Masterpiece 37

The Reflection

December 11^th, 2005

Pastor, Brian Kocourek

1. I Corinthians 13:12 KJV “For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face: Now we know in part but then shall we know even as we are known”.

2. Let’s bow our heads in prayer. Dear Father, we approach Thy throne of mercy this morning knowing that there is still mercy for your children, while your Son is on Your Throne making intercession for our confession, For we know that it is you that have come down in this hour to gather together Your Elect to Your Shout, and we know that You are here placing all things under The Feet of Your Son Jesus. Therefore, we come into Thy Presence with reverence and thanksgiving in our hearts for what You have done for your children in this hour, having come down to us with a Message to bring us Your very mind, and to get us ready to meet your Son Jesus in the air.

3. Help us this morning Father to receive from Thy word, for we know that your Word is God breathed and that it is good for correction and righteousness, for we need to be corrected whenever and wherever we have drifted from Thy perfect will. Help us Father to become more obedient towards Your will even as Your Eldest Son Jesus gave us an example as to how to conduct ourselves in a world that is so wicked and yet so alluring. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

4. Now, this morning we will again study from Brother Branham’s sermon the Masterpiece and we will be examining paragraph 39 this morning which deals with the subject of the Masterpiece as a reflection of the mind of the sculptor.

5. Now, we read for our text from I Corinthians 13:12, therefore I would like to read this verse of scripture from several other translations as we discuss this thought of what it means to be a reflection of the mind of the great Sculptor. From the Diaglott translation the same verse reads, For now we see through a dim glass obscurely, but then shall we see face to face:

 
6. And from the AMPLIFIED translation of I Corinthians 13:12 For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection (of reality as in a riddle or enigma), but then (when perfection comes) we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly); but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood (by God). 

7. Now, with these verse of Scripture in mind, let’s turn to Brother Branham’s sermon called THE MASTERPIECE 64-0705 and we will read from paragraph 39 After he had spent all that time, for years and years to make this, then under the influence of seeing fulfilled what he had seen in his heart and in his vision, and desired to see, it was completed. And when it was completed, he was so inspired by it till he thought his own masterpiece should speak back to him. And he struck it across the leg and hollered, "Speak!" And it made a flaw on it. It put a flaw on the image. To me, the flaw was what made it the masterpiece. Now, maybe to the mind that might think different, you'd think that spoiled it. No, to me it made it what it was. Because after so many years of careful work, and toil, and inspiration, and so forth of making it, his toil had proved not in vain; it was perfect, and that's why he cried out, "Speak!" Because he'd seen before him that he had been able to achieve, to bring to pass the vision that was in his mind; and therefore, under inspiration he done something out of reason, out of the ordinary; he struck it and hollered, "Speak!" See, he wouldn't have done that if he'd have thought. But he didn't think. It was inspiration of seeing what he had in his mind setting there perfectly before him.

8. 41 His toils, and wearies, and long nights, and housed away from the world for days... And maybe eat a sandwich, and rub on it, and get back and, "No, that's just not the way it was. Now, it's got to come down to this," and rubbing it... Then when he saw it just perfect, then he saw in reality. The negative of what was in his mind had become real; it become positive; therefore, it sprung into him. And it was so real that he must cry out, "Speak!" To me it was a reflection, it was a compliment to his work, that his own work so inspired him that he would become beside himself to smite it and to say, "Speak!"

9. Now, I would like to take our thoughts this morning on this reflection which brother Branham further defined as the negative coming into the positive. We read for out text this morning how that through the ages man has looked into the Mirror of the word but it appeared blurry and darkened, but we have a promise that when that which is perfect comes, then the blurry and darkness of the word will disappear.

10. Now, several translations of this verse call this blurry condition an enigma. They say, For now we see in a mirror in an enigma; but then face to face. 

11. So what does it mean to see in an enigma? What is an enigma anyway? The American Heritage dictionary tells us that an enigma is “Text that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable, perplexing or written in such a way as to be almost a riddle.”

12. And that is exactly what God said His Word was. God wrote His word in such a way as to hide it from the wise and prudent and yet He reveals it to babes such that are willing to learn.

13. The Apostle Paul said, 1 Corinthians 2: 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: And he wrote most of the New Testament Epistles that make up our Bible. So we see that the Word of God was written in such a way that unless God reveals it to you, you will never be able to understand it. Therefore it is written in an enigma.

