THE MEANING OF "MESSAGE OF THE HOUR"
(Preached on Sunday May 14, 2006 morning, Assembly of Abobo, Abidjan – Ivory Coast)
In the same way, he that conducts the public confession, has to be spiritual. Because in the case of an opposition and other, he has the last word like the referee on the pitch, him or one of the five ministries. And concerning interventions on confessions, one intervenes in the congregation when this intervention edifies all the assembly if not one can advise his brother after the service. If the regular interventions of a brother do not edify the assembly, let him keep silent forever. And if an old brother often confesses or three times successively, the elders must hear him and if he is a soft brother he won’t not only be able to take the holy communion but he shan’t confess any more because he does not draw any profit from the public confession and he makes it a formality and a pretext of sin. He shall be considered a pagan.
Also, I have just got the English version of Darby, the version of 1884 and I went straight to see what is said in Rev.12:18 and there is no verse 18 to Rev.12 and the first verse of Rev. 13 is:…let me read Rev.13:1:"And I stood upon the sand of the sea; and I saw a beast rising out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads names of blasphemy." What is translated: [...] [Ed: French] There is nowhere any verse 18 for Rev.12 nor "It stood upon the sand of the sea…" as King James, Louis Segond and others claim it. And before I had seen that I said here that it was rather: "And I stood upon the sand of the sea..." because it is the Spirit that is in me who is the Author of the Bible.
May God bless you! We have a special meeting this morning. And you are welcome, you who are here for the first time.
Well! From March 28th night to the 29th, brother Fofana had stayed overnight because the completion work of the edition "integral text". And on March 29 morning while I was finishing that off, there was the total eclipse on the four continents. I said: "But what can mean? Why this coincidence?" And I have received a certain number of phone calls among which that of Fofana who specified the mysterious trajectory of that eclipse. That 180 km wide eclipse crossed 14, 500 kilometres going from America to Asia through Africa. You see? That black band went from America up to Asia. It was by seeing that trajectory that I understood the prophetic scope of that sign in complement to matth.24:27 which says: as the lightning goes forth from the east and shines to the west… You see? It is also by this way that the eclipse goes forth from the West and shines to the East. That went from Brazil and crossed Black Africa to join up the East through Egypt, exactly as God showed in the preaching on Mark 13:35 [No.35].You see? Leaving Brazil, that went through these countries… how is that called? Martinique, Haiti and other… that is Matth.24:27 and Mark 13:35. You see? In the evening time, people said and are still saying: "It’s a mere cloud of Tucson ", but the prophet said: it is a prophetic sign. That’s it! It is not a mere eclipse. How many remember that the vision of April 24, 1993 talks about an eclipse. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!]. You see? At the moment when the interpretation of the unknown language was about to be granted to the prophet, there was an eclipse in the vision and at the moment when that was about to be given to the whole world there was a total eclipse on the face of the earth. For the pagan world, it is a beautiful spectacle and several people travelled from Europe to go and see that in Egypt, Libya and Turkey. That entertains them. All the radio channels in the world spoke about it, astronauts were mobilised. But the churches, including branhamists, were indifferent. Why? Because William Branham did not talk about it. You see? I am not against the branhamist faith. They have the apostolic faith that is why God gave them the Pillar of fire. And if you are before a good branhamist, he will say: "what you are saying is good but what sign… has God vindicated him? What sign will he give for us to believe ".You see? What does Matth.12:38 say? We desire to see a sign. Their fathers, the sons of the devil having the Message of Moses as their cover and brandishing Exodus 13:22, after they intimidated all the prophets with whom the Pillar of fire was not visible, they got to Jesus. You see? They said: "We don’t believe unless our eyes see!" You see? What do branhamists say? What did Thomas, the symbol of the apostolic faith, do. You see? …
Well, this morning, I would like to preach on the subject: The meaning of Message of the hour. I have tried to find a basic verse for this preaching but I have not found any yet. If I ‘m not finding any, consider that it is Matth.25:6. For his ministry, Jesus only read Isaiah 61:1-2. Well, what does "Message of the hour" mean? It is about that I want to speak this morning.
