My Burden for God’s People

I don’t know the best way to start this or what the details of the subject matter to start with, so I’ll just speak from my heart and let the Holy Spirit just guide me with whatever God would have me to say. I feel a heavy burden for God’s people and am not sure what to do about it beyond all of the subjects I have already written about.

Yes my burden is for God’s people, those who are believers in God and His Son Jesus Christ. My burden is not for all of the unbelievers in the World, for I don’t believe that I could sustain such a heavy burden that is required for so many people.

I say that I have this burden for God’s people, which I mean for all of those believers in all of the Christian Churches and especially for those who have been captivated by the messages that William Branham preached to his church and all of those who are continuing to believe what he taught for so many years that are not in alignment with the scriptures in the Holy Bible.

Jesus was reported to have said in the scriptures: “If any person will come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me”. I feel this burden so strongly that it feels like I am bearing the same cross that Jesus bore and am carrying it for Him and it feels like more than I can bear.

I am just one small person in this life out of the millions of people that have lived and feel like this burden for the truth of God’s Word is upon my shoulders alone and don’t know what I can do about it that I haven’t already done. So alone do I feel because no other person have I found that stands with me in agreement with the revelations that I have received. It feels like the whole World is in opposition to what I believe including my family and friends who have all forsaken me in my quest for truth, the truth that I believe with all my heart that God has revealed to me.

Probably the most profound thing that has affected all Christian Churches is the teaching that Jesus was God who came in the flesh. According to the scriptures Jesus made it clear in so many ways and so many times that He was the Son of God that was sent by God to do His work on Earth and that He was not God, but the only begotten Son of God. Our bible teachers have selected a few Bible scriptures and have taken them out of context and have used their interpretations to convince the people that Jesus was God and that is in opposition to the gospel which states that God sent His Son and didn’t come to Earth Himself.

That is not the only deceptive interpretation of Bible scripture that is being propagated, but is the one thing that can keep the people from being lost by not believing the Gospel which is required for the salvation of our souls.

Yes, I have a burden for all of the mainstream churches which have elevated Jesus to a position equal with Jehovah God our Father and Creator of this World when the Bible states and Jesus says that the Father is greater than the Son.

Then my burden extends to those “Message of the Hour” believers who are a result of following the teaching of William Branham. These who have been taught that they are the Elect of God who were chosen before the World began and only they were able to receive the “Revelation” of the truth which he taught. This they teach which positions them in the Body of Christ to be accepted as the Bride of Christ at His return the second time. This teaching is in direct opposition to the scriptures, but is accepted because of the influence of what they are told about William Branham’s ministry, not what they know firsthand, but what unscrupulous men have propagated in order to maintain the captivity of those who will listen. Then reinforce their position by displaying the picture of William Branham with the halo above his head that is supposed to vindicate that his teaching has God’s approval.

If what they teach is the truth of God’s Word, then the rest of the church World are lost because they are not believers of the message that is being taught.

Yes I have a burden and a cross that is heavy and difficult to bear because it appears that my journey is up a steep hill that has been built by years of indoctrination of the people of God, who have been taught that the only way to salvation is to believe the “Message of the Hour”. Yes they teach this is the way to salvation no matter what the Gospel of Christ says. Who are we to believe? Should we believe the gospel of Branham or the Gospel of Christ that the Son of God preached?

God has inspired me and guided me as I wrote a book containing the revelations of the truth of God’s Word. He has inspired me to write over one hundred articles on this site about many Bible subjects including many truths about William Branham’s life and ministry, the revelation of many things included in his ministry according to his own words, but the people close their eyes if the truth is in opposition to what they have been deceived in believing. What else can I do when I put the truth before their eyes and they refuse to believe and instead hold their beliefs to the fables that sound so good to them.

God has ordained some to be teachers of the truth to bring us all into the unity of the faith so we will no more be like children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleigh of men and cunning craftiness with deceitfulness in their hearts using every method they have to keep the children of God in bondage to their beliefs. Paul the Apostle said that the time would come when the people will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they receive teachers having itching ears that will turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables. Well that day is now and the people of God are being lost in the confusion not knowing the way they should go.

This burden that I bear is not one that I chose, nor one that is pleasant to bear, but God has given it to me for His own purpose and not for my pleasure and all that matters to me is that it serves His purpose. If I never see the results of my effort, it matters not because it is for His purpose and if I leave this life not knowing, He just might reveal the purpose of it on the other side.

