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God's Creation Of A Wife For His Son	01/22/2012 (Video) (added 01/22/2012)
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Now God has many separate groups that are part of His family: The nation of Israel; and the brethren (the born again Jews); the foolish virgins; the tribulation saints; but He also has a special creation, the wife of the Lamb. Now Peter was an apostle to the Jews and this is what God ordained giving him the key to the kingdom. Peter was in his comfort zone being an apostle to the Jews, but he had to use this key to open the door for the Gentiles. This is when God started His creation of a Gentile wife for His Son, and He chose Paul to be the apostle to the Gentiles. Now what we know as the Gentile church is not the wife, but God has taken an element of people out of the Gentile church to be the wife. Most of them are just the wedding guests which includes the foolish virgins and the tribulation saints.
Now let us look at God’s first son Adam and his wife Eve. Genesis 1:26-27 says, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." This is a spiritual body because God created them in His own image, who is Spirit. Later He will put them in a physical body. Verse 28 says, "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." Now this is the original deed to the earth and all the things in it that God gave to Adam and Eve. This was before the fall which caused the earth and all things therein to be out of God's original plan and would have to be redeemed.
Genesis 2:7 says, "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." At this point both male and female attributes are in one body. But Adam needed a help meet, so God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and He took a rib from Adam; and from that rib He created him a wife (named Eve). He took all the feminine attributes that was in Adam and put them in Eve. Genesis 2:23 says, "And Adam said, This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." This included her spirit. She had the mind of Adam and their name was called Adam. This should have been the perfect marriage but the serpent got to Eve before the marriage was consummated at this time, and God said thy husband shall rule over thee.
Now God created his second son when He overshadowed Mary and she conceived and brought forth a Son and His name was Jesus. Now Jesus needed a helpmeet so God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Jesus (at Calvary). They pierced His side and out came the blood and water; this is just what it takes for a new birth and this is redemption for all the people of God. Now the spirit of the wife was in Jesus at Calvary. After Jesus was crucified and resurrected He sent His Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Ghost back on the day of Pentecost; which we now understand was the first leg of the coming of Christ as the Mighty Angel that is seen in Revelation, Chapter 10. Paul engaged the bride to Christ but as it was with Eve, the serpent got to the her before the marriage was consummated. Then the whole church fell away, and the church leaders had to rule over the church as we went through seven church ages. But now in this time of perfection we have leadership with both legs of the coming of Christ.

Rulership For The Churches And Leadership For The Wife	01/15/2012 (Video) (added 01/15/2012)
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Now down through the seven church ages the church leaders pretty much ruled the churches, and they probably had to as they pushed for more truth. In Revelation, Chapter 5, we see a Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, and this represented rulership as the church age messengers put forth the truth in their time period. Now rulership means it is my way or the highway, and in the denominational realm this was usually carried out with a list of do's and don'ts. And most of us have witnessed this in years gone by when we were associated with the denominations. Rulership is for fallen man and this started in the garden after Eve was deceived. Genesis 3:16 says, "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall RULE over thee." This was the start of rulership, because Eve was deceived and this brought woman on a lower level than man. Now because woman was on a lower level a man many times had more than one wife, and this continued throughout the Old Testament. Hebrews 13:17 says, "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls." This was for the church, and not for the Wife of the Lamb.
In Revelation, Chapter 10, when the Mighty Angel (the Spiritual part or anointing of Jesus) came down from heaven with the little book opened in His hand, He told John to take it and eat it up. Now this little book (the prophetic part of Paul’s message) has got us married to Christ and now we are baptized into the body of Christ. Now when it comes to the Wife of the Lamb (that being the Christ part of the Lord Jesus Christ in the earth) we only need leadership. Because rulership is for fallen man, but leadership is for the redeemed man. Leadership is by revelation, and as more truth comes by the sounding of the trumpet we gladly eat it up. Now we have the mind of Christ; we have become bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, and we serve Him because we love Him. We serve Him because we want to and not because we are made to; and we wouldn’t have it any other way. We serve one another because we love Him. Galatians 5:13 says, "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." Our perfection comes from Him because He loves us. Christ and His Wife is the only perfect marriage; (please see the message "A Perfect Couple With A Perfect Marriage Made In Heaven And Expressed In The Earth," preached 12-04-2011).

