Change Of Dispensation
Spiritual Building-Stone No. 126

Luke 19:42-44, "...and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation."
Luke 5:36-38, "And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was [taken] out of the new agreeth not with the old. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved."

Listen to what God's Prophet has said about it:

Now, notice what's happened. In the garden of Eden was God's economy of innocence, and that was one of the dispensations. The first dispensation was innocent; the people knowed no sin. They didn't know anything about sin. Both Adam and Eve were naked, but they were hid from their nakedness by a Spirit veil over their face. They never knew that they were naked at all, because they were hid (Gen. 1:21-25). For God's veil in their own minds, they didn't know what right and wrong was. And them both standing there naked, showed that the knowledge had not yet come to them, that they were naked. The pair was naked and knew it not.

Let's start at the change of the dispensations again from the Adamic dispensation until the Noahic dispensation (Gen. 6:1-3). Now, remember Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man" (Luke 17:26-27).

But Noah, in his day it was hard for him in his dispensation, because that the people had never heard of such a thing, but it come just the same. Then we find out on the scene, come after Noah's deliverance and so forth, and the earth begin to grow again, and everything that breathed breath perished. And then we find out again that there come a time, then God was bringing His children out of Egypt, that Moses come along with the law. It was so hard for the people to understand, but a dispensation was changing to a law. And then after the law come, Moses trying... It was a schoolmaster. People was just living any way they wished to, so the schoolmaster, the law, was, the Bible said, to bring people to recognize that it was wrong, so He gave them the ten commandments (Rom. 7:7-13). It was quite a change; the people didn't want to receive it. All right.
Then after Moses come John. And after John, the dispensation come, he introduced Jesus. And when Jesus come to try to bring us grace, which was God in the Spirit, in the line of Spirit, manifested His love, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son" (John 3:16), and Jesus was so different and contrary to the law, but it was a different dispensation, a different time.

The dispensations change with Jesus Christ: from the law to grace, from works unto grace, from something you do to what something God did, upon your own merits or upon His merits; it changed.

And then when Jesus left, He spoke of this dispensation of the Holy Spirit (John 14:16-20; 16:5-14), the Life inside, a Witness of Him of the resurrection.

It's always been a fact and a fight, when one dispensation is changing from an old dispensation to a present-time message, it's always been a fight with the people. It's, although it's been always Scriptural. But during the time that God gives them a dispensation and something to live by, or something to do... Now we find out that immediately after that dispensation is given, the men of the earth try to find something to counteract that, and something to make a manmade affair of it.

That's exactly what took place in the days of Noah; that's what took place in the days of Lot; that's what took place in the other days, the days of Moses; that's what taken place in the days of Jesus Christ. For they despised the message and perished, and those who believed the message was saved.

Now, then comes the church dispensation in. We lived back in Noah's time, the antediluvian; we come into the dispensation of law; then in the dispensation of grace, the church. And now the church dispensation is ending. We all know that.

Now, if God did thus-and-thus in that dispensation, in those other two dispensations, He has to remain the same and do the same in this dispensation, 'cause He said He would do it. I'll prove it in a few minutes by the Word, that He said He would do it. Now, He cannot change His program; He's God. Notice what He did in them dispensations.

Now we come to the church dispensation's end time. That's what I read tonight: "It shall be Light in the evening time" (Zech. 14:7).
We've had plenty of dismal time, but there shall come Light. The same Son that came and changed the dispensation then, comes again (Luke 17:30). That's going to be from earth to glory (I Thess. 4:13-17). We'll go in that. One time we went in, the other time we went out, and this time we're going up. See? All right: in, out, up. We're coming to the end time. And we're not only coming; we've already arrived. We are at the end time.

You believe in dispensations? Bible said so, "In the dispensation of the fulness of time..." (Eph. 1:10). What is the fulness of time? There's been a dispensation of, well, there was a dispensation of the Mosaic law. There was a dispensation of John the Baptist. There was a dispensation of Christ. There's a dispensation of church organization. There's dispensation of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Now's the dispensation of adoption, what the world's waiting, groaning. "And when the fulness of time comes, when the dispensation of the fulness of time..." What is that fulness of time? When the dead rises, when sickness ceases, when all the earth ceases to groan. "The fulness of the dispensation of time..." Watch this.

