God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 102

Brian Kocourek, December 17, 1995

End Time Error no. 3

Wednesday night we continued our study of the two major false doctrines concerning the Godhead, that have seemed to become prominent among believers in the Message of this hour. In order for you to understand these Doctrines and why they are being taught we first have to understand how these men who teach such things think and then we will also need to know what illustrations they use in their teaching of this to others. This is how we shall systematically break down what they think and thus teach and where it deviates from the Word of God, and common sense.

Wednesday night we brought out how that Jesus warned us in [ Mark 4: 24 ] about being careful how we hear. To paraphrase His words so that you might understand it better, what He says here in [Mark] is this... "Take heed how you hear: for with what measuring instrument you use to portion it out, it will come back to your understanding by that same measuring instrument and what you understand will be in accordance with what measuring device you use." In other words, , "as a tree leaneth, so shall it fall". We are warned to be careful how we approach the Word of God. Paul said, he had to forget everything he knew when He came face to face with the Pillar of Fire. We are no different. We must forget everything we think we know, in the light of a vindicated Prophet.

Now the key here to recognizing the error in these false doctrines is by understanding the principle of Alpha becoming Omega. When you see the error in the first Age, and then when you see it repeat in the last age, you can then make certain assertions, namely if it was wrong then, then it is wrong now. What these men think and teach does not run in continuity with the way we have been taught to think by Moses, Paul and William Branham, the three Prophets of God who came with the Revelation of Jesus Christ and Whom were also vindicated by the same God working through a Pillar of Fire.

Now just as the error began in Alpha it has come to be in the Omega. These men who teach this error want you to believe that God is Masculo-feminine in nature and that the Masculine part is the Father, but the feminine part is the Holy Spirit. And since this doctrine has developed into such error that it is now taught that the fulness of the Godhead is in the Bride, therefore This feminine part of God, or the Holy Spirit is the Bride, and since they believe this, they had to do away with the position and office of the Father in order to make it all fit together according to their Gospel. They do not directly say this in an open manner, but through their manner of discourse and their choice of illustrations the evidence has been openly presented that indicates this to be the case according to their Gospel.

In [ 2 Peter 2: 1] W e are warned that false teachers will bring in alongside of the True doctrines, destructive heresies even denying the Lord that bought them, Now we know that it was not the son that bought them, but the Father paid the price by giving His only begotten Son. Jesus was the price that was paid, but it was the Father that Bought them. And so to preach a mother God surely denies the Father of Glory Who has come down in this hour. Brother Branham told us what the teaching for the hour is when He said, "My Ministry is to declare HIM, that HE is here!". Now to declare HER is shear larceny and fabrication. But we are also warned in the same breath in [2 Peter 2:4] that "with feigned words ( fake and made up words) they will make merchandise of you." and by this they will cause others to fall away as we are told in [ 2 Timothy 4: 1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from THE faith, giving heed to ( That is, Paying attention to) seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;"

In [ Matthew 7 ] Jesus told us how to discern whether a man is genuine or not, He said, "By their fruits you shall know them." And we were told by Brother Branham that "the Fruits are the teaching for the season." And remember, the Teaching of the hour is what Brother Branham told us it was, "To Declare HIM, that HE is here!" It is not "To declare HER, That SHE is here! As some would have you to believe" We are not to give a bride preeminence, that in itself is contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

It would not be fair of me to tell you these things that are being taught without knowing first hand what is being said. Too many times we hear from a source that is twice or more removed pertaining to what is being said, and when we check it out for ourselves, we find out that some how the person was misquoted. But when you put it in writing and sign your name to it, you are placing it out there for the world to see. And the danger in this is you had better be right, or else you will be guilty of teaching others error. So with this in mind, we shall read verbatim what has been written and said, concerning this Female Holy Ghost doctrine.

From the Golden Grain Publication written by Dr. Morris R. Ungren we read as follows.

"THE MOTHER DOVE"

"( THE FEMININE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD)"

"In the New Testament the first emblem under which we see the Holy Spirit is the Dove descending upon the head of Jesus when John the Baptist baptized Him. "And Jesus, when He was baptized, went straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him." ( Matthew 3: 16)

When we go back to Genesis in the Old Testament we find also that the first emblem under which the Holy Spirit is presented is also that of a dove. " The earth was without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." (Genesis 1: 2) ..."

He continues, ..."Noted Hebraists concur that this is the figure of THE MOTHER DOVE brooding over her nest and cherishing her young. The scene is one of chaos, desolation and seething waters of an earth in a state of flood in a starless night. It was then that THE MOTHER DOVE of eternal love and peace began to build her nest, and she rested not until out of that scene of wreck and ruin emerged a restored earth. The scene is one of a mother hen brooding over her nest. ..."

He goes on to write... "In [Genesis 8] we read of another scene of desolation and ruin. The waters of the deluge are sweeping over the earth. This is 20 centuries later and countless millions of people are floating in death and being splashed about by the horrible waves of that flood. In that judgment only eight souls were saved! ..."

