Desperation
no 12
After
the Seals - Flashing Red Light
April 6, 2016
Brian
Kocourek, Pastor
We have been looking at paragraph 21
of brother Branham's sermon Desperation, where he said, "Now, watch
what's come after the Seven Seals: (1) the uniting of the people, (2) united signs,
(3) the red
light flashing in the last days;
(4) the
sign of women getting prettier; and (5)
men, what
they would do; (6)
all these signs of the Holy Spirit
leading up; and then come right
back here to the capping-off of all
those messages since the Seven Seals. It's
capped off in this one thing: (7)the Token that we are all right. See? Just check
ourselves and see if we're in the faith.
So far we have looked at the
first two points which spoke of The Uniting of the people, and United signs.
We spoke of the Last Trump sounding after the resurrection
takes place which signals the catching away.
Therefore, this evening we will focus
on the flashing red light of His coming which is the actual name of brother
Branham's sermon preached June 23, 1963 which speaks of the warning signs of
the Second Coming.
Now,
there are many types of a flashing red light that brother Branham uses in
reference to signal that thee Day of the Lord is here.
End
time evangelism 62-0603 P:77 Notice, the great flashing red light signal of
His coming is down. We know that. I could just take many Scriptures here I
got wrote down to show you what, we're at the end time. The Jews has
returned to Palestine; the fig tree's put forth its bud. Man's heart are
failing with fear. The women, the rampage that they're on, how I
could go back in Revelation and show you this nation here is marked by women,
woman's number, number thirteen. We have, to start, thirteen colonies,
thirteen stripes, thirteen everything, thirteen states, everything, thirteen,
thirteen stars on the dollar, everything is thirteen and a woman.
And in
his sermon, The Token
63-0901M P:106 he names quite a few. "Watch. We see the great end times, the
flashing red lights everywhere; upon nature, we see nature flashing the light.
The time is at hand. We see it upon the church: flashing light; she's condemned. The time is at hand. She's
in the world. We see it upon the skies, upon the sea, upon the nation, upon everywhere, in
the sun,
moon, stars, signs."
Notice
the last two years we have had blackouts of the sun four times and each time
was right on the Holy days of pass-over and Feast of Tabernacles. And we had
four blood moons, again at the times of the Passover week and feast of
Tabernacles. The red on then red off then red on and then red off the flashing
red lights of his coming.
And it
did not stop there. He said The time is at hand. We see it upon the church: flashing light; she's condemned. The
time is at hand. She's in the world. We see it upon the skies, upon
the sea, upon
the nation,
upon everywhere,
in the sun,
moon, stars, signs." and since the moon
represents the church, and the red signifies bleeding or death, because it goes
from red into a full blackout of the moon, these are signs that the church is
condemned and finished.
Most people were aware of the Blood Moons seen on the Holy
Days of Passover and Sukkot in 2014 and 2015. And they're also aware of the Solar
Eclipse on Nisan 1 and partial Eclipse on Tishri 1 in 2015.
But were you also aware that in 2016 there are also 2 more
blood moons and two more solar eclipses.
On
March 23, 2016 at Passover there was a blood moon if the barley is ripe. And
then there will be another blood moon on September 16, 2016 again, using this
same calendar – a sighted crescent moon – which is the one we use.
There is also a solar Eclipse on
March 9, 2016 which is Nisan 1, the first day of the Jewish calendar and
another Solar Eclipse September 1, 2016 which will be on Yom Teruah, which is The Feast of Trumpets.
We've been told many times how rare the
“tetrad” (group of four) blood moons were. And that there have only been
7 tetrads since the time of Jesus time. But now we have 6 blood moons on the
High Holy Days in 2014, 2015 and 2016. And we have four solar
eclipses as well. How rare is that?
The solar eclipses at NASA, and the lunar blood moons at NASA.
And the
significance I think is that the blood moons, 6 of them the number of man in
just the years, three the number of perfection. And these six fall on the
Passover, The Feast of Tabernacles, which is the feast of the tent, and now a
total blackout of the sun on the feast of the Trumpets, which we studied a week
ago concerning the last Trump and found it to be the calling together of the
resurrected saints with the living. Halelujah. Could we still see it all
finishing up this year? I hope so.
Brother
Branham continues, "We see the end time signs of the Holy Ghost
return back upon the people. As it was in the days of Lot, how the Holy
Spirit worked through that human flesh there: that was God manifested in
flesh. How God would manifest Himself in His Bride in that day and show
the same sign".
And we
saw that last time seed sign in the sign of Messiah that we saw in God's
prophet William Branham.
"Jesus said, "It'll be the same thing in the last days." We see it. We see the same Pillar of Fire. Even
science has took the pictures of It and so forth. We see the end time signs
is at hand. We know it's here. And then seeing this, if you believe me, if
you don't believe me, believe
the signs. Believe the Word, for they speak of what I'm telling
you.
