QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (2)
(The questions were put on various dates in Locodjro, Abidjan – Ivory Coast)
1/Bro Philip, what should we do if we are in a church where there is only one false doctrine like the baptism or Genesis 1:26-27?
You are obliged to get out of there for behind any false doctrine is a demon. Gen.1/26-27, the Bible does not say: "And God said, Let us make man in our image … and God and the angels created Man" but the Bible says: "And God created Man in his image". The sons of the devil, set up as prophets and pastors, say that they were God and their father Satan who created man together. They take Ezekiel 28:12 and say that God created and angels among whom Satan completed that with perfection. That is what Louis Segond and the other versions say but that is not what Darby, the Bible says. Louis Segond, that instrument of Satan says that when God created, Satan put the seal to say that it was perfect. Can’t you see that it is absurd? Darby says: " Thou (Satan), who sealest up the measure of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, thou wast in Eden, the garden of God. " but Louis Segond says: "thou sealest up the perfection…".
And I told you that God was not addressing any angel at all otherwise the blood of Jesus would save angels. But I have not said that the angels are not in God’s image! Because He Himself is the Angel of Jehovah. We do not know what happened at the creation in the Heaven; God must have said "let us make the angel in our image…" for He was going to manifest Himself as being the Angel of Jehovah. Now let us see Prov.8, God made his attributes speak simply. No angel took part in any creation, neither in the heaven nor on the earth and an angel cannot create. Saying that God was addressing the angels, it is to allot the power of creation to an angel and to make him the equal of God. I do not believe that a man or a church that has the Holy Spirit can say that God was addressing the angels! Did I answer the question? The Bible must say that at such a time, in such a place, God shall do such a thing. It is the only thing God can recognize. If you are therefore in a church that claims to have all the Truth, that is a seduction for if the Spirit and the Word say that we are at midnight, it is there that you must be to receive the true Spirit.
2/Brother Philip, according to the preaching on Rev.14:6-10, how did you recognize that it was the spirit of the devil that showed you those dreams?
Here is thus what I did but do not imitate that. I had too many dreams, all of them were exact and one day, it came to me to prove the spirit that gave them to me. I prayed aloud and I said this: "O [God], for I not to doubt the dreams that I receive, grant me a sign. Allow me to see a whirlwind." Then in my heart I said this: "Lord, the Bible says that You alone know the thoughts of the hearts. may I not see thus anything of what I have just requested aloud!". As soon as I fell asleep, I saw a giant whirlwind that raised everything on its passage. Then I understood that those dreams came from the devil.
After that, I was told that I should not read those books and treaties you have, neither try to interpret dreams, nor let anybody lay his hands upon me. I should not have any relationship with theology. When John the Baptist and the Lord talk about serpents, offspring of vipers, it’s question of theologians. Theology is pure venom. Of all that God created, the snake is the only one that has two tongues in its mouth. Two forked tongues in one like their trinity. They go up in the pulpit, they read the Bible which is the Word of God and then they spit the theology that they have learnt at the bible school. Two tongues: the Word of God and theology. Even if what they say is true, it is the devil. If he knows the Truth, what is he looking for again among the foursquares, baptists, assemblies of gods and others? Their preaching is not different from the holy water of catholics, they are whistles of snakes.
3/Bro. Philip, in Rev.12:1 which woman is it question of?
Let’s read that:"… a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars;" Well, notice that John saw this woman at a certain time of history for in the beginning she was clothed with the moon, she walked with the law, it was Israel and the twelve stars were the twelve patriarchs but after the perpetual sacrifice, when John saw her, it was Christianity, the Church of Jesus-Christ and the twelve stars are the twelve apostles, the doctrine of the twelve apostles. The twelve apostles and the twelve patriarchs are the 24 elders of Rev.4:10. Jesus said in Matth.19:27-28 that the Apostles would receive twelve thrones to judge. However, notice that Rev.12:5-6 talks about Judaism and the 1260 days refer to Rev.11:3 with Elijah and Moses but the woman of v.14 is Christianity. Then, as in the first verse, we find these two women in one. But the first one does not have the Judaic form of the beginning any more. She has accepted Christ.
4/Brother, what will the midnight Cry consist in and what’s the evidence that it is you?
