Christ Revealed in His Own Word #112

Who is This Melchesidec #2

Sunday, June 22, 1997

Brian Kocourek, Pastor Grace Fellowship

This morning we shall continue with Christ Revealed in His Own Word, and we shall read from paragraph 139 where we left off on Wednesday night where we began to really examine and hone into the Revelation of Christ and how He came to this earth and manifested Himself in flesh at various different times. The next few paragraphs look very closely at the subject of Godhead and it is virtually impossible to understand His Presence among us; Who is present, and Why He is Present?, without understanding the Godhead. So let’s begin this morning at paragraph number 139.

[139] I just want to let you see a little something here if you can stand it. Watch. When Jesus was manifested in the Old Testament as we believe it... Now, you preachers out there, you can argue with it, do whatever you want to, but I'm talking from my, what I think. See? When Jesus was manifested in the Old Testament in a theophany, in the Person of Melchisedec, not a priesthood, but the Person, the Man... See? For this Man had yet not been born, but He was in a theophany so He had no father, no mother. He was God Himself. He was manifested in the form of a Man called King of Salem, which is King of Peace and King of Righteousness. See? He was Melchisedec. He had neither father nor mother, beginning of days of ending of life. See? It was Jesus in a theophany in the form of a man. Could you go that? All right.

Now, before we read any further, what Brother Branham is clueing us into is the state of Eternity where nothing ever changes. You see, there is but one form of Eternity and that is Eternal Life. And there is but one source for eternal Life, and that Life comes from God, the Father and then down through His Son, Christ Jesus the Word. [John 5:24-26&21& 6:63]. So in these scriptures you can see how important the Word of God is, for without it you could never be quickened by God Life. [1 Peter 1:23 & James 1:18 1 Thes 2:13 & 2 Thes 2:13] Then if we are born again by the Word which is a seed, that seed must also have a body assigned to it as we see in [1 Cor 15:35-44].

Now, it is apparent by scripture that the Son on His own is not the one who quickens the dead, but it is God, as Father who quickens back to life through His Son, as we read in [Romans 4:17 & 1 Tim 6:13] Because after all, Jesus said, in [John 5:19 & 30 & 7:16-18] That the Son can of His own self do nothing, but is completely dependent upon the Father even to the point of what doctrine or teaching He was to speak... (read) and since the Life is in the Spirit which is in the Word, therefore it would have to be the Word of the Father that the Son would speak in order to raise the dead. Then the Power is not in the Son, but in the Word which the Son speaketh. [Romans 8:11 & 2 Cor 4:14]. Now this verse does not tell us that it is Jesus that will raise us up, no more than Jesus Himself had power of Himself to raise up Lazarus from the Grave. But it was the Word of the Father which Jesus was obedient to speak that rose up Lazarus from the Grave. Remember, it was God in Christ that was reconciling the world back to Himself. So we see the aspect of God working in and through His Son. Because after all, if Jesus claimed that on His own He could do nothing, then, it could not have been His Power, but the power of God that was in Him that raised up Lazarus.

In [2 Cor 4:14] we read : Knowing that He that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. This word by does not suggest that Jesus will raise you up, but the one who raised Him shall also raise you to be by or with Him, as we see in the Amplified Translation : Assured that He Who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and bring us along with you into His Presence. We also read it this way from the Weymouth Translation: For we know that He Who raised up the Lord Jesus from the dead will raise us also to be with Jesus, and will cause both us, and you to stand in His Presence. Now, we could read further from the NIV and the Wuest Translation and others as well, and we would find the same sort of wording here. That it is not by as though Jesus is the one doing the raising, but the word by is used here as a being by or near or with him, where we shall be brought by the Father into His Presence and there shall we ever be with the Lord Jesus Himself. And that is exactly what we hear Paul tell us in [1 Thes 4: 14] (read) Notice here that God will bring them with Jesus at the last Trump. Then he says in verse 17, “ and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

Now, to this point we have shown that everything that was in the Son pertaining to actions and speech were handed down from the Father to the Son. Even to the point of the Life that was in the Father was also given to the Son. So then when we see Jesus, we actually see the Father in Manifestation.

