Christ is the Mystery no 218
Review no 41 Twins no 18
Placing of Twins
Brian
Kocourek, pastor
This evening I have a message that I feel in my heart
is very important for us if we are to not only have the correct understanding
of twins, but also if we are to handle that understanding in a Christ Like
manner.
I do not wish for one second that we as Christians
should take the attitude that if a person is a carnal believer, we should
despise and reject them, as I see happening all over the world. The best way to
handle the carnal believer is to try to win that person to Christ.
I know the Scriptures says in Titus 3:10 "A man that is an heretick (that means
he is schismatic, factious, a follower of a false
doctrine )after the first and second
admonition (which means mildly rebuking or warning) reject;", but that word "reject" was translated from the Greek
word "paraiteomai" and it does not mean to treat them
ugly. It means to simply just let them alone.
"to turn away or aside or avoid them". In other words,
if you know they are into some false doctrine, after you've tried to warn them
a couple times and it got nowhere with them, then drop it, and just let them go
their own way. Don't keep trying to convert them to the truth because that will
only further harden them against the truth.
Brother
Branham said in his sermon, Church choosing law for
grace 61-0316 P:55 Remember, He said, "Now,
as you journey, you're going up there along the borderliners.
Now," said, "don't you touch Esau." Now,
Esau's
So
you see there are some things we need to not only know but do if we are fully
appreciate what the doctrine of Twins is teaching us. And that means that just
because a man might be the other twin, which means he might be the carnal
believer, that doesn't make him your enemy.
Thirsting for life 57-0728 P:74 So therefore, if you will read Romans 8 and 9, you'll find out that He told... He said,
"I hate Esau and
love Jacob, before either boy was ever born from his mother's womb." Correctly, for
He's God. He knows all things. So how can you make an unbeliever a
believer when God knew in the beginning he was an unbeliever? It wasn't
meant for him. He said, "Pharaoh, I've raised him up for this very same purpose to work in
works. It's not him that willeth, him that runneth; it's God that showeth mercy." Is that right? Certainly.
Now,
if it wasn't meant for him, then that doesn't make him an evil man just because
he might not understand it.
You
see, the study of Twins is not the study of one who is elect of God and the
other who is serpent seed. Twins is the study showing that one is spiritual,
spirit filled, while the other is carnal, and not
spirit filled. The foolish virgin fit into that category, so be careful how you
handle this.
Hear recognize act on word 60-0221 P:34 The church settles down. See, it cannot go
on. Esau was a very
good type of the carnal believer today, never able to overcome the world.
He don't overcome the things of the world. They still
like their carousing, their dancing, their manicure make-ups, and, the women,
on their faces, and cutting their hair and wearing little old short clothes; and
men likes to go out to the poolrooms, and smoke cigarettes, and tell little
dirty jokes; and still belong to the church. They're never able to
overcome those things: neither could Esau. But yet, to be religious, he
had to settle down to an intellectual conception. That's the same thing
the church does today. "We'll become an organization. We'll put
ourself together. We'll make a clan, or a clique, or something like that."
And that's the way the church moves today, the spiritual and the carnal,
still the same. It hasn't changed and never will change.
So,
these are not serpent seed. These are not the ones who hate and try to kill
their brother, that was Cain. He was Serpent seed.
Esau was just a carnal man, good in many ways, but had no revelation concerning
the birthright. These are just carnal people who still love the Lord Jesus,
they still want to be saved, but they just do not have the Holy Ghost. That
doesn't make them evil, that just means they need the Holy Ghost if they are to
overcome.
I
have always believed that "the attitude we take towards anyone could determine their
eternal destination."
I get that from many places in scripture where the Bride says, "The Spirit and the bride say come, and whosoever will let them come and
drink".
The
bride is willing to help anyone to come and drink. She is there to feed those
who hunger and thirst after righteousness. So there have to be those who are
needy.
After
all the Jesus Himself taught us in Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." and
to be merciful, means to be full of mercy. And notice those who show mercy to
others will have mercy shown back to them. They shall
And
that is the way God is, for we are taught in James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above
is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated,
full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And
I think that is what we all want anyway, is to be conformed to that image.
Impersonation of Christianity 57-0120M 15 Our heavenly Father, today it's with grateful hearts, as we
quietly and reverently approach this sacred moment, How do we know but what this
very hour, may determine the eternal destination of a soul setting present?
