03/11/2025
128 There John stood and he seen Him sitting on the Throne, and He “was to look like jasper and sardine stone.” Now, all things and every word has a meaning in the Bible. Now, “jasper and sardine stone.”
129 Now, if you’ll notice, it compares with the rest of the Scripture. In the back parts of Scripture, He was Alpha, Omega, He was the Beginning and the Ending, He was the First and the Last, He was Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He was “all in all” was bundled in Him. Matthew 17 shows that He…up in the Mount Transfiguration, it was all gathered in Him.
130 Now, “jasper” was a—was a stone, and “sardine” was a stone. (Now, we’ll get to their colors after a bit.) Now, I want you to notice that each one of the patriarchs when they were born, yeah, every person, has a birthstone. Mine, I was born in April, diamond. And different months represents different stones. Well, the patriarchs was the same. Every time that a patriarch, when he was born, he wa-…had a birthstone.
131 And just to stop right here just a moment. When them Hebrew mothers…Let me show you a Divine Word, friend, so that your faith will be built certain in the Word of God. Every time, them Hebrew mothers, when they were in labor, giving labor pains, to born…birth these children, the very words that she uttered in her birth give the man (the baby that was born of her) his name, and positionally placed him in Palestine where he’ll be at the coming of the Lord. The labor pains in this mother! Like, Ephraim means “by the sea.” See? And Ephraim was given his lot by the sea. And, say, Judah meant…I don’t know what the word means, but I could pick it out. Now, see, that’s where I don’t have time, these short things, to pick those things up. But then go back, and Judah, wherever Judah means, meant’s his position placed among the children of Israel.
132 And take at Genesis 48 and 49, you’ll find out there that Jacob, when he was dying, leaning on his staff, blinded, he positionally told those children where they would be at the end of the world. And they’re positionally set right there now since they’ve went back to the homeland. Told Joseph, “Thou art a fruitful vine by the wall,” see, “by the well,” the water. He went over. He said, “You’ve trusted in the Lord God. You made your—your bow strong” (United States. See?) “in the Lord, but someday that vine was coming back over the wall.” And there she is, right there now. Just exactly what he said pretty nearly three thousand years ago, turning right back. Told Ephraim he had dipped his feet in oil, and Ephraim settled right there where the big oil wells are. Just exactly.
133 The utterance of those people, what was on those mortals? God taking their fibers and moving in them!
134 Looked like when the Roman Empire scattered them, when others scattered them, when they was hated by Hi**er, tens of thousands times thousands, he shot bubbles in their veins and they died, you could see their bodies hanging on fences with their babies and everything else, and bones…and took and made fertilize out of their bone. Just take them out there and give them a shot, put them in the wagon. Then get out, time they get out, even in the start, they was singing, “Messiah will come and we’ll drink the blood of the grape again.” When they went down, dying, them Jews, walking right out there, knowing a few little more beats and their heart will be gone. And down they’d go, singing, “We will see the Messiah soon.” Oh, my! Making fertilize out of their bones.
135 A lot of you soldiers in here know that and seen it. I stood on the grounds where they burned them and everything else, there, Hi**er and them. And look up at Stalin and Russia and all them, done the same thing. That’s right. But that Jew, what was the matter? He was forced back to his homeland. There’s where they’re standing.
136 Now, I got that great film, Three Minutes Before Midnight. When them Jews come in, they was asking them, said, “Why you coming back for, to die in the homeland?”
137 Said, “We’ve come to see the Messiah.” Amen. Hmm! We’re at the end time.
138 Each one of those children when they were born, they had a birthstone. And when Aaron, the high priest over each one of those children, had a breastplate on him, his dress. That’s what I want to hold off just a little longer, to get into this 6th verse, because that brings in every symbol of the Old Testament right into there. Every…all the furniture and everything in the Old Testament was a pattern of that was seen in Heaven, patterned back to the human being.
139 And here’s Aaron’s breastplate, he was a high priest. Notice, the birthstone of each tribe was represented in there. One, a birthstone, put his stone in there; the tribe of Ephraim, the tribe of Manasses, the tribe of Gad, the tribe of Benjamin, all was represented in here. And that’s how…Then they take those birthstones, them pretty gems, and hang it on the post like this. And if a prophet prophesied, and if it sound right or not, they taken him down to this Urim Thummim and let him tell his prophecy; if there’s a sacred Light come on there and begin to flash these stones together, it was God speaking back. It was for the whole tribe, all of them, every tribe.
