Christ is the Mystery no. 106
The End-Time Chronology of Events
Aug 7, 2013
Brian Kocourek
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CORINTHIANS 13: 12
"For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face: now I know
in part; but then (when? When we see Him face to face!) but then shall I know even as I am known."
This evening I would like to begin a
mini series on the chronological events of the end-time, so that we can have a
better understanding of what things are to take place in this end-time. Because
without knowing the totality of events that are to take place at the end-time,
you could actually know what has taken place and even know some of the things
that are ordained yet to take place, but without knowing the full picture, you
could be missing what he is doing right now.
In his
sermon, God's Only
Provided Place of Worship 65-1128.1M 40 Brother Branham said, "I believe the church is beginning to hear the Message,
and beginning to understand. But friends, listen, we've got to lay in the Presence of the Son, we've got to be
ripened."
Now before we go
further, I want you to stop and notice how brother Branham is associating our
laying in the Presence of the Son with the ripening or maturing of our Faith.
He even says, "Our faith isn't ripe. (that
means, our faith hasn't come to the place of maturity yet. Then he says,) Intellectually
we're hearing the Message that God has give us, and seeing the signs
that He showed us, and proving it by the Bible as that; but, oh, how
the church needs to lay in His Presence till it tenders up in the heart, gets
sweet in the Spirit so that it can bathe down. Sometimes in speaking the
Message, you get harsh, have to break it in like that,
because you've got to clinch a nail to make it hold. But when the Church
once gets It, the Elected is called out and
separated, (then in the Presence of God), I know it'll be something like
the people was there when it takes its Rapture.
And he is talking about
the people he saw beyond the curtain of time. So we see there must come a
maturing of our faith, our revelation until we are ready to take on the change
of the body.
Now here is the
key to understanding this:
He said "we must lay in the Presence of the Son to become ripened in
our Faith". And He says, once we do and we begin to
understand it then something else is going to happen. He says separation is
going to take place, (notice his wording here.) But
when the Church once gets It, the Elected is called out and separated,
(then in the Presence of God), I know it'll be something like
the people was there when it takes its Rapture.
So what we are seeing
here is that our separation will come from the fact we have recognized His
Presence, and we come into His Presence, and we begin the ripening or maturing.
That is where we have
come to in this process of the Parousia of Christ. we are laying in His presence, and notice he says the
presence of the son of God. It is son of God spirit that quickens sons of God
to become conformed to the image of the first born son. And in his sermon,
Identification brother Branham makes this point very strongly and I want you to
notice how he ties it in with our understanding of John 14:12.
Identifications
63-0123, 40 Now, Jesus
gave us the Example of what we ought to be looking at, when He reflected
His Life to us through the Word, what we should see. When we look into God's
mirror, we should see ourself identified with
Him. That is a perfect Example. 41 Now, but we find out that, as we go along
through life, that our character molds the image
that we are. Each one knows that. You, as you live, so is your
character, molds you to what you are. Now, you have seen people that you
just love to be around, yet they might not exactly be in your bracket of
society. And, again, they might be of a different race, the colored, or the
brown, or the yellow. But there's just something about that character, that you just love to be in their presence. Because each person is a little dynamo of their own, and you put
out an atmosphere. 42 And then you
see people that were noble people, but yet you were always glad to get away
from them. It's just they create such an atmosphere around where you are.
Nothing against them, they're nice people, but you just don't like that atmosphere.
And their character creates whatever they are, makes them what they are.
Now, I'm going to skip ahead to pp. 58 "You cannot,
no way, ever produce a Character like that; only, accepting that Character
in you. A church cannot do that. A creed cannot do that. A denomination cannot
do that. An education cannot do that. It must be a Birth. It's got to
be a dying out, and let God in, by the grace of Christ, mold this
type of character in you, that you become Him, and your life and
His is the same, then you are sons and daughters of God.
