is why, He that is teaching all these is God. Now, He that has taught us has the right to blame us. Remember, it is His Church.
43. From here now, He shall turn to them. When He shall turn to them, He shall take away the iniquity of Jacob because no sin can be imputed on him. There is no transgression in Israel.
44. Can anybody input sin on somebody God has saved? Maybe you don’t know that you are elect of God. Maybe you don’t know. You are the saved one in the Gentile because you are here by election.
45. If not by election, nobody will be here. You are not wiser than the people outside. You don’t have much education or know more better than them!
46. If somebody can find God from too much learning, they would have found God long ago. God has made His word to come to pass that He is using unlearned men to confound the wise.
47. They are saying nobody can see God and live. But you can see God, you can hold His hand (SELAH). If God can behave like this man called pope, people like us cannot embrace God. It could have been limited to them that have made it in the society.
48. Because already, the knights are there, the Jesuit are there, St. Anthony, St. John, St. Ruth, St. Susan, all of them are there. Not even one person here will be able to meet God. Thank God who came so low in a way, big men will not scramble for Him.
49. If He has come in away big men will scramble, they will push us out. But He came in a foolish way for foolish people. He came with a foolish message to throw them out.
50. On the way to Zion, He placed a stumbling block and the rock of offence. Who will cross it? Only the elect and the precious. Yes, the elect and precious. If you are not numbered among them, no way.
51. What time is it Church? We can see that sanctification will take place in two days, on the third day, I the Lord must surely come. A Holy God will dwell with holy people. A sanctified God will dwell with sanctified people.
52. How many are still sleeping here? Why are you not sleeping again? I am yet to see virtue pulling Me. What is pulling Me so far is still prayer. Some are still making some few prayers in their hearts that I should not stop this message. But I have not seen virtue pulling Me. I want to see virtue coming from the floor. Maybe you are not understanding the message.
53. Now, the Lord programmed it that we cannot stay without that olive tree forever. Because that Olive tree is the point of reconciliation. The Jewish people were intentionally cut off, it is the only way Ephraim can come in and drink of that same water.
54. Because without it, Ephraim was cut off from the source of the water. Now, when Ephraim was grafted to that tree, Ephraim partook of the Life of the tree. But before then, Ephraim was alienated from being part of the tree. Being Gentiles, you will alienate from the Life of God having no hope.
55. Now, the stubbornness of the people of the Jews is not permanent, it is going to last for a period. The Bible said they will remain there until the complete number of the Gentile comes in.
56. In other words, if you can trace the complete number, happy are you. As a human being, you don’t know the number. But as the Elohim, He knows the number. There is no father that doesn’t know the number of His children.
57. If you look at Jacob, he just wrote down all the names of his children. Those that were born by his concubines, they were worthy to be named after Jacob. No sin was inputted. Jacob never paid any bride price.
58. Just that his wife permitted him to go to bed with their maids. And he did so. Through them, he had four sons. Two from this one, two from the other one. When God was numbering the son of Jacob, God included them. They were not called bastards.
59. There are many things I believe which I cannot say here. That is why I have been withholding the message Marriage and Divorce. It is the last message I will handle and die away. I will even like to hide it in My bag. Any day I die, you will hear of it. You will know the fullness of the mind of God on that matter.
60. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. What is polygamy? What is concubine? Concubine is the desire of the madam in the house. Let Me stop there.
61. Let us go a little further. It is not the time to make concubine. There are people that their eyes are up. But let us continue. Because I am afraid of people like Brother Mike. People that have no restraint and behave like Brother Ugoala.
62. Brother Ugoala said he heard through that meeting that he can now marry. But see him here hearing the message: “Brother Ugoala and Brother Ebenezer will desire to marry if they have the money.” He didn’t hear that in the message.
63. But what he heard was Ugoala can marry. He went to one of our sister, he reasoned with her and came back that he is going to marry her. That he heard from God saying it that he can marry.
