Christ Revealed in His Own Word #76
Twins
from the Beginning
Sunday, February 9, 1997
Brian Kocourek,
Pastor Grace Fellowship
[Psalm 1: 1-3] Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the
scornful. 2 But his delight is in the
law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also
shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
[Matt 7:16-20] 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
From the Message, Anointed Ones at the End-Time, PP 59,
Brother Branham said, “and what is the fruit? It is the teaching of the season.”
[Luke 12:37-48] Blessed are those
servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto
you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come
forth and serve them. 38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in
the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. 39 And this
know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would
come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken
through. 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour
when ye think not. 41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this
parable unto us, or even to all? 42 And the Lord said, Who then is that
faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household,
to give them their portion of meat in due season? 43 Blessed is that servant,
whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. 44 Of a truth I say unto you,
that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. 45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his
coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and
drink, and to be drunken; 46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when
he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him
in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47 And that servant, which knew his lord's
will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be
beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy
of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is
given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of
him they will ask the more.
Prayer...
Wednesday evening we
read from various Scripture showing you
the characteristics that distinguish the difference between the righteous and
the wicked, and we found that the righteous are aware of the season in which they
live and produce fruit accordingly, whereas the wicked neither produce
fruit, or the fruit they do produce
comes forth in the wrong season. And we
know by vindication that the fruit
is the teaching of the season. So we can see the importance of being aware of
what season we are in and having an awareness of the seasonal teaching. Notice as we read from [Matt 7:19] 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn
down, and cast into the fire.
[Leviticus 26:4] Then I will give
you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of
the field shall yield their fruit.
73 Now, you must not misinterpret the Word.
You say, "Well, I believe It means this." It means just what it says.
It needs no interpreter. And you must not misplace the Word. And you must not
dislocate the Word. And if we would do either of these, it throws the whole
Bible in a confusion and in a chaos.
75 And if you say
that a certain thing, you put an interpretation on It, and you apply It to another time or It's been applied to
another time, you also make an incorrect interpreting.
81 To
dislocate the Scriptures, you might put His body together wrong, the foot where
the head should be or something. In other words, you might have Jesus teaching
Moses' message. You might have--or even Wesley teaching Luther's age. You
might have now, our age teaching
Pentecost, the Pentecostal message. You see what a mess it would be in?
Pentecost has already showed its colors. Luther's already showed his: went off
into denomination; it died right there. The
age struck; there it went.
82 Notice, just as soon as it was organized, it died.
Now, just see if that isn't right. Look back through the pages of history. Every time it organized it died right there;
there never was no more to it. It become a worshipper
of the god of this world. It went off into organisms, and organizations,
and denominations, and illusions. A
bunch of Rickys got into there and put their own objections into it, or injected their own thoughts, rather,
into it. And what did it happen? It become a mess. Going to head up in the god of this world where they'll throne Satan
himself, thinking that they're having a great world leader to bring them
peace.
83 I told you the other day; I say it again;
that even civilization itself today is absolutely contrary to God. Civilization is contrary to God. Education
is a million miles from Him. Science is a million miles. Science and education is trying to disprove
God (See?) through theological seminaries, and schools, and rooms of
science, and so forth. They've had their shake. How about the vision the other
night of the man when he screamed to those scientists down there pouring that
stuff in like that. They just turned, and looked up, and went on. There'll be
one more ride.
84 Notice. Oh, these three musts, must be. Now, you cannot... Jesus didn't come preaching
Noah's message. He didn't come
preaching Moses' message, or Moses didn't come preaching... See, don't
mislocate the Scripture. It's got to be
in the time. (So we see the first principle
that brings misinterpretation is to
misplace the Scriptures. He said,) “When every Scripture in the Bible has the
same application, you got to set It in It's place. And
to misplace It you might make Him God in one age, and the
next age you'd make Him a history:
to misplace It. So you mustn't misplace the Scripture. He's God all the time.” (The
Second principle that brings misinterpretation, is dislocating the
Scriptures, which he tells us is looking at the word for the wrong age, and not knowing that you are doing this.
Here he illustrates this by saying,) “To
dislocate the Scriptures, you might put His body together wrong, the foot where
the head should be or something. Just the same as a... In other words, you
might have Jesus teaching Moses' message. You might have--or even Wesley
teaching Luther's age. You might have now, our age teaching Pentecost, the
Pentecostal message.” (Now, the third principle, or the 3rd must not, is actually the most
important of the three and that is to misinterpret the Word. And we find
brother Branham telling us that to mis-interpret the Word is to add your own
thoughts to It, when your thoughts are contrary.) “You must not misinterpret the Word. You say, "Well, I believe It means
this." It means just what it says. It needs no interpreter.”
