(Preached on Sunday morning, November 06, 2005, in Locodjro, Abidjan - Ivory Coast)
1 Well! I call the Church to much more wisdom. And in this sense, I would like to say that a church member can appear good and yet, he is an agent of Satan among you. Even an assembly can be a synagogue of Satan. For example, a brother who is severe during public confessions or an assembly which does not say anything when the pastor confesses, it is the devil. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].Whatever the sin, as soon as a brother or sister had the courage to come and confess, your mission will not be to scandalize him or her but you should exhort him or her in all meekness so that he or she will not repeat this sin any more. Also remember Solomon before Abiathar, in 1 Kings 2:26. If a brother or sister has been a model, made converts, supported the work with all his strength and falls and confesses it at once, be wise! You see? In the same way, take heed not to turn a weak brother out or even one of the mixed multitude but rather the inside enemies and the Achan. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
2 We are also very proud of the Brothers Moïse, Benié and Coulibaly. They have also showed that a pastor and his assembly can conform to the midnight Cry. And I say it with all my heart… They had a better temple, a better pulpit with wall-to-wall carpet and others but humility prevailed! You see? May God also bless Sister Rachel who gave the money for all the edition of this book. May God bless all the sisters who bear witness everywhere, distributing the leaflets. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
3 Also Brother Fofana has told me that according to science, the spermatozoa going towards the ovum fight and even kill one another. It was a TV channel called "Planet" that showed that… I taught it and I did not know it. You see? It is in the sermon: The passage of the sons of the devil through the flood according to Genesis 7, Kacou 27. Science will one day be able to determine that there are two categories of spermatozoa and that it is one category that attacks and kills the other category. The brother also said that a woman got pregnant from two of her colleagues at the same time, confirming again that Eve could be pregnant from the serpent and Adam at the same time, in addition to the example of the Norwegian woman that I had quoted…
4 And while I’m preaching "The meaning of the restitution ", I have been happy to carry the baby of our Sister Viviane in my arms. This baby is the fruit of prayer. She had wanted it to be named after me in recognition to God but you know that I cannot accept that… and I would ask that if possible, next Sunday, each one of us will bring something, a piece of soap for example for our sister. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
5 Well, before starting, I would like to answer two questions. The first question is: "Brother Philippe, the Darby version is the one God has recommended to us, but can errors be found in it?".I myself have not yet found any error in the Darby version. But remember the preaching "Man’s trace in the infallible plan of God ", talking about 2 Samuel 10:18 and 1 Chronicles 19:18, where I showed that that did not affect God’s infallibility. Take the Bible and see that on the one hand it is said, "And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians SEVEN HUNDRED in chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host … "And over there in 1 Chronicles 19:18, it is said, "And the Syrians fled from before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians SEVEN THOUSAND in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and slew Shophach the captain of the host."You see? God knows that man is fallible but He can leave the angels and use the man knowing that this one will leave his trace there. But God does it because the trace of the man He has chosen and sent does not affect his infallibility. I do say the trace of the man He has chosen and sent… [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
6 I also preached a Message: History confirms the Revelation. But when I said that the Olivetan version was the best version, it was not that the Olivetan version was perfect and infallible for ages and ages but in those days, it was the version that fitted God’s Message. And you did notice that it was Calvin who wrote the preface. And in this 21st century, it is the Darby version that has fitted the midnight Cry point for point and word for word before we even knew that it could. You see? It was in 2002 that the Revelation indicated the Darby version but from the first preaching to The Epistle to the Shulamite , Darby has never failed. You see? [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
7 It is true that it is often spoken of differences in words but the most important thing is the Spirit of the Message of the hour and the spirit of the version from one end to another that must be one. For example the midnight Cry says that five of the ten virgins of Matthew 25 did not fall asleep. And Matthew 25:7 of the New Testament and Song of Songs 2:7 of the Old Testament show it.