He continues by writing..." In the flood of Noah's day we read again concerning the figure of a dove. "And it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the Ark which he had made: and sent forth a raven, which went to and fro, until the waters were dried up from the earth." "Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground: but the dove found no rest for the sole of HER ( Notice how here he capitalizes HER) foot, and SHE ( notice again that he capitalizes SHE) returned unto him in the Ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took HER ( Again, he capitalizes HER ) and pulled HER ( capitalized ) in unto him in the Ark." " And he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the Ark: and the dove come in to him in the evening: and, lo, in HER (capitalized)

mouth was an olive leaf, plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated off the earth." " And he stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more." ( verses 6-11) ...

He continues.... It is obvious and easy to see and understand that the dove is also a figure of the Holy Spirit in a feminine, motherly role. The first thought is that of motherhood. ( Now, what I would like to know is whose first thought after reading this is motherhood. For crying out loud, what is this message coming too any way. He says, It is obvious and easy to see and understand . For whom? I'm sorry but I don't see it! So I guess that would make me not too spiritual in their books, or according to their understanding. Well, let's continue with this Doctrine of theirs and I hope you see why I'm hitting this.

Now this morning I want to attack this portion of their doctrine which has to do with typing a dove to the Holy Spirit. First I also want to say that you and I have no right to making up our own types. I have heard ministers in this Message even type Pinochio and even door knobs as the Bride. I don't know where they get that stuff, but we are warned in the following Scripture to avoid old wives fables and endless genealogies because they will cause you to turn away from the Truth.

[1 Timothy 1:4] Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: [so do].

[ 1 Timothy 4: 7 ] But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] unto godliness.

[ 2 Timothy 4: 4] And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

[Titus 1: 14 ] Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

[ 2 Peter 1: 16 ] For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

Only a Vindicated Prophet with Thus Saith the Lord has a right to use types and shadows. And if we use them we can only use what has been shown to us for our use by God's Vindicated Prophet or we could be n danger of leaving the Truth. I've told you before to be careful about metaphors and parables because they are used to throw people off rather than to teach in depth truth. That's what Jesus said the reason He used them was for in [ Matthew 13: 10 - 17]. "So that in seeing they would not understand, and in hearing they would not perceive what was being said."

I remember years ago I let a friend who felt he had a call in his life come here and preach while I took my wife and kids to Iowa on vacation. I'll never forget when I got back, some of you were quite upset because this guy had typed Snow White with the Bride and the Seven Dwarfs he typed with the Seven Church Age Messengers. When I heard this I said, "If that is the case, then which Messenger was Dopey?" Needless to say, we haven't had too many Ministers in this pulpit since. I could name on one hand the number we have had in the past ten years. I have come to the place where I don't see too many out there any way, who can stand in the face of This Revelation and reflect it back to you without going off into something that is completely insane and foolish.

Now, in getting back to this doctrine of the Female Holy Spirit, we need to go back to Genesis since Brother Branham taught us that all false teaching had there source back in Genesis. Now we have already read from Dr. Ungren's Publication, that He uses the story of the creation to illustrate his viewpoints concerning a Female Holy Spirit.

[ Genesis 1: 1- 2 ] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Now what they are doing here with this scripture is they are looking at this scene and in doing so we see the first time God begins to move out into some sort of manifestation and they use a quote from Brother Branham to verify that this is indeed the metaphor in which God manifested Himself before the creations of the world in the form of a Dove.

E-54 THE.IMPERSONATION.OF.CHRISTIANITY -57-0127.1A Way back yonder in the beginning when God sent the Logos, which was the Son of God from the bosom of the Father, He begin to brood over the earth the Bible said. What is the word "brood"? What does it mean? Like mothering, like the hen, her brood is called her chickens, her offspring. And the Holy Spirit, as it was, with His arms or His wings brooding over a bleak earth, where there never had been life... And as He begin to brood, the waters begin to separate, and the land came up.

Now, the first thing I want you to notice is that Brother Branham never says SHE or HER in reference to the Holy Spirit. He does use the illustration of a mother hen brooding over her chicks but he says HE and not SHE in describing the Holy Spirit. And again he says, God sent forth His SON, the Logos and HE begin to brood over the earth. So in both instances he does not say what Dr. Ungren is saying, nor does Brother Branham even come close to giving you the same thinking as Dr. Ungren does.

Now, if you'll notice, they continue with this thought of the Holy Spirit like a dove and try to establish that the dove is always looked upon as a female. And so Dr. Ungren uses [ Genesis 8: 8-9] where it speaks of Noah and the dove being sent froth from the Ark. And finally they take you to Jesus Himself in order to make this seem as though it has a scriptural foundation in [ Luke 13:34] where He is definitely engaged in a metaphor which is a play on words that is used in order to present something in a sort of illustration or story format. He said, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen [doth gather] her brood under [her] wings, and ye would not!

As I said before, we know better than to think that a parable or an illustration is actually literally to be taken as stated. If this is true, when Jesus said Himself that the very reason He used Parables or metaphors was so that only the Elect would understand and all others would actually be thrown off by them. Can you imagine Jesus literally declaring to every one that He is actually a she, and in fact some sort of a large mother chicken. He said, AS a mother Hen would gather so would He have liked to do so in the same manner.