64. I like to be very careful lest some people will convert My statement without enquiring, without investigating. I believe many things we don’t believe because of your little faith, I reserved many things. There are many things I know I cannot do before you. Just let Me help you.
65. At Enugu, we went to Agwu, heathen served us palm wine. And I know I must preach to them. We said that we won’t drink your wine but if we drink we did not commit sin. We have the power to drink it, but we cannot drink it now.
66. At the end of the preaching, we went home with two gallons. When we got home, we called our brother with the people that went with us including heathens. We poured it into the kettle, brother was watching.
67. I said, “Brother, give Me one cup.” I drank one cup. I said, “Take it, give to the rest.”
68. Brother Kingsley was watching, Brother Mike was equally watching even Brother Okey. I mean Brother Okey from Opi. While they were watching, the Bishop finished his own cup.
69. He said, “Let me take another one.” I said, “Give Me one.”
70. Then, I opened My mouth to balance the whole thing. Brother Mike said, “I am going home to tender apology to my father because I have called them Satan because of palm wine.”
71. Even if it is beer, I know what I am attacking. Once I get rid of that thing, I have completely overcome because that is the root of every corruption.
72. That is why I do not pay attention to all those nonsenses. I face the enemy. But here, if I should drink like that here, some will go and buy and put in their fridge. That was the warning I left at Enugu.
73. I said, “Brother I heard a testimony how you run round Enugu to taste every wine before you repented. Any day you bring this wine into your fridge, you pack it there, you have committed sin. Because that will make you a drunkard.”
74. The Bible said, “Don’t be filled with wine but be filled with the spirit.” Did he say, “Don’t drink?” What God condemned is excess drinking.
75. But if you can control your appetite, you can do away with those nonsense. Go for something that is valuable. Amen.
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WITHOUT EPHRAIM, GOD IS INCOMPLETE
Until the complete number of the Gentile comes in and the time God appointed for the Gentile is over, Gentiles triumph over Israel will not end.
2. St. Luke 41 verse 24 says that Gentiles triumph over Israel must come to an end one day. St. Paul speaking under the unction of the Holy Ghost said that Israel will not remain in stubbornness forever, that their stubbornness will end when the complete number of the Gentiles comes in, and the time God allotted to the Gentile is over.
3. When God pushed His people to Egypt, He allotted time, 430 years. When they went Babylon, He allotted time, 70 years.
4. Now, when He scattered them to the uttermost part of the earth, did He intend to abandon them? The Lord also appointed time. And within that appointed time, God knows very well that the complete number of the Gentiles must surely come in.
5. Because if He never scattered them to the uttermost part of the earth, there is no way He can step out. When He sent them out, then He stepped out of the land of the Jews. God can now give reasons why He should go to the Gentile. It is an abomination for a Jew to come to the Gentile.
6. God is the God of Israel, He is the God of the Jew. Anyone that leaves the land of the Jews, comes to the Gentile, He must answer the question. But now, He has excuse.
7. He has driven them out of their land but not forever. When they ran out, a little while, the Bible said that God repented of His action. God regretted what He did to them that way. Then, He went for them. Then he came back. Amen.
8. All those He sent to the North, He commanded them to go back. But Ephraim, He saves him as a Church. Because if He sends Ephraim back, Ephraim has no inheritance in the land of the Jews. But Ephraim is not Levi.
9. If Ephraim should go back, Ephraim has no portion of land. Thus, the only place Ephraim can stay is the Church until the time of restitution of all things.
10. Acts of the Apostle chapter 3 verse 19 – “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And he shall send Jesus Christ,…”
11. Note it, I want you to underline that place: “And He shall send,” future tense. Was Peter referring to Jesus that ate with him? Blindness is a bad thing.
12. Peter knew that Christ must be sent again. Repent and be converted that the refreshing of the Holy Spirit can come from the presence of the Almighty. And He shall send Christ.
13. Anybody saying that He won’t come again in the likeness of a human being is a liar. And he is equally making Peter a liar. He shall send, who shall send? God!
