It's been well over a month since we've listened to a Jubilee sermon together, so we are excited get back into our messages! Brother Branham is back in Phoenix, Arizona at the Ramada Inn with the Christian Business Men where he preaches “The Easter Seal.”
1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
9 And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
But many men has died, many men has been crucified, even in the same days of our Lord. But there was only One of them Who rose up from the dead. That sealed it.
But our Christian religion is the only one who has the empty tomb. And that proves to me that He is the God of the dead, and God of the living, that He could raise up the dead, back to life again.
Jehovah Redeemer and had power over death, hell and the grave, but He has also give us the access to the same Spirit, that we ourselves can have the assurance that we too are quickened by that Spirit.
Now, we can say we believe. But until we are have the proven sign that He said that would be upon us, then we are just confessing to be believers, and not the possession of believers.
I’m wondering, today. It’s what’s happening. Are we really getting the people to God, or are we just getting them to church? We must get them to Christ, where this quickening power. It’s good to go to church. Sure. If that’s as far as we go, it’s not far enough.
We must receive this quickening power, if we ever expect to be in that general resurrection, because it’s the only thing that will ever bring us from the dead.
But if it is the Truth, then I owe everything that I am. I owe everything that I could be, to the cause, of which we’re standing for. And I think that we mustn’t lose our enthusiasm.
If you become part of that Word, you are redeemed with Him, because the same Spirit that dwelt in Christ is dwelling in you, quickening your life to this age. And It’ll also, in the end time, quicken your mortal bodies, resurrect them, bring them up again. That takes the gloom away when we look at it, in that.
We have the earnest of it, right now in our mortal bodies. The predestinated ones are the first, of course, to be quickened, when the Holy Spirit comes to claim Its own.
It’s something that you couldn’t desire to be in there. It’s something that’s contrary to your own nature. It’s the foreknowledge of God, taking place, God’s Word.
And when any church or any group that’ll assemble themselves together, and pray until they throw away their creeds and things, and look straight in the face of God, it’ll bring forth eagles just as certain as I’m standing here.
Let’s break up the atmosphere and get the atmosphere in a Heavenly worship. Get the atmosphere right, eagles will be born, and_and out of any church, anywhere.
“When My sheep hear My Voice,” which is the Word, “a stranger they will not follow.” They’ll go right straight to that Word, and can do it. It’s like a_a_a magnet.
But the real, true quickening Spirit that comes to believer, quickens him to God’s Word, that’s back to eagle Food again, right back to where he lives.
Those Pharisees believed in many things, to be the Truth. They said, “We are God’s children.” And they were, until that Word was preached. But when that Word was preached and vindicated, then they become sinners, for rejecting the Thing that they knowed was right, and witnessed that.
But if you do hold the possession of this birthright, you can’t help from seeing it, because it’s part of you and you’re a part of it.
But there’s one thing sure, when a genuine foreordained son of God, by the Word of God, hears that Voice of God, he’ll rise and go to meet It.
Oh, remember, we are flesh of His flesh, bone of His bones, if we are His Bride. Death won’t bother that quickening power at all. “Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.”
But in the last Message that went forth, there come a flying eagle. It’s eagle time, reveal time, the Word of God made manifest, the Word of God proved. Oh, children, walk into this baptism of the Holy Spirit. Come in and believe It, with all your heart, God will fill you.
And now if He was the Messiah, by being the anointed One for that day, to fulfill the Word of God, to be the Redeemer and the anointed One, and God raised up that body; His Bride is the anointed one for this day. It’s already raised with Him in the resurrection, because, “These two are one.” Amen.
A real, true Mount Transfiguration experience only glorifies Jesus Christ. It didn’t glorify Moses, didn’t glorify Elijah, didn’t glorify themselves, didn’t glorify nothing else, but they seen the glorified Christ. And any true believer, that’s what’s in his heart, to glorify Jesus Christ.
There ain’t enough devils in hell to keep us from doing it. We were foreordained of God for this hour. The Word of God manifests Itself right through us. And we live in the Presence of God, by the Word promise of God.
We are alive, today, and enjoy the resurrection forevermore. Because He lives, we are alive, also. And He’s living us, making us alive. And the Spirit that raised Him from the dead, dwelling in our being, shall quicken our mortal bodies, at that great Eternal Easter. Glory to God!
“Fear not. I am He that was dead, and alive forevermore.” That is God’s Easter seal that seals every letter of this Word into your heart. What is the seal? “You are written epistles, read of all men.” You know that. But when God has claimed you, He sealed you with the Easter seal, that you are risen with Christ, and you are a new creature.