Christ Revealed in
His Own Word #115
The Evening Lights
Wednesday,
July 2, 1997
Brian Kocourek,
Pastor Grace Fellowship
Tonight we will continue
with “Christ
is Revealed by His Own Word”, and this is number 115 in our series and we shall subtitle this message tonight, “The Evening Lights”.
I would like to begin by
reading from paragraph 144 & 148. [144] God
is revealed in every age by his promised Word to that age. Now, let's just look what some of His promises
is for today while we're closing now in these last words. Now, God is revealing Himself in the evening Light time. Let's
see now. I just got a bunch of Scriptures wrote down here, as you can see on
this page how many Scriptures is written there, but we just got about fifteen
minutes till twelve. [148]
Now, we're going to speak about the evening Lights just for a few
moments. The Bible predicts that there would come a time right at the closing
time, that the sun would come out, and there would be an evening Light. We all know that, don't we? We who are familiar with our message today
from the Lord Jesus, we believe that there'll be a evening Light. And this evening Light... Of course, the great Light will come when
Jesus Himself will be manifested here on earth, or up in the heavens, taking away His Bride, and then the
millennium will set in.
Now, notice that Brother
Branham speaks of the Bible speaking about the evening light, and he says those
who are familiar with the Message believe there is to be an evening light. Now,
the Scripture that he is referring to is in the Book of [Zechariah
14:6-7] (read) So we see that there is to come a time that will be known to
the Lord which is called the evening time and at that time a light shall come
forth.
Now, what is a light for?
Except to illuminate and to make manifest as we read from the Book of [Ephesians 5:13-14] .
But the problem we face is
that most people do not understand anything about how God operates and
therefore they do not understand what this evening Light is to bring and
therefore they reject the Light as we see in
[John 3:19-21]
Now, the fact of the matter
is that there is a Light and there is the Light. And we find that John was said
to be a bright and shining Light, but He was not The Light. [John 5: 31-38] &
[John 1:1-34]. Now the thing
I want you to notice is that there has to be a light that bears witness to The
Light. And if John was a light that was to bear witness to The Light, then if
Alpha has become Omega, we must see that God had to do the same thing in this
hour. Therefore we could easily read verses William Branham’s name into this in
the place of John’s name. (read from verse 6-
20)
In [John 1: 5 we hear that
this light shineth in a dark place and in Zechariah we read that the hour would
be dark as well. Again we see in [2
Peter 1:19] that this light would shine in a dark place until the day star
would take over.
In [2 Cor 4:4-7] we see that the light is to shine but those who do not
see this light have been blinded by the god of this evil age which is
satan. And in verse 7 we see that this
light is in earthen vessels. [Matt 5:
13-17].
So in essence, then what we
have when we hear the scripture speaking of Light at the evening time is a
Light bearing witness to The Light which is Christ Himself. And in the Message,
Indictment, Brother Branham said, “ And today, by the Light of the Gospel
reflecting from a Light, a Pillar of Fire visibly seen among us....And Science
has seen It, It’s in the Magazines, and across the world, and It’s both
scientifically and spiritually recognized as the same Pillar of Fire, by the
same signs and the same things as it did always.”
Now, in paragraph [144]
Brother Branham is very particular in the choice of words that he uses when he
says, God is revealed in every age by his promised Word to that age.
Notice first of all that he is speaking of a Word that is already promised. The
word he uses is promised Word which
is spoken of in the future tense. Therefore what he is saying is that God, way
back in the past gave a promise of a future revealing of Himself through His
Word and in the day or season that He wants that Promise to be revealed, He
will do something to bring that portion of His Word to pass. After all, Brother Branham often told us
that “God
interprets His Own Word by bringing it to pass”.
Then this statement of
brother Branham’s here ought to tell us that those who God reveals Himself to,
are those who will read His Word, and will be found watching the day that they
live for the manifestation of His Word. In [Luke 12 : all] The entire chapter speaks of a preparation and a
careful observing of conditions and our
approach to those conditions especially how they pertain to the Parousia of
Christ.
Now, as we continue with
paragraph 144, I want you to listen carefully to the next thing Brother
Branham says, when he says, “Now, let's just look what some of His promises
is for today while we're closing now in these last words. Now, God is revealing Himself in the evening Light time.
So we see that Brother
Branham is telling us that God is NOW, revealing HIMSELF in the evening Light
time. You know how he loved to sing that Song, “It shall be Light about the
evening time, the path to Glory you will surely find, in the water way there is
a light today, buried in the name of Jesus Christ. Young and Old repent of al
your sins, the Holy Ghost will surely enter in, the Evening time has come, it
is a fact that God and Christ are one”.
Now, the Oneness have taken
this and try to say that this song is about God is Jesus, or Jesus is God, but
what it says is that God and Christ are one, which is true because the Christ
is the Anointing which came forth out from God. Therefore it has to contain in
it the very nature and characteristics of the one from which it came
forth. We will look at this representation
of God in Christ as we move further into this Revelation of Christ, and how He
is revealed through His Own Word. we see the same thing with the ministry of
the Apostle Paul, as he describes what happened to him and the effect it had
upon his life and how his whole life became a witness tot he Light that
Appeared to him on his road to Damascus. [Acts
26: 1-29].
