The Masterpiece 108
Walking in the Light as Enoch Walked
January 28th, 2006
Brian Kocourek
Last week we spoke on the Word “IN” and showed how
important that word is concerning the Doctrine of Christ. We found this word
“IN” a very crucial word in understand how that God was “IN” Christ reconciling
the world to Himself.
We also found that without understanding he
relationship between God and His Son, and how that God “IN” dwelt His son, you
will not understand the doctrine of Christ and without the Doctrine of Christ
you do not and can not have God. You cannot have Him in terms of relationship,
and neither can you reflect Him as in terms of echoing what He says. Therefore
you can not say what He says the way He says it. And the reason you can not say what He says
the way He says it is because you do not understand Him, nor do you understand
His Son because you do not understand the relationship between God and Christ.
Now, we took our thoughts on this word “IN”, from one
sentence in brother Branham’s sermon THE
MASTERPIECE 64-0705 paragraph 200 where he said, “You stay IN the Word, the Life”…
Now, the reason we brought these thoughts into view is
because there are those who say that we must lay aside the Doctrine of Christ
in order to go onto perfection. But what they teach is a total misrepresentation
and misunderstanding of what the Apostle Paul said in Hebrews chapter 6.
In Hebrews chapter 6 Paul said, 1 Therefore leaving
the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying
again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of
hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And
this will we do, if God permit.
Now, the Catholic church were the first to lay aside
the doctrine of Christ, and they did so by adopting the Babylonian trinity
which is pagan and they certainly did not move unto perfection. In fact in
laying aside the Apostles teaching of the Doctrine of Christ they moved into
Apostasy, not perfection.
The Apostle Paul never said to lay aside the doctrine
of Christ, He said therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ,
and the principles are the very first things that you come to in understanding
the doctrine of Christ such as the baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Now, this is confirmed in the Lamsa Translation where
it says, “Therefore, let us leave the elementary word of Christ, and let us go
on to perfection.”
Brother Branham said the same thing when eh said, “How
can I teach you algebra when you don’t even know your ABC’s.
The Apostle Paul
confirmed this same thought just a few verses earlier in Hebrews 5: 12 For when for the
time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be
the first principles of the Word of God; and are become such as
have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For
every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is
a babe. 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that
are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to
discern both good and evil. 6:1 Therefore
leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection;
not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith
toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of
hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
3 And this will we do, if God permit.
So we see that Paul is speaking of leaving the basic
or rudimentary things concerning the doctrine. The first things, the elementary
things and we must move further into the doctrine if we are to go on to
Perfection.
Now, in order to understand what the Apostle Paul is
saying here, we must first understand what the doctrine of Christ is and the
Apostle John said in 2 John 9 Whosoever
transgresseth, and abideth not in
the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.So we see that we must abide or
remain “IN” the doctrine fo Christ if we are to have or possess God in
relationship with him. And if we are to echo God because that is what that word
“hath” means. To echo or say the same thing. So we read, He that
abideth (or remaineth) in the doctrine of Christ, he hath (he echoes) both the Father and
the Son.
Now as we said last week this word “IN” is a mighty powerful word,
because if you do not remain “IN” the doctrine you are cut off from God. And
how can you go on to perfection without God who is the Only Perfection.
Perfection without the Perfect one? Impossible. Leaving aside the Perfect One
to go onto Perfection? Who are they trying to fool? Who would be stupid enough
to buy into that nonsense.
Jesus said, John 15: 7 If ye abide IN
me, and my words abide IN you, ye
shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Now, last week we show3ed how those that were not “IN”
the ark perished, and those who left Egypt in the3 exodus but did not enter
“IN”, they all perished in the wilderness and Jesus said they were everyone
dead which Brother Branham defined as being eternally separated from the
presence of God.
So we see this word “IN” is a very crucial one, and
this evening I would like to look at one more thought concerning this word in.
As you know last week we looked at nearly 30 Scripture
where Jesus proclaimed that God was in Him, or God proclaimed that He was
pleased to dwell in His Son. Therefore outside this relationship we have
nothing. And in fact the apostle Paul said in 2
Corinthians 13: 5 Paul said do you not know that unless Jesus Christ is in
you, you are a reprobates?
