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FOR MR BEN COSTNER AND OTHERS WHO ARE CONFUSED ABOUT THE TWO PROPHECIES IN THE BOOK OF MALACHI CHAPTER 3 AND CHAPTER 4, HERE IS BROTHER WILLIAM BRANHAM.....61 Now, this angel that comes in this day, I want to…I’ve got something written here, I’d just like to read it. But he will be known the last part of the age. And because we are so close to that-so close to that Light age, that probably he’s on earth now. See, don’t know him. He will be a-a mighty prophet that will be rejected by the church world, for they will go right on in their sins and finally be spued out of the mouth of God, out of the mouth of God’s Presence. 62 I believe it will be one like Elijah. I’m going to give my reasons why. Now, let’s just turn over here in the Book of Malachi, just a moment, I’m going to give you why I think it will be one anointed with the Spirit of Elijah. Now, I want you to put on your-your grace cap now. Malachi, the 4th chapter. Now, listen as I read, and you in your Bible. Now, think real close now for the next few minutes, now, before we go into the church age. For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea,…all that do wickedly, shall be stubbles: and the day that cometh that shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 63 What’s He saying? He’s speaking over to a day coming. Will you agree on that? To a day of the coming of the Lord. But unto you… 64 Now watch, now He’s speaking back to Israel. Now, what did He say? “For, behold the day cometh (way over) that shall burn.” But to you that fear my name…the Sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in tha-…in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. (Not…The day that He shall burn the earth, we’ll tread upon their ashes. That’s the Millennium, of course, see.) Remember…the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded…him in Horeb for all Israel’s, with the statutes and judgment. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming…and great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. The ending of the Old Testament. 65 Now, Jesus said…Matthew 17:10, speaking of this. All the Jews are looking for that coming Elijah. Now, watch what Jesus said about it, Matthew 17:10. We’ll begin at the 9th verse, Matthew 17:9: And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell no man the…Tell the vision to no man, (See, “Don’t tell this. You know it, but keep it to yourself.”)…Tell no man the vision, until the Son of man be risen…from the dead. Don’t tell it. And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then said the scribes that Elias must first come? Why is it Elias must first come before this Christ is to come, the Sun of righteousness? Why did they say this? Here, You’re already here, and the scribes said that-that Elias would come first.

Now, watch: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall come, shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and you knew him not, (See, He didn’t say who he was, see.) but have done unto him whatsoever ye listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. And the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. (Now-now, John the Baptist was the Elias that was to come.) 66 Now watch, I get back to Malachi the 4th chapter, again. Now remember, He said here that “Before the great and noble, terrible Day of the Lord shall come, I will send to you Elijah the prophet.” The 5th verse: But I will send unto you…the prophet…I will send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the…[Congregation says, “Lord.”-Ed.] 67 What do we find “in the Lord’s Day”? At the end of the age! That’s when the world is going to be burned. You remember how we took Him with a white wig on, you know, and-and His breast, and girded about the paps. You remember that? And we proved by the Bible, it wasn’t a sabbath day neither a Sunday, it was the Lord’s Day. Is that right? And that’s the day that He comes as a Judge, “And will smite the earth with a curse.” Is that right? And I will send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: 68 Now, watch the compound coming of Elijah. Now, if you’ll notice, all Scripture has a compound meanings, “But It’s hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and revealed to babes such as will learn.” Don’t you believe that? Now, hold Malachi 4 right there. 69 And now let’s go back to Matthew 2 just a minute, just right across the page, Matthew 2. I believe I ought to have meant Luke 2 instead of Matthew 2. I got it wrote down here, but I was hurrying just a few moments ago, and the Holy Spirit was in the room on me and I was just having me a big time. So I meant…2, let’s see if this would be it. Now, let me study here just a minute. Matthew 2? That ain’t where I’m looking for, is it? Now, just a minute, I’ll get it in just…Let me have just a little bit of time here ’cause I want you to be sure to see it, that the Scripture has a compound meaning to It. The Adoration of Anna; Return to Nazareth; The Passover; The Ministry of John. Now, let me see if I could have meant Luke, I was reading somewhere and…I-I mean Mark instead of Luke, might have been Mark. But I want you to get this Scripture so that-that you’ll know that it is the work of the Lord, that He does do this in this manner. Now, I’ll tell you where I’m looking for, where the, “Out of Egypt I have called My son.” Somebody with a marginal reading that could get it right quick or find it? “Out of Egypt I have called My son, I have called My son.” Now, just a moment. 70 [A brother says, “Luke 1:17.”-Ed.] Luke 1:17. Thank you, brother. That’s right, Luke 1. Mark…Luke 1:17, instead of 2. I want to get the 14th, that’s where…That’s it, brother. That’s exactly right, Luke 1:17. All right. Now, now you can mark it down. Now, what it is, it’s out of the blessings of the Lord, that it was blessed. And thou shall have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; 71 This man that comes forth will be taught from his birth not to drink or to have anything to do with sin like that. You get it? …and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and the power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; and make ready a people prepared for the Lord. 72 Now, now we realize that he was prophesied, and John was that person! Is that right? John was the Elijah, of that day, that was to come.