Now, I would like to add here that
Paul said the same thing. He said in Galatians 2:20 I am
crucified with Christ: nevertheless I am living; yet it is not I that is living,
but Christ who is living in me: and the life which I now am now living in this
flesh that I live in, I am living by the faith (the revelation) of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
In other words, Jesus
Christ died so that we could live, and now God wants for us to die that Jesus
Christ might live again in you and in me. So as brother Branham said, "It must be a Birth.
It's got to be a dying out, and let God in, by the grace of
Christ, mold this type of character in you, that you become Him,
and your life and His is the same, then you are sons and daughters of
God.
Then in pp. 70 he continues, "Now, with our Message, can we stand by the looking glass of
God's Word and see Christ reflect in our own lives then? Can we bear
such, and the reproach of the Message that we're standing for here? Someone
can say something about It, and yet you just don't
open your mouth and say nothing about it. He was example, because God was
reflecting His character in Him. And then if we're sons and daughters of
God, God reflects His character in us, then we become like Him. That's my
heart's desire. I think that's every believer's desire, is to become more like
Him.
So it appears to me
that what we are looking at here in our coming to the place of the very
character of Christ being in us is tested by persecution, and our staying
focused on him during the trials and tests that come our way because of the
separation the must take place do to the process of Life and ripening Life.
As brother Vayle said
in reference to Hebrews 6, that we must be able to go beyond the principles of
the doctrine and enter into the very life of the doctrine and that will produce
in us a perfection, a maturity that will not fuss over who is right and who is
wrong, or as brother Branham said, "Who cares
if the brother is wrong, help him anyway."
Then brother Branham continues in pp. 106 "Oh, no other nature could do this. No. Cause,
He was the molded perfect character of God. 107 For, it was a fallen
character that all nature had. All men had a fallen character. Even everything that was under man fell. Everything has
got a dying character. 108 And He had a living character, so He
expressed it in Christ, and He paid the price. And then because of His
obedience, He raised Him up on the third day. See?
And I
would like to add that the Apostle Paul said in Romans 8:11 "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead
dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your
mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are
debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye
live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the
deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Now, in getting back
to what brother Branham was saying, in pp. 109 "And then He gives to us. That gives to us the proof. It
gives to us the assurance, that, as long as we're in Him, we're already risen with Him. We won't raise with Christ; we're
already raised with Christ. That's right. We are in Christ now. And if
Christ be risen from the dead, aren't we raised from
the dead with Him? Amen. "Now we're setting together in Heavenly
places in Him." Oh, my! That ought to make you Presbyterians shout.
Uh-huh. Yeah. Certainly. Expressed images of God, molded
after the fashion of Christ, that the world can see Him in you. That's the
looking glass to look at. 110 No other nature could do it; it was fallen. And
God identified. Look. God identified Himself as a Man, and took upon Him the
form of sin. Now, well, not sin, but the form of sin, that in order that He
might take the sin of the sinner, see, and pay the penalty for it, and give the
sinner back the Life that he had before the fall. Oh, my! What love God has
expressed to us! See? Think of it. 111 And
now remember, after Jesus doing this, when nobody else could do it, we are
invited. Now, church, think of this just a minute. We are invited to
shape our own character to His, by His grace. We are invited, think of it, to become
characters like His. If we are ready to lay our character down, and the
molding that we had, "Heady, high-minded,
lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, false accusers, and incontinent,
despisers of those that are trying to do right, having a form of godliness and
denying the power of the Word." How can
God come into a place like that, when they deny the Word? When, He watches
over His Word, to vindicate It, to make It come to
pass. And the Word is pushed out, how can He identify Himself with something
like that? 112 We've got to take the entire, full Gospel. We must.
And now, being that we have identified ourselves as full Gospel people, let's
mold our character. We're invited to be molded in His Image, that we
might reflect His Presence. "And the
works that I do, shall you do also. The Life that I live, so shall you." We're invited, by God, to take Him as an Example,
and let our character be molded like His. What a thing! My! 113 Then, when we let His character be in us, then
we have become sons, by having the mind of Christ, mind, which is His character.
