Doctrine no 7
Revelation or
Delusion
Brian Kocourek,
The reason I wish to take this study is because every
denomination has a doctrine that they stand for, and as of 2012 there were 43,000
different Christian denominations worldwide according to The Center for the Study for Global Christianity.
And since this Message is made up from people from almost every denomination,
who left their denomination but the denominational spirit never left many of
them, then we can say as there were two million people who left Egypt under
Moses, and there are some 2 million plus people claiming to believe the Message
of the hour, then I think we can certainly say there are almost as many
different doctrines floating around the Message churches as there are Ministers
claiming to believe the Message.
In fact brother Vayle had told me that Branham mentioned to
certain brothers before he left
Therefore, this morning we will examine
whether the Doctrine you hold to is a True Revelation from God, based on the
right division of His Word, or whether it is a delusion, based on a wrong understanding
of God's Word, because God promised to send both. Did you know that?
2
Thessalonians
Who sends them this delusion? We
just read, for this cause God shall send
them strong delusion ...
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
always 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.
From
brother Branham's sermon, The First Seal 63-0318 P:44 he said, "And with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness... (deceiving people by unrighteousness)...
in
them that perish;... (not this
Bride, in them that's looking for such a thing)... because they
received not the love of the truth... (And Christ is the Truth, and Christ is the Word, but they'd rather have a creed.),... that they might be saved. And for this cause God
has sent them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:...
(It should be translated there,
as I looked in the Lexicon, "the lie," not
"a lie"; "the lie," same
one he told Eve.) That they... might be damned who believed not the
truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
Now, we know the word "righteousness" is from the old English
words "Right-wise-ness". Then,
un-"righteousness" is un-right-wise-ness
which is having an incorrect understanding. And notice the Bible tells us that
the people will take pleasure in an having an
incorrect understanding.
From his sermon, God
of this evil age 65-0801M P:33 brother
Branham said, Making a strong delusion, as the
Bible said it would (II Thessalonians), how this man of sin would come into
existence and set in the temple of God, showing himself he was God and caused
the people to go into strong delusion to believe a lie; and believing
it will be damned by it. That's the same thing he did to Eve, give her... Never
told her the Word wasn't right, but give her a
strong delusion that she believed a lie. The spirit of delusion is of the
devil, devils now working in the children of disobedient. Disobedient to what? What's the
children of this day disobedient to? Like Eve was at the
beginning: the true Word of God.
Therefore, you either are walking in the true light with
God, or the false light that opposes Him. You are either rightly wise or you
are un-rightly-wise. In other words, you are either correct in your doctrine or
you are not.
In this same letter to the Thessalonians the Apostle Paul
wrote earlier in 2 Thessalonians 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus
shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,...
So the Apostle Paul tells us there is coming a time when the
Lord Jesus, the same one who met Him on his road to
8 In flaming fire taking
vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be
punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from
the glory of his power;
Now, this tells us that when God comes
there will be a separation that takes place. Those who know not God shall be
separated from the presence of the Lord at that time, and from the Glory of His
power. Now, this word glory is the Greek word doxa, so these who are separated
from God's Presence first of all, then they will be separated from God's
opinions, God's values, and God's judgments. Let's read it again.
2 Thessalonians 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when
the Lord Jesus shall be revealed (or manifested, because the word apokolupsis means to reveal by
manifesting) from heaven with his mighty angels,... So when this revelation comes via
God's manifesting Himself, as brother Branham preached so many sermons, like,
" "Mighty God unveiled",
"Presence of God unrecognized,"
"Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed",
"Unveiling of God", "Who is This Melchisedec?" etc.
So we read, 8 In
flaming fire (that Pillar of fire) taking
vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel
of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who
shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power;
It's interesting that this word power was not translated
from the Greek word dunamis, which speaks of miracle
working power, but rather a word that is hardly ever used to represent power. The
word is "ishmus",
and is a form of the Greek word "echo". It speaks of the strength of the echo. So
when these people are separated from the glory of his power, he is telling us
they are separated from the doxa of his ishmus. In
other words, they are separated from God's opinions, God's values, and God's
judgments and the strength of the echo of God's values, opinions, etc.
So in essence these people who it says, "Know not God" or "understand not God", or "perceive not God" are thusly cut off from all the
benefits of God's presence, and Doxa.
But at this same time, we are told that others who are
ordained to Life, will be Glorified by God's presence in them.
10 When He (God) shall come to be glorified
in his saints,...
