THE HIDDEN MESSIAH OF THIS GENERATION

THE HIDDEN MESSIAH OF THIS GENERATION IN COMMEMORATION OF APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA, THE SON OF MAN @ 70 AND THE 3^RD MEMORIAL OF THE QUEEN OF PARADISE, MUMMY NZUBECHI JOY ODOEMENA THE WOMAN OF SUBSEQUENT CREATION APRIL, 2025 BY BISHOP CHIDUBEM JONATHAN THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, ONITSHA ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA

Approved and Authorized By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN

INTRODUCTION

I thank the Lord God for this ample opportunity granted to me to reach you again at this crucial hour of mankind. Without much ado let us proceed straight to the Scriptures. I will be taking my text from the Gospel according to Saint John chapter 1 from verse 35 through 41

³⁵Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; ³⁶And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! ³⁷And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.³⁸Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, what seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?
³⁹He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour. ⁴⁰One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.⁴¹He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. KJV.
On a certain day like any other day the Bible says that John (the Baptist) was standing with two of his disciples when Jesus of Nazareth walked past, just like other people were passing by. However, Jesus attracted the attention of the prophet.
So, as John the Baptist looked at Him, he declared to his disciples saying, “behold the Lamb of God”, John was pointing at Him admiringly saying, see Him, look at Him passing by. Those two disciples of John that heard him speak immediately abandoned John and followed Jesus even without Jesus beckoning them to come.
When Jesus turned and saw these two men following Him, He asked them, “what do you want?” Why are you following me people? They said Sir, where do you live? Where is your home?
To them this is a wonderful opportunity that must be fully utilized and the only way to do that is to know where this MAN lives. By so doing they would have established an everlasting relationship with Him. Do you have a home? Please show us your home, where you live – for wherever He lives must be the home of God.
These two men went with their newly found friend to where He stays and remained with Him from afternoon till evening. By the time they were leaving they were very happy having discovered that their new Friend is The Messiah they had been waiting for. What a wonderful discovery. Eureka (I have found Him! So, Andrew exclaimed to his brother Peter, “We have found THE MESSIAH)”
³⁵The following day as John was standing with two of his disciples, ³⁶Jesus walked by. John looked at him intently and then declared, “See! There is the Lamb of God!” ³⁷Then John’s two disciples turned and followed Jesus. ³⁸Jesus looked around and saw them following. “What do you want?” he asked them. “Sir,” they replied, “where do you live?”
³⁹“Come and see,” he said. So, they went with him to the place where he was staying and were with him from about four o’clock that afternoon until the evening. ⁴⁰(One of these men was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.) ⁴¹Andrew then went to find his brother Peter and told him, “We have found the Messiah!”LB
³⁵The following day as John was standing with two of his disciples, ³⁶Jesus walked by. John looked at him intently and then declared, “See! There is the Lamb of God!” ³⁷Then John’s two disciples turned and followed Jesus. ³⁸Jesus looked around and saw them following. “What do you want?” he asked them. “Sir,” they replied, “where do you live?” ³⁹“Come and see,” he said. So they went with him to the place where he was staying and were with him from about four o’clock that afternoon until the evening. ⁴⁰(One of these men was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.) ⁴¹Andrew then went to find his brother Peter and told him, “We have found the Messiah!”
This the greatest discovery anyone can make in his lifetime – to discover the Messiah God sent in his own generation. Could they have discovered the Messiah easily if John the Baptist did not point them to Him? They were with John when Jesus was passing by. They saw Him like other men that were passing through that same way. Outwardly, He was not in any way different from other men. John the Baptist was able to recognise Him because as a prophet, he could see beyond the human veil. John was given a sign which he will use to recognize Him. Else, even John himself wouldn’t have known Him.
And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. John 1:33 KJV
I didn’t know he was the one,” John said again, “but at the time God sent me to baptize he told me, ‘When you see the Holy Spirit descending and resting upon someone—he is the one you are looking for. He is the one who baptizes with the Holy SpiritTLB
And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit. NIV
I did not recognize Him [as the Messiah], but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘He upon whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this One is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
Therefore, if John the Baptist was not guided by God Himself, he himself would not have recognised Him. Remember that John the Baptist was the greatest of all that appeared before him including prophets and priests yet on his own he could not know Him. If he did not declare it to his disciples, they too would not have known Jesus as the Messiah in their day. He was hidden in simplicity as a mere man like any other man in the neighbourhood.
Then, the question is, do you think you can discover Him if you meet Him in your own day? Were they not reading their scrolls and scriptures that spoke about His coming? Like somebody would say, “My Bible says so, so and so. Amen.
I did not recognize Him as the Messiah, but He who sent me to baptise gave me a sign that can never fail, a sign that cannot be seen by ordinary eye, the sign of the Presence of the Almighty
Remember Jesus has been with them, among them as one of their fellow men for about thirty years without anybody finding Him out, even His cousin John the Baptist, until when He came face to face with John the Baptist to be baptised. In other words, He remained hidden in their midst for about thirty years – THE HIDDEN MESSIAH!

WE NEED A GUIDE

John the Baptist, the greatest Prophet of all times when he appeared accepted that he did not know THE MESSIAH and would not have known Him if not by Divine guidance. Was John not reading the scriptures, the Laws and the Prophets? Remember John was born in the house of a devout priest Zachariah and was brought up with the scriptures.

He grew up and became a powerful preacher, the most powerful preacher of his day, preaching with authority and baptising even religious leaders. However, he that is qualified to be a priest needed a guide. Otherwise, he would have missed THE MESSIAH of his generation when He appeared.
The two disciples also accepted that they did not know the Messiah even though they were baptised and have been very active in John’s ministry, winning souls for God. They too needed a guide. Hence, it was easy for them to believe their Master John without any argument and followed the Messiah.
Simon Peter was guided by Andrew according to John 1:41,
He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. ⁴²And he brought him to Jesus.
What can you say about Apollos? The Bible says that Apollos was an eloquent speaker with a thorough knowledge of the Scripture.
²⁴And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. ²⁵This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. ²⁶And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. KJV
He was a mighty preacher going from synagogue to synagogue preaching yet he never knew about the Messiah even when the Messiah had finished His Ministry and left. He has come and gone but powerful men of God like Apollos never knew and were still going about preaching powerful sermons.
²⁴As it happened, a Jew named Apollos, a wonderful Bible teacher and preacher, had just arrived in Ephesus from Alexandria in Egypt. ^25-26While he was in Egypt, someone had told him about John the Baptist and what John had said about Jesus, but that is all he knew. He had never heard the rest of the story! So he was preaching boldly and enthusiastically in the synagogue, “The Messiah is coming! Get ready to receive him!” Priscilla and Aquila were there and heard him—and it was a powerful sermon. Afterwards they met with him and explained what had happened to Jesus since the time of John, and all that it meant!LB
You can imagine how he was enthusiastically preaching with power about the coming Messiah, urging people to get ready to receive THE MESSIAH of their own generation. He never knew that THE MESSIAH has come, finished His work and gone many years ago but he was still preaching and basking in illusion.
Somebody told him about John the Baptist, he was guided properly to believing John, but that is all he knew. He needed to be guided till the end. It took Priscilla and Aquila to guide him, to explain to him what has happened since the time of John.
Begin to review what you know. Begin to crosscheck your standpoint. Crosscheck what you believe and preach. You may be preaching the message meant for past generation without knowing it. Can the clock wait for somebody that refused to keep pace with the time?
There is nobody that does not know something just like Apollos knows the scriptures very well. He knows about John the Baptist. You too may know all the scriptures about Moses, all the Prophets, Jesus of Nazareth, Paul of Tarsus, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), Prophet Branham and what they said in their respective dispensations but what has happened since their time, since they left the scene, you know not. You go about preaching powerful sermons everywhere, BUT THE MESSIAH OF YOUR OWN DAY, YOUR OWN GENERATION IS STILL HIDDEN FROM THEM.
The Samaritan woman was well versed in the scriptures that she knew and spoke about the coming of THE MESSIAH. However, she thought it was supposed to happen in the future. She was postponing it. She never knew that what she was postponing for the future has been on the land many many years ago. The Messiah is right in front of her, but she is still pointing to the future.
When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, ²(though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) ³he left Judæa, and departed again into Galilee. ⁴And he must needs go through Samaria. ⁵Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
⁶Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. ⁷There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. ⁸(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) ⁹Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. ¹¹The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? ¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
¹³Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: ¹⁴but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.¹⁵The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. ¹⁶Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. ¹⁷The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: ¹⁸for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
¹⁹The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. ²⁰Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. ²¹Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. ²²Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. ²³But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. ²⁴God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
²⁵The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. ²⁶Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.John 4:1-26 KJV
Was the woman ignorant about the coming of the Messiah? No. She knows her Bible very well and was even trying to educate Jesus more about the coming Messiah, about what the Messiah will be called and what He will do when He comes. I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.THE HIDDEN MESSIAH! Let us see verse 25 in Living Bible translation
²⁵The woman said, “Well, at least I know that the Messiah will come—the one they call Christ—and when he does, he will explain everything to us.”
Well, at least i know this one very well, nobody can tell me rubbish, my Bible tells me, and I believe that the Messiah will come, He will be called Christ, when He comes, He will tell us everything. Good! However, without a guide you are bound to bypass Him.
It is easier to believe what God did in the past, anticipate and emphasize on what He will do in the future but fail to recognize what He is doing at present. Ella Wheeler Wilcoxin his poem wrote
With every rising of the sun; Think of your life as justbegun. The past has shrived and buried deep; All yesterdays— there let them sleep,
Nor seek to summon back one ghost; Of that innumerable host.
Concern yourself with but today; Woo it and teach it to obey
Your wish and will. Since time began; Today has been the friend of man.
But in his blindness and his sorrow; He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.
Concern yourself with TODAY… TODAY IS THE FRIEND OF MAN BUT IN HIS BLINDNESS AND HIS SORROW HE LOOKS TO YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW. Have you found out for yourself what God is doing in your own day TODAY? All yesterdays are gone, allow them to sleep. Do not act like King Saul that went to wake Samuel the prophet from his sleep, it will not do you any good. 1 Samuel 28 from verse 4
⁴The Philistines set up their camp at Shunem, and Saul and the armies of Israel were at Gilboa. ^5-6When Saul saw the vast army of the Philistines, he was frantic with fear and asked the Lord what he should do. But the Lord refused to answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, ^[^a^]or by the prophets. ^7-8Saul then instructed his aides to try to find a medium so that he could ask her what to do, and they found one at Endor.
Saul disguised himself by wearing ordinary clothing instead of his royal robes. He went to the woman’s home at night, accompanied by two of his men. “I’ve got to talk to a dead man,” he pleaded. “Will you bring his spirit up?” …¹¹Finally the woman said, “Well, whom do you want me to bring up?”
“Bring me Samuel,” Saul replied … ¹⁵“Why have you disturbed me by bringing me back?” Samuel asked Saul. … “Because I am in deep trouble,” he replied. “The Philistines are at war with us, and God has left me and won’t reply by prophets or dreams; so I have called for you to ask you what to do.”
King Saul realized that God has left him the only option left for him was to go back to the past. You see, if the Messiah of your day is with you, you will not depend on the past. The Messiah signifies a rising sun in your life. Is it not rising of the sun that makes TODAY? As far as the SUN IS SHINING, IT IS CALLED TODAY.
Apollos was living in his yesterday not knowing that the Sun, the Light of another had arisen since. The woman of Samaria was living in her yesterday and proclaiming about tomorrow but neglecting her TODAY. That is why Paul said, today if you hear His Voice, harden not your heart. Jesus said about Himself, WhileI am in the world, I am the Light of the world. Amen.
I believe you know so much; you are diligent at studying the scripture. However, unfortunately, no document contains the present continuous message of TODAY. I mean that before something is documented, it has to be spoken first.
So, every written word is historical record of the SPOKEN WORD (LOGOS) even though it can contain what is happening today and what will happen in the future in the form of prophecies, but you need a guide to tell you which of the prophecies are fulfilling TODAY. Jesus after reading a portion of the scripture boldly said, this day this scripture is fulfilled and He handed it over to them no more, no less.
¹⁷And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, ¹⁸The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor;
He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, ¹⁹to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. ²⁰And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. ²¹And he began to say unto them, THIS DAY IS THIS SCRIPTURE FULFILLED IN YOUR EARS. Luke 4:17-21 KJV
Have they not been reading that particular scripture since the day it was written? However, none of them knew the meaning until when the Lord Jesus, the preacher or messenger of their day read it and confirmed that it was meant for that day. You can read the whole Bible from beginning till the end, memorize every word and still miss the Messiah of your generation. You need someone to guide you else you will be lost.
¹¹For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. ¹²For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. ¹³For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.¹⁴How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?Rom 10:11-14 KJV
But how can they call on someone if they haven’t trusted in him? And how can they trust in someone if they haven’t heard about him? And how can they hear about someone if no one is proclaiming him?CJB
But how shall they ask him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?LB
The Ethiopian Eunuch read the scripture all his life; travelling from Ethiopia to Jerusalem on pilgrimage every year. But he never understood what he was reading. He says how can I understand except someone guides me.
²⁶And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. ²⁷And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, ²⁸Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. ²⁹Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. ³⁰And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? ³¹And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me?And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.Acts 8:26-31 KJV.
And he said, How is it possible for me to do so unless someone explains it to me and guides me [in the right way]? And he earnestly requested Philip to come up and sit beside him. AMPC.
I want you therefore, to maintain an open mind as we go through this discourse together. In this matter, there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek, the rich and poor; the white and the black; the Christian and the Moslem or any other religious inclination – for all human beings are created by one God and have need for a Messiah.
Let us first of all discuss the concepts of Messiah and messianism for clearer understanding of the subject.

MESSIAH AND MESSIANISM

According to Dictionary.com the word Messiah has its origin from Late Latin: Messīās; from Greek: Messī́ās; from Aramaic: mĕshîkha; from Hebrew: māshîakh; and literally means, “anointed,” from the word māshakh which means “to anoint”.

In Hebrew, the Messiah is often referred to as melekh mashiach (מלך המשיח; Tiberian: Meleḵ ha-Mašīaḥ, pronounced [meleχ hamaˈʃiaħ], literally meaning ‘the Anointed King. The Greek translation of Messiah is Khristósanglicized as Christ (English).
According to Wikipedia, the concepts of mashiach, messianism, and of a Messianic Age originated in Judaism, and in the Hebrew Bible, in which a mashiach is a king or High Priest traditionally anointed with holy anointing oil.
In Judaism, Ha-mashiach (‘the Messiah’), often referred to as melekh ha-mashiach (King Messiah’), is the Jewish leader, physically descended from the paternal Davidic line through King David and King Solomon.
He will accomplish predetermined things in a future arrival, including the unification of the tribes of Israel the gathering of all Jews to Eretz Israel, the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem, the ushering in of a Messianic Age of global universal peace, and the annunciation of the world to come.
Gary Gromacki of Baptist Bible Seminary Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls Spring, 2007 defined Messianism as the expectation of a coming anointed king or kings who would liberate Israel from Gentile domination.
Apocalyptic messianism involves the belief that a Messiah or Messiahs would come at the end of human history to defeat the Gentiles and establish the kingdom for Israel. This apocalyptic messianism is seen in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
According to him, Messianism originated in the Old Testament. The Hebrew term mashiach is rarely used as a technical term for the Davidic ruler promised by the prophets (cf. Dan.9:25 where it is used for Messiah the Prince).
But messianic prophecies are many. Genesis 49:10 predicts that the ruler of Israel would come from the tribe of Judah. Numbers 24:17 predicted that a “Star shall come out of Jacob, a Scepter shall rise out of Israel.”
God promised David that one of his descendants would sit on his throne and rule Israel in the Davidic Covenant (2 Samuel 7:12-16). Isaiah predicted that the Prince of Peace would rule on the throne of David and over His kingdom(Is.9:6-7).
Jeremiah predicted that the Lord would raise to David a Branch of righteousness, a King who would reign and prosper (Jer.23:5-6). These are just some of the many messianic prophecies that the Jews were familiar with in the Old Testament.
The Essenes commented on many of these messianic prophecies in their writings. One example is the Testimonia or Messianic Anthology (4Q175). This short document dates to around 100 B.C. and is similar in literary style to the Christian Testimonia or collections of messianic proof texts.
Two of the five scripture references refer to the Prophet who will be like Moses (Deut.18:18) and the Star that would come out of Jacob (Num.24:17).
Therefore, from above narratives, the word messiah is Greek word that means the same thing as Mashiach(Hebrew), Christ (English) and literally a person that is anointed. Let us look at some scriptural passages.
So, he said to his men, “Far be it from me because of the Lord that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the Lord’s anointed.” David persuaded his men with these words and did not allow them to rise up against Saul.
And Saul arose, left the cave, and went on his way. Now afterward David arose and went out of the cave and called after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the ground and prostrated himself.
David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you’? Behold, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord had given you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you; and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’1 Samuel 24:6-10
So, Saul as the king of Israel was the Lord’s anointed in his own day. That is the reason why David refused to strike him even when Saul was in disobedience and wanting to kill David.
He said that it is not for him to judge the Lord’s anointed whether he does good or bad it is left for God to deal with him whichever way He wants. Saul was christ in his own day. He said, the Lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed according to
But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord’s anointed and be without guilt?” David also said, “As the Lord lives, surely the Lord will strike him, or his day will come that he dies, or he will go down into battle and perish.
The Lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head and the jug of water and let us go.” 1 Samuel 26:9-11
Remember King Saul was anointed by Samuel at the command of God. That is what made him the Lord’s anointed. In recognition of that anointing, David refused to lay his hand on Saul. King David was anointed by Samuel also at the command of the Lord. Therefore, King David was also the Lord’s anointed (Christ).
He gives great deliverance to His king, And shows loving kindness to His anointed, To David and his descendants forever.Psalm 18:50
It is important to note that the Lord’s anointing is not restricted to the Jews alone. Even King Cyrus, a gentile is privileged to be the Lord’s anointed (Christ).
Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; Isaiah 45:1 KJV
King Cyrus was Christ drawn from the gentile, a prototype of what the Lord plans to do in the future: to raise His Christ even from the gentile nation for the sake of Israel.
Similarly, as the kings ordained at the command of the Lord are referred to as the Lord’s anointed (Christ), God’s prophets are called the Lord’s anointed (Christ).
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.Paslms 105:15
This is why Nehemiah 9:27 confirmed that God sent to His people many Christ (saviours) to deliver them from their enemies.
Therefore, thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies THOU GAVEST THEM SAVIOURS, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies
Ultimately, redemption, deliverance or salvation comes from God alone. These Saviours, deliverers or Messiahs are only human instrument in God’s hands. They are all human beings, consisting of flesh and blood like all mortals as recorded in James 5:17 that:
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months KJV
Therefore, there is a Messiah sent for every generation that appeared on earth. God was never slack in performing this task. He sends them as early as required because of His compassion on His children.
²⁵Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: ²⁶yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Jer. 7:25-26 KJV
¹⁵And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place.2 Chr. 33:15 KJV.
Let us proceed a little further. We have seen messiahs of different generations. Moses was the messiah sent to Egypt to deliver the people of Israel from Egypt.
Joshua was the messiah designated to deliver the land of Jericho unto the Israelites and so on. It is important to understand what the anointing is all about. Anointed by what? Anointed by who? What is the essence of the anointing?

THE TRUE ANOINTING

So far, we have seen who a messiah is. A messiah is Christ. Christ is the anointed one in the midst of other people. The question is anointed with what or by who.

Remember we have false christs according to Matthew 24:24
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. KJV
For false Messiahs and false prophets will appear; they will perform great miracles and wonders in order to deceive even God’s chosen people, if possible.GNB
So, there are false messiahs? Of course, there cannot be counterfeit without original somewhere. These false messiahs are known for the great miracles and wonders they perform. They are demons released to deceive the world with their miracles, but God will protect the elect from the deceit. Follow me Revelation 16: 13-14
¹³And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
¹⁴For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. KJV
False Messiahs are human beings anointed with evil spirits, demons, spirits of devils, spirits of Satan but parading themselves as men of God. Their stocks in trade which form their instrument of deceit are the many miracles, signs and wonders which they perform.
They perform great signs, miracles and wonders to deceive even God’s people. This means that they are also religiously inclined. They do all that in the Name of God.
This does not mean that true Christ does not perform miracle. There is a difference. Counterfeits follow after signs and wonders; they advertise signs and wonders as the success factor of their ministries.
However, the true Christ is mindful of THE WORD OF GOD, then signs and wonders follow them. He does not follow signs and wonders; no true believer follows signs and wonders. It is signs and wonders that follow them.
¹⁷AND THESE SIGNS SHALL FOLLOW THEM THAT BELIEVE; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; ¹⁸they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Mark 16:17-18 KJV.
¹³For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. ¹⁴And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
¹⁵Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 KJV
¹³God never sent those men at all; they are “phonies” who have fooled you into thinking they are Christ’s apostles. ¹⁴Yet I am not surprised! Satan can change himself into an angel of light, ¹⁵so it is no wonder his servants can do it too, and seem like godly ministers. In the end they will get every bit of punishment their wicked deeds deserve. 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 LB
God never sent those men. They are phonies, counterfeits, impostors, deceivers, deceitful workers, they are everywhere – false messiahs. However, that is not the case for the True Messiah sent by the Lord God.
³⁴For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him
Those who believe him discover that God is a fountain of truth. For this one—sent by God—speaks God’s words, for God’s Spirit is upon him without measure or limit. LB
For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. NIV
FOR THIS ONE—SENT BY GOD THIS ONE NOT TWO. THEY CANNOT BE TWO OR MORE SENT IN A PARTICULAR GENERATION. THIS ONE—SENT BY GOD —SPEAKS GOD’S WORDS, DOES THE WORK OF GOD FOR GOD’S SPIRIT IS UPON HIM WITHOUT MEASURE OR LIMIT.
¹⁴And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. ¹⁵And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
¹⁶And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. ¹⁷And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias.
And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, ¹⁸The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, ¹⁹to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. ²⁰And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him Luke 4:14-20 LB
From the above scripture, the anointing of the Spirit of the Lord makes the anointed speak or preach the WORD OF GOD – HE BECOMES GOD’S MOUTHPIECE, GOD’S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE PEOPLE HE IS SENT TO.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. How do you mean? …Because He hath anointed me to PREACH THE GOSPEL…TO PREACH DELIVERANCE…TO PREACH THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD. The Anointed One, the Messiah is anointed with the Spirit of the Lord to preach and teach the WORD of God. That is why Jesus says:
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63 KJV
Now, can you separate a man from his spirit? Can you separate a man from his word? The answer is No. What makes a man is the spirit that is in him. Any day the spirit of a man departs from him, will the man still be alive? Can the man still talk? You will only have a lifeless organic pack.
Therefore, the Messiah, the Christ of any generation is the Word of God sent for that generation, the Word made flesh and sent to deliver the people of their generations.
¹⁹Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
²⁰He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Psalm 107:19-20.
Moses was the Word sent to Egypt for the Lord told Him that He would be in his mouth. So, every word that Moses spoke the Lord took full responsibility of all.
¹¹And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? Or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I the Lord? ¹²Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. Exodus4:11-12 KJV.
The Lord promised to be with Moses’ mouth. Therefore, whatever comes out of that mouth is not nothing but the Word of God. Hence, no man can separate the word of Moses from the Word of God, the two have become one.
The same thing is applicable to other Messiahs (anointed ones) like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Elijah, Samson and so on.
⁵Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
⁶Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: ⁷and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Isaiah 6:5-7 KJV.
⁶Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. ⁷But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
⁸Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. ⁹Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. Jeremiah 1:6-9 KJV
From that day every word proceeding from Jeremiah’s mouth is no longer credited to Jeremiah but to Jehovah. The Lord takes full responsibility. Remember that you cannot separate a man from his word.
So, if the word of Jeremiah is the word of God who then is Jeremiah? Is this not simple equation? The word of Moses equals to the word of God. Before you balance the equation let us see 1 Kings 17:24
And the woman said to Elijah, now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truthKJV
The Word of the Lord is the mouth of Elijah. Whenever Elijah opens his mouth to speak, he speaks nothing but the Word of the Lord.
“Now I know for sure that you are a prophet,” she told him afterward, “and that whatever you say is from the Lord!”
Do you see it? Whatever Elijah saysis from the Lord. Whatever means whatever. You can begin to segregate or try to separate his words or differentiate between carnal and spiritual, but the scripture says whatever.
The woman said to Elijah, “I see it all now—you are a holy man. When you speak, God speaks—a true word!”MSG
What a faith! When you speak, God speaks, so if you don’t speak God has not spoken: Elijah, a man of like passion. Who then is Elijah? He occupies the office of God in his own day as the anointed one, Messiah, Christ of his generation. The Word of God came to him, he accepted it, ate it and the Word became flesh, that human being called Elijah.
It is not only their words, even their actions because it is the spirit that is in a man that directs all his actions. What can you say about Samson.
Samson was the one sent to deliver them from the hands of the Philistines. When Samson told the parents that he wants to marry a Philistine, they thought he was out of his senses: how can you a Nazarite of God marry from a forbidden nation? Oh, Samson my son please don’t do this. Little did they know that it was God in him that want to enter that so-called unholy alliance.
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. ²And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines:
Now therefore get her for me to wife. ³Then his father and his mother said unto him, is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?
And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. ⁴But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel. Judges 14:1-4 KJV
His father and mother didn’t know that all this came from Adonai, who was seeking grounds for a quarrel with the P’lishtim. (At that time the P’lishtim were ruling Isra’el.) CJB
What of Ezekiel who used cow dung to bake his bread – an abomination:
What about Isaiah that walked round the city naked and bare-footed -abomination:
Hosea the prophet of God married a prostitute and continued sleeping with the prostitute even when he knew she is continuing with her prostitution – abomination:
Whom do we hold responsible for all the above actions? The Lord God that anointed them, He is the One responsible for all these in them. You cannot separate their words and actions from the words and actions of God, no matter how you look at it.
That is why the scripture calls them gods because the Word of God came to them. They are anointed with the Word of God, they are anointed with the spirit of God.
Let us see what the scripture says in Psalm 82:6 and John 10:33-35
³³The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. ³⁴Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? ³⁵If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;KJV
If He called them gods, note, them, not one person but many, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken or invalidated because of your unbelief. They were called gods, unto whom the word of God came. Let us see some of those gods according to the scripture.
After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward 15:1 KJV
Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying, 1 Sam 15:10
When David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, 2 Sam 24:11
Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon saying, 1 King 6:11
Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, Isa. 38:4
The word of the Lord also came to me saying, Jer. 16:1
And the word of the Lord came to me saying, Ezekiel 6:1
The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying, Jonah 1:1
In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo saying, Zech 1:1.
This is just to mention but a few individuals the Word of the Lord came to in their respective generations. There is no generation that has been without the Word of the Lord being sent to one person for that generation or people but instead of the people accepting and believing in them, they rejected them at their own peril.
¹⁵And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: ¹⁶but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 21V
They mocked them not knowing that they are gods to them whom they are sent. Just like Zedekiah king in Jerusalem who supposedly believed Moses and other holy men of God before him but failed to recognize Jeremiah who has the Word of God for his day, did God justify him?
¹¹Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹²And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord. 2 Chr. 36:11-12
What evil did he commit that made God condemn him? He failed to recognize and humble himself before Jeremiah the mouthpiece of God in his own generation.
His reign, too, was evil so far as the Lord was concerned, for he refused to take the counsel of Jeremiah the prophet, who gave him messages from the Lord. LB
You say just counsel, must we take his counsel? He refused to take counsel from Jeremiah, the Counsellor of his day.
He did what was evil from the perspective of Adonai his God. He did not humble himself before Yirmeyahu the prophet speaking on behalf of Adonai
Zedekiah did what was evil from God’s own perspective. From the perspective of the society what he did could be adjudged right, from the perspective of the written word, it may seem right. Yes, how can Jeremiah be encouraging them to yield to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon and remain in captivity instead of invoking the power of God to deliver them if he were a true prophet?
He checked the written word but did not see where such happened. So, he became stubborn and failed to recognize the Word of the hour. Moses, Elijah, and others spoke in their day but this is a new day, Jeremiah is the one speaking today and it is his own that counts.
¹³And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? ¹⁴And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. Exo 3:13-14 KJV
Remember Ella Wheeler Wilcox’spoem, With Every Rising Sun (star) which signifies a new dawn.
With every rising of the sun; Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep; All yesterdays— there let them sleep, Nor seek to summon back one ghost of that innumerable host.
Concern yourself with but today; Woo it and teach it to obey, Your wish and will. Since time began, Today has been the friend of man. But in his blindness and his sorrow He looks to yesterday and tomorrow.
If you must worship God acceptably, you must acquaint yourself with I AM, He Who Is. When Moses asked of His Name, He told him I AM. Yes, I will be what I will be tomorrow but tell them I AM (the ever present one) has sent you. That is the way to be established in the present truth according to 1 Pet. 1:12
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. KJV
Therefore, the essence of this message cannot be over emphasized because eternal life is not negotiable. We are laying a foundation. Remember our topic is the hidden Messiah of this generation has been revealed. He is the Word for today. Amen.