After trying in vain to establish their doctrine by using these simple metaphors and illustrations, they then proceed to look at other times this She Dove appears. They actually feel by doing this that they nail down their point that a dove represents the female attributes of God. Then they go to [ Matt 3:16-4:1] where we read, "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Now here we see how far they go to stretch the Truth. The scripture plainly says that the Holy Spirit came like a dove would come down. It does not say it was a dove but that it's descent was in the same manner of fashion that a dove would descend. In other words, it came down very gently and slowing lighting upon Him. And even if it had a shape that would be similar to that of a dove, so what. But it is also strange that these same men will concur that it was the voice of the Father that stated "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." And so they at this point conclude that this is where the spirit of God was rent in two and the female attributes of God came down. But if that is so then Why do they believe this voice that spake is that of the Father, for He definitely said, This is my beloved Son, In WHOM I am well pleased, or as brother Branham so often quoted, "This is my beloved Son, In WHOM I am pleased to dwell in." So then if this is indeed the voice of the Father, then it is at this point that the Father has come down to incarnate His Son. Not mother, but Father. Now to me this is shear evidence enough that these men do not understand the Godhead.

But the conclusion you must draw by their assertions is this, The Father remained above but the Mother Entered into Him. The Female part of God. Yuk! Now to this point we see that these men use the dove as a central point to declare that God has some how sent forth the female part of Himself represented to earth in the form of a dove, but is called the Holy Spirit.

From pp. 264 from God’s Only Provided Place of Worship Brother Branham said, "No leaven among you, that brings the entire fullness of the Godhead bodily among you." So we can see from this statement that it is among those who do not consort to leaven where the Fulness of God will dwell. But those that must consort to such leaven as these blasphemous doctrines, can not in no wise understand this fulness which is among the people.

Now in viewing this leaven which they project forth as a dove and female attributes of God, let's just go back in history to see where this originated.

From page 79 - 80 of [Hyslops Two Babylon's] , we read...{ "Juno,"--the name of the Roman "queen of heaven," which has the very same meaning; and under the form of a dove as well as her own, she was worshipped by the Babylonians. The dove, the chosen symbol of this deified queen, is commonly represented with an olive branch in her mouth ...there can be no doubt that the symbol had partly reference to the story of the flood; but there was much more in the symbol than a mere memorial of that great event. "A branch," as had been already proved, was the symbol of the deified son, and when the deified mother was represented as a Dove, what could the meaning of this representation be but just to identify her with the Spirit of all grace, that brooded, dove-like, over the deep at the creation; for in the sculptures at Nineveh, as we have seen, the wings and tail of the dove represented the third member of the idolatrous Assyrian trinity. * In confirmation of this view, it must be stated that the Assyrian "Juno," or "The Virgin Venus," * as she was called, was identified with the air. Thus Julius Firmicus says:--"The Assyrians and part of the Africans wish the air to have the supremacy of the elements, for they have consecrated this same [element] under the name of Juno, or the Virgin Venus." Why was air thus identified with Juno, whose symbol was that of the third person of the Assyrian trinity? Why, but because in Chaldee the same word which signifies the air signifies also the "Holy Ghost." The knowledge of this entirely accounts for the statement of Proclus, that "Juno imports the generation of soul." * Whence could the soul--the spirit of man--be supposed to have its origin, but from the Spirit of God. In accordance with this character of Juno as the incarnation of the Divine Spirit, the source of life, and also as the goddess of the air, thus is she invoked in the "Orphic Hymns":-- the wife of Ninus or Nimrod, when exalted to divinity under the Name of the Queen of Heaven, came, as we have seen, to be worshipped as Juno, the "Dove"--in other words, the Holy Spirit incarnate.}

And what is the So called Bride doing today? Trying to become worshipped as the So called Holy Spirit incarnate. I hope you can see where this is all coming from and where it is going. From Pg. 303 of [Hyslops Two Babylon's] we again read ... { The bearing of all this upon the question of the identification of Cybele and Astarte, or Venus, is important. Fundamentally, there was but one goddess--the Holy Spirit, represented as female, when the distinction of sex was wickedly ascribed in the Godhead, through a perversion of the great Scripture idea, that all the children of God are at once begotten of the Father, and born of the Spirit; and under this idea, the Spirit of God, as Mother, was represented under the form of a dove, in memory of the fact that that Spirit, at the creation, "fluttered"--for so, as I have observed, is the exact meaning of the term in Gen. i. 2--"on the face of the waters." This goddess, then, was called Ops, "the flutterer," or Juno, "The Dove," or Khubele, "The binder with cords," which last title had reference to "the bands of love, the cords of a man"

Now, in the first church age they left their first love which according to the Church Age Book was their Love for the Name of God and all that goes with that name, namely God Himself, therefore, Godhead. So we see that in leaving their first love, men left the true understanding of One God Who had a Son and had Himself come into that Son and therefore Vindicated the Revelation of that Son, which is the Revelation OF Jesus Christ. Paul had said they were worshipping another Jesus and using the same Gospel but presenting it in a perverted manner and thus the people heard a Gospel of a different nature and were receiving a Spirit of a different nature as well. This was all the beginnings of the Great deception.