Notice at this time, when God comes and makes Himself known by revealing or manifesting Himself, He will endoxazo the people. En meaning in,
and doxa is the values, opinions
and judgments of God, and ZO or ZOE
means the life. So the Greek Word,
en-doxa-zo
means when he comes to magnify His opinions and
values in the Life of the believers. And to be admired in all them that believe (because our
testimony among you was believed) in that day. So we see Paul's testimony will be believed in the
day when God comes to reveal Himself and at the same time, express His doxa in
the believers.
11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our
God would count you worthy of this calling,
and fullfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with
power: 12 That the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him,
according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, we know by what the Apostle Paul is telling us here,
that a certain people will receive the "Glory
or Doxa of God in this Hour, and
this is to bring us into harmony and conformity to the very image of the first
born son of God. In other words, it speaks of the very mindset that was in
Christ coming into the believers at that time while others will be banished
from God's presence and the Mind of Christ.
Paul said, Philippians 2:5“Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.”
But he also said, in Philippians 3: 15 Let us therefore, as
many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded,
God shall reveal even this unto you.
So what gives us the
ability to be Thus Minded is Revelation that comes from God.
Any child who follows the ministry of William Branham should
be able to quote from Matthew
Now, as I said, just about anyone who follows William
Branham’s Message has heard him say this enough times that they should be able
to quote it and even talk intelligently about revelation; what it is, and how
necessary revelation is to the believer. But why do so many who claim to believe His
Message refuse to believe what Peter said that brought such praise from Jesus?
In
verse 13 Jesus had asked the disciples the
question, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14 And
they said, Some say that thou art John the
Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of
the prophets. 15 He saith unto them, But
whom say ye that I am? 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art
the Christ, the Son of the living God. Then
Jesus called Peter blessed and said those notable words, Blessed art thou,
Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which
is in heaven. and upon this rock (the
rock of revelation), I will build my
church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Peter called Jesus the Son of God, but the majority of the ministers who claim
to follow William Branham do not have that same revelation that Peter had, because
they refuse to call Jesus the son of God. Rather they say He is God who made
Himself into a son.
Therefore, this morning we are going to examine the
difference between Revelation and Delusion, because both are very powerful influences in
the world today, and not only in the World but also amongst those who claim to
believe the End-time Message of Malachi Four. And let’s face it,
I'm not interested in what is happening in the world as much as I am interested
in what is happening all around us in this Message.
The world is a lost cause. But what I am interested in are
the Sons and daughters of God who are sitting under false shepherds who have no
more understanding of God than Oneness Pentecostals.
Now to understand the difference between Revelation
and delusion, we must know what the two words mean. Because as brother
Branham said about the difference between the Appearing
and Coming, he said "they
are two different words and they mean two different things". And Revelation and Delusion are two
different words and they means two different things
as well. .
Now the word Revelation means The act of revealing or disclosing. b. Something revealed,
something not previously known or realized but is made know or realized. In Scripture it is a
manifestation of divine will or truth. So we see that Revelation is something
that God had hidden but then uncovers or discloses so as to reveal or make that
truth known to men.
Now, let’s contrast that to Delusion, which is
a fallacy, a false belief or false opinion.
And delusion comes from delude which means to mislead or deceive, the
act of deceiving, and deceive means to take a truth and
hides it.
Therefore, Revelation takes that which is hidden and
reveals it, while Deception takes that which is true and
hides it. The result is a delusion, which leads to a fallacy or false
belief.
So we can say Revelation Reveals or Makes Known while
Delusion covers up
truth. In other words, then a delusion is anti or
the opposite of Revelation.
Now, I've taught the Message Doctrine to more than 3,500
ministers face to face around the world, and I can not say that all that I have
taught have learned and understood the doctrine. In fact I would be very
surprised if 10 percent really understood what I taught. Now, does that make me a poor teacher? I
don’t think so, because the Holy Ghost is the real teacher.
And in fact Jesus said in John
So you see, even when God Himself is doing the teaching not
everyone who is taught learns what is being taught. And we know the Holy Spirit
is the real teacher anyway, but God uses men to do his teaching, but it takes
the Holy Spirit to anoint that teaching to make it a divine revelation.
From
his sermon, Blasphemous names 62-1104M P:56 brother Branham said,. "Number one,
coming to you, your mental
faith, right here, comes the Holy Spirit, coming down into your mental faith making it a spiritual
faith. Then the spiritual faith only recognizes the Word.
