The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to vote, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father's; but he has never collected unemployment either.
He's a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student, pursued some form of sport activities, drives a ten year old jalopy, and has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away.

He listens to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and 155mm Howitzers. He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk. He has trouble spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can field strip a rifle in 30 seconds and reassemble it in less time in the dark.

He can recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and use either one effectively if he must.
He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a professional. He can march until he is told to stop or stop until he is told to march. He obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without spirit or individual dignity.

He is self-sufficient. He has two sets of fatigues: he washes one and wears the other. He keeps his canteens full and his feet dry.

He sometimes forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle. He can cook his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts. If you're thirsty, he'll share his water with you; if you are hungry, his food. He'll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of battle when you run low.

He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were his hands. He can save your life - or take it, because that is his job. He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay and still find ironic humor in it all. He has seen more suffering and death then he should have in his short lifetime.

He has stood atop mountains of dead bodies, and helped to create them. He has wept in public and in private, for friends who have fallen in combat and is unashamed.

He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body while at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to 'square-away' those around him who haven't bothered to stand, remove their hat, or even stop talking. In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he defends their right to be disrespectful.
Just as did his Father, Grandfather, and Great-grandfather, he is paying the price for our freedom.

Beardless or not, he is not a boy.

He is the American Fighting Man that has kept this country free for over 200 years. He has asked nothing in return, except our friendship and understanding. Remember him, always, for he has earned our respect and admiration with his blood.

Bro. Branham said:

And America, upon the basis of our forefathers who came here for religious freedom... We had godly men in them days as leaders: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, men of renowned character, men of God. America was America in those days.
George Washington, here at Valley Forge, before he crossed the Delaware, praying all night, until he was wet plumb to his waist, kneeling in snow. And the next morning when the Americans started across, there's only about twenty percent of them had shoes to wear, the American Army. But they had a principle; they had something that they had to fight for. They didn't care what come or went. (The farmers come in and stopped his plow and took out his ox, and got his rifle and went to fight for what he knowed was freedom.)

Men of God who founded this nation, great men... No wonder they wrote:
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!

Any man that's ever had any, made any show at all in life, has been men who has trusted God and took Him at His Word. Right. Man that doesn't take Him at His Word never amounts to a hill of beans. We've had a George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and whatevermore, but the greatest man that the world has ever had has been those who put their simple faith in God.

George Washington at Valley Forge, he was very perseverant. He prayed all night when the British was across the other side. And the next morning, no matter... There stood our American soldiers. Half of them didn't have shoes on their feet: American soldiers with no shoes on.
Washington prayed till he was wet plumb to his waist, until he got a answer from heaven. And the gorging river the next morning... Valley Forge didn't bother him. He went on across. He was perseverant, whether his soldiers had shoes or not, whether the opposition was great or not. Three musket bullets went right through his coat and never touched him. Why? He had prayed through till he got a hold of God. No musket, no army, no river, no difficult, whatever it is, he's going on......
And when this nation was founded we had godly men who founded it: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln. Valley Forge, when--prayed all night long, that leader, and bullets went through his coat the next day, without miss--hitting without him. Abraham Lincoln, a God-fearing man...

This nation was known all over the world as the leading nation, 'cause we'd had godly men behind it: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, men like that who trusted God and feared God.....And we each one have a life that God has given us, and we must live it. And I... to my humble opinion, if you'll get this, I think the most best life in the world, no matter whether it's up or down, if we'll find God's path and walk in it, where God has ordained for us to walk... If we always, we find victory no matter... I think of blind Fanny Crosby when she was sitting there in the darkness, the question was once asked, "What think ye of Christ? Who's Son is He?"
And I think of all the men, and great men down through the ages, any man that ever amounted to anything mostly, were men and women who believed Jesus Christ. Isn't that right? And I think of how the prophets wrote of Him and how the--the ancient men, they foretold of Him, and how the patriarchs, how they... The rulers who raised against Him was brought low, and so forth.
And I think down through the age, I think of the father of our nation, George Washington, how he trusted God. I think of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, of course, I don't... I'm not a politician, but Lincoln was my favorite amongst all the presidents we've ever had. He had to come up the hard way, maybe because I had to come that way is the reason I sympathize with Lincoln: splitting rails, and writing in the dirt, and--and so forth. And the only books that we believe that Lincoln ever had until he was twenty-one years old, was the Bible and the Foxe "Book of Martyrs." That's what molded that character. Let me see what you read; let me go in your office, in your house, and see what you read, I will about tell you what you are. That's right. See, everything's with nature. And you keep the Bible laying close for your children, read It yourself, be an example. That's what I didn't have in my younger life. But by God's grace I want to put that before my children. And if there is another generation, may they put It before theirs."

Brother Paul says: "Some may have gotten the impression that I am against America, not proud to have been born here. Not so. I did my part as a veteran and my younger brother, also. He was one of the most highly decorated Marines 'in country' in southeast Asia. He is waiting on me, tonight, in glory. My older brother was with the Marines in Korea. My Dad was Irish, a professional boxer, a World Contender, who taught me to be a boxer and a 'stand up guy'. My uncles, five of them, served in World War II and Korea. Three of them were boxers, one of whom is in the Hall of Fame. My great-grandmother on my mother's side was a Native American from the Choctaw tribe. All the men in my family going back a hundred years served our country in uniform. I am an American. I still salute the flag. I would never burn it! I put my hand over my heart when I hear the Pledge of Allegiance. I can still choke up when I hear 'America the Beautiful'..."God shed His Grace on Thee".

And, moreover, I sometimes weep for my country knowing She turned down Grace. I love the principals upon which this country was founded. Bible principals now disaffected by it's people...for the most part. But to be identified with America I must be identified with Her in Her bad as well as Her good. So I must share Her reproach. Bear Her shame. Love Her.

Yet, while I am an American, I am first of all a Christian. We need a page to honor the veterans while, at the same time, upholding the Word."

So, here it is.

On the back of the one dollar bill...the only one that hasn't been changed as yet, you will find the Gospel that we represent preached. TWO SEALS appear. One the Seal of the United States, the other the Great Seal. Ever wonder why a nation would call another Seal "the Great Seal"? Why is not the Seal of the United States called the Great Seal? Why is the Great Seal the Pyramid...and not the Eagle?

Once this nation recognized the Great Seal above Her own. God's Hand was in Her construction. She is foretold, prophesied, described in the Bible. Identified in Her goodness and Her depravity. And God used Her to preach the Gospel all over the world...even Her money testifies of God's design for Her.

The Eagle is a symbol for God in the Prophet.

"Now, we notice, as the eagle... And if he... What good would it do... Now, that's the reason God likened His prophets to eagles, because they could go so high.
Now, he's a special-made bird. And oh, his feathers are so tight you can't hardly pull them out with a pair of pliers. They're so tight, because if they wasn't, when he got up there, up in that spheres up in there, he'd--he'd--they'd come out of him. He'd fall back to earth, and just--he'd disintegrate.
And if a hawk tried to follow him, or the crow tried to follow him, he'd just leave him in the dust. And that... If he got any higher, he'd go so high, that's all the higher he can go, 'cause he's a crow, or a hawk. But an old eagle just keeps on climbing.
Now, what good would it do him to get up there, if he wasn't equipped with some eyes that could see a way away too? That's right. What good does it do to climb high, unless you live high too? Live to where you're climbing. High as you jump, live that high. You know what I mean. That's what brings so much reproach on the church, is people jumping way high and living real low. See? That's the thing we ought to do, yeah: live just as high as you jump. See? That's right.