And the value of that soul is compared with many thousands of worlds. So we
pray, Father, that You will let us approach reverently, solemnly, and in the
attitude of prayer. And also, there may be sick people setting
present, who this day, and their attitude that they receive through this Word, may determine how
much longer they stay on the earth. So we realize the solemnity of
this very moment, and we ask that Your great Presence
will anoint us all.
Hear recognize act on word 60-0221 P:15 "Jacob" means "supplanter" or "deceiver." But after finding
and coming into possession of the birthright, he was changed. That's the
carnal, changed. He was then called, Jacob, "a prince with the Lord,"
who's wrestled with Him. The carnal believer today, "Oh, as long as I
go to church and do what's right, what difference does it make?" That's Esau's group.
He still makes fun and despises the birthright. He doesn't care for it. But
Jacob loved it. And the
spiritual man today and spiritual woman, that's elected, predestinated of God
to come to Eternal Life, if they have to sell everything they got, if they have
to take their name off of every church book in the nation, they still want that
birthright. It's
the only thing that matters to them: just get that birthright, that's all.
No matter how, and what level they have to come on, if they have to get down at
the altar and cry, boo-hoo, if they have to run
through the places, and go back, and make things right, and sell what they got,
or give away everything they have and become a pilgrim and a stranger, it
doesn't matter; they want the birthright. That's all they're interested in: the
birthright. Now, don't
blame them people. They can't help it. They were
predestinated to that, elected to it.
Hear recognize act on word 60-0221 P:14 Now, if you notice, Jacob had one thing
that he wanted, because according to the Word, the blessings and the--the good
things laid in the birthright. And Jacob, that was his only objective, the only
thing he had in mind was get that birthright. And Esau despised it. The one
that actually had it, despised it, or he was ashamed of it. But Jacob wanted it
regardless of how he got it, he wanted it. That's the way with the spiritual
believer today. He doesn't care how much you laugh at him, how much fun you
make, how ridiculous he has to act to the carnal mind, his only objective is
the birthright. He wants to get to God, 'cause it's born in him. He can't help
it.
And
he's not talking about evil people here, people who try to destroy others, he's
talking about good people, but they just have no Holy Ghost and thus no
revelation of the way and hour they live.
Presence of God unrecognized 64-0618 P:44 Same as it is today. People will take the
real Gospel, where the Holy Ghost is coming in, and the power and glory of God
releasing sinners from sin and making them free, and baptize them in the Holy
Ghost, and healing the sick, and showing signs and wonders, and people will
walk away, say, "Aw.
Now, you know what my church believes? That's nonsense." See,
you are forfeiting; you are selling your birthrights. Another
Esau. So many get the same opportunity today, to stand
in His Presence as they did then. And still, because of popular opinion,
they turn It down, standing in the Presence of God. I wonder, friend, tonight, if we
people who are Christians, in His Presence, and are sick, if we don't turn down
the opportunity to be healed by just believing Him? We
who claim to believe Him, don't recognize really His Presence, what He promised
to do today.
Discernment of Spirit 60-0308 1
We are here this morning, Father, gathered for no other purpose but to know and
to study to know, rather, the will of God and what we must do to make Christ
real to the people of this generation. Knowing surely that in
the day of the judgment we will be brought face to face with this generation.
And, being ministers, we will be judges. And the people to which we have spoken to, and their attitude
towards the Word that we bring them, will determine their eternal destination.
Therefore, Lord, in that day we would be a judge for or against the generation
that we preached to.
So if there attitude towards the word we bring them
they will be judged for, how much more will we be judged if we bring the Word
with a wrong attitude. Therefore we had better make sure our attitude is right
in the way we present the Gospel or we may be responsible for loosing souls
rather than winning them.
Hebrews Chapter 7 part 1 57-0915E P:86 Your attitude towards Christ
will make a great impression on what your children will be. Your
life that you live before your family will make an impression on what your
children will be. 'Cause the Bible said that He'd visit the
iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and fourth generation.
In
other words, you get in those chat rooms and really blast away? What do you
think your children are witnessing? "Train them
up in the way they go and when they get ole they will not depart." So are we training up a bunch of misfits that
will hate everyone who doesn't believe like us? or are
we training them to be Christ-Like who gave himself even for those who were yet
in their sin.
