nothing that we intend to bring new in any way, but just to remember. Maybe go back over the things that God has given us. And I wanted to minister this morning on the power of the third pull.
The power of the third pull.
And we know that Revelations 10:1-7 and Revelation 8:1 are tied together.
Revelation 10:1, And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
And sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Revelation 8:1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
And we know that in Revelation 8:1 is the opening of the seventh seal. But in the opening of the seventh seal, there was silence. Nothing was declared.
There was no symbol form. Nothing was spoken. And when we get over here to Revelation 10:1, when the mighty angel lifted up his hands in the heavens, seven thunders uttered their voices. And John heard those seven thunders, what the seven thunders said, and he was about to write because he was told in the beginning of this book and the beginning of the commission to "write what thou has seen and put it in a book." And so he was writing down according to what he's been told. He hears the seven thunders and he knows what they're saying. So we know that the seven thunders was speaking something. There was something being said because John was going to write down what the seven thunders had uttered. And when he was getting ready to write it down, a voice from heaven said,"Write it not, but seal it up."
So now we know that that Revelation 8:1 and Revelation 10 1-7 are tied together.
They're both silent. Something's open. There's a revelation that's sealed.
There's something there. It's not that they're empty. They're not empty. There's something there, but what is there is sealed. Shh. Don't say it. It's a secret. Seal it. It's there. It's spoken, but it's not open. It's open.
It's there, but it's secret.
Can you see the conundrum of the seventh seal? There's something to it. There's something. It's something solid. It's something real. It's something that John could have wrote down. It was something that was under the seal. It's not that they peeled open the seal and looked at it and there was nothing there. There's something fantastic there. But it's in silence. So we must just let the Lord lead us into this. That's why the only way to ever get this message is by revelation.
We could stand up all the time and try to connect the dots and put the pieces together, and we could say the things the prophet said, and share what we think it means and what we believe it to be. But unless God will quicken in your heart, there's no way for you to see what's laying under the silence. Because if not, we'll go to all kinds of things and say, "Oh, it's this and it's that and it's this piece and it's that piece and this bit of information and this bit." But really, there's a great mystery laying under that. And the great mystery is a person. It is the person of the Word. It is the person of Jesus Christ.
So, we'll get to this as we move forward. Brother Branham says in the message, "What Is The Attraction On The Mountain?" He said, "I've got my mind set on this message. That's the third pool, and it's the one I must be loyal and reverent to." We know brother Branham had come through this time in his ministry and he come here after the opening of the seals and I believe here he was talking about some matters in the church on the tapes and who's going to have the bid for the contract to make the tapes and he said the trustees will take care of that. I have nothing to do with it.
And then he comes to this and he says I've got my mind set on this message. That's the third pull.
And so the end time message is the third pull and it's the one I must be loyal and reverent to. From brother Branham, everything came down to this third pull.
And so I want to go back and I want to look at the third pull and and I know a lot of this will be review for the majority of you, but let's just review it. This is our life. You know how you know you have so many things that are wonderful in your life and exciting and you just talk about it all the time and you talk about to everybody you come in contact with and you've talked about it already with your family but you'll talk about it with them again. You spoke about it Tuesday night at dinner but Thursday night you talk about the same subject because you're excited about it because it's your life. It's where you're at.
That's what this is to us. This is where we are at. This is our life. This is everything.
And there's a message that Brother Branham preached in on New Year's Day, January 1st, 1956. And he talks about why are people so tossed about? And here he begins talking about the three pulls.
And he says here ,"The angel of the Lord taking me out then and taking me to a real bright stream of water. It was most beautiful blue water.
Great fish were swimming around in it and said,"I will make you a fisher." So now cast your lure into the water and when you do, pull it slow first time and the next time just give it a little jerk, not too hard and the next time set your hook for the catch. So the premise of the vision is about fishing.
And He's showing him that there's going to be three pulls or the pull of the lure. And he said on that last one he said set your hook for the catch.
So, if we could just just let the cat out of the bag right from the beginning.
God never intended to catch the prized fish on the first or second pull. That was never His intention. He knew all along that it would take that third pull to catch the fish.