Now, if the eagle didn't have some reason to be up there, he'd never be made that way. So that's the reason God made him and called him His prophet, because the prophet rises higher, like Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and them. They went way up in. Farther up you go, the farther away you can see. Now, some people just stays on the ground all the time, so his vision's just right here. But as you raise, higher you raise, further away you can see. Oh, my. No wonder some people's so nearsighted. They have never got their foot off the ground yet. Oh, higher you can raise...
And the eagle is the highest of all. He can raise higher than any other bird. Nothing can follow him. Why, I doubt whether an airplane could get to him, or not... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] There making it, generating its own air.
But when you get up in there, this bird, the live bird up in there, he look around; he can see. His eyes so far beyond the hawk, he can get up there and see things. Like if--if there was a storm coming, and you could be high enough in the air, you could see it hundreds and hundreds of miles away. If you was high enough up, you could see it.
Well, God took His prophets and raised them up so high like Jeremiah, and Isaiah, John, and them, till they saw plumb on down into the millennium (Amen.), way out.
AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRS.HER.NEST_1961

That is a Great Symbol. And the Seal of the United States should be the greatest Seal to an American, it would seem. But, it takes second place to another Seal...another symbol.

"...did you ever notice on the back of an American dollar? Over on one side it's got the American seal, an eagle with the arrows in his claws: American seal. But in the other corner that faces you, I believe the right-hand corner, he's got a pyramid. And he's got wrote under there, "The Great Seal."
Why would our nation would think of making an Egyptian pyramid "The Great Seal," above even our seal of American eagle? Did you notice? Just above the pyramid is the headstone standing above it like an eye shining.

Now, I've been to Egypt, and in those pyramids... How I could take all afternoon. Now, I don't believe in doctrines of pyramids. I'm only making a parable. But as you notice that pyramid, it never did receive the stone. Enoch built that--that pyramid or in his days. They can't figure it out.
Now, they got all kinds of religions on it, like they have on the zodiac. But everything in... God wrote three Bibles. The first one was in the heavens; the second one was in the pyramid; the third one's on the earth, and everyone of them agree with one another.
Watch. What does the zodiac start off with? The Virgin. What does it end with? Leo the lion: the first coming of Christ, and the second coming of Christ. And we're now in the crossed fishes, which is the cancer age: perfect. Watch the--the tower here, the pyramid. The first is way wide; next it become more in the minority; then up close again; and then the headstone come.
What was it? Luther in the reformation, justification. Then the enemy begin to come like a flood. He raised up a standard, sanctification, a little more powerful in the Spirit. Then when the enemy begin to cover that over and they begin to organize and join this, that, and the other, then the Spirit of God moved into the Pentecostals, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. They organized, and went off. Now, what's He doing? There's no other age to come to, but He's taking that Pentecostal church and taking the elect out of that, and honing it so that when this Headstone comes upon it, will have to be like the rest of it.

Why, it's so... Them rocks laying up there of hundreds of tons, laying up there, it's so close together without mortar that you can't run a razor blade between them. And when the Headstone comes, Christ comes to His temple, it'll have to fit perfect like the rest of it. And the ministry of the Pentecostal church will have to get so perfect till it'll fit right in with the same ministry that He had here, which will take the whole thing in the rapture, being the church. Right.
Now, "When the enemy comes in like a flood, He raises a standard against it." Now, watch. In Eden He gave them His Word for their Armor, just the Word spoke. Then the enemy came in like a flood, and He took the Word and made it flesh to dwell among us, a little stronger. From up there speaking, here He is walking on earth. Glory. Going to call me a holy-roller anyhow, so you might as well get used to it now.

Oh, first it was the Spoken Word out yonder. Now, here It is; you could touch it; It's made flesh. And then when the enemy still come in like a flood, He poured the Word into the person, being the form of the Holy Ghost. There's your one, two, three again: justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, Like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and so forth, in perfection.
Now, notice the Spoken Word. God above us, God with us, God in us: the Word above us, the Word with us, the Word in us. Hallelujah. Ye are God's, God's army, marching on: God's Spoken Word above us in a Pillar of Fire; God's manifestation of His Word in flesh; now God's Spirit, Spoken Word, in us. Amen." TAKE.ON.THE.WHOLE.ARMOR.OF.GOD 62-

The Seal of the United States shows the symbol of a prophet...the symbol of this nation founded on the Scriptures. Here, in the West, is where the great eagle prophet was to come and forerun the coming Headstone....Christ. Oh, it is a great symbol, a great Seal, but there is a greater One.

"MESSAGE.OF.GRACE_ JEFF.IN V-13 N-3 SUNDAY_ 61-0827
53 Now, remember in our teaching on the lessons that we've just been through, that we took the great pyramid and studied that for a while, that Enoch must've built. And the headstone was never put in the pyramid. I've been there. The architectry of it could never be replaced till this day. We have no machines that could build a pyramid, no powers ('less the atomic power) that could build a pyramid, because it's too gigantic. Stones that would weigh tons and tons and tons stands way in the air, so put together that even a thin razor blade could not... And they're not cemented; they're just cut so that they join one with another.

That's the way the body of Jesus Christ should be: so cut by the Holy Spirit by God's great Instrument and Tool, that we'd be joined as one person. We are not divided. We should be one person. And it goes to show that no machinery can do that that way. It takes God to do that. No mechanics of organization, no lodges, none of these things can ever do it, as good as their intentions are. They can never do it, because that it takes God to do this, the Holy Spirit.

I don't think I have a dollar bill in my pocket. But there is... Yes, I do; I have a dollar bill. I'm sorry. On the back of this dollar bill you'll see the seal of the United States on the left side, looking towards you. From me it'd be on the left side; yours, it's right. It's the eagle, and also in there the coat of arms and so forth. But on this side here, right side to me, you see the pyramid. And you notice, above the pyramid is the capstone, and beneath there says, "The Great Seal." Even on our currency, that we have to recognize... No infidel can stamp out Christianity. Every letter that you date, dates the birth of our Lord. Every calendar, everything speaks of Him. Even on our currency, the Headstone, which is Christ... Why did not they put the headstone on the pyramid? Because the Headstone was rejected when It come.

But now, according to the prophecy, there will come the Headstone. And I want you to notice that when the Headstone comes, the prince that's going to cry out the message will cry out, "Grace, grace." For it's by grace are we saved, that not of works, lest any man should boast. And the message of grace has been tramped under the feet of men until it's become a disgrace. Some of them runs out into eternal security; some runs out into, oh, everything. But the true message of grace remains the same, and there's where Satan tries to knock it out from the church. But it's the grace of God that we're all saved by.

So in the Deity of Jesus Christ, if the Lord God could come there and confirm that that is the truth, not only that, but by His Word He confirms it's the truth, and by signs and wonders He confirms it's the truth. Then, also, grace is the truth. Then why could anyone criticize and say that grace is wrong, that we're saved by works? We are saved by grace, that through faith, not by works. Works shows that you have been saved. But what saves you is the grace of God. Grace saves you. Grace is what God does for you. Works is what you do for God to show appreciation of what God did for you. But by grace are you saved.

