Scriptural Reading : Hab 2:3: Psa 85: 8: Eccl 12:13: Is 33:13; 34:1: 1 Th 4: 16: Rev 3: 22; 10:3-6: Matt 17: 5: 1 Cor 14:8: Rev 4:1:
Salutations beloved brethren in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. For this is what we are talking about. God is fixing to speak! You must prepare to hear ! For the Bride , it will be her final call . Notice that God is perfected in three.Three is the number of perfection! There are three things: God has spoken, God is speaking, and God will speak! See?
GOD IS SPEAKING :
It is written! Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. ( Is 1:2).
Notice! Heaven has to hear! And the earth must give an ear! For the Lord has spoken! And the Lord is speaking! He has spoken his word in times past, at sundry times and in divers manners. He is speaking his word, even right now, in our age, our day, our time, and our hour! And God will speak his word at the appointed time in the right season! It will be a little while, though it tarries. It will surely come to pass! He is always right on time! You must prepare to hear!
HEAR : DEFINITION:
The word to hear is one special word in the Holy Scriptures that you need to pay serious attention to. It comes from the Hebrew word, Azan. It means to broaden out the ear and to listen to. Give- perceive by the ear; hearken.
And the Greek word for it is, eisakouo. It means to listen to. Hence, it is written by the prophet Esaias; Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. ( Isa 34:1). See?
The strong admonition for every church age is: He that has an ear, let him hear, what the Spirit saith unto the churches ( Rev 2:7, 11,17, 29; 3: 6,13, 22). See? To hear is to listen to, to hearken with a spiritual ear! There is something being spoken that you are supposed to listen to. And what is it? You are supposed to listen to the voice of the final authority. That is the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ!( Matt 17:5). He is the one that you are to listen to( WMB: 1956: Hear ye Him). See?
Dear brethren, it is quite clear from the word of God that God had ordained to speak to us in this last age of Laodicea ( Rev 3:14-22). He ordained to speak to us through the mouth of a prophet with anointing of Elijah the prophet upon him ( Mal 4: 5,6). He is a messenger, packing a message to the elect of God, who were ordained to hear that specific message with a spiritual ear of revelation! Without wavering, we know him, as the late William Marrion Branham from the USA.
Notice! And since he appears in the last church age, the scripture also identifies him as the voice of God, (the mouth piece of God, or a vessel ) through which God chose to speak his word at the endtimes ( Rev 10:7). See?
In other words, he had a message from God to God's chosen people whom God ordained to recognise, to hear, and to act on that message! See? He was certainly a prepared man of God with a prepared message ( spiritual food in due season) for a people prepared to listen to it!
Indeed, Jesus said, "It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God." Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.( Jn 6:45). Did you notice? Them, that are of God are equipped with an ability to hear from God, the word spoken from the mouth of God! ( Matt 4:4). See? Jesus rebuked the pharisees, the religious bunch of his day hence: He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.( Jn 8:47). See? Why couldn't the pharisees hear him? Because, being not of God, they had no the ears prepared , or simply they had no ability to hear the word of God revealed for their hour! Yet, they were religious and studied the scriptures ( Jn 5:39). See?
GOD IS SPEAKING TO US IN OUR AGE :
Now, with that in mind, it should be understood that God has spoken to us through a Star and prophet Messenger. There is no doubt about that. Our problem really is who has the ears, the ability to hear the word of God? Although God took away the vessel whom he used in 1965, it pleased God to have his messages recorded in audio tapes. This was necessary so that the purpose of God is fulfilled.
For truly, the message was meant to call the elect of God from the denominations and their false religious teachings and turn their hearts back to the hearts of their fathers. In otherwords, turn the hearts of the children back to the faith of their apostolic fathers ( Eph 4:5: Acts 2: 42: Jude 1:3). See?
Without a doubt, many of God's children have heard this message and have since returned to the word of God. However, the voice of the prophet is still being heard since the age is not yet over. There are still more of God's predestinated seeds that need to hear it! Meanwhile, the bride of Christ is also blessed to hear the word of God through the God ordained 5-fold Ministry.
It is written! And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ ( Eph 4:11,12).
Notice! As the bride listens to the message of the prophet, it is the call of God to separate from anything that is contrary to the word of the living God! It is also to restore her faith to the original foundation as laid down by the Apostles and the prophets ( Eph 2:20: 1 Cor 3:11). See? God who changes not is speaking directly to his Bride church! The rest of the world religious systems are simply blinded ( Rev 3 :17). See?
The bride, on the other hand, must be now prepared to hear the voice of her bridegroom! There is close communion between the bride and her bridegroom! ( S.O.S 5: 1-5). See? The scripture says, he that has the bride is the bridegroom!( Jn 3:29). Not any other man or person again! See?
The bridegroom is now speaking directly to his bride! ( Jn 3: 29). See? He is speaking to her through ordained and sanctified vessels ( ministers) in order to bring her to perfection. That is her maturity! They are speaking the truth in love so she can grow into Him in all things, into the stature of the fullness of Christ!( Eph 4:15). See? She has received both the messages of Restoration, and she is also listening to the message of her perfection!
In the end, her current state should be that she is being established in the original faith of the Apostolic fathers. She is being edified by the word of God, walking in the fear of God and comforted by the Holyspirit. Nevertheless, she must also be winning souls to Christ through evangelism and witnessing of the life and testimony of the believers to others ( Acts 9: 31; 16:5). See?
In the final analysis , the bride treasures the message of Elijah. In there is spiritual food that was commissioned by God to his faithful prophet to store, so the people of God who are hungering for truth can always benefit. She must also listen to the voice of her bridegroom through the 5-fold ministry, for her perfection, work of ministry, and edification! She must obey his Great Commission to preach the gospel to all the world and to every creature ( Mk 15:16). She must shoulder the responsibility and carry on the Missionary program of God to the very end( Acts 1:8: Matt 24:14). See?
But that is not all yet! She must prepare to hear the last word of the bridegroom for her going to heaven! She has to hear the final call ! Listen! God is perfected in three! God had spoken! God is speaking! We see it! We should recognise, hear, and be acting on his word for our spiritual growth and transformation! God is speaking to us now! We must hearken to his commission to the church to do evangelism! And we must be prepared to hear his final call to his waiting and labouring bride! ( Heb 6:10:
1 Cor 15:58). God is fixing to speak ! Are you prepared to hear Him ? The voice of final authority? ( Matt 17:5). He who has ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches!( Rev 3:22). To be continued.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you . Amen . One more soul . We work till Jesus comes .
Pastor Charles Obwoon