140 Now, on these, the first stone. The first, how many knows who the first child was? What was his name? Reuben. All right. Who was the last one? Benjamin. That’s right. The birthstone of Reuben was “jasper,” the birthstone of Benjamin was “sardine.” He was to look upon as “Reuben and Benjamin,” the First and the Last, He that Was, Which Is, and Shall Come, He was Alpha (A) in the Greek alphabet, Omega (Z) in the Greek alphabet. He was the First, the Last, He was from Benjamin to Reuben, from Reuben to Benjamin. Oh, my! There He was, “Look upon as sardius stone and as jasper stone.” He was setting on this Throne!
141 How would you all like to see Him sitting upon His Glory? Let’s turn over in Revelation 21:10, right quick, and just take a look at Him here. All right, 21:10 to 11.
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Having the glory of God:…Having the glory of God: and her lights was like unto a stone most precious, even like…jasper…, as clear as crystal;
142 “Her Light.” The Light! Who is the Light? “And the City had no need of the sun, because the Lamb is the Light thereof.”
143 “Jasper, sardius” stone. The Glory of God is Jesus Christ, the Glory of Jesus Christ is His Church. And He was the First. What was He? He was the Beginning of time, He is the Ending of time. He was the First of the patriarchs, He is the Last of the patriarchs. He was the Church that was in the…He was the—the Spirit that was in the Church of Ephesus, He is the Spirit of the Church in Laodicea. He is the First and the Last, A to Z, First, Last, He that Was and Shall Come, Root and Offspring of David, the Morning Star, the Lily of the Valley, the Rose of Sharon! Oh, there’s four hundred and something titles in the Bible pertains to Him. Just think of it, what He was! And yet He was the lowly Lord Jesus that was born in a manger to the praises of God.
144 Anything that’s humble, watch it ’cause that’s right. Anything that’s big is a stuffed shirt, so don’t pay no attention to it; see, it’s a lot of wind, and not nothing to it. All right.
145 Now, “He was to look upon as jasper and sardius stone.” Let’s turn back. Have you…? We got a little time, haven’t we? We got about forty minutes yet. Let’s notice, let’s turn back to Ezekiel 1. Go back in the Bible to the Old Testament, unto Ezekiel, and let’s read here where Ezekiel saw Him, too. And compare these Scriptures now and see where we’re at. Ezekiel the 1st chapter, all right, now let’s read for a moment. Now I’m going to read the first five verses, and then we’re going to read, I’ve got marked out here, from 26 to 28. But let’s read the first verses now of the 1st chapter of Ezekiel, the prophet. All right:
And it came to pass in the thirtieth year, and in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month,…I was among the captives—among the captives by the river of Chebar,…(Is that right, Chebar? C-h-e-b-b-r, Chebar.)…and the heavens were opened, and I saw a vision of God.
And in…(Now, watch.)…In the fifth day of the month, which is the month that king Jehoiachin’s captive,
The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of…Chaldeans by the river of Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was…upon him.
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north,…
146 Watch this prophet here, five hundred and ninety-five years before the coming of Christ, see how his vision compares with John:
…a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud,…a fire unfolding itself, and the brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof was the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had a likeness of…man.
147 Notice, the color of the Spirit of God which was above the likeness of these four Creatures, was amber. Amber is yellowish-green. Now, watch, “yellowish-green,” amber, oh, He’s the same yesterday…He revealed Hisself to Ezekiel; in the midst of Ezekiel’s vision, this Light that he saw coming above the four living Creatures was yellowish-green. When He come to John, He appeared in the emerald which is also “yellowish-green.” He comes now to the revelator in yellowish-green. He comes to us in yellowish-green, the Light! Walk in the Light, He is the Light.
148 Let’s go to the 26th verse now, so we can read to the 28th. The 26th verse:
And above the fir-…
Oh, when you get home, I want you to mark that and read every bit of it. Save time:
And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of stone, as the appearance of sardine stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness of the appearance of a man above…it.
