The Bride Coming of Christ
MATTHEW 25:1-2
1 ¶ Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
This of course is speaking about the gentile virgin group of which there are two categories of the wise and foolish virgins.
MATTHEW 25:6
6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. (We know that Mathew 24 is the 7 seals of Revelation Ch:6 and Ch:8:1, and so Mathew 25 continues to deal with the seventh seal of which is the mystery of the coming of the Lord (Christ’s second coming), because Mathew 24 tells us that we are not to look for the second coming of the Lord to be in a geographical place, but that it will be a global appearing as light shining (revealed truth), and the eagles would then gather around that revealed truth.
MATTHEW 25:13
13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
In other words, it will be a secret.
MATTHEW 25:14-16
14 ¶ For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. (The Jews are often very talented at “trading” – they got that from their ancestor Jacob)
MATTHEW 25:19
19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
(Notice the theme again, it’s speaking about the coming of the Lord (the seventh seal), but this part here would be the seventh trumpet because the seventh trumpet is the revealing of Christ to the 144,000 elected Jews during the tribulation period.)
MATTHEW 25:31-32
31 ¶ When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And so Mathew 25 follows on from Mathew 24 and continues to speak plainly of events that are connected with the seventh seal of the coming of the Lord by showing us three groups of people – the gentile bride group that goes into the marriage, and then the servants’ group of which represents the Jews, and then the group of those that enter into the kingdom of heaven by their good deeds towards the least of His brethren – 3 main categories, the bride, the Jews, and those that have done good to the least of His brethren.
The Bride Coming of Christ
As we have just read - Mathew chapter 25 plainly shows us three different categories or groups of people that are connected with the coming of the Lord, and although there will be many saved people out of all those groups that will have their unique positions in the kingdom of heaven, it is only the group of the 5 wise virgins that goes into the marriage with Christ and become united with the Lord.
**And if we were to parallel Mathew 25 with the story of Ruth, we would also see that out of all the woman that were available of which Boaz could have chosen to marry at harvest time, that only Ruth was chosen (a gentile woman), yet all the other woman and servants and workers that were associated with Boaz at harvest time had their place and positions in Boaz’s kingdom, and remained blessed under his protective care.
**Last week we were explaining about the seventh seal of how that it was the mystery of the coming of the Lord of Him appearing to us in word form by the opening up of the entire mystery of the bible that fully unveiled and revealed Christ to an end time elected gentile bride people through the ministry of Revelation 10:7.
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264 Look, I want to say one more thing. Closely now; don't miss this. How striking! From the seventh angel's (messenger of the Seventh Seal) Message in Revelations 10, was the Seventh Seal…
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137 The seven is always the mystery. Watch that seven, that's the finish. That was the Coming of the Lord.
*Revelation 10 is the revealing of Christ to the elected end time gentile bride people through the voice and ministry of the seventh angel - Revelation 10 is also the book of Ruth.
**And so the seventh seal held that mystery of the coming of Christ of which was not to be a geographical location event of the Lord coming to earth at a certain place that we can go to see him there, but His second coming would be accomplished by a global shining of the light of the revealed truth of the word by an end time message that will attract every single elected gentile believer that was ordain to be a part of the last day gentile bride body because the bible tells us that His sheep will hear His voice – that is what identifies His sheep.
MATTHEW 24:23, 26-27
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
(In other words, Christ second coming would not be Him arriving to a geographical location on earth that we could all travel to and visit with him in that location)
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (light shining is the revealing of truth)
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
And so the gentile elect of these last days will gather around the revealed light of truth that has been shone in this hour just as natural eagles would gather around a carcase of fresh meat – and the fresh meat in this day is the revealed word spoken through the voice of the messenger of Revelation 10:7 that has opened up the entire mystery of the entire bible.
Lets read these quotes again…
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264 Look, I want to say one more thing. Closely now; don't miss this. How striking! From the seventh angel's (messenger of the Seventh Seal) Message in Revelations 10, was the Seventh Seal…
Revelation 10 is the seventh seal – the coming of the Lord of the uniting of Boaz and Ruth at harvest time.
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137 The seven is always the mystery. Watch that seven, that's the finish. That was the Coming of the Lord.
**But then what we want to also look at is that according to Mathew 25 (of what the story of the 5 wise and 5 foolish virgins show us) is that this second coming of the Lord (by the appearing of Christ in word form – the shout at the midnight hour) was also for the purpose of the event of the marriage of the Lamb of the uniting of God and Man again like a husband and a wife would be united in marriage – and so the seventh seal mystery wasn’t just the revealing of Christ, but that also in that revealing, it revealed who the bride was also – and that is why that when the seventh seal was opened – both Christ and the bride were to be fully revealed.
