DEWITT
TABERNACLE TEACHING SERIES
CONTINUATION
OF
“THE
BOOK OF REVELATION”
AS REVEALED TO THE PROPHET,
WILLIAM
BRANHAM (NO. 2)
NOTE:
Please study this sermon in connection with our July 2007 sermon, “The Book of
Revelation” (NO. 1)
A
Prophet Visits
John
On
If we can accept this
word thus far, that all Bride existed in a supernatural body before the world
was, than let us go a step further. We would have to believe that our Prophet is
Bride and that he had a theophany body 2000 years ago when John the Revelator
was on the Isle of Patmos to receive the Book of Revelation.
Rev. 1:1 tells us that an angel gave the revelations to John. In
years past, we have supposed that this was a heavenly angel. This supposing was
because we did not have full revelation on other Scripture pertaining to this
mysterious subject.
When we read Rev. 19:9-10, we see that John tried to worship the
angel that was showing him all the revelations, but he was corrected by the
angel who said, “I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren, worship God.”
But John was so
overcome by the presence of this supernatural being that he tried the second
time to worship him, and was told in Rev. 22:9, “See
thou do it not…for I am thy brethren the prophets.”
There it is, the
angel who gave John the Book of Revelation was a prophet. In teaching on this,
Brother Branham said, in REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, PAGE 25, and
QUOTE: “And it was sent and signified this by His angel unto John. We do
not know who the angel was. The Bible doesn’t’ say who the angel was, but we
know it was a prophet, then we find out later that when John started to worship
the angel, the angel said, “See thou do
it not, (Rev. 22:9) and he said, “for
I am of thy fellow servants the prophets.”
CONT. QUOTE: ….
“It might have been Elijah; it might have been one of the prophets. John was
an Apostle, but this prophet was sent. Look at the nature of all the rest of the
Epistles. That proves it wasn’t John (who wrote the Book of Revelation)
because it has no nature like John. John was a writer, but this is the spirit of
a prophet.” (End quote)
And so the Seventh Angel that came down on
We know that twelve of
these Elders were the twelve Old Testament Patriarchs, and twelve were the New
Testament Apostles. Therefore, when John the Revelator looked and saw
twenty-four Elders, he was looking at his own theophany body as one of the
twenty-four. And so, we conclude that it was not at all unscriptural for Brother
Branham to see himself in his theophany. Mysterious? Yes indeed! But God
promised to send us a prophet to reveal these mysteries. Rev. 10:7, “But
in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound (preach)
the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His
servants the prophets.”
God
in Flesh in These
Last
Days
The
thrust of this message is to show that in this Holy Ghost dispensation, God has
come down and is living in human flesh. Not only did He live in the body form of
a major prophet named William Branham, but He also lives in all those who have
the true baptism of the Holy Ghost in their soul. This does in no way make them
deity to be worshipped, but it does prove where they came from….an attribute
of God, spoken Word seed, created as a theophany before the foundation of the
world. Eph. 1:4, “According as
He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be
holy and without blame before Him in love.”
Yes, it is true;
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh bodies of His people in these last hours of
time. I John 4:2-6, “Hereby know
ye the spirit of God, every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh is of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ has
come in the flesh is not of God. And this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof
ye have heard that it should come, and even now is already in the world. Verse
6, “We are of God: he that knoweth
God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit
of truth, and the spirit of error.”
Of course we
understand that these Scriptures refer to the Lord Jesus Christ, but we also
know that many times a Scripture has more than one meaning and that this one
also refers to the whole Bride of Christ when it speaks of Jesus Christ having
come in the flesh.
And so as we study the message, we see where we came from, who we are,
and where we go back to when we die.
QUOTE: WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC, PAGE 22, “Notice again,
Melchisedec went to meet Abraham before he got back home. What a beautiful type
we have here, Melchisedec meeting Abraham before he got back home, after the
battle. We meet Jesus in the air before we get home! That’s right! II
Thessalonians tells us that, for we meet Him in the air. A beautiful type of
Rebecca meeting Isaac in the field, in the cool of the day. We meet Him in the
air, II Thes. Tells us so, “For we which are alive and remain shall not prevent, or hinder those
which are asleep, for the trumpet of God shall sound, the dead in Christ shall
rise first, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with
them, to meet the Lord in the air. “Perfect! All these types.”
