God’s
Only Provided Place of Worship # 104
Brian Kocourek,
The
Entire Godhead Bodily AMONG You
For the past few weeks we have focused our thoughts on
those false doctrines resulting from a wrong understanding of the Godhead. We
saw that those doctrines actually originated in Alpha and since the seed went
forth in the Alpha, there had to be a harvest in the Omega. Wednesday night we
read from Irenaeus Against the Heresies chapter 7 of Book three and we found his description of that
false doctrine to be quite startling when you compare it with what is being
taught today among many who claim to believe the Message of God's End-time
Prophet Brother Branham. Here is what Irenaeus said,
nearly two thousand years ago about how they went into error.
" Such, then, is
the account which they all give of their
Fullness, and of the formation(12) of the universe, striving, as they do, to adapt the good words of revelation to their
own wicked inventions. And it is not only from the writings of the
evangelists and the apostles that they endeavor to derive proofs for their
opinions by means of perverse interpretations and deceitful expositions: they
deal in the same way with the law and the prophets, which contain many parables
and allegories that can frequently be drawn into various senses, according to
the kind of exegesis to which they are subjected. And others of them, with great
craftiness, adapted such parts of Scripture to their own figments, lead away
captive from the truth those who do not retain a steadfast faith in one God, the Father Almighty, and in one
Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And
committing many other abominations and
impieties, they run us down (who from the fear of God guard against
sinning even in thought or word) as utterly contemptible and ignorant persons,
while they highly exalt themselves, and claim to be perfect, and the elect seed.
For they declare that we simply receive grace for use, wherefore also it will
again be taken away from us; but that they themselves have grace as their own
special possession, which has descended from above by means of an unspeakable
and indescribable conjunction; and on this account more will be given
them.,.... but that to them who are called "the spiritual and
perfect" such a course of conduct is not at all necessary. For it is not
conduct of any kind which leads into the Fullness, but the seed sent forth
thence in a feeble, immature state, and here brought to perfection."
And then, in CHAPTER. VII .which is entitled, --The Mother Achamoth (
Sophia) , When all her seed are perfected, shall pass into the Fullness,
accompanied by those men who are spiritual. We see the title alone tells you what is
being preached today is
the same falsehood that was taught by Simon Magnus and his followers
in the first church age. Irenaeus goes on to say, #1.
When all the seed shall have come to perfection, they state that then their
mother Achamoth ( Sophia) shall pass
from the intermediate place, and enter
in within the Fullness, and shall
receive as her spouse the Saviour, who sprang from all the Attributes that make
up the fullness, that thus a
conjunction may be formed between the Saviour and Sophia, that is,
Achamoth. These, then, are the bridegroom and bride, while the nuptial
chamber is the full extent of the Fullness. The spiritual seed, again, being divested of their animal souls, and
becoming intelligent spirits, shall in an irresistible and invisible manner
enter in within the Fullness, and be bestowed as brides.... but nothing of
an animal nature shall find admittance to the Fullness. When these things have
taken place as described, then shall that fire which lies hidden in the world
blaze forth and burn; and while destroying all matter, shall also be
extinguished along with it, and have no further existence."
As I said Wednesday night, "I rest My
case." Is this what is being taught today
or is it not. If it is not, then Alpha has not become Omega and we are warning
you about nothing. But if it is then we have come full circle. And as we also
showed you last week, these doctrines are not just something that is peculiar
to the Message people, this is being preached all over the world and as Peter said, is being brought from the
outside and mixed with The Truth thus bringing the Truth into Disrepute. New Age Doctrine right amongst the Message Believers today.
Now this morning I want to move on with this
tremendous Message of Brother Branham's as we begin to look at paragraph 264
through 268..
