We are coming to you wherever you may be to let you know that there is "one Lord, one faith, one baptism, " Eph. 4:5. I say to you as did Peter on the day of Pentecost, "...Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." Acts 2:38.

We are praying for all of the saints on Apostolic Square, for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and the saints everywhere, and for all those who take heed to what the Bible says. We pray for all of you, wherever you may be that God will grant your petitions and answer your prayers.

Today, we are talking to you about Prince Michael and the Time of Trouble. Keep in your mind that if you think you have had trouble, those of us who remain here on earth until the end of this dispensation of grace (which is the 6th dispensation) shall be faced with a world heavily laden with trouble. As the end of the dispensation of grace comes, trouble will increase and from out of this trouble will come a period called tribulation. The trouble will start where people will bring offenses, sorrows and affections upon you. It will go on and increase until the church is caught up and taken away. Indeed, it will happen and if you are not rooted and grounded in the Apostolic Faith, you will faint by the wayside.

Now someone might say: "Well I won't be here at that time." Chances are, you will be here. If you are not here in that time, you have got to set yourself and be ready when your time of death comes. Every saint must learn in their salvation how to endure hardship. They must learn to do that. It is one of the most important lessons that you must learn. Your next lesson is how to endure blessings, because either one of them can offset you. Because both are coming, you must set yourself. I would warn you that hardship, in all probability will exceed the times of joy and blessings and you will be the recipients of some kind of worry or trouble almost all of the time. After the trouble comes, you will have some times of peace. You will bring some of these troublesome times upon yourself and others will just come upon you.

People will change. Situations will become different. Your feelings about people and things will change. Surely it will. Happiness will almost become non-existent. Things that once made you happy will cease making you happy and you will have to cope with that. Joy will be one of the rarest items that you will have in your life. You must come to it, because whatever it is that gives you the most joy in your life is the thing which is going to be afflicted and attacked in some kind of way.

In Daniel 12:1 it reads: "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book". This speaks about this time of trouble which will increase and be intensified then develop fully into a period of tribulation. At such time of tribulation, the church will be caught away and there will be a restriction on the people as to their power to purchase and their power to perform their activities. During this time of tribulation there will be a power whose name is disguised in a code known by the number 666. This number, his coding, is showing you the mystery of whom it will be. Whether they will use this specific number or not, is conjecture, however, so that you will have something to remember it, the number itself is the code of this power. Those who refuse to have this number in their hands of forehead will not have permission to move, to occupy, to be, to drink, to eat nor to do all the other things that they once got pleasure from doing. In other words, as they go through the earth not having this number, all of their freedom can and will be taken from them. Those who elect to have themselves imprisoned or beheaded or whatever, will be the only ones delivered at this time. The church will be gone and they will no longer be baptizing in the name of Jesus Christ. Because the Church will be gone, no longer will there be a necessary requirement to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. They the same power and the same Spirit must prevail in the people who obey and do the will of God. Even though people will be encouraged and warned by witnesses, most shall turn aside.

You must set your seal and sanctify yourself so that you can be counted worthy to escape. Whether you are asleep or awake, the price which you must pay in obedience in your life is that you must offer yourself and everything that is important to you as a living sacrifice to the living God. You must offer your life to God, from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. You see, you must speak to your own mind and tell it that your life is turned backwards. You make all those other things the most important things in your life and you need to be turned all the way around again. Tell yourself that everything else that you do, or have, or think about is secondary and your first responsibility is perfecting yourself, perfecting your salvation that you may have part in the first resurrection. "Blessed and holy is he..." (See Rev. 20:6).

It would disturb me more than perhaps I could verbalize and explain in words to think about your being here, hearing the word and having obeyed the truth of God, then let yourselves be destroyed. The church is not some social organization to keep you amused or with some friendships or what-have-you. This church was established by God Himself. For what? For your salvation, your deliverance, and eternal life. It has within it, the factors; everything you need is included in this Church, in this Faith. From the beginning of time, since the Garden of Eden, there has always been but one church. When you speak of it in reality, it is the same church, but at each time, God would ask a particular thing from the people. When I say the same church, it means it is the same God and the same Spirit that directed this church from the beginning of time.

And now, at this time under the dispensation of grace, we have a new testament church. In other words, the church has been renovated and done over, but is still keeping part of its old structure as evidenced when Jesus quoted some of the prophets. The church moves on and beckons to you: "Come, repent and be baptized". Who? White and black people, orientals and brown people, everyone must come. Men, women and children—all of you from all over the world must come into this one place, one church. Come and separate yourselves from the activities of this world. Come and save yourselves through the obedience of the Word.

Their ears are becoming increasingly heavier and the Word is falling on deaf ears. But He is still calling and with the same call. He is calling you, saying: "Now you have done the principles of the Doctrine, you must go henceforth to perfection". Each step of your road to perfection or your climb towards it, spells death for you and your natural instincts, your natural ways of doing things. Perfection means death to the wants of the flesh.