The fish that he would after. You could catch fish on the second pull. And we'll find that here in the message. Amen. But not the fish he was targeting. He says, "And I started to throw my line in the water. I pulled and everybody began rejoicing and saying, "That's wonderful. That's wonderful." I got all excited and I jerked it hard on the next one. That's the second pull. And I pulled the fish and all out of the water. And what it was, it was a little bitty fish and it just about the size of the lure. And I got my line all tangled up and I was straightening out my line ... timed pull, he got excited because was, it was a little bitty fish and it just about the size of the lure. And I got my line all tangled up and I was straightening out my line. So on the second pool, he got excited because if if you read all of these quotes and put them together, Brother Branham is saying that all the they were all around this body of water and there was a bunch of fishermen fishing and angel told him, amen, what to catch and how to catch it. And and then all of a sudden, Brother Branham gets excited because all the fishermen turned out to be preachers and they all gathered around said do it, Brother Branham. You can do it." And they're encouraging him. And he felt so good and he felt so encouraged that on the second pull he didn't obey the angel and he pulled too hard. And when he did, he jerked out the lure, fish and all. And he had only caught a little bitty fish. He said, "Look like skin over the lure." He said, "I don't even know how it got the lure in its mouth." He said, "I caught a little one like them other brothers were catching." Right.
But that was a mistake. That's not the ones he was supposed to catch. And that's not the way he was supposed to catch fish. Yeah.
All right. So he says, "Then I got my line all tangled up." He said, "Then the man which was talking behind me walked around in front of me dressed in Palestinian clothes and a turban on his head. He had a white robe." He said, "Brother Branham that's it." I said,"I know I didn't do right." I said, "I jerked it when l ought not to." He said, "Don't get your line tangled up in these time kind of times."
And I said, "Well, I'm running as straight as I can. and I'll be very careful. He said. "Now the first time I spoke with you, you put your hands on the people and told them what was wrong with them." And the second pull, why when you did you would know the secrets of their hearts and I made you a seer before the people, but you was always trying to explain it. You ought to have done that. He said, "You made a public show out of it." I said, "I'm very sorry." Then he taken me from there and I seen a great huge tent. I'd never seen such a tent. And it was packed and lined everywhere with people And it it looked like I was standing above the people looked like looking down where I just made an altar call. And hundreds and hundreds of people were weeping and rejoicing after they had accepted the Lord Jesus as their Saviour. And I looked and then heard a man get up and say, "Call the prayer line." And people begin to line up over on this side, the left, from where I was looking down towards the platform. And they lined all the way up and down the street for prayer line.
I noticed to my left, which would have been to my right if I was on the platform, a little wooden building. And I seen that light that they have a picture of, you know, that's always in the meeting. I seen that light leave me and go to that building and go in the building. And a voice said to me, "I'll meet you in there. That'll be the third pull." I said, why? He said, well, it won't be a public show like the other.
And I came too. Praise God. So, we want to talk about these three pulls just for a little bit and just reacquaint ourselves.
Brother Frank, if you could pull up the whiteboard, I think I'll use that for just a little bit.
And we notice that he's in a vision. In these visions, all these types are being typed out so that he can understand something.
And in the vision, he's fishing and the objective is to catch the fish. And he says here in a couple months later in 1956, in April of 1956, in the message, What Is A Vision, he says, now you mark this down, watch it come to pass, said, I was standing by the side of a beautiful lake, something like your lake out here in the summertime, when it's real pretty and green, and there were fishermen all around the lake, and they were fishing. But they were catching small fishes and I looked out in the lake and those great beautiful rainbow trout out there. Brother Branham said they were in the deep water and that's where he was told to throw his lure out to the deep water. And let it sink down to the deep. Why? The angel was trying to teach him how to catch the big rainbow trout. And what were the big rainbow trout? They were rainbow. And rainbow is a sign of the covenant. When God made a covenant with Noah, a rainbow is a type of a covenant. And these were covenant fish. These were elect fish. This is the bride that he was trying to catch, the bride of Jesus Christ. And he said, "I looked out and in the deep water," he said, "Now," I looked into the lake and those great, beautiful rainbow trout out there. And I said, "I know this is a vision, but I can't understand those trout." But I said, "You know, I believe right down in my heart, I can catch those." And why did he believe that right down in his heart? Remember, it's not about fishing. It's about catching the bride. It's about getting the covenant fish, the elect. Remember, brother Branham talked about the covenant fish, the elect. Remember, brother Branham talked about the gospel net. You throw out the net and you gather in all kinds of species in the gospel net. But what you were casting the net for was for the fish.
The fish are a type. Of the chief seed or children of God. And you throw the gospel net to catch the fish.