8 Do you understand? [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].In those days, the Olivetan version was very sufficient despite everything one can find in it today and to make the thing clearer, consider today the Vulgate version about which I talked in the same preaching. You see? It is like the Message of Martin Luther in the 16th century, it is a Message coming from God but today, the trinitarian baptism by aspersion is wrong. However, it was the light of the world in that time. And in that time, only a son of the devil could see errors there so as not to accept it. You see?[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
9 Now when God gave us the Revelation on the Bible, the children of the devil said, "We will go on the Internet and we will make intense researches on the history and the versions of the Bible and we will contradict this Kacou Philippe". You see? They even have the Internet in their houses and I do not have it. But whatever they find on the Internet, that cannot distract us. The Internet is not a prophet but they are men who have exposed their thoughts there. Our absolute is not the Internet but God through the living prophet [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!!!"]. The sin of such people is similar to the sin of Saul in 1Samuel 28:15; when God did not answer him through the prophets, neither through the Urim Thummim, nor through dreams and visions and he went to consult the Word of God through a woman that invokes any kind of spirits. They are sons of the devil, leave them alone! … Do you believe that the Internet is an invoker of any kind of spirits? [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!!!"] …
10 The Internet is like the dwelling place of the dead before the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus. If you tell the Internet: bring up the spirit of politics or the spirit of astrology or the spirit of theology or the spirit of pornography or other for us, whatever the spirit, it will bring it up for you. Even if you tell it: bring up the Spirit of Kacou Philippe for us, it will show you all the preachings, interviews of prophet Kacou Philippe, and so on… You see? This is exactly like the dwelling place of the dead before the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
11 And God not having answered the children of the devil neither through their Urim Thummim which is the Bible, nor through prophet Samuel who was the only prophet of God on earth, nor through dreams and visions, they resorted to a woman that invokes spirits to contradict the Message. You see? How can somebody who is not a prophet messenger tell a prophet the Bible that must be used? When somebody does not have a Message, he does not even have the right to say that such a bible is not good. By virtue of what will he say it? You see? The Bible says that any Gospel, that is, any Glad Tiding is a folly for those that perish. The Gospel of Paul was a folly for Hymenaeus and Philetus. The Gospel of Martin Luther was a folly for the Catholics. The Gospel of Prophet Kacou Philippe is a folly for this generation. And as long as God sends a prophet on the earth, his Gospel, that is, his Message will be a folly for his generation. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
12 People confess Jesus with their lips but they know nothing about the Jesus of whom the Bible talks. And God having vomited them and knowing that God does not speak to them anymore, they resort to the Internet like Saul. You see? They know very well like Saul that what they are going to do is bad before God but since they have rebellion in their blood, they do it. Otherwise, they know very well that God does not reveal his Word through the Internet but as they are children of the devil, they will sign pacts with the fifth dimension. And when Saul was going, he knew that it was bad; that is why he disguised himself. And the word came out to say: you have come to consult the devil! Tomorrow you shall be here! You see? Brethren, I assure you that those millions of Christians are in the same uncertainty like those of Noah’s time. They hear too many voices, they are anxious, they know that something is going wrong but what to do? That is why they are searching for something that will strengthen them in their position of uncertainty. As in the days of the prophets, they see only one man again, self-confident, who condemns them relentlessly! [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
13 I met a Baptist pastor, he said, "What you’re saying is true but what can I do before a system that I have found in place? If I want to leave it, I have a great family to feed! … The facts are there but we’re obliged to present another side of the reality to people". He said, "We’re under the supervision of the State, becoming church-States like Catholicism for small subsidies…" And to comfort himself, he ended saying,"You know, God can pass through Caesar to bless you! Crows fed Elijah!"But I felt in him the uncertainty, at times he was thoughtful. You see? He knows that something is wrong, but he prefers to go to hell rather than to take the narrow Way. Thus is it of the sons of the devil! And before leaving him, he gave me all his phone numbers and he told me to visit him whenever I wanted to. You see?