73 Now, we also know that Scripture sometimes means two things. It’ll say one thing, like over there in Matthew where It said, “Out of Egypt I have called My son.” All right, I believe that was what I was hunting for, “Out of Egypt I have called My son.” And then if you’ll run that “son” reference there, He was…did not…It went back into Hosea, which did not mean Jesus, His Son; it was-was Israel, His son, “Out of Egypt He called Israel.” But it had a compound meanings and a greater understanding to it when it meant and talked about for-for Jesus’ coming, which was a greater than-than Israel, when He called Israel out. All right. 74 Now, we also find that has…in His first coming wasn’t at the Day of the Lord. Is that right? Now, back to Malachi, let’s straighten this out first, “Coming at the Day of the Lord.” Now, watch His compound coming, His one coming and His second. Have you got your spiritual thinking ready? 6th verse now, “He shall…” …He will send…Elijah…before…the great and dreadful day of the Lord: (Is that right?) 75 Now, we realize that that wasn’t John, ’cause it wasn’t the dreadful Day of the Lord (was it?), and He…neither did He burn the earth. So it must’ve meant a preview, or-or another future coming of John…or of-of Elijah. Is that right? ’Cause He said, “I’ll send Elijah, and I’m going to burn the whole earth, and I’m going to just clean it off, and you’ll walk out upon their ashes.” That’s the Millennium, we know that. After the atomic bomb shall blow it from pieces, then there’ll be…the earth will straighten up. And there’ll be a great Day here on the earth, and the Church will reign with Jesus on the earth for a thousand years. Is that right? “But before that great and dreadful Day of the Lord, when it’s going to be blowed up, I’ll send to you Elijah the prophet.” Is that right? So it did not mean John the Baptist in that state, because the dreadful Day of the Lord wasn’t then, two thousand years off. Is that right? 76 Now, watch the next verse. And if you’ll be real spiritual now; now, this is a love letter, and you have to read between the lines and then it’s made right. You know what I mean. Remember how I said, the Scripture, “Jesus thanked God because He had hid It from the wise (of the eyes) and prudent, revealed It to babes.” Now, I’ve often illustrated about my wife when she writes me a letter; I can see what’s she’s saying on the letter, but I read between the lines to know what she means, see, because I love her and I-I know her nature. And you have to know God’s nature and love Him, then the Scriptures stand right out to you. He reveals It. 77 Now, watch the next verse: And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, (Now, watch.) and the hearts of the children to the fathers,…(See?) 78 Now, when John came as Elijah, he turned the hearts of the Israelites, the hearts of the children that was then accepting his message, the hearts of the fathers to the children. But when he comes this time, he’s going to turn the hearts of the Church back to the Pentecostal fathers. See, it’s a vice versa there. You get it? Now, read It! 79 Now, listen close now: And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,… 80 The old orthodox priest; he’s going to tell them that, “Why, God is able of these stones here to raise children unto Abraham. Don’t you think that you can…” See? Now, he’s going to take the hearts of the old calloused orthodox priest and turn their hearts to the Faith that the children had here. See, “Now, all these that’s been baptized and are waiting for the coming Messiah. Who has warned you, you generation of vipers, to flee from the wrath to come?” Oh, my! You see, “He was turning the hearts of the fathers to the children.” 