God showed that in the preaching "the Church and the State". Our faith rests upon the biblical promises and prophecies. What’s the evidence that it is you? It is God Himself who confirms those that He sends. That’s the question a multitude of people put to themselves and for those who know the Word, it is a temptation for like the pharisees, they put the question for another goal, they will not believe! Since I have never given any false prophecy and lie has not gone out of my mouth, it is already a sign. I said of the President: "… If his throne becomes stronger at peace and he rules over the whole state then I am not a man of God and God did not speak to me at all." [See preaching: "Speak now!"]. And more than one thousand pages were distributed. That came literally true. He is still there but his throne has entirely become weaker. The rebels have the territorial administration and the Prime Minister has almost all the executive power! I did not ground myself on anything to say that. A prophet does not ground himself on past experiences to speak: "As David did this and Solomon was that thus the president will do this, the king will do that!" that’s seduction. And we see that the "medicine" came from Ghana which I have called "first hospital" But if it is really God who has aroused me, it is He Himself who will confirm this ministry because of the elect and I have faith that He will do it!
5/Brother, if God is not with the churches of Ivory Coast then who answers them?
I have always told you that Satan was their god and that has been shown during this war. What prayers haven’t they raised? The churches were humiliated like the gods of Egypt in the days of Moses! First they prayed and fasted for a miracle solution as in the Bible, God did not act then they prayed God so that He might act in Accra, then in Dakar, then in Lomé, then in Marcoussis, then in Kleber, then Accra II, then Thabo Mbeki, then Accra III, then the ECOWAS, then the UN, then Thabo Mbeki again, then Obasanjo… And that while people are still being slaughtered, disembowelled, mutilated, executed ... God does not rely on political arms to work. According to the Bible, they are just religious organisations because I recognize only one Church: the Church of Jesus-Christ whose rules and regulations are the Bible and that cannot ask for nobody’s approval nor be subjected to no authority or terrestrial jurisdiction. If the State has created a ministry of cults, it is for the pagan cults and the churches that he is a minister. We do not depend on him and we do not have any order to receive from him… And the four hundred and fifty Ivorian and American prophets came to tell Ahab to go up and take Ramoth back with arms. It was a false prophecy. You see? They tried and the tanks of Ahab were destroyed by French soldiers…
6/Brother Philip, in 1 Samuel 28:7 to 20, how could that woman have access to the prophet Samuel?
Before the perpetual sacrifice, the paradise was on the earth and the devil could have access to all the saints: Abraham, David, Adam, Joseph... We notice that he wanted to take the body of Moses! Jude v.9. The blood of goats and lambs did not but cover the sins and could not blot them out. The paradise was still closed but now the entry is immediate. After the blood, there was a separation, Luke 16:22-23 shows it clearly. Also, in that time, the devil still had the keys until Jesus came to take them according to Rev.1:18. Bear in mind that what she did is no longer possible today. If you see somebody like a ghost, then his soul is in hell!
7/Bro. Philip, in the vision of April 24, 1993, what did the Lamb say in the unknown language?
It was a great secret which should not be known up to this day. And now that is known and it is the Message contained in the midnight Cry. Even my body did not have access to that but it was my soul that received it like a seal. These preachings are the interpretation of what the Lamb said and which is the completion of the mystery of the seven thunders. Satan knows what happened in the garden of Eden, he also knew the meaning of the seven seals but he had never thought that, by taking the name of Jesus-Christ and hidden behind the Louis Segond bible, he was going to be unveiled. In fact, it is not to me personally that this restitution has been given but to the Church. If that were in French and I had caught something, I would not wait these ten years. That same day the Spirit came upon this Message, the Word. And the fruits were manifested: I refused the baptism courses and even the trinitarian baptism while I had three months of conversion. If somebody says he has the Holy Spirit, do not discuss it with him but present him the Word, this Message or tell him that he must be baptise in the name of Jesus-Christ, if he refuses then tell him that the spirit he received is of the devil and be pure of his blood when he goes into hell. Never leave him before you have said that to him. Say it to him, even if he speaks with other tongues or raise dead people, even if he is called Ushe Praise, Benjamin Boni or Dion Robert. Do it so that God may not require his blood to you!