Well, one day, God sent a man to humanity. That man was Noah. What did he say in his preaching? I do not know. Moses did not know it! Jeremiah, Samuel, Isaiah, Branham, Wesley… did not know it! Why therefore did not God, through Moses or one of the prophets, reveal what Noah said? Because it was not necessary! When Moses was preaching, Noah’s Message was worthless because there was another generation, another lifestyle, another vision, another mission … the book of Noah’s Message, the Jews in Egypt did not need it. And today, May 14, 2006, we do not need it…
Thus, there were Moses, Samuel, Isaiah… Well, after Isaiah, there was Jeremiah. And while Jeremiah was prophesying, how many books could the Bible of the Jews contain? … [Ed: the congregation says: 23 books].Very good, I can see that you are in the spirit of preaching. From Genesis to Isaiah, that makes 23 books. Well, the Jews had already 23 books when Jeremiah was prophesying. Yet, those 23 books the Jews did not need them if they had at all times obeyed God. But notice however that the most significant book of all the prophetic books was a certain book of the Message of Jeremiah. And this book was fought against, burnt once by king Jehoiakim, ridiculed like Jeremiah himself. Jeremiah was himself alive and hated by all. In those days, the living Word of God was contained in a book and that book for the elect had much more value than the book of Samuel, the book of Exodus, the book of Isaiah… That is what the branhamists do not understand! Be it today or in twenty years or in forty years or even in two hundred years, the Message of William Branham will always be the Word of God like the book of Haggai or Zephania but it is only worthless, it can no longer give Life to anybody! It is the Message of another generation. Let’s suppose that we were living in year 606 before our era, with that Bible of 23 books going from Genesis to Isaiah, the will of God for us would neither be in the book of Exodus, nor in the book of Esther, nor in the book of 2 Samuel but in the book containing the Message of a Jeremiah, setting himself up as a prophet-messenger and declaring that his green book bearing an eagle on its cover had the same prophetic value as any of the 23 books of their Bible. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!]. People said: "You said that our churches were nets of Satan, we accepted. You said that our versions of bibles were fetishes, we accepted. You said that our holy spirit was the devil, we accepted but this time, we can see that you are the antichrist, you’ve unveiled yourself!…". Jeremiah told them: "The prophets whose books you have in your Bible, it is in this way that your fathers treated them and that does not surprise me if you do not understand me!". While those ones were speaking that way before Jeremiah, others were there, with tears in their eyes saying in their heart: "oohh God! Blessed you be! Because it is today that I realise the value and the goal of the Bible I carry. It is today that I see and even the Message that I’ve been believing for long, it is today that I understand what it is! …". [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].You see? Jeremiah told them: "Your Bible, it is an old history! If somebody believes in me and follows me without having any Bible, he is saved because I am the light of the world and the bread which has come down out of Heaven for you!". They said: "This man is mad! Why do we waste our time listening to him? He wants to makes himself the equal of Brother Isaiah!". And Jeremiah added: "Today, the Word of Jesus of Nazareth cannot save you!" And there, they sought to kill him saying: "Somebody who says that the Word of Jesus cannot save, if somebody kills him, is it a sin?" There was a rabbi who said: "No! Moses says that in this case it is not a sin!". And they were full of anger! Notice that when Jeremiah entered the stage, the generation of Isaiah had just passed, 31 years ago, but people, Jews moreover, acted as if they had no notion of prophet. You see? Between Isaiah and Jeremiah, there is approximately 71 years, that is, a generation plus 31 years.