In the next church Age Irenaeus came along and nailed it down sure enough that the people had gone back into Idolatry and pagan worship but all the while trying to prove their doctrine using the scriptures along with their old wives tails. In His First Book against the Heresies, He wrote of their beliefs as this, "Out from Bythus who is the Propator and Ennoea also known as Sige ( Silence ) they teach that Nous also called (Monogenes) the Father of all, came forth his female counterpart Alethieia, And from their union came forth Logos and Zoe and from their union came forth Theletos

( which is derived from the Greek Word Theios which means divine or God) and Ecclesia ( which means to preach or the preacher). And of course the Nous ( The Father of all things) created separately a Christ and Spiritus another male and female couple which represents Christ and the Holy Spirit. And so Irenaeus declared, " For there is a necessity in their opinion, that a female AEon should exist side by side with a male one, inasmuch as she is, so to speak, [the forthputting of] his affection." Irenaeus continues, "while, at the same time, they endow Him with human affections and passions. But if they had known the Scriptures, and been taught by the truth, they would have known, beyond doubt, that God is not as men are; and that His thoughts are not like the thoughts of men.(2) For the Father of all is at a vast distance from those affections and passions which operate among men.

So basically what you have is error that taught the people to look at God in a way which split Him into different persons that made up His Fulness. Each attribute of God had a counter-attribute that was feminine in it's nature, and so you had a masculo-feminine God. A HE-SHE. And when you study this first church age error in detail, you will find that each of these feminine attributes were actually the same as the male counter-part but with one exception. They were the expressed form of that Attribute which is exactly what is being taught today. Irenaeus said, , "For there is a necessity in their opinion, that a female AEon should exist side by side with a male one, inasmuch as she is, so to speak, [the forthputting of] his affection." As though a male is incapable of setting forth affections. That sounds like the N.O.W. gang. We're Feminist and we're in your face garbage! So what they arrived at is all these Little Gods, so to speak who made up the fulness of the Godhead, which is the Greek word Pleroma which simply means fulness. We see this Greek word used in the following scriptures: And in reading here, I want you to carefully notice how they take these scriptures and make the Bride this Fulness.

[ John 1: 16 ] "And of His Pleroma (Fullness) have we received, and Grace for Grace. " Now, notice here it does not say we are, but we have received from this Fulness Grace.

[ Ephesians 1:22-23 ] to the church, Which is his body, the( Pleroma) fulness of him that filleth all in all. Now this next verse can be quite tricky if you only take part of it. If you read verse 23 you will ask yourself who is this fulness and then if you go back to verse 22 you see it is mentioning the church just before it says which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth al in all. And so it would appear that the Church is His fulness. But that is not what this scripture says here. Let's go to verse 17 and begin here.

[ Ephesians 1:17-23 ] That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set [him] at his own right hand in the heavenly [places], Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all [things] under his feet, and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the church, Which is his body, the( Pleroma) fulness of him that filleth all in all. Notice that it is not the church but The Son that was given to be the head over all except of course the Father Who is the Head of the Son. And since the Father is the Head even of the So, then Who is this Fulness speaking of?

[1 Corinthians 15: 27-28] But when He saith all things are put under Him, it is manifest that He is excepted, which did put all things under Him, And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject under Him, that God may be all in all. So who then will be reigning? God will. The Pillar of Fire will be above the Lamb in the New Jerusalem. So you can see that all this mumbo jumbo that places the preeminence in the Bride is nothing but latter reign false doctrine which for years has been piping " we shall reign, for we are kings and priests." And what they want to do is to reign outside of Him. They then need to devise some way to get rid of Him who is our Father. It's the same spirit that is in the Menendez brothers. Kill the Father to get the inheritance.

Jesus even told a parable of the Land owner who lent out his fields to men and then in harvest he sent men to gather what was due Him. But the men killed off those whom the Father sent and so He sent His only begotten son. When the men saw Him they plotted to kill him thinking, " If we kill the Son then the inheritance will be ours." And that is what these doctrines are doing by way of men's desires. They have a desire to do away with the Father and the Son and so they preach a doctrine that places every thing in the church. But just because they desire it doesn't mean that it will happen, and just because they preach it doesn't mean it will come to pass. That's the same mentality that says, if we start a rumor it will happen. Or if you build it, he will come. Or, the broom fell across the door so company is on their way. Old wives fables. Phooey!

[Ephesians 4:13] Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness ( Pleroma) of Christ:

[Colossians 1:19 For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all( Pleroma) fulness dwell;

[Colossians 2:9] For in him dwelleth all the( Pleroma) fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Now, we have read every scripture where this word for Fulness is used and not one tells us that the Fulness is to be in the church. In fact the last couple tells us quite plainly that the entire fulness was only contained in one Man and that was in Christ Jesus.

