SIBERIA
November 28th, 2015
Day 3
Today is a very memorable day, a day where we can clearly see God’s fingerprint.
The reason for our journey to Siberia is Pastor Viktor Fokin’s invitation to visit his church here in Novokuznetsk. He was part of the group of the ministers who came to Trinidad in 2014. And since we were already in Moscow, Brother Vin followed God’s leadership to come here for this weekend.
It’s 3:06 a.m. Moscow time, but already 7:06 a.m. Siberian time when the plane is touching down in Novokuznetsk; in other words, we skipped the entire night. When we leave the plane and go down the stairway we have to walk carefully and stumble more or less over the icy runway until we reach the bus that will bring us to the terminal.
The temperature of minus 6 C, it is foggy, dark, and our tiredness don’t make it easy this morning, but we are happy that we have the opportunity to visit our brothers and sisters here in this part of the world.
Brother Viktor, as well as one of his deacons and a group of brothers, who are also here from Vilnius, are welcoming us at the airport. 
Sister Nastya and her husband Alexey are also waiting for us, and they are so kind to give us their apartment for the time of our visit. Brother Vin, Timmy and Brother Bishop together with some brothers from Vilnius are staying in a different house. The drive from the airport takes about one hour, and in the warmth of the car we enjoy looking at the white snow which blankets everything this morning.
Later on today we hear that the city of Novokuznetsk is one of the lowest cities in Siberia, full of crime and drugs, and right away we are reminded that Jesus went to Jericho, one of the lowest cities in Israel. The population here is about 550,000 people, and since the 1930s it’s a major coal mining and industrial center.
This weekend is the twentieth anniversary of the church here, and for this very reason and as a welcome for all the visitors is a banquet planned this evening. The drive to the church takes us through a large industrial compound, where the church is renting some rooms on the third floor, in the back of one of the large brick buildings.
In this hostile environment the believers here have renovated the rooms with great sacrifice. And today we are able to enjoy a wonderful dinner, where some of the young people are serving the food so diligently, with lots of singing, and fellowship. 
Different brothers speak, and I just want to strike some of the highlights.
Brother Viktor testifies that in all the years of his ministry as the pastor of this church there was not a single time that the Angel of the Lord wasn’t there. He talks about the time when he went to Trinidad and how Brother Vin helped him to become more seasoned, child trained, and spiritually pruned to bring forth more fruit.
“Since early 2015, when I had my back trouble and I felt so bad, I lay flat on my back, and later in June I couldn’t walk for one month and a half. Then Brother Pavel came along with Brother Adrian from New Zealand. I couldn’t walk at all. The pain became greater. One day they brought me into the boat to go fishing; they had to pack me everywhere, I couldn’t walk at all, and I looked up at the Zodiac and thought, ‘I cannot understand, I cannot see men with crutches there’. Later a thought struck me, ‘Get up, you are healed.’ It wasn’t that I didn’t have the faith, because I was healed before from kidney stones in 2011; I have enough faith, but in this particular case I couldn’t get up. God laid me flat and I wanted to know why. It was painful, I was screaming in pain, but I wanted to wait on the Lord. In July I was on that particular fishing trip in the Siberian wilderness together with Brother Adrian and Brother Anton as interpreter, when I heard a voice; it said, ‘Get up, get up…’ it was Brother Pavel’s voice. I could feel my legs were moving; I couldn’t move before, and when our motor boat came to the river bank where our camp site was, I just got up and threw away the cane and I was healed.
For my birthday last year my wife made me a calendar for 2015 with different family photos, where she put a photo of each family member in the month they were born, then in October a photo from the children of the Sunday school and for the month of November, the eleventh month, she put a photo from our visit in Trinidad in 2014 with Brother Vin, Brother Pavel and myself.
The calendar was hanging there unrecognized for all the time, but when I looked at November, I realized that this was prophetic. She didn’t know what she was doing, when she put this calendar together, but God led her to put this photo of three of us brothers in there for the month of November.
I want to read from Galatians 4:12-14.
[12] Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. [13] Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. [14] And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
One day not long ago God spoke to me, ‘Prepare the upper room, prepare for Me a feast here in Novokuznetsk.’ And so here we are today.”
Brother Pavel speaks:
We are all happy people here and I remember the early days when I came here, and I recall the moments of fights and misunderstandings. I know what happened in these last years when I look at the garden that God planted in these severe Siberian conditions, where the trees are frozen and the weather is extremely harsh, in this severe nature, a place where humanly speaking and thinking it’s impossible. Brother Viktor, the way he is – and we have covered a lot of distance together – and when we look today we can see how the church stands in such unity.
God has planned these meetings and the time has come that God is fulfilling His prophecy. And here is the sister, and she puts that photo on the calendar, it’s really a family album. But this particular picture is placed on that calendar in November, because God already knew Brother Vin would come here. It has become interpreted by the people that are gathered here. We are not just at a banquet, but we are in the center of God’s prophecy; God has a purpose behind it.
Brother Bishop
“There is no instrument that could check our happiness. To miss a time like this would have been really hard.”
Brother Dima, the faithful Russian interpreter, is always at his post of duty.
Brother Vin
To think that God has planned all our lives, which age we would come, and in our life’s journey, on 28th November 2015, we were ordained to be in this room, to be alive, to be brought together from different places to honour a servant of God, to honour a people, attributes of His, that make up this assembly.
He pulled those three sons/suns together and showed it in the sky, just like three suns appeared over Novokuznetsk in the morning on 18th November this year.
