Christ Revealed in His Own Word #126

Naked and Blind #3

Wednesday, August 13 1997

Brian Kocourek, Pastor Grace Fellowship

 

 

For the last two services we have looked at paragraph 159 where brother Branham spoke to us about two attributes or characteristics of the Laodicean end-time people. He said they are naked and blind, and we spent our time during the last two services examining the naked condition of the people and showed how this nakedness is both a physical condition and a spiritual one. In fact we know that brother Branham said in the message, Diseases and Afflictions, “All the natural things of the earth type the spiritual. Everything in the natural types the spiritual.”  From the Message Demonology, he said, “Everything in the natural types the spiritual. Are you aware of that? Everything in the natural types the spiritual, regardless.” And since this is a Principal that Brother Branham is teaching us, we can conclude that a persons naked condition is a reflection of their Spiritual condition. That is why I hit so hard about wearing shorts, because God considers a person wearing shorts to be naked, and it doesn’t matter whether it is a boy or girl, man or woman.

 

[Exodus 28:40-42] Here we see that God defines nakedness as being an exposed leg from the thigh up to and including the loins. Now, we know that most people consider nakedness to be someone who is entirely stripped clean of clothing, but this is not so. Most people wear shorts and swim suits and all sorts of apparel, but God said to show or expose the thigh or upper leg and the area of the loin is considered to be nakedness to Him.

 

Brother Branham said,  [pg. 21-pp. 3-5  Satan’s Eden 65-0829]  She causes her Adam to lust for her. She took off the clothes that God dressed her in back in Eden for her journey through this wilderness; she took them off. She stripped herself down, when God had her wrapped all over in skins; she's begin to shave a little off each time. Now, she's back to where she was at the beginning. Now, she's got her Adam to wearing her underneath clothes.   A man, put on them little old sissy looking shorts, and get out here. I don't think there is much man to him. He is the biggest sissy I know of. See, she's got her perverted Adam to act like she (See?), wearing her underneath clothes. She seen what she could do out yonder when she took off all her clothes, but her underneath ones; that's the shorts, of course that's a woman's underneath clothes.   And here her Adam is wearing them now, which according to God's original Word is an abomination for a woman to put on a garment that pertains to a man, and a man put on a garment pertains to a woman: from the original Word. Think of it.  Now he now wears her bangs also. He combs them down, puts a curler in them. Some of the most sickly sights I've ever seen in my life is some of those kids out here today with their bangs combed down like this, and colored bleached hair with some kind of peroxide something and bleach in it, and roll it in curlers making bangs. You big sissy. That's a horrible thing to say from a pulpit, but judgment begins at the house of God. You don't even know whether you're a man or woman. And I understand that our United States Army is coming out next in shorts. That's right. See what the perversion is? It is a woman's clothes, ...

 

He also said that the reason why people would strip off their clothes is because they are either mentally gone, or else they are possessed by a demon. [Hebrews Chapter 4] "It's either mental deficiency or devil possession." There's only two things to make it. A decent, clean woman won't wear those things unless she's devil possessed. That's exactly the truth. Now, a pilgrim that's on his road to heaven, he lives in a different atmosphere. You don't have to worry about him looking at her. He'll turn his head if he's got God in his heart, for he's living in an atmosphere that's a million miles from those things. That's right. You don't want to be guilty of that stuff at the judgment. So he turns his head and say, "God, have mercy on the woman," and on he goes.   We're in our journey. We're on our way to Canaan's land. We're on our way to that eternal and blessful rest that God has given us. And in the journey, we're tempted. We're tempted of all kinds of things, but yet be tempted without sinning.   

 

So we see then that a persons outer actions are only a reflection of their inner thinking. And he called it messed up theology is what has caused this problem. E-38  Hear Ye Him  It's your character, your conduct that gives God confidence in you. ... Stay with God's Word. That's God's Truth; that's the Pattern; that's the Blueprint.  That's the reason the church today has got all kinds of isms and everything in it, is because they don't stay with the Word. They won't listen to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit won't testify of one other thing but God's Word. That's exactly right.

