Bible Believers' Newsletter 1284
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ�it is good to see you, thank you for your patience. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word and extend an especial welcome to our new Subscribers.
This issue is quite late because I discovered an error in the editorial of Newsletter 1283 in which I wrote "the original Moses and Elijah, who have not died." Of course Moses did die and was buried . We have removed the word "not" from the editorial of 1283. A Subscriber and fellow Pastor saw my error, caused by taking Brother Branham's Message literally without first taking it back to two or three witnesses in God's written Word. The Main Article in 1283 is correct, however I compounded the error in the Main Article for 1284 which had to completely re-written with reference to God's unchanging Word.
Our Main Article in this issue of the Church Newsletter is "Enoch, Moses and Elijah," I pray it will be a blessing.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.Your brother-in-Christ
Anthony Grigor-Scott
'Testimonies from the Mass Grave at Nasser Hospital:' It felt like pulling My Heart out of the Earth
April 25, 2024 � Bulldozers dig with their steel tongues between layers of sand and earth. Rescue teams dig into the ground on the other side of the large yard with simple shovels. Others dig with their hands in search of their families. The place is crowded. The Nasser Medical Complex has become a sprawling mass grave, where the Israeli army buried evidence of a hideous massacre. At least 13,000 people have been missing in the Gaza Strip since the war began in October, and people are arriving looking for missing loved ones. Even if they are found dead, it will at least put an end to their story.
Among the dismembered bodies, scattered limbs, and decapitated heads are a large number of people searching for family or just there to observe. Some cannot bear it and stand far away, unable to fathom the carnage . . . "There was no morality in dealing with the martyrs and the dead" . . . Civil Defense teams reported finding bodies with their hands tied at the Nasser Medical Complex. He also confirms that he recovered bodies with their hands tied with plastic tape, which the Israeli soldiers used to bind their prisoners. Abu Suleiman says they also found martyrs with their eyes and mouths blindfolded.
Indeed, the number of bodies discovered there exceeds the number that has so far been reported in Khan Younis. To this day, bodies are still being discovered from the Israeli army's massacre in al- Shifa, which took place during a two-week siege of the hospital. Before that, mass graves were discovered in the Turkish hospital in Jabalia, in northern Gaza. And now, the Israeli army has withdrawn following the conclusion of its assault on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, leaving behind a similar story. The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said the exhumation revealed "the presence of urinary catheters or splints that were still attached to some patients' bodies" (Photo: Social Media). The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that it has so far documented a combined total of 140 unmarked graves and mass graves across the Gaza Strip, containing the bodies of thousands of victims since October 7. Full story: mondoweiss.net
Israel Uses Foreign Mercenaries in Gaza
May 1, 2024 � In December, Thomas Portes, a member of the French National Assembly (Parliament) revealed a letter he had sent to the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, asking him to investigate some 4,185 French citizens believed to have been fighting with the IDF. The letter, posted on X, calls for the investigation of war crimes the French volunteers might have been participating in while fighting in Gaza, where war crimes have widely been reported. French volunteers make up some 45% of the total foreign volunteers joining the IDF as mercenaries. In contrast, the French people have been pouring, in their hundreds of thousands into the streets in support of Palestine and demanding a ceasefire . . . Not a single European country, or the US and the UK, have publicly warned their own citizens against joining the IDF. The foreign fighters have participated in the war crimes taking place in Gaza.
A study published in the journal of Sociological Forum in June 2022, at least 1,200 Americans are serving in the IDF at any given time. The study found that, on any given year, some 3,500 foreign Jewish soldiers have been serving in the IDF over the last two decades . . . According to Italy's Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, there were some 18,000 Italian nationals working and living in Israel when the war started, among them 1,000 who work for the IDF . . .
Full story: globalresearch.ca
On Record: The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal's 2013 Indictment of the State of Israel on Charges of War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide
April 26, 2024 � Of relevance to the crimes currently committed by the Netanyahu government against the People of Palestine, we bring to the attention of our readers the 2013 Judgment of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, an initiative of former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who headed the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC).
On a personal note, I was a signatory of the Kuala Lumpur Declaration to Criminalize War (2005). I was subsequently invited to become a member of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC) which was created in 2007.