Jehovah Jireh 57-0612 P:72 It's your
attitude; it's the way
you approach God. The woman who touched His garment, she approached Him with
reverence. She got
her healing,
but the soldier
(Listen.) who put a rag
around His face, and took a stick, and hit Him on the head with it,
and said, "Now, you who is a prophet, and prophesies, tell us who hit
you; we'll believe you." God doesn't do things that way. They
didn't feel any virtue. It's
your approach. Martha approached Jesus, said, "Lord, if You'd have
been here, my brother had not died. But even now, whatever You
ask God, God will give it to You." She approached it right. If you come criticizing, doubting, you'll never
receive nothing. But you
remember me as your brother; that I'm not saying this is me. If I did, I'd be a
liar. It's not me. It's God. And He's only here to love you and prove to you,
that your religion of Christianity is right.
When divine love is projected 57-0126E P:19
Then when you become a
son or a daughter of God, your disposition changes; your attitude changes; your
all, your look towards life and towards others changes. It doesn't mean that you just have joined
church; it means that you
have been regenerated. You have become a new creation in Christ Jesus, that you have... The old
things have passed away, and God has spoken to you, and you have become a new
creature. I want this to go way down even into church members. Then as you would love to be in
the Presence of Christ, and you become a part of Christ, then people love to
become in your presence, because you become a part of God, son and daughter
of God. Did you ever see people that you just love to be in their
presence? There's just something about them that just radiates, that you
just love to talk to them. And other people who are nice people (yet we
don't say this unkindly), but you just can't hardly stay around them. It
is because of the atmosphere that you create. For you
as a son of God are a miniature creator, because you are a part of God. And
that's the reason you can believe the Bible for anything It
says, for the Word is God's Word. You being a part of God,
will agree with the Word.
Sir would we see Jesus 54-1205 P:2 Our kind, heavenly Father, with grateful
hearts full of assurance that Thou hearest the
prayers of Your children. We come approaching tonight, knowing that Thou art
the same yesterday, today, and forever, and that Your lovely ways and Your attitude towards the
people of the days when You were here in flesh is the same tonight, for You are
the same.And I pray that You'll manifest Your love to
these tonight, to the sinner, to the backslider, and to the ungodly, and unto
the sick, and the needy, the crippled, the afflicted, the blind, the halt.
And may this be a night, Father, that when we close the services to walk away,
may we say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did our hearts burn within us
because of His Presence." God, we pray that You'll take us tonight, like You did at Emmaus. Now, Father, You're all love and You
love Your children everywhere.
So
when we look at Twins, let us be very careful not to allow feelings of ill will towards
others who do not see things like you see them. We have seen quote after quote
where brother Branham showed us that they just were not ordained to it, so let
it go. Twins doesn't speak of God's elect and serpent seed. It speaks of
Spiritual believers vs carnal ones.
In
the Church Age book we actually find that there are actually four kinds of
people.
Church Age Book
Chapter 7 - The Sardisean Church Age
P:84 The question now
arises, why are these righteous ones in the judgment? There is no other place
that they can come up, for there are but two resurrections and since they could not qualify for
the first resurrection they must come up in the second which is a resurrection
unto judgment. The
ones who qualify for the first resurrection (the bride) are not in the judgment.
John 5:24, "Verily, verily I say unto you, He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath
everlasting life (that
is, the believer is already the recipient of eternal life which he has in his
possession now) and
shall not come into condemnation (shall not come into the judgment, is what it really says) but is passed (permanently) from death unto life." But notice carefully, Jesus must have yet another group
in mind who at a certain resurrection will receive eternal life.
They will receive it at the resurrection, NOT HAVING PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED IT AS
A MEMBER OF THE BRIDE.
John 5:28-29,
"Marvel not at
this, for the hour is coming, in the which
85 We now face the question as to why they should be given
eternal life at the judgment since the Epistles seem to conclusively point out
that one must possess the Spirit of Christ or perish. Though it seems thus,
we must not discredit the words of Jesus Who most
pointedly sets forth that there are some found in the Book of Life who will
either receive eternal life before the general resurrection or after it.
Paul does not evade this truth for he most clearly says in Philippians 3:11, "If by any means I might attain to the
resurrection of the dead." Now this statement is most peculiar. We all know that we
are
86 To further clarify, notice
specifically the words of Matthew 25:31-46. It does not say that a shepherd is literally separating sheep
from goats, but it is AS
a shepherd dividing sheep from goats. These are not sheep in this particular area of time (White Throne
Judgment). The sheep are in His fold, they heard His voice (Word) and they
followed Him. THEY ALREADY HAVE ETERNAL
87 If this seems to smack of
"restoration," watch carefully now, for the wicked are NOT
restored, but turned into the lake of fire. The names of many of those
destroyed were in the Book of Life also; but they were blotted out because they
failed to honor the people of God who were the living manifested Word (living
epistles) for their day.
