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RECOGNIZING THE END TIME CHRIST
Thought for the book taken from the
Message delivered on November 2, 2014
Dawsonville, Georgia U.S.A.
©2014 by Ben Howard
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RECOGNIZING THE END TIME CHRIST
We’re reading today in 2 John 1:7, and it says, “For many
deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ
is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.” Our
scripture reading indicates very strongly that in the days of
John’s writings there were those that were denying that the
Messiah had come to this earth in the flesh, which was our
precious Lord Jesus Christ. John said they were deceivers and
antichrists.
The issue here was that there were those in that day denying
that Jesus was the real Christ, the Jewish Messiah. That was one
of the ways the antichrist was working in that very early time
amongst the Jewish people. This kept them looking for and
waiting for their Messiah, when in fact, He had already come
and died for their sins. He was not to become their King at this
time.
So by this fact alone it was easy for them to believe this lie of
the devil that the Messiah had not come in the flesh. But the
predestinated accepted Jesus Christ as their long awaited
Messiah with great joy, and so will many of the Jewish people in
this last day. In fact, many of those born of the Jewish linage
have become a part of the wife of the Lamb and are part of those
that Paul wrote about in the Book of Ephesians, Chapter 2,
beginning with Verse 14, concerning both the Jews and Gentiles
together becoming one new man.
However, the fact that one was born of a virgin named Mary
and lived about thirty-three years and died on the cross for our
sins is not an issue amongst the Gentiles. That’s a fact that is
believed by most of the Gentiles where the gospel has been
preached. But in this last day it is denied by many of the
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believers in Jesus Christ that He has come in His fullness as is seen
in Revelation, Chapter 10.
This is the coming that I want to speak about in this message;
and I want to entitle it, Recognizing the End Time Christ. And by
our entitling it this way, it will automatically spark the question,
“Well, isn’t the end time Christ, the Christ that was in the other
time periods?” We will answer that question in this message.
We will also show that it is certainly a different manifestation of
Christ here at the end time than it was in the church of Paul’s
day; and even more different than it was in the seven church
ages.
Here we will see that the Christ we see in this end time was
manifested in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, starting on the day
of Pentecost and up until the church fell from its first love in that
very early church age. Then after the church fell away, Christ
wasn’t manifested in the gift of the Holy Ghost in the same way
as He was at the beginning. The many miracles we read about
in the Book of Acts began to fade away and in some cases all but
disappeared in the sense of the manifestation of the gifts of the
Spirit.
It was from this point and onward, even through the course of
the seven church ages, that the miracles weren’t seen in a great
way. It was in this time period also that Christ Jesus was seen
as the High Priest, making intercession for the fallen church.
This is seen in the Book of Revelation, Chapters One through
Three. These three chapters show this period of time known as
the kingdom of heaven age and is the same period also known
as the seven church ages. During this time, we see Jesus Christ
as He walked among the seven candlesticks until those ages
ended in this present day.
So after the church ages, we find ourselves in Revelation,
Chapter 10, where Christ, the Mighty Angel, came down from
heaven with the little book open in His hand, and immediately
the thunders that John heard back in 96 A.D. were revealed.
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This is made plain as the prophet messenger, Brother William
Branham, preached unto us the church ages in 1960 and the seals
in 1963. This opened the door for the wife to be baptized into
the body of Christ; and our baptism into the body is a sure
confirmation that now Christ is here in the flesh (in our flesh and
bones), and that the espoused virgin has now become the wife
of our Lord Jesus; thus making us part of Him who is part of the
Godhead taking on flesh and bones. This is now Christ in the
flesh made of both Jews and Gentiles as the body of Christ
according to Ephesians 2:14-22. This shows two people
becoming one new man—Christ the wife of the Lamb. This is
seen in Revelation, Chapter 10, and Revelation, Chapter 19.
Now as we continue to look at Revelation 10:1, we see the
Mighty Angel as He comes to the earth and puts one foot on sea
and one on the earth and cries with a loud voice. And then in
Verse 4, the seven thunders utter their voices. And then on to
Verse 6 where Christ in angelic form says in this verse, “there
should time be no longer.”