14. From a questions and answers meeting, (C.O.D. - 59-1223.) Brother Branham said, Now, you couldn't see the Kingdom of God, because the Kingdom of God is the Holy Spirit. It's within you, the Holy Spirit, and you can't see that with your eyes. So see means "to understand." But with your eyes you look at anything. But with what's inside of you, you understand with, you see with that. See? With the eyes of God you look.

15. Jesus tells us this same thing in the Book of Matthew 11: 25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

16. And again in the Book of Luke 10: 21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.

17. And notice that Jesus even tells us that it seemed good in God’s sight to do this. And in Matthew 13 and Mark chapter 4 and Luke chapter 8 we hear the account of the Apostles asking Jesus why he spoke in parables, which seemed more like riddles to the people. And Jesus answered them in Matthew 13: 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: Matthew 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

18. So we see that Jesus spoke in an enigma, in a way that kept the understanding hidden from those who were not meant to understand it. Now, we are also told that the time when the hidden things and the dark things will be exposed or revealed is when the Lord Himself shall come as a Light and will bring via that (Light of His Presence) the revelation of those hidden things, and those things that are dark.

19. 1 Corinthians 4: 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, Who both (now this both means that there are two things he will do) Number 1 – He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and 2) – He will make manifest the counsels of the hearts (That means that he will discern the thoughts and intents of the hearts, discernment) and then shall every man have praise of God.

20. So you see as we have already read, “when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part will be done away, and so then the partial understandings of what the word of God will be done away at the time of this glorious presence of the perfect one. And if the partial understanding is done away, then that means if we have a partial understanding we have a wrong understanding, or a dark understanding. But when that partial understanding is done away, then we have a full understanding.

21. And then what will take place? We are told in I John 3:2 (Diaglott) Beloved ones, now children of God we are, and not yet was it brought to light, what we shall be; we know (but) that if He should appear like to Him we shall see Him, as He is

22. 1 John 3: 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

23. I John 3:2 AMPLIFIED  Beloved, we are (even here) and now God's Children. It is not yet disclosed or made clear what we shall be hereafter, but we know that when He comes and is manifested we shall (as God's children) resemble and be like Him, for we  shall see Him as He really is. 

24. Man That Can Turn On The Light - 63-1229 1M Now, the seed was already upon the earth. I believe God had planted the seed, and just as long as the sun could get to that seed, it begin to grow. And that's the reason it only taken days to bring forth these things, because the seed was already in the earth. All it needed was light. And that's the way God has today. His Seed is already here, His Word. The only thing It needs is Light on It; and He is that Light, for He is the Word. The Word and the Light is the same thing. The Life in there is the Light of the Word (see?) is the Life. The germ of life lays within the grain, and the grain is - the life is what breaks forth and brings forth the life out of the grain. That's the way that Christ in the Word makes the Word do what It's supposed to do. Light brings life. Plant the wheat out here, it'll ... You put it in a basement, cover it all over, and it'll never bring forth anything, because it can't; there's no light there. But as soon as light strikes it, then it'll bring forth life if it's a germitized seed. That's the same thing it is in the Word. See, the Word is God, and when the Light strikes It, it brings the Word to life again. Every age has always been that.

25. Man That Can Turn On The Light - 63-1229 1M There's nothing can give you Life but the Spoken Word of God. Life only comes by Light.

26. So we see that the manifesting of Himself to us, brings revelation to us of Himself, for God interprets His own Word by bringing it to pass. But even more importantly than that, is the fact that we have this great promise that when He shall manifest in His True character so shall we manifest in our true character. That is why I believe that if the Word of God is being truly presented in an open and unhidden manner, you can not hide if you tried. And when that Word is presented in such a way you will manifest who you are and you will make known the council of your heart, and you will not escape it for as surely as light makes manifest in the natural, what life is in the seed. So too the light of Glorious presence coming forth from a vessel that is perfectly reflecting that Light, will most assuredly cause all that sit under that ministry or come in contact with it, to become exposed as to just what they are. And those who do not like what they see in themselves, will not stay around to receive more exposing of themselves.

27. That is why the Apostle John wrote, John 3: 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

28. From the Patmos Vision - 60-1204 2E Brother Branham said, “And a true minister of God don't reflect some flashlight, some match stem, some shuck a-burning; he reflects the golden rays of Christ to the Church, that "He's the same, and He's alive, and He shine on me." Amen! That's the Light he reflects. The star reflects the light of the sun, see, so we're reflecting the Light of the Son of God. Doing the same thing He did, giving Light.