#1) And So, If the fulness is now in the church as they say, then all that was in the Father must be in them as well. Then not only will all power be in them, but all knowledge of all things and all creatorial powers and even all healing and if all knowledge of all things, then tell me when will the rapture take place, what day, what month, what year even. Because Jesus said, no man knoweth the day or hour, and if this is so then all knowledge is not in them. Then if all knowledge is not in them neither is all power. And you see where you are at? What Good is it to try and make yourself God if you are lacking His Wisdom, Knowledge and Power.

#2) If all that is in the Father has been poured into the church so that the Father is entirely emptied out, then the church is greater than the Father, for that which contains is greater than that which is contained.

#3) If all that was in the Father is now in the church, so as to say God has become emptied out, then the only God there is today is in the church. Then that which is incorruptible has become corruptible which is just the opposite from what the scripture tells us that corruptible shall put on incorruptible. Now the scripture does not say to put in, but to put on. To put in is to place inside, but the scripture says corruption shall put on, which is outside. Which is a dressing, or a container, and since the container is greater than that which is contained, it is necessary that an outer dressing be placed over this mantle of death that it might become incorruptible. Then that which actually takes over our being is greater than our being.

Now in getting back to Dr. Ungren's Publication, we find him use the same arguments that the Gnostics used back in Irenaeus' day where they tried to attribute all the displays of those attributes which dealt with the putting forth of affection to a female personality or person who was part of the Fulness or Pleroma. Dr. Ungren then quotes a Trinitarian and refers to the Greek word Paracletos, which is used in the scriptures in describing the Holy Spirit as the great Comforter which Jesus said He would send, and his wording leads one to believe that bringing comfort is only a female attribute. He also explains that this word Paracletos is used as the word, advocate in [ 1 John 2: 1] and then he misquotes the scripture here and says, " The Holy Spirit is, indeed, as has been said, " The Mother-Principle in the Godhead," and "as One whom His Mother Comforteth." But a closer reading of [ 1 John 2: 1 ] that is quoted here, speaks only of a Loving Father, who gives comfort. " and if any man sin, we have an advocate ( Paracletos) with the FATHER, Jesus Christ the Righteous. But Dr. Ungren says, "The Greek word Paracletos can not be translated by the word comfort, or be taken as the name of an abstract influence. The Comforter, instructor, Patron, Guide, Advocate, and even MOTHER, which this term brings before us, is a person. Not a different person, but the same person who is also Father and the same One "Who gave Himself birth to this son." And so we see, just as in the first church age, these men tried to equate any word or metaphor which God's Holy Word used in describing God's relationship to man that happened to be a characteristic found in women, they would use this to try and establish that indeed, God not only had feminine attributes, but that He indeed had a feminine other Half that was equal to Him. And so we see words which have to do with birth or being born or nursing a child or gathering a brood are quickly latched upon and utilized by them to establish some scriptural credibility for their doctrine.

But if the Scripture speaks of the Holy spirit as being feminish, then why does [ Romans 8:11] say, But if the Spirit of HIM that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, HE that raised up Jesus from the dead shall also quicken your mortal body." Dr. Ungren goes on to speak about motherhood, and says, Human fatherhood expresses a need which is met in God in the role as Father. But MOTHERHOOD HAS IT'S ORIGIN IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. Now, a statement like that is clear enough evidence that this man does not understand Godhead, for this is double speak here. He goes on to say, In the regeneration of the soul, Jesus in [John 3] , describes it as a NEW BIRTH. " Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again." It is the Holy Spirit in the role of a mother that gives us that NEW BIRTH! Even the guidance and nurture of the Holy Spirit is described in the language taken from the nursery and the home. The comfort of the Holy Spirit is described under the very image of a mother's caresses and a mother's love. " And He quotes [Isaiah 66: 13] "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and ye shall be comforted, saith the Lord." But I want you to notice that nowhere does this man bring in other scriptures that would totally annihilate this theory, for in [ 2 Corinthians 1: 3] we read, " Blessed be God, even the FATHER of our Lord Jesus Christ, The FATHER of mercies, and the God of all Comfort; And again in [ 1Thessalonians 2: 13] ' As ye know how that we exhorted and COMFORTED and charged every one of you, AS a FATHER doth HIS children.

It is indeed tragic to see men work so hard to try and establish their doctrines without much thought. When men try to establish birth as a woman thing, they must throw out the door the fact that Life comes from the Male. The female has no Seed of her own in which Life is contained. She has a piece of protoplasm that the Life is injected into. But to place the woman as the center of the bringing forth of Life shows a total disregard for the source of that Life. He continues by saying, As we have previously stated, Eve typed the bride-church. That is why on the day of Pentecost the mother-attributes that were in Christ in the form of the 'paraclete' were poured out on the believers "as one whom his mother comforteth." This Mother-Spirit through seven church ages was bringing to birth the bride of Jesus Christ. To be "born again" is the language of the pediatric ward where children are being birthed by their mothers. ( then He quotes Jesus in rebuking Nicodemus for not knowing these things, as if He is really laying it on to those of us who are just too un-spiritual because we can not see what he is saying here.) And yet if you check out what happened in the scripture, Jesus told Nicodemus that He had to be born again, and he thought in terms of a woman and a mother, his own mother, and so Jesus rebuked him for being so stupid as to think in terms of motherhood!

