Doctrine no 15
True Doctrine Brings Order
Brian Kocourek, May xx 2015
This morning I would like to take our subject on how Doctrine brings
order. And for our text, I would like to read from 1
Peter chapter 1.
1 Peter 1:10-12 Of which
salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who
prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 11 Searching
what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did
signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the
glory that should follow. 12 Unto whom it was revealed,
that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things,
which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you
with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to
look into.
Now, to get a better
picture of what Peter is telling us here, William Branham had to say this about
that in his sermon called Christ revealed in His
own Word 65-0822M P:38 Now,
notice this Bible. Some of them said, "Oh, well, It's done this; It's done
that." But let me tell you something; let's just go into the history of
the Bible just a minute and see where It come from. It was written by forty different writers. Forty
men wrote the Bible over a space of sixteen hundred years apart and at
different times, predicting the most important events that ever happened in
world's history, and many times hundreds
of years before it happened. And there is not one error in the entire
sixty-six Books. Oh, my. No author but God Himself could be so accurate. Not
one word contradicts the other. Remember, sixteen hundred years apart, the
Bible was wrote, from Moses to--to the death of--of John at Isle--or the Isle
of Patmos: sixteen hundred years. And was wrote by
forty different authors. One didn't even know the other
one, and they never had It as the Word. Some of them
never even seen the Word. But when they wrote It,
and was understood to be prophets, then when they put their prophecies
together, each one of them dovetailed one to the other.
Notice what Brother
Branham said, the prophets who wrote this Word, some of them didn't even know
each other and some of them had never even seen the Word. That is true with
Job. The Book of Job was written in the time around or even before Moses wrote
the first five books called the Pentateuch. Yet every thing that Job wrote fit
perfectly with the rest of the Word. Now how is that possible unless it was
written by God through those men?
We can’t
hardly get 5 of the five-fold ministers to agree with what this Word
says much less get ten laity to agree. And yet we have forty writers who wrote
66 books over a period of sixteen hundred years, that's 160 decades, one
thousand six hundred year span, and there isn’t one flaw in the entire
66 books. There isn’t one contradiction, there isn’t
one error in the doctrine of God. Why?
Well, let’s see what else brother Branham had to say about it.
[56] Look at Peter, who announced on the day
of Pentecost, "Repent every
one of you and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of
your sins." Paul
had never heard nothing about it. He went down to
Arabia for three years to study the Old Testament to see Who this Pillar of
Fire was that spoke to him on the road, saying, "Saul, why persecutest
thou Me?" How
could he be wrong? He never even consulted the church at all. And fourteen
years later when he met Peter, they was preaching the same thing, word by word. That's
our Bible. Let other men's words fail. No man can add to It.
You don't add no more to the Bible. No,
sir. This is a
complete revelation. That's all.
Now, many times over the
years, I've taught certain things from this pulpit using certain scriptures to
do so and then I would talk to brother Vayle on Monday and tell him what I was
preaching on and he would tell me he taught the very same thing using the very same
scriptures on the very same day. And yet we neither of us had gotten together
to talk about what we were going to preach on. Some of you know this experience
for yourselves, being that you will be discussing certain Scriptures and quotes
from the Prophet and when you come to church you see those very same Scriptures
and quotes right up here on the screen. Gives you a little chuckle inside to
know the Holy Ghost is still in control doesn't it.
"Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God." Don't you worry about the future,
God has every thing under control. And "all
things are working together for the good of those who love the Lord and are the
called according to His purpose."
Now what can cause that?
I believe it is the same Holy Spirit that spoke to the Prophet,
is here revealing it. He has already revealed it to us through the
end-time prophet William Branham, but The Great Holy Spirit Who is the Elijah
of this day is still here making it more real to us and quickening us to the
Revelation of Jesus Christ.
We would see Jesus 57-0226 P:32
"oh, we
should be the happiest people on all the earth. Because that He Who gave us the promise of Eternal Life is alive and
with us tonight to confirm that promise. What a wonderful thing.
From that time 62-0713 P:2
The main
thing that we try to do is to let people see that Christ is not dead, that He
is alive. And if we can just see, the One Who made
us all these grand promises is here to confirm those promises
Presence of God unrecognized 64-0618 P:1 "working for this one purpose, for you to recognize the Presence of
Jesus Christ. See? If He is present, then, why, everything is settled. He
made the Word. He is here to confirm It. He
proves that He'll confirm It. "He is just the same yesterday, today,
and forever."
