Bible Believers' Newsletter 1361
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now
. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we are
pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
Your brother-in-Christ
I believe you will find our Church Newsletter interesting and informative
expanding your understanding of the present truth, answering some
questions from Subscribers like you. Sometimes Brother Branham leaves
wondering. The answer to this is to prove all things by the mouth of two
or three scriptural references. You are always welcome to write.
The subject of our Main Article is The Fifth Seal.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive
the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of
Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your
own Bible.
Anthony Grigor-Scott
The Weaponization of Geography against China
October 30, 2025 — Under the thin,
tattered veil of "freedom of navigation" and "regional stability", the
US, its vassals and satellite states have unleashed a tsunami of
aggressive military exercises across the increasingly contested Asia-
Pacific, in a desperate attempt to project an image of "strength" that
belies a deep-seated strategic panic. This geopolitical offensive is
not merely a routine demonstration of force, but a frantic heartbeat of a
dying hegemony, a coordinated series of war games designed to simulate a
conflict the political West can no longer win in reality.
The strategic landscape has been defined by both a qualitative and
quantitative leap in provocation. We have moved beyond the predictable,
annual routines of previous years . . . The Pentagon regularly practices
long-range strikes on Chinese coastal areas, including scenarios
explicitly modeled on the blockade of the aforementioned Chinese maritime
lanes that are critically important for its economic development . . .
The PLA is not the Iraqi military of the 1990s, against whom such
bullying tactics could succeed. It's a modern, technologically advanced
force equipped with hypersonic weapons that the US can only dream of,
capable of obliterating entire American fleets, multiple times over.
Every aggressive move by the US is meticulously observed, analyzed, and
countered. These exercises in China's vicinity provide the PLA with
invaluable, real-time data on US tactics, communication protocols, and
electronic signatures, effectively making the US Navy a live training aid
for its own eventual defeat. Not to mention that Beijing is not alone.
Its allies, Russia and North Korea, are there to provide any assistance
(not that the Asian giant needs it, but it's always good to have a friend
watch your back). Full story: globalresearch.ca
A New Alliance – Türkiye-Russia-China?
October 29, 2025 — A strategic initiative has been put forward in Türkiye for a new alliance . . . a pivot Eastward—towards Russia and China. His proposal could mark the country's clearest ideological break with "Atlanticism" since joining NATO . . . Erdogan's trip to China for the SCO Summit carries significance within the context of deepening Turkish-Chinese relations in recent years . . . Türkiye's predicament between BRICS and the SCO on one side and the EU and NATO on the other should not be left to Türkiye's special position, historical alliance tradition, or indecisiveness in foreign policy. Türkiye should adopt a strategy of gaining effective positions in the SCO and BRICS institutions by leveraging its deepening relations with Russia and China in recent years and ensuring a solid position in the emerging multipolar world. Full story: globalresearch.ca
Israel's Assault on the Nervous System of Palestine: Weaponizing Empathy, Grief and Trust to Engineer Collapse
October 28, 2025 — Israel's war in Gaza is
an assault on the nervous system itself. Israel weaponizes fundamental
human reflexes—empathy, grief, trust, the instinct to survive—to engineer
Palestinian societal collapse. It does so by dismantling perception,
using cloned voices, fraudulent maps, and mimicked care to bait,
betray, and sabotage. Palestinians resisting to protect empathy, to
sanctify grief, and safeguard identity against Israel's systematic
assault targeting the very bedrock of human connection. Israel uses
psychological tactics to collapse the nervous system of Palestinians—
Israel's neurotoxin targets empathy, grief, and trust as primary
objectives in a war designed to unmake perception. Israel's intent is
chillingly clear: to manipulate emotion, to shatter the reflexes that
make collective endurance possible, and to render the act of caring,
fleeing, mourning, or believing not just futile but fatal.
Israel's assault is not merely a war of bombs and bulldozers. It is a war
on the nervous system of a people—a campaign that refines historical
psychological warfare tactics and mutates them through digital precision,
real-time surveillance, and algorithmic cruelty.
Empathy, the first reflex Israel weaponized, is no longer safe. In
April 2024, Israeli quadcopters hovered over the Nuseirat refugee camp
broadcasting the cries of infants and screaming women. Engineered sounds.
Civilians, compelled by the instinct to protect, emerged from shelters
only to be met with sniper fire or drone strikes.
"We thought someone's child was trapped," one survivor told Al Mayadeen.
"We ran toward the sound. Then the drone fired."
Israel turned the protective impulse into a death sentence,
converting empathy into a tactical liability and care into a kill switch.
This was not an isolated incident. In December 2024, Euro-Med Human
Rights Monitor documented Israeli drones broadcasting recordings of
crying babies, women's screams, and gunfire in the dark hours over
central Gaza.
"It was a baby, I swear," said a man from Deir al-Balah. "We heard it all
night. My wife begged me not to go. But I couldn't ignore it." He stepped
outside. The drone fired. Israel baited the instinct to rescue then
punished it.
In June 2025, quadcopters returned—this time over displacement camps in
southern Gaza. Witnesses reported hearing Hebrew lullabies and Arabic
prayers, followed by sudden bursts of recorded chaos: sirens, explosions,
children sobbing. "It was like they were trying to confuse our hearts,"
said a grandmother in Khan Younis. "One moment it sounded like a child
praying. The next, a woman screaming."