Now we have been utilizing
these thoughts of brother Branham’s in showing you that to Misplace the
Scripture is to not hold to It’s continuity, and thereby you will bring forth a
misinterpretation. To Dislocate the scripture is to do the same by not applying
it to the proper season for which it was spoken, this too will lead to
misinterpretation, and to misinterpret the Word mean to place another
interpretation to it other than the correct one. That is why we are told “they
that wait upon the Lord shall receive the promise.” Because God interprets His
Word by bringing it to pass. And to put your own interpretation to it is the
very first sin that ever took place, and it was committed by Lucifer in heaven
way before the world began.
He said, Now, you must not misinterpret the Word.
You say, "Well, I believe It means this." It means just what it says.
It needs no interpreter. And you must not misplace the Word. And you must not
dislocate the Word. And if we would do either of these, it throws the whole
Bible in a confusion and in a chaos. And so we see that Chaos is the
result of this Misinterpreting of the word.
Now this morning we are
going to look at this introduction of chaos and confusion that came back in the
beginning and we will see for ourselves just how it entered into the world.
Now we have read about the
Complete Seed that is to bring forth a Complete body. Then what can we call
this other seed that brings forth a corrupt Tree? I guess it is either a
corrupt seed or an incomplete seed. And
we know according to [1 Peter 1:23] That the Word of God is
incorruptible Life whereas the other seed, or the words of another is
corruptible life. (read) Therefore, in looking at these two seeds, we will be
examining Words; God’s Word first of all, and then the original deviation to
His Word which came forth from a cherub named Lucifer.
Now, in order to do so,
let’s look at these two seeds, the corruptible one and the incorruptible one in
a more mature form, for Jesus told us in [Matt 7:20] that you will know them by their
fruits. And we know that a seed does not have fruit. The fruit is their but not
manifested yet. So we must see the seed in it’s manifested form in order to
examine it’s fruit. And since we are speaking of fruit, we automatically think
of trees from which fruit is grown. Therefore, I would like to begin our
comparisons of the two trees. The corruptible and incorruptible trees. To
begin, let’ look at this saying of Jesus again in [Matt 7:16-20] Here we see that we are to be able to
identify a good tree versus a corrupt tree by examining their fruits which we
know is the there teaching for the season.
Now let’s look at this word
corrupt for starters. It comes from a Greek word, sapros which means rotten or
putrified. To rot off, to be Worn out and no longer fit for use, and in [Matt 13:47-50]
we see what is done to those who are of this nature. (read)
Now in [Malachi 3:6] and [Hebrews 13:8] we read that God does
not change, and is the same yesterday, today and forever. Then if God is the
same, He must act the same today as he did yesterday, is that right? And so if
we want to find out who and where this corrupt nature comes from we only have
to look back to the beginning to get our answer. For surely Jesus told us that
at the end-time those who are corrupt will be cast out from the kingdom of God
and all we need to do then is to find out if any have been cast out from the
kingdom of God before and we will know what seed those at the end-time have
their source in.
[Gen
1:11] Therefore we see God lay out a principle, that every
seed shall bring forth after it’s own kind, which means it’s own nature. Now
notice that he is speaking of trees bearing fruit here. [verse 12]. Now I want you to know
that at this point although the scripture tells us that the earth brought forth
these trees, it was at this point only in spirit form. The Logos Zoe Life that
God Spoke, for His Words are Life. In [Gen 1:26 -29] Now
by this time we see God also create man, yet we know that man was still at this
point a spirit being made in the image of God Who is Spirit.
It isn’t until chapter 2
that we see God begin to cloth every spoken Word with the dust of the earth
giving all seeds and life a form and body. [Gen 2:4-5] Notice that in verse 5 we
are told that all these things were already considered plants and Herb’s even
before they were placed in the earth. In verse 8 we see God finally plant these
Word seeds in the earth. Now when we get to verse 9 we hear God speak about the
trees. All the tress for looking at and for food were in the ground. But then
we hear about two other trees.
These two Trees are not said
to have come out of the ground, but are there. Now we know who these two tress
are. One is referred to as the Tree of Life which we know is Christ. The other
is the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which we know is Satan.
Now the question is how and
why were Christ and Satan in this garden? we know that they were both heavenly
beings, not earthly beings. Yet why were they there? To find our answer we must
go back to the beginning before God planted this garden in Eden.
[Job 38:4-7] Now here we find a clew
as to the fact that we (Sons of God) are Eternal beings. As Jesus said to Him,
in [John 17:5]
and as we see of ourselves in [Acts 17:28] and [Romans 8:29-30]
Now here in lies the
problem. Those who will ever receive Eternal Life had to have come forth from the
Life of God or they can never express Eternal Life for every Seed must bring
forth after It’s own kind or nature, and since we know that Jesus taught us
that His Words are Spirit and they are Life [John 6:63],
then we know that we had to have been in God to begin with as sons. And as I
said, then here lies the problem. There were two trees in the garden. One was
the Tree of Life and the other was the tree which if eaten brought forth death.