Jeremiah told them:"You are rejecting me but know that the work of God it is to recognize him that he has sent!". They retorted: "him that God has sent it is Moses!". One of them said:" we are not rejecting you but do not say that it is only you who holds the truth!" Another one said:"And show us where your name:"Jeremiah" is written in the Bible like Moses and Isaiah so that we can believe because the Bible says that several false prophets will come ". Jeremiah said: "I am alone against all your great number of prophets whose photographs are posted on the walls like agamas and you think that I am a false prophet while the Bible says that they are false prophets that will be numerous!".
Others said again to Jeremiah: "We do want to believe in your message but the Bible, does our Bible of 23 books confirm your message? Show us your message through our Bible! And we do not believe if it is not written in the Bible! Only the Bible because Moses said that false prophets would come ". Jeremiah shouted and said: "You sons of the devil, go away! By which Message or which Bible did Noah confirm his Message? By which Message or which Bible did Moses confirm his Message? By which Message or which Bible did Moses confirm the Genesis? If you want a confirmation, here is the eclipse of April 24 going from Brazil, from black America to Asia! [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!] Here is the eclipse of March 29, a sign coming from heaven for all the earth and any eye saw it! If not my Message is not in search of confirmation and my Message does not suffer from any confirmation!. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!] A Message does not seek any confirmation from another Message!" [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!]. It is rather you who must seek my confirmation in your Bible, it is you who need a confirmation! Look for some! You see? In the evening time, God gave a great sign coming from heaven and any eye had seen that. A natural cloud for people but a supernatural for God. And the prophet could say: "Turn like this and you will see!" and when they turned it, they saw the supernatural side. And if only the world can turn the photograph of that eclipse, it will see that it is a sign coming from God in confirmation of this Message. The Bible said: For as the lightning goes forth from the east to the west. That forms a semi-circle, but where is the other half of the big circle of the earth? Like the rainbow, behold the other half here, on this side, going from the West to the East. What is it? God Himself has spoken! It is over!
Jeremiah did not seek the confirmation of his Message in any of the 23 book before him. Neither in the book of Samuel, nor in the book of Leviticus, nor in the book of Isaiah…If you think that the purpose of a Bible is to confirm Messages or to be a support for the preachings of the churches then you have not understood anything of Christianity! You see? And return each book to its generation and you will see that: "bible Institute", "pastoral School" and all that does not mean anything and the world is not in need of it! Return each book to its generation and you will see that you are naked! This is madness! When you see in the Bible: "Book of Isaiah", understand through that: "Book of the generation of the prophet Isaiah "or "Book of the prophet Isaiah for his generation". The current Christianity has missed its mission! You see? Reject the Message of your time and do whatever you want, put the photograph of Jesus, Peter, Mary, Mary of Magdala in your living room, hang crosses on the wall… but you are an impostor! You are only a madman! God sees you as we see a madman with bags and luggage of nothing!
They told Jeremiah: "Are you without sin for you to speak to us in that manner?" Jeremiah told them:"do you know the life of the prophets and messengers whose books you carry in your Bible? You claim yourselves of such and such messenger and prophet. At the judgement, those of whom they are really the fathers, when they see them, they will recognize them but you, you are graftings, bats!"
And when Nebuchadnezzar was coming to destroy Jerusalem, the priests and prophets proclaimed Esther fasts, Jehoshaphat fasts… instead of coming to Jeremiah. And they even made king Zedekiah, a pagan, fast! They made all they could to dress king Zedekiah like a lamb of God, they called him Solomon, Moses, Joseph, David… and all the names of good kings whom Israel knew but when it was to him to say who he was, he said: "I am Soundiata Kéita!", a pagan king! [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!] You see? A pagan king! All the prophets and priests wrote in their book, "king Zedekiah walked in the way of David and did not turn aside out of it, neither on the left nor on the right…" But Jeremiah wrote in its book "king Zedekiah did not follow the way of David…". And it was exactly thus with Ahab. You see? Ahab offered many holocausts like Solomon and prophets said: "Jehovah says that you are David, go up and fight today like David!".
