Follow Me #5
(False
Shepherds and the Spirit of Destruction #3)
Saturday evening
Rev Brian
Kocourek
Last Sunday we continued looking
into Brother Branham’s Message (Follow
Me), and we read where Brother Branham said, “God created man to follow like a
sheep, and they are supposed to follow a shepherd, but in this day when
everything is so corrupted and perverted, the ones who are leading are goats
which is actually a wrong leader and these leaders are leading the sheep into
the slaughter.. Brother Branham told us in the Message Preparation,
that “God can not send destruction before the people are in the spirit for destruction. God
never did destroy anything. Man always destroys himself.” Therefore we
see that this spirit of destruction is ordained to come upon men by following
false leaders into the destruction.
Brother Branham went on to say, “we're
living in another day; everything's changed and perverted. You
know what man has to lead sheep today? A goat. And you
know where that goat leads them? Right into the slaughter.
The little sheep don't know where
they're going, so the goat goes up a pen, up at the slaughter, and the sheep don't know no more than to follow
a leader, so it leads them right up
into this slaughter. And then the goat jumps over the track, and the sheep
goes in and gets killed. See, the goat, a wrong leader.
So we see the example that he shows
us of how the slaughter is brought about by the sheep blindly following a wrong
leader. He said, the sheep don’t have any clue to
where they are being taken. “they don’t know
where they are going,” He said.
But they are going to the slaughter, and it is because they are
following a wrong leader. Therefore, if God can not send them destruction until
they are in the spirit for destruction, then someone has to get them to enter
into this spirit of destruction just as those goats get them to enter into the
slaughter pen.
Now, I said, this spirit of
destruction will come upon them and over take them. And remember, a spirit is
an anointing. It is a life. Jesus, when speaking of His Word, said, “The
Words which I speak, they are spirit and they are Life.” And since the word is a seed which the sower sowed. Then
according to Matthew 13, it takes the sowing of the seed before that seed can
bring forth and manifest it’s life. [Matt 13:36-43]
Now, what is this seed that was sown?
Now, brother Branham told us here
that “we're living in another day;
where everything's changed and
perverted. But how did it get that way?
[Acts
And in [Gal 1: 6-9] we notice the curse is placed upon them that would
speak another Gospel, one of a different nature. And notice that the Gospel
they were already beginning to speak another Gospel, a perverted one back then
because of men who came in among them and perverted the True Gospel. {perverted = metastepho} to turn around or turn back
again. A change of the mind going backwards from what one has come out from.
And notice that these men had come out of Judaism and went right back into it.
In [Gal 2:4] he calls them false
brethren who came in. [Acts 15:4-5]
Pharisees, they were and yet they claimed to be believers.
Now, here is the key. The word Paul
uses is metastrepho, which means to turn around or turn back again. A change
of the mind going backwards from what one has come out from. And we
know by example that when the children of God left
[Hebrews 6:4-8] We see here that the curse comes upon those who
would turn back from the true Vindicated Word, and all that is promised to these
is destruction and burning. Now remember, this is a once for all Word that is
spoken of Here. That has to be after the opening of the seals when the Entire
Word comes into full view. Which can be no other time than at
the end-time which is the Shout, Message.
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[2 Cor 11:2-4, 13-15] Here we find Paul warn us of the casual attitude
that the people had concerning God’s Word.
[2 Thess 2:10-12] If they had loved the Truth, they would never have
opened themselves up for something else. And Paul told us in Romans, “Let
God be True and every man a liar.”
Now, do the next few minutes I would
like to read to you brother Branham’s thoughts on what it means to go
backwards. Because to live is to move forward and progress, but to die is to
stop and go backwards.
PARADOX PP.62-63 Now we find Joshua representing Grace, or some propitiation, that it could
not exist in the same time that law was in existence. Neither does any message that forwards the people on, ever coincide
with a past message. It will not do it! That's where you have trouble today.
Jesus said, "does any person take a new piece of
garment and put it into an old? Or put the new wine into old bottles? They
perish. It bursts them open." They can't stand it.
MODERN EVENTS PP.56
We're not living in a Pentecostal age, we're living in another age. We're
living on up here to the Bride age, the calling out of the church and getting
it together for the rapture. That's the age we're now living.
