THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM
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REVELATION CHAPTER 21
REVELATION 21:1
1 ¶ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth:
for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no
more sea.
REVELATION 21:2
2 And I John saw the holy city, new
Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for
her husband.
REVELATION 21:3
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven
saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with
them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and
be] their God.
REVELATION 21:4
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither
shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
REVELATION 21:5
5 And he that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I make all things new.
REVELATION 21:1-4
1 And I saw a new
heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed
away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice
out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will
dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with
them, [and be] their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor
crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed
away.
JOHN 16:13
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of
truth, is come, he will guide you into
all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he
shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew
you things to come.
THE MILLENNIUM
ENDS IN APOSTACY AND REBELLION.
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QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.title
JEFF.IN COD 64-0823E
The
church, the lukewarm, the anything outside of the elected Bride will go through
the tribulation period.
They will not raise in the first resurrection:
"The rest of the dead lived not for a thousand years,"
just the foreordained, predestinated, elected Bride, God's own
elections. "Who is it, Brother Branham?" I don't know? I can't tell
you who it is, but I know it's going to be there, 'cause the Lord said they
would. See? They are the ones that'll go up from the tribulation, but the rest
of them will go through the tribulation, go down,
and
everything
will be killed before
the millennium.
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LAMB'S.BOOK.OF.LIFE.title JEFF.IN
56-0603
Now, the other night I was
discussing with a very fine person on the doctrine of the millennium. I said,
"I believe in the millennium, because
there's too many shadows of the Old Testament that speaks that there will be a
millennium. There's got to be:
too many
shadows."
They said, "Will the
church go through the tribulation?"
I said, "No. The church can't go through the
tribulation.
It's got to go before the tribulation:
too many shadows.
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QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.title JEFF.IN COD 62-0527
…the Bride and Christ shall walk out upon their ashes in the millennium, when the earth is purified by fire.
And there they shall reign.
And
the heathens
that's never heard the Gospel shall be raised
in that time,
and the sons of God will be manifested.
If he's to reign,
he's got to have
something to reign over;
he's got a domain. "
And they ruled and
reigned with Christ,
And
Christ
ruled with a rod
of iron the nations.
[THERE WILL BE MILLIONS TIMES
MILLIONS OF HEATHENS
IN THE MILLENNIUM WHO NEVER HEARD THE GOSPEL.
THEY WILL BE RAISED AND WILL LIVE A 1000 YEARS.]
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INDIA.TRIP.REPORT.title LIMA.OH
57-0126B
There's four-hundred-and-seventy-million
of them.
And almost
four-hundred-million beggars.
And here we are today,
dressed in... God's servant sitting here and fussing and arguing about little
difference in our organization,
and
millions dying
everyday
out there
that's never heard the Gospel one time.
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AS.I.THOUGHT.ON.MY.WAY.title CHATAUQUA.OH 59-0814
And
millions dying
yearly that never heard the Name of Jesus one time.
GENESIS 6:5-8
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth,
and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil
continually.
6 ¶ And it repented the LORD that he had made
man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will
destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and
beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 ¶ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the
LORD.
GENESIS 7:1
1 And the LORD said unto
Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for
thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
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MAN FAILED UNDER THE LAW.
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PERFECTION.title JEFF.IN ER 35-54 57-0419
And man cannot do it in
himself.
He's a total
failure.
God let him see
that through the law,
through the judges, and
through all the Old Testament.
He sent the prophet;
He sent the righteous man,
and they found out that
every one failed.
So God by His sovereign
grace sent from the portals of glory
His only begotten Son to
take our place.
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MAN HAS SPURNED GOD’S GRACE.
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QUEEN.OF.SHEBA.title LONG.BEACH.CA 61-0219
If you spurn mercy there's
only one thing left; that's judgment.
Judgment follows
mercy after its been spurned.
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SCRIPTURAL.SIGNS.OF.THE.TIME.title BIRMINGHAM.AL 64-0410
And one day the door of
mercy will be closed,
and people will go right on
thinking they're getting saved,
and preaching, and so forth,
and
mercy has done
been spurned its last time,
and know it not until it's
missing.
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TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE.title JEFF.IN
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Judgment is on
hand now.
You can see it
breaking.
You remember the rock up on
the mountain? Judgment hour.
THE MILLENNIUM
And
the heathens
that's never heard the Gospel shall be raised
in that time.
THE HEATHENS, WHO
NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR THE GOSPEL, WILL LIVE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
“THE HOLY SPIRIT” FREE OF SATANIC INFLUENCE FOR 1000 YEARS.
REVELATION 20:7-9
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to
gather them together to battle: the number of whom
[is] as the sand of the sea.
