Rich Giberti – Tucson, AZ 1 Rich is the Founder of First Stone Publishing, LLC. As a teenager, Rich had everything a typical middle-class teen raised in Southern California could want—everything but happiness. His search led him to drugs, fights, and alcohol abuse. The happiness he wanted eluded him until the day he became a Christian at a Second Chapter of Acts musical concert in Ventura, California. What happened next can only be described as a miracle! His complete life was changed, the desire to use drugs or alcohol completely vanished and this reckless lifestyle was replaced with a new-found desire to live for God. Today, Rich lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife and two younger teenage children. His oldest son currently is an Army Scout. Rich is the author of several books.
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Rich Giberti – Tucson, AZRich is the Founder of First Stone Publishing, LLC. As a teenager, Rich had everything a typical middle-class teen raised in Southern California could want—everything but happiness. His search led him to drugs, fights, and alcohol abuse. The happiness he wanted eluded him until the day he became a Christian at a Second Chapter of Acts musical concert in Ventura, California. What happened next can only be described as a miracle! His complete life was changed, the desire to use drugs or alcohol completely vanished and this reckless lifestyle was replaced with a new-found desire to live for God. Today, Rich lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife and two younger teenage children. His oldest son currently is an Army Scout. Rich is the author of several books.
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Available Books
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He has risen…Hallelejuh !!
Elijah’s prophecy of her death had already been forgotten… but, it was still ‘thus saith the Lord.’
Jehu & the Israelite army were on the move, and unknowingly fulfilling Elijah’s prophecy…
Jezebel was thrown out the window, trampled by horses and eaten by dogs. Moments before her death, Jezebel knew she was getting ready to be killed by Jehu. When she heard he was coming she put on makeup and fixed her hair. This act tells a lot about her character.
The infamous story of Jezebel and her death. (2 Kings 9:30-37).
Thyatira: The FOURTH Age
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Revelation 2:18-29¶ Unto the angel of the church of Thyatira write;
These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass. I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jez'ebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts:
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The Whore demands complete allegiance & obeisance. 1. 1869, Vatican Council, dogma of Papal Infallibility (Revelation 18: 7 ‘I sit as Queen, yet am no widow.’)2. 1965, Lee Vayle & ‘Exposition of 7 Church Ages’, Page 328 PP3; “who then will have the power of infallibility which is to be restored in this last age? … I will tell you who will have it. It will be a prophet.”3. 2006, Joseph Branham, St. Petersburg, Russia; "I believe that everything Brother Branham says is Thus Saith The Lord.” “If this Message is your absolute then we can fellowship with one another. If you have another absolute, if you take another man's idea, another man's thought, his interpretation, then we can't fellowship."
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Martin Luther said, “Unless I am convinced by Scripture…”
Joseph Branham says, “These are the instructionsthat Brother Branham left us…Therefore I believethat this is the way it must be done by all…”
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The priests opened the Ishtar Gate* and let in Cyrus, king of Medes-Persians – w/o a fight
* Btw – Ishtar? There’s your Easter…
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Easter: Astarte, Ishtar, Mary – Queen of Heaven & Fertility
Pagan ? Yes
What’s Jesus got to do with it?Nothing…
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Timeline – 3rd 2000 years
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Laodicea: The SEVENTH Age
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Messenger – Wm. Branham aka Elijah the Prophet (Rev 2:8,11; Rev 10:1-7; Mal 4:5-6; Luke 17:30)
God prophesied, “I will send you Elijah…before the…day of the Lord” (Mal 4:5. Jesus said this man would ‘restore all things’ (Matt 17:11). What does this mean?Who is this prophet-messenger, angel to the 7th church age?Has he come already? Is he yet to appear?Will this Elijah be one of the two witnesses? How will we recognize him?
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Messenger – Wm. Branham aka Elijah the ProphetHow will we recognize him?Most ages had difficulty recognizing the ones that God had sent (Romans 11:13; 1 Thes 2:15; 1. Noah2. Moses3. David4. “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee..” Matt 23:29-395. Elijah (in John Baptist) “Elias is come already, and they knew him not…” Matt 17:12
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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee..” Matt 23:29-39
Laodicea: The SEVENTH Age
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Messenger – Wm. Branham aka Elijah the ProphetHow will we recognize him?Among many Christians and Messianic believers, there is an expectation of one who will appear in the power and spirit of Elijah before the second coming of Yeshua the Messiah. 1. Isaiah 61:2 “acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance“; Luke 4:16-21; a scripture is split – 2000 years between2. Malachi 3:1 / Isaiah 40:3 / John 1:19-13; Luke 1:17 – John Baptist3. Malachi 4:5 – Wm Branham aka Elijah
The Spirit of ELIJAH
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The spirit of Elijah is used FIVE times through history: 1. Elijah – 1 Kings 17:222. Elisha – 2 Kings 2:9 receives "a double portion" of Elijah's spirit3. John the Baptist “Elias is come already, and they knew him not…” Matt 17:124. William Branham “I will send Elijah the prophet…” Mal 4:5-65. Elijah (in one of the two witnesses) “power to shut heaven, that it rain not…” Rev 11:6
Laodicea: The SEVENTH Age
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The pattern & example – Alpha & Omega1. True to the Word (Gal 1:8-9; 1 Cor 14:36-37; 1 Thes 2:13)2. Spirit-filled & led (Gal 1:1)3. Power (Mark 16:17; 16:20; Matt 10:5-8; John 10:37-39; John 14:12)Joel 2:25 “I will restore to you…”Matt 17:11 “Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.…”Acts 2:17 “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:…” Azusa Street Revival…
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The Church Condition in the Last Days
Short age: 1906AD to PresentFrequent earthquakes – eventually destroyed“Peoples Rights” Rev 3:16 “thou art lukewarm…”Rev 3:17 “I am rich, and increased with goods…”Rev 3:15 “thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked…”
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Rev 3:17 “I am rich, and increased with goods…”
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Rev 3:14 ”Laodicea - Peoples Rights…”
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Rev 3:15 “thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked…”
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Rev 3:15 “and knowest NOT that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked…”What’s the
difference??