149 That was the Son of man, see, Christ. Now watch how He was, how He was arrayed here:
And I saw as the colors of amber, (watch, around this Son of man) as the appearance of a fire around about within it—about within it, from the appearance of his loins…
150 Listen! Be spiritual, be understanding, and in your own hearts here. I adjure you in Jesus’ Name, keep this to yourself! But just remember how blessful!
151 “I s-…” Let’s start again in the 27th verse. Listen, everyone! Be real understanding now!
And I saw as the colour of amber (that’s yellowish-green), as the appearance of fire around about…it,…
Fire around the amberish-green. Now:
…from the appearance of his loins even upward, (From his loins upward.) and from the appearance of his loins…downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had the brightness around about. (Fire all around.)
As the appearance of a bow and in the color in the days of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness around about. This was the appearance and the likeness and the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
152 Watch! Are you ready? Listen! Keep this now, just remember, to let you know. (Gene, you can hold this tape.) Listen! (No, I don’t have to hold it there, that’s all right. I mean just keep the tape; permit this to the Church.) Notice this! Now, that you might know that the color of the Light that’s with the Lord, and the Lord’s Light that follows the Lord, and it’s as the Lord, is amber, yellowish-green. That’s the same color of the Light that’s with us today, as the scientists has took Its picture, yellowish-green, amber.
153 When a little boy, and I’ve seen It for my first time, you remember, the old-timers here. I always told you before the actual picture was taken, “It was yellowish-green, which is amber.” Now, to let you know that the Spirit of the Lord…
154 He said, when he seen it from the loins of the living Creature that stood in his presence, “From his loins upward was like fire, a Light from his loins downward, was covered with Light. And all around was many colors like unto a rainbow.” Is that right?
155 I want you to remember, God still exists in the same colors, “from the loins upward, fire, amber color,” shot with a movie camera or with a color camera, “amber from the loins up, from the loins down, and all around, many colors like is in the rainbow in the sky after a rain.” Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever! The Holy Spirit still in His power, still in His Church in this last days. There you are. Not me, I was just standing there, but it was a picture that was taken. I want you to look at that, just exactly what Ezekiel saw. Same colors, the same way, and acted the same way, and flush the same way, of the living Creatures. What is it? The living Creatures represents the living Church, the Church that’s living by the power and the resurrection of Christ. Them same amber colors has covered it from the loins upward, from the loins downward.
156 There’s no more guessing, science has took the pictures! Look at their colors, just look at the colors of fire in there. See? The rainbow. Look at this yellowish-emerald color. Now, on this camera, it was just a straight photographer’s camera. On this camera was color, colored pictures, Kodachrome color. Look at the emerald colors in there. If I could get it over a light somewhere where you could see it in the back. Can you see now? “Like unto a rainbow,” look at the streaks coming back and forth like the rainbow, every one a different color. We’re going to get into that in a few minutes, what are those colors and what do they reflect?
157 Oh! That just makes my poor heart jump for joy. And to know that in this day that we’re living, that Christ…when all other grounds is sinking sands, all other ground. I think, “Why can’t I tell that? Why can’t I make the world see It?” The world wasn’t meant to see It. The world won’t see It, they never will see It! But the Church is receiving the mightiest shaking It ever had!
158 In them days they couldn’t have took a picture of It. They can now because they got the mechanical device-ities. The ones who are trying to take the mechanics to deny God, comes right back around and proves there is a God. That’s right, “Emerald.” Now, you remember, I never made that up, I’m reading it to you right out of the Bible. Watch as I read, and look, and behold that It is the same Lord God, there’s no difference. Watch the 27th verse:
And I saw…the colour of amber, as in the appearance of fire…
159 See, like blazes licking. See? Amber colors coming from a fire. You see it now? Amber, this is the amber colors coming from a fire. Down here it says:
And the appearance like a bow, or a rainbow, in the days after a rain,…rainbow, in the days after a rain,…
160 And there was a—a “living Creature.” What John represented, the entire Church, was taken up. I told you. One person here in a vision can represent the entire Body of Christ, covered! Now, watch:
And I saw…the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire…about with it, and the appearance…from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire,…
161 Watch, look at the fire spraying. Out of what? The rainbow, the seven colors. Now, watch, there’s exactly seven colors there, and the rainbow has seven colors.