But do not ever forget that the Son is not the Father, as the Oneness would have you to believe. He was a separate individual, and yet His Life, His Doctrine, even His Actions came from the Father. But remember, there is one Mediator between God and Man and that is the Man Jesus Christ, and as any many He has a Body terrestrial and a body celestial, which brother Branham likes to call it the Theophanic body. Yet we also know that God was in Christ reconciling the World to Himself, and that God entered into the Son without Measure when He was being baptized in the Jordan by John Whom saw the heavens open up and the Spirit of God descended in the shape of a Dove and Abode in Him and John heard a Voice saying, This is My beloved Son IN Whom I am pleased to dwell.”

Then according to Brother Branham this Fullness of the Spirit of God left Him in Gethsemane and we Hear Jesus Crying out, My God! My God! Why hast Thou forsaken Me? And if you look up this word, Forsaken you will see that it means to totally abandon. So we see that God had to leave Him that He might die for our atonement. Other wise how could He who knew no sin become sin that we might become the very righteousness of God. Now, then question of this One who came into flesh to die in the flesh, the question is then, If God left Him to die alone, then by what power and strength, in other words, by what Spirit of life did He walk to the cross? And the answer is simple, although He was not God He was a Son and every Son receives His life from His Father. Therefore, the Life that Jesus had from birth to 30 and then from Gethsemane to the cross was the Life given Him when God placed the egg and Sperm together in Marries womb by the Spoken Word. It was God Life and God Spirit, because it was God’s Word, which is Spirit and Life, yet it was not in the condition at that point of being in it’s fullness.

Look, Adam was given Life and breathe by God in the same manner. Adam was not born of a sexual desire, but God breathed into Him the Breathe of Lives, and He became a living Soul. And remember this Word became here is one which does not mean that he was not and now he is, but although He was, yet there was something in Him that needed to happen first in order for the process of Life to germinate. And in order for something to germinate it has to already have the life in it, but there needs to be a catalyst of some sort to set that life in motion, and as in Adam’s case it was the Breath of God which we know according to [2 Tim 3:16] The Word of God is given by the Inspiration of God which means it is God Breathed, and is the Greek word, Theopneustos which comes from the two words, Theo which Means God, and pneustos which means to breathe. To blow or wind. That is why His presence has been heard as a mighty rushing wind. For when you inspire you are breathing in, and so we see that Adam began to breathe in, or take into Himself the Word of God which is the Spirit and Life of God, which quickened Him in the flesh and brought the Spoken word of God into a manifested form. And as the first Adam came forth from the Spoken Word of God, so too did the second Adam. [1 Cor 15: 45-58]

[141] Then He was made actually human flesh and dwelled among us in the Person of Jesus Christ Himself, born of the virgin Mary. He come in that form so He could die and went back into heaven. Now, in this last days He has promised to manifest Himself in the Fullness again of His flesh in Spirit. See? For as it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. Now, look at the Sodom, how it set, and what taken place, and Jesus Christ being manifested in bodily form of His church today (See?), doing the same things, same work, same things that He did all the time, never changes, the eternal One. See? And upon earth today, He has manifested Himself in the human bodies, our human bodies that He has called, and done exactly the same thing He done in sundry time, and in the times of His flesh upon the earth. And doing the same thing today, because God in sundry times spoke to the fathers through the prophets, in this last days through His Son Jesus Christ (See?), the Son being revealed in the last days, God manifested in human flesh, setting just before Sodom's destruction, the end of the Gentile world. You see it? There's three manifestations.

