THE.FIRST.SEAL_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318
130-1 {87} For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:… (deceivers, you see, deceiving the people off into something. See?)… only he… (God)… that… letteth will let, until he… (the Church–Christ, the Bride)… be taken out of the way.
And then shall the Wicked one be revealed… (at the breaking of the Seal, at his time. Paul said, “Not in my time, but in the time when he’ll be revealed. See?)… whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth… (We’re going to get to that after while.)… the spirit of his mouth… (Watch what that is.)… and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan… (him, him, a man)… whose working is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. (See?)
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness… (deceiving people by unrighteousness)… in them that perish;… (not this Bride, in them that’s looking for such a thing)… because they received not the love of the truth… (And Christ is the Truth, and Christ is the Word, but they’d rather have a creed.),… that they might be saved.
And for this cause God has sent them strong delusion, that they should believe a–a lie:… (It should be translated there, as I looked in the Lexicon, “the lie,” not “a lie”; “the lie,” same one he told Eve.)
That they… might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
131-1 {93} What a statement. My. After the Bride is taken away, then this man of sin will reveal himself. She, the true Bride of Christ has been elected out of every church age.
Now, the other day I made a statement: The Bride could go home and you’d never know nothing about it. That’s true. Somebody said, “Well, Brother Branham, that would be a mighty small group.”
Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Noah (Now, you talk to Him about it. See?) wherein eight souls were saved by water, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man.”
131-3 {97} If there was eight hundred went in the rapture tonight, you’d never hear a word about it tomorrow, or the next day, or no other time. They’d be gone and you’d know nothing about it. See? It’d just be the same thing.
What am I trying to say? I’m not trying to scare you, worry you. I’m–I want you to be on your toes. Be ready, watching, every minute. Quit your nonsense. Just get down to business with God, ’cause it’s later than you think.
THIRST_ TUCSON.AZ V-16 N-6 SUNDAY_ 65-0919
123 And you cannot satisfy that by joining church. You’ve got to find the Person, God Himself, which is the Word and–and interpretation of Hisself today, the promises that He made today. The people that He was going to have in this day, “the Church without spot or wrinkle,” don’t mean a denomination; it means the persons, the individuals without spot or wrinkle. “Be two in the bed, I’ll take one and leave one; two in the field, I’ll take one and leave one.” But when God, that holy thirst to be like Him, and then you see that His Word is in you, vindicating Itself, that you are God’s servant. Whatever God says, you just toe right up to it, then you’re coming through the right process then to satisfy that holy thirst that’s in you.
Two in the field and one taken. And “you’d never hear a word about it tomorrow, or the next day, or no other time.”
Two in the bed and one taken. And “you’d never hear a word about it tomorrow, or the next day, or no other time.”
How could that be that they are taken in the rapture and yet nobody hears anything about it?
The Seals were opened and the man of sin is made known, and the Bride had to be taken out of the way before that could happen.
But if you want to explain it away there is a way to explain it away.
But I hope you are like the woman at the well whom the Word of God came too and say:
138 She said, “Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet.” They hadn’t seen one for hundreds of years. Said, “We know the–the Messiah is coming, and, when He comes, He’ll tell us these things.”
He said, “I am He.”
She recognized the truth when it was interpreted in front of her. We have seen the Word interpreted to us in this last day.
Recognize the Word and may God quicken it to you.