9 And they went up on the
breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the
saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven,
and devoured them.
THE HEATHENS,
WHO HAVE NOT BEEN
“BORN AGAIN” AND HAVE “UNREGENERATE HEARTS” WILL BE THE TARGET OF
SATAN.
AFTER A 1000 YEARS OF “UNIVERSAL PEACE”
AND
BEING IN THE “PRESENCE OF THE KING”
FREE OF SATANIC INFLUENCE
THEY WILL BE
SUBJECTED TO SATAN AND “HIS LIE.”
HE WILL ATTEMPT TO GATHER THEM
AND UNDER DECEPTION
WILL CAUSE OBEDIENCE UNTO
HIMSELF.
FROM THE
“FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE EARTH”
SATAN WILL MOBILIZE AN ARMY WHOSE NUMBER WILL BE
AS THE “SANDS OF THE SEA”
THEY WILL COMPASS THE
“CAMP OF THE
SAINTS”
THEN
FIRE COMES “DOWN
FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, AND DEVOURED THEM.”
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QA.HEBREWS.PART.3.title
JEFF.IN COD 57-1006
And when the thousand years are expired on this earth,
then
the Devil comes up;
and the second resurrection comes, the resurrection of the unjust.
They gather a great
army like the sands of the sea, and they come up to compass the camp of the
saints. And when it does, God rains fire and brimstone out of the heaven and
destroys them.
And John said,
"I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the
first earth was passed away, and there was no more sea.
And I, John, saw
the holy city,
the New Jerusalem,
descending from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband." There you are.
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QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.title JEFF.IN
COD 64-0823E
Now then, there will be a
camp meeting of the saints upon the breadth of the earth. And Satan is loosed out
of his prison and goes to make war again with the saints, just exactly what he
done in glory to begin with.
And then God rains
fire and brimstone out of the heavens, and the whole earth is removed like...
It just burn up
and destroyed.
And there's no more sea, no
more water, no more nothing left on the earth. Volcanic will spray and burst
and blow, and the whole thing...
"And I saw a new
heavens and a new earth: for the first heavens and the first earth was passed
away; and there was no more sea. I, John, saw the holy city descending from God
out of heaven as a Bride adored for her husband." Remember it? And in this
Bride...
"Behold the Tabernacle of God is with men," and God shall dwell with
them upon this pyramid-shaped city fifteen hundred square miles.
REVELATION 20:10-15
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and
brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be
tormented day and night for ever and ever.
11 ¶ And I saw a great white throne, and him that
sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was
found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small
and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was
opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those
things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the
dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in
them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were
cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not
found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
[AFTER THIS THE
HOLY CITY DESCENDS TO EARTH FROM HEAVEN.]
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN
V-3 N-5 64-0802
And so John saw
the holy City,
the New Jerusalem
descending like
a comet or a--a dove,
coming down out of
heaven
and
settling upon
a redeemed entire
earth.
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN
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And the earth is to be
cleansed by fire
(the place where
you live)
with the baptism of the Holy
Ghost,
a dwelling place
for Christ and His Bride,
the New Jerusalem.
Watch this City.
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN
V-3 N-5 64-0802
What will that
City look like?
Think of it.
Remember, it's not heaven.
John said, "I saw it
coming down out of heaven."
It's to be on earth (See?),
not
this earth that's
going to pass away;
it's a redeemed earth.
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN V-3 N-5
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Remember,
it's going not to be
heaven;
it comes down from
heaven.
It's a dwelling place,
a place to dwell in,
to take up His abode.
[THE HOLY CITY IS
NOT THE BRIDE – IT IS HER DWELLING PLACE.]
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN V-3 N-5 64-0802
Did you ever think now,
Bride,
what it will look like?
It is prepared and designed by the Divine Architect.
What will that City look like?
Now, we're going to talk about it for a few minutes.
The Divine Architect has prepared it, designed it. And look, He's
designed it with tender hands
For
His beloved Bride.
[THE BRIDE IS NOT
THE CITY. - IT IS PREPARED &
DESIGNED FOR HER.]
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN
V-3 N-5 64-0802
Now, listen close; don't move; don't—
don't miss this.
Christ is in
heaven today preparing
the New Jerusalem.
HEBREWS 11:10
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.
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SHALOM.title
SIERRA.VISTA.AZ V-13 N-5 64-0112
There will be a Millennium.
The
old will be young there for ever.
Sickness will fade away and death will be no more.
And they shall build houses;
they will inhabit them.
They'll plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof.
[HOUSES WILL BE
BUILT IN THE MILLENNIUM –
WE HAVE NO PART
IN THE BUILDING OF THE NEW CITY.]