So we are looking at the
unfailing reality of the living God. He is here to make sure His promises are
fulfilled in those he made them to.
Therefore this morning I
would like to examine Correct true Doctrine and how it
brings order.
The Apostle Paul said in
2 Timothy
Notice that Scripture is given us for Doctrtine,
and that brings reproof and correction and instruction in Right-wise-ness. In other words, Scripture and more specifically true
Scriptural Doctrine or teaching brings order. It says it brings us reproof, and correction to our ways, and is meant for
instruction in right-wise-ness.
Now, right-wise-ness
is the doing of that which is right. So you see how the Doctrine of teaching
the Scriptures brings order.
In 1 John 3:7 we read, Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness
is righteous, even as he (God) is righteous..
Notice it tells us that he that does what is
right is rightly wise. And how would he do what is right
unless he was instructed in what is rightly wise.
Now, let's read it with the next verse in mind. 1 John 3:7 Little children,
let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous,
even as he (God) is righteous. 17 That the man of God
may be perfect, (that means finished off and fully mature) throughly furnished (or thoroughly equipped) unto all good works.
How does a man of God become thoroughly
equipped and thoroughly finished or mature? By hear receiving and acting upon
the Word or Doctrine as it is taught.
Again we read in 1
John
1 John
Then id Doctrine brings
about order, and brings forth a fully mature son or daughter of God, then we should focus our entire beings on those promises
that are specific to the elect at this late hour and are taught in the Bible as
True Doctrine.
Since we are in the age
to see the Resurrection, The change of the body, the adoption, the manifestation
as sons of God, and
our being conformed to the image of the first
born son. Then there must be Bible teaching or Doctrine to get
us to the lace of being thoroughly finished unto these good works. And in so yielding ourselves to the true Bible
Doctrines we will find ourselves coming into the order of events and passing
through them one by one as we yield to the teaching.
And how is this
possible? By receiving His very
same Spirit that governed His Life in His body, and gave order to His
life, and brought His body into submission to the will of God, His Father, that
same Spirit in us will also quicken our mortal bodies in like manner as it
quickened God's first born son.
That is Romans
Then the doctrine teaching
through the Spirit of Christ in you, will govern your life in your body, and you
can't help then to do the things he did, and to speak like he spoke, and acting
like he acted, and live your life like he lived, and then you can't help to do
the works that he did, for it is the same Spirit in you that was in Him living
and doing and speaking and acting and working.
And He said, "He who gave the Word, and these promises, is here to confirm
them, if you will only recognize
His presence."
The apostle Paul told us
in 1 Corinthians
2:10-16 And so if we have the mind of the
Lord we will have to not only say the same things, but we will have to see the
same as well.
1 Corinthians
And this same Apostle anointed by God's Holy Spirit, promised us in 1 Corinthians
1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same
mind and in the same judgment.
And when is this to
happen? Notice verse 7 which tells us
this will be at the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
7 So that ye come
behind in no gift; waiting for the coming (apocalypses, the
unveiling or Revealing) of our Lord Jesus Christ: 8 Who
shall also confirm you unto the end, that
ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful,
by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
What fellowship? The fellowship of His spirit. having
the same mind because we have the same spirit. Remember, fellowship brother
Bosworth told Br. Branham is Two fellows in one ship.
And "if we walk in the light as he is in the
light we have fellowship one with another."
So Paul tells us at the
time of the Apocalypses or unveiling or revealing of Christ we will come to the
place where God will confirm us.
This is interesting,
because William Branham said he is here to confirm His Word, and He is here to
confirm the promises he made to us. We also find this in [2 Thess
Now Brother Branham goes
on to say in Christ is Revealed in His own Word, [57] Like the Seven Seals. Someone kept saying to me. "The Lord will speak to you, Brother Branham,
when these seals are revealed and will tell us how to get closer to God, and how to do..." I said,
"No, sir. It can't be, because the Bible, the Seven Seals on It had the
Seven Mysteries hid. It was already wrote, but they
didn't understand what it was." Watch how they plowed along with that
being baptized in Jesus' Name. See? That wasn't it: the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. See? All those things, how it was... 'Cause there's many Jesus’s... I got several friends here on earth named Jesus,
minister friends. It isn't that; It's our Lord Jesus
Christ. No author but God could be so correct.