14. Now, if Christ is back again, and somebody is doubting, it is because from the beginning he is a stark heathen. Why should I doubt? It is a promise.
15. “…And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you…”
16. Which before was preached unto you. Brethren, is the matter clear? He shall send Christ, which before was preached unto you. Was preached unto you.
17. Where did He go after preaching to them? Seeing you do not believe, we now turn to the Gentiles. So has the Lord appointed us to be saviours. Is the message clear?
18. What time is it Church? It is time to go back to His people to show them His hands. But here, He has no need of the hollow in His hand, they have no need of it for they have no hand in it.
19. When they shall see Him, the thing will be there. It is the only thing they will see and then embrace Him. But when He is here, we don’t have need of those things.
20. When they were walking to Emmaus, just three days after the crucifixion, were there any sign in His hand? Anything on His face? Thus, nobody should ask the question, why is it so?
21. And He shall send Christ which before was preached unto you. He is the One that is doing everything with His hand.
22. “…Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.” KJV. Amen.
23. Whom the heaven must receive until the time of the restitution of all things. In other words, until all things are restored in their rightful position, they should not expect Him. For the heaven has received Him.
24. He will remain there until all things are fully restored. Thus, where is the heaven that received Him? The earlier we know the truth, the better for us.
25. The Bible said that you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Where there is no teacher, the people go on their own way.
26. Now, God allotted time to the Gentiles. The time of Gentiles triumph over Israel will last as long as Israel has not settled down fully in their own land. But the moment they get settled in their homeland, Gentiles triumph will be declared over.
27. By that time, the complete number of every child born to Ephraim must have come in. Because what God gave birth to cannot perish. God is incomplete without a child of Ephraim. I am saying that without Ephraim, God is incomplete.
28. That was how God remembered how He punished Ephraim; God made us to understand that He wept when He remembered Him and decided to make him His first born.
29. Who will be the first born among many brethren? Is there any scripture like that? Let the teacher supply the scripture. Let the teachers supply us the scripture. We have many teachers here. No one knows where to find it?
30. “That he might be the first born among many brethren.” If He said there in a certain place, and in another place also and at another place also he said, does it mean he doesn’t know scriptures?
31. Yet, it is written in your Bible. What am I avoiding? Maybe I should pick it from the sisters? Sister, help us. She said, “Hebrews chapter 13.” God bless you ma.
32. That is all I needed. Even the Bishop was telling Me Galatians. This is the worst crime in the Church. I am grieved here.
33. This is a popular scripture we used to read here from time to time. Brother Amankem, you can’t find it. Even Brother Kelechi. Pray that the dream will not fulfill. It is quite unfortunate. I will drop the revelation thereof. Amen.
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IT IS TIME FOR SABBATH PREPARATION
I go further. Hosea chapter 6. I just want to open your eyes of understanding there. Seeing that you are not ready, I will keep it to Myself.
2. Hosea chapter 6 verse 1-2. “Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up… After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.” KJV.
3. Come and let us return unto the Lord, is it not a cry? Nobody is paying attention here. Come and let us return unto our God.
4. “Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us;…”
5. Come and let us return unto the Lord for He alone has torn and He will heal us.
6. “…he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us:…”
7. Note it! After two days will the Lord revive us. Did He say before two days? After the year 2000. After 2000 years in strange land, the Lord will revive us.
8. “…After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.” KJV. That is all! I didn’t know the one you were reading before.
9. After two days, the Lord will revive us. In the third day, we shall live in His presence. Is the message becoming clearer?
10. IN OTHER WORDS, THE PERIOD OF TRIUMPH OVER ISRAEL WILL LAST FOR 2000 YEARS. AND AS LONG AS GOD IS IN THE GENTILE WORLD, GOD WILL USE THE GENTILE’S CALENDAR TO DEAL WITH THE GENTILE. AND HE WILL USE JEWISH CALENDAR TO DEAL WITH THE JEWISH NATION.
