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Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things. ~ PROVERBS 28:5

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To clarify, evil men are not just murderers or thieves. They are those who don’t have any drawing in them to serve God. Matthew 24:38 says, “Before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark”. Those things are not evil things except they didn’t care about the Creator. “But they that seek the LORD understand ALL things,” because when you have the Spirit of God you can discern every work. The Spirit is not in the time element, but exists outside of time. When you are born-again, you are no longer a time being, but you are an eternal being. I Cor 2 tells us “We have the Mind of Christ”.

He does the earth, that He's going to use in a plan of redemption, the same way. It repented and was baptized in water, in... by Noah. Jesus come and sanctified it, by dripping His Blood upon it, and claimed it. And in the New Earth that's to come, it's to have a holy Fire baptism, to clean it of every devil, every germ, every sickness, everything that there is, and make it anew. "I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth." You become a new person. Amen! Not just an old one patched up, by joining church or trying to turn a new page, but you are a complete brand-new unit. God takes the old man and burns him completely out, with the Holy Ghost and Fire, and comes Himself, sends down your representation. ~ 64-0802  THE FUTURE HOME

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The earth goes through the same plan of redemption that you do. The Baptism of the Holy Ghost for the earth burns everything out, making it a fit place for God to dwell. In the type of the earth, the fire baptism doesn’t start a battle or bring the earth to indecision and conflict. It burns everything away. What should the true Baptism of the Holy Ghost do for us?? This is not the church ages. This is the hour of the fullness of the Word taking us to Adoption, the speaking of the Word.

6   For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.     7   Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.     8   So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.      9   But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. ~ ROMANS 8:6-9

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Revelation 5:3 tells us that “No man” is worthy to even LOOK at the Book, much less open it. Mysteries are not just things that are hidden and then made known. The things of God will ONLY be understood by the Spirit of God, therefore, mysteries can ONLY be known by the elect. That doesn’t mean things cannot be explained in a way to understand intellectually. It means that the significance of the revealed truth will not have an effect on the human spirit as it does on the Spirit of God. You can understand the phrase “we are Kings and Priests” but  the intellectual mind will never enter into the truth of it, because it was not made to experience it.

Now, "make known unto us the mysteries of His will," the coming of... Let me read you something. I was reading over... Let's turn over now to "the mystery of His will." Let's turn to Hebrews here just a minute, the 7th chapter of Hebrews, I believe it is. I'd like to read you something that would just make you feel so good when we think that we're setting together in heavenly places: Hebrews the 7th chapter. “For this Melchisedec... (Now, watch.)... King of Salem, priest of the most high God...” ~ 60-0522E  ADOPTION 4

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Melchisedec is the mystery of His will, but what does that mean? Melchisedec was the eternal Life in a human body. He had no beginning of days or ending of Life. What if you had that same Life? Although you were here in a physical way, just as Melchisedec was, your Life is not bound by the limits of time. Think of Jesus after His resurrection. He could appear and disappear, walk through walls, yet He could eat food with His disciples. Wow! That’s way out there, but that’s the reason it is not real to us. We won’t believe because our human spirit dictates our condition. “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (I Cor 2:14).  

5   And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,      6   And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:      7   But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. ~ REVELATION 10:5-7

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The word mystery is not just something that is unknown. In the Old Testament it only appears as the word “secret” in the Book of Daniel. The secrets revealed were things that were to come to pass. It was as though Daniel was standing outside of time. The mystery revealed under this Message is not doctrines, but it is Life, God’s Own Life, revealed in a Bride. It is Christ IN YOU, the hope of glory. Melchisedec, who Bro Branham shows in the Adoption message was the mystery of His will (Eph 1:8-11). Melchisedec had no beginning of days or ending of life. In other words, for Melchisedec there was “time no longer”. His Life was not bound by time. He lived outside time. The mystery of God is a Life that is no longer subject to time. If you are born again, that is the potential of your Life.

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.