Now, and number two--three: Then you'll have spiritual, you'll be--have the Holy Spirit,
and will seal all these things into you, as that Holy Spirit covers
this. From your faith
up to the Holy Spirit seals you in with Christ; then you become one. Amen. You become one. See, you and Christ live together.
"At that day you'll know that I'm in the Father,
the Father in Me, I in you, and you in Me." See?
Then that's a sealed unit of the Lord God. Now, and then they are
vindicated and placed. When that time takes place, they become vindicated sons and
daughters of God.
So notice that brother Branham is telling us here that when the Holy spirit comes into your mental faith, He anoints your mental
faith and it becomes a spiritual dynamic Revelation, and then it is sealed in there,
and no one could ever take it from you, and he said it makes us
one with Christ. And notice he said when we come to that place we are ready
for the placing as sons and daughters of God. In other words, we must be in
that condition where our mental faith has been anointed with the Spirit of God
and it has dropped down into our soul sealing us
in and making us One with the mind of Christ, and we must come to that
condition in order to be placed in the adoption of sons.
Again from Blasphemous names 62-1104M P:53 The biggest part of our faith is mental faith. By hearing
the Word it brings us to a mental recognition of God. But if this coming from above, oh, brother, if it ever strikes this, there is a godly, spiritual
faith. Then what does that faith do? That faith
recognizes only the Word. No
matter what anything else says, it only recognizes the Word, because "In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (And the Word's still God.) And the Word
was made flesh and dwelled among us." And when the word Itself is pouring into our
faith, our mental faith becomes a spiritual revelation. "And upon this
foundation I'll build My Church," (See?), not upon a
mental conception of church joining, a mental conception of that, but upon the revelation. When them streams of grace has poured into that mental faith that
you've got, then upon this, a spiritual
revelation, "I'll build My Church and the gates of hell can't
prevail against it." See? That shows they would be against it,
but it'll never prevail. Oh, what a glorious thing.
Now, notice how brother
Branham tells us that the Holy Spirit comes and
anoints our mental Faith and then it
becomes a spiritual revelation that builds upon Word upon Word
upon Word. Then brother Branham says, When them streams of grace has poured into that mental faith that
you've got, then upon this, a
spiritual revelation.
Now, Peter, the one who
Jesus praised for receiving the Revelation of the
Godhead, that there is One God and He had a Son, and Jesus was
that Son of God. In 1 Peter
Notice he says at the end time there will be a certain Grace
that will be brought to you at the time of the
Revelation of Jesus Christ.
In 1 Corinthians
1:3 we
read "Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I thank my
God always on your behalf, for the grace
of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;"
Now, notice what this Grace is to do. 5 "That in every
thing ye are enriched by him, in all
utterance", (this word utterance
was translated from the Greek word Logos,
which we know as Word, but also it
means doctrine or teaching) and in all knowledge; so we
see that this Grace is to enrich us like fertilizer enriches the seed that's
been planted in the soil, and it is to enrich the doctrine and knowledge
in order to produce a fully manifested crop of sons and daughters.
Then he tells us why. 6 Even as the
testimony of Christ was confirmed (stabilized) in you: 7 So that ye come behind in no gift; (the word gift is taken from the Greek word charisma and it means endowment as in mental acuity or ability to understand..
So God sends a special anointing of Grace in order to anoint our minds to
the doctrine so that we come behind in no
understanding) waiting for the coming (the apokalupsis
or unveiling) 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. 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 (no splits) among you; but that ye be perfectly joined
together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
So you see this grace
that brother Branham was talking about is the same
Grace that Peter and Paul spoke of that would come at the time
of the apokalupsis
or Unveiling of the Mighty God. And it is to produce in us
an anointing upon the doctrine and knowledge of
Jesus Christ the Son of God that we might understand our own
role as sons giving us the same mind that was in Christ and readying us for the
adoption as obedient sons.
So we see the important of Revelation to the believer. Revelation is what seals us in. Revelation is what anoints our mental faith with an ability to
take on Word upon word upon word, bringing it to a super-natural dynamic revelation that seals us into Christ the word, and readies us
for our adoption.
1 John
So we see that the Holy Spirit is our Teacher
and the anointing of the Holy Spirit upon the
believer is what allows you to know and understand the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:1 And I, brethren,
when I came to you, came not with excellency of
speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 2 For I
determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him
crucified. 3 And
I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was
not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the
Spirit and of power: 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of
men, but in the power of God.