And when the fulness of the dispensation of time, that he might gather together... all things in Christ, both which are in heaven...
But when it comes to the gathering together at the end of the dispensation, it'll be waiting for the manifestations of the sons of God in that dispensation, that He might gather all together, all that has been brought into Christ. What is Christ? How do we get into Him? I Corinthians 12:13, "By one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body, which is the Body of Christ, and made partakers of every gift and every good thing that He's got." Is that right? And the whole earth is groaning, crying, waiting for the manifestations that when Christ and His church will unite together (Rom. 8:19-23).

That's exactly what Moses done. That's exactly what Jesus done. That's what exactly every messenger done down through the Bible, at the end time of that dispensation; they restored back the message. The people, through organizations and things, got it all scrupled up and everything in them days.

But, you know, in the days of Noah... Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah..." (Mat. 24:37-39). You know, people perhaps built boats in them days, whether they were God-constructed or not. But they didn't float when the time come for it to float. So I like the message to be God-constructed with the Scriptures, a Scriptural message. And right there with it, everything with the Scripture, it's THUS SAITH THE LORD, then. And it's got to stand because it isn't my word that's in question, it'd be His Word that's in question. Bring it from the Scripture.

And we're in a changing dispensation. We're changing now. And every change is like building a building. You come to the corner, you have to make that bend. It's strange, everybody wants to run right straight on down. You'd have just one big wall. But we're building a building, and we're coming to corners, and you've got to change those corners. "Those changes is where the trouble comes, where the... It's hard on that corner to cut that corner, and make it just right." We're at a corner!

Notice, (people are) living in a glare of Luther, living in a glare of Wesley, living in them glares back there, that's the reason they can't see true Light. If they would stop for a few minutes and just pick up the Bible and read It, they would see that this is Light promised for the hour.
Now, we're going to take some of these things in a minute. He promised according to Malachi 4:5-6 these things would happen. He promised all through the Scriptures they would happen. See?

Notice Israel also, our type, in the journey (Look.), eating manna which was their light-life, that give them strength, life. Is that right? Israel could not eat manna that was yesterday had fallen. It was contaminated; it was rotten (Exod. 16). It was no good for them; they'd die over it. The manna that kept them alive yesterday would kill them today. The Bible said it got germs in it, contaminated. And the manna... They had to get new manna every day. Amen. And what is it? The people that live on manna of Luther, Wesley, and them back in there, you're eating contaminated stuff that's killing you spiritually. See? It's killing you dead in your traditions.

Yesterday's, Luther's manna would not work for Methodists. Methodist manna would not work for Pentecost. Pentecostal manna will not work for today. See what I mean? Every day it come day by day, fresh, and so has it to the church ages. Luther's manna was the message of justification. Wesley's message was the manifestation of sanctification; Pentecostal was the restoration of the gifts. But this is introducing the Headstone, the last day, the Bride Tree. It's contrary to all of it. And yet It's the same Light for the matured, like the same sun shine today will be ripening the grain for the harvest in July. See what I mean? But the Light today won't do any good back there in July. It's stronger; the wheat's more advanced. It's ready to take it. Amen. Certainly it is. It couldn't take it now. It can then. The season wasn't right then; it is now. This is the evening time.

Look how the church ages has fall... Paul first back in the early age, then come down the line to Irenaeus and so forth, on down into France. From there over into Germany, over into England, constantly going west. And now we can't go no farther. This is the last age.

And watch, as it went forward, it grew stronger and stronger. And so has the real little minority of the church growed from justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, and now to the coming Capstone, shaping itself up. No more organizations after this. There won't be no more. See? Can't be. See, we're on the west.

Now, that's what it is, the dead things of yesterday, the message of Luther, the message of Wesley, the message of Pentecost, if it can only go through the process of God's Holy Spirit and the Word of a-vindication, it'll bring forth the reflection of the Jesus Christ the King. Amen. But if you leave it lay, it's dirty rags. See? It's got to be molded into something else.
Luther has got to be molded into Wesley, and Wesley's got to be molded into Pentecost, and Pentecost has got to be molded into Christ. It goes through a process. So has the Gospel gone through a process. It's processing. Luther's age of justification, we believe that. Wesley's of sanctification, we believe that. The Pentecostal's with the restoration of the gifts of the Holy Ghost, we believe that. Certainly, but mold it all together, what do you come out with? Jesus (That's right.) the same yesterday, today, and forever. You come out with Jesus.