These were not psychological side effects—they were deliberate
provocations. Israel did not just target Palestinian bodies. It
targeted their instinct to care.
In January 2025, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor documented drones
entering homes uninvited, recording intimate moments of sleeping
families. "It hovered over my baby's crib," one mother said. "It didn't
shoot. It just watched. Then it left." The message was clear: nowhere is
safe, not even the cradle. Surveillance became intrusion. Intimacy became
exposure.
Israel has turned empathy, once a source of strength, into an invitation
to death. Its war on Gaza is not content with silencing voices—it
mimics them. It does not merely kill—it impersonates the cry for
help. In doing so, it rewires the moral circuitry of survival, making the
act of compassion indistinguishable from a trap. To reach for the
wounded, to answer a scream, to cradle a child—each becomes a calculated
risk. Each gesture of care, a potential trigger. This is not just
cruelty. It is the algorithmic inversion of mercy . . . Full story:
globalresearch.ca
How Trump's Ballroom will Dwarf the White House
October 27, 2025 — Trump's new 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom would be almost as large as the rest of the complex. Crews tore down the East Wing in only four days, despite Trump's claim that the ballroom wouldn't interfere with the existing building. There has been little public information released about the layout or design of the addition, which would be the largest ever, with a planned size almost double the footprint of the 55,000-square-foot main section of the White House . . . Full story: washingtonpost.com
Zohran Mamdani's Mayoral Candidacy stirs Jews in NY & Beyond
October 25, 2025 — Questions about what the rise of an anti-Zionist
mayor in the most Jewish US city means . . . Full story: washingtonpost.com
Comment: The 1897 Zionist Congress is associated with the
prescient Protocols of
the Learned Elders of Zion.
We're Living through a Coordinated Sabotage of Truth-Seeking Institutions
October 25, 2025 — The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it, George Orwell (Eric Blair). So, what happens when every apparatus built for that purpose is systematically dismantled? . . . a stark warning: we are living through a coordinated sabotage of our truth-seeking institutions. This is not a minor critique; it is a fundamental attack on the very mechanisms of a functional society. Amen! . . . Full story: zerohedge.com
What's going on in the Middle East & Venezuela?
October 24, 2025 — What we observe today in the Middle East is Israel
attempting to expand to the "Greater-Greater Israel," including Iran
and possibly Iraq (where the descendents of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob have lived since 721BC -Ed.). It is the Oded Yinon Plan of the
early 1980s . . . this plan means endless war and bloodshed . . . So, its
existence . . . is immediately and politically silenced.
On the other side of the Atlantic, President Trump is attempting to
revive and impose the 1823 Monroe Doctrine 2.0, beginning with Venezuela
and now also Colombia. All under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking
. . . the US is by far the globe's biggest drug (and human) trafficker
(ask the late David Kirk's wife and Donald Trump) . . . destruction
of Iran . . . will also attempt to block the Strait of Hormuz, to cut off
the rest of the western world from hydrocarbon energy, especially China
(Israel does the dirty job for the US, supported with US weaponry and
money) . . . in his Trump Social platform, he is ramping against two
oil-rich countries, US neighbors . . . not just the yuan, but all those
local currencies of the BRICS and BRICS associates, commanding a total of
40% to 50% or world GDP. Many of them are closely linked to the yuan and
keep distancing themselves from the US dollar and its sanction policies .
. . they all want to trade outside of the US dollar stranglehold,
and stick to their local currencies and to the yuan. China has no problem
getting energy from Russia, Kazakhstan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and
other Asian/ASEAN associates . . . Full story:
globalresearch.ca
Comment: UN condemns Trump's 'extrajudicial executions, covert
action' against Venezuela which threatens the South American country's
sovereignty. It did this while invoking past 20th century history of CIA
interventions in the region (zerohedge.com). President
Trump announced today, October 30, that the US will return to testing
nuclear weapons to match other nuclear powers.
The Bible prophesied "three woes" or World Wars
—Revelation 8:13: WWI, Revelation 9:12-21; WWII, Revelation 11:14 and
WWIII, Revelation 11:15-19. Brother Branham said, "The (seventh) trumpet
of digging down and going into caves. Now, I hear they're moving all the
government and things out here, around Fort Knox, and down around Mammoth
Cave, and got a place down there they're fixing up, that when the . . .
If it comes something like a little fussing of a war or something,
they're going to take the government inside of these caves. Don't the
Bible plainly say that they'd hide themselves in caves and things, and do
it? Exactly. See, they don't have the answer. So our great regime of
military strength doesn't have the answer."
(This is precisely what the corrupt President George W. Bush and his
associates did on 9/11 and have continued since -Ed).
"Now, we used to be, our science would say, "We can make a great machine.
We got a better gun than Germany could make. We got a people that's got a
lot of grit and power, and the old Yankee pep, and play the drums, and
the bugles, and blow, and the flags fly, and a little hurrah, and every
thing like that. Boy, we can go over there. And we got the old grit
behind us to do it. You don't have to go over there. This is one time
we're going to get it at home. See?"
"Just one guy has to press the button; that's all that
has to happen. One man, don't have to have a thousand soldiers trained,
just have one man with no sense, just possessed of the devil, just to
press that button. And that's enough. See?"
"So they haven't got the answer, so what did they finally come up to say?
