<TITLE>32. Par 289-293</TITLE>L-289 I hate to come to this, but let's read one more Scripture. Will you? All right. Let's go back to Daniel 7, just a moment, back here, Daniel 7, and just read a Scripture here. I want... So this is going to help you a whole lot in the rest of the message this morning. I'm sure that it'll--it'll make you feel a lots better after you read this and see this, see what Daniel, the 7th chapter of Daniel, and let's begin now from the... Daniel 7, let's take the 9th chap--9th verse. Now, listen close now to these things:
And I beheld until the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garments was white as snow, and whose hair of his head were like... pure wool: and his throne was like the fiery flames,... (You see it again come back to that emerald fire.)... and his wheels as burning fire.
And a fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands times thousands ministered unto him, and tens of thousands times ten thousands... (There comes your redeemed.)... stood before him: and judgment was set, and the books... (books, plural)... was opened.
Now, notice, this judgment was set. See? Now, watch. Daniel, when he saw the thrones at the judgment, they were empty, he seen thrones cast down, come down from heaven, the Ancient of time came down from heaven. But when John saw it, the throne was already occupied by Jesus, and the thrones for the disciples and the patriarchs, redeemed, was already fulfilled. See? Daniel saw it five hundred years before the time of Christ. And then after Christ, makes twenty-five hundred years, and John was living over into the age that is to come, and he had done seen all this happen. Where, Daniel didn't see it. See, he just seen the Ancient of time come; he saw Him come. But when John saw Him, the throne was filled (See?); the thrones was cast down with the Ancient of time, and judgment was set. But when John saw Him, the elders had not yet been chosen in the time of John--or the time of Daniel, but they was already redeemed at the end time. Praise the Lord. Oh. my. Oh, isn't that... Isn't He wonderful?

L-291 So Daniel 7, he... What did Daniel--Daniel do? He foresaw the judgment, seen the seated thrones was empty. See, they was supposed to be empty. As John in his time, after the raptured church, they were occupied by the redeemed elders. Mmmm. [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit--Ed.]
What does a elder mean? If you take the word "elder"; I got about--all these definitions wrote out here; I'm just skipping down. "Elder" means "the head of a city or the head of a tribe." An elder, "the head of something." Like I--I'd be a... Brother Neville right now is an elder to this church. What is he? He's the head of this local body. See? And the--the mayor of the city would be the elder of this city (See?), the elder of the cities. You remember back in the Bible times, the elders of the city? "Elder" means "the head of a city or the head of a tribe."

L-293 Now, how many was they? Twenty and four, twenty-four elders. Is that right? Now... Oh, my. Who was it? The twelve apostles and the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve patriarchs. The... Now, we're going to take it right on down as we come in the other lessons and prove that to be right, so I'm glad you're writing it down now. See? The twelve patriarchs and the twelve tribes of Israel... Now, watch. Jesus said that...
Peter asked one day, said, "What will we receive? We have left father, mother, husband, wife, children, everything else; we've left everything." Peter said, "We've left our wives; we've left our children; we've left our father and mother, our homes and lands to follow You."
He said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, that you'll set on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes." There you are; that's the redeemed, the redeemed elders.


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