TURN ON THE LIGHT PG. 37 Sanctification served it's time till it come to the Baptism of the Holy
Ghost. And the Baptism of the Holy Ghost
has served it's time until the Holy Spirit, (which there's only one
God)...blends into the church, or the church into Christ, that makes Jesus
Christ reflected on the earth , what He promised here in the Bible.
RAPTURE PP. 15 The Life that come up through Luther
was what made Wesley. The Life that come out of Wesley
is what made Pentecost. The Life that come out of
Pentecost makes the Wheat. But they are a carrier. See? The real Life goes through there. The Message goes through there, but
it's heading on up into the wheat.
RAPTURE PG. 40 What if Moses would've come and brought Noah's message, "we'll build an
ark and float down the
ANOINTED ONES PP. 139 Now notice! These fellows appeared...Oh, you people, don't missthis!
These impostors, impersonators, appeared after the true one had went first! they come to impersonate. See, they have to!...to pervert the original Word, vindicated and proved to
be the truth!
ANOINTED ONES PP. 195 Notice! Come up to the borderline
and quit.
ANOINTED ONES PP. 198 Going to their home,
and when they come up to the place to cross over,they doubted the
Word!........What happened? They perished in the
wilderness. They stayed right there and organized themselves, and died, every one of
them,..
ANOINTED ONES PP. 214 "Where the carcass is there will the eagles be gathered...... Where
the fresh meat is, the Word of the Season, there the eagles will gather."
But after it's rottened then the vultures will swarm
to it. See? See what I mean? When a kill 's made here
comes the eagles, but after it lays there and rotten, then here come the
vultures. The eagles won't have nothing to do with it. Jesus said, "Where the
carcass is, where the manna fell, the
night the manna falls fresh, there the eagles will gather for it."
That's the manna for the day. See?
ANOINTED ONES PP. 215 Notice! But after it gets rotten, maggots get in it, then
here comes the vultures. They can't
smell it till it gets rotten.
ANOINTED ONES PP. 219 Said,"I AM sent me." I AM, not I was, or will be, I AM, present tense, the Word now. Not the
Word that was or Word that will come, the Word that's now.
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ANOINTED ONES PP. 233 "For it is impossible for
those which were once enlightened and didn't move on with the Word as it
come to pass... They're dead,gone. Now, what scripture is he quoting? ___.
C.O.D. PG 658 "If you have been enlightened and
then turn away from your enlightenment, it is impossible for that person to
ever regain his place again. See?
"
C.O.D. PG. 510 There remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, because he took the very
blood that sanctified him and brought him this far, to the knowledge of the
truth, and counted it under his feet, after God has led him step by step up
here to the Holy Ghost.
HEBREWS CHPTR 5/6, PG. 193 Friends, let us go on to perfection. We're without excuse today. We have no excuse at all. The very God of
Heaven has Appeared in these last day and is doing the very same things that He
did then, when He was here before, when he was on earth. He's proved...The
things that He done when He was here on earth, manifest in the flesh, and the very same things are taking place
today, right here among us. Here's the Word to vindicate it. Here's the
thing to say it's right, to make it right. Here's the Spirit of God to do the same
thing, so we're without excuse.
HEBREWS CHPTR 7, PG. 342 If you deliberately see the Holy Spirit do
the things that it did right here this morning, and see that Christ is risen from the dead (and he's living in His
church and Among His people, and you
willfully turn it down, it's
impossible for you to ever come to God, 'cause you've blasphemed the Holy
ghost.
Q & A ON THE HOLY GHOST PG. 46 The Tabernacle, right now, stands at Kadesh-Barnea.....
ANOINTED ONES PG. 54 "For it is impossible for those which
were once enlightened and didn't move on with the Word as it come
to pass...They're dead, gone."
DOING GOD A SERVICE PP. 145 They're trying to eat old manna that fell back fifty years ago, the
Pentecostal church. The holiness church is trying to-over two hundred years
ago, the Lutherans about three hundred or more years ago, many hundreds of
years ago. They're trying to eat old manna. Oh, brother, that stuff is
stagnated. It's contaminated. It's got wiggletails in it, maggots. It'll kill
you to eat it.
COUNTDOWN PP. 37-38 But God in the spiritual achievement is going forward, not going backward.