So, we see brother Branham identify the flashing
red lights of His coming as what we are seeing in nature, in the sun, moon and
stars, in the gathering of the peoples, in the way women have come prettier,
and in the way men are handling that sign, and so many other smaller signs that
are telling us to stop, we have arrived the day of the Lord is at hand.
Now, according to traffic laws, the flashing red
light means full stop, then proceed with caution. It is no different than a
stop sign or red light on a traffic light, but the flashing means it is a
dangerous intersection, therefore after
full stop proceed only when it is safe, only with caution.
Now, I think this ties in with his statement that
we have to lay in the presence of the sun to ripen. In other words, the laying
in the presence of the sun would suggest coming to rest, a full stop and now
resting.
But a flashing red light also is a sign of
immorality where certain kind of women work to attract men to come and conduct
immoral acts. They call that a red light district.
Evening
Messenger 63-0116 81 Here we are, end time, red light down, flashing, coming of the Lord is
at hand. Yes, sir. Listen. The end-time Message should meet
end-time conditions. Where they've got off, the Message ought to bring it
back. Always, end-time Message meets end-time conditions. All the way
through the Scripture. It'll have to do it this time, a call back to the original Word.
Oh, my. Like other messengers did in the day, this Message will have to be the
same. We're promised that. God promised it in His Word. Malachi 4, said it
would happen, "And
restore the faith of the children back to the fathers."
Promised it, and we're living in that day. Oh, it's been always, each time, a
group of leaders that gets the people all mixed up. It's not so much the people;
it's the leaders that get them mixed up.
Notice,
he said "it
is the leaders that always get the people mixed up". And that is because of politics.
It matters not whether those politicians are a bunch of lawyers or a bunch of
preachers. He said, "it's been always,
each time, a group
of leaders that gets the people all mixed up. It's not so much
the people; it's the leaders that get them mixed up.
Now a
group is not one guy here and one guy there. So you can't say all leaders do
this, but when they get together as a group, and a group is formed or United together
for a common purpose or creed or doctrine then you have a Uniting Time sign.
That is
the case whether that group is a church organization or a political
organization. If you do not tote the party line with either one they call you
an outsider and you are not welcome in their camp.
Standing
in the gap 63-0623M P:30 I want to preach it on "The Flashing Red
Light of His Coming," how one of the flashes is right on us right now.
And I want to speak on that tonight: "The Flashing Red Light of His..."
He's here, being right on the hand, right now. The--the signal's down. The
train's in the block.
Flashing
red light 63-0623E P:26 Max Factor runs day and night, and there's more
spent on cosmetics in America in a year to make the women pretty than there is
spent at the grocery store. That's right. I forget how many billion dollars
each year is spent for cosmetics to make our women fair. Now, I'm saying
nothing against that. I'm just showing you that it is a flash of red light
that the time is at hand. For Jesus said Himself, "As it was in the
days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." See,
the same thing.
And
what does he mean by that? Well Jesus said in Luke
17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the
Son of man. 27 They did eat, they
drank, they married wives, they were
given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
and the flood came, and destroyed them
all.
And we find what
he's talking about concerning the days of Noah beginning with Genesis 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to
multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto
them, 2 That the sons of
God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; (beautiful) and they took them
wives of all which they chose.
Flashing
red light 63-0623E P:25 I can remember when I was a little boy in school and
turned and look at the little children today, the little girls coming on. And I
can look, think of women when I was a young man, and look at the girls today. I
remember there'd be one popular girl (and that's not been over twenty-five
years ago)--one popular girl, a pretty girl, and pretty near every boy wanted
to go with this girl, because she was the queen of the group. Maybe in a whole
city there'd be two or three of those women. Now, the whole thing's become
pretty, all of them. That's to fulfill the Scripture and a red light
flashing that the time is at hand. They've invented such stuff as lipstick
and makeup, that a woman that isn't so fair, she can still make herself pretty
by all the face, lips, and the things that they do to make themselves pretty.
Only
one way provided by God 63-0731 P:63 A man come to me yesterday, he said,
"I got a boy sixteen, Brother Branham. I got a boy twelve. I take them on
the street, these little stripteases out here..." He said, "The boys,
they're little males," he said, "what can I tell them?"I said,
"Sir, I don't know. Take them to Christ, and let them get saved and filled
with the Holy Ghost, and they'll turn their heads to them modern stripteases. "Remember, when
the sons of God looked upon the daughters of men and seen they were fair, they
took unto them ? Look over here at this great scandal in England,
look through the United States, look at these call girls in the U.N.,
everything else, oh, it's just terrible. And that's it, men of renown. We're
right back in that hour; the red lights are flashing everywhere the
coming of the Lord. And Jesus said, "As it was before Sodom was burned, so will
it be at the coming of the Son of man."