Now, “there should be time no longer,” doesn’t mean that time
on earth has stopped or that the time of the church ages have
stopped. But it simply means that time is no longer for us to
continue to operate in this era of time as though we are still in
the church ages. That’s because we have arrived at the time of
the fullness of the stature of the man Christ Jesus. And now this
has put us past the church age era as far as there being any
benefit in it for the wife, who has been called out of the church
age; seeing we have arrived at this place where Christ is here as
the Mighty Angel and we, both Jews and Gentiles, have been
baptized into His body. That’s marriage; and now we are one
with King Jesus, our Husband, as is shown in Ephesians 4:13.
Now that’s the end time Christ.
Oftentimes we use that word till in Ephesians 4:13 to show
how things were done till we came to the fullness of the stature
of the man Christ Jesus. It’s at this time that we, the King’s wife,
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have arrived at ‘our fullness in Christ’ where we are no longer
tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine.
Now we edify one another in love as we continue to grow up
into Him in the same way that a perfect marriage of husband
and wife grow into perfection. This transaction puts us beyond
the baptism of the Holy Ghost into the full blessings of God on
His Son’s wife.
Again, this is the coming of Christ in the form of the Mighty
Angel with one foot on the sea and the other foot on the earth.
Remember here that there are two legs (or parts) of the coming
of the Lord. That’s why God in His wisdom did not allow the
first church to know about these things; for this was for the end
time when it would be a time of rejoicing with both legs of the
fullness of Christ in marriage. (Revelation 19:7-8)
Now we can see what happened when both the Jewish side
and the Gentile side fell away. That’s when God allowed the
wheat and tares to begin to grow together. And when this was
known, thank God there were some zealous ministers which
God had ordained and anointed who began to ask, “Shall we
pull all the tares out of the congregation?” They were very
concerned about what they saw. But it was told them by the
Lord Himself, “Let them grow together until the harvest,”
meaning until the end time. God knew that when the end of this
period was over, then it would be different; because then the
angels would separate the tares from the wheat and gather the
tares out of the kingdom first and bind them into bundles to
burn, which He has done.
These bundles are the world council of churches; and all of
these different religious groups are bound in bundles. And then
the wheat is gathered into the barn or garner. That’s expressed
in the parables of Matthew, Chapter 13, and was clearly made
known by the seventh church age messenger as he explained the
seven thunders.
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So when Paul introduced a people to Christ by the gospel, he
began to come into the realm of knowledge that God was going
to get a wife for His Son. God told Paul that he would use him
for this purpose. It was at this time that he began to work
towards that goal by saying, “I espouse you as a chaste virgin to
Christ.” And he knew that this wasn’t marriage but that it was
the first step under the first leg of the coming of Christ, which
was the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Then in the Book of Revelation the Word says, “His wife has
made herself ready, and to her is given fine linen, clean and
white.” This wasn’t written until after Paul’s departure from
this life; and we are the fulfillment of it.
We find, according to Paul’s prophetic writings, that not only
would Christ be in the form of the Holy Ghost (the first leg of
His coming), but that we would be baptized into the fullness of
Christ at the second leg of His coming. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
And since this transaction has taken place, now we are the very
Christ by the Spirit that John saw coming down in Revelation,
Chapter 10. I’m speaking of Christ here, and not the man Jesus
Christ. Jesus is not going to come back to this earth until the
beginning of the millennium.
Now as we recognize the end time Christ, do you know what
that does? It exposes the antichrist. And if the real Christ is here,
then the antichrist is here. They are both on the scene at this
time. And now you can hear the antichrist speak and see the
things that are taking place; all you’ve got to do is open your
eyes and look. But when it started back there in history, it was
just ‘an antichrist spirit’ and many people picked up on that
spirit. And John said, “There are many antichrists;” all of the
same spirit. But when you get in the Book of Revelation,
everything becomes very clear; there’s the beast, the false
prophet, and it goes into one. There is one man that all of this is
manifested through. It’s done at first through his church system,
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but in the final hours it becomes more political. This is seen in
Chapter 17 of our book entitled, The Interpreted Book of Revelation.
So God has brought us to the end time. He’s brought us
through the church ages where we had many baptisms and we
had our communions. And that’s been one of the big things in
Catholicism—communion; wine and a little wafer. And it
looked nothing like the true church that lost its way in the
church age period. It came through the church ages and then it
was restored through justification, sanctification, and the
baptism of the Holy Ghost in preparation for the end time when
Christ came to the earth.