I should mention that the indictment directed again the State of Israel was the object of sabotage.
One of the appointed foreign judges was a Zionist who was in "conflict of interest" with links to the State of Israel. Members of the KLWCC brought this issue to the attention of Prof. Francis Boyle who had acted as prosecutor on behalf of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission chaired by Tun Mahathir Mohamad. The numerous witnesses from Palestine refused to provide testimony.
The Tribunal hearings were postponed and reconvened on November 13, 2013 following the act of recusal and the appointment of a new judge.
The Kuala Lumpur Judgment is all the more significant in view of the current procedure of the International Criminal Court's instigated by the Republic of South Africa against the State of Israel, on charges of genocide directed against the People of Palestine.
Read it carefully, particularly the testimonies. Forward this text far and wide.
In solidarity with the People of Palestine.Michel Chossudovsky, January 18, 2024
Important Excerpt from the 2013 Judgment
What Amounts To Genocide?
Simply put, genocide means any designated acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such. The definition of genocide as given in Article 2 of the Tribunal's Statute is taken verbatim from Articles 2 & 3 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide which states that the following acts may by themselves or cumulatively constitute the international crime of genocide:
- Killing members of the group
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
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The State of Israel was charged on 20 November 2013 with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: Read the Full story of the sons and daughters of Cain who continue to kill and steal and rape, torture and repress Semitic Palestinians and Jacob's children: those living in Israel, and the ten Tribes who have not returned "for fear of the Jews."
It's Time to Reclaim America. The Brutality against Our Youth
May 3, 2024 � As a formerly patriotic American, I had lost all hope for the future of the US until seeing the anti-genocide student protests. The protesters are like pure green shoots rising up from what had appeared to be impenetrable slime.
The battle to maintain an America-first United States government was lost, not coincidently, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963; he had been in the middle of a standoff with AIPAC's predecessor to force it to register as an agent of a foreign government to end its election interference. The demand was dropped when he died: (the Jew) Lyndon Johnson turned out to be a strong supporter of Israel. In April, 1973, Senator William Fulbright noted . . ." that "AIPAC and its allied organizations have effective working control of the electoral process . . ."
It is now clear to Americans, watching their youth brutalized for protesting US partnership in a genocide, that their country is effectively under Israeli occupation. . . The students are leading the way but . . . house-cleaning might include:Full story: globalresearch.ca
- No dual-citizens in any national public office;
- AIPAC and its affiliates must be registered as foreign agents to end their election influence; Americans should make short work of officials who think that anti- genocide is anti-Semitic (the vast majority of 'Jews' are not Semitic; and
- If AI can identify protesters, it can also identify thugs and brutal police, who might face charges.
The Enemy is among us? Anti-genocide Groups are being Targeted by Media and Government
May 2, 2024 � If you are opposed to Israel's slaughter of something like 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, or the clearly enunciated plans by that nation's government to ethnically cleanse the rest of historic Palestine, making the developing Eretz or Greater Israel a legally Jewish state, and are prepared to protest or speak up about it, then you are an antisemite Jew-hater and probably even a holocaust denier.
Blinken has called for an impartial international investigation of the two mass graves recently discovered at the bombed hospital sites in Gaza, containing four hundred or more bodies, many of which were tortured and/or executed with their hands tied behind their backs or dragged out of hospital beds to be buried still alive in deep pits. Some bodies showed signs of hasty surgery indicating that their organs, a valuable commodity, were removed, a regular signature piece appearing on victims of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the Most Moral Army in the World according to that strange looking Franco- Jewish so-called intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy. The Netanyahu and the IDF replied that Israel would do its own investigation saying "What is there to investigate?" Blinken did not object.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is preparing to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and two other senior Israeli officials in connection with war crimes. Netanyahu is reportedly reaching wildly out to his many "friends" to prevent such a development.
The White House and Congress are already moving full speed ahead to make the warrants go away up to and including threats to directly take on and discredit the court if the Israelis are actually punished . . .
