The Power Of The Third Pull

 The Power Of The Third Pull 

Now he says, now this I'm just rehearsing a lot of things, so just bear with me. Hey, and while I'm rehearsing and reviewing, keep pulling. Amen. Don't stop. I was telling the brother today, I got so much stuff plugged up. I feel like I got all this stuff and there's a just a little bitty final shoot to get it out of and I don't know which to cram down to shoot first. So, what I need is I need someone on the other end pulling it out and it will come right in the right sequence. Amen. 

So, we're reviewing these things, but these things we're reviewing are not details. They're not facts. Amen. This is our life. This is where we're at. This is the revelation of the hour. This is actually what is changing us. Amen. 

He says now in the third seal, he says now that's what's the reason today the revivals that we're supposed to have. 

Remember he's preaching the third seal right in the week of seals. We've had denominational revivals. We haven't had a real stirring. No, no, no, no, no, sir. Don't think we got revival. We haven't. Oh, they've got millions and millions and millions of church members, but not a revival nowhere. The bride hasn't had a revival yet. He's here in the third seal. He's preaching the seals. The bride hasn't had a revival. But brother Branham already told us that he went out with a healing ministry by a commission of the  angels. And he said it started revival fires everywhere. It did. It started a massive revival. It started healing campaigns and a revival that brought many souls to Christ. And it had a a huge effect worldwide. 

But he said the bride hasn't had a revival yet. It wasn't that, that wasn't a revival. The church was having a revival, but there's got to be a bride's revival. 

 The bride hasn't had a revival yet. There's been no revival there. 

 No, listen. Oh my goodness. This we know this sentence, but listen to it. No manifestation of God to stir the bride yet. He's here in 1963 in March. Think of the manifestations of God that have taken place to this point. Raising the dead, opening blinded eyes, healing the deaf, mute speaking, Amen. cripples walking. There's been massive amounts of manifestation. Is that right? But he says there's been no manifestation of God to stir the bride yet. Amen. Remember? Amen. Praise be to God. 

Remember those big rainbow trout were just laying out there in the deep water and they were just sitting there and he was trying to attract them with the first and second pull to get their attention. Amen. Amen. But he was going to catch them on the third pull because the first and second pul weren't going to catch the rainbow trout. Amen. They started a church revival but not a bride revival. The bride revival is going to come under the third pull. Amen. No manifestation of God to stir the bride. That's why. Amen. I  believe so many things, but I got to be careful that I say things the right way because I don't want to bring the wrong idea. I don't want to bring the wrong  misunderstanding in any way. 

But that's why you can't go back to first and second pull and catch the rainbow trout. Now, you can catch their attention. Amen. 

That's why you didn't realize that the first pull and second pull never went anywhere. It's still there. Brother Branham till the day he died could take somebody by the hand and discern what their sickness was. He had a gift of discernment that he would manifest. He would show it. Amen. Through the services all the way to the end. The first pull and second pull didn't disappear. The third pull contains the first pull and second pull. 

And that gets the attention of the rainbow trout, right? 

But that's not what hooks the rainbow trout. 

So if we try to use a first pull and second pull or those kind of manifestations that were under the first pull and second pull to hook the rainbow trout, they won't get hooked. They may get uh , you may catch their attention, but the angel said it's the third pull that will hook them. And that's why we say it, brother. We must emphasize, we must put the most emphasis on the proper part of the message. 

Brother said, we don't major on a minor. 

The part of the message that we should emphasize is the part that brother Branham emphasized, right? 

The part of the message that has the greatest impact for the bride is the part that he was told will catch the rainbow trout. 

And if there's anything to emphasize, we should emphasize what brother Brandham emphasized and what his whole ministry was building to and what his message actually was and what the whole point of everything leading up to it was. It came to a point. Amen. 

There came a manifestation of the seventh angel. There came a seventh angel's ministry. And all of that was the fulfillment of Revelation 10:7. {But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be fulfilled, just as He proclaimed to His servants the prophets.}

Amen. And under that, that is the emphasis. That is the third pull that will hook the rainbow trout. And you can see there's a temptation, amen, to go to things that are a little more apparent and a little more obvious and seem to be more supernatural. But I'm telling you, they're not more supernatural because Pentecostal babies can be taught those things. But the rainbow trout can understand, receive, know what the Pentecostal babies can't know. And that is the thing that will hook them. 

That's right. 

So you have to be careful. I have to be careful in the way I say this because if I say this wrong, then all of a sudden we have an adversion to manifestations of God which are a fulfillment of the Word. [Adversion is a rare or nonstandard variant of the word aversion, which means a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, or turning away from something.] 

Healing is a fulfillment of the Word. Discernment is a fulfillment of the Word. Laying hands on the sick is a fulfillment of the Word. Those are the children's bread. This should always be present at all times. 