Look at
the scandals we've had in Washington. Every single person running for office
has infidelity scandals that would have put them off the nominee list several
years ago. One has been married three times, two have been married twice, a
third man has a whole plethora of women whom he has cheated on his wife with.
In fact his wife twice filed for divorce, once in 2011 and another in 2012 claiming
infidelity on the part of her spouse, and
he has the audacity to get up publicly and say "I have never been
unfaithful to my wife". I wonder what he defines "unfaithful" as?
That sounds like Clinton who who also blatanly lied about the same actions while
in the White house. And he redefined the word "is" back when he was caught
in adultery, he said "it depends on what the meaning of the word is is."
And
then there's this "DC madam" who kept phone records of every
man who used her services and this has sent senators and Governors packing, and
just yesterday the supreme court gave permission to the DC madams lawyer to
publish the names and telephone numbers which are on the internet for all to see,
and it includes this man who is running
for president. On top of that the National enquirer Story has exposed this man
with names and pictures of the women, and as one journalist said "these
women are all beautiful".
So the
National Enquirer wants this man to file a law suite against them but he won't
do that because he's counting on the American public to have a short memory. "As it was in
the days of Noah", when the women were
beautiful to look upon..., And what does it all mean? It's a flashing red
light of his coming.
I think
we should call Washington DC the red light district of America.
Flashing
red light 63-0623E P:95 And what about the increase of population as it was in the
days of Noah? What about the beauty of women increasing
constantly, more and more? See? Red light... What about the time
that women would come, when they would be the way they were, heady,
high-minded, and everything; couldn't tell them nothing. Preach
the Word to them, they'll go right on do it anyhow. See? What'll happen? Just exactly
like it was in the days of Noah: one day the door of mercy will be closed. Then the
Scripture says, the Sanctuary becomes smoky. That means
that the Intercessor has gone from it. And as long as the Lamb is still
back there as I've said this morning, or somewhere I was preaching that as long
as the Lamb is there to make intercession, there's still mercy. But what
assurance do we have when we see the train is already in the block, when we see
the coming of the Lord, the flashing of the Light...
Flashing
red light 63-0623E P:29 And then I wonder if our women realize this and
can... That's the reason I want this tape to go, that you mustn't put... we
want you to be pretty, but we want you to be natural. We don't want you to be
superficial. Some of these pretty women, if you'd dunk them in a
wash tub awhile and wash them up, they might look a little different, and dress
them like they should be dressed. But they don't do it, and you can't tell them
no different. And we're going to get to that after while. But this is the
red light flash.
Flashing
red light 63-0623E P:103 The red lights
are flashing; the signal is on; the coming of the Lord is at
hand. He speaks to the nations; He speaks to the people; He speaks through
the signs and wonders. As we took Sodom and showed how that Angel come to
Abraham, the signs that He performed just ere the falling of the fire, we see
that. He said, "In the days of Lot they built; they sold." Look at
it today. And as
the days of Noah, women becoming pretty, the sons of God falling, human flesh being worshipped in
the form of females, and all these things that's taking place
that we talked of tonight. The light's a-flashing; the coming of the Lord is
at hand. Are you still just a church member?
Flashing
red light 63-0623E P:70 He turned and looked at me kind of strange, and he
said, "Well, I think it's a rotten shame today to see of how..."
Said, "Used to be we put women on a pedestal." Said, "We honored
her; we took off our hat in her presence. We walked down the streets... And
gentlemen would hear somebody make a remark about a certain woman, they'd slap
him down." See? And said, "They honored women." But he said,
"Sir, women has brought it on themselves." Said, "Now, they
don't get up... Used to get up in a street car... A lady get up... Every man
would take his hat off and let her set down." Said, "Now, it is push,
crowd." Said, "They've brought it on themselves." And that's the
truth. That devil hole of Hollywood got her, produced it out on the televisions
and magazines till the thing has become a great, big pot of filth. That's
right. I know that ain't popular saying, but it's true saying. It's the Truth. It's
the Word of the Lord, and also a warning sign that Christ will come in this
generation. Said, "The ones that sees this come to pass will not pass
out until all these things be fulfilled." Said, "Both heavens and
earth will pass away, but My Word will never pass away." It's a
warning, red light's flashing, drop of the curtain. We're at the end
time.
Flashing
red light 63-0623E P:20 So when we think of my text as "The Flashing
Red Light of His Coming," it reminds me of waiting at a railroad
station, that when a man or people stand around, as many of us has when we was
waiting to catch the train. And we can't hear the train, or you don't
see him, but you know it's time. Maybe the dispatcher says, "He's a
little late; he's not exactly at the time. But we don't know just when, but
he will arrive soon." And we'll walk around in the stations with our
hands in our pockets, and setting on our suitcases, and go out and buy a bag of
peanuts, and talk to somebody across the street. But all of a sudden we see
something happen. There's a noise takes place out at the tracks. And when we
did, the arm goes down, and the red light begins to flash. What is that?