To be sure some pushback from inside the US government as well as from voters is developing. Fully 92% of Israelis fully support the slaughter of the Palestinians by Netanyahu and his psychopaths but 72% of Americans do not approve of what is taking place in Gaza, for which Biden will likely pay a heavy electoral price. A group of American lawyers, at least 20 of whom work in the Biden administration, are also calling on the US government to stop selling arms to Israel and are, of course, being ignored. There have also been other lawsuits as well as resignations of senior government officials who have been shocked by the US support of the genocide being conducted against the Palestinians. Full story: globalresearch.ca
US House passes Controversial Bill that Expands definition of Anti-Semitism
May 1, 2024 � If the bill were to become law, it would codify a definition of anti-Semitism created by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That is a federal anti- discrimination law that bars discrimination based on shared ancestry, ethnic characteristics or national origin. Adding IHRA's definition to the law would allow the federal Department of Education to restrict funding and other resources to campuses perceived as tolerating anti-Semitism. But critics warn IHRA's definition could be used to stifle campus protests against Israel's war in Gaza, which has claimed the lives of 34,568 Palestinians so far . . . Full story: aljazeera.com
Comment: The massive scale of murder, home destruction and wounding of Gaza civilians and the withholding of food and water is irrefutable. A single story focusing on one child can trigger moral outrage unlike anything else. On the political front, Ireland, South Africa, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Colombia, Brazil, Jamaica�most of them nations viewed as minor global players�have led the way, by one means or another, to support Palestinian rights and challenge Israeli and US policies. One cannot discount the role of some brave Jewish Americans working in solidarity with Palestinians and other agencies to end the siege . . .
(globalresearch.ca).
Israel's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons
17 May, 2012 � In 1986, Dimona nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu revealed documents showing what many long suspected . . . Israel tests new weapons in combat. Against Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza during Cast Lead, it used direct energy weapons, chemical and/or biological agents, and others producing injuries and symptoms medical professionals never previously saw. For example, bodies with dead tissue had no apparent wounds. Corpses were found shrunken. Civilians had heavy lower limb damage requiring amputations. Nonetheless, unstoppable necrosis followed (death of cells and living tissue) followed by death.
Internal wounds had no trace of shrapnel. Corpses were blackened but not burned. Some badly wounded victims didn't bleed. The Palestinian health ministry said Israel used a new type explosive in Gaza. It contained toxins and radioactive materials. They burned and tore victims' bodies from the inside. They also left long term deformations. A Palestinian doctor accused Israel of using chemical ammunition that burns and injures soft tissue, but can't be traced by X-rays. Severe internal wounds were reported. Unknown gases believed to be nerve agents were used. Those affected lost consciousness for about 24 hours. They experienced high fevers and muscle rigidity. Some needed urgent blood transfusions . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: It is difficult to ignore what a monster Israel has become under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his band of thugs. When Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir responded to reports that Israel has run out of jail room for it's circa 10,000 Palestinian prisoners by saying the solution was to take some of them out and kill them to make more room, there was no response from Washington. Perhaps a better solution would be to free the majority of those prisoners, who are being detained without charges, since imprisoning people without due process is considered to be unacceptable in most "rule of law" civilized countries, which Israel and Joe Biden's US consider themselves to be but manifestly are not (globalresearch.ca).
Enoch, Moses and Elijah
God wrote three Bibles and consistently signifies His Truth in different media so that a fool should not err therein. His first Bible was the Witness of the Stars (Psalm 19:1-6; Romans 10:11-21), secondly He erected The Bible in Stone or Great Pyramid, His third Bible is written in paper and ink (62-0124, Have Not I sent Thee?; 64-0418B, Paradox; Joshua 22:26-27; Isaiah 19:19-20). Each in perfect agreement, yet the Words of Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, Jesus Christ, Paul, William Branham and other vindicated prophets can not be taken literally and we are commanded to prove all things at the mouth of two or three witnesses in both the Old and New Testaments (Deuteronomy 19:15; II Corinthians 13:1). Brother Branham said, "You just have to be people that love me and know how to understand me on my grammar . . . like the Dutchman, you take me for what I mean and not what I say, really" (65-0424, One in a Million, par. 22).
