Christ Revealed in
His Own Word #94
Wednesday, April 16,
1997
Brian Kocourek,
Pastor Grace Fellowship
Sunday we examined the
thoughts of “The Cloud and the Voice of
God”, and we showed many scriptures where God has throughout the ages
revealed Himself in a Cloud and by His Voice speaking out of that Cloud. We
examined Scriptures that showed the Cloud as His Mercy, His Judgment, His
Chariot, His garment, or clothing, and His white hair like wool.
In essence we have seen an association
between God’s Cloud and His Presence. Usually this Cloud of God is accompanied
with the Voice of God which appears to be always: directing, guiding, revealing, or disclosing of His True Nature.
And Since He is the same yesterday, today and forever, we can see that the same
Cloud has taken on different forms and shapes, but is still the same shekinah
presence of God in manifestation to man.
You see, man needs something
to identify with. Something that He can see, taste, feel, smell or hear since
these are his contacts to his earthly home which is in the first three
dimensions of light, matter and time. And what we have is a God who has a
heavenly home which is in another dimension, we shall call the 7th dimension.
Now it’s interesting that Enoch’s great
pyramid was built so perfect that it never reflected time. No matter what
position the sun was in the skies, there was never a shadow to be found. And so
we can see that this great pyramid which outlasted the flood, is a token that
was left to us to tell us that one day, time shall be no more. And some how in
this pyramid we know that is speaks of immortality. even science has shown that
things which are left in a pyramid shaped cover, will not rot. You bite an
apple and within seconds it starts to turn brown with decay setting in. You
leave it over night and you wouldn’t dare bite into it again. But they have
build these pyramid shaped objects which are actually containers like things
and when the apple is bit into and laid inside of the pyramid, the apple never
develops decay. It seems to stay fresh.
Now, I don’t know as for how
long the bitten apple will stay fresh, but from what I have heard it lasts for
quite some time. Now, I don’t mean to get off into some sort of study on
pyramid power, because I don’t believe that the pyramid itself has any power.
But the shape speaks of eternity, and the three fold offices of God. Father,
Son and Holy Spirit. If you will notice the pyramid is a triangle that has four
sides to it which are perfectly square like the New Jerusalem, whose
foundations are four square. We also have the foundations of our Faith which we
call the Four Gospels, and since the pyramid has three angles on four sides, it
then has the number twelve in it which also represents the 12 tribes, the
twelve patriarchs, and the twelve
apostles.
Now, before I get too deep
into these thoughts, here I had better turn back to our subject. What I was
showing is that we as man are earth bound. Dust to dust and ashes to ashes. And
the earth was made for man and man for the earth. And like, man, the Great
Pyramid was also made from the earth, and yet it shows us an everlasting
covenant. We were not made to be heavenly beings, but earthly beings. And God
used the Cloud to make an earthly contact with man and yet showing man that He
is above the earth. God is not earthy, nor is He earthly. Yet there had to be a
breach between the heavens and earth and so God used the Cloud to bring forth a
covenant to man. A covenant of peace, and an everlasting covenant it is. Yet we
find that Enoch left us with a clue as to the revelation that God had given
Him. Because the Pyramid speaks of an
everlasting covenant that has come down to earth. Earthy. In other words, it
speaks of immortality in the flesh.
Now, I don’t know why I have
written these things down but as brother Branham was speaking in paragraphs [105-106] that God could have spoken by
Himself, and He could have chosen to write the Bible by Himself, but He chose
prophets to do it. Now, how many
believe Enoch was a prophet of God. Well, the Catholic bible might have a book
of Enoch, but I don’t believe it was the same Enoch who wrote that book,
because the Enoch of the Bible left His book in the Great Pyramid. But their
book of Enoch could have been written by the other Enoch in the Bible who was
the son of Cain. And that would be more fitting, I suppose. Anyway, men who
have studied the great pyramid have marveled at it’s design and how there are
certain passages in it that speak of the Coming of the Lord. Even to the place
where the Brides chamber has a hallway that leads upward and at a certain place
goes straight up into the King’s chamber.
Now, I don’t say that these
men who have studied the great pyramid have it all right for after all, they
have had this Bible to study for a long time and they still haven’t figured it
out exactly right either. And with that, let’s begin to read again from this
Great Message, “Christ is Revealed in
His Own Word.”