[264
GOD'S.PROVIDED.PLACE.WORSHIP] No leaven among you, that brings the entire fullness of the godhead bodily
among you. Couldn't do it in Luther's age, couldn't do it in Wesley's age,
couldn't do it in the Pentecostal age; but in the day when the Son of man will
be manifested, revealed, brought
back the Church together with the entire Deity of God amongst His people,
showing the same visible signs, manifesting
Himself like He did at the beginning when He was manifested on earth in a form
of a Prophet-God. Ooh! Glory! Promised by Malachi 4,
promised by the rest of the Scriptures. Where you worship at? The house of God, seated
(in present tense). (265) Now,
quickly, let us look just real fast now, and we will go in about... in ten
minutes we will be gone, the Lord willing. (266)Now let us look at some
that has been quickened into this house of God. Of their age...(267) Enoch! (in ten
minutes we will go, if you can just suffer that much longer). Look, Enoch was
the Living Word of God of his age, he was a prophet. (268) A prophet is God's
reflector. How many knows that? The--the
reflector doesn't reflect itself, the--the
reflector isn't the reflection. There has to be something strike
the reflector to make it reflect. So a
prophet is a chosen vessel of God that cannot reflect nothing
at all but he's in direct line with that reflection, God, to reflect the image
of Christ the Word. See, nothing
else can do it. You are a reflector, that's the reason the prophet had to
eat the book. That's the reason he had to eat the scroll. He had to reflect that Word for that age. You got it?
Now what we see here this morning, is brother Branham
talking to us about a special role that God has manifested Himself to man
through, the Role of a Prophet. Here we
find Brother Branham telling us that a Prophet of God is a special built person
who can not reflect anything but God. That is a tremendous thing that he is
saying here, because you and I are not built in that capacity. We can make
mistakes, and we can be misled for a season, but ultimately we know the Bride
will not be deceived. But a Prophet of God has a role to play whether He is
aware of it or not. In fact whether He understands His role or not, He is a
vessel that God moves through and speaks through even against the better
judgment of the man himself. In fact that is what Brother Branham said, he
said, "Even against my better judgment, I wanted to be a trapper, but
it's the will of My father that I desire to do, I
wasn't the one who appeared down on the river, I was only standing there when
He appeared. I am not the one who foretells these things as perfect as they
are, I'm only near when He does it, It's not me, I'm just a voice that He uses,
it's not what I know, it's what I've surrendered myself to. You're not feeding
on a man, a man, his words will fail, but you're feeding on the unfailing body
Word of the Son of
Now, what I would like to do this morning seeing that
it is Christmas Eve, is to look at what Brother
Branham is pointing out to us here and to view it with respect to the Real
Christmas Message. You see the Christmas Message is all about God coming down
to earth to manifest His love for us. But in order to do so, He had to take on
a Veil of flesh, Emmanuel Which means God with us. And
so this morning we shall look at how Alpha has become Omega pertaining to The
Mighty God Unveiled before us. And so this morning we want to look at this
thought on God's Reflector.
Now Webster tells us a reflector is simply a person or
thing that reflects. But that definition doesn't really help us
to understand what a reflector is all about, now does it? But it points us to
the fact that as Brother Branham said, A reflector
does not give off it's own light, but reflects the light of another. Brother
Branham said, "the reflector doesn't reflect itself, the--the
reflector isn't the reflection. There has to be something strike
the reflector to make it reflect. And that is what Webster says, a
reflector is simply a person or thing that reflects. So then we must ask ourselves, what
is it about a reflector that causes it to reflect. We can see that not
everything can reflect. In fact, that is what the stealth bomber is all about.
It is made in such a way as to cause as little reflection as possible. And so it's designers had to be able to understand all about the
reflective properties that causes a vessel to be able to reflect in order to be
able to make one that will not reflect. In their case the things that reflect
are radio waves, electronic signals and even light rays. And in order to make
the stealth invisible, it had to be able to redirect as many of these waves and
rays as possible. And so there are three basic areas that had to be designed to
do this.
#1) The outer shell had to be made of a non metallic surface and coated
with a dark non reflective material. #2)
The design of the vessel had to be made in such a way as to deflect the radio
waves and light rays off into a different direction than the way they came.
