Christ Revealed in His Own Word #55

Science so Called

Wednesday, November 20, 1996

Brian Kocourek, Pastor Grace Fellowship

[59] Now, let's just see how this Bible was written. Now, say for instance, from... What if we went now and took sixty-six medical books that deals with the body, wrote by forty different medical schools, a hundred and sixteen--or sixteen hundred years apart? Wonder what kind of continuity we'd come up with? When George Washington, our president... About two hundred years ago for pneumonia they pulled his toenail out and bled him a pint. What if we took... Let's go a little further on some things that we so attracted to today; that's science. What if we took forty different science from--sixteen hundred years apart and see what we'd come up with? A French scientist three hundred years ago proved by science, by rolling a ball, that if any terrific speed was obtained over thirty miles an hour, the object would leave the earth and fall off. You think science would ever refer back to that? Is any continuity with that now, when they drive down the street on the road here, hundred and fifty miles an hour? See? But he scientifically proved that by the pressure of the ball rolling across the ground, that at thirty miles an hour, that any object would lift up off the earth and go away, fall off in space.

[61] No, there's no continuity to that, but not one word in the Bible contradicts the other. Not one prophet ever contradicted the other one. They was every one perfect, and when one come in and did prophesy, that real prophet raised up and called him down. Then it was made manifest. See, see, see? So the Bible is the Word of God to all true believers.

[62] Now, you couldn't get no accuracy in what doctors would agree upon. You can't even get accuracy of them now. You can't get accuracy in science now.

But what about the Word of God made manifest? Huh? Look, Brother Branham is telling us that science has changed tremendously in what they think and notice he said, once they realized they were wrong, they will never refer back to what was wrong. Now that is repentance. What is repentance? A change of the mind, right? And yet we hear brother Branham tell us that science, when they realize they were wrong, he said they will never refer back to it. Look at Medicine. when George Washington lay dying of pneumonia, they pulled out his toe nails because at that time they thought to cure pneumonia, they had to bleed you a pint. But would they do that now? No way! They’ve changed their minds about that. They have repented of that understanding and they will never go back to it. Now, I’m not saying they have it right yet. Because today they only bleed your wallet, not your toenails.

But what I want you to see is that repentance is to change your mind, which means, once you change your understanding of something, you never go back to that way of thinking again. We see that science is willing to repent. Medicine is willing to repent. But what about the Church? Will she ever repent? We have “thus Saith the Lord” she will not.

From [Testimony on the Sea 62-0720] “We know the revival's over. Everyone knows that. I predicted that back in '56 when it would start ending. Billy Graham come back, and Tommy Osborn, and them. I said, "This is it. America will receive it or reject it this year." And they rejected it. We're nothing waiting but judgment. Now, you mark that down and see if Brother Branham's right or not. That's THUS SAITH THE LORD. We're headed for it, and we're going to pay for what we've done. We got too much glamour in the church, and Hollywood and everything. God's sick and tired of it. The last one will come in after while, and that'll be it.”

And so you see, it’s over for America and for the World. You can’t go any further West or you are in the East again. And we know that “It shall be light about the evening time,” and we know that the light, the S.U.N. set’s in the West and not in the East. And as the S.U.N. rises in the East and set’s in the West, so did the S.O.N. (the Word of God) came forth first in the East and now the Appearing of Christ which is the Word manifested in flesh among us in a Prophet) comes at the end-time in the West. It’s all over. we’re just waiting for that last one to come in and be child trained. It could be in now, and it’s a matter of the child training to happen. I don’t know. But it is later than we think. The only thing left is destruction. God sends forth a warning first, and when the Message is rejected, then there is only judgment left for the people.

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And may I stop right here just a minute and say: I believe that the people are in the preparation of the last great destruction this world will ever know. I believe we're at the end. You can speak to people; you could put a Billy Graham in every city in the United States; they'd drink whiskey and smoke cigarettes and laugh at you and everything else just the same. They are in the spirit of the last days. And God cannot send destruction before the people are in the spirit for destruction. God never did--never did destroy anything. Man always destroys himself.

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Every man that's unregenerate of God, will go that way of destruction. You can't help it. Your own soul guides you. If you're borned again, you're bound to go up. If you're not born again, you've got to go down. Just your--your own soul will do it. Just like a magic wand that would open a door or somewhere; if you haven't got the wand, the door won't open. And if you're not borned again, you're just rejected automatically; that's all.”