Your mind makes your character. "Let the mind," Paul
said, "of Christ, this mind that was in
Christ, be in you." Let that mind of
Christ be in you. It molds the character of a son of God. Now, how… 114 Just listen a minute. How can we have the mind of
Christ that was in Him, and then deny the things that He commissioned us to
do? How can we place miracles in the past, when the very Christ Himself was
God, and God in you. In the Presence of God, there's always miracles. He said, "You call Me 'Lord.' Why call ye Me 'Lord,' and do not the things that I have commanded you
to do, I laid out for you to do?"
Don't you see where we've gotten to, where the church is drifting? And I find
it a whole lot among our Pentecostals, too. We're drifting too far from that
Lifeline. We must come back to that, friend, come back, because we're getting
big now. 115 I see where the Business Men's
publication is the greatest one, as much maybe as what Oral Roberts has got.
And I find out that when we go to getting big, then we go to acting big,
see, just like Israel did. And we go to acting like we're just compare with the rest of them. Remember, "You are a different people. You are a holy nation, a royal
priesthood, a peculiar people." Why, we
Pentecostals got so we ain't any more peculiar than
any the rest the world. We just dress, act, talk, go do the things they do; run
home, watch television, instead of staying for church; and just the same things
they do, about. We're trying to compete, trying to be like the Joneses. See? We
don't want to do that. 116 We want to be, make this Bible our looking glass,
and let ourselves be molded by His character; having His character, His mind,
letting the mind that was in Christ be in us. His mind was always… 117 What was His mind to do, the mind that was in Christ? Always
to stay with the Father's Word. No matter what looked glossy, and what
looked this way, it didn't make any difference to Him. The Father's Word is
what counted. Everywhere, when He met the devil, He never even used His power
to defeat him. He used the Word, because that was Him. 118 Did you ever think? He never wrote a book when He
was on earth. As far as we know, He never wrote but one time. That was in the
sand. Then erased it out, probably, afterwards. Why
didn't He write a word? Because He was the Word. See? He
lived the Word. We don't need so many books, when you become a written
epistle of God. See? See? That's what God wants you to be, images of Him.
Ok, so we see that we
are to lay in the Presence of the son to ripen in our
character, to mold our character to be like his glorious character.
Now, then in understanding
the reasons for laying in His Presence, or shall I say laying in the atmosphere
of His presence, it will cause separation around you because as you are walking
in the Light as He is in the Light, you are having fellowship with Him, and
those who are walking, but those who have stopped to look back or to look
forward, are no longer walking with you.
And never forget that separation
is not a bad thing, unless you are separated from His presence. But separation and life go had in hand. Every time God
speaks in the Bible a separation takes place because that is what life is all
about. When cells multiply, the process that causes this multiplication comes
from a separation first.
The single cell splits
in two, forming two cells, one becomes a replica of
the first because it is the first. Thus one cell splits making two, then 2
splits making 4, then 4 splits making 8, eight splits making 16, 16 splits
making 32, 32 splits making 64, 64 splits making 128, 128 splits making 256,
256 splits making 512, 512 splits making 1024, and by the time that 1 cell has split
itself 10 times the multiplication has brought forth over a 1,000 times the
first original cell.
Remember in Genesis 1: the first
time God speaks, separation takes place between the Light from darkness,
the second time God speaks the waters from above are
separated from the waters from below. The
third time God speaks he speaks forth the law of Life, or what we might call
the law of reproduction. "Let
every seed bring forth after it's kind",
and in order for that to take place we see this continual separation of cell
life which becomes multiplication of cell life.
So when people think
separation is a bad thing, it just means Life is taking place. Out of what
looks like chaos in the cell division, comes forth newness of Life.
But what some call
separation God calls a gathering. and it all depends
on if you are focusing on the negative or the positive aspect of what is
happening. The Word becomes revealed to
you, you are attracted to the Word. Others hear the same Word but are not
attracted to it. They stay where they are, you move with the light. This
process brings a separation one from the other.
The law of magnetism is the same thing. Like things attract, while opposites
repel.