Holding Forth The Word Of Life Unto Us That Are Alive And Remain	01/08/2012 (Video) (added 01/08/2012)
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Today we are reading in Philippians 2:15-16 and it says, "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain." Now Paul (the first church age messenger) did not run or labor in vain, but he laid a foundation for us to build on. As the church continued through the seven church ages the foundation became cluttered with a trinity doctrine, and as God began to restore back through Brother William Branham (the seventh church age messenger) he started to remove the clutter and get us back on the foundation that Paul laid. As his message (the shout) began to sound, he said, "Come out of her my people." Since the shout was so powerful and so loud and so different from anything we had heard before, it woke the sleeping virgins and they came out of those denominational systems. As the second phase begins to sound, some of the virgins moved on with God as they heard the voice of the archangel teaching the Word more perfectly using (Brother Raymond Jackson) as he brought more truth. The ones that did not move on with God became foolish virgins. As the sounding of the trumpet or third phase of His coming begins to unfold, the wise virgins that became His wife moved on with God holding forth the Word of Life and that is us that are alive and remain.
We will read Verses 14-17 in 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4, and Paul says in Verse 14, "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring (send) with him." Revelation 5:6 talks about a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes. This has to do with the seven church ages, and an element of people from each church age will be part of the wife of the Lamb because they walked in the light that they had for their time. We that are a alive and remain becomes bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh while we are living. Jesus brings with Him every theophany that is part of the wife of the Lamb. Verse 15 says, “For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep." Verse 16 says, "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first." Those saints that are part of the wife of the Lamb that have died will come forth and connect with their theophany. This will give them a glorified body. Verse 17 says, "Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 says, "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." We which are alive and remain will be changed which means we will connect with our theophany that Christ brings with Him just like those that were asleep will become one with their theophany and we shall be caught up together.

God Gave It All To The Wife Of His Son	01/01/2012 (Video) (added 01/01/2012)
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When we talk about the Wife of God's Son, we are talking about a special group of people that have made themselves (herself) ready. Revelation 19:8 says, "And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white." Now when we say God gave it all to her we are not talking about finances (although that is part of it) but we are talking spiritual things and we are talking in comparison to other groups of people.
Now the tribulation saints and the foolish virgins will not be dressed in fine linen, clean and white; but they will be dressed in white robes. They will not be part of the rapture, but they will come forth after the tribulation period when Jesus comes to this earth with His Wife. Also, there will be a natural people that will come through the tribulation period and at the start of the millennium they will be separated: the sheep on the right and the goats on the left (Matthew 25). Now this group of natural people (the sheep on the right) will repopulate the earth during the millennium. The goats on the left will go into everlasting punishment. Now satan will be bound for a thousand years (during the millennium), but will be loosed for a little season at the end of the thousand years to try those that were born during the thousand years. Now there will be a group of these natural people that will go into the eternal age, and are those that are called the nations of them that are saved. (Revelation, Chapter 21 &22) They will be the caretakers of the earth in eternity. While those that are deceived by satan will go into the lake of fire to be destroyed.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 says, "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God." Now these are the three phases of His coming, which signifies the fullness of Christ in the earth. Some stopped at the first phase and some stopped at the second phase and these became foolish virgins, because they did not move on with God. Revelation 5:1 talks about a book (the book of redemption) sealed with seven seals. Now these seven seals were loosed (or opened) during the first phase of His coming (the shout) through Brother William Branham. Now, the book is opened and then God took Brother Branham (the seventh church age messenger) off the scene. God allowed Brother Branham to say some things that needed further explanation. For example, the millennium and the fifth seal; and this brings us to the second phase of His coming, the voice of the archangel. Now that the book is opened, this gives the voice of the archangel through Brother Raymond Jackson access to the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation and he cleared up those things concerning what took place in the garden, the millennium, the fifth seal, and things concerning Israel. Now the wife of the lamb has come through these phases and now we are at the trump of God phase. Now that the seven seals are off of the book we, the wife of the Lamb, gets all three phases of His coming. We now have access to the little book (which is part of the big book) which is the prophetic part of Paul’s message, and we are told to eat this little book. God has given us a message that is purified, without spot or blemish or any such thing. This message has made us worthy and married us to His Son making us the Christ part of Him in the earth. And all that is His, God has given to us His Wife as joint heirs. God gave it all to the Wife of His Son.