He's going forward, looking into the Word and believing the promises for the
things that never has come yet, for the spiritual
revelations to manifest the spiritual things that God has promised. He says
them come to pass. Just as the scientist in his laboratory are working on
different things to help man take in creation; the spiritual man is looking
forward to something that God promised that has never yet been created. The natural man looks backward. The
spiritual man looks forward. That's the way that they got that in the
church. The natural church member looks back to what Finney, Sankey, know,
Calvin...That was all right. But that was their day. We're looking forward for
something else. A promise that's greater and higher and what God has promised.
Science goes back to pick it up. We go forward in the Word of the Lord to find
what God has achieved.
ANOINTED ONES PP. 234 Teaching a historical God, (See)? Just like they're trying to live in the past. Like,
"well, Wesley said so-and-so; so-and-so said so-and-so." You're
refusing the promised Word of the day, the manna that's clearly identified of
the day. They try to put their old Lutheran, Baptist, Pentecostal wines in our
new bottles. It won't work. And our new
wine in their old bottles won't work. If they try to put this new wine in
the denomination, their folly is made manifest. They can't do it; it blows her
up.
IDENTIFIED CHRIST OF ALL AGES 64-0401 Man is always praising God for what He done, always looking forward for
what He will do, and ignoring what He is doing.
THE WORLD FALLING APART 63-0412 And that's the way we do--Martin
Luther, John Wesley, other men. We're always looking back, see. See those
things? And you make a tradition of their life--garnish the tombs of them. And
their message is for another day. By the time you wake up, why that day's done
lived by, and we're in another day. The whole system's
worked that way since the beginning. Man made systems, certainly.
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ANOINTED ONES PP. 224 Remember, you couldn't feed a Lutheran back in them days ( you can now) Catholic
carrion. No sir! He had fresh meat. That was that church age. You couldn't feed
Methodist, Lutheran message. Oh, no! He didn't want that carrion; it's rotten.
See? The life had done left it and went into something else. That's the old
stalk that's dead back there. The Life's moving on. Neither can you feed the
Bride of Jesus Christ Pentecostalism. No indeedy! Maggot blowed organizations,
nothing doing! No, no! For the promise is, "And before
that great and terrible day shall come, I'll send unto you Elijah the prophet.
He will restore the hearts of the children back to the Faith of the fathers
again." All these promises have been made in the Bible, "I will do
it," and there the eagles will gather.
SEED IS NOT HEIR WITH THE SHUCK PP. 129 Just as the hawk has long lost his
identification as a hawk, so has the church long lost her identification as a
lesser bird brother of the eagles, God's prophets. Once a carrier of the True
Word, Justification, then it become a carrier of sanctification, then it become
a carrier of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, restoration of the gifts. But then
when it goes on and keeps going back try to eat something, manna from another
day, it's rotten. It's no good. A genuine eagle of this day knows that was all
right, but we got that plus until Jesus Christ is made manifest in the fulness
of His power as He promised to be in this last day. She is now a dry shuck.
It's passed. The Spirit of God passed through her. It's True. And will not...
she will not be heir with the a-Vindicated seed-Word. She will not be. She'll
not be in the Rapture.
SEED IS NOT HEIR WITH THE SHUCK PP. 127 Relies on some half rotten, man-made
theology. where does
he get it at? In some man-made Sunday school program sheet some educator killed
for him back in some seminary, tell him that, "The days of miracles is
passed; there was no such a thing as the baptism of the Holy Ghost, all this
nonsense". You mean to tell me an eagle would eat that? He couldn't do it.
No, sir! Neither will a Christian eat on that dead a-carrion from old
denominational doctrines and things. They want the Word of God fresh, the
Promise of the Hour.
SEED IS NOT HEIR WITH THE SHUCK PP. 128 Now He's promised us a full square meal, the full seven course menu, for
all the Seven Seals are opened and everything is ready for the Word of God, for
those who can receive..
SEED IS NOT HEIR WITH THE SHUCK PP. 125 It's time for the eagles of this day to get to flying higher, dig into
God's promises, not live on vulture food that's been killed years ago. Get out
of it!
ANOINTED ONES PP. 225 That fulfills Matthew 24:24. He's flying, jumping up in the air, flopping his wings, but he just can't get high enough. See?