Now you might think that this is an awful harsh statement by Brother Branham, but that’s exactly what John said in [John 3: 18-21] (read)

[Explaining Healing and Jairus 54-0216]

“What you are here is a reflection of what you are somewhere else. "Those who He called, He justifies." Is that right? "Those who He justified, He has glorified." Already in the Presence of the Father, we have a glorified body. Whew! Wasn't that deep? All right. We'll find out whether it's right or not. "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting." Is that right? That's right. So right now, and what we are there, is a reflection. Here, what we are here, is a reflection of what we are somewhere else. So if your deeds are evil, you know where it comes from. You know where your other body's a waiting.

Look, let’s face it. If you are not born again, then the Life of the Word is not in you, right? Then what you do have, will have to fade away. For Jesus said, “heaven and earth with pass away but My Word shall pass away.”

[1 Peter 1: 23] Now then, I want you to notice that there are two types of being born again. One is of a corruptible seed and one is or an incorruptible seed. And we know that the seed is a Word. The incorruptible is the Word of God and the corruptible is the word of man or any other word than God’s own Word. For there is only one form of Eternal Life and that is God’s own Life. And therefore, we know that God’s Word is a Seed, a carrier of God life. That’s [Mark 4: 14] And so then these people that have to run to the altar every other week to get born again, all over again, have been born again of a corruptible Word (seed) and because they were born of a corruptible word-seed, they need to get a new life over and over again. So you can’t blame the people. The reason they need to run to the altar is because of what they are feeding on. There’s death in the pot.

Now this brings us back to our thoughts here on what brother Branham said about science not referring back to what they left behind. If science and Medicine can do it, then why not the church? And we found out that the church is ordained not to be able to repent. And if a person can not repent, which mean to change their mind, to change their understanding, then they are unregenerate and they are lost. When they refuse to be free from their old ways when the Jubilee sounded, they were marked with an awl and they could no longer hear. And since faith cometh by Hearing then it would be impossible to ever receive faith again. But what about when the Word that we are supposed to have faith for has already taken place. Brother Branham told us that God interprets His Word by bringing it to pass. And if the word comes to pass, then we no longer have to have faith for it. Because “Faith is the evidence of things not yet seen.”

We talk about not having faith for a Rapture and yet we are in the Rapture. Then what Faith do you need when you are in the very thing that Faith looks for. When it comes, you no longer need Faith to look forward, but you must simply receive what is there. We know that the Rapture is in three parts, correct?. The first is what? A Shout, which we know is the Message. The next is the Voice which is the resurrection, and finally the third phase is the Trumpet which is the catching away or going home.

Now, has the Shout gone forth? Then what faith do you need. It has already happened. Then if the Shout is the First portion of a series of events called the Rapture, and you have already entered into it, then you are already in the process called the Rapture. This so called Rapturing Faith the people are looking for is nothing other than being able to see what God is already doing. Open your eyes, people. He is here. That is all you should be looking at. The One who promised the Rapture is already here performing it.

What Faith did Noah need to enter into His Ark. The Faith that Noah had was in building the Ark. It didn’t take any faith to enter into it. It was there, it was a reality to him. That is not Faith. And we are now in the Shout. It is a reality to us. So “just walk ye in it”. The Ark was there, “So Noah just walked in it.” And then what happened. Did Noah have to have Faith to bring on the judgments? NO! He saw the Judgments were already in the Land, because of the hardness of the peoples hearts to His Message. All he had to do was to get His family to come in with him into the Ark where alone there would be safety. The rest was up to God.

Can your faith bring on the Voice and the Trumpet of God? No! You are in the Ark if you are in the Shout! “Just walk ye in it, live in it until the judgments are over as Noah did with his family.”

Now if they can not repent, then where are we at? [Hebrews 6:1-4]

[This Day This Scripture is Fulfilled 65-0219]

“ What a perfect example it is of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When It's preached, the acceptable time and the time of Jubilee, anybody, no matter who you are, what color you are, what denomination you belong to, how far you've stooped in sin, or what's wrong with you, you can go free when you hear the--God's Gospel trumpet sound out. You are free. But if you turn your back upon the Message and refuse to hear It, notice, you were bored in the ear with an awl. That means to say, that you have crossed the line between grace and judgment and you will never hear the Gospel again. You'll never get any further; you must be a slave to the system you're in the rest of your days, if you refuse to hear the acceptable year.

[Choosing of a Bride 65-0429E]

“Remember, when the jubilee year come, and the priest rode with his trumpet sounding, that every slave could go free; but if they refused to accept their freedom, then he had to be taken to the temple to a post, and an awl bored him through the ear, and then he served his master always. And it's put on his ear as a type of hearing. Faith cometh by hearing. He heard that trumpet, but he didn't want to listen to it. And many times men and women hear God's truth and see it vindicated and proven truth, but yet they don't want to hear it. There's some other reason. There's some other choosing that they have than to face up to truth and facts. Therefore, their ears can be closed to the Gospel. They'll never hear it again. My advice to you, when God speaks to your heart, you act right then. Elijah gave them a choice which they should, "Choose you this day whom you shall serve. If God be God, serve Him; but if Baal be God, serve him."