The Final Joining Of Christ To The Engaged Bride/Wife	12/25/2011 (Video) (added 12/25/2011)
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Today we are reading in Chapter 2:25 of the Book of Joel and it says, "And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you." Notice the words 'will restore to you the years.' Now Paul got a virgin engaged to Christ, but then the church fell away and went through seven church ages (or the kingdom of heaven age); and during this time Christ was the High Priest. But God has restored us back to what was lost during those church age years.
In Matthew Chapter 25, it talks about the ten virgins (five wise and five foolish) that started on their journey to meet the bridegroom, as the fallen church began to reach the place in time where the marriage was now in sight. But they all slumbered and slept while still holding on to many false doctrines, such as, most of them still held on to the trinity doctrine of the Godhead, water baptism; and also held on to their carnal works that is still practiced in the denominational realm today. In most churches today it is all about works and money, just like it was when Jesus drove the money changes out of the temple. So in the church ages most of which was known as the dark ages (one thousand years), this was satan’s millennium. After this God began to restore back doctrinal truth with Martin Luther and John Wesley; but this did not wake the ten virgins. It took a cry (Matthew 25:6) or shout (1 Thessalonians 4:16) to wake the ten virgins from their slumber and then God began to restore back the proper doctrine of the Godhead, water baptism, and also begin to reintroduce the bride to her bridegroom for a marriage here at the end time.
Revelation 10:1 says, "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven," and this is the same coming down as 1 Thessalonians 4:16 which says, "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first." Now all of the ten virgins heard the shout (the first phase of His coming under Brother William Branham). After God took Brother Branham off the scene, Christ's Spiritual coming folded over into another phase, with Brother Raymond Jackson bringing further truth. As God brought more truth through the voice of the archangel, the wise virgins walked with it while the others became foolish. So it is the same today, the wise virgins moved on with the sounding of the trump of God and it left the others foolish from the second phase of the Spiritual coming of the Lord.
Now that we have moved on with the trump of God, we are eating the little book that was opened in the hand of the Mighty Angel and was given to us. And that is this message that has gotten us married to the Lord Jesus, making us His Christ part in the earth. We have won the battles and we no longer have on our traveling garments, but we are dressed in fine linen clean and white. As we are married to Christ, we have entered into His rest. Hebrews 4:10 says, "For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His." 1 Corinthians 6:17 says, "But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit."

God Has Provided Better Things For Us, The Wife Of The Lamb	12/18/2011 (Video) (added 12/18/2011)
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Down through time, God’s people have always fought battles; and as we look at Moses when he lead the children of Israel out of Egypt he was fought every step of the way. First, the battle was with Pharaoh, and afterwards he led the children of Israel through the Red Sea. Then his battle was with the children of Israel as they murmured and complained about everything. After Moses, God gave Joshua the victory at the battle of Jericho and Hebrews 11:31 says, “By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace." Verse 32 and 33 says, "And what shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets." "Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions." When we read the last part of that verse (stopped the mouths of lions) we think of Daniel and the battle he fought and won. Verse 35 says, "Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection." Some were burned at the stake and did not give in, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Verse 36 says, "And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover of bonds and imprisonment." When we look at the word mockings we think of Noah as he built the ark in a place where it had never rained, but by faith he stayed right with it and won the battle. Battles were fought in America during the civil war between the north and south to correct an unacceptable wrong and that battle was won. Also, spiritual battles were fought as the Church Age messengers would bring more truth, for example, justification by faith, sanctification, and water baptism. Verse 39 says, "And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise."
All of these battles have been won, including water baptism, and we don’t have to fight these battles any more because the Wife of the Lamb has entered into that rest. Verse 40 says, "God having provided some better thing for us (the wife of the Lamb), that they without us should not be made perfect." Hebrews 12:22 says, "But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels."