When a man in a foundry is making a bell, he's got a certain tone he has to put in it. When he's setting his mold and pouring his iron, he puts in so much brass, so much steel, so much copper. Why? He knows just exactly how much to put in the--to make--give it the right tone. And that's what Jesus has done by His Bride. He had to put so much Luther, so much Methodist, and so much Presbyterian, so much Pentecost in it, but what does He come out with? His own reflection. Why is it? Just like the pyramid message. You see, it's heaping right up till it's coming to the minority for the Headstone. The ministry of Jesus Christ on earth has to be the same as the ministry He had, or He can't come to it. It's like the head to the feet. The feet's not the head, but the head packs the feet, or makes the feet, tells it where to go. You get it? Beautifully, it's the Light of the hour.
No. Yes, sir. The dirty rags of yesterday, if you remain that way, it'll just become dirty rags all the time. It served it's purpose as clothing, but now it's become paper. Justification served its time in justification under Luther, then it had to become sanctification through Wesley. And sanctification served its time till it come the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And the baptism of the Holy Ghost has served its time until the Holy Spirit (which there's only one God) blends into the church, or the church into Christ, that makes Jesus Christ reflected on the earth. It's what He promised here in the Bible. Might not believe it. I can't make you do that. I'm only responsible for the Word. See? That's right.

And the devil can impersonate any of those things. But he cannot be the Holy Ghost. See? He can impersonate these gifts, but he can't be the Holy Ghost. And the Holy Ghost is the Token that the Blood's been applied, because It follows the Blood all the way from the Book of Redemption. See it? That was the purpose of Him coming. That's what He followed in every age. Every age He's followed that to see that It's brought forth. And they could not be made perfect without us (Heb. 11:39-40). And now, the entire Holy Spirit visits the church making God in human flesh as He did before Sodom, the burning there, which was a type. Then Abraham, He appeared to him (Luke 17:26-36).

And all the things that He hasn't done down through the ages, in the church ages, He is now doing. Back to the Word, because the messages, and the messages, and the messages has to wind up in the entire Word.

And now, notice. Like the first time, when He started that first church that the Roman caterpillar eat off (and cankerworm, so forth - Joel 1:2-4), He started out with justification by faith. In Saint John the 17th chapter, 17th verse, Jesus said, "Sanctify them, Father, through the Truth; Thy Word is Truth." Second work was sanctification (to the church). After justification was sanctification. And after they were sanctified, He asked them to tarry in the city of Jerusalem (Luke 24:49) until they were endued with power from on high; and there He gave birth to the Tree, the Holy Ghost, Pentecost. Justification, Sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, and then Christ come to dwell in It to bring forth the fruits. Amen. Is that right?
And what's the evening Light come out for? What is the evening Light for? To restore (Joel 2:23-27). Whew. You get it? The evening Light is for the same purpose the morning Light was for: to restore what was cut down by the dark ages through Rome, God is going to restore by shining forth the evening Light. What? Restore the whole Word of God again, the full manifestation of Christ in His church. Everything that He did, just exactly the way He did, would be again in the evening Light. See what I mean? Oh, isn't that wonderful? And to know we're living right here to see It.
Do you get it? Amen. For God said, "I will restore It." He's going to restore It how? By four death messengers killed It (Joel 1:3-4); then four Life messengers will restore It. What was the first? Martin Luther, justification. What was the second? John Wesley--by sanctification. What was the third? Pentecost with the restoration of the gifts, the Holy Ghost, baptism of the Holy Ghost. What was the fourth? The Word. What? The Word.
Watch. Justification brought back the pulp. Sanctification brought back the bark: doctrine of holiness. What brought back the leaf? Pentecostals. What is it? Pentecostals, leaves, clap their hands, joy, rejoicing: Pentecostal. What? The fourth was the Word Itself. The Word made flesh, fruits of the proof of the resurrection sign that Christ has finally, after justification being planted, sanctification being planted, baptism of the Holy Ghost. Organizations died out, and Christ has again centered Himself like that cap of the pyramid.