That is why the
religious workers will come and say in that day and say, “Lord, Lord did we not prophecy in your name and
in your name cast out devils and we did many wonderful works”, and
he will say, “depart
from me ye workers of iniquity, you men that knew better and chose not to
believe, for I never knew you. I never had relationship with you. You are not a
relative to me. You are not my brothers.”
Now, this evening as
we come together to partake in the Lord’s Supper we are commanded to take
inventory of ourselves. As Paul said, 2 Corinthians
13: 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith;
prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in
you, except ye be reprobates?
And he
said in 1
Corinthians 11:20 When ye come together
therefore into one place, this is not
to eat the Lord's supper. (In other words, our purpose of gathering
to gather is not to just come and eat this commemorative Lord’s supper. There
is a greater reason why we come together.) 21 For in eating every one taketh
before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. 22 What? have ye not
houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the
23 For
I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you,(In other words, what I am telling you, I didn’t make
it up, but I received it from the Lord Himself, and God has vindicated to be
so.) That the
Lord Jesus the same night in which
he was betrayed He took bread: 24 And when he had given thanks,
He brake it, and said, Take,
eat: this is My Body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the
same manner also He took the cup, when He had
supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in My Blood:
this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me. 26 For
as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the
Lord's death till He come. 27 Wherefore
whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this
cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall
be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
Now, the word unworthily means not having the right
worth or value placed on the what you are partaking in. It means that you are not
showing the proper respect of reverence.
Therefore, whosoever shall eat the bread that
represents the Lord’s broken body, and whosoever drinks the wine which shows
the blood of God’s Son being poured out for you. Whosoever does these things in
a manner which does not show the proper respect and which does not place the
proper value to what Christ did in your behalf, shows an improper respect for
the suffering that Christ did that you might not have to suffer. So we must not come to take of the bread and
wine as a common thing, but we must come reverently and in a reflective manner
examining ourselves as we approach the table of the Lord.
28 But
let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that
bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For
he that eateth and drinketh unworthily,(without
the proper respect and preparation in approaching God’s throne of mercy) eateth and drinketh
damnation to himself, not
discerning the Lord's body.
Now, the Catholic church teaches that the communion
bread is this body of Christ that Paul is talking about, but that is error. The
bread represents the broken Body of Jesus Christ, and to disrespect that bread
shows you also disrespect the Body of Christ which is the body of believers in
Christ.
Notice how Paul likens the body
of believers to the bread in 1 Corinthians 10: 17 For we
being many are one bread, and one
body: for we are all partakers of
that one bread.
1
Corinthians 12: 12 For
as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one
body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
Ephesians
4: 4 There
is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
1
Corinthians 12: 13 For
by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or
Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one
Spirit.
Romans
12: 5 So
we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
1
Corinthians 12: 20 But
now are they many members, yet but one body.
Now, in getting back to 1 Corinthians 11, we shall pick up
at verse 30 For
this cause many are weak and sickly among you,
and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are
judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be
condemned with the world. 33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye
come together to eat, tarry one for
another. 34 And
if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto
condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
So Paul is speaking of
our coming together to examine ourselves, and tarrying for one another. Now
this does not mean that you hold up the communion line so you can tarry all you
wish. But when you come together, you should come in an first examine your own
selves to see whether you are “IN” the Faith. And then you should come with
your brothers and sisters in the Lord in mind as well, and praying for them
that if you know of any fault that you may perceive in them, that God would
reveal it to them as well. This does not mean that you are to go to them and
remind them of their sin, nor does it mean open confession. It simply means
that you must take this Lord’s Supper with a great respect and reverence and
pray like you really mean it not only for your own sins, but for the sin of
your brothers and sisters in Christ.
And remember when we
pray for others if we got to Christ in the correct manner you will also
remember your own selves and how it is the blood of Jesus that covers your own
sin.