[59] Now, let's just see how this Bible was written. Now, say for instance,
from... What if we went now and took sixty-six medical books that deals
with the body, wrote by forty different medical schools, sixteen hundred years
apart? Wonder what kind of continuity we'd come up with? When George
Washington, our president... About two hundred years ago for pneumonia they
pulled his toenail out and bled him a pint. What if we took... Let's go a little further on some things that we so
attracted to today; that's science. What
if we took forty different scientists sixteen hundred years apart and see what
we'd come up with? A French scientist three hundred years ago proved by
science, by rolling a ball, that if any terrific speed was obtained over thirty
miles an hour, the object would leave the earth and fall off. You think
science would ever refer back to that? Is any continuity with that now,
when they drive down the street on the road here, hundred and fifty miles an
hour? See? But he scientifically proved that by the pressure of the ball
rolling across the ground, that at thirty miles an hour, that any object would
lift up off the earth and go away, fall off in space.
[61] No, there's no continuity to that, but not one word in the Bible contradicts the other.
Not one prophet ever
contradicted the other one. They was every
one perfect, and when one come in and did prophesy, that real prophet raised up
and called him down. Then it was made manifest. See, see, see?
So the Bible is the
Word of God to all true believers.
Then why is it that out
of the hundreds and hundreds of churches that claim to believe Brother
Branham’s Message, why is it that you can hardly get 5 men together who will
teach the same thing? I believe it is because we have not as a group of
people learned to let go of our own thinking. Men are still holding
onto their own ideas and not forsaking everything as the Apostle Paul told us
to do. And why would we want to hold onto our own thinking anyway? What good
have your thoughts produced anyway?
But I'll tell you why
men will not let go of their own thinking. It's because they're not looking to Glorify our Father as Jesus and Brother Branham did. Jesus
said in, John
7:16-18 that those who seek not their own
glory but the Fathers Glory will know the doctrine.
John
So this tells me that
all those men out there who preach false doctrine whether it be a female holy
ghost or a false understanding of Godhead or a wrong understanding of the
fullness of the Godhead trying to place it in the Bride, the reason why they do
these things is because God, our Father is not the focus of their Glory, but
they themselves somehow have gotten their focus all skewed, and their focus is on
self and not God.
And remember in Romans 8 Paul said if our focus is on self we can
not please God.
The Message Romans 8:5-8 Those who think they can do it on their own
end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get
around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them,
find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession
with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out
into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite
of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up
thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing.
And God isn't pleased
at being ignored. 9-11But if God himself has taken up residence
in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him.
Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God,
the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you
who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the
limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God's terms. It
stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised
Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that
he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and
breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered
from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as
alive as Christ's! 12-14 So don't you see that we
don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There's nothing in it for
us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and
get on with your new life. God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and
places to go! 15-17 This resurrection life you
received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously
expectant, greeting God with a child like "What's next, Papa?"
God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know
who we are: Father and children.
From the Message, Christ is the
Mystery of God Revealed, Brother Branham said, “If you are born of the Word of God, God’s Word will have the
preeminence.” And that is exactly Colossians 1:18-19. 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. 19 For it
pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
Brother Branham read
this scripture and said, “He is the head of
the Church which is His body, and He wants the
Preeminence.” And so until you are born of the Word of God
you will never give the Word the proper preeminence and therefore you will have
to give yourself or some other the preeminence. And as Jesus said, those who give God the Glory, will
also know the doctrine.
Now, let’s go back to John 7:18-19
again and read it 18 He that speaketh of himself seeks his own
glory: but he that seeks his glory that sent him, the same is true, and
no unrighteousness is in him. 19 Did not Moses give you
the law, and yet none of you keep the law? Why go ye
about to kill me?
Does the preeminence
come before knowing the doctrine? No sir.