Some people thinks, "Because I go join church, put my name on the book, that's all I have to do." Some people thinks, "Because I shout, that's all I have to do." Others think, "'Cause I speak with tongues, that's all I have to do." Some thinks, "Because I got power to heal the sick, that's all I have to do." It's not. It's the grace of God that saves you, God's amazing grace. I cannot trust in any merits. Some said, "Oh, there's a great man. That man, I've heard him stand up and do this; I've heard him stand up and do that."
Paul said, in I Corinthians 13, "Though I speak with tongue of men and Angels, though I have discernment, though I have gifts, to feed--I'll take all my goods to feed the poor, though I can move mountains with faith, though I have knowledge to understand all things, I am nothing till love comes in, which is grace." God has to do it. You can do all these things and still be lost. It's grace that saves you, God's grace to the human race."

BY GRACE! The Headstone coming on the Pyramid of the Church to Cap off the ministry of an Eagle Prophet.......to finish the Building. There were two parts to that ministry...two great symbol Seals.

"Now this messenger of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7 is going to do two things. One: According to Malachi 4 he will turn the hearts of the children to the fathers. Two: He will reveal the mysteries of the seven thunders in Revelation 10 which are the revelations contained in the seven seals. It will be these Divinely revealed 'mystery-truths' that literally turn the hearts of the children to the Pentecostal fathers. Exactly so." LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE

The first part of that Two Part Ministry was the Eagle, prophet, to restore. The second part was the Coming of the Headstone, Christ. The last Great Seal. The Seventh Seal, coming at the close of the Seven Church Ages, to Cap the prophets calling, to finalize the work...........to bring the God of heaven into a flesh manifestation once again. The building of God, His Body, the Church, the Word Bride, altogether united into One.....Jesus Christ. The mystical Body of Jesus Christ joined to the Head.........Sealed. One Body with One Head....altogether the Lord Jesus Christ. The all-seeing Eye of the invisible God made visible in His Body coming forth thru Seven Ages to climax at the opening of the Seventh Seal...which is the Second Coming of Christ. All of it to manifest God and bring the "Rapture".

FEAST.OF.THE.TRUMPETS 1964
"then there was to be the seventh angel's Message that had been preaching and condemning the Pentecostals. And Jesus had been put out, wouldn't have no cooperation with nobody, be put on the outside, rejected (The Bible said so.); for it's Christ made manifest among us, Jesus among us all made manifest in the purity of His Word, making It known. And if that... This is not just makeup, friends, this is THUS SAITH THE LORD, the Scripture.

And at the same time... Now, as soon as this Church, the Bride is drawed together, she's taken up; in that mystery of the Seventh Seal, or the Seventh Seal, the mystery going."

"Now, He's going to show the church what He done. See? Then He just takes... But the Book is closed. No one knowed at all. They know it was a Book of Redemption on it there, but it's to be revealed in the last days according to Revelations 10. The seventh angel is going to be given the message of that, because it said that in the time of the sounding of the seventh church age--the seventh angel, when he sounds, all the mysteries of God should be finished up by his sounding. Then after it's revealed, the Angel come down from heaven, which was Christ (Now remember, this angel and is on earth, a messenger). Down comes Christ (You see Him in the 10th chapter of Revelations.), puts one foot upon the land and the other one on the sea, rainbow over His head, eyes and, like--and feet like fire and so forth, raises up His hand and swears by Him that lives forever and ever on the throne, that time shall be no more." THIRD.SEAL

BREACH.THE_ JEFF.IN 63-
"Now, you see, I'm just not making that up. That's what... It's THUS SAITH THE LORD. I'll read it to you out of the Book: the sounding of the seventh angel's message, the mystery of God should be finished that's been declared by His holy prophets. That's the prophets who has wrote the Word. At the sounding of the seventh church age, the last church age, all the loose ends that through these church ages have been probed at, will be wound up together. And when the Seals are broke and the mystery is revealed, down comes the Angel, the Messenger, Christ, setting His foot upon the land and upon the sea with a rainbow over His head. Now remember, this seventh angel is on earth at the time of this coming.
Just as John was giving his message, the same time that Messiah come in the days... John knew he would see Him, because he was going to introduce Him. And we realize that in the Scriptures over in Malachi 4, there's to be a one like John, a--an Elijah, to whom the Word of God can come to, and he is to reveal by the Holy Spirit all the mysteries of God and restore the faith of the children back to the faith of the apostolic fathers: restore back all these mysteries that's been probed at through these denominational years. Now, that's what the Word said. I'm just responsible for what It said. See? It's--it's written is right. That's what It is.

Now, we see that this seven-sealed Book now, is the mystery of redemption. It's a Book of Redemption from God. Now, all the mysteries at this time should be finished at the sounding of this messenger. Now, here's the angel on earth, and another Angel, mighty Messenger come down. See, this angel was a earthly angel, messenger. But here comes One down from heaven: a rainbow, covenant. See? Only Christ, it could be; just exactly like it was in Revelations 1st chapter, standing in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks with a rainbow to look upon as jasper and sardius stone.

And here He returns back in the 10th chapter after the coming time, that all the mysteries is to be finished, and the Seals are to be broke, and proclaiming that its time is no more. And he said, "When the seventh angel has begin to sound, then the mysteries should be finished and time for the Angel to appear. We're close, somewhere. That's right.

Now, notice, the Seven Seals holds the mystery of the Book. Until we can see what those Seven Seals has sealed in, we're only presuming them things. Because as I've told you this morning, upon my little message this morning of "God Hiding in Simplicity,"... You see, we are--we are--we are sure to miss the thing unless it is absolutely, genuinely revealed by the Holy Spirit and vindicated the same. See? If the prophet rises and tells you that this is just that, and God don't vindicate the thing, forget it. See? But God in every statement, in everything has to vindicate it to make it right. See, see? So His children will watch those things (See?), and be alert.

Notice, Seven Seals on the Book has the... These Seven Seals has the Book sealed. See? The Book is absolutely sealed. Do you see it? The Book is absolutely a sealed Book until the Seven Seals is broken. It is sealed up with Seven Seals.
Now, that's a different from the Seven Thunders. See? This is Seven Seals on the Book, and the Book will not--the Seals will not be released until the message of the seventh angel. See? So we--we are presuming, but the genuine revelation of God will be made perfect in that sounding and vindicated Truth. Now, that's exactly what the Word said. The mysteries should be finished at that time. And this seven-sealed Book, remember, it was closed here in Revelations the 5th chapter, and in Revelations the 10th chapter it is opened.

And now, we're going to see what the Book says about how it become open. And is not made known until the Lamb takes the Book, and breaks the Seals, and opens the Book. See? The Lamb's got to take the Book; it's His.
Now remember, no man in heaven, no man in earth: pope, bishop, cardinal, state presbyter, or whoever he is can break them Seals or reveal the Book but the Lamb. And we have probed, and presumed, and stumbled, and wondered, and--and that's the reason we're all in such a confusion: but with the Divine promise that this Book of Redemption will be perfectly opened by the Lamb, and the Seals thereof will be loosed by the Lamb in the last day in which we're living now. And is not made known until the Lamb takes the Book and breaks the Seals, because remember, the Book was being holded in the hands of Him that set upon the throne. And the Lamb comes to Him that sets upon the throne and takes the Book out of His right hand: takes the Book.