Now, remember what Irenaeus said, concerning those who tried to attribute feminine attributes to the putting forth of the affections? Notice it wasn't the affection itself, but the manner in which it was displayed. And so we here Dr. Ungren say, When we speak of feminine attributes in God, we are not speaking of biological sex at all. Feminine and masculine spirits are different. They are evident in the voice, in mannerisms, in body-language and expression. The feminine spirit in the form of attributes were also in God. How else could he be EL-SHADDAI, the breasted One?

I don't want to sound crude here, but all this talk about women and nursing and Bosom's seems to be really grasping for straws. Women are not the only human beings who have breast's. And just because the Scripture calls Him EL-SHADAI or The breasted One, doesn't place feminine qualities in God. In fact I've seen some men who had larger breast's than a lot of women. And furthermore, in [ John 1: 18] we read, No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the BOSOM of the Father, He hath declared Him." So the Father has a bosom. It didn't say He was in the bosom of the Mother did it? And furthermore, in [ Number 11: 12] we here Moses say, Have I conceived all this people? Have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy Bosom, as a Nursing FATHER beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their FATHERS? Now it is interesting to se how the word of God works. Because this word used here for the word to nurse is figurative only. The word is actually used most of the time in the Bible as the word to believe, or belief and since it is tied in with a metaphor of a FATHER who nurses His Child, we see then it has to do with sustaining Life. Even brother Branham nursed his son Billy Paul from an old coke bottle with a nipple over the top. So don't tell me that a reference to the Breasted One is evidence of a feminine attribute.

By this point Dr. Ungren has seems to have exhaust his sources of back up scriptures and quotes and basically just begins stretching out what he has already used, to kind of make the shoe fit, but it doesn't wash well at all. He begins to wind down with the following words, " The people of the Lord need the comforting touch of Mother God as well as the authority and headship of Father God. He fills both roles.

I think we can trace the error to a misunderstanding of Godhead. Dr. Ungren says, " as we previously stated, the TWO spirits were in Adam, the first Bridegroom in Genesis One until God separated them in Genesis Two. These TWO spirits were also in the second Adam, and He too was a BrideGroom. Now we know that Adam did not have two spirits in Him and neither did God. If He did then which One is the Holy Spirit and what is the name of the other One? What Dr. Ungren does not understand is that God is Spirit ( Singular) and they that worship HIM must worship in Spirit and Truth! In fact in the following quote brother Branham tells us that there was but one spirit So in effect we are dealing with Life. The Life of the male human is no different than the life in the female human. It is human life. Bovine Life is The same whether it is in the cow or in the bull. It is Bovine life. Hog life is hog life whether it is the sow or the bore. The same with Canine life. Canine life is the same whether it is in the dog or the Bitch. Canine life is canine life.

From the message [Ye must be Born again, 58-06-19] Brother Branham said, "Where Adam is more the burly type, for he was the man, the masculine type. The woman was feminish, but it's the same Spirit, for He took her from Adam.

But what these men do not understand is that when Brother Branham is referring to attributes of God, He is speaking of God's thoughts. And so if Brother Branham says, that there were feminine attributes, he is saying that God had thoughts of having a wife. In talking to Dr. Ungren a couple years back when he wrote this I explained this to him. I told him that when you are dealing with Life you are not dealing with feminish nor masculine, but Life. And I said, I had thoughts of having a wife but that did not make me part female and neither does it make me part female because I had three daughters, because after all the Life is in the male and if I conceived three daughters, then the life in these daughters had to come forth from me. In [ John 6: 63] Jesus said, "My Words are Spirit and they are Life." [John 1: 4] said, " In Him was Life and the Life was the Light of Men." And even when that Life was expressed it did not come forth in a female representation, it came forth as a Male because a male is the carrier of Life. [ 1 John 1: 1-2] That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands have handled, of the Word of Life; ( For the Life was manifested, and we have see it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal Life, which was manifested unto us; ) and in verse 3 he says, for truly our fellowship is with the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. No where does it mention that God manifests Himself in a feminish role. That is ludicrous .

Finally I would like to read a few quotes from Brother Branham that Dr. Ungren also uses, but of which you will see that when you deal with the thoughts of Life and that God's Attributes are His thoughts, then you will see there is no deep secret mystery that takes a Dr. To figure out, but that God simply hides Himself in Simplicity and He is the author and Giver of Eternal Life. That is not another Life, but it is His very own Life. That doesn't make us Him, no more than my girls are me. It just means that My life and my nature and my characteristics and my attributes runs trough their very veins.

