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12   For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.    13   Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. ~ HEBREWS 4:12-13

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We are living in the hour of the discernment of the Word. The Seals are opened and the Lamb on the Throne of your heart is opening the potential of your election. YOU are the Word that discerns because the Word is born in you. This realization does not require signs to confirm, any more than Jesus had to prove to Himself Who He was. “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight.” Not only are YOU revealed in this discernment, but ALL things are made known. The prophet said, “The importance of revelation by the Spirit to a true believer can never be over emphasized.” (Church Age Book – pg 13) Revelation IS realization, and nothing can take that away once you truly see it.

7   And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.    8   It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. ~ ISAIAH 29:7-8

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“So shall the multitude of all nations be, that fight against Mount Zion.” If we recognized who we are, Mount Zion, the Holy Mountain of God, then we would not feel like victims. We would recognize that we are Kings of a spiritual kingdom and Priests of the Life of God Himself. Nothing would cause us to waver or doubt our pathway. Our footsteps are ordered of the Lord and ALL THINGS WORD TOGETHER FOR GOOD to them who love the Lord and are THE called according to His purpose.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. ~ HOSEA 4:6

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There are so many things that can be said about this verse, but we will address a few important points. First, knowledge is not intellectual knowledge, but it is becoming one with something or someone. Adam “knew” his wife Eve. Rejecting knowledge is not saying “I don’t believe”, but “rejecting” means it has melted away or dissolved. The effect of the relationship has become common or ordinary, instead of passionate and consuming our attention. “Thou shalt be no priest to me”. How can you be a priest is you reject knowledge. It’s not that you have rejected learning, but being a priest relies on the connection with the One that you are representing. Melting away from that connection will isolate you from the will of God that you are the ambassador of.

1   For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;     2   That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;     3   In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ~ COLOSSIANS 2:1-3

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What a wonderful message for the Laodicean age. Think about our hearts knit together in love. That is not caused by doctrines. It is the result of the “acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ”. The word acknowledgement is the same Greek word as knowledge, used at least twenty times in the New Testament. Knowledge is not intellectual knowledge, but a spiritual melding together, a blending. When two people come together in a oneness, they are said to “know” each other. The knowing of God, the Father, and Christ, blends the Life into One Person that is your life as long as you have been crucified in Him (Gal 2:20).

Because, all of us was born by sex, and therefore the life that's in there is of the world, and that life will not stand. It's the thing that's already judged and condemned. You can't patch it up. There is no way to patch it. There is no way to--to smooth it out. There is no way to make it better. It's got to die! That's the only requirement there is. It's got to die. And the Substitute, a Life of Jesus Christ, has to come into you, which is the Holy Ghost, God's Token; that you have accepted the Blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. ~ 63-0901M  TOKEN

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There is absolutely no way for your earthly life to meet God’s requirement for a Bride. The Bride didn’t come from the earth. You must be born of a different Life and that is the Life of Christ, an eternal lineage. That is the ONLY place that is sinless, because God never could sin. To try and clean yourself up is not going to work. You must die in Christ and be raised in Him to accept the Life of Christ as your own Life (Gal 2:20). It is not a substitute, but it is your original Life because you were originally the Word and it will take the Voice of God again to restore creation.

Apply It, and create that atmosphere around you, that they'll just drop right into It. See? Oh, you are, you are, if you got the Token, you create a spirit around you, a power, that when you walk, people know that you're a Christian. They love for you to say something to them. They believe your word. What you say, they hold onto it. See? That's it. Apply the Token, then walk with It. Claim your household. You must do it now. ~ 63-0901M  TOKEN

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Let’s call this the “Tree of Life” atmosphere. Because you have the atmosphere of the Life, the same Life that Adam walked with in the garden, some people will be attracted to you. People have an election in them and they know from where they have fallen. They are groaning to return to that original place of fellowship and when they feel that “elective” atmosphere, something tells them they are close to home. They may not follow you to church, but you represent that Life they are looking for.

Oh, when it come time for the great wrath of God to fall, every... There come two ducks, male and female. Here come two geese, male and female; here come two horses, male and female; something another pulling them, the predestinated. The rest of them perished. Oh! The rest of them perished! But those who felt that tug to come in, they knowed that ark was prepared. It was a token that there's coming a rain. They knowed that there was coming a rain, no matter what the display was and what other people's thought. They knowed. There was something inside of them, said, "Get into there, right quick! Get into there, because that's the only place that's going to be safe." ~ 63-0901M  TOKEN

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Although we may not see anything in our flesh to prove what we KNOW regarding the Token in our life, there still must be a “tug” to get into the Word, the place of safety, regardless of there being no rain yet. Getting in the Word is not reading more of the Bible. It is coming to the realization of your election, something eternal that never began or never will end. Noah and his family were sealed in seven days before the rain. Many won’t respond until they see certain signs, whether it is the world condition, or signs and wonders in the church. The Bride knows on the inside what time it is, and there is a desperation to get into the Word that She has never had before.

But in this glorious place, under this covenant, there is a difference between the Blood and the Life. The Token for the believer today is the Holy Ghost; not a blood, a chemistry, but It is the Holy Spirit of God. That is the Token that God requires of the Church today. God must see this Token. He must see It in every one of us. ~ 63-0901M  TOKEN

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There is a difference between what has happened in this day and all the previous church ages, and that is the Life. While the Holy Spirit moved through the ages, this age is the reunion of Christ, Who is the Life, and the Word that is the Bride. What good is the Word if the Life does not operate it? What good is the Life if there is not Word to make It manifest? This is why the Token message is so important. It is also why Bro Branham preached Desperations on the evening following this message. This is the result of the Lamb taking the Book and sitting on the Throne of God in the believer and revealing the position to the individual. Man cannot do it. It takes God to put us where we belong.

25   Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.    26   For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;     27   And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. ~ JOHN 5:25-27

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It is the Voice of the Son of God, those born into the Kingdom of His Son, that will produce a resurrection. Creation is groaning for this. The authority to execute that Voice is in the Son of man, God in the flesh. You are the Temple of God’s dwelling place. That Voice dwells in you. The Life you are was the same Voice that created the universe. It was NOT your flesh, the life born of your parents, but it is the Word, the portion of God’s Own Life that is born in you that is the election. The rapture and resurrection dwells in you now. All you have to do is yield to that Life by believing.

But faith only has one thing: Life. That's all that'll stay. "Thy Word is Life. Thy Word is Truth. He is the Word, the Way, the Truth, the Light." Faith only hangs right there. That's all. And won't take it. Holy Spirit Life, Eternal Life, that's where faith grows in: Word, Zoe, God's Own Life. That's only place that faith can work, is when faith hears the Word and believes that It's God's Word. Then, in that Zoe, It grows and It produces what the Word said. ~ 62-0401  WISDOM VERSUS FAITH

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Is there a difference between God’s Own Life and life that comes from God? A tree has life that comes from God. Animals have life that comes from God. Man, even in the beginning, was life that was breathed into him of God, but it did not make him live forever. But the Bride has God’s Own Life. It is not just life or living forever. It is Life with all the attributes of the Life of God. Healing power comes from the Life of God. Salvation comes from the Life of God. Speaking for creation or restoration comes from the Life of God. The same Voice that raised Lazarus from the dead will raise the rest of the Bride in this day. That Voice is in the Bride right now.