A few years back, I preached a message at a church in
Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe, about the little book not being
available to us until now, and I entitled the message, Obtaining
That Which Was Previously Unobtainable. And a man (a leader in
that church) got up rejoicing when I got through, and he said,
“Heaven has come down!” A few days later, I preached in
another part of Zimbabwe, in the city of Harare, where there was
about four or five hundred people rejoicing and praising God
for the message, The Transition of the Bride from Engagement to
Marriage. We all had such a wonderful time! But I had to leave
the next day to go on to another country, and another preacher,
after seeing the move of God taking place, wanted to stay and
preach since I had other meetings in another country. So he
stayed there to preach. And when I saw him later on, I asked
him, “How did your meeting come out over there after I left?”
And he said, “I went over there and preached and only a few
came to hear me.” This tells me that when God moves you have
to get it when He’s passing through! Jesus passed their way.
Praise God! And now it’s the same with this today, we have to
receive while God is giving.
Now we have recognized the end time Christ. We have
received the Christ that was not previously available in this
form. See, the Mighty Angel didn’t come down until the seals
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were open, because the Book of Redemption was in heaven.
(Revelation, Chapter 5) The Book of Redemption was there and
it was sealed with seven seals. The prophetic part of Paul’s
message was laid right in there (hid) and it could not be received
in the church ages; they hardly knew anything about what was
going on. That’s why many of the things they preached are not
found in Paul’s writings.
For example, you’ll not find Paul ever preaching to get saved,
sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost, as three separate
works of grace. I’m going to say this, and some of you won’t
like it, but it doesn’t make any difference anyway, but you will
not find the apostles giving an altar call. Not a single one
preached and said, “Come down now and give your heart to
God.” No, it takes the Spirit of God to draw you and reveal
Christ Jesus to you.
So most of what we see out here in these church systems is
something that was picked up through the church ages that
came down through time to this day, and much of it doesn’t
even have a scriptural basis. But that was the best that they
could do. And when we get to the end of this journey, we will
find that those saints that did their best will be saved. Those that
were ordained will be there. But most of the religious world
does not have this life in them. But I’m glad to say that we are
in Him, and God doesn’t even see our goodness; He looks at the
goodness of Christ. We recognize the end time Christ. And if
the end time Christ is here, then the end time antichrist is here,
and he’s flexing his muscles getting ready to make his move to
bring the world to its knees.
Notice in Bible days, antichrists, many of them. Jesus said in
Matthew 24:24 that there will be many false prophets and false
Christs go forth. But when it all comes into the Book of
Revelation, you will find one antichrist. When the church comes
into the Book of Revelation, you will find one wife! You will
find one Christ! We’re the body of Christ, because we are
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baptized into it. And when we are baptized into the body of
Christ, we are no longer tossed to and fro.
If we’ve got eyes to see, we see right now what is going on. If
you can’t see it, then I am sorry for you. We see the real Christ,
we are a part of Him, we are members of the body, and we
recognize the Christ of the end time. Not just the Christ in the
baptism of the Holy Ghost. We recognize that, too, of course.
And we know what happened in the church ages as we see the
Christ who was the High Priest for the seven church ages. He
was the one that walked among the seven golden candlesticks.
That was Christ, but He was in the High Priest office making
intercession for the sins of the people. He came first as the Holy
Ghost, then as High Priest, and here at the end of the age He
comes as the Christ, the Mighty Angel.
So after we have come through the church ages, we now have
something that previously was not even available. And
anything that was not available, we were not required to have.
But now it is available, and now it is gladly accepted by the wife
of the Lamb who recognizes Christ in the earth today.
You might say, “Brother Howard, where is Christ?” Christ
means the anointing of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is us. The
anointing is upon His wife, the body of Christ. Not one member
alone is Christ; but the many member body is Christ. If anyone
ever comes up and says, “I am the Christ.” Then you will know
that man or woman is a deceiver, because as I said, Christ is a
many member body.
All of the members make up the body of Christ, and at the time
of the rapture there is a resurrection and both the living and the
dead is included in this event. That’s the fullness of the wife of
the Lamb. By one Spirit we are baptized into the body of Christ.
And the many member body has one mind. But it is not the
mind of the preacher of himself. It’s the same mind of Christ in
all the body members. That one body has one doctrine. They all
believe the same thing and they are not tossed to and fro. We
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are not of those that say, “I really don’t know what to believe
about some of these things.” Well, the wife knows, because we
all have the same mind. And Jesus Christ has leadership in the
body. He’s got apostolic leadership. He’s got the five fold
ministry, but we are not rulers; we are leaders, and we all speak
the same thing.