29. Patmos Vision - 60-1204 2E Christ is alive! He's in us, not some nail or piece of cloth or piece of bone, or something. He's the living God, living in us now, manifesting Himself. We only have one article of a memorial, that's the Lord's Supper, commemoration of His death. But as far as Christ Himself, He is with us and in us. And that's the thing that we want to wave (the glory of the Holy Spirit) to the world. Wave It until the Light goes out. All right. The ministers that kept and brought the Light, and held It back like the original at the beginning, and brought the Light through. And, remember, the seven stars was in His right hand. Just think, they were drawing their current, their Light from Him. They were completely under His control, in His right hand. Oh! Every true servant of God is the same way. In Revelations 21:23, if you want to put it down. In the New Jerusalem, 21:23, He is the Lamb that's in the City that's the Light thereof, shining; for they needed no light in the City, the sun shall not rise in it, because the Lamb which is in the midst of the City shall be the Light thereof. And the nations that's saved shall walk in the Light of the Lamb! Amen! He is the Lamb's Light. Would you like to have His Life living in you, reflecting His Presence? Christ standing in the midst of His people, them seven golden candlesticks reflecting His radiance like the sun in the middle of its heat.

30. Now, how can a five fold minister reflect this light so perfectly? He can only do this as he aligns himself to that Light coming forth from the Prophet of His Age. For God truly shall do nothing unless he reveals it first to and then through the Prophets.

31. Church Age Book Chapter 4 - The Smyrnaean Church Age P:140 In every age we have exactly the same pattern. That is why the light comes through some God-given messenger in a certain area, and then from that messenger there spreads the light through the ministry of others who have been faithfully taught.

32. Brother Branham said, Things That Are To Be - 65-1205. A prophet is a reflector of God. He is made so that he cannot speak his own words, it has to be God's words that he speaks. He's just like a reflector and he is God's mouthpiece.

33. God's Only Provided Place of Worship - 65-1128 1M 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?

34. And again we see in John 1: 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. So they will not comprehend it, but seeing the light causes them much pain and anguish because it exposes their sinful nature.

35. Now, we are looking at the thought that brother Branham said the Masterpiece really was a reflection of what was in the very mind of God. And you can not have a reflection without having light, for light is what reflects.

36. In 2 Corinthians chapter 3 the Apostle Paul tells us of the story from Exodus 33 and 34 where Moses stood face to face in the presence of the Lord, and when he came down from the mountain his face so glowed from the Shekinah Presence reflecting off from it, that the people feared and caused Moses to have to place a veil over his face,

37. Exodus 33: 11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

38. Exodus 34: 35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

39. In 2 Corinthians 3 after the Apostle speaks of this episode with Moses and the People, he says to us in 2 Corinthians 3: 18 But we all, with an open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

40. Now the Diaglott translation says, But we all beholding the glory of the Lord in a face unveiled, are transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as from the Lord, the Spirit. Now, this glory to glory is from doxa to doxa which the doxa is the opinion, assessment or judgment of God. In other words the very mind of God revealed.

 
41. So we see according to the Amplified version of 1 Corinthians 3:18  And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit. 
 
42. That is why the Apostle Paul asks the question if we need letters of commendation and he answers his own question by saying, II Corinthians 3:2-3 Amplified version says,  “No, you yourselves are our letter of recommendation (our credentials,   written  in your hearts, to be perceived, recognized, known and read by everybody. You show and make obvious that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.” 

43. Now, the problem we see in this story told to us of Moses coming down from having been in the Presence of the Lord, and his face glowing which was a reflection of he shekinah Presence is that the people feared that Presence. It was not Moses Face that they feared to look upon, but the reflection of God that they so feared. But if those people had just stood still long enough they would have begun to reflect that same Light that was reflecting from the face of Moses. And today, if we would just lay in the Presence of the Light of His Glorious Presence and absorb the Message of the Hour which He brought with His Presence, we too would begin to reflect the very nature of the Son of God just as God Himself reflected His nature through His uniquely born Son. 
 
44. That is why so many wanted to deify William Branham. He like Moses went up to the Mountain and entered into the Presence of God, and came back a changed man, reflecting the very nature and purpose and will of God to the people n this hour. So a prophet is a reflector as Brother Branham taught us, and ass we saw also in the example the Apostle Paul laid out for us to see in 2 Corinthians 3.
 
45. And we also see in I Corinthians 15:49 this same promise that we shall all reflect the image of the Son of God. I Corinthians 15:49 Amplified And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, so shall we also bear the image of the Man of heaven. 