Oh, that's deep. We'll try to solve it out if we can by the help of the Holy Spirit. Now, we're depending on Him. And we will see later it is at the end time when time has run out. No denomination has a right for the interpretation of the Book. No man has a right to interpret It. It is the Lamb Who interprets It, and the Lamb is the One Who speaks It, and the Lamb makes the Word to be known by vindicating and bringing the Word to Life. See? Exactly.

Notice, and is not revealed until--this Book is not revealed until the church ages and denominational ages has run out, and there's time no more. See it? It's only revealed after church ages and denominational ages has run out. That's the reason the thing is in such a scruple tonight. See? They pick up a little doctrine, and they run off here to one side and say, "This is it." Another one picks up another doctrine, runs off to this side and said, "This is it." And each one builds a denomination under it, until we got hundreds of denominations. But still in all of it to see the confusion; the people are wondering, "What is truth?" If that isn't just the condition today...

But then He promises that when that time has finished out, there'll be the sounding of the seventh angel's voice, and then the Book will be revealed (See?) at that time. Now, don't say, "Nobody... them people ain't saved back there." But the mysteries that they couldn't understand: how that God can be three and yet One; how that the Scripture can say baptize in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and turn around and say baptize in the Name of Jesus. See? Oh, so many things... How can Eve eat a apple and cause the--the wreckage of the whole world? See? How can these things be? But those mysteries are promised to be revealed in the end time. It's little loose ends that these great warriors has come on the scene, such as Irenaeus, and Martin (Saint Martin), and Polycarp, and the different ones; and Luther, and Wesley, and all of these (See?), as--how they have come and just lived long enough to--to kind of bring a light and shine it, but they left many things in--in the darkness.
Along come the Pentecostal age, like the Lutheran age, and they run out on limbs. But still all right; don't say they wasn't right. They were, but there's loose ends left that can't be explained. But then in... Why? The Seals hasn't been broke to thoroughly reveal what these things are. See?

But then in the last age, all these mysteries are to be solved and handed out, and the Seals are to be opened by the Lamb and revealed to the Church, and then time is no more. See? How wonderful."

So, what has this to do with America? What has this to do with a dollar bill? With the Seal of the United States?

Brother Ramon Martinez says, writing from the Dominican Republic: "But first, I want to say that this trip was one of the most productive events that has ever happened in my life. It's caused me to look more at myself then I ever have. I'm not to sure who got more out of this trip. Because of the changes in my own life. I came here to be a blessing to the people, and ended up being blessed. haha What a twist.
I came to teach them something, and by the people just being who they are, taught me more then what a person could learn in a life time. As much as I love these people, and this country, I appreciate the great Country that I come from in a greater light. The United States of America, and the men who fought to give us, and keep the Freedom we enjoy, during war and peace times. I salute you all. Active duty and all veterans!
Even though we don't like some things in our own country, or about it. America is still the greatest nation to live in. It's no wonder why people are daily wishing they had the opportunity to live in America, and are sneaking across our borders daily. They are only wanting the opportunities we take for granted daily. All too often we forget in our own arrogance, that it was our parents, grand parents, great grand parents, etc. etc. that came here from another country for the very same reasons. The only true Americans that were here, are the Native American Indians. For many of us, it was our very ancestors that took the Land from them....

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Our brother Ramon continues. Here he shows what he has learned from his experience in the service of Christ. Speaking of a man he encountered recently, he says: "My heart fell after laying eyes on him. This man had no legs. He walked with his hands. Scooting himself along, one swing of his hip after the next. He had a pad at the bottom of his body to protect him from the ground, and a pair of old leather glovers to protect his hands. He didn't have a skate board like you would see someone on TV, using to move around with.
I couldn't even eat the food that was offered to me from the family I was staying with. I was so sick to my stomach. I went to the little room I was given to sleep in, and just fell on my face before God. This was just too much. I couldn't handle any more. I was so ashamed of myself, and how I had lived over the years. Living and thinking so high minded. Taking for granted how good I had it, living in the United States. Whinening and complaining about how hard I had it, growing up and as an adult. All I can say, is that I'm ashamed of myself.
This man had 5 children, and his sons worked to help provide for the family. The sons had to drop out of school, because the father couldn't work. I can say this. I sure am grateful for my parents. When I think of how I treated them in the past. I'm just ashamed of my actions. They worked hard and fed us, giving us kids the best they could give us. They gave us a better life then what they had. Any time we would complain about conditions they just loved us anyway, knowing that we had no Idea, about how good we had it. They kept us fed and clothed. They kept us in a healthy environment. They always made sure that we had the medical attention we needed, and they both always insisted that we get our education. As for my parents! I appreciate them both in a whole different light.
Oh; how I would complain to my parents as a young man in high school, about not getting me the right kind of shoes or the right pair of pants that were in style. That they had to get a certain brand name. How arrogant I was, until I met this man with no feet, and no legs.
Meeting people with barely enough food to eat, and clothes to wear. A people who could care less what the current fashion is. People who's only concern is, do I have enough pesos to feed everyone tomorrow! Little girls that don't have a concept of what who's wearing what in school, little boys that wonder if they have to go to work with daddy today? This is more than enough to make me appreciate the sacrifice my grandfather made by coming to America from Mexico. And appreciate what a great opportunity we all have in our own country. It's no wonder why so many people sneak over to America. They want the land of promise, that we take for granted daily."

Alright, here it is! America is still a great nation. Great from the standpoint of wealth, comforts, ease of lifestyle........but poorer than all the nations.

America turned away THE GREAT SEAL. Even as Jesus reminded us that a prophet is without honor in his own homeland, God's prophet was rejected in his homeland. He, too, was an American, born in a Kentucky cabin not far from where 'Abe' Lincoln was. But it was by that prophet that Christ was to be revealed. Only that prophet could identify the Great Seal.

God set the pattern with John, the Baptist. And God never changes His pattern. He is, one, Perfect in all His doings, and, two, unchanging in all His ways. When Christ came the first time, God in the body of flesh He called Jesus, it was the prophet who identified Him.

" There was a man sent from God, whose name [was] John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all [men] through him might believe.

He was not that Light, but [was sent] to bear witness of that Light." John 1:6-8
John came for a witness, to bear witness of That Light, that all men through him might believe......on That Light! It was John who identified Who that Light was. Without the witness of John no man could believe on Him for they could not identify Him. That was John's calling...to identify That Light.

And, in this Day That Light has returned.

"And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the light shall not be clear, [nor] dark: But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, [that] at evening time it shall be light." Zechariah 14:6-7

"And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost." 2 Peter 1:18-21

The Light of the Evening Time is Jesus Christ the "daystar", or, the Morning Star (Strong's 5459) And that Evening Light was identified by a prophet in the United States of America...the last stronghold of Christianity. But rejected by the people of this nation.