ALL RELIGIOUS SECTS ARE EXPECTING THE HIDDEN MESSIAH

We have seen those that the Word of the Lord came to, they are called gods. They were Messiahs, Christ’s or anointed ones of their respective generations. But there is One set aside by the Father according to Jesus in John 10:35 … He is THE WORD HIMSELF. Let us see John 1:1 and vs 14

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth… KJV
Before anything else existed, there was Christ, with God. He has always been alive and is himself God… And Christ became a human being and lived here on earth among us and was full of loving forgiveness and truth. And some of us have seen his glory—the glory of the only Son of the heavenly Father! LB
In the beginning [before all-time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself… And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us;
And we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth
He is the Anointer; HE is the source of the anointing; He is the saviour; the Word is the deliverer; the Word that said let there be light and there was light; He sent the Word and healed His people: but the Word cannot come without a mouth, a person to speak it – He that speaks the Word is Christ the Messiah.
The Word kept coming little by little progressively revealing God’s plan for each generation according to the measure meant for them according to Hebrews 1:1
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, ²hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; KJV
Long ago God spoke in many different ways to our fathers through the prophets, in visions, dreams, and even face to face, telling them little by little about his plans.
²But now in these days he has spoken to us through his Son to whom he has given everything and through whom he made the world and everything there is. LB
In many separate revelations [each of which set forth a portion of the Truth] and in different ways God spoke of old to [our] forefathers in and by the prophets,
²[But] in the last of these days He has spoken to us in [the person of a] Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time [He made, produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order] AMPC.
Those Messiahs that had the Word of God little by little, unto whom the WORD came to in portions in their days were identified and called prophets. They are all earthly. However, there is One set aside by the Father.
He is the FULL WORD, the Totality, the Alpha and the Omega the A and the Z, the embodiment of all of them. Let us see what various religious sects says about THE HIDDEN MESSIAH.
CHRISTIANITY: In Christianity, the Messiah is called the Christ (Romanised: Khristós, lit. ’Anointed One’ the saviour and redeemer who would bring salvation to the Jewish people and mankind. “Christ” is the Greek translation of “Messiah”, meaning “Anointed one”. Christians believe that the messianic prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus’ mission, death, resurrection, and ascension to his Session on the heavenly throne, where “he sat down at the right hand of God, where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet… Christians believe that the rest of the messianic prophecies will be fulfilled in the Second Coming of Christ.
JUDAISM: Belief in the coming of the Messiah has always been a fundamental part of Judaism. Thus, for example, Maimonides counts the belief in the Messiah as one of the thirteen cardinal principles of Judaism. It is a concept that is repeated again and again throughout the length and breadth of Jewish literature…
There have been many people in Jewish history who have claimed to be this Messiah. The most famous, of course, was Jesus. His followers therefore gave him the title Christ. Mashiach — the Hebrew word for Messiah — literally means the “anointed.” The Greek word for “anointed” is Christos, and thus, Christ is really just another word for Messiah…
The Jewish concept of the Messiah is that which is clearly developed by the prophets of the Bible. He is a leader of the Jews, strong in wisdom, power and spirit. It is he who will bring complete redemption to the Jewish people, both spiritually and physically. Along with this, he will bring eternal peace, love, prosperity, and moral perfection to the entire world.
The Jewish Messiah is truly human in origin. He is born of ordinary human parents and is of flesh and blood like all mortals…the Messiah is “full of wisdom and understanding, counsel and might, knowledge and the fear of G-d.”He has a special feeling for justice, or, as the Talmud put it (Sanhedrin 93b), he “smells and judges.” He can virtually sense a man’s innocence or guilt…
The Messiah will, “smite the tyrant with the rod of his mouth, and slay the wicked with the breath of his lips.” Evil and tyranny will not be able to stand up before the Messiah…Still, the Messiah is primarily a king of peace. Our Sages therefore teach us (Derech Eretz Zuta:l): “When the Messiah is revealed to Israel, he will only open his mouth for peace. It is thus written (Isaiah 52:7)…Most important, the Jewish Messiah will bring all peoples to G-d. ..The Jewish Messiah will thus have the task of perfecting the world. He will redeem man from servitude, oppression and his own evil. There will be great material prosperity in the world, and man will be restored to an Eden-like existence, where he can enjoy the fruits of the earth without toil…
In the Messianic age, the Jewish people will dwell freely in their land. There will be an “ingathering of the exiles,” when all Jews return to Israel. This will eventually bring all nations to acknowledge the G-d of Israel and accept the truth of His teachings. The Messiah will thus not only be king over Israel, but, in a sense, ruler over all nations…Ultimately, redemption comes from G-d alone, and the Messiah is only an instrument in His hands. He is a human being, consisting of flesh and blood like all mortals.
He is, however, the finest of the human race, and as such, must be crowned with the highest virtues that mortal man can attain…The ultimate promise, however, is not limited to Israel alone. The redemption of the Jew is closely linked to the emancipation of all humanity as well as the destruction of evil and tyranny. It is the first step in man’s return to G-d, where all mankind will be united into “a single band” to fulfill G-d’s purpose.
This is the “Kingdom of the Almighty” in the Messianic Age…Although the Messiah may occupy a central place in this “Kingdom of Heaven,” he is still not the primary figure. This position can only belong to G-d Himself…This, in brief is the concept of the Jewish MessiahTHE REAL MESSIAH? A Jewish Response to Missionaries By Rabbi Aryeh KaplanPg 14-16
ISLAM: In Islam (Shia and Sunni), the Mahdi is considered as the promised one [6 … Mahdi is someone from the Prophet’s generation (probably Sadat’s dynasty) who has not yet been born. He will be born in the future and become the savior of mankind.Also, most of the followers of Sunnah consider Mahdi as an ordinary and very pure person, which is in contradiction with other prophecies of Abrahamic religions.
Most of the Abrahamic religions have emphasized that the savior of the end of time is a divine messenger for humanity. According to Shiites, Mahdi is a divine chosen one, the proof of God and infallible. … Shiites are not the first ones who have proposed the savior of the apocalypse as a manifestation of God.
A hadith in Abu Dawud says: The Prophet said: There is no prophet between me and him, that is, Isa. He will descend (to the earth). When you see him, recognize him: a man of medium height, reddish fair,wearing two light yellow garments, looking as if drops were falling down from his head though it will not be wet. He will fight the people for the cause of Islam. He will break the cross, kill swine, and abolish jizyah. Allah will perish all religions except Islam. He will destroy the Antichrist and will live on the earth for forty years and then he will die. The Muslims will pray over him.
In the theology of Ahmadiyya, the terms Messiah and Mahdi are synonymous terms for one and the same person. The term Mahdi means ‘guided [by God]’, thus implying a direct ordainment by God of a divinely chosen individual.
According to Ahmadi thought, Messiahship is a phenomenon through which a special emphasis is given on the transformation of a people by way of offering to suffer for the sake of God instead of giving suffering They hold that the prophesied eschatological figures of Christianity and Islam, the Messiah and Mahdi, were, in fact, to be fulfilled in one person who was to represent all previous prophets.
HINDU: In Hindureligion, the savior of the end of time is called Avatar, which means MANIFESTATION, Avatar comes from the word Avatarai, which means the manifestation of a superior power. Some groups of Muslims, especially the Wahhabis, consider this claim of Shiites to be completely polytheistic and superstitious.
While in the Torah, the book of Genesis, 12 kings from Ismael’s generation are mentioned, and Shiites consider these 12 kings to be their 12 imams. In the Sunni hadith books, 12 caliphs are mentioned after the Prophet of Islam, the last of whom is the promised Mahdi. All Muslims agree on the return of Jesus Christ.
BÁBISM: Babism, also known as the Bábi Faith, is a monotheistic religion founded in 1844 by the Báb. The Báb, an Iranian merchant-turned-prophet, professed that there is one incorporeal, unknown, and incomprehensible God who manifests his will in an unending series of theophanies, called Manifestations of God.… In Bábí belief the Báb is the return of the Imam Mahdi, The Báb also stated that he was not only the fulfilment of the Shiʻi expectations for the Qá’im, but that he also was the beginning of a new prophetic dispensation.
The Báb taught that his revelation was beginning an apocalyptic process that was bringing the Islamic dispensation to its cyclical end and starting a new dispensation. He taught that the terms “resurrection”, “Judgement Day”, “paradise” and “hell” used in Shiʻa prophecies for the end-times are symbolic. He stated that “Resurrection” means that the appearance of a new revelation, …
He further stated that “Judgement Day” refers to when a new Manifestation of God comes, and the acceptance or rejection of those on the Earth. Thus, the Báb taught that with his revelation the end times ended and the age of resurrection had started and that the end-times were symbolic as the end of the past prophetic cycle.One of the cores of Bábí teachings is that a new prophet would soon come, whom the Báb termed HE WHOM GOD SHALL MAKE MANIFEST, A MESSIANIC FIGURE THAT WOULD COMPLETE THE REVELATION THAT THE BÁB BEGUN.
THE BÁB DESCRIBES THIS MESSIANIC FIGURE AS THE ORIGIN OF ALL DIVINE ATTRIBUTES, AND STATES THAT HIS COMMAND IS EQUIVALENT TO GOD’S COMMAND.THE ENTIRETY OF THE BAYAN, THE MOTHER BOOK OF THE BÁBÍ DISPENSATION, IS ESSENTIALLY A DISCOURSE ON A MESSIANIC FIGURE,EVEN GREATER THAN HIMSELF, THAT THE BÁB REFERS TO AS “HE WHOM GOD SHALL MAKE MANIFEST”.
THE BÁB ALWAYS DISCUSSES HIS OWN REVELATION AND LAWS IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS PROMISED FIGURE. THE ESSENCE AND PURPOSE OF THE BÁB’S OWN MISSION, AS HE ALWAYS STRESSED, WAS TO PREPARE THE PEOPLE FOR THE ADVENT OF HIM.
HE ASKS HIS FOLLOWERS TO INDEPENDENTLY INVESTIGATE AND LOOK FOR THE PROMISED ONE, AND RECOGNIZE HIM OUT OF HIS OWN INTRINSIC REALITY, WORKS AND ATTRIBUTES, AND NOT DUE TO ANY REASONS EXTERNAL TO HIM. HE EVEN WARNS THEM NOT TO BE DEPRIVED OF THE PROMISED ONE BY ARGUING AGAINST HIM FROM THE WORKS OF THE BÁB, THE SAME WAY THE FOLLOWERS OF THE PREVIOUS RELIGIONS OPPOSED THE NEXT PROPHET WHILE CITING THEIR HOLY SCRIPTURES.
Furthermore, the Báb speaks of the imminence of the advent of the promised one and refers to the time of his advent as year nine and nineteen … In most of his prominent writings, the Báb alluded to a Promised One, most commonly referred to as “He whom God shall make manifest”, and that he himself was “but a ring upon the hand of Him Whom God shall make manifest.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1bism)
KALKI: Kalki, also called Kalkin, is the prophesied tenth and final incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. According to Vaishnava cosmology, Kalki is destined to appear at the end of the Kali Yuga, the last of the four ages in the cycle of existence (Krita). His arrival will mark the end of the Kali Yuga and herald the beginning of the Satya Yuga, the most virtuous age, before the ultimate dissolution of the universe…
Kalki is depicted as the avatar who will rejuvenate existence by ending the darkest period of adharma (unrighteousness) and restoring dharma (righteousness). He is described as riding a white horse named Devadatta and wielding a fiery sword… …The name Kalki is derived from Kal, which means “time”. Avatar means “descent”, and refers to a descent of the divine into the material realm of human existence… According to Donald Lopez – a professor of Buddhist Studies, Kalki is predicted to start the new cycle of perfect era where “Buddhism will flourish, people will live long, happy lives and righteousness will reign supreme”…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalki
DRUZE: Those who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and syncretic religion whose main tenets assert the unity of God, reincarnation, and the eternity of the soul. Although the Druze faith developed from Isma’ilism, Druze do not identify as Muslims. Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad is considered the founder of the Druze and the primary author of the Druze manuscripts. HE PROCLAIMED THAT GOD HAD BECOME HUMAN AND TAKEN THE FORM OF MAN.Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah is an important figure in the Druze faith whose eponymous founder ad-Darazi proclaimed him as the incarnation of God in 1018. The Druze believe that al-Hākim will return at the end of times to judge the world and establish his kingdom, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze
Saoshyantis an Avestan-language term that literally means “ONE WHO BRINGS BENEFIT”, and which is used in several different ways in Zoroastrian scripture and tradition. In particular, the expression is the proper name of the Saoshyant, AN ESCHATOLOGICAL SAVIOUR FIGURE WHO BRINGS ABOUT THE FINAL RENOVATION OF THE WORLD IN WHICH EVIL IS FINALLY DESTROYED….
The events of the final renovation are described in the Bundahishn: In the final battle with evil, the yazatas Airyaman and Atar will “melt the metal in the hills and mountains, and it will be upon the earth like a river” but the righteouswill not be harmed. Eventually, Ahura Mazda will triumph, and his agent Saoshyant will resurrect the dead, whose bodies will be restored to eternal perfection, and whose souls will be cleansed and reunited with God. Time will then end, and ashaand immortality will thereafter be everlasting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saoshyant
BUDDHISM: Maitreya(Sanskrit) or Metteyya (Pali), is a bodhisattva who is regarded as the future Buddha of this world in all schools of Buddhism, prophesied to become Maitreya Buddha or Metteyya Buddha. In some Buddhist literature, such as the Amitabha Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, he is also referred to as Ajitā (INVINCIBLE, UNCONQUERABLE).
In Tibetan Buddhism he is known as the “LORD OF LOVE” OR THE “NOBLE LOVING ONE” … Maitreya’s teachings will be focused around re-establishing the Buddha’s Dharma on Earth. According to scriptures … The arrival of Maitreya is prophesied to occur during an era of decline when the teachings of Gautama Buddha have been disregarded or largely forgotten. The name Maitreyais derived from the Sanskrit word maitrī “friendship”, which is in turn derived from the noun mitra, signifying “friend”…
Many Buddhists throughout history have sought to develop the necessary merit to meet Maitreya on Earth during the life of his final Buddhahood… One modern example of such a sect is Yiguandao (Eternal Way), a 19th century salvationist religion… YIGUANDAO CLAIMS THAT DURING THE END TIMES, MAITREYA WILL INCARNATE ON EARTH TO SAVE HUMANITY.
Maitreya appears as a similar figure in another popular salvation religion, Xiantiandao (lit. ‘Way of Former Heaven’) … Some Theosophists, like C. W. Leadbeater, held that Maitreya previously reincarnated as Christ.
In the early 20th century, leading Theosophists became convinced that a return of Maitreya as a “World Teacher” was imminent. In Theosophy, Maitreyaor Lord Maitreya is an advanced spiritual entity and high-ranking member of a reputed hidden spiritual hierarchy, the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom. … Maitreya is said to hold the “Office of the World Teacher”. Theosophical texts posit that the purpose of this Office is to facilitate the transfer of knowledge about the true constitution and workings of Existence to humankind….
IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY, PROMINENT THEOSOPHISTS BELIEVED A REAPPEARANCE OF MAITREYA WAS IMMINENT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya_(Theosophy)#:~:text=Maitreya%20(Theosophy)%20%2D%20Wikipedia
According to Prophet (Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the Prophet of the Church Universal and Triumphant, the largest Ascended Master Teachings religion), Jesus became World Teacher … on January 1, 1956, succeeding Maitreya, who took the Office of “Planetary Buddha” and “Cosmic Christ”. This belief is not accepted by adherents of traditional Theosophy and the followers of Alice A. Bailey and Benjamin Creme; they believe that the Master Jesus is still the Chohan of the Sixth Ray and that Maitreya is still the World Teacher…
Li Hong (Taoist eschatology)
Li Hong(Chinese) is a soteriological figure in religious Daoist prophecies wherein he appears at the end of the world cycle to rescue the chosen people, who would be distinguished by certain talismans, practices, and virtues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Hong_(Taoist_eschatology)

THE MESSIAH WAS PROMISED FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD

From the foregoing we have seen that all religions both ancient and modern believe in the concept of the messiah. We have seen what some of these religious sects believe about the Hidden Messiah. It is obvious that they are all referring to One and the same Personality in their various viewpoints based on the level of truth revealed to them in their respective generations as we saw in Hebrews 1:1. God was giving out the truth little by little pending the time of the end when everything will be made clear.

This one MAN the whole creation is waiting for must be the greatest; the generation that witnesses His manifestation must be a privileged generation and whoever that will be privileged to recognize, believe and get acquainted with Him when He appears must be amongst the most privileged of all men.
Let us therefore, go to the beginning and know what it has to say about this Messiah. Follow me to the First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Platt
¹God said to Adam, “I have ordained on this earth days and years, and you and your descendants shall live and walk in them, until the days and years are fulfilled; when I shall send the Word that created you, and against which you have transgressed, the Word that made you come out of the garden, and that raised you when you were fallen. ²Yes, the Word that will again save you when the five and a half days are fulfilled.”
³But when Adam heard these words from God, and of the great five and a half days, he did not understand the meaning of them. ⁴For Adam was thinking there would be only five and a half days for him until the end of the world. ⁵And Adam cried and prayed to God to explain it to him. ⁶Then God in his mercy for Adam who was made after His own image and likeness, explained to him, that these were 5,000 and 500 years; and how One would then come and save him and his descendants. First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Platt Chapter 3:1-6.
The Lord God ordained on this earth days and years. Note it. God Himself ordained time on earth. Whether you call it second, minute, hour, day, week, month, etc. They are all measures of time. It takes the Timeless to invent time. That is why it cannot be credited to any individual. God ordained it for He works with time.
He says I have ordained on this earth days and years and Adam and his descendants shall live and walk in them, until the days and years are fulfilled. When the years are fulfilled, He, God shall send the Word that created Adam, the WORD that was in the beginning, that was with God and was God – Christ the Messiah the Word that made Adamto come out of the garden of Eden, Yes, it is the same Word that will again save Adam and his descendants after five and a half days are fulfilled.
Adam thought it was meant to be literal days of 24 hours but a day in the sight of God is like a thousand years according to scripture. Therefore, God in his mercy for Adam who was made after His own image and likeness, explained to him, that these were 5,000 and 500 years. GOD THEN TOLD ADAM HOW ONE, ONE, ONE PERSON WOULD THEN COME AND SAVE HIM AND HIS DESCENDANTS AFTER 5,500 YEARS ARE PAST.
Who could this ONE GREAT PERSON IDENTIFIED AS THE WORD, THE WORD THAT CREATED THE WORLD WHOSE APPEARANCE IS FORETOLD FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD? THE WORD THAT HAS BEEN COMING TO THE PROPHETS LITTLE BY LITTLE WILL NOW COME AND LIVE AMONG MEN.
¹Then Adam said to God: “O Lord, take You my soul, and let me not see this gloom any more; or remove me to some place where there is no darkness.” ²But God the Lord said to Adam, “Indeed I say to you, this darkness will pass from you, every day I have determined for you, until the fulfillment of My covenant; when I will save you and bring you back again into the garden, into the house of light you long for, in which there is no darkness. I will bring you to it — in the kingdom of heaven.”
³Again said God to Adam, “All this misery that you have been made to take on yourself because of your transgression, will not free you from the hand of Satan, and will not save you. ⁴But I will. When I shall come down from heaven, and shall become flesh of your descendants, and take on Myself the infirmity from which you suffer, then the darkness that covered you in this cave shall cover Me in the grave, when I am in the flesh of your descendants. ⁵And I, who am without years, shall be subject to the reckoning of years, of times, of months, and of days, and I shall be reckoned as one of the sons of men, in order to save you.” ⁶And God ceased to commune with Adam. First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Platt Chapter 14:1-6
BUT I WILL. WHEN I (THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH) SHALL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, AND SHALL BECOME FLESH OF YOUR DESCENDANTS, SHALL BECOME A HUMAN BEING LIKE ONE OF YOUR SONS ADAM, THAT IS THE (PROMISED) SON OF (ADAM) MAN. OR THE SON OF MAN. ADAM MEANS MAN.THE WORD HAS BECOME FLESH TO TAKE THE INFIRMITY FROM WHICH ADAM SUFFERS, THEN THE DARKNESS THAT COVERED YOU IN THIS CAVE SHALL COVER ME IN THE GRAVE, WHEN I AM IN THE FLESH OF YOUR DESCENDANTS.
THE ALMIGHTY GOD HIDING IN THE FLESH OF A MAN, BEARING THE NAME OF THAT FLESH (MAN). THE FLESH IS LIKE A MASK OR VEIL HIDING HIM FROM THE WORLD. HE, WHO IS WITHOUT YEARS, SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE RECKONING OF YEARS, OF TIMES, OF MONTHS, AND OF DAYS, AND SHALL BE RECKONED AS ONE OF THE SONS OF MEN, IN ORDER TO SAVE. THE HIDDEN SAVIOUR! THE HIDDEN MESSIAH!! HIDDEN AMONG MEN SO THAT IT WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR MEN TO FIND HIM.
Isaiah the prophet said, VERILY THOU ART A GOD THAT HIDEST THYSELF, O GOD OF ISRAEL, THE SAVIOUR 45:15 KJV
He hides Himself in the flesh of a man. On the outside, you see the man, the mask but within, is the Deity. Just like a masquerade, every action of the masquerade is nothing but the action of he that is hiding inside the mask. The mask plus the man makes a masquerade. The mask can do nothing on its own but whatever the man inside the mask does reflects or is transmitted through the mask for the mask and the man have become one (the masquerade)
¹After these things the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him: — ²“O Adam, as to the fruit on the Tree of Life that you have asked for, I will not give it to you now, but only when the 5500 years are fulfilled. At that time, I will give you fruit from the Tree of Life, and you will eat, and live forever, you, and Eve, and your righteous descendants. First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Platt Chapter 38:1-2
God works with time and the time He set must be fulfilled, 5500 years must be fulfilled before Adam and his descendants can be give access to the Tree of Life. That will be when the end of the world shall come, then will He save Adam’s soul and the souls of all the righteous. Remember He says after, not before or exactly that year. No. it is after 5,500 years.
¹Then came the Word of God to Adam, and said to him: — ²“O Adam, as to what you said, ‘Bring me into a land where there is rest,’ it is not another land than this, but it is the kingdom of heaven where alone there is rest. ³But you can not make your entrance into it at present; but only after your judgment is past and fulfilled. ⁴Then will I make you go up into the kingdom of heaven, you and your righteous descendants; and I will give you and them the rest you ask for at present.
⁵And if you said, ‘Give me of the Water of Life that I may drink and live’ — it cannot be this day, but on the day that I shall descend into hell, and break the gates of brass, and bruise in pieces the kingdoms of iron. ⁶Then will I in mercy save your soul and the souls of the righteous, to give them rest in My garden. And that shall be when the end of the world is come. First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Platt Chapter 42:1-6
Watch the program. It cannot be this day, but first, I shall descend into hell, and break the gates of brass, and bruise in pieces the kingdoms of iron. Secondly, then will I in mercy save your soul and the souls of the righteous, to give them rest in My garden but that shall be when the end of the world has come.
Descending into hell to break the gates of brass and bruise in pieces the kingdom of iron is like the preliminary or prelude; to guarantee the restoration. If you want to buy something of great value, you don’t wait until the very day you intend to use it. What if you wait until the last minute and you meet nil stock. So, you have to make advance payment or at least some deposit to guarantee the purchase. The scripture further confirmed this thus:
But first must he suffer many things and be rejected of this generation. Luke 17:25 KJV
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. ²⁶And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Daniel 9:25-26 KJV
Messiah the Prince will be cut off, the Anointed One will be killed, his kingdom still unrealized (LB). That was God’s purpose. But He will live again, then He will have multitude of children and fulfill his course of taking Adam and the righteous back to the Tree of Life.
But it was the Lord’s good plan to bruise him and fill him with grief. However, when his soul has been made an offering for sin, then he shall have a multitude of children, many heirs. He shall live again,and God’s program shall prosper in his hands 53:10 LB
THEN, AT THAT TIME HE SHALL HAVE A MULTITUDE OF CHILDREN, MANY HEIRS FOR HE SHALL LIVE AGAIN. CAN HE HAVE CHILDREN WITHOUT MARRYING A WIFE?
Goodnews translation says that He will see His descendants: The Lord says, “It was my will that he should suffer; his death was a sacrifice to bring forgiveness. And so, he will see his descendants; he will live a long life, and through him my purpose will succeed.

SIX THOUSAND YEARS IS APPOINTED UNTO MAN BEFORE THE JUDGEMENT

God works with time. There is appointed time for everything under heaven so says the Preacher in Ecclesiastics. Every prophecy from God is tied to time. Now that we have seen that the entire human race irrespective of religion, language, race, etc is waiting for The Messiah right from the generation of Adam. Let us see what the scripture says further about the timing.

From day one God told Adam that it will be after five thousand, five hundred years (5,500). So, this hidden Messiah cannot manifest before the number of years allotted is fulfilled. Therefore, all other Messiahs, Christs, Prophets, Apostles, etc. who appeared before the appointed time are forerunners. They pointed their people to the Messiah. This is why all the prophets of old spoke about His appearance and enjoined their people to believe in HIM if they are privileged to be there when He arrives the scene.
Moses told the Israelites, “This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, ‘The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear. Act 7:37
So, Moses pointed them to the future Messiah. The Lord Jesus Christ in His own day said,
¹²I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. ¹³Howbeit 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 comeJohn 16:12-13 KJV.
Jesus likewise pointed everyone to the future Messiah whom He called HE, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH WHO ALONE HAS THE AUTHORIZATION TO REVEAL ALL THINGS – THE HIDDEN REVEALER.
Rav (Rabbi) Ketina says: Six thousand years is the duration of the world, and it is in ruins for one thousand years. The duration of the period during which the world is in ruins is derived from a verse, as it is stated: “And the Lord alone shall be exalted on that day” (Isaiah 2:11), and the day of God lasts one thousand years.
Abaye says: It is in ruins for two thousand years, as it is stated: “After two days He will revive us; in the third day He will revive us, and we shall live in His presence” (Hosea 6:2).
It is taught in a Baraita in accordance with the opinion of Rav Ketina: Just as the Sabbatical Year abrogates debts once in seven years, so too, the world abrogates its typical existence for one thousand years in every seven thousand years, as it is stated: “And the Lord alone shall be exalted on that day,” and it states: “A psalm, a song for the Shabbat day” (Psalms 92:1), meaning a day, i.e., one thousand years, that is entirely Shabbat. And it says in explanation of the equation between one day and one thousand years: “For a thousand years in Your eyes are but like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night” (Psalms 90:4)
The school of Eliyahu taught: SIX THOUSAND YEARS IS THE DURATION OF THE WORLD. TWO THOUSAND OF THE SIX THOUSAND YEARS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY CHAOS; TWO THOUSAND YEARS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY TORAH, FROM THE ERA OF THE PATRIARCHS UNTIL THE END OF THE MISHNAIC PERIOD; AND TWO THOUSAND YEARS ARE THE PERIOD OF THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH. https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.97a. verses 12-14
Tim Warner in his writing says, The 120 Jubilee Year Calendar According to Scripturein agreement to above states that God allotted a total one hundred and twenty years of Jubilees (50) years for Man before God’s restoration according to Genesis Chapter 6:3 and I quote.
Moses recorded a very curious statement by God in Genesis 6:3. “And the LORD said, ‘My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years’.” The period of 120 years in this passage has usually been interpreted one of two ways.
Many suppose that God was limiting the lifespans of humans to 120 years each. Yet, after the flood many people lived to well beyond this age. Human lifespans did decline over time, but not until many years after the flood. And they did not settle to around 120, but to around70-80.
⁹Others think God was speaking of the duration of time until He would destroy the earth with a flood. Yet, the context indicates that God made this statement after Noah reached 500 years old.¹⁰It was therefore less than 100 years until the flood which came in Noah’s 600th year.
¹¹Some commentators have suggested that God originally designated 120 years but shortened it because of man’s wickedness.¹²Others claim that the narrative is out of sequence, God making this statement before the events recorded in the previous chapter.¹³Yet, none of these explanations seem adequate or natural. Instead, a third solution solves the difficulty and presents us with a golden nugget.
In the Hebrew text, “man” is singular and has the definite article. The Hebrew literally reads, “My Spirit shall not remain among the Adam forever.” Adam was both the name of the first man and also the whole human race, the Hebrew word “Adam” meaning “man.”
This passage almost certainly indicates that the Spirit’s struggle with the whole human race is limited to 120 years. This cannot refer to the flood, because the human race survived the flood. God’s Spirit still struggles with the human race after the flood. And the flood occurred in less than 100 years.
Obviously, then, the period of 120 years cannot refer to normal years. When we calculate the genealogies in Genesis 5 using this 50-year Jubilee calendar, we discover that God made the statement, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, … yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years,” on the 31st Jubilee year, the year 1550 from creation! Note: 120 times 50 years equals 6,000 years.
God made this statement in Noah’s 500th year. As we will prove in the next article, Noah was born in 1051.5AM, making his 500th year 1550.5AM. ¹⁴This is precisely the middle of the 31st Jubilee year from creation. Thus, when God said “yet his days shall be 120 years” it is no stretch to suppose that He meant these (Jubilee) years which only occur every 50 regular years. If the statement limiting God’s struggle with mankind to 120 years refers to Jubilee years, it becomes obvious that the cycle of Jubilee years must be counted from the year of creation, when God’s struggle with Adam and his race began. © 4windsfellowships.net
https://dl.icdst.org/pdfs/files3/12b823a8d476c6b222c89525bb35227a.pdf
Where we read in First Book of Adam and Eve said after five and a half day. That means towards the end of the sixth day.
¹God said to Adam, “I have ordained on this earth days and years, and you and your descendants shall live and walk in them, until the days and years are fulfilled; when I shall send the Word that created you, and against which you have transgressed, the Word that made you come out of the garden, and that raised you when you were fallen. ²Yes, the Word that will again save you when the five and a half days are fulfilled.” ³But when Adam heard these words from God, and of the great five and a half days, he did not understand the meaning of them.
⁴For Adam was thinking there would be only five and a half days for him until the end of the world. ⁵And Adam cried and prayed to God to explain it to him. ⁶Then God in his mercy for Adam who was made after His own image and likeness, explained to him, that these were 5,000 and 500 years; and how One would then come and save him and his descendants. First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Platt Chapter 3:1-6.
The Zohar goes on to describe in detail the events that will happen in those final years, the “birth pangs of the Messiah”, culminating in the coming of Mashiach and his subsequent kingship. The Zohar employs the famous notion that each day of Creation corresponds to a millennium of civilization. Civilization as we know it is meant to last for 6000 years. The Messianic Age must come before the end of the sixth millennium, ie. the cosmic “Sixth Day”, to usher in the final Cosmic Shabbat millennium
The Zohar was written by Moses De Leon, although some believe he merely redacted it from older texts, the bulk of which derive from the mystic insights of the Talmudic sage Shimon Bar Yochai. Now, this book deals with mostly metaphysical subjects, particularly as exegesis of the Torah. But in some places, it makes predictions.
If the above statement is true then, how many years have elapsed from that time till now? It then means that time is far spent. Adam and his descendants have exhausted their days and years. We are living in God’s own time; we are living in the Messianic era; in fact, the injury time as a matter of fact.