We see this principle in John 3: 17-21 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world;
but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth
not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation,
that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil
hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest
his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth
cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought
in God.
Now I believe John 3: 17-21 expresses this thought here. And in
a fashion it also lays out all the detail for examining what brother Branham told
us here in the spoken word is the original seed.
So tonight, I
wish to bring forth an aspect of our attraction to the presence of the Son and
our ripening of our faith. And I believe it has to do with a separation that
takes place as brother Branham states himself.
"we've
got to lay in the Presence of the Son, we've got to be ripened. -our faith
isn't ripe. Intellectually we're hearing the Message, seeing the signs and
proving it by the Bible; but, oh, how the church needs to lay in His.. But when the Church once gets It,
the Elected is called out and separated, (then in the Presence of God), I know
it'll be something like the people was there when it takes its Rapture."
Now, tonight I want to examine a
couple points brother Branham is making here and these are namely: Pt. # 1) this
thought here on separation as it has to do with our faith ripening and coming
to a place of
Pt # 2) our Rapturing
Faith.
Because after
all, we should all be aware of the many times which brother Branham told us
that we haven't hardly enough faith for healing much less for a Rapture to
change our mortal bodies. So I would like to focus our thinking tonight on
these two thoughts.
Point #1) Our Faith as it has to do with Separation
and Point #2) our Faith as it has to do with
the Rapture.
Now in order to better
understand this process we must first need to understand the chronology of end-time
events. Other wise as these events unfold we will not understand them, or else we
will be surprised by the events themselves and most likely miss what God is
doing now, and or what he will do next.
Brother Branham said,
"that is why is it that they fail to recognize the Manifestation
of the Word in their age?" He said God in simplicity 63-0317M P:65 Many miss Him by the way He reveals Himself. Now, man has their own
ideas of what God ought to be and what God is going to do; and as I have made
the old statement many times that man still remains man. Man is always giving
God praise for what He did do, and always looking forward to what He will do,
and ignoring what He's doing. See, see?
And unless we understand the chronology of
events, we are going to miss what God has for us. Because man is man, and "he is always looking
backwards at what God did and praising God for that, and he's always looking
forwards to what God is going to do and praising God for that, but he
consistently fails to recognize what God is actually doing right now, and it
seems there is never any praise for what God is currently doing, only rejection
and condemnation of those who do catch the present truth, because the
others do not understand the order of
events", and therefore what God is doing now is a mystery to them.
And since men are
always praising God for what he has done, they will always lean more to what
was. Peter told us that men would return to what they came out of like a dog to
its vomit and a hog to it's wallow.
II Peter 2:20 For if after they have
escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the
latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been
better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they
have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is
happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own
vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
That is why Hebrews 6
is so condemning, because it speaks of this hour and those who leave the truth
going into total apostasy.
Hebrews 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles
of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; (quit arguing over who is right and who is wrong, and
begin to let the character of Christ take over your life.)
4 For it is impossible
for those who were once for all enlightened,(that speaks of this
hour) and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were
made partakers (companions) of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God,(that's
the Message) and the powers of the world to come, (that's that
millennium character we saw in William Branham, power over animals, weather and
nature) 6 having seen all this and falling away, it would be impossible
to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the
Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. (You see, that is exactly what they have done in this
hour. They failed to see the God-Life that lived in the son of God, also lived itself out in William Branham, and is supposed to live itself
out in others sons, you and me. And they are missing this Life for themselves,
so they crucify it once again when they do see it in God's prophet and in you
and I.)
7 For the earth which drinketh
in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth
herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth
blessing from God:
8 But that which beareth
thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is
to be burned. 9 But, (notice
what Paul says next,) But beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things
that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
In other words, the world may Miss what God is doing
but you don't and because you don't God expects from you things that accompany
your salvation, better things. A life that is worthy of the
Gospel.
10 For God is not
unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to
the saints, and do minister.
11 And we
desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence
to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 That
ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience
inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise
to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware
by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless
thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And so,
after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
So the events of the
end time began in 1906 the Holy Spirit begins to move once again upon
the people in a manner that expresses itself in the individual with the Baptism
of the Holy Spirit.