 

 [135 Token The 64-0308]  Then when we pray, we must have the Token to present with our prayers, as I said, and now believe for ourself and apply the Token to the whole family like in Egypt, Jericho, or either in Acts 16:31. We find out that Paul told the Roman centurion, say, "Believe thou, and all thy house shall be saved." Apply it to your family. If you got a unsaved child, lay the Token right on top of him, say, "Lord God, I claim him." Stay right there. If you got a mother or a loved one that's lost, lay that Token on them, say, "Lord God, I claim it."  Move out, of all the worldly trash, out of your house, get ready for it. Burn up your shorts. Throw your card tables away. Get rid of your cigarettes.  Dump your unbelief and your church papers in the trash can where they belong. Amen. Then you're getting ready. Then what do? Then apply the Token in prayer, with real evidence, real faith. Apply it, apply it with confidence. When you apply the Token, know that you're cleaned up. "If our hearts condemn us not, then we have our request."   As long as you people are doing them things that's wrong, how you going to ask God to do anything for you when you know you're wrong? That's the reason we just stagger up and stagger back. I'm not saying this to hurt. I'm saying this to straighten out, to get things right. How you going to build it upon the chars of a Sodom and Gomorrah?

 

So we see that this Laodicean atmosphere that we are examining by the Scriptures is one of insanity and devil possession. [1 Tim 4: 1] Notice the evidence of the end-time is seducing spirit’s and doctrines of devils.  And these two characteristics  will be manifested in the people. And this seducing spirit is a sex spirit, because fornication is the flesh is a type of fornication in the spirit. Brother Branham said in many places that Spiritual fornication in type is the same as physical fornication. And let’s face it, if  your reasoning and affection are two of the five inner senses of the Spirit, then if in your inner sense you somehow justify your natural fornication, and you allow your inner sense of affection to lead to into the natural act, it is then apparent that you had to already commit the act in the Spirit first before you could commit it in the natural. Because it had to happen in your mind first, you had to reason it out in your mind and allow your affections to justify the act and then your body only followed. That’s why I get so upset with people who say, “I can’t help it!” Brother Branham said, they are either mentally deficient or they are devil possessed, because how can you say you can’t help it when you planned the very act in your mind first. Do you expect God to feel sorry for you because you feed your lust with dirty books and magazines? I don’t think He will feel sorry for you in the least.  Not when Jesus was tempted in every point without falling. Not when Jesus Told men that to even look upon a woman and lust after her is to commit adultery and those who do so will have to answer with her for committing adultery at the great Judgment seat. And what about reading magazines that are specifically made to cause a person to lust. How can they say, “I can’t help it when they know what is in the magazine and they knowing pick it up to look and lust. I’ll tell you what it is, It is mental deficiency, and demon possession, because a demon possessed person isn’t in their right mind, anyway.

 

And we looked at what the Bible said about this subject as well, when we saw how that the man called Legion who had many devils cast out of Him sat with his clothes on and had a right mind.[Luke 8:35] Notice when he was in his right mind he was also fully dressed.

 

 [Doors in a Door 65-0206]  Now, how can we, sisters, how can we in this nation where we claim to believe and be Christians, and every year they take more off? When that person never even heard the Name of Christ, but just accepted Him in their heart. they covered themselves up like this to walk away. The next day, or two, you'd find them with clothes on of some kind.  Oh, my. There's something wrong somewhere. It's a twisting up of theology. The power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, like He did to the man who called "Legion: we found him clothed and in his right mind." And I begin to believe that it's a spirit upon the people that drives them into that Americanism and Frenchism, and all kinds of worldlism and churchism. But let them once come to that Master, and they feel that knock at the door, they'll put clothes on and act like women and men, and they'll be borned again Christians. Amen. Yes.

 

Notice that brother Branham blames the naked condition of the people on a twisted up theology. As brother Vayle said, “don’t be looking at politics and government, that’s not where we should be looking, we should be looking at Religion and the church to know where we are at.” 