…I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had the brightness around about.
As the appearance of a bow that is in the clouds in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness around about. (Round about the Throne of God, see.) This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
162 Not the Lord, now, the glory of the Lord. The glory of the Lord covering over His Church because He is in His Church! Amen! Oh, it sounds foolish to the unwise, but how great It is to those who believe. Uh-huh.
…This was the appearance and likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice speak…
163 Now he goes ahead and tells what the vision meant, which we not have time to get into this morning.
164 Now, notice how the Lord in His great mercy give us these things.
165 Now let’s take another one. Both Ezekiel and John saw Him in the mystery of His colors and Light, and called It a “amber color.” John later…You that puts…you’re putting down the Scriptures, First John 1:5 to 7. John, later (and he was on the isle of Patmos about three years when he wrote the Book), when he come back, an old man in his nineties, in First John 1:5 and 7, he said, “God is Light.” John had an experience, he had seen Him and he knowed that He was Light, Light, Eternal Light; not cosmic light, not lamp light, electric light, sunlight, but Eternal Light! Oh, how I love Him. “God is Light.”
166 Notice, we’re going to start back now and see where we’re at. On the 3rd verse yet, aren’t we? Are we going to get It? I hope. All right:
…he…was to look upon as jasper and sardius stone: and there was a rainbow…about the throne, in the sight like unto an emerald. (Yellowish-green.)
167 Now, “rainbow,” you notice it was a rainbow. Let’s go back in Genesis 9 and find out, in Genesis 9:13. And we’ll find back here the “rainbow,” when a rainbow first appeared. Genesis the 9th chapter, and we will begin at the 13th verse, Genesis 9:13. All of you like This? Oh, I love It! I just don’t like It, I love It! Look:
I do set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a token (Watch!), token of a covenant betwixt me and the earth.
168 What? “Betwixt Me and Noah”? No. “Betwixt Me and the earth.”
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
And I will remember my covenant, which—which is betwixt me and you…
169 Now He come back to His covenant betwixt them, but the rainbow covenant…See, the covenant was life for Noah, that He spared him, but the covenant that God made with Himself was a rainbow, that He would not…Now, I’ll show you what Noah’s covenant was with God, in a minute. But this here was God’s Own covenant with Himself, amen, a rainbow.
170 Now, we find out that a covenant then is a “token,” a token. God said it was a “token” here, didn’t He? See?
I…set my…I do set my bow in the clouds, (That’s after the destruction of the world, destroyed by water; all flesh, besides Noah—Noah, was destroyed.) and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
171 Not “Me and the world.” The world is a “kosmos.” See? But this is “between Me and the earth.” God said, “I made that earth. And I so evilly entreated it, that I just turned it upside down and flashed her to pieces. And—and I—I—I—I—I oughtn’t to have done it, maybe.” He said, “I—I was even sorry, it was such a horrible thing.”
172 What do you think it will be when He comes in His anger now? Be right, sinner friend.
Oh, be watching and waiting that sight to behold;
He’s coming again.
You believe that?
He’s coming again.
I love that, don’t you?
Oh, would you be numbered as one of His foe?
I wouldn’t want to be that. Would you? No, sir. Be a foe agai-…or, be a foe for Him, be with Him would be fine. But against Him!
Be spotless within, be watching and waiting that sight to behold,
He’s coming again. (Hmm!)
173 Now, a covenant, a token of what? A token of what? Of a sacrifice that has been accepted. Now get Genesis 8:20 and 22. Now, Genesis 8:20 and 22, all right, right across the page it is.
And Noah built an altar unto the Lord; and took…every clean beast, and…every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.
And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground (curse the ground) any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of his heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing liveth, as I have done.
174 And now we can read the last verse:
And…While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest,…cold and heat,…summer and winter,…day and night shall not cease. (A covenant.)
175 Same thing that John saw: Jesus, God’s accepted covenant surrounding in the heavens. And around about Him was a rainbow around about the Throne, in the sight like an emerald, amberish-green Light around the Throne. Praise be to God!