Whatever it is that you have so inclined yourself and engrossed yourself about, you are going to have to give it up. You are going to have to surrender it. You must be willing to do it even if you are not asked to. you must be willing to give it up. With most human beings, their comfort and joy is receiving everything but not giving up anything. Read Daniel 10:10-21. It is showing Michael's involvement. As prince, and archangel, Michael typifies in scripture that which Jesus Christ became in the flesh. It was he who stood in defense of the integrity of the living God to fight against the dragon until there was no more space left for them in the heavens. You can read that in Revelation 20:4-6 & 11-5). There are more things which I want you to understand, but if I can get you to understand the preliminary teachings about the troubled times, the terrified and hostile times, I will praise God. It is coming. It is coming before we leave this earth. Some of you feel it now and all of you who live holy shall feel it. Yet in the midst of everything, deliverance will always be somewhere for the people of God. Sure it will, Even out of the great war that shall be fought during this time in the tribulation, deliverance will come. In this war, there will be an hundred and forty-four thousands of the descendants of Jacob who will be saved. Those who take a stand for the will of God and His word will also be saved. God will always have a way for the righteous or the pure in heart and those who repent to redeem themselves. Read Revelation 12:14-20; 16:13-16.

You will have your battle. You will have your war. You have it now. You will have your time and you will have your victories. How will you survive it? Each day, each experience each time you are emptied and overcome, you will gain strength by that experience and the experience of a previous victory. Some of you who have had victorious experience do not thank the Lord and testify about them. I don't care how small they appear to be, begin to thank the Lord about it. You might think you don't want to be up there in front of these people all of the time. Don't you know that it is a part of your salvation to testify? If it is small, testify to it and greater things will come. If the Lord has spared you to live to be in your 70's or 80's or whatever and you can still move about, it is a testimony unto you. When you have passed through this world without such pain that would stop your movement and you are still able to do any to say; to go and to come, you, too, have a testimony.

Read the 19th chapter of Revelation. Read these scriptures in Revelation and particularly Revelation 19:17-21 and the rest of it also. Read it and set yourself for those things which shall come. Set yourself for those things which shall come. Set yourself for those times when, as you age and become afflicted with disease or pain, and no one will come to see you, no one to offer you any kind of relied, you will be able to withstand temptation. Set yourself to believe and hold fast to the living word of God. You can see the unconcerned attitude of mankind. You see saints are mankind, too, although they were born again and should be separated from that massed mankind. They come from them and when they become callous and uncaring, they go right back to that same personality, and sometimes even worse. So you must set yourself. Set yourself for the change that is surely going to come.

Some people are so foolish that they will give up and not even continue in the Apostolic standard set forth by this Church. If someone does something to them or overlook them or act as if they don't care about them, they will give up. You should have told yourself long ago that not only will people turn their backs on you, but your children, your wife or husband and even your mother and father will turn their backs on you. If you have someone who shows you some concern, you should be thankful and, from time to time, tell them so. People might say: "Well the word says you ought to do..." Of course the word says it. The word says many things that people should or should not do, but how many people do you know who is doing it? Are you doing it? When you find someone who is obeying what part of the word, from time to time you should mention it to them. When troubled times come, even though I am hoping you won't be here during the tribulation, I want you to be able to stand. You will be here in part of the trouble. Yes you will. You will be here and you will be in pain. I would like for you to read the 14th chapter of Revelation, especially verses 1-5 where you will find out about the 144 thousand.

Read Daniel 12:1. Now, don't just scan over this message, but read these scriptures, jot them down and go back and read them again. Also read Daniel 20:4-6 and 11-15. This tribulation period will be a time of judgement, a time of separation and a time of strengthening the hand of the people in the trouble.

There is going to be a time of trouble. It is going to be one that is completely unique in its capacity because never since the earth began and people walked on it will they have seen this kind of trouble. The nuclear bombs are part of this trouble. Sure it is. What we think of as World War III or whatever they call it, if they have time to call it anything, is par of this great trouble. But when I say all of those things, you might say" "Well if the church is going to be caught up and taken away, I won't he here." Oh, but you will be here during of the time of the trouble. When the actual tribulation period starts you will be caught up or perhaps some time just before that. But you will be here and trouble is going to start in the dispensation of grace and will go through this period of tribulation. Such as was never since there was a nation, even to that day "And at that time thy people shall be delivered and everyone of them shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dirt of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." (Daniel 12:1-2)

These scriptures are speaking of events that are going to take place in the first resurrection, in that before tribulation actually begins the troubled times, at the end of the dispensation of grace, there shall be an awakening for those who sleep in the earth. There shall be a rapture of saints who are steadfast and living, as well as the ones who are sleeping in the earth. Those who are alive here are going to be caught up and changed all in a moment, in the twinkle of an eye. They are going to be caught up and be with the Lord for this period of tribulation that is going on in the earth. And following that, we will be with God in a honeymoon type of bridal feast. When the trouble is over, the church shall come back to this earth and shall be with God and the people here—that is a natural people who are going to be having children—and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

As time passes, we shall have the capacity to be here on this earth and other places in the entire universe. However, there will be a period of time called the millennium or a thousand year reign at which time Satan is going to be chained. He is going to be kept incapacitated for the thousand years and will not be able to afflict the people. However, no sooner than the thousand years are ended, he will start again but this time he will be defeated.