[107] Took His own fingers and
wrote on the sand one day. He spoke; He preached; He prophesied with His own
lips; God did when He was made flesh and dwelled among us: God manifested in
flesh. If He can write, speak, can't He
also tell others what to do? Certainly can. He can talk to them in a human
voice. He can write and show them what to do. He has done it. So God in sundry
times and divers manners spake to the
fathers through the prophets. And He said on this writing, that not one jot
or tittle shall ever pass away until
It's fulfilled, and then It's manifested. Then It will pass, because It's
manifested, and It can't pass then. But just the Word Itself is made flesh.
"Jot" means "small word." "Tittle" means
"small mark." Not even one punctuation, one expression, anything shall
ever fail in the Word of God. It can't
fail, because It's God, God manifested in the form of a human flesh. For it's God Himself in letter form,
prophet form, manifested in flesh. Now, that's the reason Jesus could say,
"The ones who spoke to you, you call them gods, who spoke to you by the
Word of God," said; "and they were gods." Those prophets when they were anointed with the Spirit of God and
brought exactly the Word of God, then they were gods. It was God's Word
speaking through them.
[108] It can... They can only interpret as the Author would
permit them to interpret. Now, if you want to find that, that's II Peter 1 and 20 and 21. All right.
'Cause this... Where God... There's no private interpreter; He does His own
interpretation. God speaks and interprets It Himself, then reveals it to
whomever He will, hides from all others. He don't have to reveal It to anybody,
'less He wants to. And He don't... He's expressed His whole thing in the
Scripture; therefore, the whole thing is already made known; He's just setting
there watching it happen. No. Just seeing the Body be made and come back to the
form of His Bride again. All right.
[109] Believers believe It,
like Abraham that called things contrary to It as though it was not.
It also, this Word discerns
the secrets of the hearts: Hebrews 4:12. It discerns the secrets of the heart.
[111] Prophets did not always
understand what they were writing or what they were saying, or they would in no
wise have said it, if they could've understood it. See? But the Bible said they
were moved by the Holy Ghost: moved. When the Holy Ghost moves you, you move.
God in sundry times and divers manners spake to the prophets that were moved by
the Holy Ghost. That's why all ages, the people who were spiritual consulted
the prophets about the times and what was to happen. The prophet-writer must be in constant fellowship with the Author.
See? He must live constantly in the
Presence of the Author to know what the Book's going to be. See? The
prophet-writer, he had the pen and ready anytime, constant fellowship with the
Author, which was God, to strike down whatever He said put down. See? Showed
what kind of a life He must... A
separated life from all of his brethren...
Now, let’s just stop here
for a moment and look now, at this last thought here before we move further
ahead. You get around Pentecostal
people, and many times they long for God to use them like He used the prophets.
But are they willing to suffer a lonely walk like the prophets had to walk? I
don’t think so. They see the mighty man of God walk in front of kings with Thus
Saith the Lord, and then stomp out again and they think that that is some kind
of a glamorous thing to do. But how many of those prophets went forward
thinking they were going to walk out alive?
God never told them in many cases the end from the beginning, and they
had to learn on their own the hard lessons of life and living each day as it
comes, one day at a time. Brother Branham said, they lived A separated life from all of his
brethren...
Think about that. A
separated life from all of his brethren... How many of us here this
evening are willing to live a separated life from our brethren. Now, he did not
say they lived a separated life from their enemies. That would be an easy thing
to do, and it would be even a pleasant thought to do. But to live a life that
has been separated from your own brethren. Think about it.
Let’s go back now and look
at this for just a moment as we search the scriptures for evidence of this
thought here.
I would like to ask first of
all the question, “Who is the Father of our Faith?” Of course the answer is Abraham. Now let’s look
for a moment to see what God required from Abraham, so that we might know what
God has called us to do.
[Gen 12: 1-4] Now, notice that God promised to bless Abraham so long
as he separated Himself from his kin folk. Now for the next couple of years we
see that there seemed to be more trials than blessings for Abraham. One of the
trials was a famine which is one of the curses for not following the Word as
God said in [Deut 28:18]. others
were captivity, and lying and fear of an enemy, etc. which all happened when
Abraham went to Egypt and not to where God was leading Him. Now we know that
Egypt was a type of the world according to brother Branham. Finally it got to the point that there arose
problems between Abraham’s people and Lot’s people. Notice how God finally had
to intervene on Abraham’s behalf in order for Abraham to finally obey the Word
of the Lord which told Him to separate from family and kin. When we get to the
end of [Chapter 13] we begin to understand why God waited before blessing
Abraham. It seems that the problems that Abraham had were because he had not
totally separated himself away from what God had told him to do, and the
problems he had came as a result of His trying to keep those family bonds
together.