The train is in the blocks. Though you can't hear him, though you can't see
him, but yet that flashing red light and that arm down shows that
he's coming in. And then if you're expecting to leave on that train,
you'd better throw that bag of peanuts down, stop your talking, get up your
suitcases, and get ready, or you'd be left behind, 'cause He's just
stopping locally, just for a few moments. He'll be gone. If you still stand to
chat the neighbor across the street, you'll be left behind.
Flashing
red light 63-0623E P:102 How, friend, can you ever turn down something like
that, seeing that there's no hopes in the world outside of Jesus Christ. The
red light's a-flashing. Nations are breaking; Israel's awakening; The
signs that the Bible foretold; (Women cutting their hair, wearing shorts. The
red light's on. See?) Gentile days numbered, with horrors encumbered. Return,
O dispersed, to your own. The day of redemption is near; Men's hearts
are failing for fear; Be filled with the Spirit; Have your lamps trimmed and
clear; Look up, your redemption is near.
Easter
seal 65-0410 P:126 If there's somebody here that don't know that they'd
go in that resurrection, and not sure that they've got that resurrection power
resting in them... Though the skin worms destroy it, though an atomic bomb
burst right in the middle of you, it'll never destroy that quickening
resurrection power. No, no, sister, brother, your precious name is put on
the Lamb's Book of Life up yonder. No man can rub it out. There isn't enough
rubbing compounds in the world to rub your name from the Book there where His
Blood has bought it. If you're not sure of that, don't take a chance on it now.
See? You might take a chance on running through a barricade somewhere and not
get killed, but you're not going to run through this barricade. No, no, you're
going to get it. You don't have to. There's a red light flashing now.
Bypass, bypass your own ideas; bypass the things of the world.
Come, let's be resurrected together in this great Easter time, the great
celebration of the Easter.
Pardoned
63-1028 P:61 You see, God wants to work in His church. Jesus
said, "I'll be with you always, even to the end of the
world. The works that I do shall you do also." St. John
12:14, "The works that I do shall you do also; even more than this shall
you do; for I go to My Father." Now, the church tries to deny that, to
get a way to get more members, to be more popular. Now, I want to ask you
something. God is trying to perform in His church, and the church is trying
to perform by the creed. And the two can't work together. You've got to get
rid of the creed and get Christ in. And how can you do it? When He sees the
Blood, when the Blood has been applied with a sincere heart and a hand
laid upon Jesus Christ, and a heart that's true before God to confess he's
wrong and be born of the Holy Spirit, then the works of God would follow,
as He said it would do. Yeah, the church wants to perform through their
creeds to see how many members they can get. God wants to perform
through the power of the Blood to get Christians born again. That's exactly
the difference of it. To do this you must reject... To do this they, you've got to reject the Holy
Spirit and His performing power to accept a creed. You have to see
the truth before you can accept an error. If you're going to be a Christian you
can't... You have to walk over God's promise in order to get in error.
Because there's a red light flashing before you all the time, "This is the Word."
End
time evangelism 62-0603 P:79 The red light is flashing. The signal's down.
His coming is at hand. Oh, my. Isaiah the 60th chapter and the 2nd verse, said, "Darkness shall
cover the earth, and gross darkness will cover the people." And
that's exactly right.
We
would see Jesus 62-0627 P:112 God, You never send these things... You never
send a judgment before first You send warning, and we see that the warning signal
is down. The red light's a flashing. O God, may men and women
be concerned about one another; may they be concerned about this untoward
generation of people that's perishing, going out from the way here without
knowing God, will die in sin. And, oh, how--what a horrible thing it'll be that
day when they hear the weeping and wailing. There'll never be another
opportunity they'll ever see. Father, if the President come to this city
tonight, the flags would be up, the flowers would be strewn through the
streets, and there'd be a great big celebration. But Lord, You come to the city
in the form of the Holy Spirit, and, O God, You have to seek, and pull, and
beg, and persuade for people to get ready to go to heaven. What a day that
we're living in, Lord.
Flashing
red light 63-0623E P:109 Now, what will you do with Jesus while the
red light's flashing. Why don't you do this; throw down that old sack of
worldly peanuts. Why don't you throw down that old "True Story"
magazine, and that old junk that you're pulling your soul through every day. Why
don't you scoot that television in a corner, and turn it around if it's keeping
you away from church? Why don't you lay aside every weight that so easily
besets you? Why don't you raise your heart to Christ and say,
"Christ, tonight I'm finished. I'm making ready. I see You're coming.
I'm picking up the Suitcase, God's Bible, that's packed with Eternal Life, and
from henceforth on I'll live from This." Won't you do it while we
pray.
Let us
pray...