The Great Seal, the Headstone, Jesus Christ was once more "the stone that the builders set at nought" The prophet condemned the clergy of this nation for the second crucifixion of Jesus Christ in 1963. The so-called 'Christian' nation refused the very Christ they claim.
God is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. " And God's name is Jesus Christ. Christ is the Holy Ghost, God. And He is the Word...for GOD IS THE WORD!

Jesus Christ came the second time into flesh. He came IN WORD FORM to inhabit His Body, the Church. He came, the Capstone on the Pyramid of the Church of Seven Ages to crown His ministry as the Son of God. The Son of Man is here now in Word Form in His Body of flesh, the Bride.

And this nation, so steeped in riches, and wealth, and power, have refused Him.

"And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:.......Behold, I stand at the door and knock..."

Jesus Christ, the Word of God, is put outside the door of the modern American Church...and it's offspring around the world. They have substituted creeds for Christ. They, like those in the days of Noah, who built the great tower of Babel, substituted..."bricks they had for Stone, and slime had they for mortar." And God gave them over to confusion.

Bro. Branham said, as quoted on the Homepage:":"But God's just now loosening up the church everywhere, getting in order now so He can get into the rapture, got to give it rapturing faith before it can go in the rapture.

The people are in the spirit of the last days, just like they was in the days of Noah, eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, unconcerned, don't care, walk around, and anything else. And these American people is the worst on the face of the earth: heady, high-minded, incontinent, fierce, and despisers, a know-it-all. If there's any place in the world... With, my Bible over my heart, and God knowing that I--looking down on me and know I may have to stand before Him before morning... If I had to say so, the place needs missionaries worse than any place in the world is the U.S.A., the United States of America. The greatest bunch of heathens that I know of anywhere is in America. "Heathen" means "unbeliever."

Oh, they believe theology. They're so calloused and drug back till you can't speak to them in no way. I can take a man out there, never heard of God, worshipping an idol, and do more with him in five minutes than you can do with a fellow that professes to be a Christian, an old mossback something that's hung along and had a lot of this embalming fluid, and jerked into his veins. Puts me in the mind of one of them old cold morgues down here somewhere, like an undertaker establishment. That's right..............Why, the United States is combed over and over and over by so many evangelists, until it's just burnt territory. That's the truth. America has absolutely sinned away its day of grace................God has turned from it and gone to the foreign nations. There's where the people come. One sign from the Lord done; thousands will run to the altar of heathens. And it can be done over and over to this bunch of Americans, that's been taught this way, that way, and all confused, and never stop to look in the Bible."

"Now, the thing to do is to be true in your heart, love the Lord with all your heart, and just be thankful that God is marching on with us: the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ.

And I say this and make this predicting. I'm not saying it in the Name of the Lord now. I'm saying it as your brother. I predict this. (And listen close.) I predict that America this year, the United States this year will either receive Christ, or she'll start falling from this year. Yeah.
This is America's time to repent, and if it doesn't... I predicted that on, I think, about January the 15th or 16th of this year, just feeling led to say it, and it's--I've stuck with it, and I look at the wheels turning up.

I notice the great famous evangelist, Billy Graham; he come back from overseas, and he staged his meetings: New York and these great places, to hit the very nerve center and so forth. And I see that Brother Roberts, excommunicated out of the foreign countries.

Mr. Arganbright wants me after June, and them to go into Germany, back down into South Africa, and through there, but something's holding me to America. And all the others seems to be the same way, and I believe that America is going to get her last call this year. That's right. I'd be daresn't... Look here at the tapes down here. They might be played twenty years from today.

See, have to watch what you're talking about; watch what you're saying, but I believe that. Now, the Lord hasn't told me that, but I believe that, that America is either going to receive Christ or is going to turn Him down flatly this year; and I predict that they will turn Him down. I do." WHAT.IS.A.VISION 1956

Sociologists tell us that the mid 1950's ended the American culture. Look at it...if you are old enough to remember. That same year Elvis Presley "twisted" onto the scene with 'Heartbreak Hotel'. Elvis who would be called the king. And that was the year when every vacant lot in America, it seemed, had a tent revival going. The people turned down King Jesus for 'king' Elvis. And it began a decline in morals that has continued worse and worse. Here is what the prophet said in 1958.

HANDWRITING.ON.THE.WALL CHICAGO.IL "And I say to America... I wish I could make them at this minute hear my voice. You're not ignorant to all these things. As the nations before has sinned and done what we have done, we are weighed in the balance and found wanting. What happened to France? What happened to Germany? What happened to the other nations who went "wine, women, and big time"? It always comes out that way, and we're not immuned from judgment. God is just.................

Billy Graham said about a week or two ago in one of his messages, said, "This nation can become a satellite to Russia, anytime Russia desires." Where we at?
You'll buy Elvis Presley's records, and stay home from church to hear "We Love Suzy," one of these days. You're weighed in the balance and found wanting. What's happened? There's a handwriting on the wall.

The Russians put up a sputnik that we can control nothing about it, five hundred miles off of the earth; and could put a half a dozen of them over the United States in the next thirty minutes, and call in and say, "Surrender, or be a bunch of ashes in a few minutes." They can do it. There isn't nothing that we can do to stop them. It's in their hands of bloodless, heartless, ungodly communists. That's what God uses to make sin come to light. Certainly is. If you'll read the Bible, Russia's got to do that according to Revelations. All right, you prophecy teachers might different from that, but just wait till it's over. Russia is put here for that very purpose. The Bible said so....

What are we going to do? What would happen if they'd send those sputniks up with those missiles, and say, "Surrender, or become a pile of dust in five minutes"? Of course, our government, to save life, would surrender. That's the only thing they could do.
Then what would happen to some of you Americans, all of us in here; not here, but I mean nationally speaking? Nationally speaking.

You little smart-alecks of girls that run along with your little lips painted up like some kind of a rose bud, and would laugh at a preacher on the corner, preaching the Gospel... And you, little teen-ager, that think you've got more gumption than you've got intelligence to control...
What's going to happen to you, papa, that sets home at night with mama and watches the television, while junior's in the hot rod, and sis is down at the canteen somewhere, and she's down there doing her rock-and-roll? And you're watching the television and making fun of the Gospel...

What's going to happen to you, church member? What's going to be your outcome? You may have your name on every book, or the biggest church in the city; but unless you're under the security of the Blood of the Lord Jesus, you'll perish with those who will perish, there is no hope for you.

What's going to happen? There's a sputnik up there. And what would happen? The nation would surrender, of course; that's the only decent thing the government could do.
Then what happens? Wave after wave of ship loads of soldiers; wave after wave of airplanes would land in this nation. The women would be ravished in the streets. What would you do? It belongs to them. Kicked out of your home, they'll take it over.

What'll happen to you young girls, and you young men, and all of you at that time? Sin has to be paid for. No matter what nation it is, or who it is, it does it, individually, or a nation, it's going to be paid for. And a bunch of brutal, ungodly, whisker-jawed, communistic soldiers would grab your wives and ravish them, your young girls. And you'd stand and like it; there's nothing you can do about it.

What causes that? Because you have listened to such stuff as these television programs on rock-and-roll and sin, and some cold formal preacher not able to interpret the supernatural. The handwriting is on the wall. That's right. And we are weighed in the balance and found wanting.