And that is the problem that we have right here in this
message, that men have received their learning from men but not from God.
Brother Branham taught us in his sermon Voice of the Sign 64-0321E E-33 The elected listens
to the voice. But the unelected
ignores and says, "Nonsense. Go on. We'll take the same old school."
That's the way they did in the days of Luther.
And from his sermon God Who Is Rich In Mercy
65-0119 191 If a man comes out with an odd peculiar
ministry, that's found in the Bible to be the Truth, and that man stays right
in that same old denominational doctrine, forget it. Nothing
to it. God don't do a thing like that. That thing, that's rotten
manna that's got termites in it, or wiggletails,
or whatever you want to call it, from forty, fifty years ago, still trying to
eat that old manna that fell way back years ago. And the children of
Then why do men keep preaching the same old denominational Oneness
doctrine and claim to believe the sign. They see the prophet, so they see the
sign, but why do they keep preaching the same old watered down doctrine that
they held back in Pentecost?
He said in his sermon, The Token
64-0308 77 He displayed His sign as Messiah, and so
forth. And they, many of them, said, "Yes, I could go for that."
Well, now, if that was a sign, there's
got to be a voice of that sign. What was the voice behind it? When He begin to teach His doctrine and call them a bunch of
snakes in the grass, He wasn't popular from then on (See?) when the voice came
with the sign. The sign went first.
The doctrine is vitally important because it is the fertilizer
upon the seed bringing it into manifestation of the life that lays within it. And Jesus said they did not want his
doctrine, they wanted the doctrine of man instead and by teaching for doctrine the commandments of men they made
the Word of God of
none effect to themselves.
And Paul said, 6 Howbeit we speak
wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of
the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7 But
we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery,
even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto
our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this
world knew: for had they known it,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it
is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But
God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for The Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For
what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no
man, but the Spirit of God knoweth. 12 Now we
have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the
things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which
things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing
spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for
they are foolishness unto him: neither
can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But
he that is spiritual
judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind
of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we
have the mind of Christ.
If you hear but do not learn it's because you heard but you
did not understand what you heard. Or else what you think you heard you really did not hear at all, and what you think you
saw, you did not see it at all, nor did you perceive or understand right, lest
God would have to heal them as Jesus quoted. So by hearing and not hearing and
seeing and not seeing it shows they had preconceived ideas already in their
minds of what they were hearing and seeing, thus their minds were blinded,
because their preconceived notions were wrong. That is why they heard and did
not hear, and saw but did not see, nor did they understand.
Of the thousands of ministers I've met personally overseas, there
isn't one of them who couldn't quote Malachi 4,
Luke
If the Word of God is shown to people and nothing happens to
them, and they don't walk in it, then what happens to them? God gives them a
delusion instead of a revelation. Why? Because they didn't
love the truth. You've got to Love it, and not fuss with it.
Paul told us in 2 Thessalonians
Now, a delusion is a fallacy, which is "A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence."
and when brother Vayle called Two lords a fallacy, then why is
it still taught as Bible truth, when fallacy means "A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence."
I'll tell you why. Because they also hold to another fallacy
or false teaching that says a true five fold minister can not make a mistake. Since when?
Brother Branham said even God's
prophets make mistakes because they are mortal men. Only God who is infinite can not make a mistake.
From his sermon, Identified
Christ of all ages 64-0617 P:67 which was
preached after the seals, brother Branham said, "Now, just one moment for the prayer line. We've got exactly
fifteen minutes to get out on time. Now, all I could say, I'm a man; my words
can just fail just like any other man, all of us. I've proved to you tonight
that every prophet, everything else, they made their mistakes. But God makes no
mistakes. His Word is the Truth. How many believes that He is the Word? God
bless you. That's where my faith is built, on nothing less than Jesus' Blood,
and right... Jesus is the Word."
And he also said in this same sermon, Identified Christ of all ages 64-0617 P:27
"Watch Joseph, just portrayed
the life of Christ almost perfect, but he made a mistake to show that it
wasn't Him. Man make mistakes. See, he told Pharaoh; he said... He told his
father, which was a prophet, Jacob, he said, "You tell Pharaoh that we are
herdsmen, because a shepherd is an abomination to an Egyptian." But the
father, the Spirit wouldn't let him do it; he said, "Your servants, the
shepherds..." So you see Joseph there making a mistake. David, the
great man, made a mistake, a man after God's Own heart, yet took Bathsheba,
thinking he could hide that from the very God that he had served all of his
life, but God exposed him by Nathan the prophet. See?"