THE MESSIAH IS THE SON OF MAN

Let us proceed to the Book of Enoch for more insight about this end-time Messiah who is expected to appear any time between 5,500 and 6,000 years as we have established. Enoch was the seventh generation from Adam. The Book of Enoch Chapter 46

¹And there I saw One whose face looked ancient. His head was white like wool, and with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance of a man, and his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels. ²And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and where came from, and why he went with the Ancient One?
And he answered and said to me: ³“This is the son of Man who hath righteousness, with whom dwells righteousness, and who reveals all the treasures of that which is hidden, because the Lord of spirits hath chosen him, and whose lot has pre-eminence before the Lord of spirits in righteousness and is for ever. ⁴And this Son of Man whom you have seen shall raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats, and the strong from their thrones and shall loosen the reins of the strong, and break the teeth of the sinners.
Enoch saw One whose face looks ancient; His head was white like wool and with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance of a MAN but looks as gracious as one of the Holy Angels. This sight caught Enoch’s attention and out of curiosity he enquired about this Special MAN: about who He was, where He came from and why He was always with the Ancient One. Three questions at a stretch. The response was that THIS IS THE SON OF MAN WHO HAS RIGHTEOUSNESS, note it. In heaven, He is the One that has righteousness and HIM DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
So, He will be the only source of righteousness to the whole world. He is the One who reveals all the treasures of that which is hidden. Please note the word reveal. Somebody can have knowledge of something, but he is not empowered, chosen or authorized to reveal it.
In Revelation 10 verse 4 John heard a Voice and wanted to write it but he was charged to keep it secret because it was not meant for him to reveal.
(And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: ²and he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, ³and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. ⁴And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not)
Jesus told His disciples that He had so many things He would have told them, but it was not meant for that time, Jesus was not the one chosen to reveal it even though He knew it.
¹²I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. ¹³Howbeit 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 comeJohn 16:12-13 KJV
Daniel in his own time was asked to shut it up until the time of the end according to Daniel Chapter 12:4.
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increasedKJV
In other words, this Son of Man who has righteousness, in whom dwells righteousness who has been chosen to reveal all the hidden treasures is the One all religious sects are waiting for to manifest at the end time.
And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, one, who he was, and two, where he came from, and three, why he went with the Ancient One?
Three questions at a stretch, the first and third were answered but the second question (about where He is from) remained hidden. He is the Son of Man and the reason why He follows the Ancient One is because the Lord of spirits hath chosen him, and His lot has pre-eminence before the Lord of spirits in righteousness and is for ever. Above quote agrees with the vision of prophet Daniel as recorded in Daniel 7:13-14
¹³I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. ¹⁴And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
This Son of Man was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all people, all nations, all languages: the whole world should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His Kingdom shall not be destroyed. You see, this is why David asked, ‘who is this Son of Man that God should surrender everything there is to Him?” let us go a little further with the Book of Enoch Chapter 48:2-7
²And at that hour that Son of Man was named in the presence of the Lord of spirits”, And his name was brought before the Head of Days. ³Even before the sun and the signs were created, before the stars of heaven were made, His name was named before the Lord of spirits. ⁴He shall be a staff to the righteous and they shall steady themselves and not fall. And he shall be the light of the Gentiles, and the hope of those who are troubled of heart. ⁵All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before him, and will praise and bless and sing and celebrate the Lord of spirits.
⁶And for this reason he has been chosen and hidden in front of (kept safe by) Him, before the creation of the world and for evermore. ⁷And the wisdom of the Lord of spirits has revealed him to the holy and righteous; For he hath preserved the lot of the righteous, because they have hated and rejected this world of unrighteousness, and have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of spirits. For in his name they are saved, and according to his good pleasure and it is He who has regard to their life.
This Son of Man shall be THE LIGHT OF THE GENTILES, and the hope of those who are troubled of heart. All who dwell on earth shall fall down and worship before him and will praise and bless and sing and celebrate the Lord of spirits. This is the reason why He was chosen and hidden. The problem is the ability to recognize Him when He will be revealed.
Jesus as a forerunner also spoke about this Son of Man in Luke 17:30 saying, Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed
The same Book of Enoch Chapter 62 from verse 1
Thus the Lord commanded the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, and said: ‘Open your eyes and lift up your horns if you are able to recognize the Elect One.’
THIS IS A CHARGE FROM THE LORD HIMSELF TO ALL THE KINGS, THE MIGHTY AND THE EXALTED AND ALL WHO DWELL ON EARTH SAYING, OPEN YOUR EYES TO SEE IF YOU CAN RECOGNIZE HIM, THE ELECT ONE.
It is a charge from the Lord of the Spirits saying, Open your eyes! This is not a time of argument, no matter who you are. This might be your last opportunity because time is no more. He is about taking over the Throne of Glory to conclude the judgement on the world for He is the One designated for Judgement.
²And the Lord of spirits seated Him on the throne of His glory, and the spirit of righteousness was poured out on Him, and the word of His mouth slays all the sinners, and all the unrighteous are destroyed from in front of His face. ³And in that day all the kings and the mighty, and the exalted and those who hold the earth shall stand up and shall see and recognize that He sits on the throne of His glory, and that righteousness is judged before Him, and no lying word is spoken before Him. ⁴Then pain will come on them as on a woman in labor, and she has pain in giving birth when her child enters the mouth of the womb, and she has pain in childbirth. ⁵And one portion of them shall look at the other, and they shall be terrified, and they shall look downcast, and pain shall seize them, when they see that Son of Man sitting on the throne of His glory. ⁶And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth shall bless and glorify and exalt Him who rules over all, who was hidden. ⁷For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden, and the Most High preserved Him in the presence of His might, and revealed Him to the elect. ⁸And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown, and all the elect shall stand before Him on that day.
FOR FROM THE BEGINNING THE SON OF MAN WAS HIDDEN, AND THE MOST HIGH PRESERVED HIM IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS MIGHT AND REVEALED HIM TO THE ELECT. HE IS TO BE REVEALED TO THE ELECT AND NOT TO THE WORLD. THE WORLD WILL NOT RECOGNIZE HIM UNTIL WHEN HE SITS ON THE THRONE OF HIS GLORY BUT THEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE. THEY WILL SEEK FOR RESPITE, BUT IT WILL NOT BE GIVEN TO THEM.
Let us see some verses in Chapter 63
¹In those days shall the mighty and the kings who possess the earth beg Him to grant them a little respite from His angels of punishment to whom they were delivered, that they might fall down and worship before the Lord of spirits and confess their sins before Him.
⁴We have now learned that we should glorify and bless the Lord of kings and Him who is King over all kings.’ And they shall say: ‘Would that we had a respite to glorify and give thanks and confess our faith before His glory ⁶And now we long for a little respite but find it not. We are driven away and obtain it not: And light has vanished from before us, and darkness is our dwelling-place for ever and ever;
¹⁰Now they shall say to themselves: ‘Our souls are full of unrighteous gain, but what we have gained does not prevent us from descending from the midst of our worldly gain into the torment (burden) of Hell (Sheol). ¹¹And after that their faces shall be filled with darkness and shame before that Son of Man, and they shall be driven from His presence, and the sword shall abide before His face in their midst.

THE HIDDEN MESSIAH, THE SON OF MAN IS A COSMIC FIGURE

We have seen that all religious sects are expecting this One Hidden Messiah. They may have their various views and opinions about Him based on their respective understandings in their generation. Their view may be classified as based on myth or reality, but the concept speaks of One and the same Personality.

What can you say about the Wise Men that saw His Star and travelled all the way to worship the Messiah in Jerusalem? Are they not astrologers? I mean star gazers or those that study stars. Where were the Jews who are believed to have the true religion? What am I saying? The concept of THE HIDDEN MESSIAH precedes all religion. He is a cosmic figure. Even demons recognize Him more than the respected and exalted Rabbis of His day.
While the rabbis saw Him and called Beelzebub, a man possessed by demons (legion) recognized Him and surrendered to Him
³³And in the synagogue, there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, ³⁴saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God. Luke 4:33-34 KJV
I know who you are, you are the Holy One of God. Is the statement true or false? If somebody heard it, believed it won’t the person be saved? But the exalted religious Rabbis said that Jesus had a Devil. A similar thing happened with Saint Paul. A young maid possessed with an evil spirit followed Paul confirming his message to the people.
¹⁶And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: ¹⁷the same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, these men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvationActs 16:16-18 KJV
So, disabuse your mind of whatever you think about any person or group as far as this Great Personality, THE HIDDEN MESSIAH is concerned.
Follow me as we consider some excerpts from the Book He That Comethby Sigmund Mowinckel (1951); Translated by G. W. ANDERSON.
Sigmund Mowinckel (1884–1965), widely regarded as one of the most important biblical scholars of the twentieth century, was professor of Old Testament at the University of Oslo, Norway.
The first thing to be said of the Son of Man is that he is an eschatological figure. He has not yet appeared (remember the book was published in 1951); but in the last times he will be revealed. The presupposition of the allegorical use which Daniel made of the figure is that the coming of the Son of Man means the end of the heathen human empires of this aeon, and the dawn of the kingdom of God. In the Similitudes of Enoch, the eschatological transformation is the sole theme, which is presented in constantly changing figures. With this transformation the Son of Man is associated.
Enoch speaks of the elect righteous ones, to whom the Son of Man will one day appear, who form the congregation which will then appear, when the sinners have been punished and extirpated from the earth. These elect ones are those “whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits’. The reference is clearly to the eschatological Israel, which will appear purified and glorified in the new aeon. To them the Righteous One will appear.
This eschatological activity is his true task. Before the world was created, the Lord of Spirits also created, chose, and preserved him in order that by him all who dwell on earth should one day fall down before God, and worship, praise, and extol the Lord of Spirits (i En. xlviii, 5). God will be acknowledged as God; His name will be hallowed throughout the world; to this end the Son of Man is who he is.
He fulfils this purpose in two ways: by saving the righteous, and by condemning and destroying the wicked, who oppose God’s purpose and oppress the righteous 358
The whole question of the Son of Man, his nature, his pre-existence, and his coming, is a divine secret, which will be revealed only in its own time, just as one can neither seek out nor know what is in the deep of the sea, even so can no one upon earth cansee my servant… but in the time of his day’ (2 Esdras xiii, 52) 386
THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT ABOUT THE SON OF MAN IS THAT HE WILL COME FORTH FROM THE PLACE WHERE HE IS SAFELY KEPT BESIDE THE LORD OF SPIRITS AND APPEAR IN THE SIGHT OF MEN. IT IS THE EPIPHANY OR REVELATION OF THE SON OF MAN WHICH ABSORBS THE INTEREST OF THE APOCALYPTISTS, WHICH THEY BEHOLD IN VISION AFTER VISION, FOR WHICH THEY LONG AND PRAY.
The message that it is at hand is what they proclaim to the righteous and elect ones who long for it. When the time is at hand, ‘the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the righteous.
The change of the times is inaugurated when ‘that Son of Man has appeared’. ‘My servant the Messiah shall be revealed; when all is accomplished that was to come to pass in those parts’, ‘after the signs have come, of which thou was told before, ‘the Messiah shall then begin to be revealed ‘, the principate of My Messiah will be revealed ‘ 388
Conceptions of a divine PRIMORDIAL MANwere widespread in the ancient east. Apparently, there is a historical connection between the varying figures of this type, which seem all to be derived, directly or indirectly, from Iranian or Indo-Iranian myths.
We must note, however, that an essential distinction must be made between the idea of the Primordial Man and that of the first created man (Adam). The idea of the Primordial Man is really a cosmological idea and arose from an attempt to explain the origin of the world or the cosmos.
The Primordial Man is the cosmos itself, thought of in human form, the macrocosm conceived of in terms of the microcosm. From this cosmological Primordial Man the world is thought to have arisen in various ways… He may also be said to be incarnated in later heroes and saviours. Accordingly, in Iranian mythology the Primordial Man was also connected with eschatology.
When the new world comes, it is the Primordial Man who returns…In Indian religious speculation, the Primordial Man is connected with the teaching about ages … AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH NEW AGE, IT IS THE PRIMORDIAL MAN OR GOD-MAN (PURUSHA), WHO IS INCARNATED IN A NEW FIGURE. 422/423
He is a divine, heavenly, pre-existent being, who came into existence before all creation, the ‘son of the supreme god, or identified with one of the high gods. He has divine qualities and characteristics, and is endued with the divine radiance or glory.
He is called Man, the One like a man, Anthropos, the Primordial Man, Adam, Adamus, Adamanus, Anosh, Enosh, Mortal Immortality, etc.
He is in the closest relationship to creation. The cosmos and mankind came into existence through his death, his sacrifice, his voluntary descent, or his moral fall into the world of matter. He is, in fact, originally a cosmogonic idea, the mystical, speculative expression of the cosmos itself, the macrocosm regarded as a microcosm in human form.
He is often thought of as king of paradise, as ruler in the world beyond, the other land, which can be thought of as the place where departed or unborn souls are.
He is the Soul, the Primordial Soul, which includes all the individual souls, the anima generality to which, or into which, the souls of the dead return.
As Primordial Man he is also the typical man, the prototype and pattern, the ideal man, and is, therefore, sometimes called ‘the right or righteous man’. He is thought of as the first, perfect, godly one, as homo religiosus, the first adherent and preacher of the true religion,
In particular, he is the typical sage, the wise man of primordial time, possessing all secrets, the source and mediator of all understanding. Among the Mandeans he is known as the Understanding of Life’.
His destiny is a type of the destiny of mankind and of the individual man or soul. His imprisonment in the material, and his redemption from it are the symbol and the realization of the imprisonment and redemption of the individual man. To put it in the naive language of myth: there come to him in his kingdom of light the other perfect’ and ‘elect’ ones, who, through his liberation and his work of redemption, have been helped to gain their freedom from matter and evil.
Sometimes it is said that the Most High God has created him for conflict with evil, darkness, and the devil, and to liberate the light from captivity to darkness. He belongs to the hidden world beyond; and therefore, he is himself hidden, as it is said of the Mandean Adakas (the hidden Adam). But one day he appears, revealing himself in his bright glory, as the Mandean Envoy’.
Thereby he becomes a redeemer and saviour, partly because his own redemption is an act of creative symbolism, anticipating and having as its consequence the redemption of the other souls, and partly because he is regarded as the saviour who acts and intervenes. The understanding which he conveys is the means of redemption from matter and evil.
Both as the typical and ideal man and as redeemer, he is incarnated in the godly ones or helpers’ of later times. It is his soul or spirit which is also in the other helpers and righteous ones, those of whom it is most natural to think when reference is made to those who ascend to his world of light. He gathers to himself a people in the other world, the redeemed righteous ones, or, in the Mandean phrase, the righteous ones who have been translated.
As a cosmogonic potency, he is more frequently connected with the thought of recurring ages. He reappears at the beginning of the era of the new world. As redeemer he is, in particular, the helper of the godly in the catastrophe brought about by the destruction of the old world and the genesis of the new, or by the transition to the pure spiritual existence in the paradise of light.
As a heavenly being, the Primordial Man. reveals himself in the clouds.
In several contexts he is connected with the resurrection of both Gayomart and Adam it is explicitly stated that they will be the first to rise again.
For the purposes of comparison, we add a brief summary of the most important features in the figure of the SON OF MAN.
He is divine by nature., arrayed in the glory of the deity, in appearance like the angels (pp. 373ff.). In some circles he may also have been called ‘Son of the Most High God.
He is a heavenly being, who dwells on high with the Lord of Spirits, where the elect righteous ones have their dwellings.
He is NOT merely an apotheosized man, who has been taken up to heaven, like Enoch or Elijah, or who has become one with the deity in mystical cultic experiences, like the king-god of the ancient east. He has always belonged to the heavenly plane. He was pre-existent.
In spite of this he is called ‘THE MAN’ (the Son of Man), the typical man, the prototype of mankind. Thus, he is a divine being in human form, a ‘Man with a divine nature.
It seems that he is in some way connected with creation. It is strongly emphasized that he came into existence before the creation of the world, and in order to fulfil God’s purpose for creation; and he will in the end be Lord over creation.
He is in some way connected with the conception of paradise and was at one time thought of as king of paradise.
The name ‘THE MAN’ seems to have implied that he was the ideal pattern of mankind … He is called ‘THE RIGHTEOUS ONE’ and ‘THE ELECT ONE’, which seems to show that he was, or at one time had been, regarded as the prototype of the righteous, elect.
As such, he is even now the head of a heavenly community of the departed of earlier times, the translated patriarchs and godly men, the righteous elect, who surround him in heaven, and have their dwellings with the Lord of Spirits.
It seems, too, that at one stage, at least, of the history of the idea, there was a mystic connexion between the Son of Man and the spirits of the righteous departed, so that they were thought of as identical with him in some way.
His most characteristic qualities are wisdom and understanding.
His connexion with the last times is much clearer than it was at first. He is an eschatological figure and will be the instrument in the re-establishment of creation’s original state of perfection, which is the content of eschatology.
He is connected with the dualistic view of the world and of history, with the conception of this aeon and the coming aeon, and with the cosmic and universalistic eschatology, not with the national Messianic hope. He came into being and has been chosen and preserved for the final conflict against Satan and the evil powers, over which he will be victorious.
He is now hidden with the Lord of Spirits; but one day he will be revealed, when the hour of his day’ has come. Then he will take his seat on his, or God’s, throne of glory.
He will come with the clouds of heaven; but it is also said that he will rise up from the sea.
He seems to have had some connexion with the resurrection 426-430.
The same is true of the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch. The eschatological deliverer, who is described there, has the cosmic, supernatural features of the Son of Man; but he is called My Messiah/My servant, Messiah.
Philo of Alexandria, too, seems to have knowledge of a conception of the Messiah which has been in a measure influenced by the idea of the Son of Man. This is the most natural explanation of the passage in which he refers to the Messiah as ‘a man … who will triumph over the heathen. Pg 360

THE MESSIAH – THE SON OF MAN IS ALMIGHTY GOD IN HUMAN FORM

Let us read some excerpts from The Original Message To The Black Man Institute of Islamic – African Studies International (1965)

²You must forget about ever seeing the return of Jesus, Who was here 2,000 years ago. Set your heart onseeing the One that He prophesied would come at the end of the present world’s time (the while race’s time).³He is called the “Son of Man,” the “Christ,” the “Comforter.” You are really foolish to be looking to see the return of the Prophet Jesus.
It is the same as looking for the return of Abraham, Moses and Muhammad. All of these prophets prophesied the coming of Allah or one with equal power, under many names.
You must remember that Jesus could not have been referring to Himself as returning to the people in the last days. He prophesied of another’s coming who was much greater than He. Jesus even acknowledged that He did not know when the hour would come in these words; “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” (Matt. 24:36)…
Chapter 7 of the same book from verse 3 says:
³The whole world has been and is looking for the coming of God. Several places in both the Bible and the Holy Qur-an refer to the coming of Allah (God). “THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN.” REFERRING TO GOD AS THE SON OF MAN SHOULD REMOVE ALL DOUBTS AS TO HIS BEING ANYTHING OTHER THAN A MAN.
⁴The Bible mentions Him as the Son of Man and also mentions Him as not being a man but a spirit. On one side He is made clear and on the other He is made a mystery. Representation such as this causes confusion in understanding. We are blind to the knowledge of God when we make Him a mystery and unreal.
⁵Anyone so blind to the reality of God is the servant of the devil, until he or she sees God as a reality. Thousands of years the devil has been blinding man to God’s reality, and that is the reason why God had to come in person (and He has), to clear us of such ignorance and blindness to the knowledge of Him.
⁶THEREFORE, WE HAVE THE “COMING OF ALLAH (GOD).” HE IS REFERRED TO AS THE SON OF MAN BECAUSE, FIRST, HE IS THE SON OF MAN AND GOTTEN FOR A SPECIAL PURPOSE, WHICH IS TO RETURN THE LOST BACK TO THEIR OWN AND TO PUNISH AND DESTROY THE WICKED FOR THEIR DESTRUCTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS, THAT THE RIGHTEOUS MAY LIVE IN PEACE AND DO THE WILL OF THE GOD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, FREE FROM TROUBLE AND INTERFERENCE. SECOND, HE MUST BE A MAN TO DEAL WITH MAN, AND WE CANNOT RECEIVE OR RESPECT OTHER THAN MAN.
⁷SINCE HIS WORK IS TO DESTROY THE WICKED. HE MUST REMAIN HIDDEN FROM THE EYES OF THE WORLD UNTIL THE TIME IS RIPE (THE END), FOR THE TWO (GOD AND DEVIL) CANNOT RULE TOGETHER.
⁸THE SON OF MAN (ALLAH) MUST WAIT UNTIL HIS TIME, AFTER THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. (II Thessalonians 2:8-9; Holy Our-an 7:14-18). And another place in the Holy Qur’an describes them as the people with the blue eyes. Holy Qur’an 20:102).
⁹Third, the reality of God is as clear as the reality of the devil, but we did not know it until His coming to judge the world. For instance, if we take God for something other than a man (not the man devil), we cannot prove it. If we believe that He Is a spirit and not a man, then we can never expect to have any knowledge of Him except by the sense of feel.
¹⁰We cannot see a spirit; therefore, the teachings of His coming as a spirit would be false. The spirit of life is and has been with us all of our lives. GOD IS IN PERSON AMONG US TODAY. HE IS A MAN, HE IS IN HIS TIME. GOD SEES, HEARS, KNOWS, WILLS, ACTS AND IS A PERSON (MAN).
We continue to Chapter 9 from verse 1
HERE IN THE PLAINEST WORDS IS THE SON OF MAN ON THE JUDGMENT DAY. WE ARE NOT TOLD BY EITHER MOSES OR JESUS TO LOOK FOR GOD ON JUDGMENT DAY TO BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN MAN. SPIRITS AND SPOOKS CANNOT BE THE JUDGE OF MAN’S AFFAIRS. MAN IS MATERIAL, OF THE EARTH. HOW LONG WILL YOU BE IGNORANT OF THE REALITY OF GOD? YOU ARE POISONED BY THE DEVIL’S TOUCH. WHY ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A GOD THAT IS NOT FLESH AND BLOOD AS YOU ARE?
Spirits can only be found in another being like yourself. What pleasure would you have in an invisible world? And on the other hand what pleasure would spirits have in this material universe of ours? Your very nature is against your being anything other than a human being.
²THESE ARE THE DAYS OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE MENTALLY DEAD SO-CALLED NEGROES. THE SON OF MAN IS HERE. HIS COMING HAS BEEN FULFILLED. HE SEEKS THAT WHICH WAS LOST (THE SO-CALLED NEGROES). MANY NOW ARE RECEIVING HIS NAME, AND THAT NAME ALONE WILL SAVE YOU.
The wicked nations of the earth are sorry and angry to see the Son of Man set up a government of justice and peace over this, their wicked world. They see signs in the heavens (sky) of great power to execute judgment on the world of the wicked, and they mourn. ³We must have a new ruler and a new government, where the people can enjoy freedom, justice, and equality.
LET THE SO-CALLED NEGROES REJOICE FOR ALLAH HAS PREPARED FOR THEM WHAT THE EYE HAS NOT SEEN, THE EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND THE HEART HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO CONCEIVE. THE ENEMY KNOWS THIS TO BE TRUE AND IS NOW DOING EVERYTHING TO PREVENT THE SO-CALLED NEGROES FROM SEEING THE HEREAFTER. The Original Message To The Black Man Institute of Islamic – African Studies International(1965)

THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD WHEN THE MESSIAH – THE SON OF MAN SHALL BE REVEALED

Jesus was specific about how the world will look like at the time the Son of Man shall be revealed. Jesus Himself confirmed that the Messiah will return. He will return as THE SON OF MAN. He also gave a clear description of what the world affairs will look like when He shall return. He likened it to the days of Noah and the days of Lot. According to Luke chapter 17 from verse 26 to 30.

²⁶“When I return the world will be as indifferent to the things of God as the people were in Noah’s day. ²⁷They ate and drank and married—everything just as usual right up to the day when Noah went into the ark and the Flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸“And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot: people went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building— ²⁹until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and brimstone rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the hour of my return. (LB)
²⁶And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. ²⁷They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. ²⁸Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; ²⁹but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.(KJV)
²⁶And [just] as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the time of the Son of Man. ²⁷[People] ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, right up to the day when Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸So also [it was the same] as it was in the days of Lot. [People] ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹But on the [very] day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed [them] all. ³⁰That is the way it will be on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. (AMPC)
Don’t we know what characterized the days of Noah? Don’t we know what characterized the days Lot? Is there any difference between their days and our own day today? Let us see it again. Genesis chapter 6 from verse 1 Living Bible translation.
^1-2Now a population explosion took place upon the earth. It was at this time that beings from the spirit world looked upon the beautiful earth women and took any they desired to be their wives. ³Then Jehovah said, “My Spirit must not forever be disgraced in man, wholly evil as he is. I will give him 120 years to mend his ways.”
NOW A POPULATION EXPLOSION TOOK PLACE UPON THE EARTH. Don’t we have population explosion today? Of course, all over the world, overpopulation is the outcry.
⁴In those days, and even afterwards, when the evil beings from the spirit world were sexually involved with human women, their children became giants, of whom so many legends are told. ⁵When the Lord God saw the extent of human wickedness, and that the trend and direction of men’s lives were only towards evil, ⁶he was sorry he had made them. It broke his heart. ⁷And he said, “I will blot out from the face of the earth all mankind that I created. Yes, and the animals too, and the reptiles and the birds. For I am sorry I made them.”
THE LORD GOD SAW THE EXTENT OF HUMAN WICKEDNESS, AND THAT THE TREND AND DIRECTION OF MEN’S LIVES WERE ONLY TOWARDS EVIL. What can you say about the trend and direction of men’s lives today? Are they towards good? Not at all! The trend and direction of men’s lives and inventions today are all geared towards evil. Every good and honest invention is perverted and applied to creating and supporting evil.
⁸But Noah was a pleasure to the Lord. Here is the story of Noah: ^9-10He was the only truly righteous man living on the earth at that time. He tried always to conduct his affairs according to God’s will. And he had three sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ¹¹Meanwhile, the crime rate was rising rapidly across the earth, and as seen by God, the world was rotten to the core.
What can you say about crime rate on earth today, is it decreasing or rising. Crimes that were not known few years ago are rapidly springing up. We don’t talk about stealing and robbery again when you have kidnapping, banditry, militancy, ritual killings, organ harvesting, just to mention but a few. People everywhere live in fear just as it was in the days of Noah.
^12-13As God observed how bad it was, and saw that all mankind was vicious and depraved, he said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy all mankind; for the earth is filled with crime because of man. Yes, I will destroy mankind from the earth.
Who is not tired of the state of human affairs on earth today? Before, most policemen carry ordinary batons, wooden batons to maintain law and order. As things got bad, they started using sophisticated guns. As the situation got worse soldiers were released from Barracks to support, we had joint task force (JTF) yet crime and violence did not abate any bit.
Today Custom carry arms, Immigration carry arms, Civil Defence carry arms, all the uniformed men carry arms, yet crime rate, violence is rapidly increasing. Everybody is clamouring for State Police. Will that be the solution?
Now let us see Lot’s Day according to Genesis chapter 19 from verse 1, The Living Bible for clearer understanding.
¹That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom, and Lot was sitting there as they arrived. When he saw them, he stood up to meet them, and welcomed them. ²“Sirs,” he said, “come to my home as my guests for the night; you can get up as early as you like and be on your way again.” “Oh, no thanks,” they said, “we’ll just stretch out here along the street.”
³But he was very urgent, until at last they went home with him, and he set a great feast before them, complete with freshly baked unleavened bread. After the meal, ⁴as they were preparing to retire for the night, the men of the city—yes, Sodomites, young and old from all over the city—surrounded the house ⁵and shouted to Lot, “Bring out those men to us so we can rape them.”
SODOMITES, YOUNG AND OLD FROM ALL OVER THE CITY—SURROUNDED THE HOUSE ⁵AND SHOUTED TO LOT, “BRING OUT THOSE MEN TO US SO WE CAN RAPE THEM
Men raping their fellow men. Men getting married to their fellow men instead of women. Is that not the order of the day to the point that churches have subscribed to it? The West have even introduced it as a subject in their schools all aiming to drive its adoption to the core. Unnatural affection for which course God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah is now prevalent in the society. Romans 1:26-27
²⁶That is why God let go of them and let them do all these evil things, so that even their women turned against God’s natural plan for them and indulged in sex sin with each other. ²⁷And the men, instead of having normal sex relationships with women, burned with lust for each other, men doing shameful things with other men and, as a result, getting paid within their own souls with the penalty they so richly deserved.
According to https://hrc.orgas at 2022, “There are currently 36 countries where same-sex marriage is legal: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Uruguay.”
In 2022 Pres. Joe Biden signed into law the federal Respect for Marriage Act, which formally repealed the Defense of Marriage Act, defined marriage as a legal union between two individuals, and required states to recognize same-sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions. Notably, the Respect for Marriage Act did not prohibit states from banning same-sex marriages, and it explicitly exempted religious institutions from the obligation to recognize such unions. (Britannica.com)
On December 19, 2023 7:48 PM Rob Garver reportedthat, Pope Francis, leader of the world’s nearly 1.4 billion Roman Catholics, announced this week that priests are now allowed to bless the relationships of same-sex couples and others in what the church refers to as “irregular situations,” a change expected to generate mixed reactions among the religion’s widespread and diverse communities. The announcement, in the form of a papal declaration titled “Fiducia Supplicans on the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings,” appears to overturn a 2021 ruling issued by the same office of the Vatican, which found that such blessings were impermissible because the church “cannot bless sin.” (https://www.voanews.com/)
Is this not total falling away from the Faith? It is called the fornication of Sodom (Sodomy). It is a clear indicator of God’s rejection of a people.
²²Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, ²³and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. ²⁴Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: ²⁵who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
²⁶For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: ²⁷and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. ²⁸And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Rom 1:22-28 KJV
They instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they took wood, stone, silver, and gold and made idols for themselves, carving them to look like mere birds (don’t you carved doves they call holy Spirit) and animals (what of lambs and snakes and puny men) you see in their cathedrals. They bow down before these idols in their churches and everywhere. So, God rejected them and handed them over to vile affection.So, God let them go ahead into every sort of sex sin
Remember, Jesus asked when the Son of Man comes, shall He find faith on earth. If the Church herself has gone into perversion and politics, where else can the faith be found?
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? Luke 18:8
Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? Jesus knew there won’t be anything left.
In the Testament of the Patriarchs, Naphtali warned his children not to change the order of nature.
…that ye become not as Sodom, which changed the order of nature In like manner the Watchers also changed the order of their nature, whom the Lord cursed at the flood, on whose account He made the earth without inhabitants and fruitless(3.4-5)
Become not, my children, as Sodom, which sinned against the angels of the Lord, and perished for 2 ever. For I know that ye shall sin and be delivered into the hands of your enemies; and your land shall be made desolate, and your holy places destroyed, and ye shall be scattered unto the four 3 corners of the earth. And ye shall be set at nought in the dispersion vanishing away as water. Until the Most High shall visit the earth, coming Himself [as man, with men eating and drinking, and breaking the head of the dragon in the water. He shall save Israel and all the Gentiles [God speaking in 4 the person of man]. (7.1-4)
And I believe that there will be also evil-doings among you, from the words of Enoch the righteous: that ye shall commit fornication with the fornication of Sodom, and shall perish, all save a few, and shall renew wanton deeds with women; and the kingdom of the Lord shall not be among, you, for straightway He shall take it away. (9.1)
So, the time has been ripe for Him to return long long time ago. If by now He has not returned, then it’s definitely This is because the evils of Noah’s day and those of Lot’s Day have both climaxed in this present generation that if any other thing is remaining, it is the awful judgement of the Almighty God on the world as it was in those days. However, Elijah is supposed to come first. Otherwise, God will strike the earth with a curse.