14 The second question is: "Brother Philippe, there are so many truths in the Message that I have accepted all the rest by faith. But I would like to understand the baptism. After the evening times, is a baptism necessary at midnight since it is the continuation of the Message of the evening time?" Thank you Brother, may God give you according to the faith you have had. That is actually what is called faith. Accepting without understanding. May God forever lead you![Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
15 Brethren, while John the Baptist was preaching, the Cry of Isaiah 40:3, he baptised. And then, Jews sent some priests to ask him why he was baptising: "And they asked him and said to him, Why baptisest thou then, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?"You see? Now, let’s consider 2 Kings 5. What did Elisha do? Let’s read that! "And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean."
16 After William Branham, there should neither be any Message nor any baptism. You see? But understand that the baptism that Elisha was asking to the Branhamist Naaman and that he did not want to do, was an Eighth baptism which was the restitution of the seven baptisms of the seven Church ages.[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].Understand that what Elisha did was a sign of what ― at the end of times, after this glorious Elijah ― an Elisha should come to do in his Message of purification. Oh! I don’t know what to say but believe it simply. Know that, as at the beginning, when our faith is turned to the Apostles, some Pharisees shall stand there to say: You have no right to baptise! But that must come to pass for the restitution to make sense. For their faith must also turn to the faith of the Pharisees and Sadducees…[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
17 Well, this morning I would like to talk about the subject: The Meaning of the restitution. Thus let’s take our Bibles in the book of the righteous. Let’s take the book of Job, Job 42:10-12. I have noted one passage in the book of Job and another in the book of Daniel. Let’s read that: "And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before... And Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning".
18 First, because of the sin of Adam and Eve, everything God has created awaits a restitution. Man awaits a restitution… animals await a restitution… Trees await a restitution… Adam was God in the beginning. It was him who named all the living beings according to Genesis 2:19. And we will be Gods in the Millennium. And our hope received several seals over time. When Moses spoke and things came to existence, when waters and invisible things obeyed Moses, … when Adam saw that Joshua spoke and the sun obeyed, you see? That went beyond the position he had. You see? When Adam saw the manna descend from Heaven, angels’ food granted to humans, it was beyond the restitution he awaited. You see? [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
19 According to the dictionary, restitution is a return to the first condition. To restitute means to return, restore, turn back to its first condition… but spiritually, it is more than that. Yet, if God allowed the fall, it was to show that He is the God of restitution. If God permitted disease, infirmity, sterility… it is to show that He is the God of restitution. You see? He not only gave a child to Sara, but He rejuvenated her so that king Abimelech coveted that old woman of more than ninety years old because Jehovah who rejuvenated her is the God of restitution. When He sent Samson, this liberator to Israel, after the fall, God restituted him his strength in such a way that the Bible says that Samson, at his death, killed much more philistines than he had before.