This is called deflection rather than reflection. And #3) They had to develop electronics that
could receive the incoming radio signal and send it back at a different speed
than what was received. All of this is used for deception, and that is why it
is called deflection. And the difference between reflection and deflection is
that reflection
according to Webster is to give back an image or likeness whereas deflection is a turning aside
or deviation.
And isn't it interesting that we are living in a day
when the greatest deception is taking place in the churches, and we are told
that at the end time perilous times should come, and everything is geared to
deception. Just as the weapons are
geared to deception, and the way they do it is to deflect back the enemy's
signal at a speed that is greatly reduced or a signal that indicated size is
greatly reduced so that the aircraft appears to be only a bird in the sky or
something other than what it really is. Isn't it a marvel that we have radar
detectors' that were created to reveal speed and men have created devices to
deceive that which reveals. We have today what we call
spin meysters whose entire job is to take and twist things that the opposition
says. If the Nations defenses are based on deception, and the nations Governments are based on
deception and the Nations economies are based on deception, isn't it any wonder
that the religions of the nations are also based on deception? And what is a deception supposed to do but to
throw you off from the Truth. A Reflector is made in such a way as to give off
a true expression or reflection or manifestation but a deflector is made in
such a way as to give off a false impression or expression.
And so we are looking at A true reflector of God verses a false
one. And remember, "As a man
thinketh in His heart so is he and out from the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh." So, we find,
there can be no truer expression of who or what a man is but his
own words. And God is no different. So to reflect God's Word is to
reflect God Himself. And that is what Christmas is all about. God sent into the
world the greatest reflection of Himself that the world has ever known, His Only Begotten
Son, in order to reflect the Father and to declare the Father by this
reflection. Imagine that! The Divine
Attributes of God Himself reflected in Jesus, and He became therefore, the
Manifestation of the Revelation of God. He is the Very Expressed Image of His
Father. A True God-Prophet as Brother Branham said in pp 264, and therefore a
True Reflector.
[Hebrews 1: 1 -
3] God, who at various times and in
different sorts of ways spake in time past unto the fathers through the
prophets, ( and remember, when a
someone speaks, they are revealing who and what they are which is a reflection) Hath in these last days spoken ( or reflected ) unto us in Son, whom he hath appointed heir of
all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
( Now this next verse is what
I want you to pay especially close attention to) Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his
person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by
himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
So what we are looking at is this man Jesus Who was
created a little lower than the angels, in other words in the veil of human
flesh, actually came as the expressed Image of His Father in order to uphold
all that the Father is and stands for. Let's examine this verse a little closer
because we are looking at the Great Reflector Himself, and in order to
understand what God has done in this hour we must understand what God did in
the Alpha ministry of Jesus Christ.
[ Amplified Hebrews 1:
3] He is the sole expression of the Glory of God - the Light being, the
out raying of the Divine- and He is the perfect imprint and the very image of (
God's) nature, therefore upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling
the universe by His mighty Word and Power.
[NAS ] He is the
radiance of His Glory and the exact
representation of His nature and upholds all things by the Word of His
Power.
[ NIV] The Son is the
radiance of God's Glory and the exact representation of His Being, sustaining
all things by His powerful Word.
Now what we see here is that the Son of God was made
in such a way as to be a perfect reflection of the Father in every detail.
Therefore, He has become the representation of the Father to us. The Father
expressed, so to speak. And that is a perfect reflector. Now what then is so significant about how
Jesus, God's very expression or reflection came to earth? Because when you see
His ministry in the Alpha, you know that it has to repeat in the Omega. So let's just take a few minutes and look at
the different attributes that were expressed in the Alpha.
#1) let's look at the birth itself. Now Joseph was a carpenter which was a
very common job to have back then even as it is now. And when Jesus was born,
The Pillar of Fire which every one wants to claim was a star, rested over head
pointing the Shepherds and Magi to Him. That is the first thing which is called
an Epiphanaea. Now, let's look at the Omega. When was the
Pillar of Fire first noticed in this hour? At brother Branham's birth.