"Well, it's three minutes till midnight" (60-1218, The Uncertain
Sound, par. 105-108). Read the prophecy of WWIII dated 760BC in Isaiah
2:19-22; and in 712BC 13:13-16; Matthew 24:29-30, Brother Branham said,
"Jesus speaking of the stars and things falling, I believe that is just
before the Tribulation period sets on earth . . ." (53-0729E, Q&A on
Genesis, Q7:51-58); Revelation 6:12-17). It is now 89 seconds to
midnight on the
Doomsday Clock, January 28, 2025.
"I believe, one of these glorious days, when this united confederation of
church goes together, and the new pope is brought out of the United
States and put over there according to prophecy, then they'll form an
image like unto the beast. And I tell you; the true Church of God
will be drove together" (54-1219E, Acts of the Holy Spirit, par. 87).
"By this time tomorrow night (hear me), there's not a thing, not one
thing, that would keep shipload after shipload, plane load after plane
load of Russian soldiers right out here, grabbing these women, and
ravishing them in the street, and doing what they want to. Come in, and
if they like your house, kick you out of it, and that's it. What are you
going to do? Ungodly, barbarous men who doesn't know nothing about God
and cares that much less . . . You say, "God does that?" He certainly
does, according to His Bible. He has a punishing whip when His people
won't obey. There's not a thing."
Russia has reportedly conducted a test of a new nuclear-capable and
nuclear-powered cruise missile designed to bypass existing defense
systems. The Burevestnik missile, or Storm Petrel, remained airborne for
15 hours, "that's not the limit." It travelled 14,000 kilometres (8,700
miles) and has an unlimited range independent.co.uk.
Russia does not want another war in Europe and has warned NATO that their
capital cities are nuclear targets with the United States punished first.
Brother Branham said, "What would our Pentagon do, if Russia did such
a thing, and say, "Now, surrender, or go to ashes." We'd have to
surrender, only sensible thing to do would be surrender. They're up
there: we can't bring them down. They've got their guns on us. Just about
three or four of them bombs, and that settles the whole thing. Oh, she's
all shook up, brother, sister. The nations that are such a tremendous
nervous condition tonight, till they don't know what to do. A great
writer said the other day, there's one little thread between the smartest
of us and total insanity" (58-0520, The Sign of The Time, E-44; 58-0618,
Handwriting on the Wall, E-53).
Russia will invade and conquer mainland United States shortly after the
Day of Pentecost. The Pentagon will surrender and the Roman Catholic
Church will confirm the covenant of Daniel 9:27, refinancing the US
dollar with gold backing, trapping Jews with their paper wealth. Their
UNO in NYC will declare Rome's Pope "the Man of Peace" and inaugural
President of World Government (Daniel 7:7-28; Revelation 13). Satan will
incarnate the Pope who will be deified as God (Revelation 17:1-11).
Russia will withdraw her military and form a separate bloc with perhaps
China, India and some of the BRICS group. The apostate once Christian
kingdoms of West and East Europe (NATO) united with Rome will "give
their power and strength to the beast (incarnate in the pope) and make
war with Christ" (Revelation 17:12-15).
For the first three and a half years of Daniel's Seventieth Week after
the resurrection and translation of Christians, Moses and Elijah will
minister to Israelite blood descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
returning to Israel. By the midst of the week NATO will hate Rome with
its absolute power, killing those who don't do obeisance to the Devil-
incarnate pope. They will ally with Russia, and Vatican City State will
be "nuked" (Revelation 13:15-18; 18:24).
Now the last two visions of Brother Branham's 1933 Apocalypse of seven
continuous visions will be fulfilled. "In the sixth vision there arose up
in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her
complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic
Church. The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most
terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris,
craters, and smoke all over the land of America." In more than thirty
years of ministry, thousands of prophecies have been perfectly fulfilled
worldwide, always conforming to God's Bible (An Exposition of the Seven
Church Ages, p. 322).
Return, Thou Backsliding Israel, says the LORD
I received a question concerning Jeremiah 31:22, "How
long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has
created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man".
According to Jeremiah 30:4, "These are the Words that the LORD spoke
concerning Israel and concerning Judah" the prophet has
been addressing Israel and Judah. Now he returns to Israel alone, as far
as Jeremiah 31:22, then in verses 23-26 to Judah alone, finally in verses
27-40 to the entire Isaelitish nation after the comprehensive promise of
verse 1, which now allots the consolation assured in Jeremiah 30:22 to
the entire nation, especially to the ten tribes. He announces that the
residue of Israel has has found grace, and the Lord arises to bring it to
rest (verse 2).
Jeremiah 30:22, "And you shall be My people, and I will be your God."
Verse 7 brings all Israel to "The time of Jacob's trouble;
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it but he shall be
saved out of it." This will commence three and a half years after our
Home-going.
Jeremiah 31:17-22, "There is hope for your future, says the LORD, that
your children shall return to their own border. I have surely heard
Ephraim grieving; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a
bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: bring me back that I may be restored;
for You are the LORD my God. For after I turned back, I repented; and
after I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, and also
humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim My dear
son? Is he a delightful child? Indeed, as often as I have spoken against
him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore My heart yearns for
him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD".
"Mark the way by which you left the Land of the Covenant, for you will
return by the same way. Direct your mind to the highway. The way by which
you went. Return O virgin of Israel, return to these your cities. How
long will you go here and there, O backsliding daughter? For the LORD has
created a new thing in the earth, embrace it".
Jeremiah 31:31, "Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will
make a New Covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of
Judah" (Hebrews 8:8-13; Matthew 26:28).