The Galilean And The Revelation Chapter Ten Coming Of The Lord	12/12/2011 (Video) (added 12/11/2011)
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Today we will be reading several verses in the first Chapter of Acts, and Verse 3 says, "To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God." This is talking about Jesus here on earth forty days after His resurrection. Verse 5 says, "For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence." I want you to notice Jesus is talking to the Jews (not Gentiles). Verse 8 says, "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." Verse 9 through 11 says, "And when he (Jesus) had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, (or Galileans) why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." If you witness this coming then you have missed the rapture and have just went through the tribulation, because Acts 3:21 says, "Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things." This is talking about Jesus coming back at the end of the Tribulation period. After they witnessed the ascension of Jesus they returned to Jerusalem and they (about 120) went into the upper room and continued with one accord in prayer and supplication. When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:1-4). This Galilean coming was the first leg of His coming in which the Gentiles were partakers of after a few years after the Jewish Feast Day of Pentecost. (Acts, Chapter 10)
Now when He sets His right foot on the sea and His left foot on the earth, Revelation Chapter 10:1-2, we now have both legs of the coming of Christ; thus making the fullness of Christ in the earth. This is the Revelaton Chapter 10 coming of Christ.
In our day we have witnessed the coming of Christ (not the person of Jesus), but the Spiritual coming of Christ as He comes to earth in this last day. (Revelation 10:1) This is seen as 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 says, "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." In our day we have heard the shout, and we have heard the voice of the archangel, and now we are hearing the trump of God which has gotten us married to Christ. Revelation 19:7 says, "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready."

A Perfect Couple With A Perfect Marriage Made In Heaven & Expressed In The Earth	12/04/2011 (Video) (added 12/04/2011)
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Now spending a lot of money does not guarantee a perfect wedding and marriage; but it is usually just the opposite. When we look at the denominational system we find that they spend a lot of money on programs; but when we look at the title of the message we are not even talking about money at all. But we are talking about a perfect marriage made in heaven and expressed in the earth. Now when we think about Adam and Eve, we think about a perfect couple that never came into that perfect marriage because Eve was deceived before the marriage was consummated. So in the beginning God started out with two virgins, Adam and Eve, and He will not settle for any less in our day. Now we know that there has never been a perfect marriage unto now. The perfect marriage did not take place with the first son Adam, but it is taking place with the second son Christ Jesus.
In last week’s message we talked about the woman at the well who was not a virgin in the flesh; but became a virgin to the Word. This is a perfect type for us today. Many of us have been married to denominational systems in the past, but when we met Jesus we laid our waterpot (denominational traditions) down and became a virgin to the Word. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." When we accept the true Word for this hour, this makes us a new creature and a virgin to the Word, and not only a virgin; but a perfect virgin (baptized into the body of Christ, the perfect one) to be married to Jesus Christ. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 11:2, "For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." After this the church fell away and almost 2000 years later the marriage is now taking place as we are baptized into the body of Christ, a many member body.
In the Old Testament the high priest had to marry a virgin. We read in Hebrews 3:1, where Paul said, "Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus." So the same applies in our day as we consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; He is also marrying a virgin. Revelation 19:7-8 says, "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints."