20 But bear in mind that the restitution will have no significance but when our faith turns to that of the Apostles, that is to say to the faith they had in John 6. Not an apostolic faith but a prophetic one. Jews have the living prophet as their absolute … [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
21 You say, "Brother Philippe, by the grace of God, I understand everything you’ve preached… and I therefore believe it". If after having reasoned and examined, your intelligence was able to grasp and understand that and you believed, it is no more faith… and do not expect some blessings that the restitution orders. No! You did not believe through faith but through intelligence and your level of understanding. It is an intellectual faith! If you say, "Oh! God be blessed! I had some questions, I did not believe but since I’ve been explained it all, I believe now!".If you believe because you have been defeated by the Message and [if] you believe for lack of argument, it is not a prophetic faith but an apostolic faith. Yet the perfect faith is the prophetic faith.[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
22 A child of God says, "Brother Philippe, I do not understand it all but I believe, what shall I do?"The devil’s child says, "There are many truths in it but we must discuss some points!". That one is a son of the devil, and if he is defeated, he will believe! One believes because he is convinced, the other believes because he is defeated. You see? Faith comes from deep down the heart and not from the head… That is why Jehovah’s witnesses who are students of the bible are right not to expect any miracles. God does not deal with the head but with the heart. God does not deal with the intelligence but with faith. The Revelation is not accepted through the intelligence but by faith. God does not deal and does not work with our intelligence but with our faith. You see? It is good to sing, "When I can’t hear you, accept without understanding, I want to love you more …" on the tune of "O my God, nearer to Thee!" But it is the application that God looks upon. You must not sing that while you are not following the living prophet of your time.[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
23 After having perhaps believed only once by reasoning and intelligence, follow by faith! This is what the wise virgins had understood…
24 Brethren, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, before entering here, lay down your intellectual knowledge at the doorway of the temple! It is on this basis that, he that is illiterate or he that has heard or read only a few preachings or that is far from here, is on the same level as the intellectual one, both in the service to God and in the acceptance of the Word. You see? And it is in this sense that the intellectuals and intelligent even have problems. You see? It is the case of that little Samaritan woman…
25 In Israel, when the Lord Jesus Christ was preaching, the priests and scribes versed in the law and prophets had all [kinds of] problems because of their great knowledge. But the main thing was trying to know whether a so-and-so is really a prophet and as soon as we realize that he is a prophet, we must discard our intelligence and our reasoning to apply faith because the prophet is not supposed to say things which are always reasonable. You see?[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
26 But the promises of the restitution are only for those who follow by faith. And in the eyes of God, those who believe this Message are those who believe It, not through the intelligence but by faith. They said in the vision, "We have not seen the Angel and the Lamb and we have not heard the Words the Lamb pronounced, but we entirely believe It …"How? By faith! And on the basis of this faith, within this physical and spiritual confusion, the restitution will always be significant for you in this age and the ages to come! And he that hath ears to hear let him hear! [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
27 At the beginning of the Church, the Lord Jesus Christ granted a pure Word, a true Spirit and a great power that the devil replaced with theology, spirits of divination and a great power of deception. It was God Himself who allowed that in order to show that he is the God of restitution. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
28 And the restitution can’t be significant except if we find again at least what we had lost. You say, "Brother Philippe, I had this before but if I can have half [of it]! …" No, Brethren, that’s not restitution… Let’s read Job 42 again: "And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before. … And Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning … ".
29 Now I would like to come to the vision of April 24, 1993… After this baptism of restitution, Naaman said that he would not go to any church and that even if his master, the king of Syria leaned on his hand to enter into the house of the god Rimmon, may Jehovah forgive that to him! You see? At the time of the restoration, men were seen like trees. We did not see clearly. A dictionary was seen as a Bible… an encyclopaedia was seen as a Bible… Louis Segond was seen as a Bible… King James was seen as a Bible… Tob, Scofield, Thompson, Colombe were seen… as Bibles but after the restitution, we can see clearly. You see? At the time of the restoration, we saw any spirit speaking with tongues and ministering in a church as the Holy Spirit but after the restitution, we see clearly. Before the restitution, we saw fetish priest in jacket and we called them: "prophets, pastors, men of God" but after the restitution, we see clearly! You see?[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"]. The Bible had promised an eye-salve in the age of Laodicea so that we can see distinctly and that’s what we are experiencing… Naaman did not understand the midnight Cry but when he went through the baptism of restitution, his mind opened and he understood the depth of this Message …
30 The restitution cannot make sense but when our faith alone meets and accepts what God is doing, far from human wisdom. Not our intelligence or our reasoning or our understanding but our faith. God gave us this intelligence and wisdom we have, just for earthly things. And we must not mix that with the plan of Salvation. The Word of God comes by the Revelation of God to a prophet and is accepted by faith. Not on the basis of our great Branhamist knowledge according to Daniel 12:4 but on the basis of faith. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
31 Reasoning, wisdom and the intelligence in the walk are an abomination. God can tolerate that for a very small time but if all our walk is grounded on our many Egyptian knowledge then it is wrong. Whoever walks by the intelligence and comprehension has not grasped the notion of a prophet. And yet, it is on the basis of the call and commission that our faith has to be triggered. You see? And what is to produce this faith once for all, God needs to have granted right from the beginning.
