<TITLE>21. Par 207-219</TITLE>L-207   Life magazine then packed that Circle of a Cloud and Light there that they could not understand, and don't know it yet. But here telling, "Go there and wait for these mysteries to be revealed," and here months before it happened, and then it happened at exactly the way He said it would do. Did you notice in that picture? Even that Angel on the right, when He was being materialized, coming down, with His wings back and His head setting sideways, there it is right there in the picture, just exactly. Months before it happened, told here, that, "He's going to bring the Body of believers together; to reveal, take up them lost ends."

L-208   Here come Luther through, he only preached justification, just pounded away in that age. He didn't know what the age was. Here come Wesley through, and he pounded his age through. See? A lot of outfalls come from it, the other churches raising up. Then here come Pentecost, pounding away, and they organized and went right back into death again; as we'll get to it in a few minutes, right back into "death."

L-209 And then comes the revelation of the mystery, to reveal what it's all been about. Where, these little doctrines, like Luther brought out catechism and everything else; and Wesley brought this, that, and the other, and these other things; and then Pentecost brought organization just the same, and "Father, Son, Holy Ghost" baptism, and things; not knowing any different, 'cause... Then come back in the last days and pick up all these mysteries and clearly explain it, reveal it. Why? It's all the last days when this great mystery that God had in His heart is being revealed.

L-210   Do you get it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] If you fail, come back to this tape again. I don't know how much longer I'll be with you. Remember, this is the Truth, of THUS SAITH THE LORD. It's the Truth. It's the Scripture.

L-211 Like the seven mysteries of the seven last Seals, the mysteries of them. The Seals had done been broke, and every age had come down, and there they had left a lot of scattering. And God, not willing that It should be scattered, He comes back and picks up those things, those doctrines they started, and brought it on out and revealed the whole thing. Same thing He's doing now in revealing the mystery of Christ, how He was God's threefold purpose for the Church! Oh, my! Letting Him out; reveal!

L-212   Reveal, Webster says, is to "Make known. Make known, and, especially," Webster says, "in Divine Truth," that revelation means. The revelation, it is Christ's way of making Himself known to His Church.

L-213 Now we're going to say, "Now, Brother Branham, you're just saying this." Now, we won't say, just say this.

L-214 Now notice, He made Hisself known to Peter. Now if you want to mark this down, and we... If you want to read it, we'll... We'll read it, if you want to, in Saint Matthew 16:15 and 17. I'll quote it. When they come from the Mount Transfiguration, He says, "Who does man say I the Son of man am?"

L-215   "Some says, oh, they think You're 'Elijah,' and some says You're 'one of the prophets,' 'Jeremiah,' or some of them." But that wasn't what He asked.

L-216 He said, "Who do you think that I am now?" Now there is the Church He is talking to. See?
"What does man think I am?"

L-217 Today, "He's a philosopher; this social religion. He was a good Man. We believe His teaching is right. It's a subject to be lived by. I think it'd make us all better, if we did. We ought to have our churches, our--our so forth." That's a Santa Claus, like a Santa Claus story.

L-218 It's not expressions of some church that we should express something. It's a life that you don't live yourself, but He comes in you and lives by Hisself, and you become a prisoner; to any human intellectual being at all. You're led by the Spirit. And how do you know?

L-219   Now, you say, "I might know I was losing my mind. Maybe a man that loses his mind does that."


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