CONT. QUOTE: “Therefore the theophany, if you have died and
entered into that theophany, what happens? The theophany comes to Earth to pick
up the redeemed body. And if you’re here in the air (alive to meet Him in the
air) you take the body to meet the theophany, there you are, and (we are) caught
up to meet the Lord in the air….Now we see here plainly the complete secret of
our lives in journey, and death, and where we go after we die. Also,
predestination is in plain view here.” (End quote)
We pray that the teaching of Br. Branham that we have presented, along
with Scriptures that prove his doctrine, has convinced the Bride concerning the
mystery of the angel of Rev. 1:1! With all our heart we believe it to
have been our Brother William Branham in his theophany body!
We are still in Rev. 1 and we will now look at Verse 4, “John,
to the seven churches which are in Asia; Grace be unto you , and peace, from Him
which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven spirits which
are before His throne.”
We will direct
our attention toward the “seven spirits
which are before His throne.” This is another mystery that was revealed by
the opening of the Seven Seals. We know that God is one spirit, but here
we have seven spirits that are before the throne of our one spirited God.
We would ask you to remember the teaching in the sermon you received in
July, “…how that all of God’s Elect were created first in a body like unto
God’s own body and that this creation took place before
the world was created. (Gen. 1:26-27) The Prophet said,
QUOTE: CHRIST THE MYSTERY OF GOD REVEALED PAGE 16, “So my
opinion, the first thing that He made was angels and then they worshipped Him,
and that made Him God, and He started from there….that was before there was
even a molecule in the earth, there was nothing.” (End quote)
We know that God created different kinds of angels, and that included the
Theophany Bodies of His Elect Bride, who would sooner or later, appear on Earth
in clay bodies. Other angels were never meant to live in flesh, but as the
Prophet clearly taught, some were to have a counter-part in flesh, here on
Earth!
We will ask the Lord to help us now as we piece the Prophet’s teaching
together, to solve the mystery of these seven
spirits.
We notice in Rev. 1:4, that the Scripture speaks of Seven Churches
in
We also know that the Bible shows that there was to be Seven Angels who
would preach their respective messages to each church age, as history unfolded
(see Rev. 2:1). And on down to the last church age.
We know too, that these Seven Angels were seven flesh and blood men; each
born in the age allotted them by God. The First Church Age (Rev. 2:1) was the
Apostle Paul, a human angel messenger. The Second Church Age Messenger, a human
angel messenger (Rev. 2:18) was a man named Irenaeus. And so the Scriptures
continue in like fashion to send a human angel messenger to the other five
Church Ages, the last one, the Laodecian Age Messenger, being our own Prophet,
William Branham. Knowing that all seven of these men, Paul, Irenaeus, Martin,
Columba, Martin Luther, John Wesley and William Branham, were all members of
God’s Bride, and being Bride, they had Theophany bodies in the Heavenlies, we
are getting a clue as to who the Seven Spirits before the Throne are! Before
these Seven Messengers ever appeared on Earth, they were in Heaven in a
Theophany body!
QUOTE: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON HEBREWS PART 3, PAGE 339, “Now,
if you take the theophany when you are looking at that, that’s a man. Now that
we…Now, that’s where we were in the beginning. Now, you do not understand it
now, but you was back there in the beginning that way. When man made…When God
made man in His image. He made him a theophany.” (End quote)
All of God’s elect were first created in a supernatural body like
God’s own Theophany Body! (Yes, God has a theophany.)
QUTOE: IF GOD BE WITH US, PAGE 10, “It was God, it was a
Theophany. A man in the form of God, like appeared to Abraham back in the
wilderness, and He looked like a man.” (End quote) Gen 3:8 tells us
that in
In proving by the Scripture and by the Message that the Seven Spirits
before the Throne were the Theophany bodies of the Seven Church Age Messengers,
we need to explain a statement Br. Branham made.
QUOTE: C.O.D. BOOK, PAGE 339, “In the beginning, God….We’ll
go back to our Hebrew teaching just for a few minutes. God was this great, big
fountain of seven colors. How many knows that? See? And how many knows that God
has seven spirits? Absolutely, seven
spirits. And there was seven eyes
in the lamb, and so forth, all that coming together now. See? Now, that was
God.” (End quote)
To the natural mind, it would be possible to suppose that Br. Branham was
teaching that God is a seven spirited God. But to those who understand the
Scriptures and the Message, we know that the Prophet knew that God is “one
Spirit.” He clearly taught “one God” who had “one Spirit”. He knew the
Scriptures we will list below.