Now, in order for the setting to be the same as it was before Sodom was burned, the conditions have to be the same and there has to be a people who are waiting on the promised Son to come, and there has to be a visitation of God Himself to those people, in the form of a human, before that Son can come forth. Then there must be a ministry of two angels who are to go down into Sodom and through their ministry the people of Sodom will be blinded, and then the destruction will come. I hope then, by this you will see that this ministry of God veiled in human flesh was not to the people of Sodom, but it was to those who were God’s Chosen and who were waiting for the arrival of the promised Son. I believe we have seen the very fulfillment of this in this hour and we are those people, Sons of Abraham who are longing and waiting for the arrival of the Promised Son, but who also are very well aware of the Presence of the Lord Himself Who veiled Himself to us in Human flesh in this Hour to bring forth the same Message that He brought forth to Abraham back then. It would have to be the same Message if He changes not! Then, can anyone tell me what that Message to Abraham was just before the burning of Sodom? [Gen 18:10] I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of Life; and then your promised son shall arrive!

I hope you can see that He has come again in this hour to tell us the same thing as well. Brothers and Sisters, all we are waiting on is the change of the Body which means resurrection, and the Royal Son to Come forth, and then the destruction of this modern day Sodom will begin. Are you ready? Now, what He did in that day after He delivered that Message was only to vindicate the Message was True. He discerned the very thoughts of Sarah’s heart and we know that a woman in the Bible represents the church. And after He discerned, then He also allowed Abraham to know what His plans were for that hour and the destruction of Sodom that was to follow. Oh, how everything has been repeated just the same right down to the warning, then judgment. Are we waiting, are we ready for the change and the arrival of the promised Son? Have we not witnessed the same God veiled once again in flesh with the same promise? Then all there is left is the fulfillment of the body change and arrival of the promised Son for us and the burning for the Sodomite world.

Notice how brother Branham tells us of the next thing to happen... [142] Now, the next thing happens, is when it's all gathered up into that one Person, Jesus Christ, Bride and Body at the physical return of the Lord Jesus, making His three times when He was brought on earth, killed, crucified, raised up, manifested Hisself in the form of His Body, which is His Bride, the Woman. You get it? She's part of His body. And the woman and man is just so close together, till they're just almost; they are the same; they ought to be anyhow. There they are. See? They're just exactly manifested the same. She's a part of Him, because She was taken out from Him. And the Bride today is taken out from the body of Christ, which is acting and doing just exactly like He said It would do for this day, the Bride, the Queen, King and the Queen. All right. We're getting late now so we're going to have to hurry and get through. All right.

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Now, in the heavens above... Did you notice I'm looking on this, the--the Light on the picture there out of the "Life" Magazine, that the brother that lives here in this home has put on his wall, that triangle of Light. I just happened to run across my mind. If any of you has the Lamsa Bible translation, if you'll notice over the cover of it, is a triune, trinitarian light, a three-cornered light like a halo. And when Dr. Lamsa, a friend, my personal friend, was translating the Bible, that is the old Hebrew symbol of God in the true trinitarian way that He is: not three Gods, but three manifestations of the same God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Light is one complete circle of Light in a triangle shape, which means that God will dwell in three offices, the Fatherhood, Sonship, and Holy Ghost dispensation, all the same God.

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But did you notice before the Seven Seals was revealed, before the great mysterious Light showed forth in the heavens up here at above Tucson, Flagstaff, where we were? Brother Fred, two of the men that was--the two men was with me that morning. When that had been told months and months ahead of time would happen... Both Brother Fred Sothmann and Brother Gene Norman setting here this morning, when it--was there when the blast went off, and not knowing these things would take place.

And He sent me back, said that the time was at hand for these Seven Seals which held the seven mysteries of the entire Bible was sealed in with these Seven Seals. And how these angels down along the road, messengers of the church ages, opened to a certain part of that. But in the seventh hour, the seventh messenger, that all these mysteries should be finished. See? The seventh earthly messenger (See?), this angel that He speaks of then was on earth. A "angel" means "messenger." And then, after that, he saw another Angel coming down, not the earthly angel that had been given the Message here, but the--another mighty Angel came from heaven with a rainbow over Him, and set His foot on the land and sea, and swore by Him that lives forever and ever, "Time shall be no more." See? But before He broke forth on those Seven Seals to reveal them, that He showed miraculous, He showed it first in the heavens.

That day they took pictures all across southern United States and Mexico. There it hangs now in the "Life" magazine, still a mystery to them. But He declares it in the heavens before He does it on earth. He always does that. He shows His signs in the heavens first.