Now then what have we got when they refuse to hear the truth of the Message, that God Himself has come down. We have already received by God’s Grace, His Divine Appearing. He is here and they still do not believe who is here. They would rather have their big churches with a thousand people. Oh, yes, 1,000 people and they think that is of God. When the Scripture plainly tells us “many more are the children of the harlot than she which has a husband.” [Gal 4:27] (read)

I’ve seen their video’s with their million dollar churches and their choirs that have more people than the average church attendance in the Message. And not only do they have their large choirs, but also they have complete orchestras, or almost complete. More people playing instruments in their church than the average Message church has in the pews. And they call it of God.

Look, I’m not saying this because of any petty jealousy. These are the same men who blasphemed against God’s very presence and now that it is a popular thing to talk about His presence, they preach it and bring in the crowds. Now, look, If it is now a popular thing to preach His Presence, then what changed. And why don’t they want anyone to hear brother Vayle or anyone who associates with Him?

I’ll tell you why? Because even the Catholic church teaches that He is here. But they, Like the Catholic church don’t know who is here. Which Lord has come down? They say the Lamb is here and yet Brother Branham plainly stated that the Lamb is not seen from Revelations Chapter 5 until Revelations Chptr 19.

In REVELATION 5: 6 -7 “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.” So then what happened? What happened to this book that is now opened? In REVELATIONS 10: 1 -3 & 7 " And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a Cloud: and a rainbow was upon His head, and His face was as it were the sun, and His feet as Pillars of Fire: And He had in His hand a little book open: and He set His right foot upon the sea and His left foot on the earth. And He cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when He had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. ... but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the prophets." The first things I wish to point out here is that the mystery of God will be finished when this scene unfolds. In other words, until this scene happens God and Godhead will continue to be a mystery. But, when this happens, then the mystery is done away. Secondly, this scene begins with a descent of this Mighty angel who brother Branham called the angel of the Covenant, none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. From The Breach pg. 74 he says, " And when the seals are broken, ( Rev 5) and the mystery is revealed, down comes the Angel, the Messenger, Christ, setting His foot upon land and upon sea with a rainbow over His Head. Now, remember, this Seventh Angel is on earth at the time of this coming."

Thirdly, you will notice He comes clothed with a cloud and a rainbow over His head. In Life magazine we have a picture of this Cloud which formed His Wig which is part of His clothing and if you hold the picture up to the light, you will see a rainbow over His head because there is a photo of a rainbow on the reverse side of the page and by light we can see the revelation ( rainbow). A wig is an ornament for the head pointing to or bringing the attraction to the head. It also represents a Judge, being a white wig. We see also that His face was so brilliant it shown forth as the very Sun itself. And His feet as the Pillar of Fire. Fourth, He came down with an open book. And then He cried with a loud voice as when a lion roareth. And Fifth, we find this happening at the time when the seventh angel is here on earth. Now let's just examine these five points.

The scene begins by a descent. So Who came down if Jesus took the book and then sat down. Brother Branham said from, THE FIRST SEAL 63-0318, "Notice now, the Holy Spirit and the revelation and Christ is: the Holy Spirit is Christ in another form. That's right. Notice, it is a Lamb that opened the Book, and the Lamb is Christ; and Christ is not seen anymore from then, but He is seen in the Book of Revelation, the 19th chapter, coming on a white horse Now keep this in mind because brother Branham said, that the lamb is not seen again until Revelations 19. Again we find in pg. 25 of SOULS IN PRISON He said, "And John looked to see a Lion, and what did he find?--a Lamb, and it was a bloody Lamb. A Lamb that had been slain. How long?--since the foundation of the world. The Lamb came forth, walked up to Him that had the Book in His right hand, and received the Book. Climbed upon the Throne and sat down. That's it. It was over. When?--when the seals was revealed. And again in, [pp. 34 Who Do You Say This IS]? "John, looking to see a--a lion, he saw a Lamb that had been slain, a bloody Lamb come forth and took the Book, climbed upon a Throne and set down. "

So we see here that the Lamb took the book in Chapter 5 ( He opened the book and then He went and climbed up and sat down on the Fathers Throne. Now, remember, If we do not see the Lamb which is the body from chapter 5 until 19, because He is on the throne, then Who came down in Revelations chapter 10? I believe it is the same one we see in 1 THESSALONIANS 4: 15 - 18 which tells us that the Lord Himself shall descend with a shout of which brother Branham said, "the shout is a Message going forth". So which Lord came down? "The Lord said unto My Lord." So then, which one came down? Which one are we speaking of Here? The Father or the Son? Our answer is in verse 14. 1 Thessalonians 4: 14

“Even so they which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.” Now, is this telling us God brings with Jesus or is it saying God brings with Himself.?

