The Family Altar
BIBLE READING
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: (Leviticus 25:8-14)
INSIGHT
Look, in the Old Testament when a slave was under slavery. He was bought over there, with a price. He had to serve that master until the year of jubilee. And when the year of jubilee come, there was a trumpet sounded.
And when the slave was out there, him and his kiddies, and wife and all of them wanting to return to the old homeland, they were stomping in the fields, and the taskmaster beating them, and this way and that way. And then when the jubilee priest come by, sounding the trumpet, and that priest sounded the trumpet, and that man, he heard the trumpet, he could drop his hoe, he could drop whatever he was doing, look in the taskmaster's face, and say, "You can't hit me one more time. I'm free." Walk right away and go home. Why? There's the sounding of jubilee, when they heard the sound.
And that's the Gospel, the jubilee, that you're free from sin. You're free from all these filthy habits and things that the world had produced here in the name of religion, under both Protestant and Catholicism, under the mark of the beast. That's right. You're free.
You don't have to be. But then if that man refused to receive that, then that man was taken from there to the post of the altar of the church, and had a mark put on him, bored a hole in his ear. And he was a servant to that master as long as he lived.
And you refuse to accept Gospel Light when it's preached in the power of the Holy Ghost by the Bible, you can seal yourself to your eternal destination.
( Seal of God
May 14, 1954 )
~ Rev. William Marrion Branham
The time has come that we should be free so in a little while, the trumpet should sound to herald the end of Grace.
Then shall we follow our Redeemer Who came and redeemed us. But those who want to serve the taskmaster should remain here. How do they refused to go according to the scriptures above is that they have no interest to follow the Redeemer.
Jesus Christ speaking in
*[[John 14:15]] KJV*
"If ye love me, keep my commandments."
Obedience is the only way to show love for Jesus Christ. This is the "seventh year" Christ is still waiting for you to change your mind and fully begin to follow Him with your cross. No one knows when He will arise from the "Mercy seat" because our time had far gone.
Do you have the Holy Ghost? That's of a far greater importance to you now. Don't despise it.
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