Then 3 short years
later the Pillar of Fire returns to earth to watch over the birth of a child
that is ordained to reflect the very life and character of the son of God to a
generation. And William Branham is born on April 6, 1909.
Then several years
later, some time around 1916 that same Pillar of fire changes forms and
presents itself in a tree as a small whirlwind and begins tutoring the little
child, telling him "he must never smoke or
drink or defile himself in any way for God has a work for him to do".
Now, the Apostle Paul warns us of the conditions or
prevailing atmosphere during the end time, as we read in 2 Timothy 3: 1 This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers
of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those
that are good, 4 Traitors,
heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than
lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For
of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women
laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever
learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood
Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate
concerning the faith. 9 But they
shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. 10 But thou
hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering,
charity, patience, 11 Persecutions,
afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium,
at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 Yea, and
all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But
evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
There are three basic principles or conditions we need
to understand in order to make sense out of the chronology of events pertaining
to the end-time.
Condition
no. I) Everything
that will happen, every event, every thing will evolve around Christ.
Colossians
1:16-18 For by him were
all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions,
or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all
things consist. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who
is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
John
1:3 All things were made by him; and without him
was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the
life was the light of men.
Ephesians
1:17-23 17 That
the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the
spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding
being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what
the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And
what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward
who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ,
when he raised him from the dead, and set him at
his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far aboveall principality, and power, and might, and dominion,
and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is
to come: 22 And
hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things
to the church, 23 Which
is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Hebrews
1: 1-3 God, who at sundry times and in divers
manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by
whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and
upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged
our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
2 Thessalonians 2: 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken
in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from
us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no
man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a
falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth
himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing
himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when
I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye
know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in
his time. 7 For the
mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth
will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And
then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit
of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even
him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and
lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God
shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That
they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of
the Spirit and belief of the truth: 14 Whereunto he
called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our
Lord Jesus Christ. 15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold
the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father,
which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope
through grace, 17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
Since we understand now that all things evolve around
Him, then we
see the second principle is
Condition no
II). All things are subject to Him.
Therefore all things are only a reaction to His action.
Our response to His Presence. All things in this hour will either be for
Him or against Him. There is no middle ground.
Ephesians tells us all things will be manifest by the Light, and
certainly the Light has come. So the reaction to Him is either for or against,
either gathered to Him or gathered against Him, attracted to Him or rebellious
against Him.
1
Peter 3 :18-22 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the
unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto
the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once
the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a
preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting
away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward
God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: 22 Who
is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities
and powers being made subject unto him.
Romans
8:14-39 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received
the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of
adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The
Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that
we are the children of God: 17 And if children,
then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer
with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18 For
I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with the glory which
shall be revealed in us.
19 For
the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for
the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the
creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who
hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because
the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into
the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we
know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the
redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope:
but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth,
why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we
see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should
pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And
he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28 And we know that all things
work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose. 29 For whom
he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover
whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also
justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 What
shall we then say to these things? If God be for
us, who can be against us? 32 He that
spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with
him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to
the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that
died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at
the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession
for us. 35 Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution,
or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is
written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep
for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am
persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from
the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.9
Hebrews
12:25-29 25 See
that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they
escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much
more shall not we escape,
if we turn away from him that speaketh
from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth:
but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but
also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet
once more, signifieth the removing of those things
that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be
shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore
we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may
serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Matthew
24: 35 Heaven and earth shall
pass away, but my words shall not pass away
2
Peter 3:10 10 But
the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens
shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent
heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
If then all things are subject to Him and all things
evolve around Him or in reaction to Him, then that brings us to condition
number III)
Condition
number III). All the events constituting the end can not begin
without His Presence as the catalyst for the end.
We will pick up at this third
condition on Sunday morning, as it will begin to get a lot more interesting as
we lay out the order of end time events for you.
Let us pray