That's right. see, he can't go...He can't reach high
enough to get that fresh manna. He can eat the old manna that's down here on
the ground, the dead old rabbits that's been run over
a week ago, and a month ago, or forty years ago, contamination. He can eat
that, and just gloat over it, and squawk and holler, and carry on, jump up and
fly like another eagle, he's anointed like another bird. And he is a type of an
eagle, a buzzard is. We know that. He sure is! But he can't follow that genuine
eagle. See? He just can't do it. No, sir! His body isn't built; he's been
eating on different carrion. See? And it won't be the fresh meat, the fresh
manna, it'd be something that Luther said, or doctor so and so said. It won't
be on what Jesus said for this hour.
SPIRITUAL AMNESIA 64-0411 You've seen your last sign, Pentecost. Don't get mixed up now with what He promised
THE TOKEN PG. 27 PP. 8 63-0901
LOOKING UNTO JESUS PP. 190 We are beyond Pentecost, the same as we are Methodist and Lutheran. We're way up to the coming of the Lord, where the ministry that Jesus
Christ exercised, Himself, has to be exactly. Like the
headstone on the pyramid has to be so honed till every stone fits perfectly.
And the church has got to get into that condition to receive the headstone,...
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GREATER THAN SOLOMON PP. 102 But the
church is always looking back.
SHALOM PP. 26 Now today, as we face new year's, I want to
think of not like the past, but I want to look to the future. See? As Paul
said, "Forgetting those things that are in the past, I press towards the
mark, see, of the high calling." And as it's expressed, like looking back
through the mirror of a car. We are looking what we have passed, when we're
looking in the rear-view mirror. Now we're not trying to place the message
today as looking through a rear-view mirror. It would take too long, see? The
things that the Lord has did. And you are all acquainted with the great things
that our Lord has been doing, is some of the mightiest things that I've ever
seen in my Life, He just-just passing in the last few months. And, but now we
are thankful for what has been, but now we are looking forward. We're looking
where we are headed for,...
TURN ON THE LIGHT PP. 40 And why the people could not see that,
was, it seems strange to us now, because we are looking back through a
rear-view mirror. But did you ever know, if you keep looking back that way,
you'll wreck? Let's look what's ahead of us.
SHALOM PP. 43 Not looking back, but we're looking forward to the breaking of a new
day. Until, there is something great laying ahead of us, where the years has
been the joy that we've looked forward to, the pressing, coming of the great
Light. And now we can see it breaking over the horizontal realm, it's breaking
between mortal and immortality.
SHALOM PP. 92 We're looking forward, not looking back. Looking here, what has been,
and we want to know what's going to be. And we're looking for that hour,
pressing for it.
GREATER THAN SOLOMON PP. 140 Anybody who drives, looking through
a rear-view mirror, has a wreck. And that's what's the matter with the church today, it's looking
through a rear-view mirror, to what it was. No wonder it's wrecked up.
GOD IS HIS OWN INTERPRETER PP. 38 And as I was preaching a few weeks ago, "Living in the glare." A
glare is a mirage, the sun reflecting itself, and it's false. And any glare of
another age is a false reflection. The people are always walking in something
that happened years ago.The Lutheran are walking in a Lutheran glare. Luther's
sunlight was fine in his day; Wesley was good in his day; the Pentecostal was
good in it's day. We're going on up the ladder, we're living in another age! We're going on, we
can't keep looking back.
SIRS, WE WOULD SEE JESUS 64-0318 You're always looking back,
referring to what somebody else did back there. When we're commanded to look
forward, keep going on. Their prophecy happened in their day, this happens in
this day, next happened
in the next day. It's allotted out to the end-time. And there's
things that's supposed to be going on now, according to the Scripture-the Holy
Spirit on earth poured out upon the people.
SEED IS NOT HEIR WITH THE SHUCK PP. 115 The church depending on it's food for education and so forth, a dead diet that died
years ago through Luther, and Wesley, and the Pentecostals, and gone on. It's
looking back for some man made creed, instead of flying up in the heavenlies of
the Word where all things are possible to them that believe.
GOD RICH IN MERCY PP. 192 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, on their journey, new manna fell every night. That's right. You couldn't
keep it over.
BROKEN CISTERNS PP. 132 And when God promised that He would vindicate this Word in every
generation, "For the promise is unto you and your children, and them
that's far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call." why would you
pump on some systematic pump that's been contaminated for years, from some old
manna? Maybe that manna was all right, nothing against it, in the days of
Martin Luther, in the days of this and the days of that, and the other
reformers, nothing about it; but that's manna that fell a long time ago.