32 What do names like Jeremiah, Isaiah, Amos, Abdias, Haggai, Zephaniah, Hosea, Joel and others remind you of? Miracles? No! Perhaps they performed some but in the report of the exercise of their ministry, that was not even reported. You see? When Paul presented himself before nations in Acts 26, before Festus and king Agrippa, what did he talk about? Had he tried to show how glorious was Jesus’ ministry? No! Had he tried to show how glorious was the Jews’ departure out of Egypt? No! Had he tried to show how glorious was his miracle in Lystra in Acts 14:8 when that paralytic from birth walked and they wanted to sacrifice bulls to him? No brethren! He spoke about one thing, Paul spoke about only one thing. You see? Only one thing: his experience on the way to Damascus.[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].He showed how in broad midday a light shone around him and he fell down and a voice spoke to him from the Heaven in the Hebraic language, commissioning him… And he concluded in verse 19 saying, "Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision". You see? But that meant nothing for those who were listening to himbecause they do not have the notion of prophet.
33 In verse 24, Festus said: … let’s read that, "And as he answered for his defence with these things, Festus says with a loud voice, Thou art mad, Paul". You see? They said in themselves, "But what is he talking about? Instead of saying interesting things… he is telling us about the light that shone around him". But, brethren, pay close attention! Notice! What question does Paul ask to king Agrippa in verse 27? Paul says, "King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest …" Paul means that he has the call of a prophet and on the basis of this call as with Moses before the burning thorn-bush, all those who were listening to him should believe. Paul means that if king Agrippa believes in the prophets, he must know that this call is the call of a prophet of God! You see? [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
34 When God said to Moses, "Go!", Moses was not with his brethren in Egypt; then he went to Egypt to bring them forth. He was a prophet. When God said to William Branham, "Do not drink,do not smoke, do not defile yourself with women", he was not Christian but he went to Egypt to bring them forth. When God said to me, "Go!" I was not a Christian then I went to Egypt to bring you forth. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].You see? When God said to Paul: "Go!", He was not a Christian then he went to Egypt to bring them forth. Thus does God arouse his great prophets. It was not in synagogues that the Lord Jesus Christ went for his apostles. And that’s what does not work with Ewald Frank who was already a great Methodist preacher.
35 Malachi 4 says that our faith will turn to that of the Jews which does not rest upon the wisdom of some pharaoh but upon a living prophet. That is what the Branhamists have not understood. No sooner a prophet brought them out of the Babylonians’ pastoral and pharaonic regime than they went back in it, setting up again richer, wiser and smarter pastors over them. You see?
36 But the reason why the nations like pastors, who lead them with the human intelligence and force rather than a prophet, is that they have always had emperors, pharaohs, kings, presidents and heads of village established over them. Wise and intelligent people, the type of the pastor. They do not have the notion of the prophet but that will however not be an excuse for them before God. And that has been carried on into the churches.
37 And yet, the greatest priest that God sent on earth, it was Aaron. And Aaron is the type of the four ministries of Ephesians 4:11 which are apostle, prophet of church, evangelist and teacher. But no sooner the prophet messenger Moses moved away than Aaron raised a golden calf. And that Jewish people ― more spiritual than you ― bowed down to that. You see? Apart from the prophet messenger, they are golden calves… [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].And instead of prophet Samuel, even Jews wanted a king forgetting Hosea 12:14 that says, "And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved."You see? They had not understood anything. And that is why God destroyed those thousands of Jews who went out of Egypt and aroused in their place, their own children who were born and grew up in the desert under the supervision of a living prophet. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
38 Their fathers could not get in with Egyptian reasoning and conceptions. Their fathers went back to Egypt with some pastors… they do not want any prophet but pharaohs, yet God does not speak through pharaohs but through living prophets. They will tell me, "Oh Brother Philippe, there are prophets in our assemblies!".I would say that it is not right for in Egypt, each god had his prophets but above them was a pharaoh! You see? A pastor or priest only maintains the people’s faith until God sends another prophet messenger on earth. But the conclusion that one can draw from their work is bad because they lead people to themselves. Each pastor sets himself up as the prophet messenger of his assembly. You see? It’s diabolical! They are the first people to reject prophets. You see?