Eph. 4:4-5, “There is one
body and one spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling. One
Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and
through all, and in you all.”
Gal. 3:20,
“Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.”
Mark
Many other
Scriptures teach one God with one spirit, so we need a Revelation about what the
Prophet meant when he said, “God has seven spirits.”
A key to understanding Scripture is the principle that says, “Scripture
always explains Scripture.” When we lack understanding about a certain
Scripture, there will be another one that will reveal its meaning. The same is
true about the Message God gave Br. Branham where one statement he made is
unclear; there will be an explanation to clear it up somewhere else (or a
correction). God watched over His own Message, so that the Corrected
Message is “Thus Saith the Lord.”
The following quote will reveal what the Prophet meant when he said,
“God has seven spirits!” QUOTE: REVELATION
OF JESUS CHRIST, PAGE 668, “Rev. 4:5, ‘…and
seven lamps…before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.’ “Seven
lamps.” Let’s draw a little bit here, the Throne, the holy place, the
congregation. And right here was (one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven) seven stars, seven lamps, seven messengers,
seven Spirits; not altogether meaning that God is in seven Spirits, but “seven
manifestations of the same Holy Spirit.”
“Where’s the Holy Spirit? Here at the Throne, shining out in each
church age. This church age is
reflecting back this a-way, the voices of God, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday,
today, and forever. See, seven, there was “voices.” “And seven lamps on
fire,” seven Spirits, “which are the seven Spirits of God.” (End quote)
Notice! He ties the Seven Stars and the Seven Lamps together as being the
same as the Seven Church Age Messengers! He also said, “God is not a seven
Spirited God, but there was seven manifestations of the same Holy Spirit,
one-Spirited God!
QUOTE:
THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, PAGE 672, “Thrones, lightnings.....What? “Seven Lamps,” or
lamps, or seven stars, called “seven Spirits,” meaning the mani….seven
manifestations of the Holy Spirit of the Seven Church Ages at the seven seats of
mercy for the people. Here they are: seven seats of mercy, seven seats, seven
churches, seven stars, seven manifestations, seven Spirits, seven lamps. Oh, my,
how God is so perfect!” (End quote)
Notice again, how Br. Branham ties the Seven Lamps, the Seven Stars, and
the seven Spirits all together as being the same. They all type the Theophany
Bodies of the Seven Church Age Messengers.
QUOTE: THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, PAGE 667, “Now, “The
Voice of the Throne.” Notice in this Throne, “before the Throne was seven
stars,” the Voice of the stars.” “Voices,” you see. There was more in
the Revelation 4 here, or 5, we find out, “And out of the Throne proceeded
lightning, thunders, and voices. Not one voice; “voices” plural. What is it?
God speaking, to the church, reflecting Himself through the seven Spirits. When
the true anointed of God speaks, it’s the Voice of God! To reject it is to
remove the candlestick. See? “Voices,” the Voice of the Seven Church Ages
(over here in the corner), the voices speaking with thunder and lightning.”
(End quote)
God reflected Himself through the Seven Spirits, to each church age! The
Prophet has said that the Seven Lamps of Fire, the Seven Spirits of God, the
Seven Eyes, and the Seven Stars are all the same. This is to say, they all
represent the Seven Church Age Messengers!
The Scripture itself says in Rev. 1:20, that the Seven Stars are
the Angels (Earthly Angels) of the
Notice! The Candlesticks themselves type the Seven Churches, but the
lights on the Candlesticks type the Angel Messengers.
And so we have Seven Spirits (Rev.1:4), Seven Candlesticks (Rev.1:12),
Seven Stars (Rev.1:16) and Seven Eyes (Rev. 5:6) In
Rev. 1:20 we see Seven Angels of the Seven Churches! And, the Prophet and
the Scriptures have said they are all the same.
We know that if those Seven Spirits were the Seven Church Age Messengers,
they had to be standing there in their Theophany Bodies. This was long before
they were ever made in flesh and appeared on Earth. The natural mind cannot
accept these supernatural mysteries. We cannot reason it out! But, God is
renewing our minds (
NOTICE:
The September Sermon will be a continuation of this message. The series
started in July 2007. Please read them in dated sequence.
Brother C.W. Wood
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