**Because the story of the bible was not just all about Issac, but it was about Issac and Rebekah.
And Joseph and Asenath
And Salmon and Rahab
And Boaz and Ruth
And King Ahasuerus and Queen Esther.
And Adam and Eve
And so the mystery of the lives of all these couples in the bible was for the purpose of showing the great mystery of the marriage of Christ and His gentile bride at harvest time – and that is why the seventh seal has been written of and shown to us all through the bible from Genesis to Revelation.
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536-4 {77} Now, the--the 8th chapter only reveals the scene of--the scene of the Seventh Seal where nothing else is revealed. Now, nothing is not revealed in the Seventh Seal. Now, has nothing to do with the 7th chapter of--of Revelation. It's the revealing of the Seventh Seal is perfectly mute. And if I only had time (I'll try a few places.) to show you all the way back from Genesis this 7th chapter--this Seventh Seal is--is spoke of. From the very beginning in Genesis, this seventh--these Seals moved right up.
The coming of Boaz to Ruth was showing the seventh seal as well as the coming of Isaac to Rebekah was also showing in type the seventh seal.
EPHESIANS 5:31-32
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
*Last week we delt with how that Revelation chapter 7 shows us that the 144,000 elected Jews under the ministry of Moses and Elijah’s will be saved during the tribulation period, and then also included in chapter 7 it shows us another group of which no man could number from all nations of gentile people that will also be saved during that same time of the tribulation period – and this group obviously includes the foolish virgins and those that do good to the brethren that we find in Mathew 25.
**And then also last week we showed how that this chapter 7 of Revelation is placed between the 6th and 7th seal, and that this is the chapter that Brother Branham entirely reads through and explains about these two groups when he preaches the seventh seal.
*Revelation chapter 7 shows us these two different groups of both Jews and Gentiles that will be saved out of the great tribulation period.
*But then in Revelation chapter 10 we find a third group of the elected gentile bride that is sealed under her gentile prophet’s message, and we noticed that chapter 10 of Revelation is place between the 6th and 7th trumpet of Revelation 9 and 11, and so Brother Branham refers to that also in the message of the seventh seal.
And so in His message of the seventh seal, he is showing us these three groups.
And we showed last week how that these three groups are placed in these two “in-between” chapters of Revelation chapter 7 and Revelation chapter 10 and of which are also shown and patterned out to us in Mathew chapter 25 of the gentile bride, then the faithful Jews (the servants), and then those that do good to the least of His brethren representing all the saved gentiles that have done good to His brethren.
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542-4 {127}
And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the sea--the earth--the sea, (He is reading Revelation chapter 7:2-3)
Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the tree, until we have sealed the servants... (Not the Bride, servants, not the sons, servants. Israel has always been God's servant. The church is sons. See? By birth. Israel is His servant. Watch, every place it's always... Abraham was His servant. We're not servants; we're children, sons and daughters. Yeah.)... of the--of our God in their foreheads. (Now, watch, our God in their forehead.)
And I heard the number of them that were sealed:... (Now, I want you to listen close to the reading of them.)... and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Brother Branham is plainly telling us that these servants here are Israel, and so when we get to Mathew 25, we find that it first tells us of the wise virgins of the gentile bride that goes into the marriage, and then the next part shows us the servants (Israel), and then at the last it shows us the gentile groups of the saved that have done good of which are exactly the same 3 groups of what we found in Revelation chapter 7 and chapter 10.
And so Revelation chapter 10 and chapter 7 is shown in parallel in Mathew chapter 25.
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94 As Christ was the first One to raise, from all the prophets, and so forth; although typed in many places, He was the Firstfruits of those that slept (He is speaking about the time of Christ’s first coming at the end of the Old Testament and of when after all the old sages had died, how that Christ had been risen up and waved as the first fruit of the resurrection for all those Old Testament saints showing that they would be raised up also). In the Bride, coming of Christ, coming out of the church, (Notice what he calls the Bride Coming of Christ, it is when the gentile bride is called out of the church denominational systems and creeds by the voice and message of Revelation 10:7) there'll have to be a Sheaf waved again in the last days.
**And so at the end of the 7 church ages of when all the gentile saints had died and went to sleep in their graves, that there would also be a resurrection and another first fruit waved among the people at the end of the New Testament – and this is what we have all witnessed of what has taken place with the revealing of the Son of Man ministry again in these last days.