Does knowing the doctrine come before giving God the proper glory and
preeminence? No sir. that's not what Jesus
said. he said just the opposite. He said, know your
place and give God the preeminence and you will know the doctrine. When
you know the Doctrine correctly, you'll also know how to place it in it’s proper place, and you never be puffed up, nor will you
loose your focus. How can any man be puffed up who
understands the sovereignty of God?
Once you have that
experiential knowledge of Him, you will do correctly because you know correctly. And who taught Jesus
the Doctrine any how? God, His Father did. John7:16
Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is
not mine, but his that sent me.
John 8:28 Then said
Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man,
then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I
speak these things.
Now, that does not mean
that you'll be free from the persecution of men, because Jesus promised us that
as he received persecution they would also persecute you.
John 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have
persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying,
they will keep yours also.
And I also want you to
understand that Jesus Promised us that God Himself
would teach us the doctrine as well.
John 6:45 It is written
in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God.
Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh
unto me.
Notice here that all that have heard and have learned. So there is
much more to this message than just hearing it. You must also learn it.
And then you can come to Him. And who is able to understand the doctrine
which is the Message? Those who are no longer children.
Isaiah 28:9
“Who is it he is trying to
teach? To whom is he explaining his
message? To
children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast?
I don't think so,
because you’ve got to grow up before you can leave the milk for the meat.
1 Corinthians
I'd like to read 1 Corinthians
So we find brother
Branham bringing this down to medicine and he says in [62]
Now, you couldn't get no accuracy in what doctors
would agree upon. You can't even get accuracy of them now. You can't get
accuracy in science now.”
Now before we read on, I
would like to ask the question, why? Why can’t we get accuracy in science? I’ll
tell you, because they’re only guessing at it. They really don’t know and they
will not go to the source that does know, God’s Word.
And so, just as children they act as children and therefore they see through a
glass darkly. If they had an absolute that is proven to be 100% correct
every time then they would all have to agree. But since it is every man
to his own self, his own theory or theology, then how can they
possibly ever come to the place of agreement.
Daniel 12:4 “But thou, oh, Daniel,
shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall
run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
2 Timothy 3:7 “Ever
learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth.”
So we know that although knowledge shall
increase, and man will be ever learning, yet they will never able to come to
the Knowledge of the Truth. So what knowledge they shall have, although it is
plentiful, is based upon deceit. And
that's science so-called today. Based upon theories that are
based upon deception. If your foundation is wrong to begin with then
everything you add to that wrong foundation will bring about a wrong result. This
is exactly what Paul said. 1 Corinthians
Why do you think the central banks can't get
us out of this mess? Because they put us into this mess in
the first place utilizing the wrong foundational principles. And so they
say, we are in debt, so we will go further into debt to get out of debt. It's
pure insanity. Spend more money to get yourself out of
debt, when any child knows that is totally insane. But their foundation is
based on the theory of one man John Maynard Keynes, and it is called Keynesian
economics.
Paul called the science of man, so called science in 1 Timothy
Now the word used here for
science is the word gnosis which is the same word for knowledge and
understanding. But as Paul said, it is science
falsely, so called. Because if it is wrong, then is it really
knowledge. We are living in a time when the educational system in the entire
world is based upon false knowledge. True science is as elusive
as Real Truth in this day. Because real science is real
knowledge, but what we have today is based upon falsehoods,
therefore ever learning but never able to know the
Truth.
And what good is false
knowledge. What good is a degree in evolution when it’s false, and based on
myth or some stupid theory of a man who was a blasphemer against God and His Word.
Now Brother Branham
continues, :...” You're going to find
out one of these days that when you go to heaven, you don't fly off somewhere
else; you're still right here too, just in another dimension faster then this.
That explains all those
dreams you brethren are having. Where things are happening all around you but
you're not affected by what's happening. And with all that's happening in this
hour, I can only say that I'm thankful that we have a vindicated Word to give
us direction. We don’t have to wait for science to prove anything, we already
have “Thus Saith the Lord” to rely on.