And the same prophets prophesied on his wife, Jezebel the Zidonian, saying: "Jehovah says that you are Esther!". And after Elijah, God sent Micah, a small prophet who did not have as much influence as Elijah but he had a special feature, God revealed the evil spirits that used the other prophets to him. And this prophet who came after Elijah gave only one prophecy to Ahab: " If thou return at all in peace, Jehovah has not spoken to me " You see? "If his throne becomes stronger at peace then I am not a man of God and God did not speak to me at all ". That’s all! It is the only sign! [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].
You see? It is not that Ahab wanted to go up and fight but they are his prophets who persuaded to. That’s why he disguised himself. And when this man drew this bow in the air, it was not directed against him but it was the "thus saith the Lord" of Elijah that seized this bow in the air, turned it and directed it towards Ahab. You see?
You see? There is no type in the Bible, we cannot say to this king: You are this king or do like that king! And we cannot say to a generation: "the Message of this prophet to his generation is also to you", even if things are like. Has God done that once? You’d better look for living Jesus-Christ for your generation and when you find Him, make it known to Kacou Philip so that we may all go to worship Him. If not know that you have a historical faith and that you will go into hell.
When Jeremiah, the prophet-messenger declared that his green book with an eagle on its cover had much more value than any of the 23 books of their Bible, some said: "It is a blasphemy!", others despised him, hated him especially since he did not have an influential appearance. You see?
What should they do to escape Nebuchadnezzar? What should they do to… Should they go to Egypt or not? The answer was in the book of Jeremiah, not with the priests, the scribes but with Jeremiah. The answer was not with the other prophets who existed before Jeremiah or at the time of Jeremiah but with Jeremiah.
You see? When Jeremiah was prophesying, the children of God had already given to his book, more value than each of the 23 books of their Bible. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!]. The green book had much more value for them than each of the 23 books of their Bible. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!] When Abdias was prophesying, the children of God had already given to the book of Abdias, a greater value than each of the 30 books of their Bible.[Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].When Amos was prophesying, the children of God had already given to his book, much more value than each of the 29 books of their Bible. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].
And it was so for each prophet during his ministry and his generation. When the small prophet Abdias was performing his ministry, in year 599 before our era, for that year 599, the living Word of God, it was not one of the 30 books which their Bible had then but the living Word of God, it was Abdias’ small sheet of paper. It is never a scribe or a priest but only one prophet-messenger. You see? And if that is the case, the will of God will never come to a pastor, apostle or doctor or evangelist or prophet but rather to a prophet- messenger. That is why I say that no prophet, pastor, evangelist, reverend, apostle or doctor or other outside the prophet-messenger can write a book. With Jews, those who are in charge of writing are the scribes and they wrote Jews’ books of history which are the books of Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, and what else?… but have you seen in the Bible the book of the scribe this? Or the book of the priest that? The book of the chief priest this? Did the chief priest Abiathar write? Did the chief priest Elnathan write? Did the chief priest Zadok write? But see these churches of Satan today! See these children of the devil! Some others wrote four, five, six books! And yet, Habakkuk: one book, Daniel: one book, Ezekiel: one book, Malachi, Amos, Joel…Do not be distracted! God will swallow them all up, them and those who read them or listen to them. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].