**After God had put Adam to sleep (a type of Christ the second Adam being put to sleep on the cross), and had taken a rib out from his side and had form Eve from that rid bone, then that was the bride coming of Adam, of the completeness of his body in its multiplied form.
**And so Eve was the mystery part of Adam that God had kept a secret up to that time, but had now revealed that secret in the form and beauty of a woman, and that was also the time of when the marriage of Adam to Eve took place, it was when Eve had been fully revealed – this is the seventh seal revealed in Genesis.
REVELATION 10:7
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
And so the mystery part of God was His gentile wife that was to be revealed in the last age, just as the mystery part of Adam was the revealing of Eve – the bride coming of Adam.
Because it was Eve that had been the mystery part of Adam all along right from the beginning. God had kept that part of Adam a secret up to that point in time. She was Him – She was the bride coming of Adam.
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110 That's what He proved! Hallelujah! That's what Easter proved. He wasn't only the Word, but He was God Himself, the Dynamics, in the Word. That made the body of Jesus Christ (cold, stiff, and dead, in the grave) shake into Life and rise again, and roll away the stone. "I am He that was dead," so dead till the sun said He was dead, the moon said He was dead, the stars said He was dead. All nature said He was dead. And now the whole world has to recognize that He's alive again. He was not only the Mechanics, God's Word, He was the Dynamics to prove It.
111 And as He, being the Groom, the Bride has to come forth, 'cause It's part of Him. And It can only be the manifestation of the fulfilling of all the revelations any others has spoke of the Bride; It can only manifest. If it does something different from the Groom, it isn't the Bride. Because, She is flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone; Life of His Life, Power of His Power! She is Him! As man and woman are one, and woman taken from his side; She had taken a Spirit, the feminish Spirit, from Him. The flesh from His side, made both Mechanics and Dynamics, the Wife. The Spirit of Him and the flesh of Him, and put it together, and made Mechanics and Dynamics.
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The first son (Adam) was the spoken seed-Word of God. He was given a bride to reproduce himself. That is why the bride was given to him, to reproduce himself; to produce another son of God. But she fell. She fell by hybridization. She caused him to die.
The second Son (Jesus), also a spoken Seed-Word of God was given a bride like as was Adam. But before He could marry her, she also had fallen. She, like Adam's wife, was put to the test whether she would believe the Word of God and live, or doubt the Word and die. She doubted. She left the Word. She died. (Leaving the word is what causes a person to die, or a church to die, or a nation to die, and even the entire world to die. Because when one woman failed in Eden, the entire human race kept dying for 6000 years nonstop. And so this is why that our total focus in this hour is to stay with Malachi 4’s message of the word that God has sent to us in these last days, and this is why the devil is fighting so hard against this, because he is wanting us to fail like the first two Eve’s failed by doubting the word of this hour)
From a little group of the true seed of the Word, God will present Christ with a beloved bride. She is a virgin of His Word. She is a virgin because she knows no man-made creeds or dogmas. By and through the members of the bride will be fulfilled all that was promised of God to be made manifest in the virgin.
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Watch carefully now and see this. Before there was ever a speck of star dust; before God was God (God is an object of adoration and no one was there to worship Him, so He was at that time only potentially God.) and He was known only as eternal Spirit, the bride was already in His mind. Yes, she was. She was existing in His thoughts (Notice what he is saying here – that the gentile bride was existing in the thoughts of God before there was ever a speck of star dust form, and so those thoughts of who these bride members were was kept a mystery until this end time age of when that mystery of God of who this bride that had eternally existed in His great mind really was). And what about those thoughts of God? They are eternal, are they not?
REVELATION 10:7
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
This great mystery of Christ and His Bride would be fully revealed and made known at the sounding of the seventh angel’s message.
**And this is what the seventh seal opening included in its revealing, it wasn’t just the revealing and coming of Christ, but it was also the revealing of His wife (the bride coming of Christ) and of the marriage of the Lamb.
REVELATION 19:7
7 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.
MATTHEW 25:10-13
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
The wise virgins were made ready by being diligent with the oil of the spirit of the revelation of the word that would light up their way and cause them to be able to see in the darkness of the Laodicean age that they were living in. Jesus said that his words were spirit and life.
JOHN 6:63
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
*And so it was the revealing of the word that made the difference between the wise and the foolish virgins, because the true spirit of God comes by the true revelation of the word of God – and that true revelation of the word is what lights up your way in order for you to see your way into a full agreement and marriage with Christ – and this is what is taking place in this hour little by little. It’s the event of the Invisible union of the bride to Christ.
The Bride Coming of Christ