 It should never leave. That's right. Amen. If we don't have healings in our midst, if we don't have manifestations of the Spirit in our midst, then there's a problem that should always be there. But if you, if we say this and this I believe I've been too guilty of it in the past, but if I say this too  harshly, in such a harsh way, then all a sudden we have an inversion, amen, to laying hands on the sick and saying, "We should never have an inversion to that." Amen. That that's part of the shoe that goes with it. Amen. That's part of Christ. That's part of the Word. Amen. 

Amen. So we never do away with the Word. Amen. That's why I would also say it's not wrong. There's nothing wrong with the prayer line. If you make a prayer line evil, then we got a problem with the prophet. 

He had them all the way up to the end of his ministry. And even though he was having prayer lines, he was still trying to get the people to grab a higher faith. He's trying to get them to have true gentile faith and take it at the Word. But he was not denying, amen, a prayer line for those who needed it, those who could benefit from it to bless others. So you can't make a prayer line evil. The prayer line itself is not evil. Or else you got a problem with the prophet. That's right. You can't make an altar call evil. That's right or else you got a problem with the prophet.

Now, can you use all these things in an evil way? Absolutely, you can use any gift in an evil way. You can use anything. But you got to be careful that we don't deny things that are still part of God. Make things evil that aren't evil. Yeah. 

Coming to the altar and praying is never out of style. That's right.  It'll never be evil. It'll never be wrong. Is that right? 

 That's right. What some people do with it sometimes is wrong, but it's never wrong. In fact, Brother Branham told the people that when they come to church, you should, you could come if you want to come to the altar and pray quietly and go to your seat and the altar was never diminished in any way. Coming and praying at an altar, asking somebody to lay hands on you has never been taken away from the church. 

 It's still there. to be anointed with oil is never taken away. It's still there. But when brother Branham was still operating in all that showing that it's not evil. Amen. It is you can't make that in itself evil. It's part of the Word. Amen. But what happens is Amen. If we overemphasize and hold everybody there. Amen. We got to go to where  brother Branham was pointing us to and he was trying to get us to realize you don't need somebody to lay hands on you. You don't need any physical contact. Amen. That you can receive it the way the Gentiles receive it. You hear the Word and take him at his word. Amen. 

He come and preach perfect faith. Yes, sir. Is that right? 

He come and preach perfect faith and he said, "If you have perfect faith, you don't need anybody to lay hands on you. You don't need to come through the prayer line if you got perfect faith." Amen. You know, you're just as sure it's going to happen as anything. Amen. Is that right? 

 He says,"So then, Brother Branham, at the end of perfect faith has a prayer line. 

 But it's interesting what he does in the prayer line. In that prayer line, he just has people go quickly through and he just lays hands on them. Amen. 

According to the Word and prays for them and sends them on their way. Then at the end of the prayer, at the end of all of that, he's talking to the congregation. 

 He said, "Now notice what I did. I did that in a certain way because we've got to come to perfect faith. Now I've laid hands on you. Can you accept it according to the Word?" What was Brother Branham trying to do? He was trying to get them to accept their healing based of the Word. Not him, not what he said, not his hands. But the Word says if they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover. And at the end of perfect faith, he's not, he's not preaching perfect faith, then having a prayer line to take away what he just preached. He's having a prayer line, but the way he's conducting the prayer line is pointing the people back to the Bible, to the scriptures, and say, "Now, every one of you can be healed if you'll take it that way. Yes. 

What's the goal? To receive the Word. 

What's the whole point? To believe the Word. 

Amen. You see that if you do not have healings and manifestations and these things, how will you attract the rainbow trout? How will you even get their attention? 

If you can't pray for your co-workers and them be healed, if you can't give a testimony of what God's done for you, how will you even get them to look your way?

We notice this in the mission field all the time. That's why being in mission sometimes is so exciting because God is demonstrating Himself to get the attention of the rainbow trout and He's confirming His Word and He is confirming the ministry and He's trying to get the attention. But what's always the goal? The goal is always to hook them and catch them on the third pull. 

But you'll see the first and second pull in operation, in the mission field , in a new ground and amongst new believers all the time. Amen. I don't know how many of you come from outside the message with no exposure to it but come to it. And I tell you, we had a glorious time when we come to the Word. 

Amen. Manifestation after manifestation, healing after healing, demonstration after demonstration. Amen. Why? Because God was pulling in His rainbow trout, right? 

 But the thing that hooked us, was the third pull, the thing that actually caught us. There was something that attracted us, but the thing that caught us was the third pool. Praise be to God. 

  So, I'm going to read this last part of this quote. And remember, we're in the third seal. The bride hasn't had a revival yet. There's been no revival there. No manifestation of God to stir the bride yet. So, the bride needs stirred. She is kind of like asleep. She is kind of like those big, beautiful rainbow trout just sitting in the deep waiting to be caught. 