11. Somebody is not getting the message. If God is a Roman today, He must behave like a Roman. Tomorrow, He may be a Jew and He will behave like a Jew.
12. After two days, He will revive us. The third day, we shall live in His presence. We won’t be Gentiles again.
13. Only Him will be there. God has been ruling His people in the name of David because David will rule the people of God forever and ever. The Bible said He will seat on the throne of David. The Bible said that it will be David that will be on that throne. There is no other person that is David if not Christ.
14. God is no other person but David. Then, if God is David, there was a time God did something, and then God was punished by God. But nobody can input sin on him because he is God’s own elect. It is hard to believe.
15. Let us come back again. It is believed now that by the year 2000, in other words, few years from now, it is believed that God’s programme with the Gentiles should be over. God must have finished everything about salvation of the Gentile. He will now turn to the Jews.
16. When He turns to the Jews, whatever happens to the world is no longer His business. He can just destroy everybody in one second. Then the righteous will now march on the aches of the wicked for one thousand years. Because God is about to celebrate His Sabbath. Don’t you know that?
17. From the time God created man, He celebrated His Sabbath once. Now, He said His Sabbath must be kept perpetually in all generations. Nobody can cancel Sabbath for God is God of Sabbath.
18. Hebrews chapter 4 verse 6-11. “So God’s rest is there for people to enter. But those who formerly heard the Good News failed to enter because they disobeyed God.
19. So God set another time for entering his place of rest, and that time is today. God announced this through David a long time later in the words already quoted:
20. “Today you must listen to his voice. Don’t harden your hearts against him.” This new place of rest was not the land of Canaan,…”
21. Have you heard what God is saying? This rest is not the rest of entering into Canaan.
22. “…If Joshua led them rest,…”
23. If Joshua had given them rest, note this rest God is referring to. If anybody enters into this rest, he ceases from labour. If Joshua entered into that rest, why are we labouring?
24. “…God would not have spoken later about another day of rest.”
25. Have you seen it? God would not have spoken of another day.
26. “…So then, there is still waiting a full and complete Sabbath rest.”
27. There is awaiting a complete and full Sabbath rest.
28. “Reserved for the true people of God.” LB.
29. Anybody that is in Seven Days Adventist, is in a false Sabbath. Whatever they called rest on Friday is not rest. They were equally breaking it. They couldn’t keep the ordinary daily Sabbath, how can they keep this one?
30. When God is saying “God of Sabbath, God of Sabbath,” it is not the one they are practicing. That one is waiting for God’s own people. That is why we are labouring here so that I can be counted worthy to enter that rest.
31. What time is it Church? A preparation for Sabbath. Because from that time God celebrated the first Sabbath, six days, He finished everything, seventh day, He rested. And commanded that it should be kept perpetually in all generation.
32. Now, we are in our own generation. Son of Man generation. That this generation cannot pass away until all these things have come to pass. This is the generation of Christ and we must keep the Sabbath.
33. We are heading towards it. The same day we shall celebrate it, the same day the Jews shall also celebrate it. All of us will enter into that rest one day. Nobody will enjoy the day before another. We will enter into that rest one day and at a particular time.
34. That is why God is gathering the Gentiles and at the same time gathering the Jews so that all can enter at the same time. He is gathering the Jews as a nation. When He shall turn to them, He won’t go there and preach again. He will only take away their sin.
35. “6Seeing then that the promise remains over [from past times] for some to enter that rest, and that those who formerly were given the good news about it and the opportunity, failed to appropriate it and did not enter because of disobedience,
36. Again He sets a definite day, [a new] Today, [and gives another opportunity of securing that rest] saying through David after so long a time in the words already quoted, Today, if you would hear His voice and when you hear it, do not harden your hearts. [This mention of a rest was not a reference to their entering into Canaan.] For if Joshua had given them rest, He [God] would not speak afterward about another day. So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete Sabbath-rest reserved for the [true] people of God.” Amen.
37. Is it clear now? If it is not scriptural, it is not truth. You cannot hear it elsewhere. This is the Church, The Pillar and Ground of Truth.