This confirms that fact neither Judah and Benjamin nor Israel have
returned to the Land of the Covenant. The ten Tribes of Israel have lived
in Iran, Iraq and Syria since 721BC (Hosea 6:1-3) and have not returned
to modern Israel "for fear of the Edomite Jews".
The Twelve Tribes of Israel are typed as a woman God put away in
divorcement (Hosea 1-2). She needs a sinless near Kinsman Redeemer, a man
born of a virgin but conceived by the Holy Spirit because of the
situation in Eden; this required "a new covenant" and rest
(Hebrews 4, 8:6-13).
While official Iranian government figures report that over 99% of the
population is Muslim, with Shia Islam as the state religion, a 2020
survey indicates that only 40% of Iranians identify as Muslim, suggesting
a significant trend of secularization, yet they are mainly Semitic.
We are now coming to the great mystery hidden since the foundation of the
world. The whole creation is waiting with earnest expectation for "the
squeeze," the glorious liberty of "the third pull" and "the
manifestation of the sons of God." The Muslims are looking to these
people. We've had a mighty rushing wind; thunders and lightnings; oil and
blood, but we've failed to hear the still small Voice that attracted
Elijah when he wrapped the robe around him, walked out, said, "Here am I,
Lord" (Romans 8:17-25, I Kings 19:9-21).
God gave the promise, only sin—unbelief can keep it away. In Christ we
have Spiritual blessing. Outside of Christ we have sensations. (Like the
Pentecostals singing like angels, with hands upheld but barely a stitch
of Revelation to cover their spiritual nakedness).
Speaking of Brother Branham's experience in Sabino Canyon, hands extended
in prayer when a Sword came into his right hand, and a Voice said,
"This is the Sword of the King," signifying his delivery of the Seven
Seals will be THUS SAITH THE LORD. He said "I believe that the hour is
approaching when missing limbs will be restored, and the glorious power
of the Creator . . . I believe that if He can make a squirrel appear that
has no . . . where if the man or woman has just got a part missing—and
that, a complete animanal in itself. He is God. I love Him" (63-0322,
The Fifth Seal, par. 24).
The Fifth Seal
The Book
of Life written from the foundation of the world remained sealed through
the antediluvian and Old Testament dispensations when God spoke through
His prophets accentuating His will in shadows and types. Ephraim, the
Northern Kingdom, had introduced the Babylonian trinity of gods and the
Lord sent Assyria's Sargon II and Shalmaneser V to dissolve Israel and
transport the population to North Africa and Egypt where they remain to
this day (with non-Semitic Jews ruling the modern Israel State, USA and
NATO, slaughtering Semitic Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Egypt.
The Southern Kingdom of Judah subsequently apostatized and assimilated
the Edomites in 125BC, who are physical Serpent's seed.
Under these circumstances Isaiah 28:9-13 questioned, "To whom could
God teach knowledge? And whom shall He make to understand doctrine? Babes
just weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? For precept must
be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, and there a little? Indeed He will speak to this people
with stammering lips and another tongue. To whom He said, Here is rest,
give rest to the weary; and this is the refreshing, but they would not
listen. So the Word of the LORD to them will be, Order upon order, order
upon order; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a
little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, snared and
taken captive".
Throughout twenty centuries our risen Lord Jesus has ministered in the
office Son of God and Mediator while the Book was still sealed.
The Old Testament is known for the discipline of learning and obedience
to the letter of the Law or Rhema; the New Testament displays the
Logos or understanding in the life of saints established in
"the present Truth" (II Peter 1:12). A different measure of
faith was revealed to each Church Age. God's elect receive and live the
logos as epistles of the Message for their dispensation, and during the
Church Ages when the Book was sealed Christ "winked" at our
ignorance of the fullness.
When all Seven Church Ages of PART Word were fulfilled, and they are,
Christ claimed the Book, loosed its Seals and revealed the hidden mystery
of its unwritten Seventh Seal which is the revelation of the previous Six
written Seals. Once the Church Ages were fulfilled Christ's office Son of
God and Mediator was done away for "that which is perfect or complete,
has come" (I Corinthians 13:10-13; Revelation 10:7). In 1963 Christ
returned in W_O_R_D form through the lips of His Prophet William Branham;
Christ is now Son of Man and Judge.
His FIRST COMING through the womb of the virgin was a physical
(Gk.) 'erchomai' coming. His SECOND COMING was His unseen
(Gk.) 'parousia' Coming in March 1963; He is present with us now.
Although Jesus instructed us NOT to look for the Man (Matthew 24:22-28).
The denominations are looking for the (Gk.) 'erchomai' or physical
coming of the Man from the clouds.
I Thessalonians 5:2, "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of
the Lord so comes as a thief in the night." Likewise, II Peter 3:10,
"But the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which
the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall
melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein
shall be burned up." However this will be Christ's THIRD COMING
after the consummation of life when the Old and New Testament saints
step out on the nuclear ashes of the wicked for a thousand years of peace
(Nahum 1:5-6; Malachi 3:2-3; 4:1-3).