It does not matter what any of these anointed prophets have said: what matters is what they mean. Take for example Ezekiel 39:9-16: if we suppose a million Israelites buried two corpses a day, the aggregate buried in the hundred and eighty working days of seven months would be three hundred and sixty million corpses. Imagine the pestilential vapours from such masses of victims before they were all buried! What Israelite could live in such an atmosphere? These details are not literal, neither is Matthew 28:18-19. Water baptism is a command of our Lord Jesus Christ yet it can not be taken literally. There is not a single instance in Scripture where anyone was at any time baptized in the titles "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." This is Roman dogma based on Babylon's trinity of gods (plural). Jesus Christ is the Almighty sole Person of God (Matthew 28:18). From the Day of Pentecost scriptural water baptism has been in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 2:37-39; Matthew 28:19; Luke 24:44-47; John 5:43; 4:10-12; 14:26).
It is not keenness of insight, high culture or wide experience in affairs, but the gifts of the Spirit that qualify men for high official duties. The crowning qualification is the Spirit, given by Him in Whom the Spirit dwells without measure.
The editorial in Newsletter 1283 stated, "Our main article is "The Day of the Lord," and it is closer that anyone outside the circle of this Message could dare to imagine. "Elijah the prophet" has come and his Message "turned the heart of God's children back to the faith of our apostolic fathers" (Malachi 4:5, 6b; Matthew 17:11; Revelation 10:7). Soon He will "smite the earth with a curse" (Isaiah 11:4; Revelation 19:15), and after fifty days the original Moses and Elijah, who have not died, will return to Israel and minister for the first three and a half years of Daniel's seventieth week wearing sackcloth over their tunics. Three and a half days after their martyrdom the Lord will raise and catch them up, then there will come a time when 144,000 elect Israelites will receive their Message by faith and be born-again as the Israel nation in one day, then they will by martyred by (so-called) Jews".
A responsible Elder wrote: "This is one of the many issues causing confusion in the Message circle".
I replied, "Yes, it is." I customarily believed that upon our departure earth will become a Judgment Seat and the Lord will anoint two Israelites of Jacob's lineage with the Spirit that endued Moses and Elijah to call and instruct an election of Israelites (Zechariah 4, Matthew 24:31, and Revelation 11). Kentucky grammar aside, I failed to take what Brother Branham said back to the Bible. Subsequent reading of the Message reveals that Moses did die.
Now let us turn to the Bible. Moses and his wife Zipporah were both hot tempered; Numbers 20:1-13 describes the impatience of Moses at Meribah as the final explosion of a displeasure again and again restrained and subdued through many years. Kadesh-Barnea was the judgment seat of the world. A bunch of palm trees in the desert with some huts called a city encircled springs fed from one great spring�a beautiful picture of a Church on the desert�everyone had to visit Kadesh to get water, a type of heaven as "judgment begins at the house of God." Moses chose twelve to spy out the Promised Land; ten said "we can't receive the Promise, we are like grasshoppers compared to the Serpent's seed." The cowardly church members were looking at what they could see with their eyes, but Caleb and Joshua were looking to God's Promise. "A weak and adulterous generation seeks after a sign".
God's people chided Moses and Aaron for taking them from Egypt to this wilderness where there is "no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink . . . And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, Take the rod, and gather the assembly together . . . speak to this rock before their eyes; and it shall bring forth water . . . for the congregation and their beasts to drink. And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as He commanded. And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said, Hear now, you rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also."
And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you believed Me not, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them. This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and He was sanctified in them".
In Exodus 17 the Israelites had rebelled at Rephidim because there was no water, and God told Moses to strike the Rock, typing Christ's crucifixion. At Meribah the Lord told Moses to "speak to the Rock" or exercise your "third pull," but Moses struck the rock twice and took glory to Himself and Aaron saying, "must we fetch you water out of this rock?" This showed the insufficiency of the Word and typed the apostasy of the churches today "seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame" (Hebrews 6:6).
"Aaron died on the top of Mount Hor" (Numbers 20:28), and Moses died on Mount Nebo. "So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the Word of the LORD. And He buried Moses in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knows of his sepulchre to this day" (Deuteronomy 32:50-52; 34:1-6).