Well, let’s come back to John the Baptist now… oh! I’m going to take the case of Jesus to go more quickly. Well, when Jesus was preaching, the Bible contained 39 books, going from Genesis to Malachi. For Jews, until the end of the world, there will be only 39 books. However, the living Word of God for them, it was the words of the Lord Jesus-Christ. When Jesus was preaching, the book that was valuable to them was not contained in their Bible of 39 books. You see? That is what we are confronted to today. If the world stopped at the time of Isaiah, Jews would not know that the Bible would go beyond 23 books one day. If the world stopped at John the Baptist’s, Jews would not know that the Bible would go beyond 39 books. And humanity does not know that at the judgement it will see itself before more than 66 books. And in Rev.20:12, John recognized the Bible as being the book of life that he knew on earth, the Bible he knows but as for the other books, he does not say anything! That’s it! Rev.20:12 says: "books were opened; and another book was opened …" You see? But Daniel 7 says: "thrones were set ... And the judgment was set, and the books were opened.… ".Daniel saw the final judgement, the Spirit of Daniel entered into in the counsel of God’s judgement. Daniel means: "Who judges for God". And I have been led several times to speak about the final judgement and what it will be because it is the Spirit of Daniel. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].You see? Each generation, one book for the judgement; each generation, one book; each generation, one book! It was not only the unknown language that Daniel saw but Daniel saw all these things and at the moment when his Spirit comes back on earth, the earth receives what it is of it![Ed: the congregation says: Amen!]. Gentlemen and Ladies, put your old beliefs down and your intellectual luggage and your reasonings and you will see that it is the Spirit of Elijah, Daniel and Jesus-Christ that are working through this ministry of Matth.25:6 without your being explained anything![Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].What will save you or will condemn you is only in the prophetic Message of your time! [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!]. In the Message of Noah are the judgment and the redemption for his generation only. We will not be able to tell Korah and Dathan, what attitude had you had before the Message of Noah. We will not be able to tell Osborn and his group, what attitude had you had when Jews was sawing Isaiah into pieces. We will not be able to tell the generation of William Branham that has not heard this Message, if…In Act.19, if those disciples of John the Baptist died before having met Paul, they were saved without the baptism of the Holy Spirit and with their baptism of repentance. But having met Paul, if they refused to be re-baptised, they were going straight to hell! [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].You see? I see that you understand! So explain it to branhamists!
Each generation will come up before the Message of its time. You see? If a Bible were to be presented in the millennium, it would have more than 66 books and the prophetic book of God to this generation would be inserted in it. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!]. Thus from 1906 to 2002, one book, William Marrion Branham’s, so from 1965 to 2002, no book and since 2002, the book of the midnight Cry. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].You see? It is the book of the Bible for this generation. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].You have heard that it is the book containing the Message that enlightens the Bible but it is more than that. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].God does not send a Message to enlighten the Bible! [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!]. It is the book of the Bible for our generation. It is the most living book of the Bible for our generation. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].It is the most living book of the Bible for any chosen one today. More living than the book of Isaiah. More living than the book of Jeremiah! More living than the book of Joel! More living than the book of Malachi! …Oh! Glorious Message! Precious Light![Ed: the congregation says:"Amen!" to teach sentence].
The Bible has the same value as the history of the Church of the Nations about the acts of Jan Huss, Martin Luther, John Wesley and others. I cannot thus believe in what Luther did in 1520 and be saved. And if one can believe in a forty-year ago past Message to be saved, I will believe in that of Moses, Jeremiah or Isaiah as the pharisees did it before Jesus! I’d better believe in Noah, Moses, Isaiah or one of the prophets that the Bible has itself authenticated. And if in 2002, after having rejected the midnight Cry, one can comfortably set himself in Branham’s seat and be saved then Jesus-Christ has to apologise to the pharisees. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].You see? Even the devil confesses that we are at midnight and how will a son of God be unaware of it? Ewald Frank says that we are at midnight and that his circular letters have to be regarded as the midnight Cry. I emphasize that he started publishing circular letters since 1966. Alexis Barilier says that: "the midnight cry is emitted by the Lord Himself through several servants of God…"