 

If the Bible also agrees that it is twisted up theology that causes people to take off their clothes, then it must also be twisted up theology that has caused this Laodicean atmosphere. We can’t blame Hollywood and the girly magazine publishers for the naked condition of the people.  Because, if the churches had preached Righteousness like they should have preached it, and if the parents had reinforced that Righteous teaching in their homes like God told them to do, then there wouldn’t have been a Hollywood, and there wouldn’t be any girly magazines being  published, because these filthy things are only done to make money, and if people did not depend their money on that stuff, they would not stay in business. But today the entertainment and porno industries are Multibillion dollar industries, and it all started by twisted theology.

 

Now, Brother Branham made this statement and it bears looking into. He said, A twisted theology is what caused the people to go naked. Now, let’s see what the scriptures tells us about this, because we have made the statement that spiritual fornication is a type of the natural, and we have already proven that since the five inner senses must first decide what we are going to do before our body follows through and acts it out, then it is easy to understand how fornication and nakedness in the body must first be thought out in the mind which is the Spirit, before we act it out in our bodies. Now, we already read from [1 Tim 4:1] that warned us at the end-time there would be a combination of seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. So then we see that the seduction comes through a twisting up of doctrine. And if this is true at the time of harvest, then it must be true also in the seed. So let’s turn to the seed book, the book of beginnings to find out the where this twisting up of theology brings about the naked condition in the people.

 

[Genesis 3:1-7] Now, If we break down what took place here, we find that it was the serpent possessed by the devil himself, that approached Eve. And you will notice that it was he that began to speak to her, and the discussion was not just about the beautiful weather they were having in the garden, but it was a theological discussion that they had. And she did not start this theological discussion with him.  He began the discussion with her. And notice that it was a discussion on theology because he began by quoting God to her and asking her if this thing that God had said, was true. And if you notice the way in which he approached her, he came forth quoting God, and not just quoting God, but he placed the quote in the context of a question. You’ll notice that a question mark is placed there and not an exclamation mark. That tells us that in quoting God he was wording the quote to Eve in the form of  a question in order to gain a response back from her that would tell him just where she stood, as far as her understanding went. For after all, questions are asked for one of two reasons. First of all they are asked by someone wishing to know something from someone they consider much wiser that they, in order to find the answer they are looking for, and secondly they are asked by the teacher to the student in order to find out if the student understands the subject matter.

 

And since Satan was a master teacher who co-led the angels in the worship of God with Michael in the beginning before he was cast out of Heaven, then it would follow that he would use the same teaching techniques that he used in heaven when he came down to earth. Now, If you have ever followed or observed carefully teaching techniques, you will find that in every teaching situation you have at least one student and one teacher, and the only way the teacher can ascertain the progress of the student is to ask the student questions. And so the use of asking a questions is used not only to ascertain the level of knowledge of the student, such as tests, etc. but it is also a teaching tool used to guide the student through a logical progression from one answer to another. 88-3  Spoken Word is the Original Seed   That's how adultery is committed spiritually. When you, knowing better by the Word of God, by the intercourse of the mind, take in a lie of the devil against the Word of God: that's exactly what Eve done. With a spiritual intercourse first that come by believing Satan's lie into the womb of her mind, that polluted her soul, set death in the soul; then the natural act taken place. And that's the only way that a woman ever can commit adultery against her husband, is to first let some man talk her into it and then receive another man that's not her husband. Then she's committed adultery. And when the Bride of Jesus Christ lets manmade creeds and dogmas take the place of the Word of God, she is committing adultery.

 

Now the serpent in whom Satan indwelt, was considered to be the wisest of all the beasts of the field in which the Lord God had created. Therefore Satan, who was also the wisest of the created spirit beings took up habitation in a vessel that also was the smartest of the beasts. [ Ezekiel           28:12-18] Now, you will notice that  v12 sealed up sum, token, pattern... full of wisdom, full = fullness, v13 in Eden,  v14 Anointed Cherub that covereth, and I set thee so,          v14 perfect in thy ways and I set thee so until you allowed iniquity which is to know right and not do it. v16 again we see he is a covering cherub.  Now it is apparent by what we see that satan led in the worship until he did something that brought forth iniquity, and I believe what he did was to exalt himself and pervert the True way of worship.