Now, I hope that you will
have noticed here that Paul too was speaking of how the people needed to come
first to repentance which is a change of the mind, and notice how he spoke of ,
“repentance
and turning to God and doing works that are worthy of this change of this
repentance which is a change of the mind.” And then we find Him tying in this repentance with the Light that
came forth to the people after Jesus rose from the dead. Now, remember that we
are dealing with two lights, and yet one of the Lights is a greater light than
the other. The greater Light of course
is the Shekinah light of God’s Presence, and the lesser light is simply the
reflector light, or the light which is simply reflecting the greater light.
[150] Now... So we're going to read some of these
Scriptures in here. Now, in the evening
Light come... Now, we notice that it'll
have to be the same Light that was in the morning, 'cause there's not one sun in the morning and
another sun in the afternoon. It's the
same sun; same sun that's in the afternoon is in the morning, same in the
morning as in the afternoon. Now, it said the day itself, the day between that time will be kinda like a--oh, a--like a dismal,
dark day, could not be called day or night in between that. See, that's the forming of the Body from the
feet coming up.
[Gen 1:3-18] Now, notice the stars were lights also but they are not
the two great lights of which one is even greater than the other. The Great
light of Course is the SUN or spiritually speaking the SON of God. And the
lesser light is the moon which has no light of it’s own but is simply a
reflector of the greater light of the SUN. Now, I hope that you can see by the
natural that it types the Spiritual. We as Sons of God are a type of the stars
of heaven as we see in [Job 38:7]
and [Gen 37:9-10] where we are
represented as stars, and as stars we all have a light within us, as Jesus said
in [Matt 5:14-16] and therefore we
all have a little light within us that was placed there to shine forth. [Ephesians 5:8] & [1 Thess 5:5] & [1 Peter 2:9].
But the lesser light that
reflects the greater light is the moon which represents the church as a whole.
It can only shine in the absence of the Sun and has no light of it’s own, but
can only shed what light it reflects from the Sun. [Isaiah 60:1-3]
And gross darkness is coming
upon the earth, and we know that when the resurrection of the dead takes place,
then we which are alive at that time will not go before them, but we shall be
gathered together with them and then the Rapture or the going home of the
saints will take place. But woe to them who are left behind when this event
takes place. Because they will be left behind with no light at all.
[Matt 8:11-12] & [Matt 24: 50-51]Notice, in the day when
they stop looking for Him to come, that’s when he’ll come. Then surely hell and
it’s angels will break forth upon the earth as has never been since the
creation. [149] But
we've got one of the most dreadful times to go through that ever laid before
human beings. Now, I'm just waiting for the hour and when we can
get--everybody can get a chance where
you can get off from work and spend a few days, and we can get set up somewhere where I can speak on those
plagues and things that's to fall in the days, and throw about two or three weeks together, and bring that together, if
the Lord let's me live to do it and will inspire me to do so. See how those
things will be dropped in and those thunders, then you'll find out what that
man and them people has been dreaming about and all these things there; it'll
come to pass. See? You'll notice what them revealed, that great thunder
a-coming forth out of the skies. Now... Of course, the whole bunch of you, you know that I know what that means.
You see? But let's just wait till the
time comes (You see?) for it to...?... Now... And it'll be more in season.
[153] Now, let's find out. It shall be Light about
the middle day? At the evening time.
What is light sent for? So you can see where you're--how to get around
(That right?), see where you're at. It shall be Light about the evening
time. Now, we take that now and compare
it over with Malachi 4. He promised that there would be Light come again in the
evening time. See? "For behold, I will send to you Elijah the prophet, and
he will restore the children back to the fathers, and the fathers to the
children (Is that right?), lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." Now, let's take St. [Luke 17:30] and watch what Jesus prophesied there, saying that, "As it was in
the days of Sodom, it'll be the same..." Now, remember. Notice. This is at
the time that the Son of man would be revealed, the revealing of the Son of man.
Now, the Son of man was actually revealed potentially just for a few moments
there, just before Sodom was burned. Now, that
Man was Elohim. That was God, and
Jesus is God. And God was revealed
potentially right there for a few moments to talk to Abraham in the
investigation judgment, just for a little bit. The Son of man was revealed, the Son of man, Elohim. Do you see
it, church? The Son of man, Elohim, was revealed just for a few minutes, for
the very next morning it was burned. When? Before the sun could come up again.
So there can't be no organization left;
neither can there be any further advancement than what's going right now;
for she'll burn before the day breaks again. The revival's over across the nation. There ain't going to be no more revivals, big sweeping revivals. This nation will never receive it. You might have intellectual gathering, but
I mean a spiritual revival. We're seen all of it. I hope you're catching
it. I'm saying it in such a way that I hope you get it. See? It's over.