39 But notice that when you follow a bad church or a bad servant of God, whether it’s by faith or intelligence, you will go to hell but if you find the way of Salvation, you have got to walk on it by faith.[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"]. If you say, "Oh! God be blessed! Any time I listen to the midnight Cry, my faith increases!"it is not right brethren! Your faith should be complete when you listened to the call and commission of the prophet. Let’s read Exodus 4:8: "And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the other sign". Very well, do you understand that? Before getting out of Egypt, God gave two signs to Moses for the Jews and those two signs were contained in the call and commission of the prophet. God said to Moses: If they do not believe that the staff was turned into a snake, they will believe when you tell them that leprosy appeared and disappeared on your hand.
40 And when Moses spoke simply about the burning Thorn-Bush even before the first sign, Joshua and Caleb believed but that meant nothing to the Jews. And when Moses explained the first and second sign, several others believed, the foolish virgins too but the multitude had not even been disturbed. They saw more miracles than that with the Pentecostal gods. When Moses explained the second sign, astonished they looked at one another and said, "But what does he mean?" Others said, "He who killed the Egyptian the other day…, he is saying that an Angel spoke to him?"You see? Everyone could distract them except Moses.
41 But when before pharaoh, Moses, this insignificant man stretched the staff out and the waters turned into blood and plagues, torments, powerful miracles were being performed; when Moses created… when Moses humiliated the ministers, the wise and even the gods of Egypt, they were first worried. When Moses made the headlines of all the newspapers and radios of the first world power and that the whole world, as on September 11, 2001 retransmitted this tragedy live, when the first world power got abruptly smitten in its first-borns, on its head, as with the World Trade Center, and Egypt was really dismayed that day, they saw that there, it was God! They all believed! Crabs believed, serpents believed, Korah, Dathan and Abiram and their family believed, the proud believed, the haughty ones who minimized Moses believed, Branhamists believed, the children of the devil believed, the mixed multitude believed… everybody believed! When the thing became worldwide and from everywhere, presidents and kings were quick to react, condemning the Acts of Moses with the utmost energy, they saw that it was God! And so Moses became a hero and from everywhere people commented on what Moses did before pharaoh! All the Jews commented on that glorifying God! But none of them mentioned the vision of 1993, the vision of the burning Thorn-Bush but everyone spoke of the miracles of William Branham before pharaoh. O God! Mercy on this generation! …[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
42 Everyone believed now on the basis of these miracles but they all died on the way in the desert! You see? But having seen all Moses did before pharaoh, can the people say to Moses, "We have not seen the burning Thorn-Bush and the Words the Angel pronounced but we entirely believe It…"? No! You see? They went on a false basis, on the basis of a false faith. But God had given two signs and God expected them to say to Moses, "We have not seen the burning Thorn-Bush and the Words the Angel pronounced but we entirely believe It! …"But they did not believe on this basis and they died, they all remained in the desert.