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And even in the zodiac. Now, I'm not going back to teach zodiac, but I'm just showing you the heavens declare it. In the zodiac we find out in the constellations of the stars, that He declared the whole Bible in the constellation of the--of the zodiac. We find out there that He starts off, the very first figure in the zodiac is the virgin, and the last figure in the zodiac is Leo the Lion, showing that Jesus would come first to the earth by a virgin; He'll come the second time as the Lion of the tribe of Juda. See? He goes through the crossed fishes just before that: cancer age, what we're living in now. "And all the heavens declare Him," the Bible said.

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The "Life" magazine packed an article of it, "Mystic circle of light goes up in the air above Tucson and Phoenix" in the same way that I told you nearly a year before it happened, how it would be in a--like a triangle. The picture hangs in the church down there. You that took that magazine has it. There it was just exactly. They said it was twenty-seven miles high and thirty miles across. They don't understand yet what happened. It appeared mysteriously and went away mysteriously. And Brother Fred Sothmann, Brother Gene Norman, and I stand there, three as a witness, like it was up on top of the mountain: Peter, James, and John to give witness; stood there and watched it when it happened and seen it done. There it is, hanging in the sky so far there's no humidity, no moisture, nothing to make a--a fog. How could it come there? It was the Angels of God returning back after their Message. This day that prophecy has been fulfilled in our midst. This day this Scripture has been fulfilled. Watch. Seven Seals has been opened, the whirlwinds to the west coast. Now, don't miss it like they did back yonder. Now, our attention a little closer to our day.

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In Germany they've got a picture, they call it the Cloud picture. It's--it's a competit' to this great picture of the crucifixion at the--at Forest Lawn in Los Angeles (the great picture it's as wide as this building is across; they had to build a building around the picture; many of you have seen it). But this in Germany is called, the Angel--or, "The Cloud Day," I believe it's called. And when you get off from a piece from it and look at it, oh, it looks hideous, looks like angry clouds a- mixing around one another, like that, as the lights reflect on it. And looks like the clouds are moving, as the way the picture is made to reflect the lights, makes it look like the cloud, an angry storm coming to tear up everything. And then you're told by the guide, "Walk closer, and just keep watching it." And when you get real close to it, it isn't clouds, it's Angels' wings a-beating together, rejoicing. It's a blessing in disguisement.

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And now you see this; it's a Light. When the children of Israel was led by the Angel of God through the wilderness, what was it? A Pillar of Fire, is that right? Thirteenth chapter of Exodus. God kept It, in the day time It looked like a white Light, like a cloud. And at night time, It was a Light. Now, that was Christ. How many knows that? Well, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and if He said, "I come from God and I go back to God..." Then when He was here on earth, He was a man in flesh, when He returned back, His corporeal body went into the Presence of God and He turned back to Light. Is that right? If He's the same as He was when He was with Moses. Now, is that Scriptural? When Paul was on his way down to Damascus, what was It struck him down? What did he see? A Light, is that right? And he said, "Why persecutest thou Me?" He said, "Who are You, Lord?" Called the Light, Lord. "Who are You, Lord?" He said, "I'm Jesus." So He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. You see it? Now, He's Spirit now, called the Holy Spirit. The same with God the Father, leading Moses, called God the Father, the three dispensations, Fatherhood, Sonship, and Holy Ghost. See? It's just three offices of the same self God. Tonight His office is here on earth in His Church as the Holy Ghost, God the Holy Ghost. Same God

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For a reading of the Word found in Exodus the 23rd chapter, 20th verse, beginning, God sending His prophet Moses: Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him... obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou will indeed obey his voice... do all that I speak; then will I be an enemy to thy enemies, an adversary to thy adversaries. For my Angel shall go before thee... Moses did nothing. It was the Angel of God. Is that right? What did It look like that led Israel? A Pillar of Fire by night, and a Cloud by day. I believe He's still leading on. We know that was Angel of the covenant. Is that right? It was the Logos or the Christ. He's still the same, leading the people today as He was then.