It Is The Rising Of The Sun

April 18, 1965

There was once a time when the world was in complete darkness, without form and void of all life. It was covered with water and layered by a gloomy atmosphere. Beneath the water and dimness of the atmosphere laid seeds planted by the hand of God. Without light, these seeds could not live and mature into what God had intended them to be. So God said "Let there be light."

Through God’s love and compassion, there came the first day of the dawn of creation upon the earth. The sun rose, and its warming rays dried up the waters and cleared the gloomy atmosphere. This great hour uncovered the seeds God had planted and brought joy and life to the earth.

Think of the first sunrise this world ever experienced. How breathtaking it would have been to witness God’s mighty creation transform and generate immeasurable life. As Brother Branham says, "But, oh, it wasn’t nothing, that sunrise, like the sunrise on that Easter morning."

The rising of the s-u-n brought mortal life upon the botany life of the earth, but the rising of the S-O-N brought Eternal Life to all of God’s promised Seed. Our bodies were laying in the dust of the earth on Easter morning over 2,000 years ago, but because the Son of God raised from the dead, so shall every son raise to Life that was foreordained to this great time. That's what makes it such a more glorious sunrise.

Read the questions Brother Branham asks below, and find the answers in the text of this wonderful message preached on the Easter morning of 1965.

If God raised up Jesus from the dead, did He raise Him up for a memorial? And is this resurrection morning only one day in the year, or a certain day that we celebrate? Or, are we benefactors of His resurrection? What does it mean to me? What does it mean to you? Now we believe, by faith, that He raised from the dead, but what has that got to do with me? That was two thousand years ago. Now to find this text!