Nevertheless, I will not faint from the load that I carry in this life, for I know that God will achieve the results that He intended and that’s all that really matters.

I recently watched and listened to a sermon by a Donny Reagan from the Happy Valley Church and was, if I can use the term “blown away” by the arrogance of this preacher when he stated that only the “elect”, which he was referring to the “Message of the Hour” believers can hear the voice of God. Well I’ve got news for you preacher, God did not make the World for you only, nor does He make Himself known to only your group. His Word is recorded in the Bible for all to learn of Him and by His Word, the World can believe to eternal life. God didn’t have the Bible written so only “your elect” can read the truth between the lines, so put on your show of antics to impress your little group and if they refuse to believe only the “Message” and not the written Word of God, you will have to answer to Him for the errors of your teaching and not just you personally, but all those who partake calling yourself message preachers in the message churches.

As for me, for I am nothing more than a tool for God who will persevere until God wills that I am through witnessing for the truth of His Word. I believe that I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith and if I am near to the finish of my course, I pray to my Heavenly Father that all my efforts were His will. None of those things that opposed me, move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, for nothing is more important for my life than to do the will of He who sent me.

My prayer for all of God’s children is that your eyes will be opened for to see the truth of His gospel and be given the time to repent before the end of this age arrives and you all turn from the deceptive fables that you have received and turn to the truth of His Word contained in the Bible which He inspired His servants to write for all that seek His face.

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Defending The Bible

Without the bible, we would not have learned about God. We call the bible the Word of God, but we don’t believe what it says. The bible says that God sent His Son into this World to speak the words of His Father and to provide the way for us to inherit eternal life, but we don’t believe that the words Jesus spoke meant what He said. If the words that Jesus spoke are not exactly what the Father gave Him to speak, then the Bible is not truly the Word of God.

The bible quotes God as having said: “I will give you pastors after my own heart to feed you with knowledge and understanding”, but most pastors in the church fail to defend the bible because they teach their own interpretation of what the bible tells us. When Jesus ascended into Heaven after His Earthly ministry was finished, he gave the church pastors and teachers to bring everyone into the unity of the faith, but instead the pastors and teachers that we have brought more division into the church because of the teaching of their own interpretation of God’s Word because they have not defended the bible and the written words of God contained in it.

The bible tells us that He anointed certain Apostles and Prophets to speak His words to the people and these words of God were made to be bible scripture. Then some people say that in order for the people to understand what bible scripture means God sent another prophet to interpret what the original Apostles and Prophets and even His Son said. This is nothing but an oxymoronic concept thinking that one anointed person like the Apostles, the Prophets and Jesus’ words needed to be interpreted by another prophet for His people to understand what His Word means.

Remember that it is because of the bible that we came to know God and the gospel of salvation that His Son Jesus Christ preached. Since that is true, then why would we want to turn from the bible and the gospel of Christ to another gospel that denies Jesus as being the Son of God? The Apostle Paul said that if someone teaches another gospel than the one we have accepted from the preaching of God’s Son, that person should be accursed.

It is God’s will that we all accept His Word and preserve it. A Prophet by the name of Jesus of Nazareth who was the announced Son of God was sent to the World to introduce a New Covenant that would insure that we receive eternal life and the gospel that He preached is the only truth of God’s Word. Believing the bible and the gospel of Christ is the only hope we have to be saved. Paul the Apostle said that even if any person or even an angel from heaven came preaching some other gospel than the gospel of the bible we should not believe it.

The bible gave us the way, the truth and the life because it gave us Jesus Christ who is the only way and the only truth and the only life. There is no other way except to believe what God has given to us, He gave us His only begotten Son and only those who believe in the Gospel contained in the bible will be saved and inherit eternal life with Him.

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Why I Am Not A Message Believer

Why I Am Not A Message Believer By Ron Cox

What I mean by this for those of you that are not familiar with what a message believer is, in the context for which it is meant, means that I am not a believer in everything that William M. Branham taught which is known as the “Message of the Hour”.