8/Brother, can we be saved through the fleshly sanctification only?
No! That was possible up to Wesley but after that, we need the fleshly and spiritual sanctification. Today if a man abstains from any form of worldliness, idolatry, masturbation, adultery, impudicity, lie, false doctrines, that’s very good but what about the spirits that he took through those things. The simple fact of seeing dreams regularly must call to wisdom and humility. It is divination. And especially when you were in those churches and vigils of anointing… You see? And no one can drive these spirits out unless by the virtue of the Message which will come to unveil them. That is the spiritual sanctification. There must be a spiritual purification in this age. The sanctification of the flesh alone is no longer enough. It is also impossible that a member of those catholic and evangelical churches may drive a demon out. What they call deliverance; it is theatre, a coup de theatre by Satan.
9/Brother, what do you think of spiritual manifestations and when can we situate the rapture of the Bride?
It is because the Spirit is working that we can speak about the Church. If there are no tongues, prophecies, discernments, visions, words of knowledge… if the five ministries are not present then it is not the Church of Jesus-Christ. And it is not also question of saying like branhamists that: "we believe" but that must be present! How can the assembly sanctify itself if there are no gifts?
As for the rapture, as long as God has not revealed anything to us, consider that the rapture will take place today, today and today until the Lord comes. The prediction on dates came from William Miller, the spiritual father of Jehovah’s witnesses and adventists, who transmitted this spirit to Nelson Barbour and Geoges Storr. And it was Barbour who transmitted that spirit to Charles Russell and the best way of avoiding those predictions, it’s not to read them. I do not believe in any prediction made from calculation of dates and I do not make mention them… the evening times lasted 87 years… I will say something at the appointed time.
10/ Brother, is the date of the vision really that of Daniel 10?
Yes! We see in Daniel 10:4 on the 24th day of the first month. That comes again in the Bible, for example, in Haggai 2:10. Then God talks again to Haggai on the 24th day, Haggai 2:20. See also Zec. 1:7, etc. For the month, it is according to the old Hebrew calendar. Nature also testifies that April of the Gregorian calendar (the current one) corresponds to the first month. February it is the desert, death, March it is the burial and April marks the birth, resurrection, the birth of lambs, the flowering of grapes and even Jesus would have been born in April. See verse 1, "in the third year of Cyrus king of Persia.." But we know that 1993 was the year great events, especially positive, in the world such as multipartism in Africa and Ivory Coast, the collapse of Berlin Wall and the USSR, great changes in Asia, South Africa and Angola, peace between Israel and Palestine underwent some progress. All these things turned around year 1990. A wind of freedom and peace blew all over the world. In May 1990, the Kurds who took refuge in Turkey start to return to their country in the favour of an amnesty of Iraq. From 1963 when the seals were open up to this ministry, there are 40 years, one generation. Amen! 40 years after getting out of Egypt, the elect were on the other side of the Jordan! I told them that there is the Jordan between them and us. Somewhere in Africa, in a small country, the Almighty God spoke. We are no longer in the evening time, the Spirit has moved. It was in 1993 that Frederick De Klerc and Nelson Mandela received the peace Nobel Prize. It was a great sign before the international community.
11/ Brother, will there be particular attitudes in this Message?
… Yes, just some points. We can baptise only those who have accepted the Glad tidings "we are at midnight and the voice of Matth.25:6 has sounded for the last awakening of the Bride…" It is to that that we are called and it is on such a basis that we will be able to baptise. From that also, people will form independent assemblies and will preach there according as the Spirit will lead them. It’s up to them but as for the delivery and publication of the Message, that has been given to me from the heaven and no other writing should be undertaken by anybody in order to explain, support or expose the Message in details. Even if that seems good, know that I have warned you: it is the devil and you must be proved. Let the iniquitous behaviour of Ewald Frank serve you as a lesson! God has aroused a man, Kacou Philip, stick to that! Before the active phase of the awakening, it will always be so. The Message of midnight has entirely been given to me and I have never asked for the contribution, the support and opinion of anybody before or during the publication. And I have never rectified anything because that comes in the order of the infallibility.