Amos 3:7, "Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he first
reveals His secret unto His servants the prophets" (Genesis 18:17-18;
Isaiah 48:5; Malachi 4:5, 6b; Matthew 7:11). Without a vindicated
prophet there can be no SECOND COMING. How sad, the denominations
have rejected God's prophets for Roman dogma such as Babylon's trinity of
gods which Jesus exposed (Deuteronomy 6:4; 32:39; Ephesians 3:9;
Colossians 1:15-17; Revelation 17) and a false water baptism in three
Titles; neither is found in your Bible. Rome and her daughters are not
following the Bible but man's interpretations of theology as the
Israelites and so-called Jews forsook the Law and the prophets for
manmade Talmudic nonsense. Christ's SECOND COMING was 62 years ago
and He is present now. Rome and her denominational daughters are 120
years behind Laodicea and the pale horse rider whose name is Death has
been riding to perdition since 1906!
Christ's SECOND COMING was in 1963: Revelation 10:1-2, 7, "And
I saw another mighty angel (Christ, the Angel of the Covenant)
come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and the (horizontal)
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 left hand a little Book
open: and He set His right foot (in Judgment) upon the
(Judeo-Roman Catholic Beast that rose up over the Mediterranean) sea
(signifying the multitudes of Constantine's church kingdom), and
His left foot (in Judgment) on (sparsely populated sixteenth
century America which will become the image unto the Roman Beast after
Russia's victorious invasion next year) . . . But in the days of the
voice of the Seventh Angel (William Branham), when he shall begin
to sound his Message, the mystery of God should be finished, as He has
declared to His servants the prophets".
Carefully read Revelation 13 and Daniel 7:9-28 which describe the
transformation of the world at the close of the Gentile dispensation on
Good Friday. Without a prophet one is spiritually blinded by theological
guesswork; people who have not attended church in years will support the
carnal religious revival as Daniel's Seventieth Week unfolds. Don't fail
to read those two outstanding prophecies of Brother Branham's apocalypse
of seven
continuous visions the prophet expounded from the '30s to
his Home-going in 1965.
Under the Fourth Seal the Laodicea Church Age grew lukewarm,
terminating in apostasy on March 24, 1963 (Revelation 3:14-22). Ephesians
4:30, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto
the Day of Redemption." The Day of Redemption was (past tense) in
1963 when Christ claimed the Book of Life and opened the Seven Seals
(Revelation 5:5; 10:2). Immediately the New Testament saints and all
of Christ's end-time Bride were caught up in the threefold process we
call the 'rapture' (I Thessalonians 4:16), and (Gk.) 'chronos'
time was no more (Revelation 10:6). God foreknew the names of Christ's
end-time Bride, many of whom were not even born then, let alone
born-again, even today. By grace each was foreknown, named and caught up
in Revelation 4:1 to witness Christ change office from Son of God and
Mediator to Son of Man and Judge, and from the bleeding bloody Lamb to
the Lion of the Tribe of Judah and King (Fourth and Fifth Seals).
From your Bible you will understand that Christ's end-time Bride has been
caught up to meet Him in the Air, and that the Church does not appear
again until we return with Jesus who judges and destroys the Roman
Catholic church and her denominational harlot daughter churches in the
consummation of Revelation 19.
Revelation 1:1-2 is, "The revelation of Jesus Christ—His unveiling of
the divine mysteries God gave Him to disclose and make known to His bond
servants certain things which must shortly and speedily come to pass in
their entirety. And He sent and communicated it through His angel to His
bond servant John, who has testified to and vouched for all that he saw
in his visions, the Word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ".
This Angel or messenger is Christ coming directly to Israel as the
Church is finished and preparing to be translated. Under the Fifth
Seal the Lord will gather Israelites martyred for the Old Testament
Word of God from Calvary to the close of the Gentile dispensation, and
for the testimony which they held. (Revelation 6:9-11).
Three months after their exodus from the land of Egypt, Israel came to Mount Sinai in Arabia
where God commanded Moses, tell the children of Israel, "If you
will obey My voice indeed, and keep My Covenant, you will be a special
treasure to Me above all people: for all the earth is Mine: and you shall
be to Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation" (Exodus 19:5-6).
There was absolutely no difference between the descendants of the
Gentiles, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob or any other son of Adam outside God's
promise to their father Abraham in recognition of his faith. Romans
4:13, "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was
not to Abraham, or to his Seed (singular), through the Law, but through
the righteousness of faith. The blessing of Abraham is not earned
through fleshly works in keeping the Law (which no man has accomplished
in 3,500 years since Sinai) "but through the righteousness of faith."
Neither is it inherited by natural procreation but after a Word birth
by grace through faith in God's promise.
Abraham's faith Seed, Jesus Messiah, is Heir of the world and
Christians are joint heirs with Him through our faith vindicated by God
in a new birth (Romans 8:17). Thus Paul repudiates Talmudic Judaism
that promotes works without faith and proclaims "Jews" blessed above all
men because they were present at Mount Sinai. The Mosaic Law and Covenant
were given to Hebrews who were Israelites descended from Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, not to "Jews," ninety percent of whom are non-Semitic. There
was in fact no "Jew" present at Mount Sinai.
(The 1973 Encyclopedia Judaica, Encyclopedia Britannica and The Universal
Jewish Encyclopedia state that 90% of Israeli 'Jews' in Israel are
non-Semitic imposters with no history in the Middle East. The Jewish
encyclopedia's statistical authorities and researchers in DNA say 90% of
Israelis and Jews are non-Semitic with no history in the Middle East.