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Rev 3:18 “anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.…”
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No room in the inn – Luke 2:7Go outside camp, bear his reproach – Heb 13:13Despised, rejected – Is 53:1-3Rejected King – Mark 11:8-10; John 6:15Why call me Lord, and do not the things I say? – Luke 6:46Lord, Lord…depart, I never knew you – Matt 7:21-23
Rev 1:13 & 2:1, Jesus is “in the midst” and “walks among” the 7 churches, by the last age He has been kicked out of His own church – replaced by creeds, dogma, etc. “In that day seven women will take hold of one man…we will eat our own bread & wear our own clothes, but be called by your name…” Isaiah 4:1; Rev 18:7
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.”
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The Breach between the Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals
Chapter Four and Five of Revelation is called “The Breach” because they lay positioned between Chapter Three and Chapter Six. They also appear to occur in Heaven, whereas Chapters Two and Three that deal with the Seven Church Ages, and Chapter Six which is the events that transpire upon the Earth after the Seals are opened. The Breach is also a transition from a world order under grace, to a world order under judgment and wrath. The very act of the Lamb of God leaving the mercy seat to retrieve the Sealed Book signifies a cessation of the old order under a dispensation of intercessory grace, to a new era of The Lion of Judah assuming his Kingly throne to sit as ruler and judge.
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The Breach between the Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals
The Lamb’s blood had been upon the mercy seat for nearly two thousand years, that blood was “the blood of an everlasting covenant. (Hebrews 13:20). Everlasting is a long span of time, not time without end or eternal. The lamb’s redemptive work concludes during the Last Days, the ceremonial act of Kinsman Redeemer calls for Him to leave the throne of mercy to take the book out of the right hand of God. Once the bloody lamb leaves his intercessory work, the same throne becomes a throne of judgment; there is no longer any mercy, grace or power to wash away the Gentiles sins - “and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still.” (Revelation 22:11)
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The Breach between the Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals
When the Seventh Seal is broken, the mystery of God is finished – One part of this mystery reveals who was sealed during Christ's mediation, and how each sealed believer overcame in each of Seven Church Ages. Another aspect of this finishing mystery is the restoration of the Word of God – all doctrinal errors promulgated over the span of the Gentile Church Ages will be corrected and taught. The results of the seventh seal will manifest to the Christian believers as an acceptance of the corrected Word of God and faith for the resurrection (The Rapture), in nominal church-goers as faith to endure the Great Tribulation, and in unbelievers as hatred towards Jesus and unwillingness to repent of their sins.
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SEVENTH SEAL
7th Seal – “wheresover the carcass (the Fresh Word) is, there will the eagles be gathered..” Math 24:28
1. # Seven (completion)- Roman Candle analogy2. Wheat ripening in the sun3. The ‘Word’ Sarah believed was growing in her womb4. Fruit maturing (opposite to Jude 1:12’s “Autumn trees
who’s fruit withers and dies”)5. Line upon line (Isaiah 28:10-13)6. Secret Coming (Matt 24:36-42; 1 Thes 5:2-4) 7. Perousia ‘Elijah has already come.’ (Matt 17:9-12)8. Shout, Voice, Trump (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)9. ‘I show you a mystery…’ (1 Corinthians 15:51-53)10.2 Corinthians 12:1-4 - heard things not lawful to be
uttered in public11.3rd Pull – love secrets whispered to a bride12.Wedding supper of the Lamb (Rev 19)
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SEVENTH SEAL
The Bride will not have to face the cataclysmic events the Bible prophesies for the end times. We will be taken to heaven before the Tribulation-the time period the Bible describes as ” . . . a time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time.” [Dan 12:1]
During the first phase of His Second Coming, Jesus will come secretly to “catch away His Bride”-the Church. Three and one half years later, during the “Day of the Lord,” the second phase of His coming will take place. At that time Christ will come visibly with all power and authority to establish His kingdom on earth (Matt 24:29).
The saints will spend the intervening time in heaven before returning with Christ. Jesus will come for the saints during the first phase, and with the saints in the second phase. Christ is coming to rapture the saints before the Tribulation-but returning with them afterward, the time when He pours out His wrath in divine vengeance.
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‘Like a Roman candle firework, the seventh seal is the beginning of the end for all things
… the dispensation of grace, the blindness of the Jews towards Jesus Christ, the seven trumpets, the seven vials of the wrath of God – even time.’
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Revelation 19:7-9
Let us rejoice and be glad and give honor to him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.
And he saith unto me, write, blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