88 Now let us be very clear
here. These are not nations being judged and going into the millennium
because they have harbored and helped the Jews. That is very clear because of
the conclusion of these verses. "And these (the wicked) shall go away into everlasting punishment (lake of fire), but the righteous into everlasting life." There is no record of TWO judgments
set where the wicked are cast into the lake of fire. Only the beast and false
prophet are judged at the end of the great tribulation. No, this is the
White Throne judgment, and they are judged according to what is written in the
books.
89 It is the second
resurrection that the "souls under the altar" as set forth in the
fifth seal (Revelation
6:9-11) are given
white robes, and of course eternal life, or there would be no point of white
robes. "And
when He had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that
were slain for the Word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they
cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not
judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes
were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should
rest yet for a little season, until their fellow-servants also and their
brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled." Now note particularly that none of
these under the altar were killed for the testimony to Jesus. They were not
like Antipas who was slain for holding fast His Name. These
are not born again ones, with eternal life as their possession. They come up in
the resurrection and receive life because of their stand on the Word. And
notice how these are crying out for vengeance. They cannot be bride material. The
bride turns the cheek and cries, "Forgive them, Father, they know not what
they do." These
are Jews. They have to be because they are in the fifth seal, and it is in the
fourth seal that the Gentile bride is gone in the rapture. So these Jews aren't
born of His Spirit. They don't even believe that Jesus is the Messiah. But as
they were blinded by God for the Gentile's sake, God gave them eternal life
on the grounds that though they could not come to Him, yet they were truly
faithful to all the Word they knew, and died for it as multitudes died under
Hitler, Stalin, etc., and will yet die.
90 It is the second
resurrection wherein the five foolish virgins come up. Notice that they
were virgins. They did not have the Holy Spirit so they missed being in the
bride, while the five wise who had oil became a
part of that bride. But
these people, being a separated, God-loving people, and trying to abide in the
Word, according to what they knew of it, and being a help in the work of the
Lord will come up at the end of time. They will miss the millennium, which you
can begin to see by these truths is much more important and wonderful than we
have ever thought or believed.
91
All these people had their names in the Book of Life and their names remained. But whose names did not remain? Those of the world system
churches who fought the bride will be those whose names are removed. That
is who will lose out. They will be cast into the lake of fire.
92 Now
let us go another step, but before we do let us review our case thus far. First of all we
know most assuredly that the purpose of God stands in election. It was
purposed in Himself. It was God's purpose to bring forth a people like unto
Himself that would be a Word Bride. She was chosen before the foundation of
the world IN HIM. She was fore-known and beloved before she was ever brought
forth during the ages upon the earth. She was redeemed by His blood and can
NEVER come into condemnation. She can never be in the judgment because sin
cannot be imputed unto her. Romans 4:8, "Blessed
is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin." But indeed she shall be with Him in
His throne of judgment, judging the world and even angels. Her name (each of
her members) was written in a section of the Lamb's Book of Life before the
foundation of the world.
Secondly, there is another class. Their names are also in the Book of
Life and they will come up in the second resurrection. Such are the foolish
virgins and the righteous as are spoken of in Matthew 25. In this class also are those who do not
worship the beast or become involved in the antichrist system but die for their
faith even though they are not in the bride, not having been born again. But
they will come up in the second resurrection and go into eternal life.
Thirdly, there are the borderline Christians such
as we saw in
Fourth and finally are the ones whose names have never been or will
ever be written on the books. Such are found in Revelation 13:8 and Revelation 17:8, "And all that dwell upon the earth shall
worship him, whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain
from the foundation of the world. The beast that thou sawest
was, and is not: and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into
perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not
written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they behold
the beast that was, and is not, and yet is." Jesus said that a certain group
would accept one who came in his own name. That one is the antichrist. And that
is exactly what it says of them in Revelation 13:8, and 17:8. These were ordained of God but not
unto election. And with this group is such that are as Pharaoh. It says of
him, "Even for this
same purpose have I raised thee up. Vessels of wrath fitted for destruction." Romans
93 Since
this portion of the Word is hard for the human mind to grasp, it must be
accepted and believed by faith. Some will be offended by what I have set
forth because they fail to understand the sovereignty of God which sets forth
that GOD IS GOD, and because He is God one cannot defeat His counsels or
thwart His will and purpose; but He, being omnipotent, is ruling in
Let us pray...