46. And that man of Heaven is the Lord Jesus Christ our older brother in Whose image we are to become conformed unto. Romans Chapter 12 Verse 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

 
47. Colossians 3:10  Amplified  And have clothed yourselves with the new spiritual self, which is ever in the new spiritual self, which is ever in the process of being renewed and remolded into fuller and  more perfect knowledge upon  knowledge, after the image the likeness of Him Who created it. 

48. So we see that we are a reflection and our purpose here in this world is to become a perfect reflector of the Son of God.

49. From his sermon the Rapture, brother Branham tells us. Rapture - 65-1204. The Bride has to be molded and made into the image of Christ, and Christ is the Word. That's the only thing. See, it's in there, in the Word. See, there cannot be one thing added. It can't be a woman with one hand like a man and the other hand with a paw like a dog; it's got to be exactly the Word of the Lord, like He is the Word. The Bride is a part of the Bridegroom. The woman is a part of her husband, 'cause she's taken out of the husband. Eve was a part of Adam from his side. And so is the Bride, not taken from a denomination, but taken from the bosom of the Word of God for this day

50. (Spoken Word Is the Original Seed 62-0318.2E.) Then from a little group of the true Seed of the Word, God will present Christ a beloved Bride, a Virgin - a Virgin of His Word - and through them and by them will be fulfilled all that has been promised for His Word in the Virgin, who knows no man-made creeds or dogmas. The Word of promise in Himself like it was in Mary - God Himself made manifest. He will act, Himself, by His Own Word of promise so to fulfill all that has been written of Him. As He did when He came from the virgin womb (type of the spirit womb now), so will the Virgin now, accepting His Word: "Be it unto me as thou has said," though it was said by an Angel while it yet was the written Word. (Isaiah 9:6) They will love Him (love His), and will have His potentials, for He is their Head, and they are His subjects, subject to His Head. Headship of Christ was His. Notice, what harmony. Jesus never did anything until seen of the Father or the Father showed Him first. (Harmony between God and Christ, see. John 5:19) So will the Bride, and He shows Her His Word of Life (He shows Her), and she receives it. She never doubts it. Nothing can harm Her, not even death; for if the Seed be planted the water will raise it up again. Amen. (Now, I got a great big Hallelujah!) Here is the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to know what He wants done with the Word, and She does it in His Name. She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.

51. Christ Revealed in His Own Word - 65-0822 1M The thing that's the matter with the Message today is, those who obtain It in their hearts must lay in the presence of the Son to get ripened. See? You can pick up the Message, and then let the Son bake all the greenness out of you (see?), make you matured Christians. You see what I mean? God's coming soon to receive His Church, and we must have that type of Christians for Him to receive. The wheat's got to get ripe.

52. Hebrews Ch 5&6 - 57-0908 1M But it's the things you see in your spirit, through the Word, the Word is God's looking glass that reflects what He is and what you are.

53. Man That Can Turn On The Light - 63-1229 1M Oh, God, if we can only - only understand that we are the reflection of Jesus Christ, His Word made manifest. You are the reflection of His Word. See?

54. Indictment - 63-0707 And the Word is the Messiah. You believe that? Well, the reflection of the Word then is what? A reflecting of Messiah, which is the Holy Ghost among us. He's reflecting Himself, tries to, wherever He can find a lamp that He can look through, that ain't smoked up with creeds and things. He can give Light through.

55. Paul A Prisoner - 63-0717 And now when I see, like if you were sitting out there; usually stand, talking - that means you're living, but it's only a shadow of life, because anything has got to have darkness in it to make a shadow. See, because a shadow has to possess so much darkness and so much light to make a shadow. And it can't be altogether dark, and it can't be altogether light. If it's dark, it's real dark. If it's light, there is no shadow, nothing to make a shadow, but if it's mixed with dark and light, it makes a shadow - so we are really shadows of light. Now you are reflecting a light from somewhere. If you are a Christian, (this be your shadow) it only proves that there is a life where you can't die, because this life has death in it. See, but it is a shadow, because you're living, moving creatures with abilities to see, think, move, and talk,... (and the five senses of the body). But yet you know, you're dying - and there's so much trouble. You know, it can only be - it's a reflection, see, that there is Life and death mixed together. The physical has to die, but if you are reflecting by your mortal Life, the light of Heaven, then you're reflecting the Eternal Life of God. Then when you die you can no more than go to that light, because that is what you have reflected. If you are of the dark world, you reflect that and you can do, go no other way but to darkness. See, so we are in a reflection. So, we see that as sure as the Holy Spirit reflects light and Life, so does death reflect darkness in here before God.