38. THAT IS WHY, WHEN YOU MESS UP, WE WILL CLOSE OUR EYES AND THROW YOU OUT! ANYWHERE YOU WANT TO GO, YOU ARE FREE. WE WON’T BEG YOU TO COME BACK FOR WE KNOW YOU ARE PERISHING.
39. WE KNOW THAT VERY WELL THAT OUTSIDE THIS FAITH NOBODY HAS ANY HOPE. ANYWHERE YOU LIKE, GO. OUTSIDE THIS FAITH, NO MAN HAS ANY HOPE.
40. They said we are bragging. Yes! If we don’t brag, we are not the sons and daughters of God. That is what they accused Christ of.
41. My own brother-in-law said, “I hate Jewish people because they brag too much and they are very strict. If you have dealings with them, you will hate them. They brag with their God. And I have vowed that I will never worship their God.” That was what he told us and that was how everything ended.
42. Very clear! To show that we are Jews, somebody must accuse us of bragging too much for we are exercising our faith. We are bragging. You cannot be in this faith and be afraid. If you are in this, you eyes will be red. You look into people’s eyes and declare.
43. Just like our brother was sharing his testimony when he was preaching to somebody. He didn’t know that it was time for fellowship. Before he knew it, time for fellowship has gone. He was carried away by the activity.
44. You see, that is why when I go around their shops and many others and I see them preaching to some people, I know they are equal to the task. More especially when I see them demonstrating, I know they are in the war.
45. Then, you see Me just bragging, moving up and down to know whether they will give Me a big man.
46. When you go outside like this, what you are holding is the highest. That is why I do not listen to religious people making their noise and things like that.
47. There is one Deacon in my yard, a very big deacon, many time he went to where they are selling orange and held discussions. Yesterday, he came back, sat down there.
48. There he removed his cloth, removed his shoes and gave them to his son to take upstairs. There, he was deaconing where they were selling oranges. At another time, it was with his big dress. He said that it has been a long time he went to mid-week service, that they should let him go and see whether he will meet them. He went and bought two oranges.
49. He said, “Let me go and meet them.” No Bible, nothing. I have never seen the man carrying Bible since I knew him. If you see him, his stomach is very big, his belt is almost at his chest.
50. What am I trying to say? If I see you with such people, I know you just press water out of his mouth.
51. When we are bragging, we are bragging only not with our message, we are bragging on what the Lord has done in our lives. For Christ in us the hope of glory. But He cannot be in us unless we are in Him.
52. Now we are in Him, we are baptized into Him, he is also in us.
53. NOW, I AM SAYING, THE PERIOD OF GENTILES IS ABOUT TO BE ENDED. ANY MOMENT FROM NOW, IT WILL BE ALL OVER. THE REMNANT OF THE WORLD WILL WEEP BECAUSE TWO MAJOR EVENTS ARE NOW ON THE LAND.
54. THE SON OF MAN HAS BEEN REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION HAS BEEN REVEALED ALSO. THE TWO EVENTS MUST COME TO PASS TOWARDS THE END:
55. THE REVELATION OF THE SON OF MAN MUST COME WITH THE CLOUD, WITH THE RAINBOW OVER HIS HEAD. AND THE REVELATION OF THE SON OF PERDITION WHO WILL DECEIVE THE WHOLE WORLD AND LEAD THE WHOLE WORLD IN A WAR AGAINST GOD’S PEOPLE. HAVEN’T YOU SEEN THE MAN?
56. WHEN THE SON OF MAN SHALL APPEAR, HE SHALL COME WITH THE HOSTS OF ANGELS AND GATHER ALL THE ELECT FROM THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH. THAT IS WHAT IS GOING ON NOW.
57. Before the Son of Man appeared, the elect never gathered here. There was not even one person to gather the elect. But from the time He appeared, we can see, we can bear testimony that so, so and so have believed. That this city has believed. Then we glorify God.