Brother Branham said, "And we're going to find out in a minute just who these two ministers are, the Lord willing . . . Now, notice who these prophets are . . . these two prophets are exactly Moses and Elijah . . . look at their ministry. Now, watch what these prophets do. "They have power to smite the earth with a plague as oft as they will." Who did it? Moses. "They have power to shut the heavens that it rain not in the day of their ministry." Who closed the heavens for three and a half years?" [The congregation says, "Elijah" �Ed.] There they are. That's them . . . (63-0322, The Fifth Seal, par. 302, 308�309),
"See, the man, when he dies, he doesn't change his status. He doesn't change his make-up . . . When Saul had backslid and there was no prophet in the land, he couldn't understand what to do. He was up against it; he was going to battle. He went to the witch of Endor. Now, just the blood of bulls and goats, she could do this. And she called up the spirit of Samuel. And when Samuel come up, there he stood in his prophet robe. Not only that, but he was still a prophet. He said, "Why'd you call me out of my rest?" said, "seeing you've become an enemy to God." He said, "By this time tomorrow night you're going to fall in the battle, and this time tomorrow night you'll be with me." That's exactly what happened.
And these fellows are still prophets . . . Remember, these guys never died . . . Don't confuse Elijah's fifth time ministry with his fourth time ministry. I've been telling you, the Gentile Church is looking for Elijah. Right. And here he is over here with the Jew. Remember, he can't come four�that's the enemies' number. He has to be five" (63-0322, The Fifth Seal, par. 315).
Brother Branham said, "When the Church is taken up, Moses and Elijah appear in Revelations 11. Here's the two witnesses; that's absolutely a return of Moses and Elijah. You notice back there . . . Moses, he died, but where did he go? He had to raise again. And Elijah was translated even without death. He will have to die, 'cause every mortal has to, so he will have to return back again. And there's the two witnesses" (54-0103M, Q&A #1, par. 72).
Peter, James, and John saw Moses and Elijah with Jesus on Mount Transfiguration (Matthew 17:1-9). They will minister to the 144,000 in Revelation 11 after our translation. Brother Branham said, "When the Church is taken up, Moses and Elijah appear in Revelations 11. Here's the two witnesses; that's absolutely a return of Moses and Elijah. You notice back there . . . Moses, he died, but where did he go? He had to raise again. And Elijah was translated even without death. He will have to die, 'cause every mortal has to, so he will have to return back again. And there's the two witnesses" (54-0103M, Q&A #1, par. 72).
The beast will slay both men. Revelation 11:7-8, "When they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified".
Brother Branham said, "The first time he come, he was Elijah himself. The next time he come, he was Elisha. The next time he come, he was what? John the Baptist. The next time he comes is for the seventh angel. And the fifth time he comes, he's with Moses over yonder . . .? . . . Yes, sir. Don't confuse him . . ."
"All right, to the believers . . . Notice, the first Elijah, that was him. The second was Elisha. The third was John. The fourth was the seventh angel or the last messenger to the Church, according to Malachi 4 and Revelations 10:7. Now, the fifth time, he is a messenger to theJews, to the hundred and forty-four thousand, to theJewsIsraelites after the Church is gone . . . the difference of the ministry" (63-0322, The Fifth Seal, par. 320).
"Notice, these men are kept alive by God from their original ministry for future service; they served it so well. See? Just think, that spirit of Elijah ministers five times: Moses, two. Watch, keep alive for further service . . . They were neither one of them dead now. Don't you believe that? They were both seen alive, talking to Jesus on Mount Transfiguration. But remember, they must die."
"Now, now, Moses actually died, but he rose, 'cause he was a perfect type of Christ. See? Nobody ever knowed where he was buried. The Angels come took him. See? He had Angel pallbearers. Why? No mortal man could pack him where he was going. He just went through an act; that's all. He had Angels as pallbearers, 'cause they took him where he was supposed to be; no one knows. Even to Satan didn't even know; he disputed with the archangel. That's right. He couldn't understand what happened to Moses. "I see him trembling over there, and looking over the land, and looking back to the children and so forth, I see him trembling, but he stepped up on the rock, and that was the last time I saw him."