56. Is Your Life Worthy of the Gospel 63-0630 2E Now, the only way to live a life worthy, is to let Christ and His Word - which He is the Word - reflect Itself so perfect in you, till God vindicates what He said in the Word. For Christ died that He might present Himself before God a sacrifice, and it returned back in the form of the Holy Spirit to reflect Hisself through His people to carry on His work, reflecting Himself through you to fulfill His promised Word in these future days, like John the Baptist heard when he heard Christ come. And Christ walked out into the water, and John said, "Behold, the Lamb of God." Nobody else saw It, but he saw It, that Light coming down from Heaven like a dove.

57. Melchisedec - 65-0221 2E You see, that little spark of life that you had in you from the beginning when you started your journey ... Many of you can remember it. You joined this church and joined that church, and try this and that; nothing satisfied. That's right! But one day you just recognized it. Right!

58. (Go Tell - 60-0417.2M.) It's going to be the attitude of the people towards the Message. See how she said it? She said just the right thing. It's what you say, that does it. What you say!

59. (Doing God A Service - 65-0718.1M.) And one day you'll see that the One that you feeled in your heart and see His identification, will become personalized before you. Then you and He are One. You've united by the Word, and the Word was in the beginning will go back to the beginning which is God.

60. Spoken Word Is the Original Seed - 62-0318.2E.) All right. Now, here is what I'm trying to say to you: the law of reproduction bring forth of its kind (Genesis 1:11). These last days, true Church-Bride comes to the Headstone. Will be the super Church; a super Race as they near the great Headstone. They will be much like - So much like Him, even they will be in His very image, in the order to be united with Him. They will be One. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the Living God. Denominations can never produce this. This will be - They will produce their creeds and dogmas mixed with the Word and brings a hybrid product. (

61. (God's Only Provided Place of Worship - 65-1128.1M.) Notice Enoch, God's perfect reflector in type. When God was through with him, He just translated him, took him up. The mechanics that he had reflected become dynamics with the Spirit, and took him up. Same in the days of Elijah. Elijah, even to his bones, where that reflector of God in his body being made manifest the Word of God.

62. God's Only Provided Place of Worship - 65-1128 1M 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 reflecting Him. Moses was in Him. Joshua was in Him. And if you are in Him, you was in Him before the foundation of the world, the family of God; you suffered with Him, you died with Him, you went to the cross with Him, you raised with Him; and now you're still with Him, setting in Heavenly places, reflecting the Message of the age to the world, the Light of the world. "Ye are the Light of the world," but if it's hid by a denominational bushel basket, how are they going to see It? For your traditions, you make the Light of no effect! By trying ... You denominationals, trying to keep the Light away from your church; you won't go in, neither will you let them. Amen.

63. He That Is In You - 63-1110 2E And that Word is still the same Word. And tonight we see It revealing Itself in us, after two thousand years, because He wrote It on the paper and is here confirming it, showing it, that it's right.

64. Power of Transformation - 65-1031 1M See, they don't have understanding no more. The people just don't move by the Spirit of God anymore. God's Word is His Spirit, and His Word comes to His prophet. And the Word is supposed to transform you from what the things of the world are, into the image of sons and daughters of God. And the Word can only come through these prophets, as they spoke.

65. Power of Transformation - 65-1031 1M Transforming yourself, His Holy Spirit transforms the seed Word into Its likeness ... His Word will bring forth sons and daughters of God. That's what it is supposed to do. Then the Spirit moved on Him and sent Him to Calvary, to the cross, to bring Light in this day, and Light to all the predestinated seeds to the Church of this day, transforming sons and daughters of God, into His Presence.

66. He That Is In You - 63-1110 2E "Greater is He that's in you, Christ, than he that's in the world." Now, in the meeting, where we touch Him, He reflects Himself back, as the woman touched God through Christ and reflected back her need.

67. Indictment - 63-0707 And today, by the Light of the Gospel reflecting from a Light, a Pillar of Fire visibly among us ... Science has seen It; It's in the magazines and across the world; and It's both scientifically and spiritually recognized as the same Pillar of Fire, by the same signs and same things It did always. When the Light struck the rich young ruler, look what he did. He rejected - a smart man. Paul, another smart man, the Light struck him. What did he do? He accepted It. He forgot it, all he every knowed, that he might know Christ.

