An Old Testament Prophet Comes to a New Testament Age

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First Printing 1970
Brother Ben Howard
Dawsonville, Georgia

A Word From The Author

     After hearing the message of God that Brother William Branham brought, I knew he was the messenger to the Seventh Church Age, the last of the Seven Church Age Messengers. God also revealed to me that he was the prophet spoken of in Malachi 4:5, 6.
     Nevertheless, I could not understand how his ministry would fit in with the ministry recorded in Ephesians 4:11-16, as an apostle is the first in the five-fold ministry. I could not understand this and it bothered me greatly. And as I ask other ministers about this, no one seemed to be very interested. So I began to seek God about the matter, as Daniel did with prayer and fasting (Daniel 9:3).
     I closed myself up in a room in our mobile home, and sought God for forty days and nights with prayer, fasting and reading the Word of God. In the following pages is the revelation that came to me.
Please read prayerfully,
Brother Ben Howard

     Deut 18:15-19. Let us begin reading the Word of God. I like the Word of God, don’t you? It’s more precious than silver or gold or whatever a man might gain in this world. The Word says, “Heaven and earth is going to pass away, but my Word shall abide forever. Amen.
     Now reading the Word of the Lord, it reads like this. “The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of they brethren, like unto me; unto Him ye shall hearken. According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord they God in Horeb in the days of the assembly, saying, let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.”
     Now allow me to stop and comment on this. Notice how God ascended on Mt. Sinai, and spoke to the people according to Exodus 19:16-18. How the mountains were on fire, and the smoke rose up as of a great furnace, and there were thundering and lightening, and the mountains quake greatly. The sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, and God began to speak unto Moses, and so terrible was the sight, that Moses said I exceedingly fear and quake. Heb 12:21. Notice as the people saw this terrible sight, they made a request to God, and this is the request they made. Let not God speak unto us anymore lest we die, but speak unto Moses, and let him tell us the Word of God. Here was God’s answer to them. Deut. 18:17-19. “ And the Lord said unto me, they have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which He (Notice, He the Prophet) shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”
     Notice the given prophecy mainly pointed to Jesus Christ, but this established God’s way of speaking to the people in the Old Testament Times, not by the king, not by the priest, but only by the prophets, so God’s way of speaking to the people after Christ came into this world to fulfill the prophecy spoken by Moses, Deut 18: 15-19, changed. For more proof on this subject read Heb 1:1, 2. “God, who at sundry time and in divers manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken unto us by His son, whom he has appointed heir of all things by whom he also made the worlds.”
     We are all aware that God sent a prophet to this age, who was none other than William Branham, who carried the message of God around the world many times. He also was the messenger to the Laodicea Church Age. He was the Elijah spoken of in Malachi 4:5, 6. “Behold I will send you Elijah the Prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful days of the Lord: And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”
     Many of you reading this might say, that it was speaking of John the Baptist, but please notice that Malachi 4:5, 6, has a two fold fulfillment. He shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children was speaking of John the Baptist. According to Luke 1:17, “And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

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