58. BECAUSE BY THIS MESSAGE, WE WILL KNOW THOSE THAT ARE THE ELECT AND THOSE THAT ARE NOT. FOR THE ELECT WILL BELIEVE AND ABIDE. THE NON-ELECT CAN NEVER ABIDE. THE BIBLE SAID, “THEY LEFT US, FOR FROM THE BEGINNING, THEY ARE NOT PART OF US”.
59. If Ernest Chukwubuikem has been part of us from the beginning, no matter the punishment, he would have remained here. A child that is born in a family, there is no punishment that you will give him that will drive him away where he will no longer come back. Impossible!
60. After sojourning in a strange land for so long, one night, you will see him coming back. And nobody will remember that sin again. But if he is not a member of the family, he will go and build his own house somewhere and make a village there.
61. WHEN WILL THE PERIOD OF THIS GENTILE TRIUMPH END? WHEN THE COMPLETE NUMBER OF THE GENTILES COMES IN AND THE TIME GOD ALLOTTED TO THE GENTILE HAS COME TO PASS.
62. THEN, WHEN WILL THIS COMPLETE NUMBER OF GENTILE COME IN? WHEN ALL ISRAELITES HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM SLAVERY. WHEN EVERY ISRAELITE HAS SETTLED IN HIS HOMELAND AND THEN, THEY WILL PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR THE SABBATH.
63. REMEMBER, WE ARE NOT GOING TO CELEBRATE JUBILEE WITH THEM BUT WE WILL CELEBRATE SABBATH WITH THEM. THE SABBATH WILL COME AFTER THE JUBILEE.
64. Leviticus chapter 25 from verse 1-10. Let us get the message well, well. “And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.”
65. When you come to that land which I give you, then the land shall keep the Sabbath.
66. “…Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD:…”
67. The seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest.
68. “…a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.”
69. In other words, one complete year, nobody will touch anything and they will continue eating. You can’t cultivate anything, you cannot plug anything from any tree. You can’t go and fetch water but you will still be feeding. You lack nothing.
70. We are coming closer to something.
71. “…And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
72. And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.”
73. Forty and nine years! That is the year of release. That is what they have been celebrating from the year 1947 till now. It was even published in the newspaper their year of release which made them to close all their borders and embassies. Israel is gradually back in their homeland. For the fourth time, they are celebrating their year of release.
74. “…Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land…”
75. In other words, the trumpet will be sound in the year of release signaling Jubilee and the rest of them.
76. YOU MUST SOUND THE TRUMPET IN THE FORTY-NINTH YEAR. PREPARING THE PEOPLE FOR THE JUBILEE. THUS, IF THE TRUMPET IS SOUNDING HERE IN THE GENTILE, IT IS TELLING THEM TO PREPARE TO MEET THEIR LORD. PREPARE FOR YOUR DEPARTURE. BUT THERE, IT’S SAYING, PREPARE FOR JUBILEE.
77. TRUMPET IS GOING ON IN THE GENTILES; TRUMPET IS ALSO GOING ON IN THE LAND OF THE JEWS ALL AT THE SAME TIME. WHAT TIME IS IT CHURCH?
78. “…And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.” KJV.
79. Let us do a little arithmetic. 14th May 1946 to 14th May 1997, it is exactly 49 years. Then, 14th May 1998 will exactly be 50 years.
80. I think, I can rightly predict that if the bride should understand the arithmetic, by 14th May 1998, they will be rolling into a very dicey period because the Jubilee will last for one full year.
81. And at the end of the Jubilee, the Sabbath will be ushered in. somebody is not catching what I am saying. I am saying that the period of the Gentiles triumph over Israel may not last more than 14th May 1998. And by that time also, the number of the Gentile must have come in. What will expect is nothing but the great tribulation.
82. Will the Bride pass through great tribulation? I fear many of you here. You are very unpredictable people. That is why I hold My breath over certain things. Otherwise, you will go to the extreme left. Let Me leave this matter here. Amen.