When could that take place? Before daylight in the morning. Who's going to stop it? Try it. The Bible says it'll happen. But let me tell you, that'll never touch the Church of the living God, we'll be gone by that time.

So, friend, listen. If that thing is so close, and we see the handwriting on the wall, there's nothing can stop this thing from happening now.

America has been preached to; the supernatural's been done, and continually they wade right on over the top of It.

Go to a country somewhere and hold a revival, and have forty converts in a week; and go back in six weeks, you don't have four. The old pond has been seined dry. God just has so many He's elected. And when the last one is in, that closes the door and it's over.
Then there's nothing left but judgment when mercy has been spurned. And here we are at the end of the road. The supernatural's being done. It's been laughed at and made fun of. And the last thing, God has come in His own power, in His own beloved Son to work through His Church, and they say It's spiritualism, or, the Devil. What else can be left but judgment? And here's the handwriting on the wall."

You say, "you guys are crazy?" Well, they had a warning of Pearl Harbor. They had a warning of 911. Even printed on the 'new money'...God still testifies by the same pattern.

CLICK ON DOLLAR TO SEE FOR YOURSELF!

They have had a warning in the Bible. They had the warning of God's prophet...and they refuse to heed it.

President Bush signed a contract with Russia in 2002 for them to guard our borders while we battle in Iraq........like the fox guarding the hens. They fly over all the time, what would prevent the words of that prophet from taking place.........as Billy Graham said, "anytime they want"?

Now, the associate pastor of the Word of the Day is in Iraq on the battlefield, the front line. Three more of our young men are also in the military service of the United States. And we are Americans and glad of our home here. BUT, FIRST OF ALL WE ARE CHRISTIANS AND ANXIOUS FOR OUR NEW HOME TO COME. I am not ashamed that I represented my country, even if She was betraying Her soldiers for filthy lucre sake all the while. Even if She was ashamed of us. I am not on the side of the terrorists, nor anyone who threatens my home, family, and friends. But, our greatest enemy is within. Godless people who deny God's Word or even His existence. Perverts and politicians who revel in corruption and back those who would undermine our laws and principals.

And worse, so-called Christians who live like the rest of them and even approve and excuse them while praying "God bless America." Too late. How can He bless what He has already cursed through the mouth of His prophet?

The great Constitution of the United States is being used to undermine its own established freedoms and principals. Quoting the Constitution they removed prayer from schools. Quoting the Constitution they made "gay rights". Quoting the Constitution they created a Godless society which proclaims itself a 'Christian nation'.

Our Christian soldiers will serve and they will do their duty for they honor their commitments...unlike those they serve. But they know that this nation is doomed by her own refusal of the Righteous God their forefathers came here for the freedom to serve.

Oh, God will bless Americans, true God-fearing men and women who honor God...WHO IS THE WORD. But God will not bless America, the nation. She is gone, she no longer exists. She breathed her last when she forsook the life of God which came through His Word.

"Then said Jesus to them again, Peace [be] unto you: as [my] Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on [them], and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; [and] whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained."

That is what God, the Lord Jesus Christ, commissioned His Church to do. And His prophet said, by that same Holy Ghost:
"If it's a sinful vine you're hooked into, it'll bear sin. If it's a church vine, it'll bear churchanity. If it's Christ, it'll bear the works of Christ: got to. "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." And now, He only has hands, mine and yours, eyes, mine and yours. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

And let me say this as I'm leaving tonight. This is America's hour. And she's spurned it. I said two years ago that America would never have a revival. Write it in your book and find out if it's right or not. She's done.

If God lets America get by with this sinful, unbelieving, church-going bunch of hypocrites, He will have to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them for sinking them (That's right.) to be just. That's right. Even though Angels smote them blind, they were in the darkness feeling around, a perverted spirit. And tonight America stands in the same shape, nothing left but fire."

One of the greatest Americans who ever lived, President Abraham Lincoln wrote: "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God.
We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving GRACE, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."

Another warning, given over 100 years ago but unheeded. Now, it is too late. America's arrogance has brought her down from heaven just as Satan's did. That is why I can't pray, "God bless America". It's a prayer that can only be answered with a "No! She had her chance.......above all others."

On the night of Monday Sept. 11, 2001 Bro. Paul preached on Paltalk. He had all day been answering the question, "What is going on? What does this mean?"
Under the anointing, Bro. Paul spoke these words, "It is the beginning of the end. This will escalate to war. A war that will never end.....bringing Armageddon. Many will speak against it but we will go to war anyway. And, we will go to war with the Arabs and it will cause this nation to abandon Israel. Watch! This is the beginning! Watch it line up now!"

On August 11, 2003, Bro. Paul was on Paltalk again. This time he was referring to the text of the President's Roadmap to Peace in the Middle East.

"The key words in the "text" are these. "a democratic Palestinian state to be
established" This is the thing that is totally unacceptable to Israel, and
her friends. "A settlement, negotiated between the parties, will result in
the emergence of an independent, democratic, and viable Palestinian state
living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its other
neighbors."

It is this recognition of "an independent...and viable Palestinian state"
that makes the "roadmap" a trap. There is no such thing as an independent,
viable Palestinian state....never has been. But, this would give legal
authority and recognition to this illegal claim.

Before WWII, the Arabs (and all other so-called "Palestinians") were a
conglomeration of loose tribes of nomads who had lived in this area since
Bible times. During the war, many of these people fled the area to other
countries nearby. After the war the nation of Israel was established while
these "drifters" began to return. They were then called "Palestinian refugees" They now have a Prime Minister and a governing system which is totally illegal in that they have dubbed themselves the Palestinian nation... for no such nation exists except in their own claims. The only Nation that ever existed, as a nation, in this
area is Israel. This 'nation', the nation of Israel, was established by
Almighty God through Abraham, the "father of nations". This nation, the
nation of Israel, conquered the other 'nations' in the area and subdued it
before there were any of the modern 'nations'.

If Israel agrees to the terms of this "roadmap" they will commit political
suicide by giving their sanction to the establishment of "an independent and
viable nation" called a "Palestinian State". That alone makes the "roadmap"
impossible.

Bush edges closer and closer. Perhaps you will recall this, which I mailed before I went to Haiti when Bush met with Sharon and Abbas back in June. It was in the article where it said:
The source quoted Bush as
telling his National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Rice that
"I see that we have a problem
with Sharon," while saying of
the Palestinians led by Prime
Minister Mahmoud Abbas, "We
can work with them."

At one point, an irked Bush
reportedly rebuked Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz,
telling him "Oh, but I think that you can [help
the Palestinians]. And I think that you will."

"Just as I said on Sept. 11....."This is the beginning of the End...Armageddon. It will escalate to a war...and that war will never end. It will bring Armageddon. We will be at war with the Arabs and it will cause us to abandon Israel...the world will and America will, and that will bring the end. Mark it down. This is the beginning of it. Everything will line up now."
Bush has already crossed the line...........he can't turn back now. He is far too big for his britches. Imagine the ignorance of a man who claims to be a Bible reader insisting on establishing a new nation which verifies an illegal claim to the land that God gave to Israel. There has never been a Palestine Nation. It's a false claim. But, Bush, in his ignorance and self importance seeks to make it so...by threat now, force later, as implied by his words, "Oh, I think you will." That fool just destroyed America. (Matt:12:37....Luke 6:45)
Now we find out that he has put 'sanctions' on Israel. Notice this:
The United States has threatened Israel with halting 1 billion dollars in loan guarantees if they continued building the security fence that helps prevent Arab terrorist from coming into Israel proper and blowing up public buses and things of that nature. These loan guarantees do not cost the American tax payers one red penny. The loan guarantees only allow Israel to borrow money at a low interest rate. If Israel should default on the loan, then the U.S. would pick up the loan. In the history of the State of Israel, they have never defaulted on a loan!