Cairo's Ain Shams University's Middle East Research Center, say 95% of
Jews are not Israelites but foreigners of mixed races as per British
anthropologist James Fenton's 1966 paper. Shlomo Sand, post-Zionist
historian, socialist and emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv
University since 2014 wrote in "The Invention of the Jewish People":
The 'Diaspora' is a misnomer. Mass conversions into Jewry (and some
out of it) put the bulk of the Zionist migration and War refugee
settlement of Israel as interlopers." They are Japhetic or physical
Serpent's seed like the fair-skinned blue-eyed Khazars from the Ukraine
and Poland).
Brother Branham said, "If Paul makes it, I will too, because I preached
the same thing he did, without compromising on one Word." This
verse manifests the folly of blinded Israel and Message believers blinded
by a Judaizing "seducing clergy spirit, workings of devils, hypocrisies
in the church, heady, high-minded (wisdom. You see? Smart, intelligent) .
. . having a form of godliness but denying the revelations, the power and
the working of the Spirit, from such turn away" (William Branham, The
Revelation of the Seven Seals, par. 105). The blessing of Abraham was to
God's promised faith "Seed" (singular)—Jesus Christ (Galatians
3:16-29)—and not by the Law or attendance at Sinai.
God's Covenant at Mount Sinai, that He would make Israel a nation of
priests, holy and separated from the world, was conditional—"IF
you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant."
Israel neither obeyed the Voice of the Lord nor keep God's covenant
for even one month. Before Moses had descended the mount they were
worshiping an idol!
Now a priest is one chosen of God and the property of God. He must be
holy unto the Lord so that he can "come near" to offer gifts to
and receive gifts from God (Numbers 16:5,40; II Chronicles 26:18; Psalm
141:2; Hebrews 5:1-4; Revelation 8:3). ALL Israel was originally
chosen as a kingdom of priests to us Gentiles; hence Israel was God's
servant nation to minister to us. By obedience to His
Covenant Israel was to receive Divine protection and blessings in all of
her undertakings, thereby enticing the Gentiles to jealously desire to
serve the same God. Her national life was to be a "Light" to draw us to
Him, but Israel did not observe God's Law and sought to make the promise
of blessings her own exclusive right by outward works without faith.
Three thousand five hundred years since Sinai, today's "Jews" are Esau's
descendants who impersonate the children of Israel in their endeavour to
steal back the birthright, hold the same attitude, but they are twofold
more the child of hell than Israel, making Moses and the prophets void by
replacing God's Holy Word with their Babylonian Talmud (Matthew 15:9).
Upon hearing the Voice of the Lord declare the Ten Commandments from
Mount Sinai, Israel renounced the obligation of national priesthood
through their dread of coming near to God's holiness. Exodus
20:18-19, "All the people witnessed the thunderings, and lightnings,
and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when they saw
it, they trembled, and stood afar off. Then they said to Moses, 'You
speak with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we
die'."
God accepted Israel's renunciation of the priesthood. Deuteronomy
18:16-18; (also 5:24-28), "According to all you desired of the Lord
your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let me not hear
again the Voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great Fire
any more, lest I die.' And the Lord said to me, Well have they said all
they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet like you from among
their brethren, and will put My Words in His mouth; and He shall speak to
them all that I shall command Him".
Thus Jesus Messiah would replace the nation of Israel as Priest to us
Gentiles (Isaiah 49:1-6; Hebrews 4:14, 10:12). In the meantime, Moses
became the mediator between God and Israel; the Tribe of Levi was
separated from Israel, and the Aaronic priesthood became the temporary
depository of all Israel's priesthood until the true antitype Jesus
Messiah.
An election of 144,000 blood Israelites (Revelation 7:1-8) from among
those who return to Israel and receive the ministry of their two prophets
during Daniel's Seventieth Week (Zechariah 4:11-14; Revelation 11:1-12)
"shall be named the priests of Jehovah, the ministers of
our God" (Isaiah 61:6). Thus shall Israel resume the priesthood in
the Millennium together with the elect Old Testament saints and the true
Church of elect Hebrews and Gentiles (Isaiah 66:21). Their ministry will
be to serve Christ and His Bride of all Ages as eunuchs serve in the
harem. Revelation 14:4-5, "These are they who were not defiled
with women (or churches); for they are virgins (to Christ the Word).
These are they who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed
from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. And in their
mouth was found no deceit: for they are without fault before the throne
of God".
Isaiah 62:1-2, "For Zion's sake will I not hold My peace, and for
Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as
brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns as originally
covenanted (Exodus 19:6; Isaiah 49:1-6). And the Gentiles shall
see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you shall be called
by a new Name, which the mouth of the Lord will name." They will be
"Christians".
All of God's saints are called to be priests
to God. I Peter 2:5, 9, "You also, as living stones, are built up
a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ . . . you are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people; that you
should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of Darkness into
His marvelous Light." Thus "God's chosen people" is, as ever,
Spiritual Israel of the faith, not natural Israel of the flesh and works.
We have previously seen how in the Garden of Eden the cherubim were to
direct man to the Throne of God, but after the Fall and until Pentecost
they were to restrict access. We have also seen how the four head tribes
of Israel were their antitype, stationed around the Presence of God to
keep the way holy. But instead of guiding Gentiles to the Light, they
emulated the cherubim after man's expulsion from Eden, preventing access.
And when Christ opened the Fifth Seal, we see the Israelites are
themselves without the Light, without the nature of the living creatures
and without Christ. Job 4:8, "Those who plow iniquity, and sow
wickedness, reap the same."
