The Impact of Revelation
At the beginning of the New Testament, the birth of John the Baptist was announced by an angel (Lk.1). In the same chapter, the angel Gabriel announced the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. In chapter 2:8-14, an angel brought the glad tidings to the shepherds and all the heavenly hosts joined to sing and to praise God. All heaven partakes of what God is doing on earth. God has His heavenly and earthly messengers, “And the angel of the Lord spoke unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south...” (Acts 8:26). Peter had a most outstanding experience: “And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison...” (Acts12: 7). A similar experience is recorded of Paul, “for there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve...” (Acts 27:23)
The ministry of angels is a divine vindication of the supernatural ministry in the life of God’s servants and prophets with a special commission. The Bible is not an ordinary book –it records the supernatural events. Not only in the New, but also in the Old Testament, angels were sent from God with a message to His servants. Daniel had seen a vision, but an angel was sent to make understand it, “...Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision” (Dan.8: 16).”And he said, behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be” (v.19). The scriptural testimony of the ministry of angels is summarized in the following words, “Are they not ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” (Heb.1: 14).
Because God never changes, such a ministry is still valid today. With deep gratitude, we acknowledge that an angel of the Lord was sent to Bro. Branham in the year 1946, “Fear not, I am sent from the presence of Almighty God to tell you, that your peculiar life and your misunderstood ways have been to indicate, that God has sent you to take a gift of divine healing to the people of the world. If you will be sincere and can get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even cancer.”
Immediately after this commission, Bro. Branham was in a unique and unsurpassed way to spearhead the mighty healing revival. The impact of his God-given ministry has been worldwide. Literally tens of thousands can testify to their healing from all manner of diseases, primarily cancer.
We have to realize that prophets are foreordained by Almighty God. Jeremiah was told, “Before I formed thee in the womb, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations” (Jer.1: 5). “For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance” (Rom.11: 29).
Repeatedly, Bro, Branham spoke about the supernatural light entering the room on April 6, 1909, around 5 a. m. at the time of his birth. The first remarkable experience he had at the age of three, when he was told by an audible voice that he would live in a city near New Albany most of this life. At the age of seven, he again heard the audible voice saying, “Never drink, smoke or defile your body in any way, for I have a work for you to do when you get older.”
Towards the end of the fifties, Bro. Branham felt led to led to teach and expound all the true scriptural doctrines. Later, his ministry merged into the prophetic phase –speaking on the ‘Seven Church Ages’, the ‘Seven Seals’ and the mysteries hidden in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.
Dear friend, we trust that you too have recognized your “today” and its message, the Word of God revealed for our time –the stored up food –the heavenly manna. “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord” (Amos 8:11). “Who, then, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Mt.24: 45).
May it be said of the children of God, including you, in our day, “...with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord, their God, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as the Lord, their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the Lord” (Hag.1: 12)
At the beginning of the New Testament, the birth of John the Baptist was announced by an angel (Lk.1). In the same chapter, the angel Gabriel announced the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. In chapter 2:8-14, an angel brought the glad tidings to the shepherds and all the heavenly hosts joined to sing and to praise God. All heaven partakes of what God is doing on earth. God has His heavenly and earthly messengers, “And the angel of the Lord spoke unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south...” (Acts 8:26). Peter had a most outstanding experience: “And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison...” (Acts12: 7). A similar experience is recorded of Paul, “for there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve...” (Acts 27:23)
The ministry of angels is a divine vindication of the supernatural ministry in the life of God’s servants and prophets with a special commission. The Bible is not an ordinary book –it records the supernatural events. Not only in the New, but also in the Old Testament, angels were sent from God with a message to His servants. Daniel had seen a vision, but an angel was sent to make understand it, “...Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision” (Dan.8: 16).”And he said, behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be” (v.19). The scriptural testimony of the ministry of angels is summarized in the following words, “Are they not ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” (Heb.1: 14).
Because God never changes, such a ministry is still valid today. With deep gratitude, we acknowledge that an angel of the Lord was sent to Bro. Branham in the year 1946, “Fear not, I am sent from the presence of Almighty God to tell you, that your peculiar life and your misunderstood ways have been to indicate, that God has sent you to take a gift of divine healing to the people of the world. If you will be sincere and can get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even cancer.”
Immediately after this commission, Bro. Branham was in a unique and unsurpassed way to spearhead the mighty healing revival. The impact of his God-given ministry has been worldwide. Literally tens of thousands can testify to their healing from all manner of diseases, primarily cancer.
We have to realize that prophets are foreordained by Almighty God. Jeremiah was told, “Before I formed thee in the womb, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations” (Jer.1: 5). “For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance” (Rom.11: 29).
Repeatedly, Bro, Branham spoke about the supernatural light entering the room on April 6, 1909, around 5 a. m. at the time of his birth. The first remarkable experience he had at the age of three, when he was told by an audible voice that he would live in a city near New Albany most of this life. At the age of seven, he again heard the audible voice saying, “Never drink, smoke or defile your body in any way, for I have a work for you to do when you get older.”
Towards the end of the fifties, Bro. Branham felt led to led to teach and expound all the true scriptural doctrines. Later, his ministry merged into the prophetic phase –speaking on the ‘Seven Church Ages’, the ‘Seven Seals’ and the mysteries hidden in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.
Dear friend, we trust that you too have recognized your “today” and its message, the Word of God revealed for our time –the stored up food –the heavenly manna. “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord” (Amos 8:11). “Who, then, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Mt.24: 45).
May it be said of the children of God, including you, in our day, “...with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord, their God, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as the Lord, their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the Lord” (Hag.1: 12)