ELIJAH MUST COME FIRST

Let us go a little further. Malachi Chapter 5 verse 6⁵Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: ⁶and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse KJV.

This is in line with God’s way of doing things. God cannot do anything without telling His servant, the prophet. It is the prophet that will tell the people what to expect and how to respond to what will follow. If God fails to send a prophet, then, it spells doom for the entire world because nobody will be able to recognize what would happen.
The Messiah, The Son of Man cannot come without Elijah coming first to prepare the way accordingly.Follow me to the Book of Matthew chapter 17 reading from verse 10 through 13
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? ¹¹And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. ¹²But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. ¹³Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. KJV
Elias truly shall first come and restore all things. That is the order. The President cannot go to anywhere without first sending his aides, special assistants, ministers to go and make sure that everything is in order before he would go.
¹⁰His disciples asked, “Why do the Jewish leaders insist Elijah must return before the Messiah comes?” ¹¹Jesus replied, “They are right. Elijah must come and set everything in order. ¹²And, in fact, he has already come, but he wasn’t recognized and was badly mistreated by many. And I, the Messiah, shall also suffer at their hands.” ¹³Then the disciples realized he was speaking of John the Baptist
You see! Appearance of Elijah is fundamental and prerequisite for the appearing of the Messiah. Jesus ‘disciples asked Him, why do the Jewish leaders insist that Elijah must return before the Messiah? Jesus confirmed that they are right and affirmed that Elijah must come and set everything in order first.
We can see that Jesus the Messiah is not the only person that returns or comes again. We are not the first to receive the return or second coming of an anointed one (Christ), a prophet that was on earth before.
The Jewish leaders were in expectation and enthusiastically preaching to their people about how Elijah would return and prepare the way for the Messiah according as God promised in their scripture, Malachi 4 verse 5 just like the various groups of today are waiting for the return of the Messiah (Christ the Son of Man). They are right.
However, the mode of his appearance utterly beat their imaginations, and they missed him. They have a picture of how they thought he will come back. They expected Elijah to drop from space after all, He never tasted death according to the scripture: He went up in the chariot of fire like Jesus was taken up in a cloud. So, he should likewise return with a chariot of fire.
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven, And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces2 Kings 2:11-12 KJV.
⁹And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. ¹⁰And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; ¹¹which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heavenAct 1:9-11 KJV.
Do you see it? Elijah with his disciple: Jesus with His disciples; chariots of fire: a cloud. Is it not the same God that was Pillar of FIRE at night that is Pillar of CLOUD in the day?
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a CLOUD, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of FIRE, to give them light; to go by day and night. Exodus 13:21 KJV
We have seen the similarity in the way both were taken up; we have also seen the promise of Elijah return and Jesus the Messiah returning. Let us see how Elijah returned from heaven or wherever he was taken to.
¹¹Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. ¹²And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. ¹³For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. ¹⁴And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to comeMatt 11:11-14 KJV.
And if you are willing to receive and accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come [before the kingdom].AMP
The Elijah came contrary to their preconceived ideas and opinions and instead of believing him they rejected persecuted him. Maybe, they expected him to fall down from heaven in a chariot of fire the way he ascended from his disciple Elisha. But instead of that Elizabeth became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy named John. Remember it was the angel that gave him the name John. Why not Elijah.
And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; Mark 9:12 KJV
See! It is present continuous tense: And He said to them, Elijah, it is true, does come first to restore all things and set them to rights (AMP). While Jesus was confirming the present Elijah in the person of John the Baptist, He was also pointing to the Elijah that will restore all things before the return of THE MESSIAH.
Before the Messiah came in His first advent, John the Baptist was sent to prepare the heart of the people in readiness for His appearing because as we have already seen, Elijah must come first. Before their eyes the prophecy fulfilled but they did not recognize it.
Similarly,Jesus, said that the Messiah, shall also suffer the same fate. In other words, while the scribes of the end times will be busy preaching about His return and how rapture and translation will take place and things like that, The Messiah would have come and taken His own without them recognizing Him. It is only when it will dawn on them that they’re facing the wrath of God that they will begin to ask among themselves, “why did the scripture insist that Jesus the Messiah must return before the wrath of God?”
Just like John the Baptist was born, a man called William Marrion Branham was born April 6, 1909 in a log cabin in Burkesville, Kentucky, United States. He was the first of nine children of Ella Rhee Harvey, Charles C. E. Branham. His parents were extremely poor farmers. As Branham got older they moved to Jeffersonville, Indiana.
They were so poor that he did not have a shirt to wear to school and he would wear a winter coat inside so he would not have to expose his poverty. He had no religious training, but at an early age heard a voice say to him “Do not drink or smoke or defile your body in any way, for when you get older I’ll have a work for you to do.” This so terrified the boy he ran away as fast as he could.
On June 11, 1933, William Branham was baptizing in the Ohio River near Jeffersonville, Indiana, when a bright fiery light suddenly appeared over his head and a voice spoke out; “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Jesus Christ, so will your message forerun His second coming!”.Let us hear him.
And He spoke down on the river. He said, “As John the Baptist was sent forth to proclaim the coming of Christ—at the end of his ministry, Jesus came—and as John was sent so will your ministry forerun the second coming of Christ.”THE TRIAL 144: Preached on Sunday, the 21st of June 1964 at the Municipal Auditorium in Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A
In the mid 1950’s things began to go wrong for Branham. He had run his organization in a loose manner and felt God would take care of everything. In 1955 Branham started having financial problems. He was not having the same success in his meetings and was having trouble covering his expenses…By 1957 it was clear that God was taking his hand off the healing movement. Branham was exhausted and refused to do large meetings anymore. He was surrounding himself with supporters who began to control who was allowed to see him and who wasn’t.
Some of his teachings were very unusual and by the 60s even considered heretical…In 1964 Branham had a vision where he was riding tired into the sunset. He understood that God was warning him that he would die soon. In 1965, while driving to Tucson, Arizona Branham’s car was struck by a drunk driver. He lived a few day longer and then died on Christmas Eve, 1965. https://healingandrevival.com/BioWBranham.htm
Please note the fact that from the year 1955 things began to go wrong for Branham. By the year 1957 it became very clear that God was taking his hand off Branham’s ministry. Why? Immediately John the Baptist saw Jesus, the Messiah of his day, he knew it was game over for him. He must decrease while Jesus increases. The two of them cannot be on the land at the same time.
²⁹He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. ³⁰HE MUST INCREASE, BUT I MUST DECREASE John3:29-30 KJV
The Spirit that anointed John has fully moved to Jesus. The Spirit is One. From that day the ministry of John the Baptist started decreasing while Jesus’ ministry increased. Even some disciples of John abandoned John and followed Jesus. From the day David was anointed by Samuel, David increased while Saul decreased over the years until his death.For Prophet Branham, the year 1955 is significant so we should keep our eyes on that particular year. Amen!
John the Baptist was a bachelor and died as a bachelor; Jesus, whose ministry he foreran was also a bachelor and never married.
Branham was married with children, therefore the person whose ministry he foreran must marry and also have children. This is in line with what a Muslim Cleric spoke concerning the return of Jesus as the Messiah – the Son of Man.
Shiek Abdul Fatai Muhammed Buhari Inakoju is a Director, Religion and Operation, Ogun State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board speaks on the coming again of Jesus:
Islam as a religion believes in the second coming of Jesus Christ. I believe in Jesus Christ as the messenger of Allah and as the son of Mary. (May the blessings of God be upon him).
The teachings of Prophet Mohammed (s.a.w) explains that Jesus Christ is coming this time to propagate the word of God and importantly to do things he was unable to do during his life time on earth due to the direction and assignment given to him by his Master, Allah.
But his second coming will give him the chance to marry and give birth to children. The second coming of Jesus Christ signifies the end of time and there will be a great fight between him and Dajjai (anti-Christ) and Christ will overcome.
The Qur’anic text invariably referred to in support of the doctrine that Jesus will return to earth towards the end of human history.”“And (Jesus) shall be a Sign (for the coming of) the Hour (of Judgment): Therefore have no doubt about the (Hour) but follow ye Me: this is a Straight Way. Surah 43.61”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/01/muslim-clerics-speak-return-jesus/

ELIJAH THE PROPHET SPEAKS

Now that we have identified the Elijah of our generation, it is time to listen to what he has to say. He is the one that provide the required guidance as John the Baptist did in his own generation. Remember that God can do nothing but first reveal it to His servant the prophet.

Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. Amos 3:7 KJV.
⁷And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? ⁸But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses. ⁹But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
¹⁰For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. ¹¹Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. Matt 11:7-11 KJV.
John the Baptist was a man of the wilderness, incidentally William Branham was a man of the wilderness also. He was a hunter and often shared his hunting experiences. Let us listen to some of the things he said on this matter.
I’m only telling you what I have seen, and what has been told to me. And now you—you do whatever you want to. I don’t know who is going to…what’s going to take place. I do not know. I just know that those seven Thunders holds that mystery. The Heavens was quiet. Does everybody understand? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] IT MAY BE TIME, IT MAY BE THE HOUR NOW, THAT THIS GREAT PERSON THAT WE’RE EXPECTING TO RISE ON THE SCENE MAY RISE ON THE SCENE.
Maybe this ministry, that I have tried to take people back to the Word, has laid a foundation; and IF IT HAS, I’LL BE LEAVING YOU, FOR GOOD. THERE WON’T BE TWO OF US HERE AT THE SAME TIME. SEE? IF IT IS, HE’LL INCREASE; I’LL DECREASE. I DON’T KNOW. But I have been privileged, by God, to look and see what It was, see, see unfold to that much. Now, that is the Truth. – THE SEVENTH SEAL326-328. 63-0324E)
In these last days the true Bride Church (Christ’s seed) will come to the Headstone, and she will be the super church, a super race…They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God…They have ‘thus saith the Lord’ or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word.(Church Ages 171-172).
The pyramid is capped by the seven thunders…Is this the mystery of the thunders that will bring back the Headstone?(Sirs is this the Time? 62-12-30, p.47.1).
The Dynamics of this church will be a refilling of the Holy Spirit, that we have worked in a small measure while the Headstone is coming down to unite with the Body. But when that Head and Body unites together the full power of the Holy Ghost would raise Her up.(What Shall I Do With Jesus 63-11-24m). 253-2 {182}
The Bride hasn’t had a revival yet. There’s been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. We’re looking for it. It will take those seven unknown thunders back there to wake her up again. (The Third Seal63-03-20)
And in the Pentecostal age, through the Lutheran age, through the Wesleyan age, it’s been the same thing to this Pentecostal age… Now notice, but at the opening of the seven seals, Revelations 10, the full Word is to be born into manifestation again and vindicated by the Spirit of God in the full strength, as it was when it was here on earth, manifested in the same way, doing the same things that it did when it was here on earth. Amen!
Hebrews 13:8 said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. In St. Luke 17:30 Jesus said, “In the last days, as it was in the days of Sodom, when the Son of man will be revealing Himself again, it’ll be the same thing.”(Seed not heir with shuck 65-02-18)
“The pyramid was never capped. Why wasn’t the Capstone put on it, the headstone, the top of it? Because He was rejected when He come. He was the rejected Stone. That’s right. But it will be capped … then the coming of the Lord Jesus is so close at hand that the Spirit from way down in here …justification, sanctification, Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and now right into the TIME of the coming of the HEADSTONE …
We got a ministry coming that’s just EXACTLY LIKE THE LIFE OF CHRIST. What does that MINISTRY IDENTIFY? THE COMING OF THE LORD. Look at the age coming now right up to the Headstone. See what I mean? THE COMING OF THE LORD, THE MADE KNOWN”(Predestinated Mystery of His Will 6-7).
Did you notice, when the Jews asked Him that? Know… When we compared the Scripture here with Matthew 24, with the six Seals, the Seventh Seal was left out. Because, you see, Christ said, “Only God Himself knowed; not even the Angels.” No wonder, It wasn’t even written. You see, they hushed; nothing take place then. Angels don’t know It. Nobody knows when He is coming.
But there’ll be a—there’ll be a—a Seven Voices, of these Thunders, that will reveal the great revelation at that time. So, I believe, to us who…If we don’t know It, and if we…It won’t be knowed till that time. BUT IT WILL BE REVEALED IN THAT DAY, IN THE HOUR THAT IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE REVEALED IN. So, the thing for us to do is to be reverent before God, and serve Him, and do all that we know how to do, and live good, Christian lives. Here, now, we find that the Sixth Seal has been opened to us; we see It.
And we know that this Seventh Seal cannot be broke to the public until that hour arrive. It will be revealed in that day, in that hour that it’s supposed to be revealed. Daniel saw it and was commanded to keep it secret until the period it is meant for – when travel and education must have increased, when communication and Information Technology must have so increased that you don’t need to travel in order to speak with somebody in a far country.
THAT IS THE DAY, THAT IS THE HOUR WHEN IT WILL BE REVEALED. THERE WAS SILENCE IN HEAVEN, WHY WAS THERE SILENCE IN HEAVEN FOR ABOUT AN HOUR? COULD IT BE THAT NOBODY WAS IN HEAVEN WITHIN THAT HOUR? THEN THE ALMIGHTY GOD STEPPED OUT OF HEAVEN TO EARTH WITH HIS HOST. HE WAS ON EARTH AS THE SON OF MAN JUST AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT. REMEMBER THAT.
Now, there was some reason that God let this Seven Voices be thundered. Because, It must come, see. For the…We find that Christ, the Lamb, took the—the Book in His hand, and He opened that Seventh Seal. But, you see, it’s a hidden mystery. No one knows It. But, It—It, right along with what He said, “No one would know His Coming.” They also would not know about this Seven-Thunder mystery. So, you see, it’s connected together. (The Seventh Seal, 63-0324E p. 392-394)
“I will promise you this, you’ll never be any closer to Him, until you meet Him faceto-face for this is His spirit…(Prophet like unto Moses, 20/11/65)
“…Quit being frustrated and wandering about, you’ll never be any closer until you meet Him face-to-face, while remember, in the Bible, thus saith the Holy Spirit, He’s in your midst, how can you doubt? He’s proved that His Presence is here”.(From that Time, 2/3/60)
“…The Son of Man has already come from glory and is revealing Himself for the past few years to His Church in mercy…showing them His great Presence, doing the same things that He did when He was here on Earth. Revealing Himself like He did to Abraham before the destruction. He has come now in mercy, revealing Himself to the Church. It is being laughed at and scoffed at. The next thing, He reveals Himself in judgement of the world and the nations that forget God and sinned away their day of grace.”(Will The Church Go Through the Tribulations? 01/09/58)
“…That greatest vindication of Omnipotent is already here. He is in His Church revealing the mind of God to the people of God for the salvation of their souls. He is a man in the outside of Him but Deity in the inside. God reveals Himself to an individual and quickly he becomes deity in the inside of him. From the message…” (Come Hither Quickly. 2/2/58).
A wicked and adulterous generation would receive the sign of the resurrection, a sign of this generation before burning. The Elohim in human flesh. What’s a sign of? The Elohim back in the Bride in human flesh again in the last days, doing the same thing. (Signs of His coming. 7/4/62)
The Son of Man has already come from glory and is revealing Himself for the past few years to His Church in mercy, showing them His great Presence, doing the same things that He did when He was here on Earth, revealing Himself like He did to Abraham before the destruction, he has come now in mercy, revealing Himself to the Church. It’s being laughed at and scoffed at. The next time He reveals Himself, it’ll be in judgement on the world and the nations that forgot God and sinned their way of grace — their day of grace; rather, away.”(Called Out 09/01/58).
“We stumble over simplicity. That’s how we miss God, is by stumbling over simplicity. God is so simple until the scholars of these days and all days missed Him a million miles, because in their intellects, they know that there’s nothing like Him so great. But in His revelation, He makes it so simple they go plumb over top of it and missed it.”(God in simplicity, page 22. 17/03/63).
“Even John said, now, look at John the Prophet; he said, ‘Go and ask Him, is He actually the One?’ So humble till that Prophet missed it… said, ‘Is He the One, or do we seek for another?”(Q & A on the seal, page 498. 24/03/63).
“Let me say this: you’re looking for something to come to pass that’s already here, it’s going a past you, and you do not know it. You’re trying to place it a future.”(Have Faith in God. 05/01/57).
Man has always believed God in the past or future but not in the present. It is very easy to say, “It shall come to pass” or “And it came to pass”, but not “Behold the hour has come even now!” Most men love postponing God’s program because they are unbelievers by nature.That is the very reason they laughed at God or the God sent Man whenever he speaks authoritatively, declaring the mind of God concerning any matter in their day.
Whenever such people read the Bible they expect some great things to happen in the future, like Christ’s coming with a loud shout from the sky, not knowing that the very Christ is among them in simplicity, but they always miss Him. Why? Because the Bible they read paints a very wrong photograph of one great mighty event coming in the future. “Man is always the same ever. Now, I’m going to say something again, and I want you… and I do not know whether it’s been taped or not, but if it’s on tape, I want you to listen at me, you on the tape, do not you miss it. But study it.
Man now is like he’s always been. He’s praising God for what He’s done, looking forward to what He will do, and ignoring what he has done and is doing. He praises God for what He has done, he looks forward to what he will do, but he ignores what God’s a doing, and there He misses the whole thing. Hope they get it, see! Ignoring what He’s doing … he knows what he has done, and he knows the promise, what he will do, but fails to see what He’s doing. Oh, you Pentecostals, if you are not example of that. You’re looking forward for something to happen, it’s already … it’s happened right under you, and you do not know it”.(Reproach for the Word, page 24, 25. 23/12/62)
…People are looking forward to a great something to come, and you’re at the end of what has already come. The last sign has 135 | WE HAVE SEEN THE STAR been given to the Gentile’s Church. The Jews will have it after the Church is raptured, but we’re in the end of the Gentile Age”.(Discerning Body of the Lord. 12/08/59)
“Today we are always like…man is always praising God for what he has done, always looking forward for what He will do, and ignoring what He’s doing. It’s always been that same thing”.(Identified Christ of all Ages, 01/04/64).
“Man is always praising God for what he has done, looking forward for what he will do and ignoring what He’s doing. That’s as good as the devil wants him to be very religious. Scholars and educators prove what he has done, and prove just what He’s going to do, and ignoring what he is doing. See? That’s where it’s always been the same”. (Christ is Identified the Same, 15/04/64).
Now, we have, in the completion here now, by the grace of God, all the mysteries of the six Seals that’s been sealed up, and we understand and know here that the Seventh Seal is not to be known to the public. Brother Branham said, “I draw this text: God Hiding Himself in Simplicity, Then Revealing Himself in The Same… I thought it made a text that we might study this before we go into the great teachings of the Seven Seals. Many miss Him by the way He reveals Himself.
Now, man has their own ideas of what God ought to be and what God is going to do; and as I have made the old statement many times that man still remains man. Man is always giving God praise for what He did do, and always looking forward to what he will do, and IGNORING WHAT HE IS DOING. THAT’S THE WAY THEY MISS IT. They look back and see what a great thing He done, but they FAIL to see what a simple thing He used to do it with. And then they look forward and see a great thing coming that’s going to happen, and nine times out of ten, it’s ALREADY HAPPENING RIGHT AROUND THEM, and it’s so simple that they DON’T KNOW IT”(“God in Simplicity” pp. 20-21).
God does things in such simple ways. I think many times that’s how people lose the very meaning, is because that God does things so simple. Men are looking for some great–some great thing to take place, when God dwells in simplicity. When Jesus came on the earth, men were looking for the Messiah to come in great splendor. But when God sent His Son to the earth and sent Him, not born in some royal kings’ family, and neither did He bring Him to some great religious order.
But He visit a little peasant girl, and He chose to bring His son through that child, no more than a little teen-age girl. Not only that, but usually when a king is born there is great singing among the people, and there the celebrity of the world is looking or that nation, for this child to be born. And there is usual a special preparation for this child. The hospital room is all decorated in pink and so forth, the day that the doctors are brought, standing by.
But the strange thing that God brought His Son to the earth through this little virgin. She had been riding all day on the back of a donkey. And there was no room for her at the hotel. And God so chose it that His only begotten Son was born in a stable in a manger. How simple God does things.
That sometimes is to confuse the minds of the wise and prudent, so that babes will have a chance to know it. And if God down through the age has done thus… And many times what He does seems to be ridiculous in the sight of the world. God can do some of the most ridiculous things in the eyes of the world.
Could you imagine a man standing surrounded by a thousand Philistines with armors and spears, as Samson stood and picked up the jawbone of a mule and slayed a thousand. God does things so simple. Could you imagine a great army on one side of the hill, a great army on the other side of the hill, and the army on the opposite side were the Philistines versing Israel with so many more, and they had a challenger over there by the name of Goliath.
He was many times bigger than any other man. And he was making his challenge. And all Israel, with all their training was scared of him. And God choose a little old ruddy, warty looking guy by the name of David, with a little sheepskin coat on him, and a slingshot packing in his hand, to slay that giant and take over. God uses simple things that seems ridiculous in the sight of the world, He does that to show His great power.
God did the same thing when He sent His Son to the earth. Born in a manger, come to the world with a black name to begin with AS A ILLEGITIMATE CHILD, but He produced one of the greatest shocks this world has ever had.
And on the day of Pentecost God had a hundred and twenty illiterate fishermen and peasants in a upper room to inaugurate the beginning of the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, but He had them completely under control. Went in the city, where men from all over the world, with great education and philosophers, teachers, theologians, but God choose a bunch of little humble fishermen. And He condemned the world and sent forth the liberation to all the world, with this bunch of little humble fishermen.
And then would it seem too great for God, in this last day, when we got all kinds of schools of theology, when we got all kinds of denominations, all kinds of religion, would it seem too great for God that He could take a bunch of humble people, just ordinary people and once get them under His control, could He not repeat again the blessings of Pentecost? Could He not repeat again the very life that He lived on the earth? (Divine Love,5th March 1957 at the Madison Square Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. E6-E11;)
And finally one day he [John the Baptist] said, “Behold, there He is. There’s the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.” Said, “My time’s up now. I’ve introduced you to Him. I must decrease now; I must go off the scene. He will take over from here. The millennium will be on right away. (See?) The–the time is at hand.“(ON.THE.SEALS 498-1_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_63-0324M)
It may be my going-home time. It looks very much that way. IF IT IS, THERE WILL RISE SOMEBODY AFTER ME, THAT’LL TAKE THE MESSAGE ON. HE’LL BE AN ODD PERSON, but he’ll rise after this and take the Message on. And you listen to it. As long as it’s Scripture, stay with it. (Spirit Of Truth 63-01-18 p.43).
It may be my going-home time. There is no prophet that does not know when his time is up. He said, It looks very much that way. The prophet was about to sign off. He was about to hand over the baton because there must be handing over.
IF IT IS, THERE WILL RISE SOMEBODY AFTER ME, THAT’LL TAKE THE MESSAGE ON. THIS IS THE MEANING OF FORERUNNING, POINTING PEOPLE TO ANOTHER PERSON COMING AFTER HIM. HE’LL BE AN ODD PERSON; HE WILL BE AN ODD PERSON. THIS IS WHERE THE PROBLEM IS.
HE WILL BEAT PEOPLE’S IMAGINATION HOLLOW. HE WILL BE AN ODD PERSON, BUT HE’LL RISE AFTER THIS AND TAKE THE MESSAGE ON. AND YOU LISTEN TO IT. AS LONG AS IT’S SCRIPTURE, STAY WITH IT. LISTEN TO IT, STAY WITH IT AS LONG AS IT RESONATES WITH THE SCRIPTURE. HALLELUYAH! AMEN.
Now, this odd person, where do we expect him to come from? Before Jesus appeared, the prophets guided the people very well to know that He would be coming as a Jew from the tribe of Judah. In this our own generation, what do we expect? Do we expect Him to appear as a Jew or a Gentile?

THE MESSIAH IS COMING AS A GENTILE

Follow me to the scripture.¹⁶WE ALL KNOW HE DID NOT COME AS AN ANGEL BUT AS A HUMAN BEING—YES, A JEW. ¹⁷And it was necessary for Jesus to be like us, his brothers, so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God, a Priest who would be both merciful to us and faithful to God in dealing with the sins of the people Hebrews 2:16-17 LB

Great men of God were your fathers, and Christ himself was one of you, A JEW SO FAR AS HIS HUMAN NATURE IS CONCERNED, he who now rules over all things. Praise God forever! 9:5 LB
Don’t ever forget the wonderful fact that Jesus Christ was a man, born into King David’s family; and that he was God, as shown by the fact that he rose again from the dead. 2 Tim. 2:8
As a Jew, He could be traced to a particular family. Jesus, being a Jew also confirmed that He was sent for the lost sheep of Israel – the Jews.
²¹Then Jesus went thence and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. ²²And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. ²³But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. ²⁴But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Matt. 15:20-24 KJV
Then he said to the woman, “I was sent to help the Jews—the lost sheep of Israel—not the Gentiles.” LB
Read it again. Jesus said to the woman, I was sent to help the Jews…not the Gentiles. Any ambiguity there? Of course, not. Without any prejudice, Jesus was sent to help the Jews. Even when He sent the twelve out on evangelism, He charged them not to go to the gentiles.
Jesus sent them out with these instructions: “Don’t go to the Gentiles or the Samaritans. Matt. 10:5 LB
Why? It was not yet time for the gentiles to come in, the Law was still obstructing the way. It is Jesus’ death and resurrection that opened the way for the gentiles.
However, Jesus promised to appear in the gentile for the sake of other sheep among the gentile nations. It is then that the Gentiles will have to pin their hope in Him if they recognize His appearance.
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one-fold, and one shepherd. John 10:16 KJV
“Remember, Jesus Promised to appear here at the end of the Gentile age and do the same thing as He did when he presented Himself to the Jews. How did He do it? By discerning their thoughts and telling them where they’d been and all about such things. It was that right? How many knows that’s true? That was the last sign before destruction, here it is again tonight, the same Holy Spirit, with His photograph taken (The pillar of fire) every scientific thing like it was in those days in Babylon, here it is, right back again tonight, we’re at the endtime”. (Signs of the End-Time, 20/5/58)
He is the Alpha and Omega. The work he started in Israel as a Jew, He will finish as a Gentile. While responding to question during one of his questions and Answer Sessions, Prophet Branham made mention of THE GENTILE that will be anointed to call out the gentiles.
134 QUESTION: Brother Branham, if all of the godly was taken up in the rapture, where will the Elijah and Moses come from? Will they be Jews, or will our Elijah given to us, be with them? No. The Gentile that’ll be anointed with this spirit to call out the Gentiles will be taken away, because you see, the whole church, all, has been taken up; and these two prophets of the 11th chapter is brought down; and the day of grace is ended with the Gentile and been sent to the Jews. No, they won’t be the same man. I’m pretty sure of that. Now remember, these are just the best of my knowledge. Questions And Answers on The Seals Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA63-0324M
THE GENTILE THAT’LL BE ANOINTED WITH THIS SPIRIT TO CALL OUT THE GENTILES WILL BE TAKEN AWAY, BECAUSE YOU SEE, THE WHOLE CHURCH, ALL, HAS BEEN TAKEN UP… THE DAY OF GRACE IS ENDED WITH THE GENTILE.
Let us look at it from another dimension. Follow me to The Aramaic Targum to Song of Songs English Translation by Jay C. Treat.
^4:⁵Your two redeemers who are destined to redeem you, MESSIAH SON OF DAVID and MESSIAH SON OF EPHRAIM, resemble Moses and Aaron, the sons of Jochebed (who are comparable to two young antelopes, twins of a gazelle). And by their merit they fed the people of the House of Israel for forty years in the wilderness on manna, plump fowl, and the water of Miriam’s well
^7:4“Your two redeemers who are destined to redeem you, MESSIAH THE SON OF DAVID and MESSIAH THE SON OF EPHRAIM, are like Moses and Aaron, sons of Jochebed, who resemble two fawns, twins of a roe.
So, for the Jews, it was purposed that the Messiah will appear two times, first as Messiah son of David and then Messiah Son of Ephraim,
Yes, Jesus played Part One role of the Messiah which I called preamble in order to pave way for the Main Actor – THE SON OF MAN who will appear at the end time. But they forgot that for them, the Jews, they have two provisions made: Part ONE and Part TWO. This is where the Jews missed it. They know that the Messiah’s appearance will culminate into their peace and safety which was not the case after Jesus’s coming. The first coming was to take away the Law give to the Jews because the Law was given to the Jews, they were the custodians. As far as the Law was active, nobody can attain God’s righteousness. So, God of a necessity had to take break it and take it off the road.
¹⁹None of you obeys the laws of Moses! So why pick on me for breaking them? Why kill me for this?” ²⁰The crowd replied, “You’re out of your mind! Who’s trying to kill you?” ^21-23Jesus replied, “I worked on the Sabbath by healing a man, and you were surprised. But you work on the Sabbath, too, whenever you obey Moses’ law of circumcision (actually, however, this tradition of circumcision is older than the Mosaic law); for if the correct time for circumcising your children falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it, as you should. So why should I be condemned for making a man completely well on the Sabbath? ²⁴Think this through and you will see that I am right.”John 7:19-24 LB
NONE OF YOU OBEYS THE LAWS OF MOSES! SO WHY PICK ON ME FOR BREAKING THEM? WHY KILL ME FOR THIS. So, Jesus accepted that He was breaking the Law. How many Laws did Adam break and became a sinner? Paul said that where there is no law, there is no sin. Breaking of law makes one a sinner.
Adam broke the law (sinned), died and remained dead; Jesus broke the law (sinned), died but resurrected, death could not hold Him captive. So, this has become a Reference Case as in Law. It can be cited in any court of competent jurisdiction. Is this not the basis of our justification in Christ? You see, on that note, Adam’s case file and those of all the children of God are reviewed
As you know, Adam sinned by breaking the law or disobeying the instruction given to him and that resulted in death. God later magnified the Law and handed over to the Jews with the intent that one day HE will appear as one of Adam’s descendants, break the Law as sons of men do, pay the same stipulated price of death. However, death could not hold HIM captive like others, He resurrected. His resurrection therefore became the justification for as many as that believe.
That was His first mission as Messiah the Son of David, He was born to the House of David – the Tribe of Judah, to clear those roadblocks and pave way for His return as Messiah the Son of Ephraim. We will come back to this later. But let us first of all find out the likely time of His appearance. When we know the time He will manifest will equally confirm the place peradventure we will see Him. For every occasion or meeting two things are very important. They are the time and the venue (place). For now, let us concentrate on the time.

WHERE IS EPHRAIM?