And that brings us to
the point I wanted to get to this evening. Therefore let’s turn in our Bibles
to 1 John 1: 5 This then is the
message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light,
and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that
we have fellowship with him, and
walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But
if we walk “IN” the light, as he is “IN” the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us
from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we
deceive only ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If
we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned,
we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Therefore it is this
walking in the light as He is in the Light, that I would like to examine a bit
closer tonight. Because that brings us into fellowship and cleanses us at the
same time from all sin which is unbelief.
Now, Enoch was a man
like you and I but He had this testimony that He walked with God and He pleased
God, and God took Him up in a rapture. Now, we know very little about Who Enoch
was and why God translated Him. But to know even what we know, let’s turn to
read from the book of Genesis to read or ourselves.
Genesis 5:18 And
Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:
19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 20 And
all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.
Now, before we can get to know Enoch, we get a glimpse
by knowing his father. The name “Jared” means “descent” and thus we must ask
ourselves what does this word descent speak of. For the names given to children
in them days had a meaning behind the name. We know that Isaac meant laughter,
Abraham meant father of nations etc.
In Hysslop’s “The Two Babylons” we find where after the flood for many
generations SHEM and his descendants lived and kept the story of the flood and
the presence of God so alive to the people, that those people who were not in the seed of God found
it hard to bare and looked for an emancipator to free the people from this
heavy burden.
All tradition from the
earliest times bears testimony to the apostacy of Nimrod,
and to his success in leading men away from the patriarchal faith,
and delivering their minds from that awe of God and fear of the judgments of
heaven that must have rested on them while yet the memory of the flood was
recent.
And according to all the principles of depraved human nature, this too, no
doubt, was one grand element in his fame; for men will readily rally around any
one who can give the least appearance of plausibility to any doctrine which
will teach that they can be assured of happiness and heaven at last, though
their hearts and natures are unchanged, and though they live without God in the
world. How great was the boon conferred by Nimrod on the human race, in the
estimation of ungodly men, by emancipating them from the impressions of true
religion, and putting the authority of heaven to a distance from them, we find
most vividly described in a Polynesian tradition, that carries its own evidence
with it.
John Williams, the well known
missionary, tells us that, according to one of the ancient traditions of the
islanders of the South Seas, "the
heavens were originally so close to the earth that men could not walk, but were
compelled to crawl" under them. "This was found a very serious evil;
but at length an individual conceived the sublime idea of elevating the heavens
to a more convenient height.
For this purpose he put forth
his utmost energy, and by the first
effort raised them to the top of a tender plant called teve, about four feet
high. There he deposited them until he was refreshed, when, by a second effort, he lifted them to the
height of a tree called Kauariki, which is as large as the sycamore.
By the third attempt he
carried them to the summits of the mountains; and after a long interval of
repose, and by a most prodigious effort, he elevated them to their present
situation."
For this, as a mighty
benefactor of mankind, "this individual was deified; and up to the moment
that Christianity was embraced, the deluded inhabitants worshipped him as the
'Elevator of the heavens.'" Now, what could more graphically describe the
position of mankind soon after the flood, and the proceedings of Nimrod as
Phoroneus, "The Emancipator," * than this Polynesian fable? * The
bearing of this name, Phoroneus, "The Emancipator," will be seen in
Chapter III, Section I, "Christmas," where it is shown that slaves
had a temporary emancipation at his birthday.
While the awful catastrophe
by which God had showed His avenging justice on the sinners of the old world
was yet fresh in the minds of men, and so long as Noah, and the upright among
his descendants, sought with all earnestness to impress upon all under their
control the lessons which that solemn event was so well fitted to teach,
"heaven," that is, God, must have seemed very near to earth.
To maintain the union between
heaven and earth, and to keep it as close as possible, must have been the grand
aim of all who loved God and the best interests of the human race.
But this implied the
restraining and discountenancing of all vice and all those "pleasures of
sin," after which the natural mind, unrenewed and unsanctified,
continually pants. This must have been secretly felt by every unholy mind as a
state of insufferable bondage. "The carnal mind is enmity against
God," is "not subject to His law," neither indeed is "able
to be" so.
It says to the Almighty,
"Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways."
