MAKING THE MIDNIGHT CRY
By: Chief Bishop Samuel Doffee
Written by Chief Bishop Samuel Doffee (1994): This material is not to be republished in any Internet publication or any other publication without the express permission of the author. Anyone wishing to study this material is welcome to do so. Reprinted by permission from The Midnight Cry Messenger, V1-03, July 1994.
For at midnight there was a cry made, behold
the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him.
In this article, I would like to share with you the revelation of the Midnight
Cry Message that God has given me to preach and teach to the kingdom of God. The
Midnight Cry Message is to wake up all the children of the kingdom of heaven
that are slumbering and sleeping, to gather them together and be ready for the
second coming of Jesus.
Jesus said in Matt. 25:1 that the kingdom
of heaven was likened unto ten virgins which took their lamps (Bibles) and went
forth to meet the bridegroom. Now speaking of the ten virgins, they are people
that have repented of their sins and have been born again by the Spirit of God,
washed in the blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ, for through His name whosoever
believeth in Him shall receive the remission of sins (Acts 10:43), and
delivering us from the power of darkness and translating us into the kingdom of
His dear Son (Co. 1:13). These ten virgins make up the kingdom of heaven that
Jesus is talking about in Matt. 25:1-13. After being born again, they started to
go to church, pay tithes, give offerings, and do whatever the church they go to
or belong to teaches them to do. For they are told that Jesus will come and
rapture them (the ten virgins, which is believed among them to also be the
church) and be taken up and be with the Lord Jesus in heaven for a period of
time. Some preach and teach 3½ years; some teach 7 years; and some even preach
and teach that they will be in heaven with the Lord for 1,000 years and then
Jesus and all the saints that have been raptured up will come back with Jesus
riding on white horses to fight the war of Armageddon and set up the kingdom of
our Lord Jesus Christ to rule and reign for a 1,000 years upon this earth. This
is the message, or doctrine, that is being preached and taught from behind the
pulpits, on radio, on television, written in their monthly church papers, and
last but not least, printing book after book to sell and send out to all the
people over the whole world, telling them that Jesus can come and rapture the
ten virgins (which they believe is the church) out of here any time. Not having
one scripture to support such a doctrine – causing them to err. That is what
Jesus said to the Sadducees in Matt. 22:25-30, when they asked Jesus about the
woman that had seven brethren as her husbands, that all died and last the woman
died also. They asked the question, “At the resurrection, which one of these
seven brethren will be her husband?” And Jesus answered them in the 29th verse
like this, “Ye do err not knowing the scripture or the power of God.” Meaning
they didn’t know or understand the doctrine of the resurrections. Just like the
kingdom of heaven today does not understand the time or the seasons of the
second coming of Jesus or the time that the so-called rapture will take place.
To prove this, let us go to Matt. 24:3-5 where His disciples asked Jesus to give
them a sign of His second coming. Jesus said to them, take heed that no man
deceive you, for many shall come in my name saying they are Christ and shall
deceive many. Now verse 24 says there shall arise false Christs (more than one)
and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders insomuch that if it
were possible, they shall deceive the very elect (which is the Church). For even
the Apostle Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles (us) tells us in II Thess. 2:1-3,
“We beseech you brethren (Gentiles) by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
by our gathering together unto him, that we be not soon shaken in mind, or
trouble, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that day
of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall
not come except there come a falling away first. . . .” The falling away is
happening now. If there ever has been a day or time that people of God that have
been born again, washed by the blood, filled with the Holy Spirit, have gone to
church 40/50 years, waiting and looking for Jesus to come and rapture them out
of here anytime, but it has not happened yet, causing many to stop going to
church and causing church doors to be closed everywhere, which is the beginning
of the fulfillment of this prophecy of the falling away, which Paul said would
take place before the second coming of Jesus.
The Apostle Peter, who Jesus chose to be the minister (or the spokesman) of the
twelve, also said in Acts 3:20-21, “Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto
you, whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things,
which God hath spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since the world
began.” These verses of scripture, with many others that I have but have not
space to print, show that Jesus cannot and will not come and rapture the kingdom
or the church any time as many people believe. The church that Jesus is coming
for is not yet ready. The church that Jesus is coming for, the Apostle Paul said
in Eph. 5:27, would be a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any
such thing, but that it would be holy, without blemish, meaning perfected – in
its beauty of perfection. Therefore, the next prophecy that is to be fulfilled
is the restoring of The Church of God according to the pattern, the Word of God.
For Jesus said to His disciples in Matt. 17:10-11, when they asked him saying,
“Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?” Then Jesus answered them and
said, Elias truly shall first come and restore all things. As the Prophet
Malachi said in Mal. 4:5-6: That God will send Elijah the prophet before the
coming and dreadful day of the Lord for he shall turn the hearts of the fathers
to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers before he will
come and smite the earth with a curse. now, since we know by the scripture in
Acts 3:20-21 that the heaven must receive Jesus and will hold him there until
everything is fulfilled, and Jesus said in Matt. 25:5, while the bridegroom
tarried (meaning – sitting at the right hand of the Father, waiting for the
church to be made ready) they all slumbered and slept, and at MIDNIGHT, there
was a cry made, Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him – Now, tell
me, since the scripture says that all ten virgins slumbered and slept, who is
that making the cry to wake the ten virgins up? Verse 7 says all woke up and
trimmed their lamps. I believe and will prove that the one making the cry is the
Church, the Bride, that is to be the Lamb’s wife. As it is in our natural life,
when a man and woman are engaged for a period of time, and they decide to get
married, it is the woman that sends out the wedding invitations to tell the
people to come to the wedding. So is it with Christ and His Church (Eph.
5:31-32). The Church that is awake and understands the scriptures concerning the
events surrounding the coming of Jesus, is sending out the message and making
the cry to the kingdom of God (the ten virgins that are slumbering and
sleeping), waking them up for Jesus is soon coming. Let us be glad and rejoice
and give honor to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife (the
church) hath made herself ready. (Rev. 19:7) “And the spirit and the bride say
come, and let him that heareth (understand) say come; and let them that is
athirst come and whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely.” (Rev.
22:17)
This is just the first part of the Midnight Cry that the Church, the Bride, is
making to wake up the ten virgins, who are the kingdom of heaven, gathering them
together that they may be ready for the second coming of Jesus. AMEN