It entered into the room and stood over Him.
#2) Jesus birth was of a very lowly and humble degree. Can you
imagine God having His expressed Image birthed over a manure pile? Yet that is
how He came in the Alpha. Was it no strange coincidence then that Brother
Branham came by a very lowly birth himself, born in a log cabin without
electricity or running water or even a bathroom and with dirt floors as
well? So then what's the difference
between that and a stable? Just because
it is called a log cabin doesn't make it any different. Both had dirt floors,
both had no running water or electricity, both of a lowly degree.
#3) Jesus was not born in the
winter time for there would have been several feet of snow on the hills of
Judea then and the Shepherds would not have been in the hills with the sheep
either. We know that He was born in the season for sheep to be born in and that
is early spring time around April. In fact it is also interesting that Spring
is a time of New Life and of old life being resurrected back anew again when
the sap comes up out of the ground ( it's grave) and the leaves come back out
and the flowers blossom anew again. And
guess when Brother Branham was born? April.
So we see if Alpha is to be repeated in Omega, then
even the details have to be very similar in the way God presented them to us.
The Time of birth is similar, the scene of birth was similar, and even the
Pillar of Fire of the scene to begin the display of God to His people expressed
through A god-Prophet in the Alpha and the Prophet of God in the Omega. Brother Branham said the only difference to
His being here today and back when He walked the shores of
That is why brother Branham said, when we think of the
virgin birth being a miracle, it was nothing compared to the natural birth,
because if God knew your end from your beginning, and He knew exactly what you
would look like in the natural, then He had to make sure we ended up the way He
saw us.
And since your looks are totally determined by the set
of Genes and Chromosomes you possess, then you can see how important it was for
your Dad and Mother to come together in order for you to have the correct set
in order for you to have the right reflection in the flesh that would reflect
your true Glorified body. Then what
about the Reflection of God? How much more important is that? And when you
think about it, in [John 14: 12] we
see Jesus is speaking of one man, not of many, He said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He
that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
[works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And we know that He said that this
was His ministry that was being spoken of here. [SUPER.SIGN] pg. 171 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 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."
Now the key here is this, the
works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall
he do; Yet those who would
give off a deflection would say they also are doing greater works because they
are preaching in more places than Jesus did. They'll say, we preached
around the world but He only preached throughout
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GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON.IS.HERE
TUCSON.AZ 63-0605 Now, Christian friends, if our Lord Jesus will
show His love to you, that He loves you, and will come among us tonight, and
will prove that He's here, it's
Him... Now, anyone knows... As we have said, how would you know it was Jesus?
See, how would you know that... This certain tree
looked like it was a sycamore tree. And if it was bearing peaches, what kind of
a tree would it be? It'd be a peach tree. The life in it would bear peaches.
And if you are a Christian, the Life of Jesus Christ is in you, because it is
the Holy Spirit. You believe that? And then the Holy Spirit... If I told you that the spirit of John
Dillinger was in me tonight, you'd expect me to have guns and--out here and be
a robber, like he was. If I told you the spirit of some great artist was in me,
you'd expect me to be able to--to paint these mountains here just like they
look, 'cause the spirit of that artist is in me. And if I tell you that the
Spirit of Christ is in me, He said Hisself you'll do the works of Christ.
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GO.WAKE.JESUS TUCSON.AZ 63-1103
Now, "The works that I do
shall you do also." See what I mean? Somebody say, "Oh, we do greater
works." Well, just do the works
first. You see? And just do the works. See? You say, "We preach the gospel all over
the world." That's great. You're
trying to hide behind something, fellow. See? "The works that I do
also... the works that I do shall you do
also; and more than this; for I go to the Father." See? Look at the
woman at the well, and so forth. That's how they knowed He was Messiah. If He
came tonight to the city, how would you know it was Him.