Remember, in Revelations chapter 10 we are told that when this mighty Angel which brother Branham called Christ in the form of the Holy Spirit comes down, notice He comes with a loud voice which is a shout. And this Loud voice sounds like a lion. We find over in the Book of Amos that this is the voice of God Himself. Amos 3: 7 - 8 " Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret ( Mystery) unto His servants the prophets. The Lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophecy" So we see the scripture tell us that it is the Voice of God that comes forth in the shout with a loud voice. And this loud voice sounds like the roar of a lion, bringing fear to all who hear it and yet it is also a prophetic voice as stated here in the book of Amos. So by now we must understand that it is God Himself and not the Son of God who comes at this time to Reveal the Mystery of Himself. That is where so many have fallen short in this Message. They do not know who has come down. And that is because they do not understand Godhead. You ask them who came down, and they will tell you the Lamb. But the Lamb is on the throne until He is again seen in Revelations chapter 19. So who came down? You will find the answer in Ephesians chapter one as well. It is “The Father of Glory”.

Paul told us that it is God who will come. Ephesians 1: 17 - 20 "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give unto you the Spirit of Wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Himself So that your eyes may be enlightened and you may know what His expectations of His calling are and what His exceeding greatness of His power is toward us who believe.."

From Seventy Weeks of Daniel he said, " The Spirit of Wisdom comes in to the church to make known to the church by the revelation of the Holy Ghost bringing the church in and revealing what day that we are living in. Just as Gabriel came to Daniel, the Holy Spirit comes to the church in the last days to reveal these great deep secret things." So we see God comes with the Spirit of Adoption and let’s us know that it is He Who has come because He is the Same One Who raised up Jesus. In 2 Thessalonians 2 : we see that God’s Holy Spirit is holding down the lawlessness until He departs and when He departs the earth He will take us with Him in a Rapture. From 161-3 THE FIRST SEAL brother Branham said, " You can't crown a spirit,..., and when this Holy Spirit that we have, becomes incarnate to us, the One that is in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us in the Person of Jesus Christ, we will crown Him King of Kings...?... That's right. See?" So then Revelations 10 is not speaking of the Body that comes down, which is the Second Coming. It is not the Lamb, it is the Holy Ghost Himself which the scriptures refer to as the Appearing. From the MESSAGE of GRACE, pg. 30 he said, "There’s only one thing different in Him being here this morning than He was amongst the people at Galilee, that would be His own body of flesh, His corporal body; because that was raised up (you believe that?) set’s at the right hand of the majesty on high, ever living to make intercessions for our confessions.

Now, I would like to ask you this. If The fullness of the Godhead has come down, then by what means is He ever Living? By what Life is He ever Living? I was asked this question back n 1981 by a brother who came into the understanding of Christ’s Presence and he asked me this question. “ If the Fullness of God is here now, then is the body of Jesus Lifeless laying there on the throne of God?” I had never been asked a question like that, but something inside of me said, “ask Him how Jesus went to the Cross if The Spirit of God left Him in Gethsemane?” So I asked Him this, I said, “I will answer that if you can tell me how Jesus got to the cross from the Garden when brother Branham said, The Holy Spirit left Him in Gethsemane. And I said, " Tell me, from birth to age thirty when He was baptized, and from the garden to the cross, by what Spirit did he live if God did not enter Him until He was baptized and left Him in Gethsemane?" In the Message, ELISHA THE PROPHET 56-1002.2E, brother Branham said, "And Jesus, the baptism He had was the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which was in Him, that come on Him at the river Jordan after He was baptized in water. John bare record; he seen the Spirit of God like a dove coming upon Him. And notice. Then when he went up, he sent back the same robe that he was wrapped in: the Holy Ghost upon the Church. And in the message, MANIFESTED SONS OF GOD 60-0518 He said, " In the Garden of Gethsemane, the anointing left Him, you know, He had to die as a sinner.