At the judgement, when the generation of Amos or Jeremiah comes, will they be judged with Noah’s Message or Branham’s? No! According to Rev.22:12. At the judgement of the white throne, which book will God judge you with? With Jeremiah’s book? Are you of the generation of Jeremiah? Do you Know Pashhur? Do you know Baruch, the son of Nerijah? You know Jehoiakim? Do you know Zedekiah? When you were on earth, the leader of Israel, is it Zedekiah or Ariel Sharon? You see? Stop seducing yourselves! Did you support or oppose Jeremiah in his afflictions? You see? You have nothing to do with the generations of these books of Jeremiah, Isaiah or whatever else. Like Noah, Abel and Enoch, Jeremiah’s book could not even be added to the Bible and God was going to achieve his goal even today. Be it the book of Matthew, Luke or whatever, it is the same! But at the judgement, there is a book that will be opened and when you hear names like Osborn, Ewald Frank, Kacou Philip, then that will mean something to you. You see? When you hear "Daniel 11" or "1 Kings 19", you will say: "I heard that on the earth!" But a man of Noah’s generation will say:"But what’s that?" Similarly when you see Noah's Ark you will say: "But what is this large boat? It must be a fishing vessel, or a goods boat!" But somebody of Noah’s generation will exclaim: "Oh! It is Noah's Ark!" You see? In the beginning was already Jesus, the Word. Thus, the Message of Jeremiah, it is living Jesus-Christ for the generation of Jeremiah. The Message of Noah, it is living Jesus-Christ for the generation of Noah. The Message of Amos, it is living Jesus-Christ for the generation of Amos. Jesus-Christ, Himself, preaching in the streets of Jerusalem, it is living Jesus-Christ for the generation of Peter, John, Mary of Magdala and others. The midnight Cry, it is living Jesus-Christ for our generation. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].
The solution to all the acts of Satan in the churches and in the life of people today, that is not in any book of the Bible unless in the book of the prophet… of the hour. You say:"I see too many dreams, I feel some burning or fire sensations like Joseph Coleman, I…". The solution is neither in any of the 66 books of the Bible, nor in the Message of William Branham but in the book of the Message of the hour. The most important book of the Bible for this generation is the book of Matth.25:6. "THE MIDNIGHT CRY HAS SOUNDED". [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].You see? Well, let’s come back to… the branhamist Joseph Coleman feels burning sensations from his head to his toes. Sensations of pin and needles as well. You see? At the beginning, when he felt those fire sensations, he certainly considered them good as it is the case of a multitude of people, saying that it is the fire of the Holy Spirit. But when the thing got worrying, he asked his followers to pray for him! Yet if you the master, you are possessed by the demon, how will the students be able to deliver you? Yet, those fire sensations are a physical manifestation of the spirit of divination. You see? If he dies before he has heard the midnight Cry I do not know his fate but if he hears the midnight Cry and rejects, he will go into hell. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!].
And if a man of the generation of Moses comes to put himself in the lot of Matth.25:6, it is like an Englishman among the Swahili. Did you notice what happened at the opening of the fifth seal? The Jews in time of grace ask God to avenge their blood on the inhabitants on the earth. And about that, Ewald Frank asked William Branham one day if God still imputes to Germany the sin of the six million Jews killed under the Nazi regime? The answer is simple! If God imputed to all the Jews the blood of Jesus shed by Jews 1900 years ago, without exception, then the crime of the Germans rests on Ewald Frank and all the Germans. And if a son of God in Germany hears me, he will say: "O God! Your mercy for us!" And when Ewald Frank publishes the wisdom of Brother Branham saying that the fault falls on those who killed those Jews, it is a trap and act of a serpent to trap Germans! You say: "Brother Philip, there are churches who did not agree with that regime!" Yes! There were some Jews also who did not agree with the crucifixion of Jesus but they were all massacred or deported in year 70 without exception. Those churches should be opposed the massacres of those Jews at the risk of their life. What Ewald Frank should ask to Brother Branham, it is what Germany must do faced with this curse. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!]