Matthew 24:24-28: 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. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
The Bride Age is not another church age, and therefore does not need to have an eighth messenger as some like to think. The Bride Age is an age within an age. For the elect, our bodies live in Laodicea, but our souls have been lifted up into a higher place, and this we call the Bride Age.
Of the four beasts or Cherubim that surround the Throne in Heaven, each one had a special connection to God’s dealings with the Church. The Lion, Ox and Man anointings were manifested during the seven church ages, but the Eagle anointing is exclusively for the Bride Age. Laodicea is connected with the Man anointing, so then because the Bride Age opened up during the seventh church age, there must have come a time when the anointing shifted from the Man to the flying Eagle.
The seven church ages were under the administration of Son of God, but the Bride Age which opened up within the seventh church age is under the prophetic administration of Son of Man, whereby the full Word is revealed. So when God sent a prophet to this generation, although he was the messenger to the seventh age, his ministry would be under two anointings, because another age was going to open up inside of Laodicea. There was a part of the prophet’s ministry that was under the Man anointing (for Laodicea), and there was another part of his ministry that was under the Eagle anointing (for the elect of the Bride Age).
The Eagle anointing did not fly IN Laodicea, but flew in the time OF Laodicea, because the Eagle is only associated with the capstone of the pyramid. The seven church ages are part of the great spiritual pyramid, but they are not the capstone part of it. The capstone is for the Bride Age where Christ the Headstone comes down to reveal Himself to His Wife and to unite Himself with Her.
The seventh church age messenger (William Branham) was on the earth in the seventh church age of Laodicea, which is the Pentecostal Age. Because all seven ages are connected with the Son of God administration, then when the prophet went forth under the first and second pull of his ministry, he was operating under the Man anointing which belongs to the Son of God administration of the church ages. But when the capstone descended, which is Christ the Headstone (Revelation 10:1), then the anointing on the prophet shifted from the Man to the Eagle, because the flying Eagle is entirely associated with the opening of the Word.
The incredible healing and discernment services that defined much of the prophet’s ministry was not connected at all with the Eagle anointing. All of that belonged to the church ages and was given to attract the attention of the rainbow trout (the elect) for the revealing of the Word that was soon to come. Furthermore, all of the loose ends which the prophet tied-up (such as water baptism, the Godhead, the Serpent seed, no eternal Hell etcetera), they were made known to us under the first and second pull of the Pentecostal Age, which again was under the Man anointing of the Son of God administration.
Laodicea being the Pentecostal Age has nothing to do with the Pentecost described in the Book of Acts. Laodicea spontaneously began with the Azusa Street revival and the restoration of the gifts that accompanied it. But when Pentecost failed to move on with the Word, then God finished with Laodicea and called a Bride out of the seventh church age to unite with Him inside of the Bride Age. Laodicea is still the Pentecostal Age, but the Bride is not connected with that, for She has been lifted up higher into the presence of Her Husband, the King.
In the message “The Rapture” (December 4, 1965), the prophet said that the Pentecostal Age was a deceiving age. It is what Jesus also warned His disciples about, that the last age would be a deceiving one because it would be so close to the Truth. Indeed, the Word looked like it had been restored in Pentecost when the prophet tied-up the loose ends. But it wasn’t, because the wheat seed had not yet come back to the original seed. Luther’s message was the stalk, Wesley’s message was the tassel, but Pentecost was only the shuck or husk. The wheat seed of life was moving through the wheat plant, and was being formed inside the husk, but then the husk eventually expels the wheat seed, just as Pentecost rejected the Word. The Pentecostal Age is therefore to be burned because there is no wheat seed life inside of it.
The Pentecostal Age of Laodicea as the shuck was the womb that the wheat seed was formed inside of. It was a safe environment for life to be formed, but when that life was birthed, then it would be foolish to think that the life is still inside of the womb. And so modern Pentecost has a lot of noise and manifestation and copying going on, but a closer examination will reveal that there is no more life at all inside of it.
The deception of the Pentecostal Age is not easily recognizable, for if it was, then many in the message of the hour would not have been deceived by it. The big and famous Pentecostal preachers of today with their television shows and prosperity Gospel services are obviously wrong and clearly a sham, and hardly something to be fooled by. But when people in the message of the hour hold only to the restored truths of the first and second pulls of the prophet’s ministry, but refuse to go on with the open Word, and unite with Christ the Headstone under the Eagle anointing of the Son of Man administration, then those people are still back in Laodicea under the Pentecostal Age. They are believing in God sending a prophet, but they are refusing the Christ that the prophet introduced us to. They are in the darkness of Egypt (Laodicea), but not in the Light of Goshen (the Bride Age inside of Laodicea).
So the deception is much closer than what most have thought, because a person claiming to be in the message of the hour and professing to believe the restored truths of more than sixty years ago is no longer good enough. The message has advanced so much more since then. The revelation of the Word has moved on, and it is a sin to refuse to go on when God has given us so much more. Today, Ichabod is written upon the lives, homes, and churches of many in the message who have refused the Light of this present hour. The Glory of God has departed from them (1 Samuel 4:21).
The Glory of God has moved on to a place where the Bride is caught up into a union with Christ. But so many have rallied around God sending a prophet, and have camped down under that. They are parroting quotes from the message, and all of them lack a revelation of what the message was actually sent for. So it is a deception, because these people have settled for the truths the prophet brought under a Son of God anointing in Laodicea, but are refusing to eat the Book and become the Word made flesh for their day. To refuse to eat the Book is to be back in the Pentecostal shuck of Laodicea. You cannot claim to be under the Eagle anointing of the Bride Age and yet deny and fight against what is being revealed in the Word today.
As the Jews missed the first coming of the Son of Man because of their own interpretations of Moses’ message, so more than 90% of those in the message of the hour have missed the second coming of the Son of Man, because of their own manmade ideas and interpretations of the prophet’s message. The carcass today (Matthew 24:28) is not that God has sent a prophet. That was good for when the prophet was here. But he has gone off the scene, and so that was a truth of yesterday. That is yesterday’s manna. The carcass today is to know who you are. It is to have the revelation of your position in Christ as His Queen. The Word that once lived and manifested itself in the life of the prophet during the 1950’s and 1960’s, is to live and manifest itself in the Bride of the 2020’s.