21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
Luke 10
The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Matthew 26:24
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Romans 8:29
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
Daniel 12:3
9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
Revelation 21
Well, let me give some thought here just a minute. Do you know what a sympathy is? I know you do. It’s a music, it’s a drama. See, they act it out.
Now, you little children, so you’ll understand. You remember in—in school, I believe you have a… What is that little Russian sympathy, sometimes they—they act out on the drums, you know it’s called, isn’t it the… about the—the little woodpecker, you know, that got down into the woods; and they had the fluttering, the beating on the drums and things. And you hear it all as you go through the symphony, as they play it. I forget the name of that, “Peter and the Wolf.” That’s right, “Peter and the Wolf.” Now, that’s a—that’s a Russian sympathy. See, they don’t—they don’t have little—little figures flying around, play it out, but they play it on drums [Brother Branham knocks on some wood—Ed.], and then [Brother Branham knocks on something else], and make the drums and the sounds and things. It plays it out, it acts it. So, you’ll understand what Brother Branham is trying to say. See?
Now to you adults, the Scripture is God’s Symphony. Yes. Hallelujah. Only the Composer knows what it really means and He reveals it to those who are listening, who are interested in knowing what the drama is. But you’d have to know about a sympathy first, see. It’s not just something you see, it’s the—the changing, the junctions of the Word, of the music. It throws; sometime it’s going this way for a while, a certain beat, after a while it changes all around. What is it? To you who wouldn’t understand It or don’t know nothing about It, not interested in It, it’s just a racket, it’s a fuss. But to those who know about It, they’re watching for It, they know It’s coming. Hallelujah!
So we have these times of symphonies of the Symphony of God’s Word, that the whole drama changes. You who are interested, listen for that change. You know it’s getting close. You hear the way the drums are beating, amen, want something to happen. You know this is a change, see, it’s going to break out into a burst in a few minutes. See? And you’re watching for it, you can tell the way the drums are timing. O God! If you can hear the drums of the finish now, if you can hear the echo of the music of the Heavenly Word singing Itself out, “And it shall come to pass in the last days!” The sympathy of God’s great drama that He’s playing, It changes Him, His sympathy at the junctions. The composer and those who are interested, listen for the change. That’s what all this stuff is to us, we’re listening, we’re watching. Every time He appears, something happens, we see the time getting close. We see back yonder not long ago when that Church Ages was being drawed out, we were listening. We seen it was right with the Word, beating with the Word. After a while, what happened? Here He come, Himself, and vindicated it.
Remember, the Composer knows the end from the beginning. He knows all about it, that’s the reason He could write it here. Correctly. Now you must begin with Him, you must begin. If you want to hear a sympathy, you begin with Him like in the music at the sympathy. You listen, you know what it says, it’s going to be what the symphony is, then you begin to listen at the music. And you know what it is, so you know just about, “Here’s where certain-certain things take place, now it’s got to change.” Now, to anybody else that don’t know nothing about what they’re… just walked in and set down, it’s just a bunch of nonsense, rattling noise. But the one who knows what it is, it’s beat out with the music, drummed out with the notes, it’s—it’s trumpeted with the trumpets, it’s strung on the harp, it’s played with the violin, it’s—it’s beat on the bass, it’s sounded by the trumpets, it’s beat on the drums. The whole thing together in rhythm, and it makes the—the drama till you can close your eyes and live in it. Hallelujah!
Man could close his mortal eyes to earthly sight and live in the Presence of Jesus Christ, when you see His Word being beat out in the great sympathy that we’re living in now, changing. You must begin in the Symphony. The only thing you can do if you’re in the Symphony, then you start, you begin to get into the rhythm. That’s the way you do God. You don’t stand off and look at it. You get into the rhythm of It! How do you get in there? You’re borned into It, into the rhythm of the Word, when you become part of that Word.
You had to become part of the dance to get out of the dance. You have to become part of the ball game, something you’re interested in, to get in the ball game.