In the denominations they say, “We need to have preachers’
meetings and get together so we can work things out so that one
of us won’t preach one thing and the other preach another thing,
so we can agree on what we’re going to preach.” No. All that is
needed is to be baptized into the body of Christ where there is
one mind. So if you have to get together and decide what to
preach on a subject, then it is obvious that you don’t have the
same mind or recognize the end time Christ. If you recognize
the end time Christ, you’ll realize that He has leadership for the
wife. The Lord Jesus does this by the Spirit and by the
ministering of the Word by the apostle’s office that’s in the body.
Our Lord is doing things just like He did with Paul. Paul wrote
things and spoke things that wasn’t necessarily written. And
when he was put into prison, part of his writings were in a
prophetic utterance. But it was sealed away and put into the
Book of Redemption. The bloody Lamb opened the seven seals
(shown in Revelation, Chapter 5). That’s what He did at
Calvary, and that gave Him a right to the Book of Redemption.
And then Christ takes from the Book of Redemption a small part
of it called the little book and brings it down to earth and tells us
to eat it up.
Remember here, He comes down in the form of the Mighty
Angel to be a body, not a literal person. We are the literal person.
He is the Spirit of the literal person, which is us. But it’s all in
one body of people. There’s also some dead members of the
body, and they’re going to come forth first, just before the living
are changed. Now we can recognize the Christ of this day. As
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we see the wife, we realize we are seeing Christ. That’s the man
Christ Jesus of Ephesians 4:16.
So when Christ came down ‘in Spirit form’ that made this
baptism possible. Before this we were happy with our water
baptism and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. But now we are
baptized by the Spirit into His body by this trumpet sounding.
It’s this message that is going forth. And if you’re part of this
message, you can’t help but believe it, because it will draw you
like a magnet drawing. It will be like David said, “The deep
calleth unto the deep at the noise of thy waterspout.” It will be
like Jesus walking down the sandy shores of Galilee where there
were some fishermen returning from their fishing trip. They
were rough fishermen out there making a living. Jesus just
walked by and He said, “Follow me. I’ll make you fishers of
men.” And the Bible says, “They left their nets and followed
Jesus.” There’s a magic about the voice of God, the drawing
power of God.
Then there was Matthew. He was a tax collector. And he was
one that worked hard all his life and went through all the steps
to climb up the ladder of success until finally the Roman Empire
saw him as, “This is a man we can trust. This is a man we can
use.” Collecting taxes is a good position. So Matthew landed
what he thought was a good job. But one day, here came a lowly
Galilean down the road. He didn’t come to pay His taxes; He
just looked at him and said, “Follow me.” That’s all He said; and
Matthew left all and followed Jesus.
Many people want to follow Him, but they don’t want to leave
all to follow Him. “I’ll follow you, Lord, if I can take this with
me, or do this, or do that.” No, if you follow Him it has to be
without conditions attached when He calls you or tells you what
to do, because He may not pass by your way again! He may not
send a message flashing on your pathway again!
It was Paul’s time on the way to Damascus. One visitation was
all it took; just one. And it only took the hearing of one voice for
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the wife here at the end time; that’s Christ through this last
trump of God!
Now, do you recognize the end time Christ? I’m not talking
about recognizing the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Yes, that was
the manifestation of Christ, but not the fullness. That was only
one leg. Only one leg was represented until we got to
Revelation, Chapter 10. And unlike in the church ages where
Christ Jesus said, “I have somewhat against you,” the Lord Jesus
in this hour doesn’t have anything against His wife. He has
clothed us in fine linen, clean and white. But while the church
was coming through the church ages, He did have somewhat
against them—that’s why the wine representing the blood, and
that’s why the communion. That’s why Christ Jesus was dressed
in the High Priest robe, gird about his feet with a golden girdle.
But you’ll find right there in Revelation, Chapter One, His face,
His countenance, like the sun. His feet like burned brass.
Well, you go right to Revelation, Chapter 10, this Mighty
Angel coming down, His face like the sun, His feet like pillars of
fire. It’s the same one, but it is the spirit of that person. Not the
Lord Jesus Christ as a human. But it is the spirit of the Lord Jesus
Christ. It’s just like God took Adam’s spirit and a bone from his
side and created Eve. He took all the feminine attributes that
was in Adam and put them in Eve. That’s why a man ought to
act like a man and a woman act like a woman. Amen? What we
see out here in the world that is going on now is soon coming to
an end.