81 “And the hearts of the children to the fathers.” Now, when this great Elijah comes in the end of this age, he’ll be taking the Message of Pentecost to turn the children to the Faith of the fathers, because he’ll be rebuking them because that they didn’t keep this same Faith that was back there at the beginning. Amen! Now, I believe we pretty well realize it’s going to be Elijah. Don’t we? Now we know it. 82 And it has…Now you see, the dreadful Day of the Lord ain’t come. I often wondered, “Would this man just be a preacher, then?” Elijah done all miracles, no preaching. But when his Spirit was upon John, It done all preaching and no miracles. Why? Jesus was going to follow him, He’d do the miracles, “For the Sun of righteousness shall rise,” he said, “with healing in his wings.” So John had no need of doing miracles, he just announced the coming of the Christ. And they… 83 Now, remember, and this John…or this Elijah that will come, will be misunderstood, he’ll be such a great powerful man before the Lord until people think he’s actually the Messiah. 84 Because his very best friends said to him, “You’re the Messiah.” 85 He said, “I’m not worthy to loose His shoes, but He’s coming after me!” 86 Because they were under expectation, then, to see a Messiah, they thought the Messiah was coming…When they seen this great phenomenon rise up among them, they said, “He is the Messiah.” 87 John said, “I’m not Him! But He’s coming after me!” 88 Oh, my! You get it? So his close friends will think he is the Messiah. 89 Now, notice another thing will take place, the nature of this, he’ll come just before the Lord’s Day. Now, the earth never burnt in the days of John, so it is in the future. When he comes the first time, he only preached; the second time, he-he will both do preaching and signs promised by Jesus Christ. All right, now, let us look at the nature, what it will be, the nature of this prophet that’s coming. 90 Now, we’re satisfied that the angel of this last church age, predicted from the Old Testament down; now, the rest of them wasn’t. Paul, Irenaeus, they wasn’t predicted. But this last age, at the end of the consummation, the end of the world, it’ll be such a tremendous time that we got just ahead of us, so this angel of this age was predicted all the way back in the Scripture, the Old Scripture, the ending up of this age. It’s Elijah, a great anointed one. 91 Now, watch! What kind of a nature will Elijah have? First, he’ll be a mighty prophet true to the Word of God, for Elijah was true, and John was true. That’s right. Doing signs and wonders, will turn the hearts of the children back to the Faith of the Pentecostal fathers. He will hate denominations like Elijah did. That’s right, he will! I think we just got the thing started for him now; about time he gets to come. He’ll hate denominations! Elijah hated them, and so did John hate denomination. 92 John said, “Don’t come, think, ‘Now we got Abraham to our father.’ You Pharisees and Sadducees, you bunch of vipers! Snakes in the grass,” other words. “For I tell you, God is able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.” 93 Elijah said, “They’ve all gone astray, every one of them! Nobody left but me alone.” Oh, my! 94 He will also hate fancy women! Elijah did: Jezebel. Is that right? John did: Herodias. Both them prophets, the Spirit, the same Spirit. They hated the denominational world, the church world. They hated, also, fancy, no-good women. They…Something in their spirit cried out against the thing! Jezebel was after Elijah’s head and was going to cut it off; and she also had John’s head cut off, Herodias did. Both of them! 95 This prophet will be a lover of the wilderness like Elijah, he lived in the wilderness alone, John, in the wilderness alone, then we know it’s going to be Elijah. All right. 96 And this prophet will be one that will stay with the true Word of God. Yes, he’ll stay with It, all the Word. What to? To restore back a Faith (to the Ephesus church) that’s been lost all this time, Faith, in the church that had an “open Door” set before it and rejected It. 97 Not a learned person. Elijah was not a learned person, the Tishbite. John was not a learned person. Luke 1:67, the Bible said that he was…“That the child was in…as soon as he was born, he took to the wilderness, was in the wilderness till the day he was showed to Israel.” That’s right. 1:…Luke 1:67 to the 80th verse, if you want to mark it down.