He didn’t want it to be a hidden thing. He made them put it in the media, because it as a testimony of a happening to the world. The international press is not here, the president and the ministers are not here, but Jesus is here, the angels of God are here, saints in the other dimension, not even 3 feet away. We are compassed with a great cloud of witnesses and when they look over here, they are rejoicing to see how we worship and confess, because they know the time is at hand when they come back here to pick up their bodies and with them together we will go to meet the Lord.
I am so glad to be part of it, a little group, but so divinely constructed and you can see the anointing. I watched the young boys serving, taking their places. I looked and every time they call the singers, they move with such grace and minister. They are just reflecting, because they are anointed from another realm and this is the reflection here.
We are no longer dead, but quickened. Discernment is operating. We are seeing the Scriptures, we are written epistles read of all men, because the seals of the book of our life are broken. God in His people, now manifested. This is reality.
It takes divine hands to ordain something like this. When we can understand how He would come in a divinely appointed meeting like this and let His presence be felt and be seen, we know how interested He is in the work that is here. If I were to plan to come here, I would ask the brothers for the most tropical time of the year, and would think to be prepared for a time to make such a trip. But God knows, He can bring me against natural things, and when I come like a dry old rod, and He brings it in the Shekinah glory, then the power of transformation begins to work. There is a stimulation, and it takes away the tiredness and brings joy. And God is using redeemed people, people who are blood-bought and blood-washed, filled with the Holy Spirit, God in His people. This is spiritual understanding who we are, what God is doing, why He is doing it, because God’s fingerprint is in everything that is taking place, and it is marvelous in our eyes. We behold Him in His works.
I want to put a little honour on the ministry. They that are labour in the Word and doctrine are worthy of double honour.
When God would ordain a life and take a vessel from where it lay, and reach down His hand, the great Potter that God is, a vessel that seems so marred, and God will pick it up, break it, and remake it on the potter’s wheel, a vessel of honour, sanctified for the Master’s use, prepared for every good work, a chosen vessel to bear His name. It’s redemption, the act of God, the calling of God, the predestination of God. God is displaying His grace, His power. God is showing how skilled He is, to take something broken-up and scarred and remake it into something to bring glory and honour to His Name. This is what God has done in our lives.
When we see the Body of Christ and see the different characteristics of this Body, it reflects Christ. Each member has certain divine equipment for God’s service and purpose. And when we come together we know what kind of potential and resource is amongst us. We know the value of each other.
There is something around this little group here and I see how they rally around the servant of God. In every solar system you have a sun and the other planets revolve around it. They all know the value of the sun. In our solar system we have the sun and the moon and that moon reflects the life of the sun, and each one has its purpose because God designed them and put them together in a constellation. A church doesn’t just happen. God wanted a church in Siberia. God had people to be born to move into this place, and God knows the need they have. I watched the way you rally around your leader. When the people gathered around Solomon, the people came to a golden age.
There is something here, something real and supernatural, that you cannot buy in a store; it is coming from above. And when you see this and can be perceptive, it does something for you.
When you understand your earthly journey and that God has planned your life, then you realize how God ordained to meet the elect in our earthly journey, and you are now part of my life.
The Message is just a recipe, but you need to know how to make the cake. Somebody has to teach you to put 1200 tapes together. Somewhere in there is the secret of eternal youth, how to go to Heaven…
The anointing of Ephraim and Dan, these are men who are looking into their life and understand something about their makeup to see just more than the human part of them, understanding their ministry.
I see you are not just in the Message, but the Message is in you, the manifestaiton of it. I see the way you can harness the power of the Message, and use it to take you higher, and being here in this twentieth year of celebration is very special.
On 28th November 1965, Brother Branham preached Gods Only Provided Place Of Worship. That’s the place where God places His Name, where the family of God gathers in God’s only provided place to worship Him in Spirit and in truth, because angels worship God as the Creator. We worship God as the Redeemer. To worship God as the Redeemer, you have to know redemption. The angels fell, there was no redemption for them, they became demons, but when God’s sons and daughters fell, God became man. Because God’s purpose is redemption.
The only place God meets man is in Christ.
In the evening that day the prophet preached On The Wings Of A Snow-White Dove, that’s the Spirit of God coming in the form of a dove. Elijah received the dove for a sign. This day the forerunner of the Second Coming also had the sign of a dove, the Holy Spirit, the Dove leading the eagle. He had the eagle anointing. The Bride has prophetic insight, she can see afar off, and every eagle in this hour needs that snow-white Dove to lead them. Every son of God in this hour needs that Spirit to lead them. The eleventh month, November 28th, 20th anniversary, the calendar… the three men on the calendar, the three sunbeams in the sky, published in the newspaper, and in the eleventh month these three men show up.
When we were in Lithuania, the meeting was not supposed to be; Brother Viktor was on his back, and now we are here, not even knowing, why we are here. We hear about the kind of sacrifice you all made, renovations, preparing for this celebration and you were doing this unconsciously, knowing in part, but now all of this is coming together to understand that God has something more in mind.
The next message Brother Branham preached after that was The Rapture.
Only the Seed of God can be born again. Others have the wrong seed, but the Holy Ghost can fall on them. But the Seed of God has the characteristics.
Eleven is the fifth prime number, i.e. the number that can be divided only by itself. The eleventh hour Gentiles workers are to get the same penny. There has to be a divine arrangement behind all of this.
God is among you in a very special way.
Brother Viktor reads
Jeremiah 4:14-15, and concludes with a quote of the prophet from another message with the same title God’s Provided Place Of Worship – April 25th, 1965 – where he says that the church stands for five principles:
- For the glory of God
- For the Coming of the Lord Jesus
- For the Holy Ghost
- For the know-so
- For the living Presence of the living God
Amen.