43 There were three signs in all, three visions! You see? It was nothing to them! They laughed and they said, "the vision is nothing to us!" But it was precisely there that the wise virgins believed. Amen! Then the foolish virgins said, "Hallelujah! God be blessed, when I readsuch and such preachings, I did believe … ". But, before even the ten plagues, the passage across the Red sea which is the baptism, these three signs should call out the Jews’ wisdom, intelligence and understanding to believe so that after the baptism of the Red sea, they might follow Moses by faith. You see?[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"]. If they do not believe by the vision of April 24, 1993, they will believe by the second vision if not in the third vision. Three signs, three visions. And on that basis, they will believe Daniel 11 by faith, they will believe the baptism of restitution by faith, they will believe the passage of the children of the devil through the flood by faith, they will believe all by faith and then, they will follow by faith. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
44 Faith must be transmitted once and for all. But what gives evidence of their incredulity is that, no sooner they went through the baptism of the Red sea than they wanted to see the blessing of milk and honey flowing in their life. You see? They do not want any desert, they do not want any cross, they do not want this and that… You see? Despite all the bad paths that they took in their lives, they want blessing immediately. You see?
45 But there are some people to whom God Himself, in his sovereignty, gives this faith. And it is the case of our Sister Viviane about whom I talked when I started. She was in the evening time Message and when she heard the midnight Cry, she rejected it at first. But in a dream, all their assembly was marching towards some place then there was a dead end, they had reached the end of the path. The pastor couldn’t do anything and all the assembly was complaining… then someone who did not belong to their lot came from behind and said to them, "There is a way!" but they still did not see that way. Then that man went ahead of them and as he advanced, they saw behind him that their way went on. And then a voice sounded out of the Heaven saying, "I am the Almighty God! I was with William Branham and now I am with Kacou Philippe, follow him!"[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"]. And the dream stopped. She had never seen me. You see? And today she is here, and this faith she has, that is what I want to talk about. She is in the number of those who can say, "Oh Brother Philippe we have not seen the Angel and the Lamb and we have not heard the Words the Lamb pronounced, but we entirely believe It". You see?
46 But the multitude including those of Matthew 22:12 is expecting the confirmation of the midnight Cry! You see? Yet, having remained indifferent before the three signs and believing on the basis of Moses’ miracles before pharaoh, it was a bad basis! It was not a good faith and that overtook them in the desert. You see?
47 If you are seated here with an intellectual or scientific faith based on some understandings and reasoning, you will receive the Holy Spirit only at the level of the mind, at the level of the spirit; and you will remain in the desert like your fathers, the Branhamists and Jews. You see? But if you accept by faith, it is your soul that will be sealed for the day of the redemption. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].Do not deal with the spirit for God does not deal with the spirit! This Message is a Revelation and the soul is the matrix of the revelation through faith! But the spirit is the matrix of theology and all that comes from man! Wouldn’t this preaching be the midnight Cry Itself?[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].Very well! … You see? …
48 Moses’ miracles before pharaoh should aim to let Jews go forth and not to increase their faith. When Moses explained the vision of the burning Thorn-Bush, they should have all believed and said, "We have not seen the burning Thorn-Bush and the Words that the Angel pronounced but we entirely believe It …" You see?
49 At the beginning of the redemption of Israel, the Angel appeared to Moses! In the middle of the Bible, at the beginning of the redemption of the nations, the Angel appeared to Paul and at the end of the Bible, the Angel appeared here again. You see?[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].That’s exact! At the beginning, God called out of Midian, Moses who was not amongst Jews to take the lead of the scene. In the middle of the Bible, God called Paul who was not Christian from among Pharisees. And at the end, He does it again. You see? He called Elisha who was ploughing his field, He called Amos who was shepherding his flock. And you need to accept it and believe it.