176 Watch! Noah’s composed of primarily…Noah’s rainbow composed primarily of seven colors. Anybody knows the rainbow’s got seven colors. Now, what are the colors? Red, orange, violet, no, red—red, orange…green, blue, indigo, and violet. That’s the colors of the rainbow. Now, we got a deep thing here, and I’m just going to have to hit the high spots of it ’cause it’s getting too late. Now, remember, orange, or, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
177 Now, if you notice, seven. Watch. Seven rainbows…seven colors, I mean, seven-color rainbow. That meant seven bows! Seven bows, seven churches reflecting seven lights, each light wrapped into the other one. It started off with red, red. After red come orange, which is a reflection of red. After orange was…after—after orange come yellow, which is red and orange mixed together, makes yellow. Then green. Green and blue makes black. Then come indigo. And then from indigo come violet, which is part of blue. Hallelujah! Don’t you see? God, in His seven-colored rainbow, His covenant that He made, a covenant that through Seven Church Ages, the seven colors, He would save the earth.
178 What would He do? Remember, He made it with the earth, His color. But now watch. This rainbow only, horizontally, just covers (in a bow) one half the earth. That’s all Noah’s rainbow colored, just…covered, just half the earth. It was in a arch, that’s all you can see. But when John saw Him in His emerald color, He surrounded the whole Throne of God. The half has never yet been told. He covered…He just…the earth just makes an arch, it’s just a half of it; that’s the church ages.
179 But when John saw Him in this amber color, the amber color, He surrounded and covered around like a halo. A halo! A halo of amber color, It surrounded His being! See? One color, one God over all, through all, and in all, but there is Seven Church Ages.
180 Watch a great diamond. Used to find them…you can find them in Africa laying on the streets. You’re daresn’t to keep one, ’cause it isn’t cut. You got one that isn’t cut, they’ll penitentiary you for it right now, and give you a lifetime sentence for keeping it. You’ve got, turn it in as soon as you find it.
181 Now, they take this diamond…Oh, it’s a hard thing. I’ve seen a big forty-ton grinder standing up like this, they pour that bluestone in there, grind it around, it mashes that rock into just like ashes, but it won’t mash the diamond. That forty-ton hanging on a swivel, up here, rolling around with them big cogs like that, just crushing that rock to pieces; but a diamond will go right through it, it’ll move that forty-ton casting. Oh! When it crushes out and comes down through a sifter, sifts down the other sifters, washes down and then finally goes on a long runway.
182 The manager of that great Kimberley Diamond Mines was one of my ushers down there in the line, real humble, sweet brother.
183 And then for about three feet over that water, where it flows, it’s, is Cosmoline put on there. (You know, what—what is it you call this stuff? The…Meda, what is that we got in the jar in the cabinet in there? Vaseline!) And we put that Vaseline, about a inch deep, way up here on the slide. And it comes down, and notice, every time that that rock comes over, it’ll roll right off that Vaseline; but when a diamond comes over it, it’ll stick. A diamond’s dry and it’ll stick to that. I’ve seen them pick them up, even them little bitty ones, and separate them with eyeglasses. And I asked them what they was doing it for, they said they sell them to America for Victrola needles and things; they won’t wear out, see.
184 But those big diamonds, now, there they are, just one big ball. But when…They take them and take electrical machines and cut them, and make a cut diamond. Then when they cut it, it’s to reflect the fiery colors of its carat, and it’ll reflect seven colors, also.
Oh, how that Jesus…
185 Oh, you might have a lot of money, you might own a fleet of Cadillacs, you might be a pastor of some great big morgue or a cathedral of something, you might be a bishop or an archbishop, but, oh, brother, when you find that Jewel, that Diamond, a man sells all his wealth he’s got, gives it away, everything else.
186 Look at the sleeping virgin. Oh, what did she do? She had to sell something in order to buy her Oil. What did she have to sell? Her old creeds and denominations and things. She sold out all she had in order to find Christ, Christ, that great Jewel. Jesus, that body…[Blank spot on tape—Ed.]…?…I have a ticket to go to Heaven when the train comes by, one of these dark mornings. Oh, what blessing!
61-0101 - Revelation, Chapter Four Part II
Rev. William Marrion Branham