Meanwhile, the United States has given the Palestinian Authority 20 million dollars in "Aid". This aid money is not a loan, it is a gift with no strings attached and will cost the American tax payer the entire 20 million dollars. If this is not bad enough, the United States is seeking to give the Palestinian Authority 300 million dollars more in so-called aid!
Isn't it nice to know our hard working tax paying dollars are going to a people who jumped with joy at the news of 9/11?

How hypocritical of the United States (the Bush administration) is it to have a fence between itself and the friendly country of Mexico, while putting pressure on Israel to stop putting up a fence between itself and her enemies who prey on innocent people."
Bro. Branham said:

Yes, sir. The testing time has come.
What did I tell you from this pulpit? Last year America made her fatal mistake. I said, "Fatal mistake," sure did. And look what she's doing now. You see it in the government affairs. They're trying to go right over and hook up with the Arabs. Don't you know, God's Word said, "Ever who curses Israel, will be cursed?" Certainly.
I stand with Israel, take our ground or take it. Certainly. Arabs went in the wrong thing. Sure they are. Brother, look at every nation that turned against the Jew; they sunk. Look at--look at Germany, when she turned against the Jew, and they burnt the bodies in the incinerators, and look what it is today.
Look at Italy, that turned against the Jews, when Mussolini ousted them from Italy. Looked at her today. If we wasn't feeding them, they'd be starved to death.
And here the Gospel come and give a mercy call throughout the nations for years; and we've turned it down. And now working, the devil taking his seat, is turning the hearts of these political men against Israel, and they're hooking up over yonder with the Arabs. Brother, we're as good as gone. Man, we'll sink as sure as the world.
I love my nation. I love it--what it stands for; but brother, I love my Lord above everything. And I love to see my nation to its knees, but I'm afraid we'll never do it. We're at the end time. GOD.KEEPS.HIS.WORD_

In his paper, sent out the day following Sept. 11, Bro. Paul read from Jeremiah 51
10 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: THE LORD HATH RAISED UP THE SPIRIT OF THE KINGS OF THE MEDES (OSAMA BIN LADEN?) : FOR HIS DEVICE IS AGAINST BABYLON, TO DESTROY IT; BECAUSE IT IS THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD, THE VENGEANCE OF HIS TEMPLE.
12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: FOR THE LORD HATH BOTH DEVISED AND DONE THAT WHICH HE SPAKE AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF BABYLON (USA?).
13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
14 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

And then he said: "The reference he made to a "swarm of locusts" may remind you that he said the caterpillar was the first stage of the locust...as Jeremiah said in verse 14. Or, it may even bring to mind the prophecy in Revelation 9.
"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. (That's the Catholic Church. No foundation, see?)
"And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. {Bro. Dale, can you see those Russian 'Huey's' coming out of the smoke like in Vietnam?}
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; {No Agent Orange this time.} but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment [was] as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

And the shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as the faces of men.
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions.
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power [was] to hurt men five months.

And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon. There's the Pope. That's the Devil, Abaddon. Apollyn, that's Nimrod.
One woe is past; [and], behold, there come two woes more hereafter."

Want to know how close we are?

MARK.OF.THE.BEAST
Now, this is the third Angel's message to the world. And you know what the third Angel's message; it's going forth now in this day. This is the flying of the third Angel message, if you're a Bible reader. {Said it three times in a row}
There was three woes followed it. The first one happened in World War One. Second one happened in World War Two. You see what we're going in now. All right. We're at the end of the road.
Now, let's get this on our mind, just before we read the Scripture. Positionally, we are bound to be at the end age. How long? I don't know; no one does.
But look, let's take historically speaking. The first two thousand years, the world order come to a climax, and God destroyed the world with water. You know that? Then it come forth as a new world. And the second two thousand years, it came to its end again and God sent Jesus. Is that right? This is the end of the next two thousand years, 1954. "And the Gospel," Jesus said, "the work would be cut short (for what?) the elect's sake, or no flesh would be saved," it would so wicked. So we're at the end time. And then the seventh, in type, is the millennium, a thousand years.

Revelation Chapter 14
"And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive [his] mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. {Tribulation saints to be judged}
And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud [one] sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast [it] into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand [and] six hundred furlongs."

The third angel's message...Brother Branham. Then we see the Son of Man sitting on a cloud of witness....crowned with gold (which is the Word). The Fourth angel comes forth and gives order for the reaping of the harvest which is done by the Son of Man. The Fifth angel came forth out of the Temple and gave the order for the Sixth angel to reap. This Sixth angel comes forth from beneath the altar...where sit the 24 elders representing the Jews and crying "How long before we are avenged?". You figure it out. Are we close? Brother, be ready! Watch!

"We talking about our scientists... They have men that they can put two hundred miles in the air, in a little machine that come right over. Set them right the top of this nation, and send a message down and say, "Either surrender, or we pull a lever, and that's all of it."

They don't have to wait till tomorrow to do it; they can do it right now. They have a contract to fly over the Pentagon.

And look how far China has advanced in ten years...from, nearly, oxcarts to Apollo's. They have a space program that they claim will take them to Mars. What has Russia been doing since 1989? (That's when the Berlin Wall came down and we relaxed our vigil.) What kind of technology have they developed while we ignored them? Real smart! Tear down the Berlin Wall...sheath your sword while you build bombs. Old Nebuchadnezzar never suspected a thing...it was all done in secret. Those same Russians are still there.

And Korea, we lost to China over that place once. My older brother was there. He said they stacked them up on the wire four deep and still they came on. Most populace people in the world, China. If they could do that with World War II rifles and bayonets delivered by oxcart what can they do now? And Korea is a buffer zone for China...She'll never let Korea fall. Not without a fight! Watch Korea! Another Godless Communist nation, China, equal to us in technology!

"There's no national security. We--we're--we're at--we're at--we're Belshazzar's feast, again. They thought because they were inside those big walls, the best of--of the scientists, the best chariots... They could run three or four chariots abreast around the wall of Babylon and--and without moving a--losing a horse or a chariot. And the great big gates, that was probably half a--a forty-fifty feet wide, like that. There was no nation could get to them, or anything else, so they just lived in sin, any way they wanted to. But God can look over the top of the wall.
And they had a--a regular big tea party one night, or a big drunken spree--what it was, something like some of our modern television programs, where they--after they got all good and drunk--they thought they could crack a few jokes about the bald-headed preacher, or something like that. And what happened? They went and got the vessels of the Lord and drank wine in them to make fun. And that night that was... You remember, that was the beginning of the Gentile kingdom."

Ending of an Age. see? Where we at?

"I want to ask you people something that might be a little critical. Anyone that knows the Bible, knows that God begin--dealt with the Jews until King Nebuchadnezzar."