First I want to tell you something about my background, my relationship with William Branham and the prime reason why I had become a true believer in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

I knew William Branham because of the relationship that he had with my Grandparents, Roda and Ella Cox who lived in Jeffersonville Indiana. How and when my Grandparents became to be associated with William Branham I do not know. I do know that my Grandfather became a Deacon and a member of the board of trustees of the Branham Tabernacle for some time and was the secretary treasurer of William Branham’s Evangelistic crusades up until William Branham’s death in 1965.

Since I was raised by my Grandparents who were close friends with the Branhams and was friends with his son Billy Paul while we were teenagers, I began hearing from my grandparents about the amazing ministry that he was involved in and from William Branham himself in the frequent visits he had to our home.

I don’t remember at what age I began to study the bible and William Branham’s ministry, But over the years until after his death I became completely versed in his bible teaching and believed everything that he taught. If there was a group at that time which were known as “Message Believers”, I was one of them without realizing it.

Over many years I engaged in intense bible study based upon the teachings of William Branham and as my faith increased in both God’s Word and the accuracy of William Branham’s teaching and his ministry, I know that only by hindsight that God was preparing me for a ministry of my own.

Then the day came in 1991 when I was at that time 55 years old, when God spoke to me and opened a door for me to begin the ministry that He had prepared me for. As I was preparing for the first message that I was to give, God spoke to my heart that whatever I was to say, I had to be prepared to defend my words by using scripture for the basis of my messages. That was when God revealed to me that I could not depend on what I had learned from William Branham for the defense of my teaching because a lot of what he preached was in direct conflict with what bible scripture stated.

That realization certainly put me in a state of disillusionment and depression and I didn’t want to believe that my friend William Branham was in error over so many things. I remember just begging God to not show those things to me because of my faith in his teaching over so many years. Nevertheless, God showed me that if I was to engage in the ministry that He had given me, I had to base my teaching on what was in scripture, without any man’s interpretation being a part of it.

Here was a man that I admired and grew to love him as a brother in Christ. Here was a man that was the epitome of a true man of God, that God was revealing Himself through his ministry. Here was a man that I trusted and because of his ministry my faith increased a hundredfold. Then God had to show me that he was in error in his teaching of scripture and it felt to me as though my World had just collapsed around me.

Over the years it became aware to me that not one church that I was familiar with was not in error at least in one thing that they were teaching for doctrine. If they could be in error in one aspect of scripture interpretation, they could also be in error in many things.

When it came to William Branham’s teaching, he based it on his own interpretation of what the scripture says by doing what he called “reading between the lines of scripture”. He stated that the real message was not on the lines of scripture, but was between the lines and unless it was revealed to everyone, the truth would not be understood. The problem with this is that everyone would have to base their understanding on the revelation that he received. This just cannot be, because each person must have their own revelation of the truth of scripture and not just blindly accept a revelation from someone else. Reading between the lines is nothing except saying, here is my interpretation. Although the bible says that scripture is of no private interpretation.

As time went on, God showed me that William Branham’s commission from God and his ministry was evangelistic in nature and preaching the Gospel of Salvation was what he had been called to do. At no time, according to William Branham’s own words did God ever change his calling from being an Evangelist to being a Teacher or a Prophet. William Branham wasn’t equipped with the knowledge of scripture needed or prepared to get into another calling. He wasn’t educated enough to be a Teacher and wasn’t anything like what the Old Testament Prophets were like. As a matter of fact, he was totality out of character to be a prophet of God as was demonstrated by what the Old Testament prophets were.

I believe that William Branham may have become sidetracked in his teaching with a mistaken interpretation of the scriptures in Matthew 16: 15 thru 18. Jesus said that it was revealed to Peter by God that Jesus was the Son of God. That is when Jesus said: “upon this rock I will build my church”. I believe that William Branham took this passage to mean that the church would be built upon revelation. I see the meaning of this scripture a different way than he did. In my understanding Jesus was saying that His church would be built upon the fact that He was the Son of God. This may have been a revelation for Peter to understand who Jesus was, but it doesn’t take a revelation for us to see who Jesus was. His identity is clearly shown in the scriptures we have that Jesus is truly the Son of the living God. A revelation is not needed to understand that.