A Non-Virgin Becomes A Virgin And Then The Wife Of The Lamb	11/27/2011 (Video) (added 11/27/2011)
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Now today we will be reading in Matthew, Chapter 25 starting in Verse One, it says, "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom." I want you to notice the word 'Then.' Jesus is not talking about something that will take place in His day, but He is pointing to a time way down the road when the kingdom of heaven shall be like this. Now He is not talking about the Jews but He is talking about Gentiles and He is talking about something that will take place in our day. Verse 6 says, "And at midnight there was a cry made," meaning this is talking about the shout which is the first phase of His coming in our day (1 Thessalonians 4:16). The five foolish virgins (for the most part) stayed with the shout and never moved on with the Word. The other group, the five wise went in with Him to the marriage and the door was shut. When the five wise virgins were married to Christ they became the wife of the Lamb. They were no longer five (no longer twain, but one) being baptized into His body (one body) and became bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. When we speak about virgins, some people want to keep it in a natural or physical realm, but Jesus is speaking totally in a spiritual realm. Also when Paul said in 2 Corinthians 11:2, "For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." He was not looking at her as a group of five, but seeing by revelation the body of Christ. That's why he is saying in the spirit, 'a chaste virgin,' meaning one body. Again you have to keep this in the spirit, because a non-virgin in the flesh can be a virgin in the spirit. When one accepts this Word and forsakes all others for Christ, then you become a virgin to the Word. For instance, when Jesus met the woman at the well, she was not a virgin in the flesh because she had been married five times and was living with a man that she was not married to. Jesus talking to the woman said in John 4:14-15, "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Then the woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water." Then after Jesus told her about her past, she left her waterpot (her denominational traditions) and went into the city testifying, "Is not this the Christ?" And because of her testimony, many believed. So what we see here is a non-virgin in the flesh becoming a virgin to the Word and is meet to be married to Christ.
In 1 Corithians 6:11, Paul clearly shows with these words, "And such were some of you, but now ye are washed, sanctified, and justified..." So even a minister's wife can be one out of these that Verses 9-11 speaks of. This is true even in this day for "His wife has made herself ready, and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints." (Revelation 19:7-8)

Stripping Away Our Coat Of Many Colors That Christ Be Manifested Through Us	11/20/2011 (Video) (added 11/20/2011)
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As we read in Genesis 37:3, it says, “Now Israel (earlier his name was Jacob) loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours." Now the coat of many colors is an outward sign of the approval of the father showing forth the father’s love for Joseph. Now Joseph loved his coat and wore it in the presence of his brothers, and they became jealous. Verse 4 says, “And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceable unto him." God also gave Joseph dreams, and Verse 8 says, “And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words." Going to Verse 18, it says “And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him." Now they did not slay him, but Verse 23 says, “And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat of many colours that he wore." Joseph was stripped of his coat of many colors before God ever used him in a major way. Now, Joseph was without any outward sign of the father’s love and approval while he went through many trials and temptations before he arrived in the perfect will of God, but he passed every test, a wonderful example to all of us.
Now back during the days of the big revivals God really blessed; many people were healed, and the ministers had great services. Then later as the revivals started to fade, God started to strip away the coat of many colors and a lot of people did not understand what God was doing, but there were some that did understand. For example in our day, God really blessed the Prophet Brother William Branham. There were a lot of people that could only see his coat of many colors, God's approval; but could not see any further than the big revivals and never did progress any further in the Word. God changed the order of his ministry as he began to teach the Word more and more. To many this was seen as him losing his coat of many colors. After God stripped away his coat of many colors, then we understood and we could see that he had the 'SHOUT' part of the message of the Spiritual coming of Christ (1 Thessalonians 4:16) and that he was sent to 'reveal' the Son of Man (Luke 17:30).
Now all of us have on a coat of many colors, and sometimes God has to strip it away so we may really look to Christ and that Christ may be manifested. Sometimes God has to strip away our coat of many colors, as he did with Job, so we can see ourselves and our prideful ways. Sometimes we only see the minister and his coat of many colors without seeing the manifestation of Christ. In some cases it is the coat of many colors that we put upon the ministers; for instance, the Apostle Paul. We see that there were those that came saying, "I am of Paul," showing that all they could see was the man Paul. But then God had to strip away that coat so we could see that it was Christ in Paul. So is it with us in this day. As it was then, so it is now.

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