. You see? All the Jews did not crucify Jesus but they were all deported. You see? I do not know Ewald Frank, this cousin of pope Benedict XVI, but he is a powerful instrument in Satan’s hands. Perhaps he does not know it but that is what he is. You see? He distracts people, he even leads astray and benumbs people on insignificant things that even the Message of William Branham had gone past! If it is not a banal thing that occurred somewhere that he speaks of, it is of Islam if not of Rome or catholicism. Insignificant things! Outdated things! You see? As true as God exists, also true, Ewald Frank is the antichrist! He that has received power to mislead the elect if that were possible, it is Ewald Frank! Not the pope of Rome that Luther unveiled more than five hundred years ago but it is him, Ewald Frank. And like Osborn for the protestant dragon, just as the catholic pope receives authority to animate the image of the catholic dragon, similarly, Ewald Frank and Brother Branham’s children are today, the two seals of the physical manifestation of Satan who receive authority to animate the image of the branhamist dragon. [Ed: the congregation says: Amen!]. You see? Oh! That came like a prophecy. You see? These two animals are the two spirits that animate all this diversity of branhamist species who do not have any relationship between themselves and who cannot have the holy communion with one another…
Well, let’s come back a little again…Through the Bible, we, men of the nations, we see what behaviour people had before the prophets and what characterizes a true prophet. But what saves us is our behaviour before the Message of our time. If you think that all that is in such and such book of the Bible helps you to have a good position before the Message of your time, that’s very good because that is the greatest goal of the Bible. But if you think that the Message of this prophet to the Jews is what you must accept to be saved while living a good life, don’t you believe it! Reread your Bible and you will see that the Message of that prophet to the Jews is different from the Message of the other prophet who will come because it is not the same generation, it is not the same king… You see? What does God want to show to humanity through the Bible? A single and same Message: "RECOGNIZE YOUR DAY AND ITS MESSAGE!" If the Bible does not help you recognize your day of visitation and the Message of God to your generation then it is useless to have It. The goal of the Bible is not that you believe in the Message of Malachi or Zephaniah or the Gospel of Matthew to be saved.You see? Malachi, 2400 years ago. And if it is question of believing in a historical Jesus-Christ who walked in the streets of Jerusalem, all the churches would be pure of His blood. Each one would say: "If I were over there, I would not join the Jews to crucify Him". But God has always proved humanity by Jesus-Christ living in Word as in the streets of Jerusalem.You see? In the days of Elijah, you’d better believe and follow Elijah and ignore of all that the Bible said before him rather than follow all the law and the prophets of before Elijah and reject Elijah. In the days of the Jesus Lord, you’d better believe and follow Jesus and ignore of all that Moses and the prophets said before him.And that is what the pharisees did not understand. God said to Elijah: "Yet I have left you seven thousand in Israel whose knees that have not bowed unto Baal". Somebody might say: "I did not follow Elijah but my knees have not bowed unto Baal". No! That is not possible.You have done it and you are doing it without your knowing it. You see? … It is as if in the days of Noah, somebody could be saved outside the Arch…
This morning how many people would like to accept this Message? Please, simply raise your hands so that we can pray for you? If you believe this Message, if you believe that this is the fulfillment of Matth.25:6, and that…
QUESTIONS:
1 -Brother Philip, after our assembly has believed in the Message there are some brethren who refuse to be re-baptised, others also refuse to change their bible.What should we do?
Leave them alone! Do not oblige them![Ed: The brother says: "But Brother Philip, should we keep on calling them brethren?"] There, I do not know! Perhaps I will come on this question next time.
2 -Brother Philip, I’m putting my junior sister who rejected the Message up. She is catholic and she has a rosary and a small statue of Mary and she makes invocations in my house.What should I do?
The solution is not to chase her out of your house! If you can bear with him that has a Louis Segond or King James bible in your home, then you have to bear more easily with him that has a statue of Mary! And it is written that you shall love your neighbour as yourself, pray for him. They must only not hold any prayer meeting in your house.
[On Sunday.... December 2006, Brother Philip preached a preaching entitled: "ASTONISHMENT". After that, Brother Philip preached on Judges 12:6 and asked the assembly to have its eyes on that preaching forever].
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