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GOD'S PROVIDED PLACE OF WORSHIP PP. 156 The messenger to the church always comes just at the dying of the other
church age, always. The dying of the Pentecost brings forth the rapture of the
Bride. See? The
dying of Luther brought forth Wesley. See? The dying of Wesley brought forth
Pentecost. The dying of Pentecost brings
forth the Message now.
GOD IN SIMPLICITY PG. 20 PP 4 Many miss Him by the way He reveals
Himself. Now, man has their own ideas of what God ought to be and what God is
going to do; and as I have made the old statement many times that man still
remains man. man is always giving God praise for what
He did do, and always looking forward to what He will do, and ignoring what He
is doing.
Gal 1: Paul rebuked going backwards perverting vindicated
Gospel.
Gal 2: Paul confronted other Apostles who seemed to be
pillars because they too were caught up into going backwards.
Gal 3: If the Word doesn't do it, it isn't going to get
done.
Gal 4: by going backwards they have lost their blessing.
DEUT: 12: (2)NIV Destroy completely all the places on the
high mountains and on the hills and under every spreading tree where the
nations you are dispossessing worship their gods. (3) Break down their altars,
smash their sacred stones and burn their asherah poles in the fire; cut down
the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places. (4) You must not worship the Lord your God in
their way. (5) But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose
from among all your tribes to put His name there for His dwelling.To that place
you must go; (6) there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes
and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and
the firstborn of your herds and flocks. (7) There in the presence of the Lord
your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you
have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you. (8) You are not to do as we do here today,
every man as he sees fit, since you have not yet reached the resting place
and the inheritance the Lord your God is giving you. (13) be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please.
(14) Offer them only at the place the
Lord your God will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I
command you.
Deut. 16:4 no leaven in your possession for seven days. no meat
you sacrifice remain until the morning.
Acts 15: false brethren rise Teaching
the people to go backwards.
1 Cor 11: deviate from vindicated Word go
backwards not forwards.
2 Cor 11: false apostles bring another Spirit, Message and
Jesus.
Heb 10:26-38 Paul tell us those who draw back do so to perdition.
Heb 6: fall back from the vindicated Word, never able to
repent.
2 Pet 2: false teachers bring in alongside true doctrine, destructive
heresies causing the people to go backwards into Pentecostal Mechanics like
Balaam and forsake the Vindicated Word. vs 22
day old food = vomit and wallow.
Heb
Lev 25 Gospel trumpet sounds Jubilee we go free unless we love
bondage, then enter more fully into his bondage than before.
But Moses the true sent prophet from God, commissioned by God, he never fussed
with them,said, "here, you can't dothat!you can't...." He just let
them alone, just let them go on. They're organizational prophets, but go ahead.
Moses just went right on, listened to God. pp.138 Anointed Ones
Did Moses fuss at them and say, "Here, here, you can't do that. I'm
the only one's been ordained to do that.Here, you stop
that right now!" He just let them go, let them go on.Remember,the Bible said, "As their folly was made manifest, so
will these inthelast day be made manifest, "when the bride is rapturedand
taken in the sky. pp.153 Anointed Ones
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Why would He let an impersonator rise up to do it and do the same exactly the
genuine Spirit of God done?See, the scripture must be fulfilled. Notice!He did this so that He would hardenthe heartof pharoah and
the Egyptians. To prove that Moses wasn't the only one who had the Word, they
could do everything just the same as
Moses could do.And why did God let this thing
happen in the lastdays?So the same thing as the lying spirit said to Zedicaiah."How wegoing to get
Ahab out there tomake
these thingscometopass?"How is He goingto get thesepeople
trustingintheirchurches that Hepredictedthat, inthis Laodicean church age?
"Because thou saith thou art rich and have need of
nothing. ..."
pp.151 Anointed Ones
HE CARES DO YOU pp. 59. Man is always praising God for what He did. Praising God for what He
will do (looking forward to what He will do), and then ignore what He's doing.
See, they fail! And that's the way they become history after a while, of the
polluted, see, because they fail to recognize now! You can talk of the comfort
Christ give once, and say what a comfort He will give in the ages to come, but
refused the comfort that He's got here now for you.