Let’s pray! … Lord Jesus-Christ, Creator of the heaven and the earth, I have brought the Glad Tidings that You have given me and now confirm It Yourself by the confirmation that You will find worthy and may the elect find the way of the Kingdom. I, myself, O Father! May your grace be always with me because I am not in the number of those who are wise! If my heart reassures me on the way of perdition, may your Right Hand take me back! Lord, man cannot confirm what comes from the heaven while You are alive. That is why I have dared to say: Confirm it according to the confirmation that You want! Amen!
12/ Brother, the Bible talks about the veil, is it the hair or the headscarf?
It is about the hair. Let’s see 1 Co.11:1-16, if you notice, the same warning of verse 16 is in Corinthians 14:34-38 on woman’s behaviour. They are the same demons trying to introduce what God has not instituted. They perform the works of their father. Let them do it! In verse 6 already, the Bible says that if it is bad for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved, let her keep it. In verse 10, that is called a mark of man’s authority and we see that there is an innate desire in any woman to have long hair. What does the Bible say in verse 15? "if a woman has long hair, it is glory to her; for the long hair is given to her in lieu of a veil. ". It is a full-stop that is at the end and not a question mark. And Paul adds in verse 16, if somebody wants to be contentious, let him be contentious. You see? In the assembly of Corinth, people animated by the demon wanted to introduce false doctrines into the Church. Things that neither Paul nor the Apostles taught. Even Moses did not teach it. You see? And in Luke 7:38 when that woman wet the feet of Jesus with her tears and wiping them with her hair, Jesus should say: "put a scarf on your head!!" And when God created Eve, had He put a scarf on her head? I do not believe it! Remember the black girl in Song of Songs! Solomon could exclaim before that enchanting Shulamite: "Thou art fair, my love… Turn away thine eyes from me, For they overcome me. Thy hair is as a flock of goats On the slopes of Gilead." [Ed: Song of Songs 6:4-5]. You see? Wearing of the veil is an old Eastern tradition which existed even before Moses but it is especially the face which must be veiled. In Gen.24:65, we can see it. That’s what people wanted to transport to the Church. In Africa for example, there are traditions which want the woman or the junior one to bow when greeting. That’s very good! But should we make it a doctrine? That’s how the thing started. And it is not in 1 Co.11 where the problem arises that you must seek the foundation of wearing of the headscarf. While at the end of verse 15, it was the Greek word "Peribolaion" that was used and this word means first cover then veil. We can understand thus that it is about long hair in verses 5, 6 and 7. Now if you disagree with that, you can put on your headscarf. Your reason is somewhere else. If a sister has a scarf on her head for pleasure, there is no problem but if she thinks that it is that the veil then that’s wrong!
13/ Brother Philip, does the New Testament talk about the tithe? [February 2005]
No! Because the meaning is lost. It is rather talked of liberality. What means that it is no longer an obligation as we can see it in the churches. By the revelation of the Word, we know that God expects more than the tithe under the grace, while giving freedom to the person to act according as he is disposed to. The Church has no right to know if such a person or such a person pays the tithe or not. It concerns him and God who will return it to him. Offerings basket should not also be made to pass before people or make them stand to come and deposit the money before everyone. And we cannot give the tithe to any man called prophet or pastor. On the one hand it is for all the Levites, all those who do the work of God for the spread of the Word and on the other hand, for any brother or sister in need. The Church is not a cooperative; she can neither invest, nor trade. The faithful, yes! but not the pastor, his wife or the Church. Building schools, hospitals … is the mission of the State. The Church has a purely spiritual mission: save souls. Money must keep quiet in the Church, it is too dangerous.
There is also what is called the offerings of prosperity which are obligatory offerings that you give directly to a brother or a sister who you know to be in need. Either in kind or cash.
I would like to say also that if a church believes, here or elsewhere, they will remain entirely autonomous on the level of the tithes and offerings. They do not have to send us or make us know anything. They are not under our supervision. And a member of any assembly of this Message must not give me his tithe. He can, if he wills, give me a small present but his tithe and offerings, it is for his assembly. You see? That’s what the Bible says.