Daniel 12:2 states: "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake..." This scripture is speaking about the first resurrection and the second one. Those who will awake to everlasting life. "...And some to shame and everlasting contempt". That is the second resurrection. They will awake and will be cast in the lake of fire where there will never be any relief, but will be tormented day and night and no one will be able to go and give them mercy. No one will be able to go and help them for they will be here in this hell, in this world that will lose its ability to keep its movement going and it shall fall into the total space out away from where God and the saints will be. It shall burn and the people on it shall be falling with it forever and ever.

Daniel 12:3 states: "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament..." I want you to be wise. I haven't nearly begun to say all the things which I would say to you, but I have covered all of them in the sense of just telling you about them here and there. However, it is important to you and to your salvation that you know these things. I want you to take heed that no man deceives you.

You see, it tells you about wars and rumors of wars; about things that are going to happen, and the end would not be yet. Before you leave this earth, you are going to hear about all of those things. "Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold he is in the desert; go not forth: behold He is in the secret chambers; believe it not." Matthew 24:26. "For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together." Matthew 24:28. In other words, wherever there is anything that you can feast upon or the fulfillment of a statement, you will always know because the eagles or birds of prey will gather. It is difficult for you to think about, but you have seen other birds of prey gather together after a carcass has been lying on the heap. For further reference, see the 12th chapter of Daniel.

Someone's carcass is laying in the way. It might be yours. Someone's troubles are upon them today. Someone's end is near. Someone's testimony has been quieted and is not heard. Someone's sickness overwhelms them. Someone's end is near them today. In some cases, it will not always be the very oldest, but t it comes upon the young and upon those in their median age as well. The old close their eyes and say "Amen" for their end is near them. Trouble comes in the earth. The elements disturb itself.Famine and hunger arrives at the different places and we can go longer hear the song that our mothers love to sing. Someone's end is near.

Michael has stood and will stand again, but you are going to have to stand yourself. And it is near. What is near? Your end! Because you are in the dispensation of grace and must make your calling and election sure. It is not likely that Michael will dispute with Satan over your body nor will he dispute with with Satan as he did regarding Moses.

Remember and search back those things which I have said to you, those things which I have taught you. Remember those things which you have learned and days of the prophets. Don't be so light-headed, so easy to believe and be deceived. There is no one really interested in delivering you, but me. When I say 'delivering you' I mean the ultimate deliverance. There are plenty of people who want to project their thoughts on to you and their ideas as to what God said to them. There may be some right here with u, and I would hope there are, who want to encourage you with the same doctrines which we teach. But to have the responsibility for your soul is another matter to most of them. Most people would not want it.

There are those who would carry out what God is saying to the Church at this time. There is only one thing that God has for His Church today and that message is being brought to you in these latter days by us. If anyone comes to you with something different than that what we preach, regardless to whom they are, something is wrong with them. You had better examine that false doctrine which has had you bound, and come and obey the Apostolic Doctrine. Selah.

It is time that you draw closer to each other and closer to God. The way you can become closer to us is by obeying the Word of God and letting Him have His way in your life. The more you obey the Word of God, the more you begin to open yourself up to the truth coming in your life, you and I will become closer and closer. You must live in a way that when you close your eyes, it will be a thing of beauty, that your sleeping in the Lord will become a precious thing. Don't worry about staying on this earth for any long period of time. If God so blesses you with a long life, that is a good thing. But if not, learn to surrender yourself and give up the ghost. Try to live, if you can, but when you see that the time has come, just make sure that your life is in order and that the things which you learned from the you are willing to leave everything. To see all of you saved, striving earnestly, preparing yourself, to see that accomplishment in your lives would make me feel completely satisfied. To see that it was not all in vain, to know what when I called to you, you harkened; when I asked, you gave and obeyed; and that faith and many souls were added to the Church. To know that, through the blood of the lamb they overcame and have eternal life. This would be my reward.

I will trouble you no more, yet, I will trouble you always. I was born in this world for this time. Let me tell you something. If you want to serve God, I won't ever be the one to hold you back as long as you operate orderly, according to the power of God. I would be that force on earth to project you forward. If you want fair and right judgement, truth and salvation, and you come to sit with and stand with me, your eyes have not seen nor your ears heard those good things which God has in store for you. Not only in your life with Christ, but right here before you leave this earth, even in the midst of all this trouble, you will find blessings.

God bless you. Let us do a thing of beauty and all labor for the Lord. Amen.