1Corinthians 15:3-8 3 For I delivered
unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our
sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was
buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then
of the twelve: 6 After that, he was seen of
above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto
this present, but some are fallen asleep. 7 After that, he was seen of
James; then of all the apostles. 8 And last of all he was seen
of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Matthew 27:50 Jesus, when he had
cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51 And,
behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom;
and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And
the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his
resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
1Corinthians
1Corinthians 15:33-54 33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. 34 Awake to
righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. 35 But some
man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest
is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which
thou sowest, thou sowest
not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some
other grain: 38 But
God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 39 All
flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of
flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. 40 There are also
celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of
the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory
of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in
corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 43 It is
sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown
in weakness; it is raised in power: 44 It is sown
a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and
there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, The
first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was
made a quickening spirit. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is
natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 The
first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man
is the Lord from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are
they also that are earthy: and as is the
heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 And
as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 50 Now
this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 13 But
I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are
asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For
if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in
Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by
the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For
the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore
comfort one another with these words.
Revelations 20:4-6 4 And I saw
thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the
witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the
beast, neither his image, neither had received his
mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with
Christ a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead
lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed
and holy is he that hath part in the first
resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests
of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Hebrews
11:36-12:2 36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea,
moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 37 They were
stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they
wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:)
they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. 39 And
these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for
us, that they without us should not be made perfect. 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about
with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the
sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run
with patience the
race that is set before us,
2 Looking
unto Jesus the author and finisher of our
faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
97 Seven Church Ages 54-0512 His great, glorious Presence shall strike the earth. "He cometh in
clouds." Oh, I love that. "Clouds," there will be wave after
wave of His glory will come across the earth, and the resurrection of the
saints shall come. When that blessed Holy Spirit that's lived in their
hearts, and they died with their corpses laying there,
and the tear stains over their cheeks, and things like that, they're placed out
here in a graveyard. A great wave of that same Spirit, and a
"whoosh," wave after wave.
"He that was last will be first, and he that was
first will be last." How can it be that way? That's the order of the
resurrection. I won't know nobody in the
generation before me or the generation after me. I'll know those in the generation of this. And every
generation will come successfully, right as it went down. "They
which were last will be first." Sure,
it has to be. See? I'll know my people. The next fellow, my dad will know his
people; his grandfather, his people, on down like that. Wave after wave, after wave, after wave,
and the saints arising from everywhere, won't that be wonderful. Amen. That
makes the old people feel young again. Yes. Now, notice closely. All right. ... comes in the--in the clouds; and every eye shall see
him... (No matter how far back
they died; they'll still see him.)... and
they also which pierced Him: and all the kindred’s of the earth shall wail
because of him. Even so, Amen.
E-61 Images of Christ 59-0525 Now,
this is the order of the resurrection. "We
which are alive and remain shall not prevent them which are dead; for the
trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first; we which
are alive and remain shall be called up together with them..." Meet one another before we meet Him, meet one another before we meet Him... "Be caught up together with him--with them to meet
the Lord in the air." All together.
E-17 Condolences to Stadklev
Family 60-0924 Then them
which are asleep shall not prevent those which are awake at the coming of the
Lord. "For the
trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. And we'll
be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air." You
notice the order of the resurrection? "We
which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord (now that word was
Parousia, so that ought to tell you how close it really is, because the
Parousia has already come, and God is present.)
(II
Thessalonians, I believe
about the 4th chapter) shall
not prevent (or hinder) those that are asleep. The trumpet shall sound,
and the dead in Christ shall rise first."
And notice the next, "Then we which
are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them." See, we meet them first.
Now, I wonder, how God in His great mercy, when He'd be worshipped perfectly
there, and when... He knew that. He knew that if we got there
first to worship Him, and then we'll go to look around, wonder where baby is,
and where mother is, and where this one or that one; but (You see?) He lets us
meet one another first. So when you go up to worship before the Lord
on that day, she'll be with you. See?
E-90 Be No Afraid 61-0311 We think of that great day. How You have arranged
it. "I would not
have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those that are asleep, that you sorrow
not, even as others that have no hope. For if we believe that Christ died and
rose again the third day. Even so, those that sleep in Christ will God bring
with Him. For we say this to you in the commandment of the
Lord." That we will not be as
hindered. It won't hinder us when we are sleeping. And we watch the order of the
resurrection. The first thing, we
get together, not until we get together will we go together to
meet Him. Mothers and fathers will meet one another. Children and loved ones
will meet one another, and then be caught up in the air to meet the Lord.