But no matter how many hundreds of Scriptures or quotes from
Brother Branham you give them, they still refuse to believe what the Prophet of
God and the Word of God says. That is one strong delusion,
brother. I've talked to men who tell me they believe every word brother Branham
said, but will deny and disagree with what brother Branham said. Just like the
fusses over John 14:12. when we quote Scripture and William Branham vindicated
prophet of God, they say we are false. Well, whose
false? The ones who quote the prophet or those who deny what he says? So instead of Revelation that feeds Word upon
Word upon Word, they receive a strong delusion that feeds upon what other men
say about it, and thus they would rather believe a Lie than The Truth
vindicated by Scripture and the Prophetic utterance of "Thus Saith the Lord."
If revelation is to anoint our mental faith and
create in us a supernatural understanding and bring us into a readied state for adoption, then deception
will do the opposite. It'll cause to fall away from The Faith or The
Revelation of Jesus Christ.
If we teach anything contrary to what Paul taught, he said
let that man be cursed, right?
Galatians 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 7 Which is not
another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel
of Christ. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any
other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be
accursed. 9 As we said before,
so say I now again, If
any man (let's
get more specific: if any apostle, prophet, pastor or teacher or evangelist) preach any other
gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Now, what did Paul teach? Ephesians
4:4 There is one body, and
one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One
Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and
Father of all, who is above all, and through
all, and in you all.
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O
Mark 12:29 And Jesus
answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O
Anointed ones at end time
65-0725M P:186 Now, notice. That was Jesus speaking. Here come Paul right behind Him
and said, "Now, in the last days there will
come religious people (See?), having a form of godliness, and lead silly women, led away with all
kinds of worldly lust (Then they wonder, say,
"Why do you pick on them women?" Oh, for goodness... They just don't
even see it.)--lead silly women, laden with divers lust (away from things like--that's
of the...?... See?)... And as Jannes
and Jambres (Matthew 24:24, false christs, false anointed, doing signs and wonders to
deceive the elected)--now as Jannes
and Jambres withstood Moses, so will these
reprobates..." Reprobate mind concerning The faith, not a faith, The Faith. One faith, one Lord, one...?...
You can't have one
faith without believing in one Lord. You can't have two baptisms,
not one for the Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost. There's one baptism, Jesus
Christ. That's right. See? False baptism...
Now, when men continue to teach a fallacy when they've been corrected, you
can’t tell me these men do not intentionally hold to error rather than the
Truth. Jesus said in John
Paul said in Ephesians 4:14 That we
henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every
wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby
they lie in wait to deceive;
Jesus said in Matthew 23: 13 But woe unto
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut
up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye
them that are entering to go in.
And again we hear Paul say the same thing in, Romans
This word hold was translated from the Greek Katecho which means to hold down, to withhold or hold back, so no matter which way you slice
it they purposely suppress the Truth. Notice how they do it. He said, They hold down the Truth in un-right-wise-ness, which means they hold down the Truth by giving the people an incorrect
understanding to replace the truth. By teaching error instead of the Truth they
hold it back from the people. In order to withhold the Truth, they cause the
people to stay away from the Truth. To do this they must lie about the truth,
and so they suppress the knowledge of the Truth from the people, and cause the
people to become afraid to check Truth for themselves.
In order to believe The lie they do not come right out and
deny the Scriptures, and they will not say they disagree with Br. Branham, but
then when you quote from the Scriptures and William Branham they say you are
making it up, and twisting it. They say they believe him, and yet they deny
what he taught. I told them, “why don’t you just go
off and preach your own message since you're not teaching what brother Branham
taught.” I said, “why do you still hold him up as your prophet
when you don’t believe him.” And I said, “he's no more your prophet than Peter was the first pope.”
So what they do, is tell the people the
Scripture does not mean what is says. The Scriptures says that Jesus was not
His own Father, so they just won’t share those Scriptures with the people. The
scripture says that God forsook Jesus in
Now, what is the best way to hide a real diamond? Put it in a room with a
thousand counterfeits. And what is the best way to hide the Truth? Put it in a
Message with a thousand counterfeits. Look, the counterfeit religion
isn’t out there somewhere, it’s right in our midst
trying to keep you from the Truth of the Message.