So we can say then that there were two trees, a good one which can only bring
froth good fruit and a corrupt one which can only bring forth corruption.
[Rev 12:3-11] Here we see a few more
attributes of this originator of the corrupt seed. #1) In verse 3 we see that his tail drew a third of the stars.
Secondly we are told who this dragon is, he is called the devil or Satan,
and he is also called a deceiver in
verse 9. #3) Finally we see that there was a battle in heaven first, and it was
with Michael.
Now let’s look at these
three points.
#1) This one is called a “deceiver” and he “drew” with his “tail” a
third of the stars.
A) Deceiver: Planao = to go astray. to err, to lead away from
he truth [Matt
24:4,5,11,24]
[2 Tim 3:13] [Hebrews
3:10] [2 Peter 2:15] [1 John 3:7] [Eph 4:14] [2 Thes 2:11]
B) Drew: Suro is a
Greek word used of a net. [John 21:8] The
Gospel net is a type of casting the
word upon
the seas of humanity, and Jesus tells us the parable of this when he
says that the
corrupt stuff will be cast out.
C) Tail [Isa 9:15]
So we see here that it was the tale that Satan told. Then it was by what he
said.
D) Stars: [Job 38:7] [Psalms 148:3],
[Isa 14:13]
And so the picture we have
is that Satan came forth and actually was a preacher in heaven. Did you know
that? from PP. [77 God of this Evil Age ] Notice, Satan not called the god of any other age but this age. It
was his ambition to be like God from the very beginning. Let's read that.
We'll just take our time. Let's go back... Let's see; I got it wrote down,
Isaiah 14. Let's go back here to Isaiah 14 just a minute and see what God said
the god--what Satan did: Isaiah 14:12 and 14. Notice. How art thou falling from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
how art thou cast down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will
ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:... (Sons
of God, now)... and I will set also upon the mount of the congregation, in
the sides of the north: It was Satan's
ambition to be worshipped like God. He took two-thirds--two-thirds of the
stars of heaven, ascended hisself above
those stars, and preached to them, and deceived two-thirds of them. You see it? All right. Notice,
that's his ambition. And now he is ready with his careful selected, educated
bride by his own knowledge (See?), all painted up in his deceit of big
buildings, and big denominations, and paints of knowledge, and theology, and
smart, and intellectual, and educated, to deceive the whole world and become a
god (That's what he's done.), all heading up into the person of the antichrist,
which is already crowned the vicar of God by his worldly-loving, scientific
bride, all dressed up in pomp of intellectual, religious education. She is made
religious like him, and by his own
interpretation of the Word of God as he did Eve, and as his son Cain did. ... Notice
what he will do, his thoughts. He
thought God dwelled in worldly beauty. He did that in heaven.
Sin never begin in the garden of Eden; it begin in heaven
when Lucifer, the son of the morning, exalted himself in beauty and wanted a
more beautiful kingdom than that of Michael. And he thought that God dwelled in
beauty. And notice Cain. He didn't want no blood sacrifice. He come down and
offered the fruit or the fields of beauty upon his altar. Very religious, done everything that, just exactly like Abel done, offered a sacrifice, fell down before God
in worship, obedient in every way, but without the revelation of the Word.
And the Word was from the beginning,
God's plan. But God revealed by revelation the very thing that He
vindicated and punctuated that that was right: not religion, not an altar, not belonging to church, not making a
sacrifice, not being sincere, but by the revelation of the Word of God,...
In [Isaiah 14:12-14] we see Lucifer
doing his boasting of himself and how he wanted to take a situation where God
had exalted him to a place that he exalted himself. He wanted to be like the
most high. He got puffed up.
(God)
/
Son Christ (Logos)
/ \
(Sons in Him)
=================================CREATION================
\
Lucifer Son of the Morning, the
Dawn of beginning
The anointed cherub whom God set as so.
CHERUBIMS
SERAPHIMS
ANGELS
E-40 SHOW US THE
FATHER 54-0811
Everything that God
was, was put into Jesus Christ. He was co-equal
with the Father. Is that right? Think it not robbery, but He was equal with the
Father.
E-36 BEGINNING
ENDING GENTILE DISPENSATION 55-0109E
"And at that
time Michael shall stand, the great prince." Michael was Christ, of course, Who fought the angelic wars in
heaven with the devil. Satan and Michael
fought together, or fought against each other, rather. And now... And at
that time," He said, "as many was found written in the book was
delivered, and those who had done righteous..." Watch at this.
E-12 GOD'S SERVANT JOB 55-0223
But God putting Satan almost co-equal with Him,
Satan taking the things of God and perverted them into the evil thoughts, and
through there began to pervert things into evil instead of good. And God,
as soon as the first thing was done, out of His great treasure chest of love,
He had a plan of redemption, that quick.