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN V-3 N-5
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For in the millennium,
the Bible said,
"They shall build houses; they shall inhabit them."
But
in the new earth
He's already went and prepared the place;
it's built.
We have
nothing
to do with the building of it.
Amen.
[NO HUMAN HANDS
ARE INVOLVED IN BUILDING THE NEW CITY.]
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN
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So now, we find out that
the--the City is measured, fifteen hundred miles square. You know how far that
would reach? (I measured it off this week.) It would reach from Maine to
Florida, and from the Eastern Seaboard to six hundred miles a-past--west of the
Mississippi.
In other words,
half of the United States,
just for the City.
[SIZE OF THE HOLY CITY = 1500 MILES SQUARE]
[PYRAMIDAL SHAPE OF THE HOLY CITY]
ISRAEL IS SITUATED AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD
"As the navel is set in the centre of
the human body, so is the land of Israel the navel of the world... situated in
the centre of the world, and Jerusalem in the centre of the land
of Israel, and the sanctuary in the centre of Jerusalem,
and the holy place in the centre of the
sanctuary, and the ark in the centre of the holy place, and the foundation
stone before the holy place, because from it the world was founded."
Midrash Tanchuma, Qedoshim.
FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN V-3 N-5
64-0802
It won't be long. Everything's perfectly, geographically: Sodom, the messengers,
everything setting just exactly right.
THE
CAPSTONE.
FEAST.OF.THE.TRUMPETS.title JEFF.IN
V-3 N-16 64-0719M
Immediately after that, the Angels of the Lord appeared and told about the Seven Trumpets--or the Seven Seals;
and I was to
return back here to
Jeffersonville
and preach the
Seven Seals.
And there if I've ever said
anything that was inspired, it was in that. There where the Angel of the Lord
met us in a... The Bible become a new Bible.
THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.title
JEFF.IN V-3 N-8 65-0219
That morning when those seven Angels come down and blasted the earth
and rocks flew every way, seven Angels stood there and said,
"Return back to Jeffersonville
from where you come from,
for the Seven Seals of the
seven mysteries will be opened."
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN V-3 N-5
64-0802
I don't have my pocketbook with me, but if you'll notice in your
pocketbook if you have a one dollar bill, they have the seal of the United
States, the eagle on one end, a-holding the spears, the coat of arms, as it
were. And on the other end,
it's got the pyramid
with the all-seeing eye on top of it.
See, they didn't know what they were doing. And on there it's wrote in
Latin, and you'll find out it says, "It..."
This is the Great Seal.
They didn't know what they were
doing. Neither did Caiaphas know he was prophesying.
There's the Great Seal. Here it is. See?
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN V-3 N-5
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Abraham was looking for it, and he professed that he was a pilgrim and
a stranger, for he looked for a City whose Builder and Maker was God;
that prophet knowing it was somewhere.
John saw it coming down, but Abraham thought it must be on earth right
then. Why? He met Melchizedek, the King of It and gave Him a tithe, which had
no father, or no mother. He had no beginning of life or no ending of life.
Abraham met Him, and they took communion (Amen.)
right on
the literal spot
where
the City will be raised up,
the holy mountain of the Lord where the redeemed'll live.
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN
V-3 N-5 64-0802
Why is it God so thought and
cared so much about that
little place of Palestine
(See?)
when
it's just a little
spot?
But right
in there
is where the temple will set.That's where the
New Jerusalem
will break up
right there.
Olive...
Mount of Olives
shall cleave part to the
right and left
(sure)
when she pushes up from the beneath.
Now, if they said pushing
apart like this...
It's pushing up,
in that day when
He stands,
His holy feet upon
the mountain...
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.title JEFF.IN COD 64-0830M
And there's where Abraham the prophet was seeking for
that
city,
and it was whose Builder and Maker was God.
He looked for that city in
that
land.
I
believe it'll be where that land is.
That land, you can hardly find it on the map.
It's a little bitty dot.
Size Comparison
Maps.
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN V-3 N-5
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You say,
"There ain't no room."
When the sea's gone
there will be,
'cause pretty near four-fifths
of it's in water.
That right?
The explosion dries up the sea,
erupts the earth.
Oh, my,
and remember
fifteen hundred miles square.
What a City.
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FUTURE.HOME.title JEFF.IN
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Then return again in the
millennium on our honeymoon,
and
then
He's going to bring
the City
into view,
like the Bridegroom taking the Bride to Her surprise.
How the little Bride stands there in awe
As
She looks at Her future home.
And by faith
today,
Lord, we see it yonder.
It'll be right here on this earth.
You promised it.
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