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IT IS THE TIME FOR DEPARTURE
What time is it Church? St. Matthew chapter 24 verse 32. “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh.”
2. Learn a parable. The fig tree is that Israel.
3. “…Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
4. So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”
5. We are now answering a question? What shall be the sign of the end of the world? When we will see the fig tree blossoming again. You will know the end is almost near.
6. The tree started blossoming from 1947 but it is now in full maturity.
7. What time is it Church? A time for departure. A time for departure. Everything is signaling the end, the end.
8. Now watch events in the last time. St. Matthew 13 verse 24 through 43. “Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
9. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
10. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this.
11. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
12. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
13. Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
14. Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
15. Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
16. All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
17. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
18. Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man;…”
19. He that sows the good seed is who? The Son of Man.
20. “…The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
21. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
22. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
23. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.” KJV. Amen.
24. What time is it Church? Are we not seeing the Son of Man sowing a good seed, producing the children of God? Have we not seen the Wicked One sowing a bad seed, producing the children of the devil?
25. Have we not seen it? Have we not seen the separation going on now? The Bible made us understand that the harvest of the earth is the end of the world.
26. Revelation chapter 14 verse 14 through 16. “And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of Man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
27. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.” KJV. Amen.
28. The harvest of the earth is the end of the world. I have told you that this is the time for the harvest of the earth that He that sat on the Cloud has thrust in the sickle. In other words, time is no more.
29. Now, what of the Bride? Revelation 19 verse 1 through 8. “And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
30. For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they said, Alleluia.
31. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.
32. And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
33. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
34. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.” KJV.
35. WHAT TIME IS IT? IT IS THE TIME OF THE WEDDING SUPPER OF THE LAMB. THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF LAMB AND THE WOMAN MUST BE READY.
36. IF THE WOMAN IS NOT READY BY NOW, WHAT WILL BE HER EXCUSE? COULD IT BE SHE DOESN’T WANT TO BE WEDDED AGAIN?
37. THE WOMAN SHOULD BE READY BEFORE THE WEDDING AND NOW IS THE TIME DUE. LOOKING INTO THE BRIDE, CAN WE SAY THAT THE BRIDE HAS MADE HERSELF READY? IF THE BRIDE HASN’T MADE HERSELF READY, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? IS IT THE MESSAGE OR THE INDIVIDUAL?
38. WHAT HOUR IS IT CHURCH? FROM ALL INDICATIONS, FOR EVENTS ARE MADE CLEARER OF WHAT WE ARE DOING TODAY.
39. WHAT HOUR IS IT CHURCH? WHEN DANIEL RECOGNIZED HIS OWN HOUR, HE GAVE HIMSELF TO PRAYERS. WHEN JESUS DISCOVERED THE HOUR, HE GAVE HIMSELF TO PRAYER. HAVE YOU RECOGNIZED YOUR OWN HOUR? AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
40. WHAT HOUR IS IT CHURCH? WHAT HOUR IS IT BRIDE OF CHRIST? IF THE HUSBAND COMES NOW AND SAYS ALL IS OVER, ARE YOU READY? WHAT HOUR IS IT CHURCH? YOU HAVE THE ANSWER. THE LORD BLESS YOU.
41. It was by the book of Jeremiah that Daniel recognized the hour they are living.
42. The problem is not with the message but with the individual. With the influence of the word of God, Daniel said, “We have sinned.”
43. It is not the time for one to justify his own body. It is not the time to do like a hypocrite who went into the temple praying, “God I thank you, I am not like so, so and so.”
44. But it is the time to pray like the publican did. The man said, “God you saw me for before you I am a sinner.”
45. 2nd Thessalonians 2 verse 1 through 5. “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
46. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?” KJV.
47. Have we not been told these things? Even before our eyes, we can now see the revelation of the man of sin.
48. Yet, these have not kept us separate. These are the things the prophet prophesied.
49. On this note, I say, bye for today. Thank you and remain blessed in Him eternally, Remain blessed.