 

God had given him a stewardship, a trust, a ministry and he blew it. He couldn’t handle the responsibility of what God had given him and so he went beyond the limits of his calling. We read in [Isa 14:12-14] We see that his theology drifted from leading in the worship of God to desiring that worship for himself as well. He got taken up in the adulation and worship and imposed himself in the front of it all, and pulled away the direction of worship from God to  himself. And how did he do this? By his teaching. Not his teaching methods, because God had given him the gift to begin with, but by what he taught is how he re-directed the worship of the angels to himself. [Rev 12:3-4 & 7-9] Now, what was this tail that drew a third of the angels? [Isa 9:15b] “the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail” That’s why Br. Branham could tell us that it was not some large tail that drew the stars but the tale that he told. Twisted theology!!!

 

And look at the results of that twisted theology, nakedness pure and simple. That is why Paul warned the people in His day as brother Branham went forth warning them in his day.  And look how twisted theology led to fornication and adultery amongst the people in the first Exodus. While Moses was away in the presence of God, the people came to Aaron and wanted something to worship. They did not say give us a golden calf scheme, they simply wanted something to worship, [Ex 32:1] And they committed fornication because of the twisted up theology which they forced upon Aaron. [1 Cor 10:1-14]. E-47  Corinthians Book of Correction   Neither let us commit fornications, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.  Commit fornications, that's spiritual fornication. If we had time... The Sunday school is over. Spiritual fornication...

 

[2 Cor 11:1-5 & 13-15] And what is the purpose of these angels of light which are actually minister of satan in disguise? It’s to seduce with doctrines of devils as we read in [1 Tim 4:1] And what does it do? Well, a seduction implies a sexual allurement into some sort of entrapment where you are led away of your own lust. [2 Tim 3:6-8] and resisting by impersonating the genuine. [James 1:14-15]

 

[Rev 2:14, 20]              E-66  God Keeps His Word Any bad woman can bring forth a good daughter. But watch ? What is a harlot? A prostitute. What is these ill-famed women? Is men... Is women who commit adultery and live with other men that's not their husband. And these people, these churches claim to be God's servants, and God's church, and tolerate, and do the things of the world. They commit spiritual fornication. They let their congregation's paint, their women wear shorts. And they let them go on and dress like the world and never condemn it. They let the men smoke a social cigarette and take a drink of liquor. They let them have their little card parties, and play pool in the basement, and have the proms and dances in the church, and soup suppers and ever other thing, and teach their little petty theology instead of Word of the living God. You know that's the truth.

 

E-44  The Way Back 62-1123 But now in Hebrews It tells us that if the worshipper is once purged he has no more conscience of sin, or otherwise, no more desire to sin. The whole thing's gone from him. There's no more... You don't have to sin every day. You don't have to do these things. You do it because you willfully want to. And the reason you willfully want to is 'cause you have never died to yourself. Oh, brother. I know that's scorching, but it's good. When you die to yourself then you become a new creature. Then those things are gone.  And if you try to act like you've got them before you have, it's like a--I said the other day like a blackbird trying to put peacock feathers in his wings, say, "You see, I'm a--I'm a peacock." He isn't. That's something he's stuck in hisself. It has to grow from the inside out.  And that's the way the Holy Spirit is. It's not something you smear on or something like that. It's a new birth. You've got to be borned again. And these virtues of the Holy Ghost has to come from the inside out.

 

And when world and sin, and cutting hair, and painting comes out against the Word of God, it shows the Holy Spirit's not there. That's a direct evidence.  So what would you call it? Pentecostal prostitution (That's exactly right.), committing spiritual fornication with the God of heaven. What a shame, a disgrace it is. Oh, that's horrible. Yes, sir.