Three thousand five hundred years ago God chose Israel for the sake of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to minister Spiritual Light to us Gentiles. The
nation rejected this priesthood, broke God's Covenant, bound themselves
in chains of sin, and imprisoned themselves in Darkness. God anointed
Jesus to proclaim Israel's jubilee or release from sin and its hire. In
all that Isaiah 61 says of healing the poor in spirit, releasing the
prisoners, rejoicing those who mourn, and of rebuilding what was laid
waste, he is prophesying the end of former miseries and the old Covenant
which was conditional, and building in its stead a new
unconditional, "everlasting Covenant" (Acts 15:13-18).
Israel rejected Messiah and liberty but they will recognize the new
Covenant during the time of "Jacob's trouble," in "the day of
vengeance of our God" that was proclaimed by Brother Branham.
"God's chosen people," His "royal priesthood and holy nation"
was ever Spiritual Israel, however, since Pentecost, Spiritual Israel has
been the elect Church made up of both Israelites and
Gentiles. Any minister who would seek to elevate natural Israel, with
whom God has not dealt with salvation since Calvary, is a deceiver.
From such turn away and run for your eternal Life to the Words of God's
Holy Bible and His vindicated prophet, William Branham.
Romans 4:14-17, "For IF they who are of the Law are heirs, faith is
made void, and the promise made of none effect: because the Law works
wrath: for where no Law is, there is no transgression. (In other
words the promise is NOT by the Law. I Timothy 1:9-10, "the law is not
made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the
ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers
and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that
defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured
persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound
doctrine"). Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the
end the promise might be sure to ALL the seed (of Abraham's Royal Seed,
Jesus Christ, whether Israelite or Gentile); not to that only which is of
the Law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the
father of us ALL, (as it is written, I have made you father of the
Gentiles) . . ."
At the Council in Jerusalem James explained how God's chosen people is
in fact the Bride of Christ taken predominantly from among the Gentiles.
Acts 15:14-17, "Simon Peter has just explained (in verses 7-9)
how God visited the Gentiles in the House of Cornelius at the start of
the Church (Acts 10), to call a people for His Name, a Gentile
Bride. To this agree the Words of the prophets; as it is written, 'After
this I will return, and rebuild the House of David, which has fallen
down; and I will rebuild its very ruins and Il set it up again or restore
144,000 elect Israelites to the Promise I made with the Fathers
(Daniel 9:27): so that the rest of men might seek after the Lord,
and all the Gentile (Bride), upon whom My Name has been invoked'
(become and one with Christ through the invisible marriage union), says
the Lord, who does all these things'." First God would call out a
Gentile Bride for His Son (Genesis 9:27; Isaiah 11:10; 54:1-5; Amos
9:11), secondarily He will return to Israel during Daniel's Seventieth
Week and reconfirm the Abrahamic Covenant their forefathers had rejected
(Daniel 9:27).
"Jews" and the power elite misuse the Word of God by promoting the
"chosen people" myth to advance their claim to world hegemony as the
pope misuses Scripture to justify his claim to power, and kings once
claimed a divine right to rule. Their attitude is the Judeo-Jesuit
mantra "the ends justify the means," the amoral "whatever it takes".
God told Noah He would bring Japheth under the covenant with Shem.
Genesis 9:27, "God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in
the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." When God
foresaw how Israel would sacrifice to demons and abominations He told
Moses, "I will hide My face from Israel . . . for they are a
perverse generation, children in who is no faith. They have provoked Me
to jealousy by what is not God; they have moved Me to anger with their
foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy with those who are not
a people; (i.e. Gentile Christians, His "chosen people") I will provoke
them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in My anger,
and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her
increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. I will heap
disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows upon them . . ."
As the prophets foretold, Israel murdered Messiah, Abraham's promised
Seed (Isaiah 53; Daniel 9:26; Zechariah 13:1-6). Acts 13:27, "For
those who dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know
Him, nor even the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath
have fulfilled them in condemning Him".
Echoing the prophetic Words of Moses—Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel
foretold how the Lord would pour out upon Israel the spirit of deep
sleep, closing their eyes and ears to His Word. But Paul in
accordance with Daniel's prophecy declared their spiritual slumber would
last only until the Gentile dispensation was fulfilled. Then "all
Israel (not all "Jews") shall be saved: as it is written, there shall
come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob" (Romans 11:25-26; Daniel 9:24).
"All Israel" speaks of two groups of blood Israelites. The
former in consideration under the Fifth Seal are those non-elect blood
Israelites whose eyes were blinded to the Gospel by the false teachings
of apostate rabbis but who believed and obeyed the Torah—NOT the
Babylonian Talmud—and were martyred during the Gentile dispensation
for their stand on the Law and the Prophets (Revelation 6:9-11). The
latter are the elect 144,000. These will be born-again under the Sixth
Seal, then martyred by the false church and the self-styled "Jews".
Revelation 6:9-11, "When Christ opened the Fifth Seal, I saw under the
altar the souls of those who had been slain for the Word of God, and on
account of the testimony which they held: and they cried with a loud
voice, saying, 'How long, O Lord, holy and true, until you judge and
avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?' And a white robe was
given to each of them; and it was said to them, that they should rest a
little while longer, until both the number of their fellowservants and
their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed".