68. Invisible Union - 65-1125 Lord God, I am asking the Bride tonight. The ones that I feel has pulled away and waiting; may they separate themselves from everything of the world. They must lay in the presence of the warm sun light of the Son of God, bathing in His Word and His love. Grant it, dear God.

69. Feast of Trumpets - 64-0719M The moon reflects the light to the earth, which is a type of the church. And what a reflection, what a Message from God Himself, that these things are the Truth! Testified it first in His Word, then by the Spirit at the platform, and then declared it in the heavens.

70. Hebrews Ch 3 - 57-0901 1M There's probably ten or fifteen man with him. Did any of those man see that Light? No, sir. Paul saw It! It wasn't designated for them man to see It. So, some people can see things where others don't. See? So Paul saw that Light, insomuch that It even blinded him.

71. Seals - 63-0321 The churches makes just as fun of the true Bride of Christ as Rome ever did - just exactly, acts to the real Lamb's Bride just exactly like she did in Revelation 13:14.

72. Paul a Prisoner of Christ - 63-0717 Now there's no one that could see that Light that was hanging over Paul, but it was there. No one seen that dove coming down out of Heaven and that Light that formed and hung over Jesus but John himself. But it was there. See? And so, then later when I was telling the people about this Light being like a Pillar of Fire: no one wanted to believe it, but now the mechanical eye of the camera identified that. The evil spirit is dark ... if our lives cope with the Light of the day, we're walking in light. It's just like you look out and say, "I see the sun" in the daytime. You see the shadow of the sun. It's a reflection of the sun. It isn't the sun itself, but it proves that there is a sun.

73. Hebrews Ch 2 #I - 57-0825 1M What type of people ought we to be? When we see the Great Jehovah come down and do the things that He does, and see them compared Scripture by Scripture, that they are the Truth. And we sit around sometimes like a warts on a log, and just so unconcerned. We ought to be busy every minute, trying to get people to Christ. We ought to be lively stones. We should never be slothful like we are. We'll go up to church, and we'll see the Lord Jesus do something, or bless us in such a way, and then we'll go back out and say, "Very nice meeting."

74. Rising of the Sun - 65-0418 M Our name ain't nothing, it's His Name. Our life is nothing, it's His Life. Our desire is not to be glorified. Our desire is not some big name. Our desire is to see Him glorified. Glorify what? Not with self- pride, but in us, our lives, to prove that He is alive and living in us. If I can get myself out of the way, so when William Branham not even thought of, and you not even thought of, till we can see Jesus glorified among us. See Him, that's our desire. I just want to see Him manifested. How can you do it? Call Him down? No! He's in you. See? He's in you. "Well then, Lord, if I can get myself out of the way, You can manifest... myself. How can You do it? Because You ordained it so: `All that the Father has given Me will come'"

75. God Called man - 58-1005E And when God had taken Elijah up, He came back with a double portion of His Spirit. He was ready for the revival then. Notice the man then, being just a plow boy before. God made his name immortal. All the prophets that stood around watching him had to bow to his feet because he had the power of God upon him. There's coming a hour when God shall make the whole world bow at the feet of man and women who have plunged through and crossed Jordan and separated themselves from the things of the world.

76. Questions & Answers 57-1002 Just remember us, Lord, that we're human flesh in a dark world, a world of darkness and sin and chaos. And we're looking through a veil, as it was, over our face, and we only see and know as we do humanly here. But someday when that veil's lifted, we'll see You face to face and know as we're known. That's the day that we long for.

77. The Super Sign - 63-1129 Notice the Eternal sign, an unfailing sign, It will never fail. Man and... The Word and man become one. When God's Word and man become one, as St. John the first chapter says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." That's the super sign. Oh, if that was the super sign of that day, when that same Spirit that was on Jesus Christ comes into His Church, to manifest the written Word for today, that is still the super sign.

78. Revelation Ch 4 # III - 61-0108 What called... is the Shekinah Glory? It's God's Presence. And when a man's walking, or a woman, he's reflecting the Shekinah Glory. He don't go into gambling dens and carry on, and go out here and deny the Word. No matter what the people says, he's got his heart set on one thing: God. And if he's truly called of God then Jesus Christ reflects Himself through him with the Shekinah Glory, doing the same things He did back there, manifesting the same Gospel, preaching the same Word, same Word being made manifest in the same measure it was then, just like it was truly at Pentecost it's measured back again.

79. Seals - 63-0321 But now what... you start bringing the Word. Now, that's the thing that actually brings Life - is the Word - and that brings the joy of stimulation of new wine. And that's what it was on Pentecost when the Word was vindicated.