See? Nail scars? Any hypocrite can do that, put a nail
scar in his hand. See? Anything... No, sir. The only way you'll ever know it is the
identification of the Spirit, see will do the works
that He said it would do.
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CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY
JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 63-0728Now,
we see the promise being fulfilled. Christ, the true Headship going
in--coming in His Bride, doing the same
works that He did at the beginning, and making ready, and fulfilling His Word as He did at first in John 14:12: "He that
believeth on Me the works that I do shall he do also." Then the Head
and the Body are becoming one in works and in sign and in Life, vindicated by God Hisself through His
promised Word for the last days. He promised this in the last days. Now, if
you're spiritual, you'll catch it.
E-63 WHEN.THEIR.EYES.WERE.OPENED TAMPA.FL
64-0416 What has it
done to our eyes in these days, a
promise fulfilled? Has it opened our eyes? When we seen St. John 14:12,
Hebrews 13:8, St. John 14:9, have we seen Luke 17:27-28, and all these
Scriptures as promised, Malachi 4, all of them fulfilled right here before us?
What has it done to our eyes? If it
doesn't open them, it'll blind them eternally. It opens some, blinds the
others. See? It opens them to it these last days, what He's promised to do
this, what He said He would do it, restore back the faith.
223 PROVING.HIS.WORD JEFF.IN
V-9 N-6 64-0816 Notice
also John 14:12, He said, "The works that I do shall you do." All
these other Scriptures, what does He do? He's here now proving (not
Luther's age, not Wesley age, not Pentecostal age, not Baptist age, not
Presbyterian age, we've went right down through it and proved it by history in
the Bible; but what?) the age of the Son
of man being revealed, to bring these things in to fulfill the Word when all
must be fulfilled. See? We see it, and it's true!
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MAN.RUNNING.FROM.PRESENCE
JEFF.IN V-5 N-8 65-0217
Now, we believe that the hour has
come that
We also see the significance of this one man Message
in [ Revelations 3: 20] Behold I stand at the door and knock, if any man hear my Voice, and open the
door, I will come in to Him,
and will sup with Him, and he with me. Now Jesus did not say "every man"
who hears him, that He will come into that man. But He
said, if any man, (
singular) hears My Voice and opens up to Me, That is the One I will come into. And Brother Branham said himself,
"I
wasn't the One that Appeared down on the river, I was only standing there when
He appeared." And what
happened when the Lord appeared down on that river? A Voice spoke out and said,
"As
John the Baptist foreran My first coming, so will your
Message forerun My second Coming." We see then that Brother
Branham was the One to Whom the Word of the Lord came. We know that it is the
Word of the Lord who was knocking on the door trying to gain entrance and who
was it that opened the door? It was God's Prophet who was ordained to open the
door. For years your denominational thinking has placed this scripture as for
"who so ever will", let him come. But it is not so. And
neither is [John
Now,
today, I hope that you can see the significance of Christmas because Alpha has
become Omega. God has revealed Himself Once again in the Flesh of a son, a son
of man revealing The Son of Man. We are living in a wonderful time when the
Word has become alive again and all we need to do is see what happened in the
first age and we can see what is repeating again in this hour, Jesus Christ the
same yesterday, Today, and Forever.
Let's just bow our heads and our hearts in
a word of prayer: Dear Father, we thank thee for Thy Love that you have shed upon us this Christmas
season, and we know that you Love us because you have given us of Your Spirit
and You have come down with the spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the
Knowledge of Yourself, and you are drawing together a Bride for a Rapture.
Please, Father, watch over and protect us throughout this holiday season and
keep us in the Palm of your hand and grant us
traveling mercies as we travel to Iowa and other places, Lord, and please keep us in Thy Word, for Thy Word
is Life to them that find it. And dear Lord, Please be with the Guzik's,
Michael, Halina and their boys out there alone in New Jersey, and fill them
with the same excitement and joy of Your Presence that we are feeling in this
place that you have given us to worship. In Jesus Christ name we pray.