98 This prophet will also be a moody sort of a guy. Elijah, after he had a great meeting, nobody could get along with him. Elijah had spells. When he went out there and called fire down out of the heaven and burnt up the altars of Baal and everything, he run out into the wilderness and he said, “Lord, I’m no better than my fathers, let me die.” Is that right? (And John…) He-he set under a juniper tree, and after the great revival, now he wanted to die. 99 And John, when they cast him in prison (this foul woman) he set back there and begin to get moody. I believe Pember or one of them said, “His eagle eye got filmed over, in the jail.” He sent some of his disciples. 100 And, why, he had declared, said, “There’s the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.” John saw the Pillar of Fire hanging over Him, like a Dove, and come down, settled upon Him. Witnessed it all, and said, “That’s the Lamb of God!” And said, “I have need to be baptized of You, and why You coming to me?” Jesus said, “Suffer it to be so now.” 101 But when they put him in prison, he gets down in the dumps real quick. See, kind of hard, can’t hardly pick him up. And when they did, he said, “Go ask Him if He really is the One, or should we look for another one to come?” Just exactly like Elijah did, see, just the same. 102 He, sort of a moody sort of fellow, so we feel sorry for him ’cause we know what that is. All right. 103 Now, now at…The-the Church, at his manifestation…I better leave that one alone. At his manifestation, the-the Church…When he makes hisself known, this mighty Elijah that God will send to us, when he makes hisself known like Elijah did, the Church was ready to be delivered, was delivered out of the hands of paganism. Is that right? Just when he come up there and said, “We’ll prove who’s God,” Elijah delivered the Church. And John, just as John did, he said when he seen Jesus, he said, “I must decrease and He must increase.” John started preaching, made hisself known just before the coming of the Lord. Right at the end, the manifestation. All right. 104 Now, we find out that Elijah must mean this age to this Church. To prove that it was Elijah: Elijah after he had give his prophecy, Elijah did not have to die, he was translated and was taken up into Heaven; a type of the Church (at the end of this Elijah that will come, at the end of his time), the Church will go in the Rapture, without going through the shadows of death. It’ll be the Rapture! I believe the great Elijah, the great one that’s to come, will be the anointed Elijah that’s prophesied for the last days. Amen! I think he will be, when he comes, the angel, or the messenger to the church in the last days (a rejected, degraded people, as this church will get into, and is already). I think Elijah is promised in the Bible. I think we can understand that, that Elijah was the one that was promised in the Bible to come in this day. Do you believe that? 105 Now, let’s turn now to Laodicea and we’ll see what our Lord has to say to us tonight about Laodicea, a Laodicea. All right, the salute to the church: …unto the angel of the Lord… 106 The 14th verse to the 3rd chapter of Revelation: …unto the angel of the Lord…of…Laodiceans write; These things which saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, and the beginning of the creation of God; 107 Oh, my! We got all…If we had all night on that right there, how the Lord would reveal that to us! Watch! 108 The “Amen” is the “Last.” He’s appeared all the way down through, and different things, but here’s the last church age where it says, “I am…This is the finish, I am the Last.” 109 Now, to show that He was the “First” also, as He was, He’s “the beginning of the creation of God.” Oh! Do you catch It? See? How could God be created if He’s a Spirit? How could He be? He’s-He’s Eternal! He never was created, He never will be created, because He was God at the beginning. But He that is “the beginning of the creation of God” was Jesus Christ when He was made manifest, when God lived in Him. He is God’s creation! Oh, my! See, “The First and the Last; the Amen, the beginning of the creation of God.” When God created Himself a body, He come down and lived in it, that’s the beginning of the creation of God. See? Oh, isn’t He wonderful? 110 Now, we find at the first, He showed His Deity right here, “I am the Almighty! I am He that Was, Which Is, and Shall Come. The Almighty!” To the church of Ephesus, said it three times. Is that right? Comes right on over to the Laodicean and said, “I’m the Amen. I was the First back here, I’m the Last over here. And I am the beginning of the creation of God. Through the church ages that we’re to have, you’ll learn that I am God, God created in a man form. I’m the beginning of the creation of God!” Amen. 111 That would make a Presbyterian shout. Just think of it! “Beginning of the creation of God.” Now, I…Oh, how I like that, “the creation of God,” when God was created, when God was made flesh in Jesus Christ and dwelt among us. 112 Now-now, the next verse would be (to the other churches) commending, but He didn’t commend this church. He had a complaint against it, not a commend. He didn’t commend this for nothing, this Laodicean age. With all the Light that they had, and went back on It, they didn’t need any commending. Uh-huh. They needed a rebuke, and they got it! He had a complaint for this church, not a commend. 113 Now I want to read the 15th and 16th verse here now: I know thy works,…thou art neither cold nor hot: I would that thou were cold or hot. (In other words, “Don’t-don’t just be lukewarm.”) So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. (Hmm!) 114 Is that a commend? That’s a rebuke to this ungodly Laodicean age, the worst of the whole bunch. All the rest of them under torments and everything they had; they had nothing, they was poverty-stricken, wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, and destituted, and sawed and burned to death, and fed to lions, and everything else, and still held the Faith. And this bunch is “rich and have need of nothing,” and everything else, and a prostitute! That’s right. 115 Now, we got a great big lesson, I hope the Lord helps us in. He-He said, “Because you are neither hot or cold, lukewarm.” 60-1211E - "The Laodicean Church Age" Rev. William Marrion Branham

I'm not confused about anything. Gabriel and Jesus made it super clear that Malachi 4 was John the Baptist. There is no second, secret Elijah in Malachi 4. That's a lie of Satan.​@@DavidEricksonChannel

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