"But remember, Elijah, he just got tired, 'cause he had a lot of work ahead of him; so he was pretty well wore out. And God just sent him a ride home (That's right.), sent a chariot. Is that right? Took him up, he never died, 'cause He kept him alive. He had future work for him. Let him anoint a man too (See?), come forth in his spirit, but they must taste death. Now, Revelations the 11th chapter . . ." (63-0322, The Fifth Seal, par. 318, 320, 330-331, 334).
As Paul and Brother Branham explained, "We have three different bodies we dwell in: One is a human; the other is the celestial; and the other is the glorified. And then if we know one another in the human body, the mortal body, how much more will we know each other in a glorified body? Moses and Elijah were is their celestial, not glorified bodies.
Question. Matthew 27:52, "And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose . . ." Is it that Enoch, Moses, and Elijah were not the earliest glorified bodies of these Old Testament saints?
Response. My understanding is that all of the Old Testament saints (with the exception of Enoch, Moses and Elijah) were raised and glorified after Jesus Christ, having cleansed the heavenly tabernacle of the accumulated sins of four thousand years once again descended to the place of the departed and led the elect captives of death captive of eternal Life in glorified bodies (Ephesians 4:7-10).
These Old Testament saints could not be raised and glorified until their near Kinsman Redeemer, Jesus Messiah had met sin's price on Calvary. I Corinthians 15:21-28, "Since by man came death, by Man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at His Coming".
By order of Israel's high priest with all Israel under oath, Jesus Messiah the firstfruits nailed upon Calvary's cross was waved before the Lord for approval precisely as the Israelite high priest would that same day wave the typical Passover Lamb for the His approval (Matthew 27; Mark 15; John 19). And the Lord accepted the sinless Jesus Christ without spot or blemish in that He arose from the dead.
Q. What does a saint's body of dust (some of which were eaten by lions, water animals, burnt at the stake, etc.) mean to God after their time on earth is done? Or is it a law that everyone must die or return and be put to death? Why should Enoch or Christ's capstone Bride be exempted? Or is there a special dimension God kept Moses and Elijah from Enoch and other glorified Old Testament saints that in the Lord's Day they will reappear full grown or physically reborn in one of the Middle East regions? To which Testament do Moses and Elijah belong�Old or New, or both?
R. "By faith Enoch was translated so that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God" (Hebrews 11:5). Enoch was translated before the Great Flood and before the Law "when sin was not imputed." Moses and Elijah will each serve under the Old and the New Testaments.
Romans 5:12-21, "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; so death spread upon all mankind, because all sinned�for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not counted against anyone when the Law is not. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those that sinned not in the likeness of Adam's offence, who is a type of the last Adam who was to come."
Law without penalty is unjust; Adam's transgression was taking his dying wife (Genesis 2:17) back to himself when she should have been burned along with the Serpent as says the Law which was forever written in heaven (Leviticus 20:10, 15-16). The first Adam typed Christ Who died to redeem His Wife, the Church.
"But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the offense of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one offense, resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the gracious gift arose from many offenses, resulting in justification and acquittal. For if by the offense of the one, death reigned through the one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in Life through the One, Jesus Christ."
"Therefore, as by the offence of the one death came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of One the free gift came upon all men to justification of life. For through the disobedience of one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one Man the many will be constituted righteous. Besides, the Law came in so that transgressions might multiply. But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord".
Hebrews 9:27-28, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation".
As Moses and Elijah could not possibly possess glorified bodies before Jesus Messiah paid sin's price and resurrected, they were in their celestial bodies; besides, glorified bodies cannot die. Moses did die and Elijah must die (Revelation 11:7-13). These saints remain in the sixth dimension beyond the curtain of time where Brother Branham saw his deceased wife Hope and baby daughter Sharon Rose in their celestial bodies. He also met his Laodicean Church Age converts as mature adults of about twenty-one. They could communicate and possessed their ten senses without sexual sensation. I encourage you to listen to the audio, or read the transcripts of these sermons which describe Brother Branham's personal experiences: 50-0200, Here We Have No Continuing City, par. E.70; 52-072A, Life Story, and 61-0305, Beyond the Curtain of Time, par. 37-56. Saul found that the celestial body has the appearance of the glorified body. John mentions that Israelites who kept God's Commandments and were martyred throughout the Gentile dispensation are preserved in celestial bodies under the Fifth Seal (Revelation 1:2, 9; 6:9-11; Matthew 24:9-13), likewise the non-elect Israelites yet to be martyred under the Sixth Seal throughout the Great Tribulation (Revelation 11:7-13; 12:17; 13:12 and 20:4).