William Branham in my estimation believed that everything you learn must come by revelation and he said many times that “the church is built upon the spiritual revelation of God's Word (Amen.), the spiritual revealed truth from God's Word, coming from God out of heaven to every heart. Amen.” He said many times that you cannot understand the meaning of any scripture in the bible without a spiritual revelation of what it means. But I contend that just can’t be true. Most of the scripture in the bible is straight forward and requires no revelation for you to understand what it means, but it must be taken in context with other relevant scripture. Scripture must interpret scripture.

I have said and William Branham has said that if any revelation you receive is not backed up by scripture or contradicts scripture the revelation is wrong.

So that is why I am not a “Message Believer”. I believe that the scripture says what it means and means what it says without having to receive a revelation about it. William Branham let what he called spiritual revelation about the meaning lead him into error in most of his teaching. This can be understood by reading many of the articles I have posted on this blog site. If you want to see the truth of God’s Word, then go read them. If what I say is not backed up by scripture, not by reading between the lines, but reading what it plainly written on the lines, then don’t believe me. If Bible truth, without someone’s interpretation of it is not of your liking then leave the blinders on your eyes and avoid the truths that are presented to you.

When I was a “Messenger Believer”, or anyway a follower of William Branham’s ministry, I didn’t realize that other messenger believers didn’t believe the Gospel of Christ as the scriptures present it. I’m talking about the part where it states that Jesus was the Son of God, just as it was revealed to the Apostle Peter. So my hope is that God will open their eyes and include them in the Body of Christ. The bible says that you must believe the Gospel in order to be saved and the Gospel states that Jesus is the Son of God and not God the Father Himself.

Choose this day who you will stand with, the bible truth as it is written, or the interpretation of some man.

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William Branham and THE SEVEN SEALS

What does the Bible say about the Seven Seals?

This is not another interpretation by man!

The Opening Of The Seven Seals

 Every person who has attempted to obtain the secrets of the symbolism used in the Bible for understanding the opening of the Seven Sealed book of Revelations Chapter five through eight, has developed their own interpretation of its meaning and none have been successful.

 

Do You Know Why?

 

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Read What The Bible Says About It

One of the most mysterious happening written about in the bible is the opening of the seven seals. Because of its mysterious nature, men for many years have been inspired to discover the meaning of the seals and the book that was sealed by them. These men ranged from the most prominent church leaders to the most notorious cult leaders that came along. Many books have been written by an assortment of people that contend that God revealed the secrets to them and only their interpretation was the truth.

Those who apply their interpretation to the meaning of the seven seal openings believe that God has given them some insight or revelation into their meaning and think that their stature in the church will attain to a higher status by their explanation of what the seals represent.

If by any chance one of these revelators did hit on the true meaning of what these seals or the book that was sealed by them represent, they have had no means to verify the accuracy of their discovery, unless verification was made by the appearance of Jesus Christ Himself. After all, the book and the mystery of the seals was given to Jesus Christ Himself.

One such revelator ( William Branham) said that seven angels from Heaven came down and opened the seals for him, revealing the true meaning of them and punctuated his announcement with the statement of “Thus Saith the Lord” to verify that God gave the revelation to him.

Since there is no evidence that Jesus openly vindicated any man’s interpretation of the meaning of the seals, we can with a large degree of certainty be assured that this mystery still remains a secret.

If these men would just stay with the scriptures instead of applying their interpretations without regard as to what the scriptures state, they would see that God did not intend for any of us to know the meaning of them on this side of Heaven. Why is that? It is a fact that the seals are not opened here on Earth, but in Heaven.

Where was the scene of this event taking place? Why it was in Heaven in the presence of the Throne of God. Revelations chapter five tells us that Jehovah was sitting on His throne in Heaven and had the book in His right hand. A proclamation was made by an Angel that no man in Heaven, or on Earth, or under the Earth was worthy to even look at the book, let alone open it. There was only one person worthy enough to receive the book and that was Jesus Christ.

Now do you wonder when this event might take place? You should, because it is important to note who else was in Heaven at the time Jesus opens the book. Still in the fifth chapter it says that those who were in Heaven sang a new song saying:

“You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for you were slain, and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And have made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;”

Since those present had been redeemed by Christ out of every nation on the Earth and have been made kings and priests and are in Heaven at this time, this event has to take place after the First Resurrection and the Rapture.

Until the time that this event in Heaven occurs, the seals and the book has not been opened and no person living on the Earth will ever know the true meaning of what these seals represent, or what is contained in the book no matter what anyone says they know.

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