29-2 CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY 63-0728 Now you see the secret? What to?--to restore fallen Eve, As she was a free figure of the church. And now notice, as God opened up the side of Adam and took out Eve by his own flesh and blood, and divided his spirit from masculine to feminish-- and put it in Eve, took the rib from under his side and made Eve out of it; so God did the same thing, taking out of the side of Christ the Blood and the water, (and Christ is the Word), and taking the Word and making up His Church. ( So you see he is not talking about a separate feminish spirit out from God, but His very own Word which is the carrier of His very own Life. The Word is a seed according to Jesus and Wm. Branham and a seed by definition is a carrier of Life. )

17-5 THE.RISING.OF THE.SUN -- 65-0418.1M And if He, being the Groom, the Bride has to come forth, 'cause It's part of Him. And It can only be the manifestation of the fulfilling of all of revelations and others that spoke of the Bride! And It can only manifest... And if It does something different from the Groom, it isn't the Bride, because She's flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone, Life of His Life, power of His Power. She is Him! As man and woman are one, and woman taken from his side, She had taken His Spirit (the feminish spirit from Him), the flesh from His side, made both mechanics and Dynamics, the Wife--the Spirit of Him and the flesh of Him and put it together and made mechanics and Dynamics. ( Now I know that Brother Branham uses the word feminish spirit from him but he is not saying it is a different spirit from what Jesus has. He says it is the same spirit it is just in the Bride that's all. My daughters have my same Life in them, but they are not male, they are feminine. Remember, you must be careful how you hear for with what you use to try and measure out this word is what measure you'll end up with. And if you are looking for a female Holy Spirit you'll certainly find one somewhere. I don't know how holy it will be, but you'll find it. )

51 THE.SEED.SHALL.NOT.BE.HEIR - 65-0429.1M For, when God separated Adam, he was both. We find out, Adam was spirit, to begin with. "He made man in His Own image, created He male and female." And then, Genesis 2 and on, He created man in... out of the dust of the earth. Man was created in God's image (God is a Spirit), so he's a spirit man. Then when he become flesh man, animal flesh on the earth, He is showing, portraying here the Bride. He never taken and made another being, but he took part of Adam, the original creation, took from him, a rib from his side; and took the feminish spirit out of Adam, left the masculine spirit in there, and placed it in the feminish part. Therefore, part of his spirit, part of his body; flesh of his flesh, bone of his bone; Word of His Word, Life of His Life, and that's the way the Bride is to Christ! So how is the Bride to Christ? Let's say it together,... (Word of His Word, Life of His Life,)

E-31 GOD.KEEPS.HIS.WORD --57-0120.2E "I believe that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that in His body He was a man. He was borned of a woman, just like I was. But His Blood was not of a woman, It was of God. And Jehovah God, the Logos, who brood over the earth, in my message this morning, and brood the first man out of the dust of the earth, overshadowed Mary, and brood over her to fulfill His Word, and created the Blood cell that brought forth the Son of the living God. I believe in a body He was man. I believe in His soul He was God. He was God's manifestation here on earth. God was in Christ, reconciling Him... the world to Himself. ( Now, notice how brother Branham uses the metaphor of God Brooding over Mary to fulfill His Word, yet we know it was The same Holy Ghost That is Jesus Father. So how can Dr. Ungren use this word brood as only depicting a female Spirit of God? What good would a female Holy Ghost have done Mary who also is a female? Woman can't begat with women. It takes a Seed carrier, a male role.

34-6 THE.RISING.OF THE.SUN -- JEFF.IN - V-3 N-12 - 65-0418.1M

Now, notice this Quickening Power, Zoe, bringing the Word, the mind that was in Christ was in you then. I'm trying to show you that you, when God raised Jesus from the dead, He raised up you also, and also quickened to Life with Him (you are now quickened to Life), although then you were but an attribute in His thoughts, but God had saw all in Him at the finish. See? When God looked down upon the body... ( The Spirit left Him in the Garden of Gethsemane; He had to die a man.) Remember friends, He didn't have to do that. That was God. God anointed that flesh, which was human flesh, and He didn't have... If He'd went up there as God, He'd have never died that kind of death; can't kill God. He didn't have to do it, but remember, He went there with you in Him. See? God had never separated the Bride from the Groom yet. So when God looked down upon the Body of Christ, He saw both male and female. It was all redeemed on that one Body. See? They are one, the same Word. the same Word spoke of the Groom speaks of the Bride! Again we see Brother Branham telling us that we are One by the same Word. He said, the same Word spoke of the Groom speaks of the Bride. He is not speaking of some perverted doctrine that wants to attribute to Christ some filthy half-male half-female personality. One Preacher down South who is a Lawyer, who teaches this doctrine said, "the reason that Jesus had long hair was that He was both male and female," and then he quotes this passage from Brother Branham. I imagine Brother Branham did a few roll over in his grave when he heard that one. )

( Now, you can't make this say anything but what he said here. He is not saying that Jesus was both Male and Female, or Jesus would have had a perverted spirit, because brother Branham said, on page 17 in His Message [Serpent Seed] 58-09028 When you see a man, little, you know, manicuring (or whatever you call it) his fingernails, (four on one side and five on the other), slicking his hair down, holding his mouth open in front, and such stuff as that--one of these pretty boys--you just remember, Sissy, something is wrong with that bird! There's something wrong! You better keep your eye on him. And from his Message [ El Shaddai] 59-0416 he said, "You know, Jesus wasn't a sissy by no means. He wasn't a feminish type person; He was man. But yet, He could speak right straight to the point, but yet, with gentleness.