[Gen 13: 14-18]
Now, let’s look at other
Prophets of God who had to separate from their brethren before God would bless
Him. What about Isaac? He was mocked by
Ishmael when he was at the stage in his life where we was being weaned from
milk to strong meat. Isn’t that the same that we have seen in this hour? When
the elect of God began to take hold of this Message of God’s presence, we too
have been mocked and ridiculed by those who call themselves the brethren. [Gen
21: 5-12]...
Now, what about Jacob? He
too was a prophet of God who did not receive his blessings until He departed
from his kin. When he got away from his kinfolk he met Rachel and then God begin
to deal with him.
And what of Joseph? God had
to allow his brothers to get so angry that they themselves separated Joseph
from their presence, and they sold him into bondage. Once Joseph was alone with God and separated from His
brethren, then did God begin to work mightily in Joseph’s life, and bring to
pass the things that He ordained. [Gen 45: 1-8]
And what of Moses? When he
got around his brethren he tried to deliver them his own way, and God had to
make him flee for his life. Once separated from his brethren, then God begin to
deal with him until he was finally child trained and ready for the job that God
had for him to do.
Now, in each of these cases,
we find that the separation from the brethren was only a beginning. Once the
person, the prophet of God, was away from his brethren, then God could deal
with them for the specific purpose that God had purposed. But once they were
trained, in some instances, God allowed the brethren to come back into their
lives again.
Even the Apostle Paul had to
separate himself from the brethren for the space of about three years and he
went to the desert where he could get alone with God. Once He knew what God had
for him to do he came back around to his brethren, but they rejected Him, and
once again he was forced to live about 14 years away from them working with the
Gentiles. Finally he returned to Jerusalem and was welcomed by some of the
brethren. But what I see here is that God had a work for Paul to do that was
separate from what He had for Peter and the rest of the Apostles to do. And
therefore, God will, many times bring about circumstances that may seem to put
you at odds with the brethren, but that is for a purpose. God has His way of
using these circumstances to bring Glory to Himself. God used them here to
spread the Gospel.
And what about Jesus, raised
in Galilee of Nazareth? He had to leave there as well. And it seems that so
often man, being just what they are, seem to be affected by the brethren in a
way which does not fit into God’s provided plan. Therefore, God has to bring
about a separation between brethren, in order to bring into manifestation His
divine purpose. We should always keep
this in mind, when we see these separations taking place and we just can not
seem to understand the why’s and where for’s.
Finally, let’s look at [Genesis 1: 1-11] to understand why
separation is important before God can bring forth the promise. Notice that
when God’s word goes forth it causes separation. But notice that the separation
has to do with separating unlike things. And this separation of unlike things
has to take place before life can come forth into manifestation. Why? Because
every seed brings forth after it’s kind. And without separating first we would
have a hybrid life coming forth. Therefore God separates His Prophets who are
the Word manifested away from the brethren to guarantee a manifested Word that
is free from the thoughts of the brethren, or the thoughts of man.
Remember, we have a promise
that “all things shall work together for the Good of those who are the Called
according to His Purpose”. Therefore, when we see the brethren
separating themselves over very little and sometimes trivial issues, we need to
back up a moment and become aware that God is about to do something. Remember,
when brother Branham tried to find a scripture in his new Bible that Meda had
given him? Remember how he said, he couldn’t find the scripture, and an old
priest came up and said, “don’t worry son, Go is about to do
something.” Well, I think that
that would be good advise for every one of us as we see the separation of
brethren away from the Body of Christ. God is about to do something. “Be
still and Know!”
[Psalm 46:10-11]
[Ex 14:33]
[2 Chronicles 20:1-30]
Let’s sing that song as we bow
our heads in worshipful song and prayer.
TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL THINE HEART,
AND LEAN NOT, TO THINE OWN UNDERSTANDING,
IN ALL THY WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE
HIM,
AND HE SHALL DIRECT THY PATHS.