Let us briefly look at Judah and Ephraim. We cannot mention the Jews without Judah and the House of David. Who is Ephraim and where is he? How do we classify Ephraim: A JEW OR A GENTILE?

One day not long after this, word came to Joseph that his father was failing rapidly. So, taking with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, he went to visit him. ²When Jacob heard that Joseph had arrived, he gathered his strength and sat up in the bed to greet him, ³and said to him, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me, ⁴and said to me, ‘I will make you a great nation and I will give this land of Canaan to you and to your children’s children, for an everlasting possession.’ ⁵And now, as to these two sons of yours, Ephraim and Manasseh, born here in the land of Egypt before I arrived, I am adopting them as my own, and they will inherit from me just as Reuben and Simeon will. 48:1-5 LB
Manasseh and Ephraim were adopted as direct sons of Jacob (Israel). With this the Israelites should be fourteen in number Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim inclusive. But something happened along the line.
Also remember that Joseph married an Egyptian by name Asenath. Therefore, their children are half Egyptians, half Israeli.
Pharaoh gave him a name meaning “He has the godlike power of life and death!”^[^a^]And he gave him a wife, a girl named Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis. So, Joseph became famous throughout the land of Egypt. Gen 41:45 LB
Let us continue with Genesis 48:12-20^12-13Joseph took the boys by the hand, bowed deeply to him, and led the boys to their grandfather’s knees—Ephraim at Israel’s left hand and Manasseh at his right. ¹⁴But Israel crossed his arms as he stretched them out to lay his hands upon the boys’ heads, so that his right hand was upon the head of Ephraim, the younger boy, and his left hand was upon the head of Manasseh, the older. He did this purposely.
¹⁵Then he blessed Joseph with this blessing: “May God, the God of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, the God who has shepherded me all my life, wonderfully bless these boys. ¹⁶He is the Angel who has kept me from all harm. May these boys be an honor to my name and to the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they become a mighty nation.”
¹⁷But Joseph was upset and displeased when he saw that his father had laid his right hand on Ephraim’s head; so he lifted it to place it on Manasseh’s head instead.
¹⁸“No, Father,” he said. “You’ve got your right hand on the wrong head! This one over here is the older. Put your right hand on him!”
¹⁹But his father refused. “I know what I’m doing, my son,” he said. “Manasseh too shall become a great nation, but his younger brother shall become even greater.”
²⁰So Jacob blessed the boys that day with this blessing: “May the people of Israel bless each other by saying, ‘God make you as prosperous as Ephraim and Manasseh.’” (Note that he put Ephraim before Manasseh.)
FATHER,” JOSEPH SAID. “YOU’VE GOT YOUR RIGHT HAND ON THE WRONG HEAD! THIS ONE OVER HERE IS THE OLDER. PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND ON HIM!”…BUT HIS JACOB REFUSED. “I KNOW WHAT I’M DOING, MY SON,” HE SAID. “MANASSEH TOO SHALL BECOME A GREAT NATION, BUT HIS YOUNGER BROTHER SHALL BECOME EVEN GREATER.”
⁷And what saith the Scripture? And Jacob crossed his hands, and put his right hand upon Ephraim, his second, and the younger son, and blessed him. And Joseph said unto Jacob; Put thy right hand upon the head of Manasseh, for he is my first-born son. And Jacob said unto Joseph; I know it, my son, I know it; but the greater shall serve the lesser; though he also shall be blessed.⁸YE SEE OF WHOM HE APPOINTED IT, THAT THEY SHOULD BE THE FIRST PEOPLE, AND HEIRS OF THE COVENANT The GENERAL EPISTLE OF BARNABAS Chapter 12:7-8
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God. ⁷For thus saith the Lord; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
⁸Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither ⁹They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn 31:6-9 KJV
For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God…Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth…for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
I AM A FATHER TO ISRAEL, AND EPHRAIM IS MY FIRSTBORN COMPARE THIS WITH WHERE WE READ BEFORE THAT SAYS, YE SEE OF WHOM HE APPOINTED IT, THAT THEY SHOULD BE THE FIRST PEOPLE, AND HEIRS OF THE COVENANT.
Let us look at the list of those redeemed out of all tribes of Israel. Go to Revelation Chapter 7:1-8 LB.
Then I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds from blowing so that not a leaf rustled in the trees, and the ocean became as smooth as glass. 2 And I saw another angel coming from the east, carrying the Great Seal of the Living God. And he shouted out to those four angels who had been given power to injure earth and sea, 3 “Wait! Don’t do anything yet—hurt neither earth nor sea nor trees—until we have placed the Seal of God upon the foreheads of his servants.”
4-8 How many were given this mark? I heard the number—it was 144,000; out of all twelve tribes of Israel, as listed here: ¹Judah: 12,000; ²Reuben: 12,000; ³Gad: 12,000; ⁴Asher: 12,000; ⁵Naphtali: 12,000; ⁶Manasseh: 12,000; ⁷Simeon: 12,000; ⁸Levi: 12,000; ⁹Issachar; 12,000; ¹⁰Zebulun: 12,000; ¹¹Joseph: 12,000; ¹²Benjamin: 12,000
Where then are Ephraim the first born and Dan? Since they are not accounted for here, it probably means that they are among the Gentile nations. Let us go further to verse 9 and 10.
⁹After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from all nations and provinces and languages, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white, with palm branches in their hands. ¹⁰And they were shouting with a mighty shout, “Salvation comes from our God upon the throne, and from the Lamb.”
VAST CROWD, TOO GREAT TO COUNT FROM ALL NATIONS AND PROVINCES AND LANGUAGES.
⁹“Rejoice greatly, O my people! Shout with joy! For look—your King is coming! He is the Righteous One, the Victor! Yet he is lowly, riding on a donkey’s colt! ¹⁰I will disarm all peoples of the earth, including my people in Israel, and he shall bring peace among the nations. His realm shall stretch from sea to sea, from the river to the ends of the earth.
¹¹“I have delivered you from death in a waterless pit because of the covenant I made with you, sealed with blood. ¹²Come to the place of safety, all you prisoners, for there is yet hope! I promise right now, I will repay you two mercies for each of your woes! ¹³Judah, you are my bow! Ephraim, you are my arrow! Both of you will be my sword, like the sword of a mighty soldier brandished against the sons of Greece.” 9:9-13 LB.
REJOICE GREATLY, O MY PEOPLE! SHOUT WITH JOY! FOR LOOK—YOUR KING IS COMING! HE IS THE RIGHTEOUS ONE, THE VICTOR! YET HE IS LOWLY, RIDING ON A DONKEY’S COLT…JUDAH, YOU ARE MY BOW! EPHRAIM, YOU ARE MY ARROW! BOTH OF YOU WILL BE MY SWORD.
In other words, the salvation of God is the hand of Judah (first) and Ephraim (second). The Righteous One, the Victor is connected with these two people Judah of the Jew, first: lowly and riding on a donkey’s colt while Ephraim the second will disarm all peoples of the earth including Israel. He, of Ephraim (the Gentile) shall bring peace among the nations and His realm shall stretch from sea to sea, from the river to the ends of the earth.
Remember that Joshua was from the tribe of Ephraim, a leader of the tribe.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ²Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, everyone a ruler among them. ³And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. ⁴And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. ⁵Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. ⁶Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. ⁷Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. ⁸Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun, Num 13:1-8 KJV.
⁶Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh ⁸Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea [that is, Joshua] son of Nun;Verses 6 & 8 AMP.
Can you see it? Judah and Ephraim: Caleb and Joshua. This duo settled Israel in the Promised Land Canaan. That was the shadow of the real thing to come. The reality is here. Joshua is still ahead.
Ephraim was a member of the Northern Kingdom until the kingdom was conquered by Assyria in 723 BCE and the population deported. From that time, the Tribe of Ephraim has been counted as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_of_Ephraim
You see Ephraim was scattered all over the world, from the North down to the coastal Nations. ⁸Behold, I will bring them from the North Country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth for God is a Father to Israel and Ephraim is His firstborn.
They were not scattered alone, the were scattered with some of the other brethren from some other tribes. From that day they completely integrated with other gentile nations.
Meanwhile remember that their mother Asenath was an Egyptian, an African. Also Ephraim lived long with the Canaanites until they became like one in everything. They gave themselves to idols. All these affected them as we can see below.
^1:5When the House of Israel made the [Golden] Calf, their faces grew dark like the children of Cush [Ethiopians] who dwell in the tents of Qedar. And when they turned in repentance and their guilt was pardoned them, the splendor of their faces’ glory increased like the angels, because they made the curtains for the Tabernacle and the Presence of YY dwelt among them. And Moses their master went up to the Firmament and made peace between them and their King.
^1:6he Assembly of Israel said to the nations: “Do not despise me because I am darker than you, because I have done according to your deeds and have bowed down to the sun and the moon. For false prophets caused the powerful fury of YY to be drawn down upon me. They taught me to worship your idols and walk according to your laws. But the Lord of the World, who is my God, I did not serve and did not follow after His laws, nor keep His commands and His Law. ”https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jtreat/song/targum/
Do not despise me because I am darker than you, the Lord of the World is still my God. He will not forsake the BLACK. Since the homecoming of Israel how many Blacks have been restored to the land Israel? Is it that they don’t know that their brothers are black? Blacks are despised everywhere even amongst themselves.

THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF MAN IS COMING AS A BLACK MAN

Christ in His first advent came as a Jew. He was born in Bethlehem Judaea but lived in Nazareth. The Jews rejected Him, so He abandoned them and migrated to another location – a far country. He clearly told them that they will not see His face again until they acknowledge Him whom they rejected and killed coming from afar with a new Name.

³⁷O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! ³⁸Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. ³⁹For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.(Matthew 23:37-39)
³⁷“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones all those God sends to her! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn’t let me. ³⁸And now your house is left to you, desolate. ³⁹For I tell you this, you will never see me again until you are ready to welcome the one sent to you from God(LB)
According to the scriptures in Isaiah chapter 30:26.Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:(KJV)
See, the Lord comes from afar, aflame with wrath, surrounded by thick rising smoke. His lips are filled with fury; his words consume like fire(LB)
Therefore, you should not expect Him to come from within the Israeli or Jewish jurisdiction. No! Rather He will be coming from a country far away from the Jewish Nation. He, THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY IS COMING FROM AFRICA THE HOME OF THE BLACKS. In Isaiah chapter 63:1 it says,
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save(KJV)
Who is this who comes from Edom, from the city of Bozrah, with his magnificent garments of crimson? Who is this in royal robes, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, the Lord, announcing your salvation; I, the Lord, the one who is mighty to save!”(LB)
Edomites descended from Esau and have coloured (dyed) skin unlike Jacob who was fairer. A coloured man is nothing but a Negroid or a black man.
According to Singh, A (2023), Historically, there have been many terms used to describe people of African descent in North America. In the time period at issue, two words that were commonly used were “colored” and “Negro.”… “If we had said “Negro power” nobody would get scared. Everybody would support it. If we said power for colored people, everybody’d be for that, but it is the word “black” that bothers people in this country, and that’s their problem, not mine. That’s the lie that says anything black is bad. (Stokely Carmichael, 1966)”
https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/index
Labels play an important role in defining groups and individuals who belong to the groups. This has been especially true for racial and ethnic groups in general and for Blacks in particular. Over the past century the standard term for Blacks has shifted from “Colored” to “Negro” to “Black” and now perhaps to “African American.”Tom W. Smith (1992) Published 21 December 1992SociologyPublic Opinion Quarterly
Let us look at another documentary by Professor Nathan Uzoma, a Reverend Minister in Assemblies of God Church. Let us see his book The Strange Being I Know Not,
¹It appears that the whole world is ready to usher the master of this era—the Christ who will come to lead men in the right path.
²I am not here to question any religious faith but to prove to humanity via my experience through extraterrestrial connection, permutation and inclination that what man may be expecting from beyond the skies may be within him. ³But ignorance which the progenitors of many religious and irreligious creeds have, has indeed blinded the sight of many (I think am among them) from seeing the truth within us.
The truth of this strange being goes beyond the frail premises of human beliefs, above the loosening grasp of creed and credo to demonstrate the reality of spirituality inherent in AFRICAN soil.
⁴Is the Reformer possessed of any demon? Never! God forbid! But he has an experience that seems to authenticate the Pan-African paradox that what an elder sees while sitting, a child may not see while standing.
⁵Our various religious traditions hide external truth from us and finally produce the ills of which we complain hitherto. ⁶For over some years now, a strangebeing has been appearing to me to teach me mysteries of higher realities, he comes with the host of angels to tell me about the appearance of Christ (the Second Advent).
⁷With deep Biblical foundation together with my service of God, I know that I can never be deceived. ⁸Having risen to such a privileged status (a professor of philosophy of Religion) and owing to my foundation in my Church (Assemblies of God) together with my various evangelistic roles in salvaging the perishing souls in different parts of the world, I do not consider it a waste therefore to inform you of this my noble experience.
⁹Those who know me from all over the world, America, United Kingdom, Central America, Africa, to mention only a few can boldly attest to the fact that the Reformer is not a joker in spiritual issues.
¹⁰Now, I am aware that Christ is coming back, and I am also ready to receive Him., but surprisingly, a being who introduces himself as Christ has always appeared to me physically and spiritually. ¹¹I HAVE ALWAYS SEEN HIM AS A BLACK MAN“and he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and his name is called the word of God”—REV. 19:13.
¹²He made me realize that he is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, and that he comes from Edom (the black nation) as is evident in Isaiah 63:1-6. ¹³In fact, this encounter bifurcated my attention and consequently made me very bilious because I detest bigotry and devalue apostasy. ¹⁴The teachings of this being are in profound harmony with biblical theology. ¹⁵The Father is so great!
¹⁶This Omnipresent Father may be with men but our traditions may be keeping Him away from us. ¹⁷I HAVE NOT SEEN HIM BUT DESIRE TO DO SO.
¹⁸Is He in heaven, earth or in the sea? Who knows where He is? I humbly implore you to take me to Him. ¹⁹I want to know the Father and be with the Holy Spirit in this body not when I am dead: “For whosesoever the Carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” Is the Carcass here now or to come?
²⁰Be ready earthmen because due to what is known as interplanetary confederation that will soon visit us through the help of extraterrestrial theocratic government,
THE ENTIRE WORLD SHALL SOON KNOW THAT GREATER THAN MOSES, ELIJAH, JOHN THE BAPTIST ETC, IS IN THE FORM OF A BLACK MAN OPERATING IN THE MIDST OF MANY WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF SAME.
²¹Jesus is here and Christ is coming to salvage us from the error of ignorance that has encapsulated us for long. MAN MUST BE SAVED AND THE HOUR IS NOW.²²To search out the primordial Christ who is both here and, on His way, coming is the path of great enlightenment and expectation.
This is a professor of religion, a reverend minister in one of the foremost Pentecostal churches in the world – Assemblies of God Church.
To search out the primordial Christ…is the path of great enlightenment and expectation. I hope that by the time we are through with this message, you would be more enlightened, and your expectation met appreciably. That is why I am taking my time gradually trusting in HIM to help me succeed in this great assignment.
Truly, it is not a simple task to search out the primordial Christ who has been hidden since from the foundation of the world. He is not restricted to any particular religion, No, not even Judaism, Christianity or Islam. Instead, your religion can blindfold you from seeing Him. He is a universal figure. He existed before any religion even the oldest religion on earth: the reason why you must set your religious dogma aside and face the fact. There is a quote that says that, There is no religion higher than the Truth.
Why Africa? Can any good thing come out of Africa? Can African be associated with anything good? Come and see!

THE ROYAL DYNASTY IS IN AFRICA

The genealogy of the House of David as a royal dynasty and as a symbol of hope for future redemption has left its mark on Jewish history throughout the ages … In many passages David is called “the son of Jesse”; and in Isaiah 11:1 the remnant of the House of David is spoken of figuratively as “the stock of Jesse.” In the Book of Ruth, the ancestry of David from the marriage of Boaz to Ruth the Moabite is especially emphasized. In Nathan’s vision (ii Sam 7) the destiny of an eternal rule over Israel for the descendants of David is clearly expressed.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/david-dynasty
From the onset, the Abyssinian people looked upon themselves as the inheritors of the two great religious communities, Judaism and Christianity. It began with the encounter between Prophet Sulayman, upon him be peace and the great Abyssinian/Yemeni queen, Bilqis, also known as Makeda in African sources. The Abyssinian historical traditions confirm the idea of the falling from grace of the Bani Isra’il as described in the Quran where Allah ta`ala says: “Those who disbelieved among the Bani Isra’il were cursed by the tongue of Dawuud and Jesus, the son of Mary.
This is because they were disobedient and went beyond the limits.” [Quran 5:78] This first curse was actualized by the loss of the single symbol that represented the religious identity of the Bani Isra’il – the Arch of the Covenant. According to Abyssinian sources, Prophet Sulayman, the son of Prophet Dawuud, upon them be peace married Makeda and they had a son named Dawuud.
Allah ta`ala revealed to Prophet Sulayman, upon him be peace to order his son and the first-born sons of the Bani Isra’il to take the Arch of the Covenant into the lands of Abyssinia where it would remain until the End of Time. Later, this image would be enhanced by their acceptance of the message of Jesus, the son of Mary, upon him be peace. This self-image of the African people as inheritors of the Bani Isra’il was extremely significant in making Abyssinia one of the three most powerful kingdoms during the time of Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace (Pg 5).
Africa: The Land of Refuge for the ProphetsAfrica has been the place of refuge for many of the Prophets of the past. Prophet Ibrahim, upon him be peace made the hijra to Africa in his flight from the people of Nimrod. The Bani Isra’il took refuge in Africa from famine and starvation during the time of Prophet Yusef, upon him be peace. Jesus, the son of Mary, upon him be peace was taken by his guardians into Africa in their flight from the Roman and corrupt Jewish authorities of that time.
Allah ta`ala addresses Prophet Muhammad and his early community in the following words: “Do the people think that they will be left to say, “We believe” and they will not be tried? We certainly tried those before them. Allah will surely make plain those who are truthful and He will surely make evident those who are liars.” [Quran 29:2-3]… It confirms the ancient belief system of the Abyssinians as well as creates the foundation for cultural renewal for all of Africa. This image of Africa as a place of refuge implies the proclivity for justice for those who seek refuge there.
THIS IS REFLECTED IN THE FAMOUS STATEMENT PROPHET MUHAMMAD, MAY ALLAH BLESS HIM AND GRANT HIM PEACE MADE TO HIS COMPANIONS ABOUT AFRICA. “VERILY THEREIN IS A RULER WHOSE PEOPLE ARE NOT OPPRESSED IN HIS LAND. THEREFORE, SEEK REFUGE AND PROTECTION WITH HIM UNTIL ALLAH BRINGS ABOUT SOME RELIEF FROM HIMSELF FOR YOU.”(pg. 6)
‘”The Abyssinians have but a very imperfect Knowledge of their Histories and ancient Times, for want of the Curiosity of writing Books, which are the Treasury wherein we lay up the precious Wealth of Knowledge, valued by Solomon more than mighty Kingdoms; and those few Books they have, their Monks take great care to keep from the Catholicks, because of the strong and irresistible -Arguments they draw from them to confound the Errors of Dioscorus and Eutyches.
However, I will here deliver what can be gathered out of a very ancient Book of theirs, which is to them like another Gospel, and kept with extraordinary Veneration in the Church of Auxum, or Aczum. being the ancient Metropolis and prime Seat of all the Abyssinian Empire, there bring a most positive Tradition among them, that there was tie Residence of the ‘Queen of Sheba, and there is no question but for many Ages it was the Court of the Abyssinian Emperors. I will here briefly relate, what is very largely contained in that Book and others of theirs, and what is unanimously received among all those People, which is,
That a mighty Potent Queen, called Azeb or Maqueda, reigning in Ethiopia, she was informed of the great Power and Wisdom of Solomon, by one Tamerin, a Merchant of hers; and being desirous to see and hear Solomon, she came to Jerusalem with a mighty Retinue of the greatest Princes and Lords in Ethiopia, and abundance of Treasure. There Solomon gave her the Knowledge of the true God, and returning home at the end of Nine Months, she was delivered of a Son begotten by Solomon, who was called Menilehec, and by another Name David.
THIS SON AFTERWARDS WENT TO JERUSALEM TO SEE HIS FATHER SOLOMON, BY WHOM HE WAS MAGNIFICENTLY ENTERTAINED, AND HE CAUSED HIM TO BE ANOINTED AND SWORN KING OF ETHIOPIA BY SADOC AND JOAS THE PRIESTS ; AND WHEN WELL INSTRUCTED IN THE LAW OF GOD,… HE ASSIGNED HIM SEVERAL OF THE FIRST BEGOTTEN OF ISRAEL TO ATTEND AND SERVE HIM IN ETHIOPIA AND FURNISHED HIM WITH ALL OFFICERS AND SERVANTS BELONGING TO THE ROYAL HOUSE OF JUDAH, AS ALSO A HIGH PRIEST AND LEVITES, AND MEN LEARNED IN THE LAW OF MOSES.
Then the aforesaid Book proceeds to give an Account of how these first begotten, at the Instigation of Azariah the Son of Sadoc the Priest, took an Oath to one another to carry away with them the Ark of the Covenant, which they called the Heavenly Sion; and that going by Night to the Temple, Providence so ordering it, they found the Gates open, and put the Ark upon a Cart, and being attended by abundance of People, with much Wealth, and great Acclamations, they travelled so swiftly, that Salomon, who went to recover the Ark could not overtake them…
This Book farther tells us, that when Queen Maqueda understood that her Son already made King was coming, and brought along with him all these first begotten, as also the Ark of the Heavenly God of Sion, she went out with great Solemnity to meet them, and placed the Ark in the Temple of the Land of Maqueda, all the People of Ethiopia receiving the Knowledge of the true God; Chap XIII pg 68
Another related narrative says, The kings of Ethiopia trace the origin of their line to King Solomon. Tamrin, the merchant of Makeda, Queen of Ethiopia, bringing red gold, sapphires, and black wood to Solomon, was stunned by the splendor of Solomon’s kingdom and the wisdom of Solomon. Makeda decided to visit him, and she was entertained lavishly and impressed by his erudition.
When she prepared to return to Ethiopia, Solomon was determined to have a child by her. He invited her to sleep in his palace, and she agreed but only if he would swear not to take her by force. He agreed, in return for an oath from her that she would take nothing by force that was in his palace. In the night, she was thirsty, saw a jar of water that Solomon had placed in the center of the room, and crept out of bed to get a drink.
Solomon caught her, said she had broken her oath, and so worked his will on her: they slept together. He gave her a ring when she left, telling her that if she had a son to give the ring to him and send him to Solomon. A son was born, Solomon’s firstborn son; his name was Menelik, and when he was a man the queen sent him to Solomon. But Solomon did not need the ring: the youth resembled the king in every way. Solomon tried to persuade Menelik to remain and reign in Israel, but Menelik would not. So, the king anointed Menelik with the holy oil of kingship so that none but the male issue of Menelik would rule in Ethiopia.
The queen had asked for a piece of the fringe of the covering of the Ark of the Covenant, and Solomon agreed. But when Menelik returned with an entourage including Azariah, the son of the high priest Azariah, the son of the high priest, that person smuggled the Ark of the Covenant out of Jerusalem. When Menelik discovered this, he was joyful.
When Solomon learned of the loss of the Ark, he set forth with an army but was comforted when he learned that his firstborn son had it. He kept the loss of the Ark a secret from the people of Israel. So the kings of Ethiopia are the descendants of the firstborn son of Solomon, the heirs of the promise that the kings of the seed of David and Solomon should rule over all the world. Excerpt from: Makeda Breaks an Oath (Amhara, Ge’ez, Tigre/Ethiopia) in A Dictionary of African Mythology.(https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100127898#:~:text=A%20son%20was%20born%2C%20Solomon’s,Israel%2C%20but%20Menelik%20would%20not.)
According to the Bible there is no record of where the ark of Covenant was seen again since after the days of Solomon till date. The place it was just mentioned, but not seen, is in 2^ndChronicles Chapter 35:3 however, it does not correlate with identical narrative in 2 Kings Chapter 23. The book of Kings specifically mentioned Temple and other Temple vessels without mentioning the Ark of Covenant.
com says the following on the matter.Jewish and Christian tradition presents the Ark of the Covenant as the physical manifestation of God’s presence and supreme power. Ancient Israelites marched the Ark into battle and brought whole cities to their knees. The Ark was so sacred that touching it meant instant death. And once it was laid to rest in the Temple of Jerusalem’s holiest chamber, only the high priest was allowed in its presence and only once a year. Then Babylon sacked Jerusalem in the 6th century BCE, and the Ark disappeared. In the thousands of years since, its fate has stymied readers of history…
One of the most well-known theories about the Ark is linked to Ethiopia’s 14th-century national epic, the Kebra Negast. According to this account, the Queen of Sheba visited King Solomon in Jerusalem during the 10th century BCE and had a son by him on her journey home. Their son, named Menelik, returned to Jerusalem once he was of age. Although Menelik ultimately chose to go back to his mother, Solomon sent with him a company of Jewish scions.
But unbeknownst to Solomon or Menelik, these companions, frustrated about leaving Jerusalem, decided to take a souvenir of sorts: the Ark of the Covenant. It was too late for Solomon to retrieve the sacred vessel. Menelik brought the Ark with him to the city of Aksum, and, with the Ark at his side, he later conquered a number of surrounding territories for what would become the Ethiopian empire.
The Kebra Negast and its account of the Ark are major parts of Ethiopia’s national history. Although many scholars now believe the text to be apocryphal, Ethiopia’s medieval kings—called the Solomonic dynasty—claimed direct descent from Menelik and Solomon. This dynasty ruled until 1974, and their biblical connection was codified in Emperor Haile Selassie’s 1931 and 1955 constitutions. Apart from the Ethiopian government, the country’s largest religious denomination, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, understands the Kebra Negast to be legitimate Christian history.
According to church leaders, the Ark of the Covenant has for centuries been closely guarded in Aksum at the Church of St. Mary of Zion. Not even the high priest of Aksum can enter its resting chamber. Its sole custodian is a virgin monk who cannot leave the sacred grounds until his death. The Ark’s influence, though, is felt throughout the Ethiopian Orthodox world. https://www.britannica.com/story/where-is-the-ark-of-the-covenant
Before we continue, let us consider what Ethiopia stands for or the people that make up Ethiopia in ancient time.
Magn Nyang April 27, 2006: There was no country called Ethiopia before Minelik’s rule. In fact, the word “Ethiopia” came from Greek, meaning “burned faces.” “Ethio” means burned and “pia” means faces. Passing through the North, the Arab part of Africa, Europeans saw people with burned faces, meaning dark face people, living below Sahara desert. There fore, they referred to every one that was living below Sahara desert as “Ethiopian.”
Today’s Ethiopia inhabitants were among the “burned face” people they referred to. In this land, so called Ethiopia today, there were ethnic groups who lived independently from each other. While the Oromo people lived in the East, the central, and the West, the Anuak and the Amahara people lived in the West and the North respectively. However, when Minelik came to power, he invaded Oromo’s, Anuak’s, Gurage’s and every other non-Amhara land. After the invasion, Minelik combined what was called Abyssinia with the new territories and named them “Ethiopia.”
The irony part was that a man, who had claimed to have been a descendent of king Solomon of Israel, would take upon him a name that was meant for all” dark faced people” living below Sahara desert. Anyhow, Minelik consolidated his power over those territories and ruled for years before passing the throne to his cousin Haile Selessie. https://sudantribune.com/article15868/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20the%20word%20%E2%80%9CEthiopia,people%2C%20living%20below%20Sahara%20desert.
Let us look at another documentary
The first thing to be taken Notice of is That this Name of Ethiopia is very Comprehensive, as including all those Regions, whose Inhabitants are Black, who are all called Ethiopians. This same name also denotes those Countries lying along the Red Sea, on the side of Arabia, as far as Palestine which in Holy Writ are called Ethiopia; and the same Name is given to all the Lands beyond Egypt down the Red Sea, not only as far as Cape Guardafu, which is in Twelve Degrees Latitude, but to all those extending to the Cape of Good Hope, and then turning that Cape all along as far as Angola and Cabo Verde, the Inhabitants whereof are all called Ethiopians.
To distinguish that which lies on the side of Arabia, it is called the Oriental or Eastern, as lying to the Eastward, whereas the other, on the Opposite side of the Red Sea, lying more to the South and West, is therefore call’d Southern and Occidental, or Western.
However, Modern Geographers, as may be seen in Johnson’s Atlas, reduce Ethiopia into a narrower Compass, dividing into Six Regions, which are Egypt, Barbary, Biledulgerid, Africk. Zahara, or Lybia, or the Desert, the Country of the Blacks, and Ethiopia, each of which has its peculiar Limits assigned it, as may be seen in the aforesaid Atlas; where, speaking of Ethiopia, it is divided into Two Parts, the one called the Upper or Inward, the other the Lower or Outward, which last, according to the Moderns, comprehends the Southern part of Africk, stretching beyond the Tropick of Capricorn to 35 Degrees of South Latitude, and is called the Lower Ethiopia, in regard to its Position from the Upper, of which I shall presently speak, being divided into Five several Regions, viz-Congo, Monomotapa, Cafraria, Zanguebar, and Aiana.The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia Balthazar Chap 2 page 6 Tellez (1710)
According to Middle English Compendium an ethiopeis an inhabitant of Ethiopia; folk of Ethiopes, the Ethiopians; also, any dark-skinned Africanhttps://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED14612#:~:text=1.,%2C%20any%20dark%2Dskinned%20African.
Let us see Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evilKJV
Can an African change skin? Can a leopard get rid of its spots? So what are the odds on you doing good, you who are so long-practiced in evil?MSG
Maybe you do not know that we have two local governments areas in Nigeria named after Ethiopia: Ethiope Eastand Ethiope West, all in Delta State Nigeria. We are coming to something.
Thus, the ark “was worshipped by the Israelites as the embodiment of God Himself,” writes Graham Hancock in The Sign and the Seal. “Biblical and other archaic sources speak of the Ark blazing with fire and light…stopping rivers, blasting whole armies.” (Steven Spielberg’s 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark provides a special-effects approximation.)
According to the First Book of Kings, King Solomon built the First Temple in Jerusalem to house the ark. It was venerated there during Solomon’s reign (c. 970-930 B.C.) and beyond … Then it vanished But through the centuries, Ethiopian Christians have claimed that the ark rests in a chapel in the small town of Aksum, in their country’s northern highlands. It arrived nearly 3,000 years ago, they say, and has been guarded by a succession of virgin monks who, once anointed, are forbidden to set foot outside the chapel grounds until they die. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/keepers-of-the-lost-ark-179998820/
Let us see another narrative by Hancock, Graham.
In early Old Testament times the Ark of the Covenant was worshipped by the Israelites as the embodiment of God Himself, as the sign and the seal of His presence on earth, as the stronghold of His power, and as the instrument of His ineffable will.
Built to contain the tablets of stone upon which the Ten Commandments had been written, it was a wooden chest measuring three feet nine inches long by two feet three inches high and wide. It was lined inside and out with pure gold and was surmounted by two winged figures of cherubim that faced each other across its heavy golden lid.
Biblical and other archaic sources speak of the Ark blazing with fire and light, inflicting cancerous tumours and severe burns, levelling mountains, stopping rivers, blasting whole armies and laying waste cities. The same sources also leave no doubt that it was, for a very long time, the cornerstone of the evolving Jewish faith: indeed, when King Solomon built the First Temple in Jerusalem his sole motive was to create an house of rest for the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord’.
At some unknown date between the tenth and the sixth century BC, however, this uniquely precious and puissant object vanished from its place in the Holy of Holies of that Temple, vanished without song or lamentation in the Scriptures almost as though it had never Initiation existed at all.
The evidence suggests that it was already long gone when the armies of Nebuchadnezzar burned Jerusalem in 587 BC. Certainly, it was not in the Second Temple which was built over the ruins of the First after the Jews had returned from their exile in Babylon in 538 BC. Neither does it seem to have been taken as booty by the Babylonians.
From this it seems reasonable to suggest that some sort of cover-up may have taken place – a cover-up devised by priests and scribes to ensure that the whereabouts of the sacred relic would remain forever a secret. The sign and the seal: the quest for the lost Ark of the Covenant / Graham Hancock, Published by Crown Publishers, Inc., 201 East 50th Street, New York, New York 10022. Member of the Crown Publishing Group. 1992
From the foregoing it is very clear that the Divine compass is pointing everyone to Africa. If the Pride of Israel, the Tabernacle of God, whether the relics or the whole is being traced to Africa will it be a crime for the Almighty God Himself to be traced to Africa?
So, it will be nice for us to have a look at the map of Africa to take our bearing as we move to Africa.