The book of Job may repeat
the oldest story in the Bible. It tells of those who worshiped the fertility
gods whom they believed were responsible for producing man lambs and good
crops. Whey, then, would they be interested in a God who spoke of ethical
living and social justice when they could play their music, sing and dance and
get all of the wealth they could handle. Job says:
They send forth their little
ones like a flock, and their children dance. Job 21:11
They take the timbrel and
harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. Job 21:12
They spend their days in
wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Job 21:13
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge
of thy ways. Job
21:14
Or, "This
is how they always told God that they were not interested in what He had to say." See Isaiah 5 for another example.
Didn't they always believe that it was the God of Noah and Abraham Who had
lifted the sky off their shoulders so that the sun broke through and the earth
became fertile? So long as the influence of the great father of the new world
was in the ascendant, while his maxims were regarded, and a holy atmosphere surrounded the world, no wonder that those who were alienated from God and godliness, felt
heaven and its influence and authority to be intolerably near, and that in
such circumstances they "could not walk," but only "crawl,"
that is, that they had no freedom to "walk after the sight of their own
eyes and the imaginations of their own hearts."
From this bondage Nimrod
emancipated them. By the apostacy he introduced, by the free life he developed
among those who rallied around him, and by separating them from the holy influences
that had previously less or more controlled them, he helped them to put God and
the strict spirituality of His law at a distance, and thus he became the
"Elevator of the heavens," making men feel and act as if heaven were
afar off from earth, and as if either the God of heaven "could not see
through the dark cloud," or did not regard with displeasure the breakers
of His laws. [Leading people into the presence of the gods]
Now, remember it was the Children of Shem that kept
alive the Presence of God in the earth after the Flood, but that Presence must
have been known before the flood as well for Noah to do what He did, and for
Enoch to walk with God as He did. Thus Enoch
who was born from “Jared” lived in a time that the Presence of God had come down
to visit the earth and to look upon it and see that every imagination of man
was filled with wickedness.
The name “Jared” means “descent” and I suppose that
Jared believed in the Presence of God very strongly and he created an
atmosphere in his home that so impressed the young mind of Enoch that Enoch
began early in his life to walk in the Light even as God was walking in the
Light. And Jared’s parents must have believed that the Lord would one day
descend from heaven with a shout and then a rapture would take place as a
result, so when they named their son “Jared” which means “descent”, they did so
to honor the Presence of God.
Now, all we know from Scripture is that Enoch walked
with God and he had a testimony that he pleased God, and then God took Him
home.
We know that Enoch was the seventh from Adam and by
this represented He represented the 7th church age when the Rapture of
the Church is to take place.
21 And
Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 22 And Enoch walked with God
after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 And Enoch
walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Now, this account does
not tell us why God took Him, other than He walked with God. But in the Book of
Hebrews chapter 11 Paul tells us by revelation what happened with Enoch.
Hebrews 11: 5 By
faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found,
because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this
testimony, that he pleased God.
Now, there are several
things we see here in this account by the Apostle Paul. First of all Paul says
by Faith Enoch was translated. Now, we know that Faith is a Revelation. Brother
Branham told us so in several sermons he preached.
From the Rapture 65-1204 P:40 he said, But
to the church, the Bride, the rapture is a revelation to her. It's revealed to
her, that the revelation, the true Bride of Christ will be waiting for that
revelation of the rapture. Now, it is a revelation, for the revelation is
faith. You cannot have a revelation without it being faith. Faith is a revelation, because it's
something that's revealed to you. Faith is a revelation. Faith is something
that has been revealed to you like it was to Abraham, that could call anything
contrary to what had been revealed to him as though it wasn't so. Now, faith...
That's what faith is, is the revelation of God. The church is built upon a revelation, the
whole entire body.
And again from Works is faith expressed 65-1126 P:46 he
said, Now, "faith" is a "revelation from God." Now,
"faith" is a "revelation." There's where I want to stay
there just a moment. It's a revelation. He has revealed it to you by His grace.