After you (your soul) departs this body of cosmic light and petroleums from which you are formed you enter the fourth dimension, from which you enter the fifth dimension, then the sixth dimension. Then God is in the seventh and you are right under His altar. When God lets your spirit loose, it comes out of the sixth dimension into the fifth dimension of cosmic light; out of the light into petroleum; out of petroleum, into the senses. And here you are back on earth�a brand new person. Never to be sick; your hair will never turn gray and you will never be wrinkled. You will never die; never be hungry, and never have a worry. You'll walk with your loved ones, shake their hands and eat, drink, build houses and inhabit them, and live forever and ever in the Presence of the Lord Jesus. That's what you have this morning because you listened to the Word of God (Isaiah 65:17-25).
These scriptures trace the beginning of history in the antediluvian world where sin was not imputed as there was no Law other than Genesis 2:17 which brought death upon all life in the world. The Law was introduced in the second two thousand years, and grace in the final two thousand years. This will be followed by the Millennium when the Kingdom is restored to Israel (Acts 1:6-8) for a thousand years of peace, then the General Resurrection and the White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:7-15). "Thereafter I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God" (Revelation 21:1-3).
Now let us consider Enoch, the most eminent prophet whose name means "consecrated." He designed the Bible in Stone �also known as the Great Pyramid which foretells seven thousand years of history from Adam to the completion of the Body of Christ and the renewed heavens and earth. Enoch types Christ's end-time Bride because he was translated without death and we will be translated without death, for we too, will please God and manifest that we are the Sons of God by exercising the 'third pull' and what we say He will do (65-1204, The Rapture, par. 106, 122; Romans 8:19; I Corinthians 15:51; I Thessalonians 4:17). Hebrews 11:5-6, "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony: that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him." Enoch could not die as he types Christ's end-time Bride who will not see death. As Enoch and Noah "walked with God" Christ's end-time Bride is "in the unity of the faith" (Genesis 5:22-24; 6:9; Amos 3:3; II Corinthians 6:14-16; Ephesians 4:13).
Elijah was caught up in the Shekinah as a chariot of fire with horses of fire to preserve his life in order to fulfill Revelation 11 with Moses (II Kings 2:9, 10; Psalm. 73:24; 49:16). Revelation 11:7-8, "When they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified".
Q. Or should "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord" (Malachi 4:5) be taken LITERALLY?
R. No! This was fulfilled in the ministry of William Branham who was anointed with the Spirit that endued Elijah and enabled the three "pulls" of Brother Branham's ministry that spearheaded the healing revival after World War II, manifested the Messianic sign of Hebrews 4:12 restored the apostolic faith and completed the Reformation of the Judaeo-Roman Catholic system of false worship. He called God's people out from Rome and her (once) Protestant daughter churches; "finished the mystery of God" by revealing the Seven Seals (Revelation 10:7), and introduced the second or (Gk.) 'parousia' Coming of the Son of man in this wicked and adulterous generation (Luke 17:28-30).
Elijah comes five times: the Tishbite's first coming was to restore Jacob's apostate Old Testament children to the Law of Moses. At the conclusion of his first ministry he was translated without death. His second ministry was fulfilled by Elishah the prophet who was endowed by a double enduement of the Spirit that empowered Elijah. His third ministry was fulfilled by John the Baptist endued by the Spirit that empowered Elijah. John introduced Christ's physical or (Gk.) 'erchomai' first Coming. His fourth ministry was fulfilled by the prophet William Branham anointed by the Spirit of Elijah. His fifth coming will be to call 144,000 of Jacob's children to new birth in Jesus Messiah of the New Testament. At the close of his fifth ministry he will be murdered publicly, restored to life after three and a half days then caught up bodily to heaven with Moses televised in global witness.