50 And like Joshua and Caleb, we have believed without us having seen and heard. And shall not God reward such a faith? He shall! Because it is the faith of the elect, it is the faith of the winners of the age. We are the spiritual posterity of the prophet, conceived under the reign of God by a living prophet. And believing in the prophet, God has sent us a prophet to cross the Waters of the Jordan for the restitution of the heavenly Canaan! Our fathers remained on the other side, Egypt and its pharaohs caught them up! But we have overcome because we have the prophetic faith. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
51 Brethren, there is one faith above the apostolic faith, and it is the prophetic faith. 1 John 1:1-3 talks about the apostolic faith, "… that which we have seen and heard we report to you, that *ye* also may have fellowship with us". And one of the Apostles is called Thomas. And like the Bereans, Thomas was the most spiritual apostle. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
52 Yet the prophetic faith says, "We have not seen the Angel and the Lamb and we have not heard the Words the Lamb pronounced, but we entirely believe It …". You see? The apostolic faith says, "… that which we have seen and heard we report to you, that *ye* also may have fellowship with us ". The prophetic faith says,"… that which we have not seen and heard, we report to you, that you also may have fellowship with us". [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"] …
53 […] Well, now I would like to say that whatever the blessing Joseph had in Egypt when he belonged to the Catholic or evangelical church, the land of restitution for him remained Canaan! You see? Brethren, remember that Canaan was Jews’ land and that God simply restituted it to the Jews. Amen! In Genesis 17:8, God had said to Abraham, "And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them." You see? And in Genesis 35:12, God said that to Jacob.
54 But now, I would like to say this, brethren: between Egypt and the restitution of Canaan, there was a desert; and between Matthew 25:6 and the restitution in which we trust, there is the desert of Revelation 12:14. You see? We can receive all the blessings of the earth in Egypt but when the call sounds, you must go forth.It is by revelation. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
55 And Joseph knew it since Genesis 50:25… "And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will certainly visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones hence."You see? Joseph received all the blessing in Egypt; in those Catholic, Protestant, evangelical and Branhamist churches including missions and ministries but he knew that the redemption would only take place in Canaan. His bones were not to remain over there in Egypt although God blessed him there. Any chosen one having the Revelation must know that his bones are not to remain elsewhere but here. You see? What does the Bible say? "And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had made the children of Israel swear an oath, saying, God will be sure to visit you; then ye shall carry my bones with you hence." Let’s read then Joshua 24:32… " And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in the portion of the field which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs; and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph."A child of God, whether he is blessed or raised to the rank of Prime Minister like Joseph, being Catholic, Protestant or Branhamist, he must know that the redemption will take place here with the living prophet of his time.But if he rejects that, his bones will remain in Egypt, in the desert without any remembrance of it, away from the face of God. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
56 And to end, I would like to say that in that vision of 1993, the multitude said, "We have not seen the Angel and the Lamb and we have not heard the Words the Lamb pronounced, but we entirely believe It because what God gave and that the devil took, has now been restituted to you."What is this? It is first the restitution of the true faith which brings the blessing to Justice as a right to him that believes and which gives the place of God to God and the place of man to man. So that what God gave to the earth and to man and that devil caused them to lose, may be now restituted to them. You see? That had returned to God, Its original owner but now that was to be restituted to the earth. You see? [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
57 What God gave to the Church and that devil caused her to lose, has been restituted to her now. But she must recover this true faith. What God gave us as blessings and that the devil took away from us, has now been restituted to us. You, the living Church, because you believed without having seen nor heard, "all God gave you and that the devil took away from you, has now been restituted to you."[Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
58 Let’s pray now… O God of Moses, Elijah , William Marrion Branham and Kacou Philippe!
That makes three times that I preach on the restitution and I have got the impression that it is now that I address it! It is a capital subject for us because the whole atmosphere both natural and spiritual awaits the restitution. There is not only one creation which does not await that! And it is because of the restitution that Thou came to die on the cross because the restitution is man’s divinity and eternity! Lord, may this restitution begin this morning with all those who believe this Message here and elsewhere throughout the world! They are worthy of your grace because they believed without having seen nor heard. May this restitution break the walls of sterility, failure, diseases and poverty! May this restitution break the walls of impossibility that Satan has erected in our lives. May all those who believe this Message experience the meaning of the restitution. May our fleshly, physical, social and spiritual lives be able to flourish again because Thou are the God of restitution. Through our lives and our conditions, Thou have the power to give sense to the restitution! Grant us that and may the honour, glory and the magnificence be to You to the ages of ages, Amen!