E-13 Now, I believe that the... I do not believe
that Satan is a creator. I believe that Satan is a perverter, but not a creator,
'cause God is the only One Who can create. And in the beginning when he become a co-partner to God, the son of the
morning, and so forth, when he walked up-and-down a fiery brimstone, and so
forth, that when Satan perverted good to
evil, you know pervert to do anything.
[Ezek 28:11-19] Herein lies the wonder of it all. Lucifer
was the first creation of God. He was anointed by God. Anointed = mim-shakh to anoint, in the sense
of expansion. In other words God gave him an elevated place. And what did he
cover? The Mercy seat. [Exodus 25:18,19,22]. Now we know that Moses saw
this Mercy seat in a vision which showed the way it had been in heaven. [Hebrews 8:5]
which is [Exodus
25:40]
Notice further that this
Lucifer was full of Brightness = yiphah, splendor, shining, brightness. this
word is taken from the root of the word which describes God’s Shining forth. [Psalm 50:2] & [Psalm 102:4] and here we see Satan as a bright and
shining light as well.
[2 Cor 11: 13-15]
[Luke
10:18]
E-17 SEAL OF THE
ANTICHRIST 55-0311 If you'll notice,
just about the time that Jesus came on the scene, Judas came on the scene, the
antichrist, the one was against Christ. I want you to notice the natures of
these spirits now. Judas, was a religious man. He was not an infidel. And all
of us know that he was the antichrist. He worked the very closest hand to
Christ, His right hand man. Did you know
that in heaven, that the Devil was God's right hand man in the beginning, that
Lucifer, the son of the morning, was given
power? And the reason that he brought sin into the world, he was able to take something that God had
created, and pervert it back into an evil thing, which started all this
trouble in the beginning. Then God, back before the foundation of the world was
ever laid, when He seen what Satan done... In his pride went over in the north,
and set up a kingdom, and fought against Michael and his Angels... Do you see
it?
PP. 18 The right hand man of Almighty
God was Lucifer, the son of the morning. The first, God granted him almost
co-workers with Him; he was a co-worker, partly equal with Him; only Satan
could not create. God is the only Creator, but Satan took something that
God created and perverted it back into something else, evil. And now notice,
when Cain and Abel, a very beautiful picture of it... Cain and Abel was nothing
more than the prefigure of Judas and Jesus.
E-28 LAMB AND THE DOVE 57-0325 And the Holy Spirit falls into a meeting, and
sometimes the believer and unbeliever
worship by the same Spirit; but the fruit of the Spirit proves what you are
(Uh-huh.), not the reaction of the Spirit,... and the fruit of the Spirit is not outward demonstrations; it's an inward
work of grace; love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, faith, meekness,
gentleness, patience; there you are.
379-85 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS COD 59-0628E Ezekiel
28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation
unto the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus Saith the Lord GOD;... (Now,
watch; He's speaking to the spirit in the king. See?)... Thus Saith the Lord
GOD; Thou sealest up the sun, full of wisdom,... perfect in beauty. (Satan, see
there how Satan was the most beautiful
of the archangels?)
E-39 QUEEN OF SHEBA 60-0710 You know, great bright things is what blinds
the eyes of the people. Eve was looking for a new light; she got it. The Bible said in the last days that
"The devils would be... turn themselves into ministers of light."
Look at the very first sin was ever performed, was Satan wanted a greater, a brighter kingdom--a great thing--and
went over in the north and set his own kingdom up to outshines Michael. It's
always those bright things.
E-21 SEAL OF
GOD 61-0216 Adam was the son of
God. Bible said so. Then where did that jealousy come from? Where did that
murderer come from? Where did all that kind of a spirit come from? Out of Adam?
Couldn't have. Come from Satan. It's exactly where it come from. Now, we find out he was the first murderer.
And he was the first one to have jealousy. And Lucifer got jealous of Michael, brought it right down to the earth
and transferred it into man. And Satan... Cain by taking on this evil, took the
first mark. God marked him. No one was to kill him. Let him alone. But you remember, as soon as He marked
him, he went out from the Presence of God. Hold onto that now.
58-172 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS COD 64-0823M Satan was the most beautiful angel. He was a
cherubim that overshadowed. 17-5
1132-319 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COD
64-0830M Now, if you notice it's always been twins
all along. There was... Cain and Abel were twins, and Esau and Jacob were
twins. Jesus and Judas come out of the same tribe and in the same church. And
the--even the Holy Spirit and the antichrist
is to be twins, so close that would deceive the very elected if possible.
Have you got it? All right.
MARRIAGE AND
DIVORCE V-3 N-13 65-0221M
Did you know Satan was co-equal with God one day? Sure was, all but a creator;
he was everything, stood at the right hand of God in the heavens, a great
leading cherubim.