You have to become part of the Word, to know God’s Sympathy. His Sympathy is when It’s playing, you understand, you’re marching with the beat of the time. You’re watching for it, “The works that I do, shall you also; greater than this shall you do,” these last days. Oh, my! The great changing of the time. We get into the beat, beat of the Word. Find His purpose, the hour that we’re living. Get into the rhythm of it, how does… how He does it. If you get into the Word, you find out how He did it at the beginning, then you know how He’s doing it all the time.
Where do you begin, then? If there’s a sinner here, you begin at the cross when you reckon yourself dead with Him. You’ve entered in then to the—to the great drama. You’re listening, then, you’re watching your sheet as you hold it in your hand, the—the—the Sympathy. You—you got a sheet in your hand that would tell you these things, where the changes of the music begins to make it act out, then you see what the act is. When you see God’s Spirit fall upon people and do a certain thing, you look back and see where it’s at. See if it’s that, if that’s the thing for today. Why, they had a sheet in their hand when Jesus came, of the Sympathy. Certainly, they did.
Am I saying that word right, symphony, sympathy? I hope so. So then I just happened to think of it. Symphony? [Someone in congregation says, “Symphony.”—Ed.] Symphony. That right? All right.
Now, they had a sheet in their hand, but what would they do? They were trying to look back to a beat that had all… a portion had already been played out. That’s what the churches do today. They look back, see what part Luther played; the Lutherans does. They don’t know the change of music. They don’t know what God’s doing today when He does these things, the Lutherans. The Pentecost say, “Oh, we got It.” You got a sheet that played out fifty years ago. See? Certainly. Let’s just keep this Word in our hands, and watch when the changes come, then we’ll know what we’re doing.
Now, and begin with Him at the cross. “Repent, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the Music, the Direction,” see, “His Word, the Holy Ghost that manifests the Word.” Then follow through with the rhythm of the Word. What ever the Music beats for that hour, beat with It. See?
He knows every junction. He knows the rhythm must… when it must take place. He knows what it takes to mold you, He knows what kind of material He’s going to use. See? The backside of the desert sometimes, where God molds righteous men into sages and prophets. See? See? That’s where men are beat out. Men are beat out, in the Word. When they got all kind of creed and stuff in them, let them come to the Word and God beats it right out of them, molds it right into This, into the great Symphony with, of His Word. See? And then they see the Word moving on.
God knows when the rhythm of it has got to change. He knows how the rhythm goes. I don’t know how it goes, but He knows. He knows how it goes, I don’t. But I look at it here, and I say, “Well, it’s just coming.”
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivereth them out of them all.” See? God has moved through history with the rhythm of the promise of His Word, in each age, in the same rhythm, making His Word. That’s how God moved down through history, from all the way from Genesis to Revelation, He has moved through history with His Word. That’s right, with the rhythm of—of the power of the Holy Spirit vindicating His Word to the Elected. Remember, He’s never been able to touch the outside church. It’s only the Elected.
“Shalom”, 64-0112, William M. Branham
We are eyewitnesses of His majesty,
We have seen the Lord fulfilling His Word;
And we know we are God’s characters in this great symphony,
As we act on the things
That we have seen and we have heard.
CHORUS
How else can we live, forever praising Him,
For we are living epistles read of all men;
You are Almighty God in flesh again,
That’s who we are,
Living epistles read of all men,
You are to me,
Almighty God in flesh again.
We’ve been made a spectacle to this world today,
The Life of Jesus being on display;
Our resurrected Christ. Awaken Jesus to the scene again,
As He glorifies His Name once again in His children.
Let’s press on daily with the King’s Sword in our hand,
Defeating the enemy on every hand;
Let’s bring our King, our rejected King,
A clean fresh drink,
By living worthy of this gospel We worship Him.
We know that today the Word is in the Bride
It’s Jesus again on His second ride;
So ride on Thy Majesty to Thy rightful place
On the throne of our hearts;
Of this kingdom, He rose us up to be a part.
“Living Epistles”, Ulric Andrews
Also inspired by a song “Thirst” (https://soundcloud.com/timmy2210/thirst) written by Anthony Glaude
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