THE GREATEST OMNIPOTENCE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN IS IN AFRICA

From the foregoing, is Africa not qualified to produce the Messiah – The Son of Man? Is Africa not qualified to be the Home of God, the Jerusalem or Zion of our generation? Remember God has always been dynamic. He moved from Bethel to Gilgal before Jerusalem. If He decides to move to Africa, is it out of place? What is the boast of Israel today without the Ark, without the presence of God?

Some people behave as if Africa is not included in God’s programme. How? Yes, some people often label anything that is associated with Africa or the black race devilish. Even the so-called white race also confirms this ungodly feeling of apathy towards the black by their racial discrimination. This allusion that God is a white man has penetrated so deep in the hearts of men that it will take God Himself to uproot this false assumption.
Israel had to come to Africa to be multiplied. In other words, before Israel became an established nation, God had already blessed and established Africa. No wonder civilization started in Africa.
The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh are half Africa, half Israel because Joseph their father married an African. That not withstanding Jacob adopted the two of them in addition to Joseph making it fourteen sons of Jacob. Again, consider Moses the servant of the Most High God.
We have also seen how the Royal Seed of David entered Africa through King Solomon and Queen of Sheba. Not only the Royal Seed of David but with the best stocks of Israelis including Azariah, the son of the High Priest.
King Solomon made Zadok, the High Priest anoint King of Ethiopia, instructed him in the Law of the Lord. Then assigned him several of the first begotten of Israel to attend and serve him in Ethiopia (Africa) and furnished him with all officers and servants belonging to the royal house of Judah, as also a High Priest and Levites, and men learned in the law of moses.
No wonder the commonwealth of Israel was shaken, and Israel split after King Solomon’s reign.
What about the generations of all these holy men of God. Surely, they remained in Africa multiplying and spreading. The anointing went to Africa with King Menelik. Rehoboam became a mere figure head.
Publish it far and wide that the greatest omnipotence the world has ever known is in Africa. The journey started in Africa, and it is ending in Africa. Genesis chapter 2 verse 13,
“And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.”KJV
Let us quickly see what Prophet William Marrion Branham, the Elijah that was to come, has to sayon this matter.
I believe the Church is standing now on the threshold of the greatest vindication of the Ominipotence that the world has ever known. (FIVE JUNCTIONS OF TIME 22-01-56)
The greatest Omnipotent is already here. He is in His Church revealing the mind of God to the people of God for the salvation of their souls. He is man in the outside but Deity in inside. God reveals Himself to an individual, and quickly He becomes Deity in the inside of him.”(Come Hither Quickly. 2/2/58).
¹¹AND SOMEHOW OR OTHER, THE HOLY SPIRIT JUST SEEMED TO PLACE AFRICA RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. I looked at it. And I have a vision wrote right here in the book, that to return to Africa will be far greater than the first African meeting. And then, the people not knowing what was going on, but a vision taken place, and I said, “Heavenly Father…”At Kadesh-Barnea, preached on Sunday, the 27th of May 1956 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A
²⁵…I’m in the pulpit tonight with one of those things holding over me. My meetings hasn’t been what they should been, for the past two years. It’s because I’ve failed the Lord. He told me to go to Africa and then to India. Here it is written right here in the back of this book right now. And the manager called me, said, “Let them Afrikaans go; India’s ready.” The Holy Spirit met me, said, “You’ll go to Africa like I told you to.” And another year passed. And the managers…
I forgot about it and he said, “We’re going to India; tickets is already here.” I started off, forgot it till I got to Lisbon. One night I thought I was dying. The next morning I started to go over to the bathroom to take a bath. Oh, I was so sick, I could hardly stand up. There that light hanging there in the bathroom, said, “I thought I told you to go to Africa first.” ²⁶My meetings has been slowly failing since that time.
Though I went to India, with nearly a half a million standing there, but that wasn’t doing what God said do. And I feel that my meetings will never be a success until I go right straight back and make that thing right. NO MATTER WHAT I DO, IT’S AFRICA FIRST, BECAUSE YOU’VE GOT TO DO IT. THERE LAYS GOD’S ETERNAL WORD LAYING THERE. I knew better than that. But I’ve got to go back. I feel that this coming year is the time I will crawl out of the shell by the help of the Lord. The Book of Hebrews, Chapter 7, part 1Preached on Sunday evening, the 15th of September 1957 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A
³⁴Only last night on the fly leaf of my Bible, when sometime ago, in a vision that the Lord had given me and I spoke it to the church. And then He said to me, “Go to Africa then back to India.”
I said, “Yes, Lord.” And when Mr. Baxter told me in Canada … or, in Chicago, said, “Let’s go to India. Let them Afrikaans alone. They won’t cooperate with us right.”
“All right,” I said. I forgot it. When I went home, the Angel of the Lord met me between the two rooms, a pillar of fire, a light, the same One there. And He said, “You go to Africa like I said go.”
And a year later they talked me into it again and I forgot it. I didn’t write it down. And I was with my boy there in Portuguese … Lisbon, Portuguese. And I was stricken down sick all night. And the next morning I was going into the bathtub to take a little shower. And on my road in there, there stood the Angel of the Lord. Said, “I thought I told you to go to Africa first.”I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK, Preached on Sunday, the 8th of December 1957 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A
…I’d had a vision recently of going over to India and into Africa. And the Lord had told me; He said, “You go to Africa first, then up to India.” And through some mix-ups and so forth, the manager said to me… And I wrote the vision immediately after I’d–I had the vision that morning. And then when the manager, as we call him that for the time being, had made an arrangement to go into India. And he–he didn’t kinda like Africa very much. So he said to me in Chicago; he said, “Brother Branham, let’s just bypass Africa and go on to India.”
I said, “That is up to you, brother; wherever the Lord wants me to labor, all right.” …Now, so in Africa, He didn’t want to go. And I said, “All right, we won’t go.” Then, on the road back I went to my room. And when I did, there was a Light hanging there at the door. He said, “You go to Africa like I said.” I called brother back in a few minutes and said, “We’re going to Africa.” I waited for a year, and finally how I done it I don’t know, but another way come up, I found my road on my way back to India. When I met Lisbon, Portugal….
³⁹And then, while I got so sick that night, Billy stood by me, and the rest of them had left me there. And I said, “Billy, I don’t think I can make it till morning.” And I was just so sick, I just couldn’t breathe no more, I was so sick, my breath wouldn’t even come hardly, had to force my breath. And that way all night. And the next morning, I started into the bathtub to take a … bathroom to get in one of those big tubs, a towel twice the size of these tables.
And so I was going to take a bath. There hung that light hanging there. And it said, “Didn’t I tell you to go to Africa first?” And I fell on my face and begin weeping. Then I said, “Lord, just let me go somewhere and get me a little cabin out in the mountains, and trap, and hunt like I have always wanted to. I couldn’t be Your servant; I haven’t even got the mental powers to serve You.” I said, “I forgot all about that.”GREAT.COMMISSION CHATTANOOGA.TN 58-0301B 33
^40-3Oh, Christian, what a opportunity we have. We have opportunities that St. Paul never dreamed of having. We have opportunities that Enoch, and Elijah, and all of them never had, the opportunities we have now. There’s one little sheep out yonder somewhere, and He will not be satisfied till that one comes in the fold.
BY THE HELP OF GOD, AND BY A VISION, And THUS SAITH THE LORD, I’M RETURNING ACROSS THE SEA (Africa). That last little sheep may even be a black one down there, for all I know, where they don’t even think they got a soul, but God knows different. I’m going to seek till the last day of my life to find that one, wherever it is. (The Easter Seal 65-0410)
Let us look at this quote again bearing the following in mind. First, Brother Branham was a prophet. Second, as a prophet, he was the mouthpiece of God just like all the other prophets. Third, when God wants to speak, He put that word into the mouth of the prophet to speak on His behalf. So, let us look at this quote again.
BY THE HELP OF GOD, AND BY A VISION, AND THUS SAITH THE LORD.Pause a little here. Whom do you think was speaking? The answer you supply here will determine your understanding of the following statement.
… THUS, SAITH THE LORD, I’M RETURNING ACROSS THE SEA (AFRICA). Now, who was to return across the sea that is to Africa? The speaker of course. which of them Branham or THE LORD? I, (Branham or THE LORD) AM RETURNING TO AFRICA.
It is true that Branham was in Africa before in 1951 and could be the one to return. However, Almighty God took His origin from Africa: Garden of Eden was founded in Africa by Ethiopia; Jesus the Christ took refuge in Africa (for out of Egypt of Africa I called My Son) and many more instances. So, it could as well be that THE LORD was returning to Africa. Let us see the mission slated for Africa.
THUS, SAITH THE LORD, I’M RETURNING ACROSS THE SEA (AFRICA)…I’M GOING TO SEEK TILL THE LAST DAY OF MY LIFE TO FIND THAT ONE, WHEREVER IT IS. So, it is ministry of full restoration that God planned to execute in Africa. There is no saviour except God. Permit me to take you back to the vision that resulted in above statement.
Despite the above statement made in April 1965 underscoring Brother Branham’s resolve to minister again in Africa, all the effort Brother Branham made failed. This Message by Brother William Marrion Branham called Last Visit To South Africa was delivered on Thursday, 27th May 1965 in South Africa
^E-1This is one of the highest moments of my life. I have waited fifteen years for this time. My heart has longed to see you again, ever since I left you. I have prayed very much to get to come back. And a few weeks ago, I was under great anticipations, believing that I would get to come and have a meeting. But when I got the visa, “RESTRICTED,” I almost had a heart attack. Ha. I wanted to come so bad. But I do believe that through God I will minister again in the Name of the Lord Jesus among the people of Africa…
That Prophet Branham died seven months later, on 25^thDecember that year 1965 without actualizing the vision by himself does not cancel it, rather, confirms that the vision was speaking to what THE LORD Himself would execute in Africa. Remember, according to the vision it would be the greatest manifestation of God’s Power. To be executed where? In Africa by THE LORD HIMSELF.
Let us look at Prophet Elijah the Prophet and what happened in his own day. Follow me to 1 Kings Chapter 19 from verse 15
¹⁵And the Lord said unto him (Elijah), Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: ¹⁶and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. ¹⁷And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. KJV.
The instruction or directive from God to Elijah is clear. He was directed to return on his way to the wilderness of Damascus and when he gets there, he should anoint Hazael to be king of Syria, then anoint Jehu (son of Nimshi) to be king of Israel, and anoint Elisha (the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah) to replace him as God’s prophet. You can see the order. Let us see the execution of the assignments; verse 19-21
¹⁹So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. ²⁰And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee? ²¹And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him. KJV
From the above, Elijah was able to carry out only one out of the three critical assignments: the last of them so to say, before he was taken away. What then happened to the first two assignments. Let us see.
⁷And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither. ⁸And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the Lord by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease? ⁹So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
¹⁰And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die. ¹¹And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept. ¹²And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
¹³And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria. ¹⁴So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover. ¹⁵And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead. KJV
And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead: ²and when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber; ³then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the Lord, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
⁴So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-Gilead. ⁵And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain. ⁶And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel. KJV
Have you seen how Elijah accomplished the three missions he was scheduled to do. The problem with human beings is their effort to separate the words of a Man of God from God Himself who has taken over that mouth. Whatever comes out the Man of God can no longer be attributed to the man but to God. He is just a representative, mouthpiece just like a loudspeaker, to convey the information which God want to pass. He, God takes full ownership. He is fully responsible.

NIGERIA IS FAVOURED

Ladies and gentlemen, we have begun our descent into Zion, the City of God. Please Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth turn off all preconceived ideas and stow them until we have arrived at the gate. In preparation for landing, take the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of doubt. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Thank you.

Now we have successfully established from several authentic records that THE MESSIAH whom the whole world creation is waiting for, THE SON OF MAN is coming as a black man, not just a black man but a black man from Africa, let us see if we can navigate through to find out which country of Africa that is favoured. The nation that is privileged to have this great Personage on her soil as in the days of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us see if there is any clue as to where He was going to pitch His tent in these last days.
Remember, when the wise men arrived the gate of Jerusalem they went to Herod’s Palace for consultation. Herod gathered the scribes and asked them to know whether the prophets specified where the Messiah would be born. So, he tasked them to search the scripture and find out where the Messiah was to be born. Let us see Matthew chapter 2:1-6 LB
¹…At about that time some astrologers from eastern lands arrived in Jerusalem, asking, ²“Where is the newborn King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in far-off eastern lands and have come to worship him.” ³King Herod was deeply disturbed by their question, and all Jerusalem was filled with rumors. ⁴He called a meeting of the Jewish religious leaders. “Did the prophets tell us where the Messiah would be born?” he asked. ⁵“Yes, in Bethlehem,” they said, “for this is what the prophet Micah wrote: ⁶‘O little town of Bethlehem, you are not just an unimportant Judean village, for a Governor shall rise from you to rule my people, Israel.’”
It was very easy to identify Bethlehem with Bible prophecies because Bethlehem was in existence in the time of the prophecy as well as at the time of its fulfilment. However, in the case of Africa, it is mainly either Lud, Put, Egypt Cyrene (Libya), or Ethiopia (Cush) that dominated the area. Therefore, in Bible days references about any other country in Africa is made with respect to Egypt and Ethiopia. Follow me to Isaiah chapter 18 from verse 1 to end. It is small so i want us to run through it first meditatively.
Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: ²that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto;a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! ³All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains;
and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
⁴For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. ⁵For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. ⁶They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
⁷In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.
According to Ambassador Yusuf Rufai,
Isaiah Chapter 18 is loaded with allegories, symbols and mysteries. When the prophecy was initially given and for hundreds of years it remained a mystery but now the mystery has been unraveled. When the prophecy was given to Isaiah, Nigeria as a people or Nation was still in the loin of Ethiopia or Egypt as Africa was then known.
This prophecy is messianic and speaks of the End Time and the close of this present Age. This prophecy speaks of the GREATEST WORK OF GOD TO BE DONE ON EARTH IN A SHORT TIME SINCE THE CHURCH AGE BEGAN BEFORE THE RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST(JUDGEMENT).
IF ANYBODY WHO IS IMPORTANT OR WORTH HIS SALT IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH, THEN HE OR SHE SHOULD PAY A CLOSE AND SERIOUS ATTENTION TO THE PROPHECY IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 18 AND THE COUNTRY NIGERIA AND ALSO LOOK OUT FOR THE MAN OF GOD WHOM GOD HAS DESIGNATED AS A PERSONIFICATION OF ISAIAH CHAPTER 18.
I write by revelation. Please open your Bible to Isaiah Chapter 18 now and let’s look at the verses one by one slowly and meditatively.
Verse 1 (RSV) When Isaiah gave this prophecy in Israel, Ethiopia was down south of the land of Canaan or Palestine. “Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia” means deep into the heartland of the African continent.A “land of whirring wings” means a land of an active, a travelling people. The word whirring means a constant sound from a continuous movement of a machine or wings of a bird.
Verse 2 “Which sends Ambassadors by the Nile, in vessels of papyrus upon the waters!” This is purely a symbolical language…“Go you swift messengers to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation might and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.”
These lines speak of the black Africa people… The last two lines qualify and give the identity of the country in reference. Because of the Boldness, Resilience, Intelligence and strong character of Nigerians…Nigeria is Africa‘s GIANT and a mighty and conquering nation, in the sense of her size, population, resources, achievements and accomplishments – which is actually her edge and blessing.
It is the only country in Africa whose land the Rivers Niger and Benue divide equally and form a confluence in the city of Lokoja. The Y symbol on Nigeria‘s Coat of Arms, a national insignia represent these rivers and the dividing of the country.
Verse 3 “All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear!” This means a message will go forth or an event, physical or spiritual will occur that will signal the beginning of this massive and compelling work of salvation among the nations. “Raised on the mountains” refers to the Church or the presence of God among His people.
Verse 5 Before Harvest comes blossoming and after Blossoming comes harvest. Harvest denotes gathering in. In the Bible Harvest means the salvation of souls or snatching away or Rapture of the Righteous or Saints and also the collecting of Evil ones for punishment… Blossoming refers to Revival and Awakening and a readying of a people for God. For the Blossoming must come to a conclusion for the Harvest to occur because the flower has become a ripening grape.
Then the Church of God(THE BRIDE OF CHRIST)would have been ripe for plucking when God will say to her “come up hither.” Hallelujah! “He will cut off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he will hew away.” This means all pretenders, hypocrites, the unfaithful, infiltrators, and children of Satan among the blossoming will be removed by God…
Verse 6 This means the“cut off the shoots” and the “spreading branches hewn away” will be lost forever and will become preys of the curse of God. A determination for those who reject Jesus Christ and disobey or are unfaithful to God.
Verse 7: This means Gifts, that is, saved and sanctified souls will be brought to the LORD of Host to Mount Zion, that is, the everlasting presence and Church of God (Heb. 12: 22 – 24).These great feats will be inspired and carried out in the world by majorly the activities and effort of the“people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divided.” And that nation is Nigeria, and the people are called Nigerians.
He Yusuf Rufai never claimed to be the MAN, he only said that it was revealed to him in a vision. Please listen to him speak:
I have had two visions from the Lord in which the Lord told me or revealed to me that: (i) Isaiah Chapter 18 speaks of Nigeria and her destiny from God. and (ii) …that Isaiah Chapter 18 speaks also of A MAN of God, an Evangelist, a Prophet and a Teacher also from Nigeria.(https://ambassadoryusufrufai.blogspot.com/p/nigeria-in-bible-prophecy.html)
Let us consider another documentary on Nigeria Predicted in Bibleby Austin DAMA, Independently Published, 11 Aug 2020 – Religion – 228 pages
Nigeria predicted in the Bible is an inspirational book that unlocks the prophecies concerning Nigeria and some other nations, and institution. The emphasis dwells more on Nigeria and her citizen’s biological ancestries. Historians recorded the ancient Ethiopia cover extensive part of West Africa and that excludes Proper Guinea.
The prophecy says beyond the rivers of Ethiopia there is a nation whose land the rivers divide; this prophecy pointed to Proper Guinea which is beyond ancient Ethiopia territory where we found Nigeria, a nation with two great rivers from different location forming a confluence and creating the greatest delta in Africa. This is the Y symbol in Nigeria coat of arms which explains the emphasis of a nation whose land the rivers divide.
Through the prophecies and historical records, we are being informed that Nigerians ancestors were true biblical Israelite fugitives; that settled in present day Nigeria. Zephaniah 3 v 10; From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering. Isaiah 18 v 7b; a nation whose land the rivers or great channels divide-to the place [of worship] of the Name of the Lord of hosts, to Mount Zion [in Jerusalem]. Amplified Bible Version.
Connecting a nation in west Africa to Mount Zion and declaring them as daughters of my dispersed is a food for thought.

…FACTS YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT NIGERIA…

A predicted nation that will be the gospel torchbearer before the end will come. Isaiah 18 v 7a; (RSV)
She is the nation that is beyond the rivers of (ancient) Ethiopia ‘whose land the rivers divide’. Isaiah 18 v 1; (RSV).
Nigeria as African giant fulfills the prophecy not only in Africa, but also one of the world powers very soon. https://books.google.com.ng/books/about/Nigeria_Predicted_in_Bible.html?id=OhnAzQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount ZionIsa, 18:7 KJV.
Please let us attempt the following questions honestly,
Which land was sending ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters?
Which people are scattered (all over the world) and peeled (downtrodden)?
Which people are terrible from their beginning, feared everywhere, far and near?
Which nation is meted out and trodden under foot in this land Nigeria that is divided into three by rivers?
Which place in Nigeria has its land heavily spoiled (by erosion)?
…whose land the rivers have spoiled even to the place, the home of the Name of the Lord of Host.
The Lord of Host has His Home in a state with heavy erosion, lying along the great rivers of that nation beyond Ethiopia. The Lord lives there!
Possible honest answers to above question are below
Which land was sending ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters?Between the 16th and the 19th century the Bight of Biafra was the scene of extensive slave-dealing operations, based mainly on the ports of Brass, Bonny, Opobo, and Old Calabar (now Calabar) in Nigeria

https://www.britannica.com/place/Bight-of-Biafra

Which people are scattered (all over the world) and peeled (downtrodden)? IGBO PEOPLE
Which people are terrible from their beginning, feared everywhere, far and near? IGBO PEOPLE and particularly MBAISE people that had the courage to a British District Officer when every other people were reverencing them as God
Which nation is meted out and trodden under foot in this land Nigeria that is divided into three by rivers? IGBO PEOPLE
Which place in Nigeria has its land heavily spoiled by rivers (erosion)? ANAMBRA STATE
An environmental expert and Head, Climate Change Education and Action Programme, Elochukwu Ezenekwe, has said that Anambra State remains the worst hit by climate change in Africa. Ezenekwe also stated that Anambra had suffered the worst damage from climate change impacts in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa.
The environmental expert, reputed as Africa’s foremost climate change expert, …While calling for an urgent need to declare a climate change emergency, he said ANAMBRA STATE IS SUFFERING FROM FLOODING AND IS ALSO THE HEADQUARTERS OF GULLY EROSION IN AFRICAhttps://punchng.com/anambra-headquarters-of-gully-erosion-in-africa-expert/
We have finally landed successfully at Anambra international Airport. Before we proceed on our journey let us hear from certain quarters on this subject.

WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR

We are concluding. I truly appreciate anyone who has patiently followed me to this moment. The flight is already descending, and everything is clear. Thank you very for taking this ride with me. Before we continue let us consider some prophecies and declaration about Africa and Nigeria.

Pastor S. G. Elton spoke prophetically in this meeting concerning two key African nations, saying that Africa is like a gun pointed down. Its turret and muzzle is South Africa. Its trigger is Nigeria.He said the days would come when Apartheid (then at its peak in South Africa) will be removed from South Africa. In those days, he said the Gun of Africa would begin to fire for God’s purpose.
The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution of 1996; and in South Africa’s first non-racial elections in 1994, won by the African National Congress (ANC) liberation movement.
In 1989, on the way to US, I was in Shursbery in UK; I met this accountant who had a message given to him in 1983 during the Rivers of Life Conference in East Anglia in UK. The visioner was in a prayer session with his group when God began to show him a vision.
God began to show him a vision of countries and lands that was passing through a draught. As he watched God brought him over a parcel of territory that typifies Africa. As he looked on, at a particular portion of that land, that portion was in total darkness, sparks of light was shooting out of that darkness while groaning and cries were coming out of that darkness.
As he continues to watch, it appears somebody used a remote control to pause the motion of pictures. At this point he called out to his brethren, he told them that God was showing him something but it seems nothing was moving anymore. His friends told him to keep watching while they pray for him.
As soon as they began to pray, it appeared a play button was pressed and the motion came alive again. Then greater cries were coming out of that land and suddenly there was blinding flash of light that came and swept away that darkness and the whole land birthed with light.
God told him that that land he has just seen is called Nigeria. Then they now sat down and began to ask themselves the meaning of this vision. And God told them that Nigeria is a significant nation in His hands for the establishment of His purposes in the last days, to break the scepter of the religion of sons of the bondwoman, to establish His purposes and that the principality appointed by Lucifer over Nigeria is in the same category as the principality over Israel and European nations. That is as tough as it is going to be to fulfill God’s purposes.
So God told them (this British brethren) to constitute themselves to be interceding for Nigeria. So when he heard from his friends in 1989, that a Nigerian was coming, he came to see me (Steve) and to handover the responsibility. As he finished the message, he said since you are a Nigerian, go home and tell your brethren what God has said. As he finished, he greeted everybody and left.
So it is important to recall what God has said concerning Nigeria. A land covered with darkness in which there were groaning and cries with sparks of lights but needed a great light from heaven to blow away the darkness. It happened suddenly. It will happen suddenly. (Engr. Steve Olumuyiwa, Narrating)
Arise Oh Nigeria! Saith the Lord, Arise from the North, Arise from the South, Arise from the West, Arise from the East. The season of incubation is past. The day to hatch has come and I the Lord bring upon you a visitation, my marked visitation. Even though you have not known me, yet I have chosen you. In this day I pass through your land in mercy to renew the face of the nations. Even though the nations are despising you, I have desired you as a place for my glory.
Therefore, I the Lord have jealously watched over you to cause my purpose to be done. I have brought you to the valley of decision. There is no time to waste. Arise as a generation for, I have waited for you. I will desire of you genuine dedication. I the Lord will make my demands. But I seek to raise out of you a generation of men who will make my glory known in the ends of the earth. I have purposed it, I will do it. But I ask you to arise.
Arise in this day, there is no more time to wait. Arise, Arise, from complacency, Arise from ignorance. Know me the God of destiny. Know me the God of covenants. For I seek to exhibit you to the world. I have come. This day do I desire a commitment from you. I desire not to wait any longer. My time has come and you shall labor in the nations to bring up children. Therefore, arise into this destiny for the world waits for you saith the Spirit of the Lord. (Prophecy, IFN, Core East Regional Conference, Onitsha, 27/1/96)
At this global Christian convocation of the International Christian Chambers of Commerce (ICCC) held in Arlington VA USA, a white American female delegate called those of us from Nigeria together and intimated us about the word which she said the Lord spoke to correct her view of Nigeria as a nation that was forsaken by the Lord.
She said that Lord said He was preparing Nigeria for use in the end time harvest of souls. She said the Lord directed her to go read the entire 36^thchapter of the book of Ezekiel. He told her that wherever she saw the name Israel in the chapter, she should put the name Nigeria. The Lord said that way; she will see the full scope of his plan for the nation of Nigeria. (1996 Arlington Virginia USA ICCC Conference)

By Chad Taylor

Africa awake to your destiny! For in you is a prophetic seed that is about to break the ground of persecution. From you is coming a tree of righteousness and soundness. Its leaves will be for a shelter for the nations of the earth. For in you is a prophetic seed; an apostolic seed; in you is a corner stone to My last days Church, a pillar in My Temple and a living stone…Africa awake to your destiny.
This is your hour of liberation! This is your year of jubilee! Africa awake to your destiny! You will speak my word in this season. You will set in motion these end time events. You will set my house in order. For the seed of prophecy is springing up even now in you, it will shortly bud and bear fruit. It will shortly cast its shadow upon the whole earth, and many shall hear of it and be glad. Africa awaken to your destiny! This is your year of jubilee! (Extract, Prof. Anigbogu’s Message, AKBF Continental Conference, 2006)
“GOD IS A NIGERIANbecause what we have gone through in Nigeria and what we are going through, probably, Nigeria should not be on the map of the world. That’s why I say God is a Nigerian. God has been kind to us; if not, the country would have ceased to exist.”
Above statement was credited to Former President Chief Gen. (Rtd) Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo (GCFR) according to Vanguard Newspaper July 2, 2019. President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. He made this known at the Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria.
Earlier in August 2016, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo made similar statement as reported by Nigerian Tribune on Wednesday August 10, 2016. According to the report,
“FORMER President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that with the prayers of Nigerians and God’s love, the country was bound to overcome the current hardship in the country. He said, “GOD IS A NIGERIAN.” Obasanjo made these remarks at the event to mark the 77th birthday of a former Secretary to the Oyo State Government, Chief Olayiwola Olakojo, in Ibadan, the state capital, on Wednesday.
While recognising the economic recession and current challenges that Nigerians experienced, Obasanjo called for patience with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. He noted that despite all odds and problems, the current tough times was a passing phase, because God was with the country.”
In another development on Thursday December 2022, the former President reiterated his assertion that God is a Nigerian according to The Nation Newspaper December 1, 2022.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said Nigeria has got away with a lot of “stupid things” because of the love of God.He said the country should blame itself for failing to use the resources given to it by God. Obasanjo spoke during the official launch of The Letterman by the Editor-in-Chief of Premium Times, Musikilu Mojeed, on Thursday in Abuja.
The 492-page narrative non-fiction titled: The Letterman: Inside the ‘Secret’ Letters of former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, x-rays the role of letter writing in leadership, governance and politics.It focuses on the former president and his fondness for speaking bluntly to subordinates, superiors, associates and foreign personalities – through letters – not minding the reactions the letters might generate.
Obasanjo said: “I BELIEVE THAT GOD IS A NIGERIAN. Bishop Kukah may not agree with me. Because God loves us so much that we have done so many stupid things and he allowed us to get away with these stupid things. “I sincerely hope that God’s patience has no limit of elasticity because if he does, there will soon be a day that God will say: ‘No, I have heard enough.’ And if God says he has heard enough it doesn’t matter, Musikilu can write 20 books on Lettermen and Letter women, it won’t help us.”
This is a very strong statement coming from no less a person than one of the most respected elder statesmen in Nigeria whose word cannot be toyed with. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria Armed Forces from 1976 to 1979 when he handed over to a democratically elected government. Fortunately, he became elected as the President and Commander-in-Chief when Nigeria returned to Democracy in 1999 after about sixteen years of military rule.
So, Chief Obasanjo is qualified to speak in any capacity on matters about Nigeria. He is an authority who cannot be demeaned, whose word cannot be disregarded in the whole of Nigeria and in diaspora. When a statement is made three times, it means that the utterance was not a slip of tongue, it was not a mistake, neither was it a coincidence. In order to drive the matter home very well he added that Bishop Kukah, a respected religious leader of high standing in Nigeria, might not agree with him.
Thus, the ex-president was very convinced about what he was saying that he needed nobody’s validation. What he has not been able to tell Nigerians and the entire world is who that God is or where He lives. If he does not have the information and the ecclesiastical hierarchy like Bishop Kukah do not have it as well, what has he done to save himself and Nigerians from the danger of not recognizing and welcoming this God. Can a state governor ignore a visiting President and get away with it?
If the answer is no, do you think both the President and all Nigerians will go scot-free if they ignore this august Visitor, the Divine Personality who of all countries in the world voluntarily accepted Nigerian citizenship which true Nigerians regard as unworthy? Why didn’t He choose United States of America; what happened to Canada; what happened to United Kingdom? What about Israel, United Arab Emirate, Saudi Arabia, to mention but a few? Galatians chapter 6:7
Don’t be misled; remember that you can’t ignore God and get away with it: a man will always reap just the kind of crop he sows!
No man can ignore God or His prophet and get away with it. No nation can ignore God or His prophet and get away with it.
Granted Chief Obasanjo didn’t really mean it since he has not substantiated it, don’t you think he thus spoke out of inspiration just like Caiaphas the High Priest in the Gospel according to John 15:49-51
⁴⁹And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, ⁵⁰nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. ⁵¹And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;(KJV)
⁴⁹And one of them, Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said, “You stupid idiots— ⁵⁰let this one man die for the people—why should the whole nation perish?”⁵¹This prophecy that Jesus should die for the entire nation came from Caiaphas in his position as High Priest—he didn’t think of it by himself, but was inspired to say it.(LB)
This is why according to Archaeological Parchment – Talmud of the Sanhedrin, Caiaphas, the High Priest resigned from his coveted position as a High Priest when it was confirmed that Jesus has resurrected from the dead as a proof of His Divinity.
So, Chief Obasanjo could be prophesying in his position as an elder statesman to the entire nation and the world over. That is the only way the statement could be published far and wide via various national media to get wider publicity. Since then, nobody has come out to refute him, not even the referenced Bishop Kukah in all his eloquence and advocacy. According to KELLOGG Institute for International Studies,
“Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukahof the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Nigeria, is a tireless advocate for justice, democracy, and human development. Priest and political scientist, he has served as a member of Nigeria’s Truth Commission, as secretary of the Political Reform Conference for Nigeria, and as a member of Nigeria’s Electoral Reform Committee… Kuhah was ordained a priest in Kaduna in 1976 at age 24. He subsequently earned a diploma in religious studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, a BA in divinity from the Urban University, Rome, a master’s in peace studies from the University of Bradford, UK, and a PhD in political science from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was a senior Rhodes fellow at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford and an Edward Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University”.
You can see the personality that Chief Obasanjo challenged publicly with his statement that God is a Nigerian, yet he, Bishop Kukah has not countered it. Why?
The Gentile Church has also been blinded by the ecclesiastical veil even when after it has been torn off to reveal God. How are they blinded? By veiling the Word in human being. This is exactly what Israel failed to see… God being veiled in a human being is what blinded Israel. The Gentiles today are just as blind as Israel was because of the veil.
To one it was blind and to the other it will reveal the truth. It will close the eyes of some and will open the eyes of others… Now, we see Him, the Word, manifesting Himself. Why is it hidden out there? Because it is veiled in human flesh? We are inside of Christ. Now, as then, all true believers see Him openly manifested”. (UNVEILING OF GOD, PAGE 33).
This means that if the population of Nigeria is two hundred million, One out of the lot is God, THE SON OF MAN, Himself. Invariably, for God to be a Nigerian it means that God is an entity, a human being who lives His life like any other human being and also has a dwelling place or home. Let me say it again, for God to be a Nigerian, He, God must be a HUMAN BEING, MAYBE A MAN, WHO LEADS HIS NORMAL LIFE AS ANY OTHER PERSON AND HAS HIS HOME RENTED OR OWNED IN NIGERIA!
What if He is your neighbour and you don’t know it. What if He is your business partner, customer, president, minister, governor, driver, and so on. This matter is serious and should be given every amount of seriousness it deserves.