He died a sinner, you know that; not His sins, but mine and yours. Also from, THE RISING OF THE SUN 65-04 He said, " When God looked down upon the body... ( The Spirit left Him in the Garden of Gethsemane; He had to die a man.) Remember friends, He didn't have to do that. That was God. God anointed that flesh, which was human flesh, and He didn't have... If He'd went up there as God, He'd have never died that kind of death; can't kill God. These things are not mysterious to us! There are no more mysteries. The Mysteries have been finished. Peter told us that when the Word comes to pass before our very eyes, then we have a more sure word. The Word of God has been made sure because we are not looking at what is to come, but what has already come.

Brother Branham told Brother Vayle in the Audio letter, He said, Audio letter to Lee Vayle 64-0500 Would it be, you think, advisable in here, to say that God then, in order to--to proclaim this, has to send a prophet in order to inject this, make this real again, show the people the hour we're living in? Because if they only see it in the hour past, then there's no hope for the church. The church must see it in the present tense. So God sends His prophet to manifest, present tense of it. You see? And then, after it's over, then history is.

219 ANOINTED.ONES.AT.END.TIME 65-0725M Moses said, "Now, the Lord God will speak to me, and show me, and has told me what to do, and I'll tell you." Said, "I AM sent me." I AM, not I was, or will be, I AM, present tense, the Word now. Not the Word that was, the Word that will come, the Word that's now. See? You get it? "I AM..." I AM is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God." Is that right? "I AM..." "God sent me as His prophet to vindicate this to be true: 'I AM the answer to this Word.' Told me to come down here and do this."

262 GOD'S.ONLY.PROVIDED.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP SHP.LA V-7 N-4 65-1128M The Lutherans, under justification, the feet, raised it like that; Wesley, under sanctification. The Pentecostals under the arms, the works and deeds and so forth, had to be Calvinists... or had to be Arminian, had to be legalists. But now we come to the head, the capstone. "Grace. Grace." the capstone cried. The headstone crying what? "Grace. Grace." Passed from death and creed into a living Word of the living God. God's only provided plan for His age, His sons in the Word age quickened by the Spirit like a spark that's lit off of something to make it alive; and seated now in heavenly places in present tense, already alive and subject to every promise in the Word. Then what does that do? You being a part of God's gene, a part of the Word, other men a part of God's Word, seated together, manifest the entire Body of Christ, because there's no leaven among you. (See what He's talking about, Brother Brown?) No leaven among you, just the Word only, seated in heavenly places in the door where He put His Name: Christ Jesus. 264 No leaven among you, that brings the entire Fulness of the Godhead bodily among you. Couldn't do it in Luther's age, couldn't do it in Wesley's age, couldn't do it in the Pentecostal age; but in the day when the Son of man will be manifested, revealed, brought back the church together with the entire Deity of God amongst His people, showing the same visible signs, manifesting Himself like He did at the beginning when He was manifested on earth in a form of a Prophet God (Oh, Glory.) promised by Malachi 4, promised by the rest of the Scriptures. Where you worship at? The house of God, seated, in present tense.

E-111 IDENTIFICATION PHOENIX.AZ 63-0123 He's not a dead founder like Mohammed, or--or Buddha, or some other of the cults. He's a living, present tense now, resurrected Jesus. He's alive forevermore and can never die no more, and has give to us Eternal Life, and has presented Himself among us, and we, Lord, reflecting His grace to others. Help us, Father, as You've promised in the last days what would happen, just like it was in the days of Lot.

E-78 ABSOLUTE.AN PHOENIX.AZ 63-0127 Moses had that Absolute. Paul had the same Absolute, the same Pillar of Fire, the same Holy Spirit, the same God, not the "I was," or "I will be," the "I AM," uh-huh, present tense, always.

1 SUPER.SIGN SHREVEPORT.LA V-17 N-7 63-1129 Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we're grateful to Thee tonight, that Thou art still the great I AM, not the "I was" or "will be." You're present tense, our God. And You're the same yesterday, today, and forever, the unchangeable God. We thank Thee because that we have this privilege of knowing this, that's been revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. And He has sealed us into the Kingdom of God with Him by the Token that He left us. We're so grateful for It. Bless us, tonight, as we wait on You. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. (May be seated.)

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12-3 EASTER.SEAL PHOENIX.AZ V-2 N-6 65-0410 There was thousands there that had--obeying the hour past, but there was a present tense hour. That was the hour that Jesus was to appear, and there stood the Word. There stood the people, and here was a manifestation of God taking place to a vindicate that that was the truth. And as Pentecostal people today, let me say this: That we're standing in this last days where God promised He'd would pour out His Spirit upon all flesh, .....16-1 See, but he that understandeth, he that knoweth his place in this hour... "He that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent Me hath (present tense) Eternal Life, shall not come into the judgment, but's already passed from death unto Life."