And when we stand there, singing redemption’s songs, and Angels, with a circle
around the earth will stand with bowed heads, not knowing what they're talking about. They
never was lost. They don't know what it means to be
lost and to be found. But, Lord, we know what it means. I once was lost, but
now I'm found, was blind but now I see.
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Revelation chapter four
pt 1 60-1231 Peter, James,
and John, and them standing present, when Jesus spoke to them and said, "There's some standing here will not taste of death
until they see the Son of man coming."
He didn't say "all" that was standing there, but "some."
And they went a few days after that, and
saw the order of the resurrection rehearsed, and the coming of the Lord. Moses represented the dead saints being
resurrected. Elijah represented the translated. But remember, Moses was first,
and then Elijah. Elijah was to be the messenger of the last day, that with him
and his group would come the rapture. Moses brought in
the resurrection, and Elijah brought in the raptured group. And there, both of them was represented
right there.
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Jehovah Jireh 62-0705 And
then, remember, if we go before He comes, we will be up and in His Presence,
or raised before the others are changed. "The trumpet of the Lord shall sound,
the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which alive and remain shall be
changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, and be caught up together with
them to meet the Lord in the air." Look
at the order of the resurrection. See, God knows that we long to see
our loved ones. And if we got there to meet Him first, we'd be looking around
to see if mother or dad and the rest of them was there. But see how, the Holy Spirit in His
wisdom? We meet one
another first, and then when we get there and sing "Amazing
Grace," that's when there's going to be a time of worship. You think I act funny now, watch me up there.
It's going to be a wonderful time for me and all of us that--when we get there. ....When we get our big tent up out here somewhere, we'll
take plenty of time and go through them in-between the lines. Watch the
resurrection thing how it moves in there, just beautifully. Just get
in love with Him and He will reveal it to you
21 Present Stage of My Ministry
62-0908 "remember
that we live here in three dimensions. And I don't know whether I can name them or not.
One of them is light, and the other is matter. Tommy, you remember what the
third is? Huh?.... Now, light,
matter, and time. And our five senses contact them
dimensions. Our sight contacts light, our feeling contacts
matters, and so forth. Now, but we have contact through science, the
fourth dimension, as it was. Because coming right through this building now
comes pictures, voices of radio, pictures on television, that our senses does
not contact that, but yet they have a tube or crystal that picks up those
ether waves and manifests them. So, you see, right in this building now is
live actions of people in the air, live voices. They're here. We know it.
They're absolutely the truth. And the only thing you do, they catch it on... I
don't understand the mechanics of those things that science has invented, but
we know that it proves to us there is a fourth dimension. Now, the fifth dimension is where the sinner, the unbeliever dies and goes to. The fifth dimension is
the horrible dimension. And when a Christian
dies, he goes into the sixth dimension. And God is in the seventh dimension.
Now then, you see, the Christian when he dies, he goes under the altar of
God, right into the Presence of God, under the altar. And he's at rest. To break it down. When
a man has a nightmare, he's not altogether asleep, neither is he awake. He's
between sleep and awake, and that's what makes him have a horrible shaking and
screaming, because he's not asleep, he's not awake. And
to take that, shows
where a man goes when he dies unconverted. He's lived his
time up; he's dead on earth; and he cannot go in the Presence of God,
because he's not fit to go there without the Blood. And he's caught.
He cannot come back to earth, because his time's finished here on earth,
and he's caught between, and he's in a
nightmare. See? He can't go in the Presence of God to rest. He can't come
back to earth, because his time's up. He's in a nightmare, and there he stays until the day of
the judgment: a horrible thing to be in. See? And now in this vision, I believe I was
caught to that sixth dimension, looking back down here and could see back.
See, the sight isn't exactly with the eyes; that's earthly. But sight is a
greater thing than... The
sight that they have there, their contact is far beyond any contact that our
natural senses would contact. ... Therefore, as long as there's a
born again Christian on the earth, and we got a body here like this, it's the very reflection of
one that's waiting on the other side where there is no death and sorrow.
And that's what makes our hearts hunger for such as that. See, there's
something in us that calls out. We just... There's something that tells us
it's there. I believe through these years... I apologize before God and the
people of being stupid and making many mistakes. But through these many years I
have been privileged to see many millions of people come into the
Let
us pray