DEWITT TABERNACLE TEACHING SERIES

 

“A STONE CUT OUT

 OF

THE          MOUNTAIN”

 

By  C. W. Wood                      March 2008

 

 

 

 

NOTICE: We interrupt our Revelation series to bring the message, “A Stone Cut out of the Mountain.”

        Daniel 2:1-5, “And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.

4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syria , O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.

5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.”

But, all the King’s men could not show the dream and the interpretation. In Daniel 2:19-22, God showed Daniel the dream and gave him the interpretation also.

Dan. 2:19-22, “then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of Heaven.

20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:

21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and sitteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

22 He revealeth the deep and secret thing: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

In Daniel 2:19-22, God showed Daniel the dream and gave him the interpretation also:

 

THE DREAM

AS GOD

SHOWED

 IT TO DANIEL

 

Dan. 2:31-35, “Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.

        32 This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

        33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

        34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

        35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

In Dan. 2:37-45¸ the Scripture gives Daniel’s interpretation of the dream to King Nebuchadnezzar.

Dan. 2:37-45, “Thou O king art a king of kings for the God of Heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.

38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.

39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, [but] it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

     45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream [is] certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

The king’s dream, and Daniel’s interpretation of it was given about 600 years before Christ came the first time!

We are going to be looking at the last part of the dream where a stone cut out of a mountain without hands struck the Image in its feet and toes (speaking of our end-time days).

We know this stone was Jesus Christ, but the king’s dream was not about The First Coming of Christ, which was about 2000 years ago! We now know (by our Prophet’s teaching) that the coming of the stone that Nebuchadnezzar saw was a coming of Christ (the Stone) after His Coming 2000 years ago and before He comes for the Rapture! It would be a Coming of Christ in a different way than anyone on Earth ever expected! It would be a coming between His coming 2000 years ago, and His coming for Bride at Rapture. It would be His coming on Sunset Mountain , which was the Mystery under the Seventh Seal.

QUOTE: THE SEVEN SEALS, PAGE 74, “At the sounding of the Seventh Church Age, the last church age, all the loose ends that through these church ages have been probed at, will be wound up together. And when the Seals are broken and the MYSTERY (singular) is revealed, down comes the Angel, the Messenger, Christ, setting His foot upon the land and upon the sea with a rainbow over His head, now remember, this seventh angel is on earth at the time of this coming.” (End quote)

What coming was this? It was Sunset Mountain 1963. The above statement is clearly a reference to Rev. 10:2, where the Lord Jesus came down and placed His Right Foot upon the sea, and His Left Foot upon the earth. We also know this to have happened in 1963 on Sunset Mountain in Arizona . Notice that he said, “When the Seals are broken, AND THE MYSTERY IS REVEALED, it is the result of a COMING OF CHRIST, while the Seventh Human Angel is on the earth. The MYSTERY (singular) that had been hidden under the Seventh Seal was this Coming of Christ in a DIFFERENT WAY than anyone expected. But the Prophet definitely spoke of it as “A COMING OF THE LORD.” But it was not The Rapture Coming, for that is still future, and the seventh earthly angel has now left the scene. It was the Coming of Christ, Himself, to reveal ALL THE MYSTERIES THAT HAD BEEN HIDDEN UNDER THE SEVEN SEALS while the Seventh Messenger, Brother William Branham, was still on Earth! Let the prophet explain this “ Different Way ” that the Lord came.

QUOTE: PROVING HIS WORD 1965, PAGE 41, “After nineteen hundred years, and we’re at the end of the Laodicea Church Age, He promised in Luke 17:30, that this same Son of Man (He promised it) would be revealed in the days like it was in Sodom upon the earth. DID HE DO IT? Does it have to come to pass? It’s impossible…(for it to fail). Now, remember, He come in three names: The Son of Man, a Prophet (a baby that grew up as a Prophet); The Son of God, the Spirit (on the Day of Pentecost); The Son of David, for the Millennium. BUT IN BETWEEN THIS CONJUNCTION, now according to His own Words, in the day when THE SON OF MAN shall be revealed, reveal Himself as what? Not Son of God, Son of Man. (He) will reveal Himself in a different way. Now, what does that make? Malachi 4, exactly right….He would manifest Himself as Son of Man again to make manifest Malachi 4. “And in that day I will send to you Elijah the Prophet, and he shall turn the hearts of the Children back to the Faith of the Apostolic Fathers…” (End quote)

Daniel saw Christ (The Stone cut out of the Mountain) come on Sunset Mountain . He saw Him smash Roman church power to pieces. Daniel saw the Mystery under the Seventh Seal revealed. It was the Coming of the Stone (Christ) on Sunset Mountain , who entered His Prophet and preached all the Mysteries under all the Seals. And these truths smashed the Image in its feet. It killed the last day world church power over the Bride. Daniel saw the End-Time Bride being set upon Earth as a fore-runner of God’s Eternal Kingdom !

Daniel, some 600 years before Jesus came the first time, saw Jesus, the Stone, come in the last part of the Seventh Church Age, just before Rapture! Daniel, in his interpretation of the King’s dream, saw Christ come and open the Seventh Seal. Daniel saw the Stone coming in the last part of the last, or Seventh Church Age (just before Rapture). How do we know that this is the time frame in which Daniel saw the Stone come? You’re going to have to listen close now to catch this, if you haven’t already seen it. We know from Scripture and Bible history and Brother Branham’s Message, what powers the different metals in the terrible Image represented:

1. Head of Gold represented King Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdom, the kingdom in power at time of Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream. History sets the time that each of the kingdoms was in power. Nebuchadnezzar ruled (from 605 B.C. until 539 B.C.).