And know that no one has the right to spend a tithe. It is as if we ate a totem, a forbidden thing or a curse. If you did not know it, now you know it. For the offerings in the assemblies, they will be made only once at the end of the worship. My parents and friends must also know that I am poor. Since 2002, I have not bought any trousers nor shoe. We even drank some porridge of rice seasoned with salt (for lack of sugar) for a dinner. Apart from that, I am a man of God and it is for spiritual things that I must be needed.
14/Brother Philip, does theology have some positive aspects?
When God says that something is bad, do not try to find good things in it. First what does biology mean? [a brother answers: "study of life" ] Very good! What does geology mean? [a brother answers: "study of the ground " ] We know that the Greek word "theo " means God and "logy " means study. Thus theology means study of God. By definition, theology is the whole of the knowledge obtained by the means of the intelligence. And the Word is the whole of revealed truths. Theology is thus an initiative, a demonic pretention because we know that it is God Himself who reveals Himself or reveals his Word to whom He wills. That is why we cannot go into those catholic, protestant, evangelical, branhamist churches and others and that we cannot use the Louis Segond, Thompson, Scofield versions and others because it’s the work of theologians. If a fetish priest translates the Bible, even if that is well done, I will stay far away because I do not believe in fetishism and the spirit that stands behind is the devil. Here’s what Origen, a disciple of the Apostles, said and which is reported by the historian Daniel-Rops: "… theology is a science which is grounded on objects of faith but which draws its results from the intellectual order and that must be separated from revealed truths".
15/ Brother Philip, apart from the wise and foolish virgins, can it be something else here, among us?
Yes, of course! You will see their fruits. While we work to perfection, some agents of the devil are sitting here to hinder and destroy what we are doing. Do not be distracted. If you believe that it is God who has called and commissioned me, stick to that. They are here in order to prove our faith. Each one is sitting here covered with a prophetic mission apart from his own intentions. Now, notice this: if the wicked has to play a role here, God will give him to believe in this Message; the fact of believing in this Message does not mean that you are a child of God. You see? There will be thorns and thistles here, cancers, the enemies of inside fraternizing and eating the holy communion with us. But they always end up revealing what they are. A child of God does not persecute a child of God. I would say: a child of God does not persecute, does not trouble.
Another point: … no matter what you see through me, I want to be called "brother Philip", nothing other than that. And my wife, "sister Valerie". Not " sister Philip " or "mom…" but sister Valerie.
16/ Brother Philip, is predestination biblical?
[Ed.: Brother Philip preached on predestination. See Preach.21]Yes, all the Bible talks of it. It is of that that it is question in Romans 8: 29-30 and Acts13:48. But there is a mystery, there are some people who are not predestinated and who will be saved and vice versa, in an exceptional way. It is by blood that nationality is acquired. Israel spent 430 years in Egypt without obtaining it but people like Ruth, Rahab… had it by mere grace. If you notice, in Rev.7, the tribes of Dan and Ephraim were blotted out because of idolatry (1Kings 12:25-30, Hosea 4:17). They were replaced by Manasseh and Levi. But God knew before the founding of the world that things would be that way.
17/ Brother, what is the place of the evening Message in That of Midnight?
They are two Messages at different times but of the same Spirit and of the same age. I would say another scope of the first Message. When Calvin started to preach the Reformation, the Message of Martin Luther was then outdated. However it was the same age, the same Spirit and Luther remained the father of the Reformation like William Branham today.
You can no more return to the evening time. The adjourned manna should not be consumed, should not be mixed with that of today. Esther 2:15; take simply what it pleased God to give for your time. If we have to read the writings of Wesley today, that will be a total confusion. For example the simple fact that pentecostals, methodists, baptists… talk about the second coming of Jesus-Christ, William Branham regards them as virgins according to Matth.25. That was acceptable in the evening time but not at midnight because we have a clearer revelation on that and some people that the Bible calls prostitutes cannot be virgin. You see? And remember always the preaching: "the two dispensations" [Ed: On 1 Kings 13 ] where some branhamists who came to take part in a denominational convention sponsored by Jeroboam, a pagan, reported to their pastors what this prophet of midnight, with whom God was now dealing, had done over there. Yet, God had told him never to return by the way of the evening time through which he had reached midnight and especially never eat over there. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!] And 1 Kings 13 shows that our adversaries, it is neither Jeroboam nor the priests of high places but branhamists, the children of the old prophet of the same God as us.