Q. Now, if it wasn't the literal Elijah as Elisha, John the Baptist, and William Branham, why should it be the literal Elijah in the Day of the Lord? Just simply to die? If yes, why should Enoch or Christ's capstone bride be exempted? If no, why didn't the first Elijah return literally in the days of Elisha, John the Baptist, and William Branham? Even, the disciples never were made to believe Malachi 4:6a was the literal or original or first Elijah, they "understood that he spoke unto them of John the Baptist" (Matthew 17:13).
R. Because "It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation" (Hebrews 9:27-28,). Moses and Elijah must return from their celestial to their terrestrial bodies and die. "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God" (Hebrews 11:5). Likewise Christ's end- time Bride will be translated and not see death for before our translation we will have this testimony: that we please God�manifesting that we are the Sons of God by our "third pull" (Romans 8:19).
Before Jesus' birth by Mary the virgin God delivered the Commandments to Israel and instructed Moses concerning constructing the tabernacle and its necessary accoutrements of ritual. Then Moses ascended Mount Sinai and was in the Presence forty days and nights. Upon his descent Moses found the children of Israel and the mixed multitude had "corrupted themselves." Standing in the entrance of the camp he demanded, "Who is on the Lord's side? And the sons of (his tribe) Levi gathered themselves together unto him. And he said, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. And the children of Levi did according to the Word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men" (Exodus 32:27-28).
When Moses and Elijah return the in Daniel's seventieth Week they will not suffer fools, and if any man will hurt them the Fire of God's spoken Word will devour their enemies, and if anyone should harm them they must be killed in this manner. Christians prove all things by two or three witnesses in God's unchanging Word. We understand that "Jew" is a deceptive modern English Word smuggled into our Bible late in the eighteenth century to cause readers to believe that Jews (so-called) are Semitic and that they are Israelites, when in fact the vast majority of "Jews" are not Semitic, nor are they descendants of Jacob/Israel (Matthew 23:33-36, John 8:37-44, Romans 9:6 and History of God's Holy Bible and the so-called Jews).
When Moses returns to Israel next year he will find the children of Israel a mixed multitude of primarily non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews. "Lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot; materially rich, increased with goods and in need of nothing; ignorant of their wretchedness, pitiable, bankrupt of faith, blind to God's Word and as naked as He found them at the foot of Mount Sinai two thousand six hundred years before".
Moses will encounter a barrage of expos�s on all of the grand conspiracies regarding Jewish power, Zionist control, Khazarian Mafia, Ashkenazi influence, Babylonian Radhanite roots, Hebrew prophecies, Talmudic Freemasonry , Judaic predictive programming, the Kahal of the Cahilla, Yiddish merchant system, Chabad-Lubavitch global network, Rothschild Crime Family, Northern Italian Black Nobility and City of London banksters.
However the Almighty (Matthew 28:18) "Will give power to His two witnesses, Moses and Elijah who will prophesy one thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees of Zechariah 4, the Old and New Testaments whose branches stand on the right and on the left of Jesus, the Light of the earth (John 8:12; 9:5), and empty golden oil of the Spirit out of themselves into the lampstand. In His absence "you are the Light of the world" (Matthew 5:14). And if any man will hurt them, the third pull of fire proceeds out of their mouth, and devours their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. By the Spoken Word these have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will".
All the true and pure Light the ancient world enjoyed streamed out from the lampstand which God set forth in His chosen people. With all their imperfections the Israelites preserved the knowledge of the One true God and of the mode of acceptable worship; and their sacred books were a torch with which many a minor Light among the surrounding nations was kindled. This was largely the case when the new economy was established in the crucified Messiah. It was intended to be diffusive and propagandist, but only by the force of divine Light�the manifestation of the Truth. Now the Church is truly "a little Flock," demanding intelligent faith established by spiritual revelation supported by two or three witnesses throughout the Bible.
Still the Church like the moon shines with a borrowed Light and has no Light of her own. Neither is he that plants anything, nor he that waters, but God that gives the increase. "And unto you who fear His Name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in His wings; and you shall go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be nuclear ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which the Lord of hosts is preparing".
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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.
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