 

[159]  Now, if a man... In the Laodicean age the people were what? Naked (Are they?), blind. What good does light do to a blind man? If the blind leads the blind, don't they all fall in the ditch? Naked, blind, and don't know it. Even their mental faculties are gone, their spiritual faculties of mental--spiritual understanding. See? Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good, having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof (The power of revelation, they don't even believe in it. See?)... They don't believe in such things as prophets, and so... They don't believe in it. They believe that Malachi 4 is to be a certain church or certain organization. When he come the first time he was a man. When he come the second time with a double portion, he was a man. When he come in the form of John the Baptist, he was a man. See? In the last days when the evening Lights begin to shine, eyes will become open and you'll see where you're going. Then the Body is already formed, standing upon it's feet, taking motion, moving by the Holy Spirit. What? The same One that moved upon the prophets that wrote the Bible, the same Holy Ghost moving in a Body, filled with the Holy Ghost, moved in the Holy Ghost out of every organization and every kindred, tongue, and people.

 

[160]  A little lady here, she don't belong in this congregation. She comes from somewhere else, and she come in this morning, got a picture there. She give it to my son, was very much astonished. I don't know whether she ever heard about this or not. I don't know. She had a picture of this Angel of the Lord that was on the Seven Church Ages--Seven Seals opened out there. When it did, said, "looked back through there" and she seen that standing in the sky in a dream. And she looked back through there and seen that--seen somebody in white marching forward and behind it. Said it looked, said, "Brother Branham, it was you." And said marched in there, said, "Behind you was people of different colors packing banners, Georgia, Alabama, all different kinds of places, marching forward coming up into the Headship to where Christ was being revealed into the vision. Oh, hallelujah. We're in the last days, and the last hours of the days. [161]  Do you see Him now in His Word and all of His Word made manifest right here before us? Oh, church of the living God, get to your feet; believe Him with all that's in you. Hold to that little Wheel in the middle of the Wheel; let It stabilize every move and every motion that you make. Every thought that you have, may it be controlled by this Power on the inside of you, because God is setting right in His Word of this hour in the evening Light, showing forth the Light. [162] The blindness of a bat, you could turn on a light, and the bat would be so blind he couldn't fly. A hoot owl, all those night prowlers, and things like that, roaches, and things, can't see in the daytime. They don't know what it's all about. They can't see. And the evening Lights is come on. Every parable, everywhere we go to nature, to the Bible, to the statues that Daniel saw and the king of that day, all of them saw, and all these things, everybody, every form, every move, every place in the Body positionally shows us the very hour that we're living in. Not another move can come above it. There was a move of the hand, charity, Wesley. There was a move of foundation, Luther. Charity... There never was a greater. It's taught the Wesley move, they sent missionaries to all the world. One of the greatest moves that was made in the age before that. Then come the Pentecostal age; then come in the different fingers and things, the Pentecostal age of tongues, and nose, and so forth. Now, it's in the eyes. What good will you need eyes, or need Light, if that eyes wasn't there to see. There has to be eyes first to see, and then when that come, He opened the Seven Seals and revealed the evening Light, taking all the mysteries that's been hid down through these church ages and now revealed them as He promised to do in Revelations 10:1-7. Here we are today setting in the midst of the Word, and the Word being revealed to us by Jesus Christ. Then this is God's Word. [163]  And be His subjects, we must walk close to the Author to understand It, for It to reveal, "Oh, Lord, what wilt Thou have to--me to do? If I must go to the fields and preach the Gospel, or must I stay at home? No matter what it is. If I must be a good housewife... If I must be a good mother... If I must do this, that, or the other, whatever it is... If I must be a farmer... If I... Whatever it is, Lord, what would you have me do?"  Wasn't that what Saul cried out down there, "Lord, what would You have me do?" He was down on his road down to put all the church into prison, but then he cried out, "What would You have me do?" when the Light turned on as a big Pillar of Fire hanging above him, "What would You have me do?"  I think that's a good word to close on, and say, "Lord, what would You have me do? When I see this Scripture so perfectly revealed right now, Lord, what would You have me do?"