When will he end with the Gentiles and turn back to the Jews? Listen!

"The head of gold, was the beginning of the Gentile empire. Ends out in the feet in Rome. Is that right, brethren, you Bible students? Watch what happens. What did He do at the end of that kingdom? There come a handwriting on the wall that was in unknown tongues. No one could interpret it. But they had a man there had the gift of interpretation. So, he came and read the handwriting on the wall.
And it's been read here again tonight by the same kind of a Spirit, given by the same God. The handwriting's on the wall. All the time that we've been spending our money, and jokes, and all... We become just a big bunch of jokesters, laughing at religion, making fun of it. And all the time, Russia has been putting things in the air that's so far ahead of us, till they're years and years and years ahead of us."

Again, I ask, what have they been doing for thirteen years? Who knows? And in the modern atmosphere...who cares? Those that heard the prophet should.

You remember the Medo-Persians was at the gate, waiting, when these things happened; and they knowed nothing about it.

{Persia, conventional European designation of the country now known as Iran. This name was in general use in the West until 1935, although the Iranians themselves had long called their country Iran. For convention's sake the name of Persia is here kept for that part of the country's history concerned with the ancient Persian Empire until the Arab conquest in the 7th century AD. For later history, as well as other information on the modern country, see IRAN. Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1994 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation.}

Iran, and it's neighbor Iraq...the land of the Medo-Persians. They are at our door.

{SEVENTY.WEEKS.OF.DANIEL_ JEFF.IN "Now, notice in here at the end of this age... Now, Daniel, in the 2nd chapter and the 34th and 35th verse, he watched this image with great consideration. And he watched it until a Stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and It rolled down and smote the image in the feet and broke that... Not... It never hit it on the head now; hit it in the feet. That was the end time, them ten toes.
Did you notice exactly here just before Mr. Eisenhower went out, the last Protestant--of the--of--of America in the--in the president, which I have doubts there'll ever be another one, but--but when... Just to show that... Just if people would wake up. When he met, there were... The last meeting that they--he met with Russia, there were five eastern communistic countries represented, five western countries. Mr. Khrushchev was the head of the eastern countries; Mr. Eisenhower was the head of the western countries. And Khrushchev, as I understand and been told, that in Russia, the language, "Khrushchev" means "clay," and "Eisenhower" means "iron," in English. There's your iron and clay will not mix. And he pulled off his shoe and beat the stand with it and everything else. It won't mix. But it's in the days of these empires that the rock Stone, that was hewed out of the mountain without hands, smote the image in the feet.}

What year did that happen? 1956!

O' God's got a Rock...a Revelation He called the Bride of Christ. And She was hewed out of Him...taken from His side at Calvary. The Son of Man sitting on a cloud of many witnesses...a Body made without hands. Hallelujah! She will harvest the Elect by the Word of God and then the judgments will strike. O' there's never been a Day like this Day. Glory to God!

"There's no more national security. When they tell you we're secure, that we can do this or do that, they're mistaken. "Dig a hole in the ground" (some of this here national defense stuff) "and run into the ground," and that bomb will blow a hole in the ground a hundred and fifty feet deep, a hundred and miles square. Well, if you were five thousand feet under the earth, you'd be in the lava. And if you was five thousand feet under the earth, the shock would break every bone in your body.
So you can't dig down and get away from it. There's no way at all to escape it. There--there's only One shelter that you can get under, and that shelter's not made of steel; it's made of feathers: under His Wings...?... That's the Only shelter. Go up above it. The rapture coming...
If we're sensible, what would we do? What would the--the Pentagon, what would the--the--the nation do? It would surrender. They'd have to. Then what would happen? Wave after wave of Russian soldiers would climb into our country, here, ravishing our women, taking your homes, and kicking you out in the street, and shoot you, and kill your children before you, and take over the nation. Then we'd know what sin... How we've been... What it meant to laugh in the face of a religious service, and call them a bunch of holy-rollers, or... Remember, it's coming." {A destroying wind}

My fellow American, there is only one safe place for you and for I and that is in the Word
of God.
God is the Word...only in Him, God the Word, Jesus Christ, is there safety from the
Oncoming Storm of Judgement for America. As a nation we are doomed....as an American, an
individual, you can be saved...but only if you will get back to the Word!

On this page we pay honor to those Americans in the military, past and present, who offer there lives for our freedom. And, at the same time, we rebuke all those Americans who dishonor the Commander-in-Chief of us all, the Lord of Hosts, Jesus Christ...............Who is the Word of God. His rejection, The Great Seal once recognized even on the money by which we rule the world's commerce, has endangered us all beyond recall. The Battle is the Lord's...and He has determined the outcome.

So Bro. Paul, said:"While the trumpet is still sounding in America, She has missed her day of visitation. We still preach and offer grace and mercy to our friends and neighbors here in our own country, especially those in bonds, but we have set our sights and turned our efforts toward the foreign fields."
While there is time, while America still stands, let us use our wealth and power to reach those who have not heard the precious Word of God that we Americans have grown up with, and, to our shame, mostly ignored. Let us make war on sin and fight the good fight of faith to give out the Word of God to the last 'jot and tittle'.......it certainly is not wanted here, and will never be missed by Americans!
We, too, enjoy the comforts of the American lifestyle. But, as it will soon pass away and we will be without it, let's "have compassion on the ignorant and those who are out of the way" and, denying our ownselves, give to others that which we in America have decided we do not need. Only a genuine American, born free 'under God', can do so for those who are bound.

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. (Pro.14:34)

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. (Ps. 9:17)

Seven Major Visions given Brother Branham in June 1933

I base this prediction on seven major continuous visions that came to me one Sunday morning in June, 1933. The Lord Jesus spoke to me and said that the coming of the Lord was drawing nigh, but that before He came, seven major events would transpire. I wrote them all down and that morning I gave forth the revelation of the Lord.

The first vision was that Mussolini would invade Ethiopia and that nation would "fall at his steps". That vision surely did cause some repercussions, and some were very angry when I said it and would not believe it. But it happened that way. He just walked in there with his modern arms and took over. The natives didn't have a chance. But the vision also said that Mussolini would come to a horrible end with his own people turning on him. That came to pass just exactly as it was said.

The next vision foretold that an Austrian by the name of Adolph Hitler would rise up as dictator over Germany, and that he would draw the world into war. It showed the Siegfried line and how our troops would have a terrible time to overcome it. Then it showed that Hitler would come to a mysterious end.

The third vision was in the realm of world politics for it showed me that there would be three great ISMS, Facism, Nazism, Communism, but that the first two would be swallowed up into the third. The voice admonished, "WATCH RUSSIA, WATCH RUSSIA. Keep your eye on the King of the North."

The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves.

The fifth vision had to do with the moral problem of our age, centering mostly around women. God showed me that women began to be out of their place with the granting of the vote. Then they cut off their hair, which signified that they were no longer under the authority of a man but insisted on either equal rights, or in most cases, more than equal rights. She adopted men's clothing and went into a state of undress, until the last picture I saw was a woman naked except for a little fig leaf type apron. With this vision I saw the terrible perversion and moral plight of the whole world.

Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power. I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church, though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women.

The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America.

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