And how can you worship God outside of Truth. You can’t. Jesus said we must
worship God in Spirit and truth. So they try to change the truth. And Paul told us
how they do it. He said in Romans
And so instead of
Preaching about the Son of God and how he came and laid down his own Life, they preach about
the Bride, the Bride, and the Bride. The creature instead of
the creator. And so they will
not believe the record that God gave of His Son and so they in essence they are
calling God a liar. That is what the
Apostle John said in 1 John
John told us in John
So the error of the wicked is to take the word of God and twist it in
such a way as to distort it, so it does not say what it actually says. It means
to lie about the Truth in order to cause the people to stay away from it.
That’s how they suppress the truth.
And brother Branham laid
out for us the three things they do to distort the Word of God, and he said we
should never do these three things with the Word of God because to do them is
to change the meaning of What God's Word means.
Christ revealed in His own Word
65-0822M P:53 Now, in order to study the Scripture... Paul told Timothy, "Study It, rightly dividing the Word of God
which is Truth." Then there's
three musts in the Scripture. In using God's Word there is
three things that you must not do. Now, let's study those for
the next ten minutes: Three
things that you must not do... And all out in the land wherever you
are across the nation, be sure to put these down in your mind if you haven't
got a pencil. You
must not do these things. We tell you all the time how you must
do; now, I'm going to tell you what you must not do. Now, you must not misinterpret the
Word. You say, "Well, I believe It
means this." It means just what it says. It needs no interpreter.
And you must not
misplace the Word. And you must not dislocate the Word. And if we
would do either of these, it throws the whole Bible in a
confusion and in a chaos.
1. you must not misinterpret the Word
2. you must not misplace the Word.
3. you must not dislocate the Word
1. Now, to
misinterpret the word means: to interpret the word wrongly. Like
teaching Two Lords as a truth when it is a fallacy.
2. To misplace the
word means: you place it where it is not meant to be placed,
such as making John
3. To dislocate
the word, means: to put out of place or proper relative position, to
put out of order, like placing the adoption and being conformed to the
Image of the first born to somewhere after the resurrection or possibly in the
Millennium,
2 Peter 3: 17 Ye therefore,
beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own
stedfastness.
And Jude tells us Jude
Jesus said in his Prayer to the Father, John 17:
14 I have given them thy Word; and the
world hath hated them, because they are not of the
world, even as I am not of the world.
And he also said, John 16:2 They shall put you
out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth
you will think that he doeth God service. 3 And these things will they do unto
you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Jesus said in, 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. 21 But all these things will
they do unto you for my name's sake,
because they know not him that sent me.
22 If
I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no
cloke for their sin.
Then
Jesus said, 23 He that hateth
me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had
not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin:
but now have they both seen and hated both
me and my Father. 25 But this cometh to pass,
that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me
without a cause.
And they hated William
Branham without a cause because he came to them and did what no other man could
do and they turned down his doctrine to hold to some silly denominational
teaching that Jesus was his own Father.
And so they do not know what to do with the Body and so some say it went
back to gases. You talk about silly women laden with
diverse lusts, and endless wives fables. We've got it right here in
this Message.
1 John 4:6 We are of God: and he that knoweth God heareth us; and he that is not of God heareth not us.
Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error, (delusion)
Brother Branham saidin his sermon Christ Revealed in His Own Word “In the Laodicean age the people were what? Naked (Are
they?), blind. What
good does light do to a blind man? If the blind leads the blind,
don't they all fall in the ditch? Naked, blind, and don't know it. Even their mental faculties are gone,
their spiritual faculties of mental--spiritual understanding. See? Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of
God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that
are good, having a form of godliness but denying
the power thereof, The power of revelation, they don't even believe in it. See?”) They don't believe in such things as
prophets, and so... They don't believe in it.
And
from his sermon, Way of a true prophet 62-0513M P:118 The Bible said if they wouldn't believe the Word, He'd give
them strong delusions to believe a lie and would be damned by it. That's
exactly what these organizations and people of this nation's
doing today: believing a lie to be damned by it.
And
from his sermon, God's wrapped gift 60-1225 P:53 God said He'd give them
over to strong delusions to believe a lie and be damned by it. God said He would do it.
You refuse right, you have to take wrong. There's no other way. You refuse to
go right, you have to go left, go some other way beside right; so you can't
go right and wrong at the same time. When they refused the Holy Ghost,
they refused Christ, they refused God's program, they refused the
messenger, they refused everything; so therefore, they're left in their sin.
There's nothing left then but judgment.
Let
us pray