18/ Brother Philip, what will this awakening of the Bride consist in?
Amen! I am inspired. Very well! You see? The present we give to a little girl, it is a doll because she is called to be a mother. But to little boys, we give guns because they are called to be soldiers. Thus do I regard all the brethren who enter here like future preachers. After only a year, some brethren will pass here behind the pulpit and outside. Each brother will pass through this military service because there is a great spiritual war which we will be confronted to. That is what Jesus did and that’s what eagles and lions do with their young, why? Because they are called to hunt. Have men’s behaviour, what soldiers are outside, that’s what we are. We do not know which fate God has in store for us but we will assume it. Here is the Gospel that I have come to deliver! Each time I speak of awakening, I am inspired. Within two or three years you will remember these things when you spend the night lost in the bush without eating, without bathing, another phase of the perfection. God has caused the conscience of those churches to sleep until the appointed time before waking them up against us. It is at present the period of which the Lord said: "and trimmed their torches". It is now that everything is done. This Word is intended for the fall of the ones and the rising up of several. The same flood which raised Noah and his swallowed up the unbelievers, let’s be strong, we are another race of preachers and the Word of God in our mouth must be a rod of iron, judgment and condemnation. It is this host that appears in Rev.19. It is of that also that the Bible talks in Rev.12:16, this earth is the male son, amen! The Holy Spirit rides the holy Church in that awakening that the Cry of midnight will introduce. Rev.19:11 to 16 takes place at the end of the age of Laodicea. In the evening time, He was the "the Faithful and True witness", Rev.3:14, but here He is "the Faithful and True", that is to say, at work. We are the manifestation of the Word of God. The churches that you see will encourage the authorities, organisations… against us according to Rev.12v15, but the male son (the wise virgins) will contain this attack! Alleluia! What do we see on the head of that horseman of Rev.19:11? Many diadems, not crowns of kings but diadems of queens, the virgins of Matth.25. It is the moment when the pyramid of the seven ages on which I was standing in the vision of April 24, 1993 receives its cap stone. I was told: "'' The same way that Mary conceived miraculously, without knowing any man, the same way Moses received in details what happened at the creation, you have received the words of eternal Life on this April 24, 1993 and It is decreed by God. At the appointed time, you will understand and you will teach what you did not learn in order that whoever believes has eternal Life'''' "You see? No matter the cost, do not move away from that.
19/Brother Philip, will there be particular calls among us?
Particular calls, no! For we have the same call. You were called at the same time as me. When in the vision, I was standing upon the pyramid, you were there. You see? Provided that I mandate you, God will recognize you. I have received such a call because my ministry is described in the Bible. If you notice, the first and the last terrestrial angel received mysterious calls, thing that is not the case for the five others. The midnight Cry is in the Old Testament, in the Gospels and all the rest of the Bible up to Revelation. You see? All you need it is the Word and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Your goal and concern must be having a perfect mastery of the Bible and this Message, so that you may be able to shut anyone’s mouth. You must have therefore at least a general knowledge of the churches, their practices and their doctrines. Soldiers study the military tactics of each country. The Bible must be closer to you than your wife. Do not yield to any discussion but calm things down, do not yield to temptation. The devil tries to move them away, try to bring them back. But on the field, it will be another thing. There, follow what the Spirit will tell you. If He tells you to smite with leprosy, blindness, paralysis, epilepsy… smite! For it is also in that that the miracles in this awakening will consist. There will be miracles of judgement as in Egypt with Moses. It is exactly the way things will happen! I predict it so that you may not be surprised. You see? The earth of Rev.12:16 is the male son. They are thus not the kinds of awakening and miracle that we are used to seeing. They are the same miracles that the two anointed ones of Revelation.11 will perform.
20/ Brother Philip, are you an 8 th messenger as some say?
If there is an eighth messenger, it is you who are getting me informed. My Bible does not talk about it. If somebody tells you that Kacou Philip says he is an 8 th messenger, ask him where that is written in the Bible and where I said that. If he says he heard it, you know that you are in front of a son of the devil. I have never claimed to be what I am not. It is the Message I preach that bears witness of me. What I know is that I am the voice of Matthew 25:6.