We're looking for it. Listen, it'll take those seven unknown thunders back there to wake her up again. 

He will send it. He promised it. 

 So what will it take? There's been no revival yet to stir the bride. There's been no manifestation of God yet to stir the bride. Amen. But it'll take those seven unknown thunders back there to wake her up again. What is that? It's the seventh seal. 

It's Revelation 8:1 and Revelation 10:1-7 tied together. 

It's the secret that's laying in the Bible. It's the sealed part of the Word. 

Brother comes to the Laodicean church age and he says, "Now this messenger Malachi 4 in Revelation 10:7 is going to do two things. 

One, according to Malachi 4, he will turn the hearts of the children to the fathers. 

Two, he will reveal the mysteries of the seven thunders in Revelation 10, which are the revelations contained in the seven seals." 

What is it? It's the revelation. What is the mystery of the seven thunders in Revelation 10? It's the revelation   contained in the seven seals. That's why when brother Branham comes to preach the seven seals, it was the pinnacle of his ministry.

 It was the it was the point where everything broke forth. Amen. It was the point he was building to. He was coming to everything, every vision, every every call was leading to this. Amen. Why? 

Because now he knows he's right in Revelations 10:7. Amen. And he's revealing, amen, the secret part, the quiet part, the unspoken part. He has God is bringing a revelation day by day of those seven thunders because they're the revelation contained in the seven seals. 

 It will be these divinely revealed mystery truths that literally turn the hearts of the children to the Pentecostal fathers. Why? Because it is the thing that's going to catch them. 

And when you begin to reel, you turn the head of the fish and start bringing it in. Amen. And what's going to turn there back to the Pentecostal fathers, it's going to be the mysteries laid under those seals. The mystery of the thunders is the revelation contained in the seven seals.   Praise God. Now he comes to the first seal. 

And in the first seal, he says, "And then there's coming forth seven mysterious thunders." That's not even written at all. That's right. And I believe that through these seven  thunders would be revealed in the last days, in order to get the bride together for rapturing faith. Because what we got right now, we wouldn't be able to do it. 

What did they have so far? They had healing. They had miracles. They had manifestations. They even had the tying together of the loose ends. Amen. Is that right? They had so much. Amen. And it's amazing that so I have to be careful. 

I just feel to be careful to walk softly because you can walk too hard here. 

But it's easy for those who claim to believe the message to stop with brother Branham when he comes to the seals and leave that mysterious and unsolved and untouched and just thoroughly enjoy what we had until the seals. 

It's true. the testimonies, the healings, the manifestations, the prophetic ministry, the discernment, and we keep talking about what brother Branham did and keep talking about how great God was and talking about the testimonies and talking about he healed this one and he opened blinded eyes and blinded eyes and 

1:04:27 how many people in the prayer line and keep talking and talking and talking about that. Amen. But brother Branham said is, it's going to take those seven  thunders, we'll reveal in the last days, in order to get the bride together for rapturing faith because what we got right now, we wouldn't be able to do it .

So what he had come up to wasn't enough. It needed that third pull. 

 He said there's something we've got to step farther. We can't have enough faith for divine healing. Hardly. 

We got to have enough faith to be changed in a moment and be swept out of this earth and we'll find that after a while, the Lord willing, find where it's written. Amen. 

He comes now to the message recognizing your day in its message in 1964 says what do they do that why do they do that? They want a great awakening. They were crying believing that there will be an awakening. They're good people. Why is it? What have they done? They have not recognized the awakening of the bride. 

Now, Brother Bennett's preaching this in July of' 64. In March of 63, in the the third seal, he was saying there's been no manifestation of God to stir the bride yet. It'll take those seven unknown thunders to wake her up. 

So, he's saying there's not been a revival. She's not been stirred. It' take the seven thunders to wake her up. 

Now, he comes a year and four months later. A year and four months later, he says standing in the middle of 1964 and he's saying they're calling for revival, calling for revival, revival in our nation. Why are they calling for it? He says they have not recognize the awakening of the bride. There has been something that happened in the previous one year and four months that'll wake up the bride, that'll stir her, that will be her revival. 

And it won't be a public show. Amen. And they have not recognized the awakening of the bride by being a Christian. They feel the pull of the hour, but they haven't recognized what's been done. 

That's what's making them feel that way. 

They know something is supposed to happen, but see, they're looking for it way off in the future to come, when it's already happened, right by you. Amen. Praise God. He can't say it any plainer. Whatever that was going to be the bride's revival to awake the which was the seven thunders the revelation of the seven thunders that was contained in the seven seals that was supposed to wake her up. Now he's saying that she's been awakened. Amen. And you you're looking for it a far off. You're looking for somebody to interpret the seals. You're he's saying they're calling for revival, calling for revival, revival in our