First line, justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, then coming of the Cap. What is it? That Holy Ghost bunch being honed out, so that it can fit with the same kind of ministry He had when He went away; that when He comes back it'll catch the whole thing in the rapture, where they're justified, sanctified, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That pyramid will stand again. The house of God will live again. The Tree of Life is growing again.

Now comes our triumphal Capstone on the Baptism with Holy Ghost. Galatians 4:4-7, "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son...." Christ came forth, died upon the cross, and accomplished Redemption (restoring to original owner by means of purchase, or paying the price) and thereby placed us as sons. He did not make us sons, for we were already His sons, but He placed us as sons; for as long as we were in the world, in the flesh, we could not be recognized as His sons. We were held captive by the devil. But we were sons, nonetheless. And hear this: and because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts whereby you cry, Father, Father. Upon whom did the Spirit fall at Pentecost? Sons. At Corinth? Upon Sons while they heard the Word.

We're in the last days. We all know that. And we're ready for the coming of the Lord. The thing to do is separate yourself from all sin. Separate yourself from anything that pertains to the world. Don't love the world or the things of the world (I John 2:15-16). Let no man, by his creed, deceive you. You stay right straight in the promise of God, the Word of God; and that Word, if It's the Word, for this day, God vindicates It so. If He doesn't, it's not the Word for this day. The Word that fell on the day of Pentecost will not work this day. No, sir, that was for Pentecost. This is for the Bride: going home of the Bride. We got something different. The Pentecostals represented that again. We're in the Bride age. No more than the Word of Noah would worked in the days of Moses. No more than Moses' law would've worked in the time of Paul, here. He tried to tell them, "You're dead to that. And you cannot have that."

Church, you, who I'm speaking to tonight across the nation, if you've separated yourself from denomination and all the filth and things of this world, and all those things that keeps you in manmade creeds, and orders, and things like that, you separated yourself, look up. Get ready. The fire's going to fall one of these days. God's going to let Him come, in a sight to behold. Would you be ready when He comes? Would you be ready to go up with Him when He comes? The secret rapture of the supernatural Bride... She'll be made from mortal to immortality; be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. We which are alive and remain shall not prevent them which are asleep (I Thess. 4:13-17; I Cor. 15:51-55).

Watch how God vindicates Himself in healing and powers each time, just at the crossroads, never before, right at the crossroads, at the junctions, change in dispensation, change in time.

Notice the old world (the antediluvian), the world that's present now, and the one to come. Now, first stage that He brings us to... See, His plan of redemption is exactly the same by everything. He uses the same method. He never changes. He said, in Malachi 3, "I am God and I change not." The way He does it, therefore, if He saved the first man He ever saved by the shed blood of an innocent One, He will have to save the next one; and every one He saves will have to be the same way. If He healed a man at any time through the journey of life, let it be in the days of Jesus, the apostles, the prophets, whenever it was, when the same conditions is met He's got to do it again. That's right. He doesn't change. Man changes, time changes, age changes, dispensation changes, but God remains the same: perfect.

Reference:
"God's Power To Transform", par. 113
"Conflict Between God And Satan", par. E-41
"End Time Evangelism", par. 96-97
"Evening Messenger", par. 111-117, 232
"Position In Christ", par. 163-165, 169
"Identified Christ Of All Ages" (64-0409), par. 12-13
"The Rapture", par. 18
"There's A Man That Can Turn On The Light", par. 159-162, 168-170, 183-187
"Desperation", par. 21-22
"Restoration Of The Bride Tree", par. 68, 74-76
"Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ", pg. 46
"Smyrnaean Church Age", CAB pg. 153
"Hebrews Chapter 4", pg. 105, 137
"Junction Of Time" (56-0115), par. E-35
"Future Home", pg. 14

Spiritual Building-Stone No. 126 from the Revealed Word of this hour, compiled by: Gerd Rodewald, Friedenstr. 69, D-75328 Schömberg, Germany
Phone: (+49) 72 35 76 13, Fax: (+49) 72 35 33 06

There's coming one with a Message that's straight on the Bible, and quick work will circle the earth. The seeds will go in newspapers, reading material, until every predestinated Seed of God has heard It.
[Bro. Branham in "Conduct-Order-Doctrine", pg. 724]