HE CAME TO HIS OWN

Let us look at John Chapter 1 from verse 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²The same was in the beginning with God. ³All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. ⁴In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ⁵And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

⁶There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light that all men through him might believe. ⁸He was not that Light but was sent to bear witness of that Light. ⁹That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. ¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. ¹¹He came unto his own, and his own received him not. ¹²But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
The same book of John Chapter 10:15-16¹⁵As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
According to Dan Schnur (2022), Professor at the University of California – Berkeley, USC and Pepperdine Many historical scholars believe that at least 80 percent of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt under Pharaoh’s rule stayed behind. Rather than following Moses into the desert, most chose to remain in subjugation rather than face the unknown…But what about the Jews who weren’t brave enough to leave, who didn’t have the mettle or the audacity to abandon their homes in Egypt?
There’s considerable disagreement among researchers of that time period as to how many Israelites stayed behind (some believe the number was upwards of 90 percent, others dismiss the possibility altogether.) But for the sake of this discussion, let’s assume that only one of five Jews in Egypt decided to take the risk of trusting Moses’ promise and setting out into a dangerous wilderness on the vague hope of finding a new home for their people.
That means that the overwhelming majority of the children of Israel chose a compromised but familiar existence over the potential dangers that more dramatic and assertive actions might have brought. https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/347149/the-israelites-who-stayed-behind/
AT LEAST 80 PERCENTOF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHO LIVED IN EGYPT UNDER PHARAOH’S RULE STAYED BEHIND. RATHER THAN FOLLOWING MOSES INTO THE DESERT, MOST CHOSE TO REMAIN IN SUBJUGATION RATHER THAN FACE THE UNKNOWN.
The British penetration of Nigeria met with various forms of resistance throughout the country. In the south the British had to fight many wars, in particular the wars against the Ijebu (a Yoruba group) in 1892, the Aro of eastern Igboland, and, until 1914, the Aniocha of western Igboland. In the north many emirates did not take military action, but the deposedcaliph, Atahiru I, rebelled in 1903. Many Muslims resorted to migration as a form of resistance, a tactic known as the hejira, in which those perceived as infidels are avoided.
Resistance was strong in western Igboland, where a series of wars were waged against the British. The Ekumeku, who were well organized and whose leaders were joined in secrecy oaths, effectively utilized guerrilla tactics to attack the British. Their forces, which were drawn from hundreds of Igboyouth from all parts of the region, created many problems for the British, but the British used forceful tactics and heavy armaments (destroying homes, farms, and roads) to prevail. https://www.britannica.com/place/Nigeria/The-arrival-of-the-British
Remember, a people feared within and without. They are feared among themselves, they are feared by outsiders. Above excerpt from Britannica says it all. Out of the three major Tribes in Nigeria according to the division by the Rivers, we can see the people that created most problems for the British – THE IGBOS.
The third school of thought postulates the External migration theory. This hypothesis asserts that the Igbo descended from the Jews and as such migrated from the Far East. Talbot writes about a migration set in motion in Egypt in 1870 BC. The Nubian wars of Amenemhat or the conquest of Egypt by Hysos are believed to have led some Egyptians to settle in the Yoruba country of Oyo and in certain Igbo sub tribal areas.
19 The idea of migration from the East is also backed by Niven, a colonial Officer – who wrote about the Igbo people: “There are living today along the two great rivers of Nigeria many tribes using languages … (who) … for the most part have no traditions except the almost universal one… of having come from the East, from Mecca, from Egypt and elsewhere but always from the east.”
Also similarities in some Igbo cultural and characteristic traits with that of the Jewish culture buttresses the claims of a direct Jewish descendance of the Igbo people just as Basden writes: “There are certain customs which rather point to Levitic influence at a more or less remote period. This is suggested in the underlying ideas concerning sacrifice and the practice of circumcision. The language also bears several interesting parallels with the Hebrew idiom”.
This goes to support the theory and views of Innocent Okorie, who also holds that the Igbo migrated from the Middle East – Juda and whose story gives even more explicit dates, names and Map of this migration of the Igbo from the Middle East. In any case, it is not the aim of this work to go into deep research with the aim of ascertaining any archaeological or scientific proof of this version of the Far East origin of the Igbo.
But however, Josephus Flavius, the famous Jewish Historian describes also in his famous work how Shalmaneser, the King of Assyria took Samaria by force, and how he transplanted the ten tribes into Media and brought the nation of the Cutheans into their country. Thus:
“When Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria, …besieged Samaria, (he) took it by force in the ninth year of the reign of Hoshea, and in the seventh year of Hezekiah, king of Jerusalem, and quite demolished the government of the Israelites, and transplanted all the people into Media and Persia among whom he took King Hoshea alive; and when he had removed these people out of their land he transplanted other nations out of Cuthah, a place so called (for there is still a river of that name in Persia), into Samaria, and into the country of the Israelites. So the ten tribes of the Israelites were removed out of Judea nine hundred and forty-seven years after their forefathers come out of the land of Egypt, and possessed themselves of the country.
This Theory stipulates that the Igbo people originated from the Middle East. And that they wandered out of the present-day Palestine during the Assyrian Assault in which the ten northern tribes of Israel fell about 718 BC. Characteristic of this Assault according to biblical history and theology is that the Assyrians conquered northern Israel and transported the people out and planted another people in their land.
Many of the tribes in the northern Israel of this time wandered away in different direction and got intermingled among different tribes and cultures and disappeared so to say from history. There is no scientific explanation in biblical research and history of the where about of these tribes of northern Israel that were displaced. So, this theory of the origin of the Igbo holds it that a tribe in northern Israel at this time of the Assyrian assault called “Scheckenigbo” was among the tribes that wandered out of northern Israel during this time.
They supposedly wandered down to Egypt but remembered what happened to them in Egypt and left Egypt again and wandered further south. Along the way according to Okorie, because of fear that the Assyrians could still go after them, they removed the “Schecken” in their name and left only “Igbo”. They continued to wander southwest Africa. They intermarried with the people they met on their way, until they came to what is today Nigeria.
On reaching the Niger, most of them crossed over and settled and some of them remained west of the Niger, which is the Delta Igbo of today. Cf. Innocent Okorie; “The History of the Igbos and the Chronology of Events”, Cecta Pub., New Haven Enugu, 1983, pages 8 -11 (Origin or Genealogy of the Igbo people of Nigeria. By Sabinus Iweadighi University of Vienna Austria)
According to Dr. Ifeanyi Onwuzuruigbo Both communities claim descent from Eri. However, while Aguleri was founded by the children of Agulu, a direct son of Eri, Umuleri was founded by the children of the only daughter of Eri, who was not allowed to marry but who bore children in Eri’s house. So, the relationship between the two communities is …more like that of cousins than brothers. This account is clearly captured in Idigo (1990), Jeffreys (1956) and Afigbo (1981). HORIZONTAL INEQUALITIES AND COMMUNAL CONFLICTS: THE CASE OF AGULERI AND UMULERI COMMUNITIES OF SOUTH-EASTERN NIGERIA Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 81, No. 4 (November 2011), pp. 567-587 (21 pages) Published By: Cambridge University Press
Let us look at some scriptures.¹⁵These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three. ¹⁶And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, ERI, and Arodi, and Areli 46:15-16 KJV.
¹⁵The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites: ¹⁶of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of ERI, THE FAMILY OF THE ERITES:¹⁷of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites. ¹⁸These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred. Num. 26:15-18 KJV.
Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle; ²the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying, ³Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, ⁴even the country which the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle: ⁵wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan. Num. 32:1-4 KJV
…Eri from Israel was the fifth son of Gad, the seventh son of Jacob … They travelled by water and finally arrived at the confluence of Ezu and Omambala (Anambra) Rivers, located in present-day Aguleri, where, according to oral tradition, it was spiritually or divinely revealed to Eri that the point was to be their final destination and settlement. They moved into the hinterland and settled in the present-day Aguleri. Eri lived and died at Aguleri.
Agulu was the eldest son of Eri. This is supported by oral tradition in Aguleri and in other communities of Eri clan. It is also confirmed by historical accounts by many writers of Igbo history. As the population at the settlement of Eri at Aguleri increased, and in combination with other factors, the children of Eri and/or their descendants left the settlement and founded various other settlements outside Aguleri, while Agulu, the first son, remained in their father’s home at Aguleri with his descendants.
Agulu, fondly called Agulu-Nwa-Eri, appended the name of their father, Eri, to his name and founded Agulu-Eri (Aguleri). Menri left Aguleri and settled at a big forest, where he engaged in hunting and farming, while also performing his spiritual work. He called the settlement Agu-Ukwu (Nri).

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/igbo-originate/
Let us see Zephaniah Chapter 3:9-¹⁰

My scattered people who live in the Sudan (that is land of the black), beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, will come with their offerings, asking me to be their God again. ¹¹And then you will no longer need to be ashamed of yourselves, for you will no longer be rebels against me. I will remove all your proud and arrogant people from among you; there will be no pride or haughtiness on my holy mountain.
¹²Those who are left will be the poor and the humble, and they will trust in the name of the Lord. ¹³They will not be sinners, full of lies and deceit. They will live quietly, in peace, and lie down in safety, and no one will make them afraid.”
¹⁴Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. ¹⁵For the Lord will remove his hand of judgment and disperse the armies of your enemy. And the Lord himself, the King of Israel, will live among you! At last your troubles will be over—you need fear no more.
¹⁶On that day the announcement to Jerusalem will be, “Cheer up, don’t be afraid. ^17-18For the Lord your God has arrived to live among you. He is a mighty Savior. He will give you victory. He will rejoice over you with great gladness; he will love you and not accuse you.” Is that a joyous choir I hear? No, it is the Lord himself exulting over you in happy song.
“I have gathered your wounded and taken away your reproach. ¹⁹And I will deal severely with all who have oppressed you. I will save the weak and helpless ones, and bring together those who were chased away. I will give glory to my former exiles, mocked and shamed.
²⁰“At that time, I will gather you together and bring you home again, and give you a good name, a name of distinction among all the peoples of the earth, and they will praise you when I restore your fortunes before your very eyes,” says the Lord.
Land of the Black beyond Ethiopia. Let us have a look at 19^thcentury map of Africa. You will see Ethipia and the land beyond Ethiopia.

HOW DO WE IDENTIFY HIM

The world cannot recognize Him because they are not looking for Him. That is what the scripture says in the Gospel according to John Chapter 14:16-17

¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; ¹⁷even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. KJV
^15-16“If you love me, obey me; and I will ask the Father and he will give you another Comforter, and he will never leave you. ¹⁷He is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit who leads into all truth. The world at large cannot receive him, for it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you do, for he lives with you now and some day shall be in you. LB
¹⁶and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another comforting Counselor like me, the Spirit of Truth, to be with you forever. ¹⁷The world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him.You know him, because he is staying with you and will be united with you CJB
Another Counsellor like me, the Messiah, the Son of Man, the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit to be with, with, W.I.T.H. you forever. Was Jesus not with them physically, in a corporeal body when this statement was made? Was He not the Messiah, the Son of Man. The Spirit of Truth? However, He says, expect ANOTHER PERSON, COMPARABLE TO ME, NOT ME JESUS, HE IS THE ONE THAT WILL BE WITH YOU FOR EVER. But the world cannot recognize Him. HE IS THE SON OF MAN THE MESSIAH.
Bediuzzaman Nurzi said that,When the Prophet Jesus (as) comes, it is not necessary that everyone should know him to be the true Jesus (as). His elect and those close to him will recognize him through the light of belief. It will not be self-evident so that everyone will recognize him.(Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Letters, p. 60)
IT IS ONLY HIS ELECT AND THOSE CLOSE TO HIM THAT WILL RECOGNIZE WHO HE IS THROUGH THE LIGHT OF BELIEVE – THE REVELATION OF WHOM HE IS. IT WILL NOT BE SELF-EVIDENT; IT WILL NOT BE OPEN FOR EVERYBODY TO RECOGNIZE. NO!
At another place Bediuzzaman said that, indeed, including his descent, and that the Prophet Jesus (as) is himself Jesus, is known by the light of his faith; not everyone will know. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Rays, p. 487)
When Jesus (pbuh) comes, NOT EVERYONE WILL KNOW HIM TO BE THE TRUE JESUS. HIS ELECT AND THOSE CLOSE TO HIM WILL RECOGNIZE HIM THROUGH THE LIGHT OF BELIEF.IT WILL NOT BE SELF-EVIDENT SO THAT EVERYONE WILL RECOGNIZE HIM… (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, 15th Letters Second Current)
A ZEALOUS, SELF-SACRIFICING COMMUNITY KNOWN AS A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY BUT WORTHY OF BEING CALLED “MUSLIM CHRISTIANS,” WILL WORK TO UNITE THE TRUE RELIGION OF JESUS (pbuh) WITH THE REALITY OF ISLAM and will kill and rout that society of the Dajjal under the leadership of Jesus , thus saving humanity from atheism. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, 29th Letter 7th Section Sixth Sign)
From Yahya ibn Nufal, indeed Musa ibn Ja’afar (as) raise his hands and supplicates after Asr prayer, I inquire from him saying, to whom did you offer prayer for? He said: to Al-Mahdi among the family of Muhammad (saas) and said: HE IS HAVING BIG STOMACH, his eyebrow very close, HIS LEGS ARE VERY ENERGETIC, HIS SHOULDER IS WIDE(Bihar al-Anwar: 86-81).
Humran bin A’yân says: To Imam Muhammad Bakir: “… Your Lord Hazrat Mahdi (As) will have a wide stomach ...” (Sheikh Muhammad bin Ibrahim Nomani, al-Ghaybah al-Nomani p. 253).
One hadith states: ‘Hazrat Mahdi (as) will come. There will be a cloud just above his head. There will be an angel there who will cry out: This is Hazrat Mahdi (as), follow him…
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen 1:7 KJV.
The rabbis, too, knew of the identification which we find in the Targums, as is shown, for instance, when they interpret the ‘one like a man in Dan. vii, 13 of the Messiah, …
AS THE ‘ CLOUD MAN’, THE ONE WHO COMES WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN, THE MESSIAH-SONOF-MAN. (He That Cometh Pg. 357)
In the Gospels both Jesus and His opponents assume it as an article of current belief that the Son of Man will come with (or “on”) the clouds of heaven. This was also known to the Jewish apocalyptists. As the Apocalypse of Ezra puts it, ‘THIS MAN FLEW WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN’ (xiii, 3). The rabbis., too, following Dan. vii, think of the Messiah as revealing himself on the clouds of heaven.
THEY INCLUDE AMONG THE NAMES OF THE MESSIAH ‘ANANI’, WHICH THEY INTERPRET AS “CLOUDMAN; AND THE TARGUM ADOPTS THE SAME INTERPRETATION OF THE MASCULINE PERSONAL NAME in i Chron. iii, 24. (He That Cometh Pg. 389-390)
He is the One that will restore the Ancient Cloud – the very Presence of God – that was leading the Israelites in the wilderness, The Pillar of Cloud leading by day and The Pillar of Fire leading by night.
^5-⁶Then God will bring back the ancient pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night and mark Mount Zion and everyone in it with his glorious presence, his immense, protective presence, shade from the burning sun and shelter from the driving rain. Isa. 4:5-6 MSG
⁵Adonai will create over the whole site of Mount Tziyon and over those who assemble there a smoking cloud by day and a shining, flaming fire by night; for the Glory will be over everything like a hupah. ⁶A sukkah will give shade by day from the heat; it will also provide refuge and cover from storm and rain. CJB
HAZRAT MAHDI’S (AS) FOLLOWERS WILL NOT BE ARAB. They will be from other nationalities. BUT THEY WILL SPEAK ARABIC. (Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha’ah li-ashrat al-sa’ah).

MUMMY NZUBECHI JOY ODOEMENA (1988)

THE MESSIAH will marry according to Abdrushin of Germany (1875-1941) in his book In the Light of the Truth: Grail Message
The curse thus created by mankind fell heavily on the whole world, pressing them into an ever-greater limitation of understanding.
IN GRAVE WONDER, A YOUTH BEHELD THIS MONSTROUS HAPPENING FROM THE CASTLE OF THE GRAIL… THE FUTURE SON OF MAN.
IN HIS YOUTHFUL AGE – THE FUTURE SON OF MAN. He was already then being prepared for His Mission, a process which took thousands of years…
A WOMAN’S HAND WAS GENTLY LAID ON THE SHOULDER OF THE DREAMING YOUTH. THE PRIMORDIAL QUEEN OF WOMANHOOD STOOD BESIDE HIM, AND SPOKE IN A SAD AND LOVING VOICE:
AT THE EXACT HOUR, EVEN BEFORE THE END OF THIS ARDUOUS TIME OF LEARNING, IT CAME TO PASS THAT HE, THE SON OF MAN, MET THE COMPANION WHO, AS A PART OF HIM, WAS TO JOURNEY WITH HIM THROUGH EARTHLY LIFE, TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GREAT TASK ACCORDING TO DIVINE ORDINANCE.
It was designed that He must marry, of a necessity; So, before the end of His arduous time of learning He met His wife who is a part Him and a part of His Divine task according to Divine Ordinance.
HERSELF A STRANGER ON EARTH, SHE JOYFULLY ENTERED THE WILL OF GOD THROUGH HER OWN RECOGNITION, AND GRATEFULLY MERGED WITH IT, IN ORDER TO BECOME ABSORBED IN IT. ONLY THEN CAME THE TIME FOR THE CALLED ONES, WHO HAD ONCE SOLEMNLY PLEDGED THEIR LOYALTY FOR THEIR SERVICE TO GOD! THE GRANTING OF THEIR PETITION HAD BEEN CAREFULLY CARRIED OUT
THE PRIMORDIAL QUEEN OF WOMANHOOD STOOD BESIDE HIM, LAID HER HAND ON HIM (SYMBOLIC OF MARRIAGE) AND SPOKE IN A SAD AND LOVING VOICE…remember The Son of Man was identified as THE PRIMORDIAL MAN in one of our previous chapters, chapter 9 to be precise and I quote,
The Primordial Man is the cosmos itself, thought of in human form, the macrocosm conceived of in terms of the microcosm. From this cosmological Primordial Man, the world is thought to have arisen in various ways… He may also be said to be incarnated in later heroes and saviours…
WHEN THE NEW WORLD COMES, IT IS THE PRIMORDIAL MAN WHO RETURNS…IN INDIAN RELIGIOUS SPECULATION, THE PRIMORDIAL MAN IS CONNECTED WITH THE TEACHING ABOUT AGES … AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH NEW AGE, IT IS THE PRIMORDIAL MAN OR GOD-MAN (PURUSHA), WHO IS INCARNATED IN A NEW FIGURE.

THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE MESSIAH

The Zohar goes on to describe in detail the events that will happen in those final years, the “birth pangs of the Messiah”, culminating in the coming of Mashiach and his subsequent kingship. The Zohar employs the famous notion that each day of Creation corresponds to a millennium of civilization. Civilization as we know it is meant to last for 6000 years. The Messianic Age must come before the end of the sixth millennium, ie. the cosmic “Sixth Day”, to usher in the final Cosmic Shabbat millennium.

The Zohar says that 274 years before the end of the Sixth Day there will be a Sabbatical Shemittah year, followed by a Jubilee (the 50^thyear of the Sabbatical cycle). So, if we count 274 years from the end of 6000, we get to the Jewish year 5726, or 1966. That year was indeed observed as a Sabbatical year in Israel. The following year, 5727 (corresponding to the end of 1966 and most of 1967), would have been a Jubilee. We also know that the Messianic Age is meant to begin after the conclusion of a Sabbatical year (as stated in multiple places in Midrash and Talmud, such as Sanhedrin 97a). Thus, it seems the Zohar posited long ago that the “Footsteps of the Messiah” period would begin in 1967.
This fits perfectly with what actually happened in 1967, when Israel miraculously routed all of its enemies in a mere six days (which, I think, is further symbolic of this Zohar prophecy that repeatedly speaks of the “Sixth Day” over and over again). More significantly, after two millennia, the Jewish people were once more in control of their holiest city and eternal capital, as well as the surrounding Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria.
Recall that Israel recaptured Jerusalem and the “West Bank” from the Jordanians. Jordan lies on the ancient territory of Moab, and the Zohar specifically gives this prophecy in its discourse on the verse that says the princes of Moab would be subdued!
Rabbi Shlomo Goren blows the shofar by the Western Wall during the 1967 liberation of Jerusalem.
Finally, we can deduce from the Zohar that 1967 was a Jubilee year. The Torah states that in a Jubilee year, a shofar should be blown and “freedom should be proclaimed in all the land…” (Leviticus 25:10) This makes Rabbi Shlomo Goren’s blowing of the shofar at the Western Wall during the liberation of Jerusalem even more significant. It may very well be that the recapture and reunification of Jerusalem in 1967 formally began the pre-Messianic Age, and we are undoubtedly nearing the fulfilment of the rest of the incredible prophecies, too.

https://www.mayimachronim.com/the-zohar-prophecy-of-the-six-day-war/

THUS, IT SEEMS THE ZOHAR POSITED LONG AGO THAT THE “FOOTSTEPS OF THE MESSIAH” PERIOD WOULD BEGIN IN 1967.
Rabbi Shlomo Goren blows the shofar by the Western Wall during the 1967 liberation of Jerusalem. That was in June 1967. Finally, we can deduce from the Zohar that 1967 was a Jubilee year. The Torah states that in a Jubilee year, a shofar should be blown and “freedom should be proclaimed in all the land…” This makes Rabbi Shlomo Goren’s blowing of the shofar at the Western Wall during the liberation of Jerusalem even more significant.
IT MAY VERY WELL BE THAT THE RECAPTURE AND REUNIFICATION OF JERUSALEM IN 1967 FORMALLY BEGAN THE PRE-MESSIANIC AGE, AND WE ARE UNDOUBTEDLY NEARING THE FULFILMENT OF THE REST OF THE INCREDIBLE PROPHECIES, TOO. You see! the signs of our time.
Footsteps of the Messiah! Is it the day a child is born that his footsteps are heard? According to the Scripture, Jesus’ first official ministration or public interaction is at His 12^th Is it not from 12 years that male children begin to get recognition in the society? In other words, we can say that the footsteps of a man begin at 12 years. If 1967 is significant and 12 is a significant number therefore, Year 1967 minus 12 years which gives us 1955 should be significant also.
The Emergence to the future Fifth World has begun. It is being made by the humble people of little nations, tribes, and racial minorities. “You can read this in the earth itself. Plant forms from previous worlds are beginning to spring up as seeds [as described in SW-II, Effects and Coming Events # 1].
This could start a new study of botany if people were wise enough to read them. The same kinds of seedsare being planted in the sky as stars. The same kinds of seeds are being planted in our hearts. All these are the same, depending how you look at them. That is what makes the Emergence to the next, Fifth World…Excerpt from: Hopi prophecy was first published in a mimeographed manuscript that circulated among several Methodist and Presbyterian churches in 1959. (Book of The HopiBy: Frank Waters Source Material by: Oswald White Bear Fredericks
Copyright 1963, by Frank Waters).