21/ Brother, is there a mystery in Matth.17:1-8, the transfiguration?
Yes, they are the elements of the millennium. From this corruptible body, we will pass onto the heavenly body after the resurrection then the glorified body in the millennium. Moses and Elijah appeared. Moses, it is the law but you must especially see the sleeping virgins who will resuscitate there, on the other hand Elijah typifies the living saints who will not pass through death. In verse 8, the law and the prophets melted in Jesus. And we can see three heavenly witnesses there: Moses, Elijah and the Lord. And also three terrestrial witnesses: Peter, James and John who typify the Jews. The multitude down the mountain, they are the nations. All that, they are the elements of the millennium.
22/ I can notice that you talk less of Jesus!
It is all you have noticed of what I’ve preached? Know thus that I have not come to talk about Jesus but I have come to speak on his behalf, I am his mouthpiece. Everyone can talk of the president of the republic but he that he sends never talk of him but speaks on his behalf.
23/Brother Philip, what does "I return to the right-hand of the Father" mean?
Yes, the right expression is "I return" and not "I go" because the Father it is Jesus Himself. Jesus-Christ is the Almighty God, the Creator of the heaven and earth, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the Eternal, the Angel of Jehovah, Melchisedec, Jehovah, the Pillar of cloud and the Pillar of fire… When you read the psalms, replace all that is "Jehovah" by Jesus-Christ. When He says: "I return to the Father, He returns to his position of Spirit, that Light that went before the children of Israel, Exodus 13:21-22. In Acts 9, that Light said to Paul: "I am Jesus". When He says I return to the right hand of God, the right hand, it is strength, power; and the Power of God it is the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit it is God Himself. Jesus-Christ has been manifested in flesh… and being omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, He can even, by only one attribute, show himself at forty places, at the same time, differently, under different forms.
24/Brother, what attitude should a follower have when he is persecuted?
Whatever your age or your social position; whatever the time and the circumstance; whatever what that will cost you, do not back away. If there is something to privilege, it is not your life or your future but the Word. If that must be a cross for you, carry it! … Do you find it normal that somebody who is living in adultery and who discovers the Word may say: "let me do it for the last time! "? You see? Even if you have a contract with that woman, even if you have some responsibilities in those churches, do not go back there any more. It will be a sin de trop! When you lay our hand on the plough, you do not look back. When you find the Truth, do not make any calculation, go forth! You might lose all your dignity, die and be buried like a dog but that’s also the narrow path that the Apostles chose and which exit is the eternal glory. Do not touch any vomit. And for what binds your soul, do not yield to the temptation or opposition of somebody even if you are dependent on him. If you have really discovered the Truth and you yield, you are not excusable. And I cannot qualify an opposition of parents a persecution; they are mere tests that cannot overcome our faith. In the Bible, the prophets, the Apostles and the saints always resisted until death. If the Church must not subject herself to Satan, why does the Christian subject himself to the perverse obligations of his family? The only manner of prohibiting somebody to go to church, it is to show him through the Bible that that church does not have any biblical foundation? Giving up faith for those things, it is a pretext. You see? That’s it. Even if you have to resist to blood, resist! In the history of the Church, thousands of teenagers often died in terrible and atrocious tortures. Their feet, their hands, their tongues were cut, they were burnt naked, both boys and girls tied up around some posts, melted lead was poured into their ears, nostrils, and into their mouth until death comes along. You see? Your acts will, one day, come in remembrance before God, that’s why you must give Him glory. God is expecting much more from us who arrived at the end of time.
25/ Brother Philip, I come from the evening time and I have a concern; Brother Branham said in the brochure "the rapture" that the midnight Cry is his Message. He also said that the Spirit of Elijah will come five times on the earth. What is it of it?