It's nothing you did. You didn't work yourself up into faith. You never had faith; it's give to you by
the grace of God. And God reveals it to you; therefore, faith is a revelation. And the whole
And again from, Invisible union of the bride 65-1125 P:68 Brother
Branham said, What is a revelation? Jesus said,
"Upon this Rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell can't prevail
against it." Faith is a revelation,
because faith has been revealed to you.
And from Anointed ones at end time 65-0725M P:38 What
is faith? Faith is something that's revealed to you, that is not yet, but you
believe it will be. Faith is a
revelation of the will of God.
And in Works
is faith expressed 65-1126 P:50 he said, “faith is a revelation from God. It must be
revealed first.”
So we see that Faith is a Revelation from God. It is something that has
not yet happened but God has shown you that it will happen. And brother Branham
gets a little more definitive when he says, Faith is a revelation of the will of God.
So if Faith is a revelation of the Will of God then that is what
Enoch had. He must have known the will of God and the purpose and plan
of God and then he must have walked in that will of God. For just Like Jesus, who
God also translated and took up, he said, “My meat is to do the will of my
Father. He also said, I have come not to do my own will but the will of him
that sent me. That’s the attributes of an obedient son.
And so the revelation Enoch had must have been greater than people give
him credit for having. In fact brother
Branham let’s know that Enoch built the great pyramid and that in that pyramid
is laid out the entire will and plan of God in regards to redemption and the
New Jerusalem and all..
Future home 64-0802 P:189 The
City, it's not just a flat cube like this (See?), but it leans up so it can be
seen. And upon this holy mountain of the Lord, the Lord shall descend upon top
of His mountain. Here He is. That's the
reason the Capstone wasn't put on by Enoch. See? That's the reason the
Capstone has to come now. And the mountain will be pushed up and it'll be the
mount of the Lord and in here will dwell the redeemed.
Let’s read again the testimony of Enoch written by the Apostle Paul. Hebrews 11: 5 By faith Enoch, “by Revelation” Enoch was translated (now, this word translated
comes from a Greek word that means to translate, take up or promote. So Enoch
was taken up to Heaven when God promoted Him.) Enoch was translated that he should not see
death; and was not found, because God
had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please
him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
So you see our ability
to please God is not in what we do but rather in what He has done for us. The
very fact concerning our pleasing God is that it takes faith or revelation to
do so. And knowing that Faith is something that has been revealed ought to let
you see that if it is something that is revealed then in order for it to be
revealed, it had to first be hidden. Because you can not reveal what is already
known. To reveal means to take that which is not known and to make it known.
And Paul said, without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that cometh
to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him.
So we must be
expecting God to produce reward from what He reveals. And Enoch pleased God
which tells us that Enoch had Faith or revelation in God and what God was doing
in that Hour.
Faith cometh by
hearing the Word of God. So it all comes back to the Word. It all comes back to
a passive Faith or a passive revelation. What God has done or is doing. So God sends a preacher and this man if God
sends him must have words from God that builds up the faith of the hearer. For
if God does not send anyone, then they that hear, hear error, and then they
which believe error and then they that
call out call out to Go
From the Easter Seal 65-0410 P:81 brother Branham said, All right notice, let's take
another man with this quickening power. There was a man way long ago by the
name of Enoch. When a new thing come along, when something come along and said,
"Well, now we have to go back to the old school or this, that, or the
other," Enoch walked with God. Whatever God said do, Enoch never missed
one word. He walked with God. What was he? He was a son of God. He was an eagle that had been called to that
day, and when it came time, he was so full of that quickening power...
Remember, he'd walked hundreds of years or more before God, and not one time had he missed His Word. Not one time did he misbehave himself.
Not one time did he do, but kept the
testimony. Everything that God told
him to do, he went and done it. No argument about it, he just went and done it.
No matter what anybody else thought, he went and done it. Why? He was full of
that quickening power. And when it come time for the old man to die, God just
sent down a ladder and he walked up home. He quickened him and took his mortal
body up in a rapture. Amen. That's that quickening power.
God's only provided place of worship
65-1128M P:111 Look, Enoch was the living Word of God of
his age; he was a prophet. A prophet is God's reflector. How many knows that? The
reflector doesn't reflect itself; 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?