http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/prophecy/hopi1.html

Please follow me gradually as we relay our findings.At Nsugbe, a little town in Anambra East Local Government Area just a few kilometers from the Airport the Star appeared. There you will see THE MAN CALLED THE SON OF MAN. His name is Mr. Boniface Alozieuwa Odoemena divinely called Apostle Peter Odoemena (Blessed is His Name).
According to oral tradition, the first settlers in Nsugbe were the descendants of Omini, son of Enugwu Aguleri Eri, who migrated from Enugwu Aguleri after the death of their father and settled at Okpuno Enugwu Nsugbe, an area on the outskirts of modern-day Nsugbe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsugbe
If as postulated above, Nsugbe people are descendants of Omini, son of Enugwu Aguleri, son of Eri, son of Gad, then they are Israelites.
Although, THE MAN is not from Nsugbe but He took His wife from Nsugbe. THE MAN was born in the year 1955, precisely on Sunday 3^rdApril, in Umukohie Uvuru Aboh-Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria. 1955 happens to be the same year that Prophet Branham’s ministry started declining as we have seen above; Branham said: Two of us cannot be here at the same time – I will decrease, and He will increase.
Born at Mbaise Imo State but settled at Nsugbe Anambra State compares favourably with Jesus’s birth at Bethlehem Judea but settled at Galilee in fulfilment of Scriptures.
In addition, Coincidentally or incidentally, the date of His birth appears to correspond largely to the date Jesus the Christ was crucified according to the prevailing Roman calendar.
God works with time; God works with date. See Genesis chapter 12:41
⁴¹And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt
THE JEWISH CALENDAR, A LUNAR ECLIPSE AND THE DATE OF CHRIST’S CRUCIFIXION Colin J. Humphreys and W.G. Waddington Summary Astronomical calculations have been used to reconstruct the Jewish calendar in the first century AD and to date a lunar eclipse that biblical and other references suggest followed the Crucifixion. The evidence points to Friday 3 April AD 33 as the date of the Crucifixion. This was Nisan 14 in the official Jewish calendar, thus Christ died at precisely the time when the Passover lambs were slain.
The date 3 April AD 33 is consistent with the evidence for the start of Jesus’ ministry, with the gospel reference to 46 years to build the temple and with the symbolism of Christ as our Passover lamb. The mention of a solar eclipse at the Crucifixion in some texts of Luke is discussed and explained. A new chronology of the life of Christ is suggested. TYNDALE BULLETIN 43.2 (1992) Pg 331
A new Chronology of the Life of Christ In a previous paper48 we dated the birth of Christ to the Spring of 5 BC. In the present paper we have dated his death to 3 April AD 33. These two key dates enable a new chronology of the life of Christ to be constructed which is given in Table 4. The most likely date for the baptism of Jesus is autumn AD 29.49
If Jesus was born in the Spring of 5 BC then he would have been 33 when he commenced his ministry, which is consistent with Luke 3:23 that he was ‘about thirty’ at this time (the Greek translated ‘about thirty’ is an imprecise expression meaning any age between 26 and 34). It should also be remembered that there is no year ‘0’ between 1 BC and AD 1 in our conventional calendar. If the Crucifixion was on 3 April AD 33 then Jesus was close to his 37th birthday when he died.TYNDALE BULLETIN 43.2 (1992) Pg 350.
https://www.tyndalebulletin.org/article/30487-the-jewish-calendar-a-lunar-eclipse-and-the-date-of-christ-s-crucifixion.pdf
If the Crucifixion was on 3 April AD 33 then Jesus was close to his 37th birthday when he died. This again appears puzzling. At 37 years, He was a young man. Could this be the reason why Prophet Branham and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) always described Him as resuming His Ministry at about 40 – years.
Therefore, we enquired about when the Ministry of THIS SON OF MAN started officially and it was discovered to be on 30^thDecember 1992, exactly 37 years after His birth. (1955 + 37 =1992).
This means that THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF MAN has returned as APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA, to finish work which He could not do in His first advent.
He has returned according to Prophecy; He has returned according to Time; He has returned seeking amongst the lost sheep of Israel in one of the jungles in Africa. If He, Almighty God does not come by Himself, who would have ever admitted a Nigerian, even an Igbo man into the Commonwealth of Israel.
And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. 9:29
HE IS THE ONLY SEED LEFT TO SAVE THIS WHOLE GENERATION, BOTH THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES. THE JEWS CANNOT SAVE THEMSELVES – THEY LOST THEIR IDENTITY BEFORE GOD: THE ARK OF COVENANT – LONG TIME AGO. WITHOUT THE ARK, WILL THERE BE PRIESTHOOD?
PRIESTHOOD WITHOUT THE ARK OF COVENANT IS USELESS. THEY LOST THE ARK, THEY LOST THE PRIESTHOOD AND ALSO REJECTED JESUS THAT WAS SENT TO SAVE THEM.
FOR THAT REASON, THEIR SALVATION WILL BE COMING FROM A FAR COUNTRY FROM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN IN EXILE WHERE HE WILL BLOW THE TRUMPET SPEAKING PEACE TO THE HEATHEN (THE GENTILES)
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.¹⁰And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
¹¹As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.¹²Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even today do I declare that I will render double unto thee;¹³when I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
¹⁴And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.¹⁵The Lord of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar. ¹⁶And the Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: Zech. 9:9-16 KJV
AND THE LORD SHALL BE SEEN OVER THEM, AND HIS ARROW SHALL GO FORTH AS THE LIGHTNING: AND THE LORD GOD SHALL BLOW THE TRUMPET AND SHALL GO WITH WHIRLWINDS OF THE SOUTH.
Let us see the message Blow the Trumpet in Zionpreached by the Son of Manon 21st November 2010
I have told you that the timetable of the world changed in the year 2000, but nobody knows this truth except in the midst of the Bride. The timetable changed; we are no longer in the year AD (Anno Domini), no! The year 2000 AD ended and then a new calendar opened, which the world does not know. However, in their own language, they call it millennium, but we are not in the millennium year.
There can never be millennium without the judgment of God upon the Earth, for whosoever that will survive the wrath of God is the one that will enter the millennium.Look at the world that is in the millennium.
In millennium, there will be no more death, no more war, no more sorrows, no more pains, no more crying, no more anguish and sin. God and His people will rule in righteousness. The whole nations upon the Earth will never have any knowledge of war again. Millennium means peace. If now we are in the millennium, it then means that this millennium is anti-prophetic, anti-scripture, anti-history and anti-nature.This type of millennium the world is enjoying is making God a liar, but God is not a liar. This is not His promised millennium.
Thus, we are not yet in the millennium, but we have a new timetable, a new record, a new calendar that was opened in the year 2000; and you know that from the year 2000, you have been living in God’s own period and not your own time.
Let me tell you the plain truth, the whole periods God allotted to the Gentiles are over. Only few days are left in it.Chap 1 Pg. 9-11
What is the matter at stake? I had a dream which I will narrate to you here in the fear of the Lord. This is my experience: I was in a dream, yet it is real. The Voice came through my mouth saying, “ARISE, BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION. TELL MY PEOPLE AND YOUR PEOPLE, TIME IS FINISHED. THE BRIDE HAS MADE HERSELF READY. THRUST IN THE SICKLE, HARVEST THE EARTH”. The thing shifted again: “THE MONTH OF NISAN SHALL NOT PASS AWAY; I WILL TURN THE ATTENTION OF THE WORLD TO THE EVENT. IN THE MIDST OF THE TROUBLE, THE SAINTS SHALL BE TRANSLATED.”
There, the book of Isaiah chapter 42:1-6 flashed across: “Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles.” (KJV).
I then screamed, “We are trapped! The entire world has been trapped. The world has missed it all, but God help us. This period is a very delicate period. If you do not intervene, no flesh shall be saved.”Chap 2 Pg 24-28
You see! Israel is hoping on the West (America and Europe) but God is pointing them to Africa, the land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia where the Lord God shall blow the Trumpet and go with the whirlwinds of the South. God is revealed in the East. Nigeria (1˚°N, 8.7°E)is on the East but about 22° south of Jerusalem (31.8˚°N, 35.2°E).

BEHOLD THE MAN

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ¹⁰Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah; ¹¹then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest; ¹²and speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH;

and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord: ¹³even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. ¹⁴And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the Lord. ¹⁵And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God. 6:9-15 KJV
BEHOLD THE MAN, THE MAN, THE MAN, BEHOLD THE MAN, BEHOLD THE SON OF MAN, WHOSE NAME IS THE BRANCH; AND HE SHALL GROW UP OUT OF HIS PLACE, AND HE SHALL BUILD THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD… AND THEY THAT ARE FAR OFF SHALL COME AND BUILD IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH SENT ME UNTO YOU
It is the Lord God Almighty Himself in the Person of the Son of Man, that shall blow the Trumpet, not an angel.
BEHOLD THE MAN; THIS MAN IS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
On 27th December 1985 Apostle Peter heard an audible Voice thus: “The hour has come for me to use you as I purposed from the beginning; for the Ministry of the old generation is over; I will not put a new wine into an old bottle; Arise and do the work as I will reveal to you from time to time; only be faithful and courageous; I the Lord God Almighty, I am with you wherever you will go”.
At the age of 33 in 1988 He met and married the Companion, the Primordial Woman, the woman of subsequent creation Nzubechi (pbuh) Joy Who, as a Part of Him, journeyed with Him through earthly life.
She Herself according to Her name divinely (Nzubechi) and joyfully (Joy) entered the Will of God through Her own recognition, and gratefully merged with Him, and became absorbed in Him(Abdurushin).
She participated immensely in the great task according to Divine Ordinance until the great Light from the Lord visited her during fellowship on Sunday 29^thAugust 2021 to take her away having fulfilled her ministry. This is a replication of Sarah’s experience, when God sent His angel to go and call her home, leaving Abraham to conclude whatever was left.
On 30th December 1992, the Son of Man, whose mission was still not declared, preached the message, “Holy Ghost and Necessity for Holy Ghost Baptism”; and many witnessed great demonstration of power of God and supernatural manifestations like them in days of the Apostles; Great fear of God then came upon the camp; Then, It became clear that a vindicated Apostle has come.
Among the many visions received that day was the vision of the SWORD OF THE SPIRIT with the word, “TRUTH” engraved on it and the scripture 1Thessalonians 2:4-5:
“But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:(1 Thess 2:4-5, KJV)
On 3rd March 1993 a prophecy went forth concerning THE SON OF MAN through the Pastor of the church saying,
“I have anointed you with my spirit; I have anointed you with my power; speak my Word; fear them not for I am with you. I have anointed you with my anointing; speak my word for I have promised to be with you. I have anointed you with my unction; Yes, the Lord of Hosts has promised. It is my word among my people; it is my word among my people for it is my power; it is my word among my people for it is my power. Yes, when they shall come into my sanctuary and they shall see my power among my people, Shall my word fail?
Ask the Lord of hosts. Shall my word fail? Says the voice of the living God. Shall my word fail when I send it among my people? I say my word cannot fail. For when you shall prophesy among my camp and they ask: how could you know it is the Lord? Now watch for a sign that the spirit of the living God is among you. It is unfailing sign that this tabernacle that is called by my name; I shall not depart from among you. I have promised you: I have decided I will not leave you alone”
In the year 1993, our then Pastor Okechukwu Nwamkpa, who later became our Bishop wanted to anoint the Son of Man with a bottle of olive oil and to consecrate a copy of his bible. He lost grip of the bible as it continued turning in his hands; only for the pastor to notice that supernatural oil was already flowing from the head of the Son of Man down to his face. Proving that the Son of Man’s office is never ordained by any mortal human being but the Almighty God Himself.
In 1994, while in His office at Federal Ministry of Employment, Labour and Productivity, Onitsha, the Son of Man spoke a Dove into existence as He earlier declared on 8^thMarch 1993, He promised that as Prophet William Branham spoke a squirrel into existence, that He, the Son of Man will speak a dove into existence; because this ministry is the ministry of a dove for dove is the only animal without bile it is quiet, humble and gentle.
He spoke the dove into existence in his office while handling the message – The Revelation of the Seven Thunders – before some brethren that came to see Him. The dove followed Him home. This was witnessed by not less than seven (7) elders, including many others, even the heathens. He commanded the Dove to depart, on three occasions, it would fly a little and come back at his command. Finally, he told the dove which spent many hours to leave, and it flew away.
In December 1995, during a Camp Meeting. The Son of Man handled the teaching of the Seven Seals. As He was speaking on the sixth seal, lo and behold, a supernatural light came from above from one end of the hall towards the pulpit, illuminating the entire hall like a powerful electric current and quenched all the electrical gadgets in use.
As the Son of Man lifted up His hands, intending to give God praise, a Voice went forth: “THUS, IT BEHOVETH THE SON OF MAN TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS”
That was when it dawned on everybody that a great move of God has started among them and that God was about to do a new thing, something that has never existed since the history of Christianity. This is because no man has ever declared himself as THE SON OF MAN since after Jesus of Nazareth. Before then, nobody ever addressed Him or any other person as the Son of Man.
On Sunday 31^stMarch 1996, the Voice said, come next Sunday and you will see Him That Has Been in your midst to banish unbelief. So, the following Sunday 7th April 1996 camera was permitted, for the first time, to be used while worship was going on. When the films were developed, everybody was amazed at what were seen. THE MAN was enveloped with The Pillar of Cloud and Pillar of Fire in the form of a (RAIN)BOW in 13 different positions. A sign of God’s everlasting covenant and Presence.
“As he went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and hover at the entrance while the LORD spoke with Moses. Then all the people would stand and bow low at their tent entrances. (Exodus 33:9-10, LB).
In the Gospels both Jesus and His opponents assume it as an article of current belief that the Son of Man will come with (or “on”) the clouds of heaven. This was also known to the Jewish apocalyptists. As the Apocalypse of Ezra puts it, ‘THIS MAN FLEW WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN’ (Ezra 13:3).
The rabbis., too, following (Dan. 7), think of the Messiah as revealing himself on the clouds of heaven. THEY INCLUDE AMONG THE NAMES OF THE MESSIAH ‘ANANI’, WHICH THEY INTERPRET AS “CLOUDMAN; AND THE TARGUM ADOPTS THE SAME INTERPRETATION OF THE MASCULINE PERSONAL NAME in 1 Chron. 3:24. (He That Cometh Pg. 389-390)
On 8th April 2012, the Son of Man, during a thanksgiving service was photographed by a bishop in the church, Bishop Moses Chukwuemeka, who used his handset to take the photograph.
Lo and behold, the HEADSTONE, THE ANCIENT OF DAYS was captured in fullness enveloping the entire congregation. We rejoiced because that fulfilled the prophecy of Prophet Branham about the Son of Man bringing down the Headstone to cap the pyramid as we saw above.
On 19th August 2012, some of the elders came very early to fellowship as instructed. One of them, a teacher of the word of God, Brother Amankem, used his mobile phone to take the photograph of the beautifully decorated altar. Lo and behold, it was One like unto the Son of Man dressed in dazzling white.
The ORIGINAL BODY OF THE DEITY, THE ELOHIM, having the very stature of Apostle Peter (Blessed is His Name) standing by the pulpit, with his hands resting on the pulpit: THE THEOPHANY BODY!
There have been too many supernatural manifestations of the presence of God around the Son of Man and even in all the various households and families all over the world that I can mention only but just a few.
Apostle Peter Odoemena (Blessed is His Name) is THE CLOUDMAN. This Man moves with the Clouds of heaven. Even though the Cloud is hidden from human eye, but you will feel the presence of the Cloud when you around Him. Many who have tried to photograph Him without His approval had their camera damaged. Others captured different inexplicable images of the same Person. We thank God who has allowed the camera to capture Him on several occasions. You will always hear Him say, THE CLOUD IS HERE!
What is more, on Friday 4^thMarch 2022, during the interment of the Queen of Paradise, the Primordial Woman, The Woman of Subsequent Creation, Sister Nzubechi Son of Man (pbuh), His Glory came down. The Cloud of His Presence enveloped the entire area at Umukohie Aboh-Mbaise. There was no sun; there was no rain and there was no heat in the area. But in the neighbourhood, it was a different story entirely.
In addition, When He got the news of my mother (Mrs Elizabeth Jonathan-Abonyi)’s death on 6^thJanuary 2023, He told us that Mama died the death of a saint and should be given a befitting burial as a saint. He charged us to ensure that the burial would be on a Friday; that we should expect the same glorious atmosphere that prevailed during the burial of Queen of Paradise because He, THE SON OF MAN would be there personally.
When the Son of Man arrived on Thursday 23^rdMarch 2023, He reiterated His resolve to display His Majesty for which reason He moved His Operational Base and Headquarters to Opi in Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria.
On the burial day 24^thMarch 2023 as guests started settling down in the field everywhere was hot. People were fanning themselves as arrangements were being made to set up standing fans within the tents.
Immediately one fan was set up for the Son of Man He commanded them to turn it off that they were becoming a distraction to Him. People were wondering why, considering how hot the place was getting.
Before we knew what was happening wind started blowing, trees were shaking and bowing low the entire area darkened. People concluded that a heavy downpour was inevitable. But instead, everywhere became covered with Cloud. The Cloud of His Presence physically, visibly enveloped everybody in the area and even beyond from about 2:00pm Nigerian local time till the following day.
Some thought it was dew, others thought it was fog. But. In amazement people started walking around to see if they could feel moisture but nothing like that yet the Cloud was moving around visibly all over the place. Another group said they thought they were about to witness total eclipse of the sun. Fear gripped many people as they thought the world was coming to an end. Some people said that they thought rapture was about to take place. Some said that they went inside their houses and locked themselves within. This is because such experience was unheard of. There was quietness everywhere.
A notable Chief, Mr Joseph said that he has never witnessed or even heard of such supernatural phenomenon unless it happened in the ancient time.
It was a clear display of that which is prophesied in Isaiah Chapter 4:5-6 saying:
⁵And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. ⁶And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. (KJV)
⁵Then the Lord will provide shade on all Jerusalem—over every home and all its public grounds—a canopy of smoke and cloud throughout the day, and clouds of fire at night, covering the Glorious Land, ⁶protecting it from daytime heat and from rains and storms. (LB)
⁵Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory[a] will be a canopy. ⁶It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding-place from the storm and rain. (NIV)
Then God will bring back the ancient pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night and mark Mount Zion and everyone in it with his glorious presence, his immense, protective presence, shade from the burning sun and shelter from the driving rain. (MSG)
ARE YOU STILL GAZING AT THE SKY? STOP GAZING AT THE SKY; BEHOLD THE LORD’S CHRIST – APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA (HALLOWED BE HIS NAME) – THE ROCK OF AGES.
THE WORLD IS DOOMED FOR DESTRUCTION, THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HATH SAID IT; THE CHOICE IS YOURS TO RUN INTO THE ROCK OF AGES FOR YOUR PROTECTION OR REMAIN OUTSIDE FOR THE ROCK TO CRUSH YOU.

THE NAME OF GOD

Name simply means a word or set of words by which a person or thing is known, addressed, or referred to. It has to do with one’s identity.” Because a name is used to identify an individual and communicate with the individual on a daily basis, it serves as the very basis of one’s self-conception, especially in relation to others,” says David Zhu, a professor of management and entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, who researches the psychology of names.

At this point. It is very vital to differentiate between nameand title. The word “name” refers to the personal identifier given to an individual. It is the word used to identify a person, whether it is their given name or their full name. A name is unique to an individual and is used to address or refer to them.
“Title”, on the other hand refers to a specific designation or honorific that is used to indicate a person’s position, status, or rank. Titles are often professional or social roles and are used to show respect or authority. It is important to note that while a name is unique to an individual, a title can be shared by multiple individuals who hold the same position or rank like Doctor…, Senator…, Governor…, Pharaoh…, Pope…, Pastor…., Angel…, etc. Title can be permanently attached to a position but name changes in line with the incumbent, especially when it has to do with the office one occupies. President is a title derived from the office of number one citizen of a country. However, the person occupying that presidential seat has his/her name. Additionally, titles can vary across different contexts, reflecting the specific customs and traditions of a particular society.
Since physical things type spiritual things, I believe that the above background can help us to go into the name of God proper. GOD is never the name of any being. It is a title given to a being or an object that is being worshipped. According to Bible Project organization, God is not a name.God’s name indicates a certain relationship he has with people. “God” is not God’s name—it’s a title. In Hebrew, it’s the word elohim, which is a category of being (deity, in this case), just like human is a category of ‘being’ (but not a name) https://bibleproject.com/podcast/god-not-name/14 Mar 2022.
GOD means a spirit or being believed to control some part of the universe or life and often worshipped for doing so, or something that represents this spirit or being.

www.dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/god

Using the capital ‘G’ or small ‘g’ does not in any way make god to be the proper name of a being since every god has a name. We use capital ‘G’ while referring to the Creator of the universe as a mark of reverence and also to separate Him from other gods. Psalms 82:1 says God presides in the heavenly council; in the assembly of the gods he gives his decision GNB. Then in verse 6 of the same Psalms 82, I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High KJV.
Jesus the Christ also cited verse 6 above in John 10:34Jesus replied, “It is written in your own Scriptures that God said to certain leaders of the people, ‘I say, you are gods!’ NLT
What are we trying to arrive at? That those gods have their individual names. Even idols of the nations have their various names; for instance, Baal is the name of an idol in the Middle East, just as Amadioha is one of the idols in South Eastern part of Nigeria. If the angels have their various names like Angel Gabril, Angel Michael, etc why do we feel that the Almighty God does not have a name? He authorised Adam to name all the creatures, which means He has His own name. So, the Almighty God has His own name. If not, the scriptures won’t be replete with – “the name of God, the name of God, the name of God”.
Then you call on THE NAME OF YOUR GOD, and I will call on THE NAME OF THE LORD. The god who answers by fire—he is God.”1 Kings 18:24 KJV.
For all people walk each in the NAME OF HIS GOD, but we will walk IN THE NAME OF THE LORD OUR GOD Forever and ever. MICAH 4:5 NKJV
THE NAME OF THE LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe. Proverbs18:10 KJV
Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let everyone that nameth THE NAME OF CHRIST depart from iniquity. 2 Timothy 2:19 KJV
And those who know YOUR NAME put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you Psalm 9:10 KJV
So she called the NAME OF THE LORD WHO SPOKE TO HER, “You are a God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.” Genesis 16:13 KJV.
I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to YOUR NAME, O Most High. Psalm 9:2 ESV
David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in THE NAME OF THE LORD ALMIGHTY, THE GOD OF THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL, whom you have defied. 1 Samuel 17:45 NIV
For whosoever shall call upon the NAME OF THE LORD shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 10:13-15 KJV.
We have now established that God truly has a name, for you cannot worship a GOD that has no name; neither can you believe a man and reject his name. Another point to ponder here is, what actually is the real name of God? Does God have a permanent name in every generation or is it a dispensational name?
1:16-17For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
FOR THEREIN IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD REVEALED FROM FAITH TO FAITH: as it is written, The just shall live by faith
Man has his own way of attaining salvation, God has His own way of putting man right with Himself. That of man is opposed to that of God–The Son of Man, Beginning and Ending of Gentile Dispensation Part 3 3^rd August 1997 Pg 44:46-47
We can see that God’s righteous demands differ in every generation, the same way His name differs, yet the same God. What constituted His righteousness in the days of Adam and Eve was far away from that of Abraham, Noah, Moses, Jesus the Christ down the line till our own day. While revealing what constitutes His righteousness to a people in any age, all He demands is that His people should first, hearken so as to know and understand His sayings; and then obey. For if you do not listen to Him, you will not know when He has brought an end to an ancient serpent which formed the righteousness of the previous generation(s) that is not relevant to the life He (Christ) gives to the current generation.
Knowing the name God appropriates in your own day means knowing what is meant for your peace. It will keep you from committing the same crime of blindness the Jews committed by saying “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses! We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”John 9:28 NIV.
Yet, “This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ but He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush Acts 7:35 NIV.
I am saying that this righteousness that is revealed from faith to faith in different generations must be in a man, and that man has a name and His name automatically becomes the salvation name for that generation because a previous saviour can never save a current dispensation.
Throughout our history God has spoken to our ancestors by his prophets in many different ways. The revelation he gave them was only a fragment at a time, building one truth upon another. But to us living in these last days, God now speaks to us openly in the language of a Son, the appointed Heir of everything, for through him God created the panorama of all things and all time. Heb. 1:1-2 The Passion Translation (TPT)
The God that was building one truth upon another through the history in different generations bore different names as he appropriated them.
I AM JEHOVAH, the Almighty God who appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—though I did not reveal my name, JEHOVAH, to them. EX 6: 2-3
Why is it necessary to know the name that God bears in your own generation? It is because knowing God’s name, believing the name and obeying the words proceeding out of the bearer of God’s name in your own generation offers you salvation.
Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, BECAUSE HE KNOWS AND UNDERSTANDS MY NAME [HAS A PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF MY MERCY, LOVE, AND KINDNESS–TRUSTS AND RELIES ON ME, KNOWING I WILL NEVER FORSAKE HIM, NO, NEVER] PSALM 91:14 AMPC
Before God decided to appropriate Moses as His dispensational name, He had already answered different names in time past, including Jehovah. In all, God has always been born as a child, nurtured until he grows to start his ministry.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE. Isaiah 9:6 KJV
Matt 22: 42-46 “Tell me your view concerning the Messiah: WHOSE SON IS HE?” In other words, the hidden Messiah must be of human decent. He must be the son of somebody. A conjugal relationship between a man and a woman must result to pregnancy, incubating the messiah. A woman must carry him in her womb for the due period of time, give birth to the messiah and nurture him. He must grow up in wisdom, knowledge and understanding, carrying out normal human activities until his messianic ministry kicks off.
Matt 22: 42-46 “Tell me your view concerning the Messiah: whose son is he?” They said to him, “David’s.” “Then how is it,” he asked them, “that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls him ‘LORD,’ Please, note here. The personality we first identified as Messiah has now become the Lord. Please, how many divine, heavenly lords do we have? We know that God is the Lord of Lords because He is divine; and Psalms 100:3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture(KJV). So this Messiah is the Lord and He is the creator of all things.
Matt 22: 42-46 “Tell me your view concerning the Messiah: whose son is he?” They said to him, “David’s.” “Then how is it,” he asked them, “that David, inspired by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord,’ when he says, 44 ‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit here at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet”’?[e] 45 If David thus calls him ‘Lord,’ how is he his son?” 46 No one could think of anything to say in reply; and from that day on, no one dared put to him another sh’eilah
We are saying that in every age, the Messiah (Lord, God) is born as a human being and he bears the name of God in that generation. How did He appropriate the name of Moses as God’s name in that age?
And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I have appointed thee the God of Pharao: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet Exodus 7:1 Douay-Rheims Bible.
And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. Exodus 4:11-12 KJV.
The Lord shall send you curses, confusion, and rebuke in every enterprise to which you set your hand, until you are destroyed, perishing quickly because of the evil of your doings by which you have forsaken me [Moses and God as one] Deut. 28:20 AMP.
I and my Father are one. John 10:30 KJV
The guilt of people in every generation is their inability to recognise and accept the personality, the mouth, the name Almighty God has appropriated in every age so as to recognise the age and its own message because whosoever God possesses his mouth speaks the word of God for that age and whosoever speaks the word of God is God himself for the Spirit of God, which is God Himself dwells in him, possesses him without measure.
See the guilt of the people of Israel in the days of Moses. They failed to acknowledge and accept their God whose name was Moses; they refused to accept the fact that Moses and the God of Israel had become one, inseparable. They were dissipating their precious time and energy making serious efforts to know the limitations of Moses, thereby trying to limit God. They were trying to help and protect the interest of their own imaginary God not the God that had already become one with Moses.
For that act of forsaking Moses their God, God labelled them evil doersand decreed that they would perish quickly – perishing quickly because of the evil of your doings by which you have forsaken me [Moses and God as one]. In other words, forsaking Moses in his own day meant forsaking your creator.
That is why the Son of Man (the hidden Messiah, the Lord God Almighty) made us understand that If you refuse the personality God has introduced to you, you have indirectly or ignorantly rejected God. As many that said No to THE SON OF MAN, you have seen that THE SON OF MAN and the Father are One. Who do you think that they have rejected? Where will they end it at the end? When you reject the Saviour, can you be saved again? You cannot be saved without a Saviour.
Can you save yourself? I AM YOUR SAVIOUR. I AM THE ONE SENT TO COME AND BRING YOU HOME. If you refuse to go with Me, I will abandon you. Finish! I do not beg you to follow. Prove for yourself whether I am He, the One you are waiting for or whether you should continue to wait for another.ARE YOU THE PROMISED ONE TO COME OR DO WE WAIT FOR ANOTHER? VOL 2; preached on Sunday 26th August, 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 110 vs. 8 – 10
In the days of the Lord Jesus Christ, he never minced words in introducing himself as God and his name as the name of God.
“Do not let your heart be troubled (afraid, cowardly). Believe [confidently] in God and trust in Him, [have faith, hold on to it, rely on it, keep going and] BELIEVE ALSO IN ME.John 14:1 AMP
Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say are not my own but are from my Father who lives in me. And he does his work through me. 11 Just believe it—that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or else believe it because of the mighty miracles you have seen me do. 12-13 “In solemn truth I tell you, anyone believing in me shall do the same miracles I have done, and even greater ones, because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask him for anything, using my name, and I will do it, for this will bring praise to the Father because of what I, the Son, will do for you.JOHN 14:10 -13 TLB
‘FOR I WILL DO WHATEVER YOU ASK ME TO DO WHEN YOU ASK ME IN MY NAME. And that is how the Son will show what the Father is really like and bring glory to him.‘John 14:13 TPT
This name He enjoined them to use while praying if they must get a reply from God was nothing but the name of God for that generation, for there is no other name by which human beings can be saved if not by the name of Christ revealed in your day, the anointed one, the Lord God Almighty.
Isaiah 52:6 THEREFORE I WILL REVEAL MY NAME TO MY PEOPLE, AND THEY SHALL KNOW THE POWER IN THAT NAME. THEN AT LAST THEY WILL RECOGNIZE THAT IT IS I, YES, I, WHO SPEAKS TO THEM.
Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters. He says, “I WILL DECLARE YOUR NAME TO MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS; in the assembly I will sing your praises.” Heb. 2:11-12 NIV.
Can you now see that the name of God as was declared in those days was no other name but Jesus and it was declared by HE himself. John pointed him out to the people as the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world, but it behooved on him to declare himself fully, revealing the salvation name to as many as believed in him in his own age.
Do not forget that this Jesus the Christ of his day came as an eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizedek. In other words, there was a time God answered Melchizedek.
For it is declared: “YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER, IN THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.”[a] The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless 7:17-18 NIV.
At the end of Jesus’ ministry, he never left his followers in the dark. He plainly informed them that he was going to change his badger skin and come back.
WHEN I RETURN the world will be as indifferent to the things of God as the people were in Noah’s day. Luke 17:26 LB
Just a little while now, and the world will not see Me anymore, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. John 14: 19 AMPC. The world who had already known Christ, the name of God as Jesus will in a little while no longer know Him because both his appearance and name would change but he remains the same Christ, the Messiah.
The Lord Jesus Christ also made them realize that he would be coming in a new name according to Revelation 3:12
He who overcomes (is victorious), I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of My God; he shall never be put out of it or go out of it, and I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which descends from My God out of heaven, and MY OWN NEW NAME– AMPC.
Isaiah 62:2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: AND THOU SHALT BE CALLED BY A NEW NAME, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
Why is it that God’s name is not known by every tom dick and harry in that generation? It is because God delights in hiding himself and loves keeping his name hidden, revealed only to the elect, the selected few, the handpicked minority.
Jesus said, “You have been chosen to know THE SECRETS ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. But I use stories to speak to other people so that: ‘They will look, but they may not see. They will listen, but they may not understand.’Luke 8:10 New Century Version (NCV)
Truly, O God of Israel, the Savior (the Messiah), you are a God who hides himself.Isiah 45:15 TPT
And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour? And the angel of the Lord said unto him, WHY ASKEST THOU THUS AFTER MY NAME, SEEING IT IS SECRET?Judges 13:17-18 KJV
We can see that the Messiah remains unrecognized and hidden, His name hidden, it behooves on him to reveal himself and his name, which is the name of God to whosoever that is eagerly and patiently waiting for him, but how many are willing to listen to him and move from the known revealed names and righteousness of Christ, the anointed one, the Lord God Almighty, the Messiah in previous generations to the new revealed name of Christ, the anointed one, the Lord God Almighty, the Messiah, the Son of Man in this generation?
Jesus resumed talking to the people, but now tenderly. “The Father has given me all these things to do and say. This is a unique Father-Son operation, coming out of Father and Son intimacies and knowledge. No one knows the Son the way the Father does, nor the Father the way the Son does. BUT I’M NOT KEEPING IT TO MYSELF; I’M READY TO GO OVER IT LINE BY LINE WITH ANYONE WILLING TO LISTENMatthew 11:27 (MSG).
Now, hear Him revealing the name of God in our own day to anyone willing to listen – If you are under the immunity of Jesus, whatever crime you are committing now will be counted against you because the immunity has changed hands.
ALL POWERS, ALL AUTHORITIES ARE CONFERRED ON ME. I AM NOT JESUS. I SAID, I AM NOT JESUS. Jesus has come and gone but Christ remains. He was Jesus the Christ.
CALL ME PETER THE… DO NOT CALL ME JESUS THE CHRIST, FOR I WILL NOT ANSWER. Therefore, whatever crime you committed under Jesus’ immunity, you must account for it now….-THE SON OF MAN
WHOSE IMMUNITY DO YOU HAVE? Preached on 8th October 2002; Pg. 70 vs. 43 – 48
As-salamu alaykum. Peace be unto men of goodwill.
On this note, I say a big thank you for giving me audience and remain blessed in Him, APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA– THE SON OF MAN, THE HOLY ONE, THE CLOUDMAN, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS – THE ALMIGHTY GOD. AMEN