Well, the first part is: "Brother Branham said in the brochure" the rapture "that the midnight Cry is his Message". What does the midnight Cry say? "This Message says that we are no longer in the evening time but at midnight. However it is the same age and same Spirit of Elijah, but a "new" Message which is a high scope of That of the evening time. ". And the Angel said to him in the Ohio River while he was about to baptise the seventeenth person: "… you’re with A Message that will bring forth the forerunning of my Second Coming". You see? Not THE message but A message because it is only a part of the whole Message. But in all that, if you are not a worshipper of Branham, you must know that "the evening time" is different from "midnight" and the Bible says in Matth.25:6 that the Cry, it is at midnight. It is not because W. Branham says that his Message is the midnight Cry that it should be taken literally. When Isaiah said: " For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name is called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty *God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace." didn't we have to wait eight hundred years to see the fulfillment? You see? Branhamists do not understand and do not agree on this brochure of William Branham that’s why Ewald Frank has not yet published it. The second part of the question is: "He also said that the Spirit of Elijah will come five times on the earth ". May God bless you brother because your faith overcame these concerns to bring you here before you can understand them. Brother, you must bear one thing in mind, I entirely agree with the fact that the Spirit of Elijah will come five times but neither you, nor William Branham, nor I know how many people this Spirit will arouse when He comes on the earth. I am of those who believe that W. Branham died but that the same Spirit of Elijah, the same Pillar of Fire and the same Pillar of cloud is still on the earth. [The brother says: Amen!]. Until the Lord comes, it is the Spirit of Elijah and when Rev.22:17 says that "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come Lord Jesus", it is the Spirit of Elijah. [The brother says: Amen!]. You see? The Bible announced only seven messengers for the Church but they are the seven Spirits of God and we cannot count how many people they will use. Brother, as you believed before trying to understand, I also wanted to answer you in return as a brother. Jesus could say: "this one also is a son of Abraham". You see that Malachi 4 talks of an Elijah who will come but in the fulfilment, it’s neither question of Elijah the Tishbite nor of only one person nor even of the same period. And now, at midnight, if I say that the Spirit of Elijah shall come six or seven times, what matters to you? Only believe! [Ed: the congregation says "Amen!"].
26/ Brother Philip, I do not understand Rev.21:9-10. What did John see?
What? Rev.21:9… let’s read that: "And there came one of the seven angels which had had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the Spirit, and set me on a great and high mountain, and shewed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, having the glory of God." You see? Now, notice that the angel told John to come and see the whole of the wise virgins coming down out of the heaven for the millennium. They are people that the angel showed John. But John saw from very far away, John saw us from so far beyond the clouds that he could not distinguish our human forms. You see? And this myriad of people took the shape of a city and that’s what John described. Actually, it is thus not question of any house or city. Have you seen the photography of the Pillar of cloud? It is said that it is a mysterious cloud of several kilometres in length and several kilometres wide above Flagstaff, Arizona but the prophet saw seven angels. I believe… the dimensions of that cloud… [A brother says: 80 km long and 48 km wide] Thank you brother. You see? What did they see in Tucson, Arizona? The fulfilment of Luke 21:27. The Bridegroom coming down in clouds with power and great glory. You see? From near, John would see people. And nature itself teaches this phenomenon to us: there are birds which, flying in group, form beautiful images in the sky. That’s simply what John had seen.
28/Brother Philip, can Satan give a revelation to a man filled with the Holy Spirit?
Oh brother, the reception of the Holy Spirit does not set you above God! The Bible says that… Have you ever read Job 1? Wait! Take Matth.4, what happened? "Then the devil takes him to the holy city, and sets him upon the edge of the temple, and says to him: … the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory, and says to him:… "What is it? It is simply in visions that the devil showed these things to the Lord. And if you understand that, know that the servant is not greater than his Master.
29/ Brother Philip, we have a television which, apart from news, reports and documentaries, is used to see CD of the Message using the VCD player…
Well… This is in order if the man and his wife are the only ones to turn them on and off. You see? That’s it!
30/ Brother Philip, it happens that non-Christians wish to marry us. What do we have to do?
First know that you are in two different worlds. And that a domestic animal does not go and take its female in the bush. However there is no animal more beautiful and even tasty than wild animals. Hunters know it but notice that God does not have any delight in those wild animals for his holocausts. You see? They are two worlds too much different. We can only see in the light but they can see in darkness because they are children of darkness. And I can’t see myself giving them my daughter but, sisters, what I can tell you as an advice is not to be insolent towards them. We do not know what God can do. Tell him to come to the Message if he wants to marry you. And your pastor will deal with the rest. [The sister says: thank you Brother Philip].
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