Now we see that God took that spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the feminine part of it, and put it in His wife after He came down
in the form of the Mighty Angel. We are baptized into Him;
therefore that makes us the wife of the Lamb. Paul was getting
a glimpse of this when he said that we become bone of His bone
and flesh of His flesh, because we honor, obey, and live the
Word, and we’re getting all those contrary attributes out of us;
everything that doesn’t coincide with God’s Word. This is
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happening while the real Christ is on the scene today, and also
the antichrist is on the scene. Notice back there, there were many
antichrists. Many. But Daniel saw one. John saw one. At the
very end time there’s one antichrist, just as there is one Christ,
the wife.
Do you see the real Christ? Do you recognize the end time
Christ? Not as He was in the church ages or in the days of Paul,
and not even as He was on the day of Pentecost, but as He is seen
in Revelation, Chapter 10. Something became available that has
not been available before. We’ve received that which was
previously unavailable; and that’s being baptized into the
fullness of the body of Christ. And we couldn’t do it until the
seals were open and He brought the little book down and gave
it to us and told us to eat it up. And now God’s getting ready to
take Christ the wife out of this earth for a while.
So when the real Christ is seen by revelation it exposes the
antichrist. This exposes everything in the religious world that is
affected by an antichrist spirit. It’s “the spirit of iniquity doeth
already work.” Where does it work? Right in the church. It
worked on Balaam. See, Balaam could prophesy. And his
prophecy is still good today, “Whoever blesses Israel will be
blessed. Whoever curses Israel will be cursed.” But watch what
he did, even after God let him know that Israel was blessed.
When the king said, “I can give you more gold than you’ve ever
seen before,” he said, “Well, maybe I ought to go back and pray
again. God might change His mind and curse Israel.” That’s
when the donkey he was riding saw the angel of the Lord
standing in his way with a sword drawn in his hand, and
slammed Balaam against the wall and began to talk to him.
I tell you, God can use a donkey to talk to you if He has to; if it
serves His purpose. After Balaam got through beating the
donkey with his staff, the donkey said, “Have not I always done
you right all these years?” And Balaam was so mad that he
didn’t realize a donkey was talking. And finally he came to
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himself, “What in the world is going on? Here’s a donkey
talking to me.” But that didn’t change his ways, even after he
saw an angel with his sword (the Word of God) drawn. He went
and told the king, “I know how you can get God to curse Israel.
Have a party and get the young people of Israel over here. And
get them all together. Get them partying and they will sin and
God will take care of cursing them Himself.” In that day it was
much like it is today among the heathen; loose living, orgies, and
whatever. One real man of God ran into a tent and there was a
Jewish man that had one of those women and was involved in a
sexual act with her, and he put a dagger through him and into
the woman’s belly. And the Bible says, “The wrath of God was
stayed.”
That spirit of Balaam originally has never changed; it just went
around a different way. Balaam couldn’t out-right curse Israel,
but he figured out a way to get them to sin so that God would
curse them over this evil deed. And that’s what Constantine
done. He couldn’t curse God’s people, but he did like Balaam
with his politics there in Nicaea. Some men of God resisted his
ways and they were persecuted for it. But Constantine got his
group together, saying, “Let’s make Christianity an official
religion.” And then that’s where the seed of Catholicism was
sown. Constantine said, “Let’s don’t destroy this religion; let’s
make Christianity one of the official religions that we can use in
helping control the people. This sounds like ole Balaam.
(Numbers, Chapter 22)
So what I’m preaching here is gun barrel straight, right down
the line, one hundred percent Word! Anything else—out!
Recognizing the Christ of the end time. That’s both legs of the
spiritual coming of Christ in Revelation, Chapter 10. And we’re
baptized into the fullness of the body, members of the body of
Christ. And the antichrist is now in full bloom as is clearly seen
in this new pope with his Balaam deeds.
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Heavenly Father, we come to you, praising you and thanking you for
your love, goodness, and mercy. I pray, Lord, that these words go forth
and accomplish that which you’ve ordained. And may, Lord, these
words not fall on deaf ears, but may this be an awakening that we see
the hour, see what’s going on, see the Christ of the Bible, and recognize
the end time Christ. We are members in Him. We’re the wife. We’re
married to Him by the Word of God. Lord, we thank you for each one
that came this way today and those that will hear this message
wherever they are. May it accomplish that which thou has ordained,
in Jesus Christ’s wonderful name. Amen.
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