God's only provided place of worship
65-1128M P:112 Notice Enoch, God's perfect reflector in
type. When God was through with him, He just translated him (See?), took him
up. The mechanics that he had reflected become dynamics with the Spirit, and
took him up. Same in the days of Elijah. Elishah, even to his bones, where that
reflection... Reflector of God in his body being made manifest the Word of God.
They laid a dead man on it; he sparked to life again. We are flesh and bone of
Him, as long as we are the Bride of Christ. You believe that? All right. He
died for us, and we die to ourselves and
are buried in His Name, that we would no more be of the world, but in Him,
of which both the family in heaven is named after Jesus Christ. That's
Ephesians 1:21. What’s the family in heaven named? Jesus. What's the family on
earth named? Well, that's the house of God where the Blood's at. Is that right?
That's the Door, that's the Gate, that's the place He put His Name, and the
Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. It's the Word reflecting and sparking
off the age that you're living in. That's what He was; that's what Moses was;
that's what Jacob was; that's what the rest of them was: sparking off that Word
of God, the reflector that God was reflecting Himself. And come to that perfect
Image of God, Jesus Christ, God's Masterpiece; was struck that He might take
the rest of them for a Bride that's been a reflector of Him.
God's power to transform 65-0911 P:115 Enoch
was translated from death by God's transforming power. What did God do that
for? For a type of the rapturing church
that's coming. Yeah. Elijah was the same. Jesus' body was quickened after
it was dead. And in the grave, Jesus' body was quickened by the Word of God,
and transformed, from a dead, cold image to a resurrected, glorified Son of
God;
And Paul said we have the same promise. Romans
8: 11 But
if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that
raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Now, we have the same promise that Enoch had. “But
if we walk “IN” the light, as he is “IN” the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us
from all sin.
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P:61 Notice, we find out that this great
Quickening Power struck Enoch; it quickened him and he went home without dying.
It struck Elijah, quickened him till he went home without dying. We find out
his successor was Elisha, which was a type there of Christ and the church,
Elisha. Elijah done four miracles, and Elisha done eight miracles. He had a
double portion, like was poured out upon the church. Later they had a dead man,
threw it over on his bones, and he come to life. That Quickening Power was in the
grave with him. It's always there, when you get that Quickening Power of God,
being quickened up with Him now.
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P:57 Now, we find out that Enoch come into God's
provided way, with His Word, and walked hundreds of years, and pleased Him. And we find out that
the mechanics was so perfect in Him, that when the dynamics got to working in
the engine, it just took him off the earth. He took the first airplane flight,
like, to heaven. Working on God's mechanics and dynamics together, he was not,
because God took him out of the earth without death. That's exactly right. He
was walking in God's provided way.
Future home 64-0802 P:239 Just
a little while and we'll be summoned; then the rapture will come. Just a little bitty group like Enoch will be
taken up. Then the remnant of the woman's seed that keep the commandments
of God (Jews), have the testimony of Jesus Christ (Gentiles), will be hunted
down like dogs and shall give their life for their testimony. Then one great
morning, the break of the millennium for the honeymoon will start. And then the
rest of the dead lived not till the end of the thousand years. Then at the end
of the thousand years there was a judgment, showing that Ham was in the ark.
And Ham is still there in the remnant. Ones that heard it and rejected it will
have to be judged. Now, grant it, Lord, that we'll not be considered among
them, but will be in the call to the wedding supper, for we do recognize Jesus
among us today. We're going in with Him, out of the world into Him. Let us walk
forth in that City, come out with Him.
Future home 64-0802 P:64 Now,
perfectly Noah was a type of those carried over. Remember, when Noah come out,
Ham was with him. Sin was still in there. Sin went right on over through the
ark, unbelief, doubt went over in the ark, carried above the judgment; but Enoch went higher than the ark. He went on
into the Presence of God, but Noah went through and come out, and there was
still sin: type of the millennium--of the world's condition. The millennium is
not the end of it; there'll still be time after the millennium. The millennium
is a space of time, but not the new earth. No, indeed. Notice in that; we'll
get to it after a bit.