Jesus told his disciples, I'll make you fishers of men. What kind of men were they supposed to catch? They were supposed to catch the elect of God.
So even in the Bible, God is typing the fish, the catching the fish with catching the elect, His children.
And now in the vision, the angel is picking it up same way, in a scriptural way. And he's showing them big, beautiful rainbow trout out in the deeper water. And the angel of the Lord is teaching him how to catch them and instructing him on how to catch them.
But he messed it up and got his line tangled.
And he says, he said, "Now I believe right down in my heart, I can catch those." Why? Because it was his ministry. So I picked up the string, but instead of it being a string, it was a fishing pole. And just then, the one behind me said, "Now I'll teach you to fish, how to catch those." All right. He's going to teach him how to do it. Said, "Now tie on the lure." And I snapped the lure on. He said, "Now throw way out, way out into the deep." He said, "When you do now, let the lure sink down first." and then said, "Pull it slow." Now, that's real fisherman's technique. I said, "Then when you do now, you'll feel some nibbles at it, but don't tell nobody what you're doing. Keep it to yourself."
And said, "Then when you feel it, nibble again." Said, "Pull just a little bit, but not too hard." He said, "And then :07 it'll pull it away from the little fish, and when they scatter, they'Il attract the attention of the big fish, and they'll grab it." And said, "That's the way you'll catch it." said, "Then when they bite on the third time, set your hook for the catch." Oh, praise God. So, it's the third time you're supposed to set the hook for the catch. To catch what? To catch the big rainbow trout, the big covenant fish, the elected of God. How do you catch them? On the third pull, that's when you set the hook. And the beautiful thing about setting the hook is, once the hook's set, they are caught
They are going to come in. They are going to come all the way to the fishermen because they've been hooked. What did they get hooked on? They were attracted by the lure. They were attracted, by these things that were attracting the little fish.
But when they got hooked, they got hooked on the third pull. And I said, I understand. He said, "But keep still. Don't tell nobody. Keep still. "
And I think it's interesting that Brother Branham is in this vision. And in the vision, he sees the fishing and the trout and the lure and the fisherman. And he begins to tell us what all that is.
And then he finds himself holding a baby shoe. And he's trying to get a great big cord through a little eyelid on the shoe. And the angel tells him, "Stop trying to teach supernatural things to Pentecostal babies. You can't teach supernatural things to Pentecostal babies." So, brother Branham was trying to explain and to teach his ministry and teach his gift. And all it was doing was creating impersonations.
Because that's really not God's objective. God's objective was to catch the big fish.
So, he began to explain tactics and he began to explain first pull and second pull. And he began to explain his ministry.
And he says, "You can't teach supernatural things to Pentecostal babes." And it's amazing because you can teach a lot to Pentecostal babes.
You can teach operation of the gifts.
You can teach miracles, signs, and wonders. You can teach faith. And a portion of the Word of God. There's a lot you can teach to Pentecostal babies. But the supernatural things, the real supernatural thing you cannot teach to Pentecostal babies.
So, that means these supernatural things aren't the things the Pentecostals can learn.
It's important. So, we don't want to be trying to teach the things that a Pentecostal can't learn, but not teach the real supernatural things. And it ties into the third pull.
Then he was taken up and he saw this massive tent and this little wooden building and the light went down in the building and the prayer line came forth. And we know as we read so many times, people were going in this little building, one by one and they were coming out changed, different without an explanation. They couldn't explain what happened. They were just changed. They didn't even explain what they saw in the room or what happened to them in the room, but we know that the angel of the Lord was there. We know that the light was there.
Okay? And brother Branham was watching all of this. And so then the angel says, "That'll be your third pull."
Now look, over the years, there was so many questions and even brother Branham questioned in his mind whether he'd get a great big tent and he would see a physical fulfillment of that bringing people in to a room or somehow having a different level of discernment. Even himself he questioned that.
But if you notice the vision everything in the vision was symbol form.
There was fishing for trout. There was a baby shoe and a cord and a tent and the third pull. It's all symbolic. It's not literal. We were not literally looking for brother Branham to actually go and catch a fish and teach fishermen how to do it or actually try to thread a shoe.
It was all showing a picture showing him that now there's going to be a change. Now, the people are going to be coming. Individually into this place. And it's going to change them.
And that's where the pillar of fire is. That's where the light is in this place, in this little room, in this chamber, what, however you want to call it. And there's no public show. There's no pulpit demonstration of what's happening in the little room.