2. The Breasts and Arms of Silver was the Medo-Persian Empire (from 539 B.C. to 331 B.C.).

3. The Belly and Thighs of Brass was the Grecian Empire (from 331 B.C. to 146 B.C.).       

4. Legs of Iron represented The Roman Empire (from 146 B.C. to 1453 A.D.) (The Roman Church Empire).

5. Now we are down to the Feet and Toes of the Image (The Iron and Clay). This last power was a spiritual power, the Roman Church Power, with her denominational daughters, in a World Church that had compromised Bible Truths in order to have unity. They represent the last world power that would be in existence at the time Daniel saw The Stone Come (The time of this Coming holds Revelation.) The time frame when this last great power was ruling (The Roman Church Power)….started around 1453 A.D. and will last until the Battle of Armageddon, when it will be destroyed!

This Kingdom was (is) The Roman Church Power that has now joined with the Protestant Daughters (denominations) who are fast going back into the Mother Harlot. They will all end up in the World Council of Churches together. But, as iron and clay will not mix, the Protestants will not agree (fully) with some of Rome ’s teaching. But they will work together and are doing so now! For several years, Brother Billy Graham has been sending his converts that were leaning towards Catholicism to Catholic Priest for instruction.

We are showing the time frame when the Rock (Christ) that Daniel saw was to come in. it would come and strike the Image in the feet! Not in the Head, not in the belly, not in the legs, but in the feet! 

In other words, the Catholics and the Protestants would be working together to make so called “converts” in a great world church

at the time The Rock (Christ) would come and strike the feet and toes. They represent this last powerful kingdom.

        Daniel 2:42-45, “And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

        43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

        44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

        45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces, the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

        QUOTE: DANIEL’S SEVENTY WEEKS, PAGE 114, “Now, if you wanted to, we could go back here now to Daniel the 2nd chapter, 34th verse, and 35th verse. And when Daniel was given—2nd chapter, 34 and 35—when Daniel had been given the vision that the days of his people were over for a certain time, and he seen the Gentiles coming in, and saw the vision of this great big stone here, or this great big image, had a head of gold and breast of silver (now watch, it gets harder silver to gold), next thighs of iron—or thighs of brass, and the, iron feet and legs. But the toes were ten toes, and those toes were iron and clay. And He said, “Insomuch that you seen that the iron would not mix with clay, these kingdoms dividedly will not mingle one with the other, but they will mingle their seeds together trying to break the power of the other one. See?

        Now, what’s happened, the head of gold was Nebuchadnezzar, which he interpreted, Said, “Another king shall come and be inferior to thee,” which was Darius, the Medo-Persian, taken the Gentile kingdom over. Next come in after the Medo-Persian, was what? The Greeks, Alexander the Great and so forth, the Grecians took the kingdom over. Then what took it over from the Greeks? The Romans. And who’s ruled the Gentile world ever since? Romans—Romans. Now, that was iron.

        Then notice, Rome exists to the end, because it went to the end of toes. And he seen mud, clay, and (that’s people, what we’re made out of)—iron, the strength of Rome , run in every one of those nations. And Rome has strength in every nation under Heaven. (End quote)

        QUOTE: DANIEL’S SEVENTY WEEKS, PAGE 115, “Now, notice in here at the end of this age…Now, Daniel, in the 2nd chapter, and the 34th and 35th verse, he watched this image with great consideration. And he watched it until a Stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and It rolled down and smote the image in the feet and broke that…Not…It never hit it on the head, now, hit it in the feet. That was the end time, them ten toes.

        Did you notice exactly here just before Mr. Eisenhower went out….The last meeting that they—he met with Russia , there were five Eastern communistic countries represented five Western countries (These ten countries are represented by the ten toes on the Image.) (End quote)

        Mr. Khrushchev was the head of the Eastern countries; Mr. Eisenhower was the head of the Western countries. And Khrushchev, as I understand and been told, that in Russia, the language, Khrushchev means “clay,” and Eisenhower means “iron,” in English. There’s your iron and clay will not mix. And he pulled off his shoe and beat the stand with it and everything else! It won’t mix! But it’s in the days of these empires that the rock Stone, that was hewed out of the mountain without hands, smote the image in the feet.” (End quote)

        In these quotes we see that the “Stone cut out of the mountain without hands” came before the Rapture! Now, how did Christ the Stone come in the End Days before the Rapture? He came in Rev. 10:1-3.

        Rev. 10:1-3, “And I saw another mighty angel come down from Heaven, clothes with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

        2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and His left foot on the earth.

        3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.”

        We know from our Prophet that these Scriptures were fulfilled in February 1963 in Arizona , on a mountain called Sunset!

        In the message “A Man That Can Turn on the Light” Dec. 29, 1963 , Jeffersonville , on pages 27-28, Br. Branham told a dream Br. Billy Paul had. It was about the Coming of the Stone cut out of the mountain, and the Prophet told Br. Billy that that time had already come. The Stone (Christ) had already come. It was history. He was clearly referring to his own ministry, showing that Jesus had come on Sunset Mountain and entered the Prophet. It was the opening of the Seven Seals, as given to the Prophet, which messages struck the Image in its feet and destroyed the hold of Rome and her Daughters over the Bride.

        Please read the dream in your own Message Book. We do not have space to quote it here.

        The Lord willing we will follow the sermon with one entitled “An American Pope in Rome , According to Prophecy.” Amen.

 

 

 

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