I hope this morning you will have seen by the multitude of examples, that #1) there will be men who will arise with perverted teachings that will seduce the weak in this hour just as there was the same back in Alpha. Secondly I hope you will examine closer the Alpha ministry of Christ because if you don't you will surely perish and become seduced yourself by some strange doctrine. Thirdly, I hope you will appreciate more the fact that we here do not open our doors to just anybody, because we have a grave responsibility to God and His Word and to you as His People.

Finally I would like to say this. With each and every doctrine that the hearts of man devise, there is always a motive behind it all. Just as we showed to you Wednesday night the motive behind that false doctrine that purports that the fulness of God is now in the Bride, we showed that Lucifer himself was the progenitor of that false doctrine and that the hidden motive was a desire to be worshipped. So too we see by Dr. Ungren's own hand writing an admittance of his own desire to be wanted and respected. There is nothing wrong with desiring respect, I believe we al have that desire. But to perpetuate a doctrine to obtain that desire is another thing altogether. In his closing statements, Dr. Ungren states, " From what has been quoted from the Messages of the Prophet, JUDGMENT is not left in the hands of any one person. The Bride herself is the Judge. The Bride is made up of many individuals. The Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation has been given to THEM! There are many who are wise. Daniel said, the wise would understand. There were five wise virgins, not just one. There are many who understand basic principles. There are many who can think in theological and philosophical terms. There are many trained minds capable of reading and understanding and receiving revelation and saying what the Prophet said. "

And so with this, we see an inner insecurity coming forth from men who have a great desire to be accepted and told that they have great mind too. But why? Who really cares. It is evident that the One they are talking about is not Brother Branham because they quote that Many are understanding and believing what the prophet has said. So by this they are at least acknowledging that they subject themselves to God's Prophet. Although in reality they do not for they are adding their own thoughts to what he said, and they are taking out of context what he did say.

So in conclusion, I believe what we have here is nothing short of jealousy of a true Teacher, brother Vayle. I know personally by talking to Dr. Ungren that he is jealous of Brother Vayle's acceptance in general and the people's respect for the gift of teaching that he has. I also know that others who purport to be teachers have also tried to teach what brother Vayle has taught and although they have even sounded like him in their voice inflections, they come up very short due to the fact that the Word is a Living Word, and what they speak is not alive.

These men want to place every thing in the church, and yet they want to be head of that church. Thus making them superior to the Body of Christ. I don't buy that for one second. [John 14: 12] does not speak of the entire Body of Christ. That is a One man ministry that has already been fulfilled. Even Brother Branham himself told us that after the Seals were preached for those who do not hold stock in what came before the Seals. He said, on page 171 of [SUPER.SIGN] 63-1129 It's on your hands, tonight, throwed right back in your lap! Hebrews 13:8, regardless of how many Council of Churches we have, still remains as "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." "The works that I do!"( John 14: 12) If--if His Life is in you, it'll manifest Jesus Christ. Amen. Now you all can't be that one, but you can be a part of that, with your faith. All of them couldn't be a Jesus, when they was on earth, but they could believe Him and accept the message. There was one Moses, one Elijah, one Noah, on down, always been that, but the rest of them could accept it. And they would a--had no ministry unless there had been somebody believe it. Jesus would a--had no ministry unless somebody believed it. Paul would a--had no ministry unless somebody believed it.

Again on page 108 of [IDENTIFICATION ]64-0216 A lady asked me, coming down the road the other day from up here, she said... It's Florence Shakarian, Brother Demos's sister-Sister Williams and them, sittin' in the car. She said, "Brother Branham, I fast, and fast, and fast, and still I can't cast out devils." I said, "You wasn't born to do such. Your duty is to fast. The Holy Spirit's working on somebody else out there for that." You don't know the place.....If we had time we'd teach those things in long meetings, how one person's burdened like this for something over here. You don't know... it's not for you to know. It's Him doing it. You're just submissive to your call. Always line it up with the scriptures, to see if it's right or not.

And now with his in Mind, let's just bow our hearts and our heads in a Word of Thanks Giving to Him who has not only quickened us to the Day of His Visitation, but to the Word of Life from which our strength, and Peace and Rest comes. ( Let's bow our heads) " Dear Gracious Father, You Whom we can truly call you Father and in Whom we have our Life and Breath and even our being, we thank you Father for Being our Father. When the World is going after Mother Earth, and Mother Nature and Mother this and Mother that, we are thankful to have a Father in You who are also the Author and giver of Eternal Life. Thank you for your tender loving hand in watching over us and thank you for giving us an unction from your very loins, and an understanding of Who you are and why you are here. Be with us now Father as we go our separate ways, and protect us over the Holiday season that is coming up for we do ask these requests in the most precious name of your Loving Son Who we understand is our Older Brother, The Lord Jesus Christ Who also came to earth bearing your name. And we know that one day we shall also bear your name as well. Thank you once again, Father, for you Truly are our Father.....Amen!"