These martyrs were non-elect blood Israelites who did not receive Jesus
Christ as Lord and Savior for their Spiritual vision was impaired by
denominational traditions, but kept the Law as best they could from
Calvary, destruction of the temple and the diaspora, holding their
testimony more precious than mortal life. The last of these martyrs will
seal their testimony in their own blood in Daniel's Seventieth Week.
At the close of the Gentile dispensation when Israel's blindness is
removed, these Hebrews martyred for their Old Testament faith from
Calvary to that point in time will acknowledge the justice of God in
applying His unchanging Word which requires "eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, and life for life," and cry out for Old Testament vengeance:
"How long, O Lord, holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood
on them that dwell on the earth?"
These Fifth Seal non-elect Israelite martyrs had no sacrifice on
the altar in Jerusalem, and were ignorant of the Sacrifice on the altar
in the heavenly tabernacle during the Gentile dispensation. He was there,
and He heard their prayers but He could not "avenge their blood"
until the Sixth Seal elect Israelites had been born-again and
martyred. These under the Fifth Seal were blinded to the Gospel in order
that Christ could turn from Israel to us Gentiles to take out a people
for His Name, a Bride. But before Christ could marry the Gentile Bride He
had first to fulfill the part of Israel's kinsman Redeemer as Boaz had to
redeem Naomi before he could marry his Gentile bride (Hebrews 11:39-40).
Posthumously they catch this revelation as the Fourth and Fifth Seals
close and the Sixth Seal opens. They are promised white robes signifying
salvation (for these souls are not yet washed in the Blood of the Lamb),
and that they will be granted in to eternal Life at the White Throne
Judgment. The full number of their "fellow servants" will be
complete when Israel's two prophetic witnesses are martyred in the midst
of Daniel's Seventieth Week (Revelation 11:7). Israel's two witnesses
will be Moses and Elijah. (Moses actually died, but he arose, because he
is a perfect type of Christ. Nobody knew where he was buried (63-0322,
The Fifth Seal, par. 331); Elijah did not die (Jude 9-10).
The Sixth Seal will signal the end of the Gentile dispensation with
the sinking of Los Angeles and 1,500 X 300 – 400 miles of California when
the Seventh Trumpet summons "their brethren," the 144,000 elect
Israelites, to the feast of Trumpets whose mysteries will be revealed by
two Hebrew prophets anointed with those portions of the Spirit that
inspired Moses and Elijah.
The 144,000 will confess God's justice after they are born-again and then
martyred for refusing the mark of the beast by keeping the Commandments
of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ (Revelation 12:17).
Revelation 15:2-4, "I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with
Fire: and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image, and
over his mark, and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of
glass, having harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant
of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are Your
works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of saints.
Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your Name? For You alone are
holy. All nations shall come and worship before You, for Your judgments
are understood".
The souls of these Fifth Seal martyrs are figuratively under the
Brazen Altar of Sacrifice in the Outer Court, for the blood of sacrifices
was poured out at the foot of the Altar of Burnt offering and their lives
are acknowledged as having been sacrificed "for the Word of God, and
on account of the testimony which they held." Had they
surrendered the worldly desires of mortal spirit and flesh to receive the
Life of Christ already sacrificed for them "they would be accounted
dead and their life hid with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:3; II
Corinthians 5:14-15). Figuratively, their souls would then be under the
Golden Altar of Incense that pertains to the Holy of Holies.
This explains why John, who signifies the end-time Bride of Christ
throughout the Book of Revelation, wrote, "I was given a reed like a
measuring rod: and the angel stood, saying, 'Rise, and measure the temple
of God (Gk.) 'naos,' the Holy of Holies and the Holy Place, and
the (Golden) Altar (of Incense), and them that worship therein (i.e. the
144,000 elect Israelites who are written in the Lamb's Book of
Life). But leave out the court which is without the temple, and do not
measure it; for it has been given to the Gentiles: and they will tread
the holy city under foot for forty-two months," (Revelation 11:1-19;
64-0830, Q&A p, 1160:Q392). This places the first half and second halves
of Daniel's Seventieth Week.
At this point in time the Outer Court represents the Book of Life. But
the sacrifice for sin has risen from the altar: redemption was over in
1963 when Christ opened and revealed the Seven Seals (Revelation 4 – 5).
Those in the Outer Court will either worship the beast and his image
or, if their names remain in the Book of Life, they will retain their
salvation but they will be martyred (Matthew 16:25; Revelation 13:8, 15).
The Fifth Seal is confirmed by Matthew 24:9-13, "Then shall they
deliver you (Fifth Seal non-elect Israelites) up to tribulation and kill
you: and you will be hated by all nations for My Name's sake. And then
many will be offended, betray and hate one another. Many false prophets
will rise up and deceive many. And because iniquity will abound, the love
of many shall wax cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved".
God is gracious and merciful, not willing that any should perish but that
all should come to repentance. Each soul in Adam's race is accountable to
the measure of His exposure to righteousness. Hence the foolish virgin:
all who die before the age of accountability, those who have been good
and kind to the Bride, those who refuse to receive the dogma or serve the
beast, Israelites under the Fifth Seal, and all whose names remain on the
Book of Life are the "saved," and they will be granted in to eternal Life
at the White Throne Judgment. However those who have seen and refused the
revelation for their day have committed the unpardonable sin in rejecting
the Holy Spirit and Life (Ezekiel 18:4; John 3:18; 6:63; Hebrews 6:6-8).
Their names have been removed from the Book of Life, and they are lost.
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Brother
Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-
time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations
overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available
to teach in your church.
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