C. 8b,§89₁156
Book Revelation §8,9,11,15,16, Judgments Generally: Plan of the Trumpets (and the Seals)
Shalom,
^ In Heaven is the Tabernacle, which was a pattern for the tabernacle on earth (Heb. 8:(1-)5).
Two thousand years ago Jesus Christ was slaughtered as the Lamb of God, as it had been planned (Rev. 13:8b).
After that, He, our High Priest of the Tabernacle in Heaven, ascended to God (Heb. 9:11-15).
Prayer of them who are humble and broken before God and tremble before his Word (cf. Isa. 66:1-2), Bert
1-7T: Forty days after Jesus Christ had risen from the grave He rose to God. And at the fiftieth day the Feast of Pentecost had been fulfilled with the coming of the Holy Spirit. God’s Spirit had arrived in the church age to stay with and within the believers (John 14:17).
In his sermon on the Feast of Trumpets, Brother Branham compared this 50 days’ Atonement of Pentecost to the 50 years’ Jubilee Atonement. First there had been 7*7 year-weeks (at the end of each one one trumpet of freedom had sounded), and the fiftieth year had been a joyful sounding of all the trumpets. This is how it had been taught and given as a commandment to the people of Israel (cf. Leviticus 25).
7T: Now, the same Atonement with God awaits the Jewish people at the 50th spiritual year.
Therefore, the trumpets belong to the Jewish people, as God had said (8a§89₁156, Feast of Trumpets).
1-7$1-7T,1-7s: Here you can see that at the end of each church age, in heaven into one trumpet has been blown. And in the last Jubilee year-day, the greater tribulation time, is the Feast of Trumpets. Into all trumpets is blown. Then Israel and Jerusalem had to be ready, in the hands of the Jews. That's why God had to harden pharaoh's heart to drive them out of Egypt. And He had hardened Stalin, Mussolini, and done all that, to get them back to the promised land {Jer. 16:14-16 (7a§67₁14)}.
Already was discussed, that also the warning of one seal belongs to each church age (especially 6h and 6l§6(8)10).
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1-7$: Seven church ages are seven different revivals, seven lampstands together with seven star-messengers (1ab§1-3, Rev. 1:20).
Every believer in the churches is called to be a Light together with the star messenger (Mat. 5:14-16).
1$: Two thousand years ago, all lamp branches burned and gave Light. The light comes from God's Holy Spirit, as it is seen in heaven. Before the throne of God seven different Spirits, seven different Lights, are seen (2b§45, Rev. 4:5b).
The first church age was almost perfect. Everything was there, the perfect Word with perfect teaching and perfect fulfillment. Men and women dressed like Christians. They prayed all night. And they were not ashamed of the manifestations of the Spirit.
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Believers started to organize the movement and directed it with human power. One was leading and the others had to be quiet. The influence and freedom of the Spirit went. The shout of joy disappeared. In this way, they kept the shape, but the fire was gone and the blackness of the ashes was almost all that was left. Churches and separated churches had appeared around God's Message. It's a man's doing. They are hustle clubs.
1T: When everywhere the revivals of that church age had gone out, one trumpet was blown in heaven. That ended that age. The lampstand of that church was removed (Rev. 2:5).
It executed God's temporary trumpet judgment on those believers who did not continue in the spirit of revival and being led by the Holy Spirit.
2-6$s: Six other Lights were left. Some of the believers had not failed to act. Fiery prayers had already led them forward. Constantly they had sought the revelation of the Holy Spirit, and the Word of God, and the living Word. Thus the Power of the Holy Spirit had been found again.
In this situation a new plan had been needed. God had wanted to tell what the new spiritual problems were about. That's how the Holy Spirit came along in the counterattack.
1-4$s/5-7$1-3w: In each church age, one seal or woe-cry message was revealed. First, it came from God. Then the Holy Ghost began to teach it. Next, the star messenger caught it, though not fully yet revealed. In faith he had to go and proclaim that message to the people. It started a spiritual war (1Seal-sermon 63-0318, #63-64; 7c§67₁14, the woe-cry warning messages, 1-3w, were consecutively revealed in the last three church ages, 5-7$; see also 14_Compilation).
The Holy Spirit continued to confirm that message. Resistance weakened. Finally, the contents of one of the seals/woe-cries had come up fully.
5-7$s7T,1-3T4-7T: The fifth, sixth and seventh seal teachings have prepared the coming revivals in Israel. The first revival will start, when the seventh trumpet will be blown and the greater tribulation will begin. At the same time will end the Silence (in Heaven) and the Secret of the Seventh Seal (on earth, when suddenly a few believers are no more here).
(The first three judgments of the heavenly trumpets tended to wake up sleeping Christians.) The last four trumpets have been spiritual wars for the Jewish people, with which it is prepared to come to faith.