Masterpiece 52

The Coming Kingdom

March 5th, 2006

Pastor, Brian Kocourek

 

1. This morning in our study of this message of Br. Branham’s called the Masterpiece, we will continue at paragraph 77. In this paragraph brother Branham talks about the condition of the people, the world and politics and how all are sinking fast.

 

2. THE MASTERPIECE  64-0705  77  And we see the condition of time. We see the condition of people. We see the condition of politics. We see the condition of the world. It can't stand. It's got to sink like the Titanic. It must go down. For one nation gives room to another as it falls. And this kingdom must fall and every other kingdom to give room to that Kingdom that's coming which cannot fall. For we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved through this perfect Image of God, the Masterpiece.

 

3. Now, that’s what the Apostle Paul said in Hebrews 12: 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

 

4. But why did brother Branham quote this passage of Scripture that the Apostle Paul wrote? Well, let’s examine it in the context of what he was saying in Hebrews chapter 25.

 

5. Hebrews 12: 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: (Now, who do you suppose that he is referring to? It is this same apostle that tells us the Lord Himself shall descend with a Shout, Voice and Trump. And he let’s us know that we had better not refuse His Message when He comes) 12: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth (that was in the days of Moses when the Voice of God shook the earth and the people feared, so they said don’t speak to us directly anymore, but speak through Moses, so God agreed that from then on He would speak to the People through a Prophet. And if God agreed to speak through a prophet then He is the same yesterday, today and forever.) but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

 

6. Hebrews 12: 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth (this word signifieth means To make known, as with a sign or word: and then he tells us what things he is going to make known via a sign or a word, and that is ) the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. (Now, he tells us here that those things that can be shaken are man made so they are not eternal. But then he tells us that those things which can not be shaken will remain because they are eternal and they have their source in the Word of God. For Peter said, the Word of God lives and abides forever. )12: 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

 

7.  So we see brother Branham referring to this coming Kingdom which is an eternal one because it is the Kingdom of Our God and His Christ, and it is being established by the Word of God. Notice he said, For one nation gives room to another as it falls. And this kingdom must fall and every other kingdom to give room to that Kingdom that's coming which cannot fall. For we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved through this perfect Image of God, the Masterpiece.

 

8. Now, in getting back to brother Branham’s sermon and the paragraph we are examining, I do not like the first part of this paragraph because not because it is not true, for it is and he spoke it back 40 years ago and foretold it happening. But what I do not like is not what he said but the fact it is true. I do not like to see my country falling apart as it is. But brother Branham pinned it right down to the people, the world and politics, that is destroying this nation and bringing it down into the mess that it is in. This was a great land when no people were here or when the Indians roamed this land.

 

9. But the white man came in at first with good intent. They wanted to establish a land, a nation where there would be freedom of religion. A place where you could worship God after the dictates of your own conscience. But then when our forefathers established a tolerance for others having different views, that tolerance made an opening for Catholicism to come in and over time with the help of the Jesuits and the Vatican the Catholics have taken over this country.

 

10. Then when the Irish Catholics came they filled up the filled up the military and went west opening these lands up and driving out the Indians, and killing off the Buffalo as they moved further west. And now this nation has come to the place that Catholicism has taken over when we have 5 of the nine supreme court Justices are Catholic.

 

11. In the beginning of this great country when it was being established, they made law in the constitution that Government would not adhere to any one religion, and would could not establish a national religion like the countries of Europe had done in the past, because they knew the power of the Vatican and its Jesuit spies. And they wanted to prevent Catholicism from taking over this nation. But with the election of 5 Supreme court justice that makes them in the majority, and now this country is a Catholic nation for the first time in its history because unlike when President Kennedy was elected, that was for a short three years, but these men are appointed for life.

 

12. The Founding Fathers had said that no man that is not a Christian should hold public office, and that only a Christian people could continue to hold onto a democratic form of government because they would not need so many laws to govern them because they knew that they would one day answer to a higher power and have to give account for their actions.

 

13. But those days are gone forever, and this country which has held for 230 years is falling apart because of the people, the politics and they have opened the door to the world.

 

14. So we see brother Branham tell us that as the nation goes so goes the people, the politics and the world. And since all here are tied together, then when the one falls it is because the others have fallen as well.

 

15. As politic goes so go the people and the world.  And I have never seen the political arena more vicious than it is today. It is hard to think that anyone in their right mind could use such hateful speech concerning their president as they do today on a daily basis. Now, I am not saying that we must blindly follow the blind but we should at least show respect for the office. But it seems there are no holds barred and the opposite sides in the politics actually hate the other side just because they disagree with their political platform.

 

16. I read an interview with the Vice Presidents wife Lynn Chaney the other day and she said there used to be a time when the two political parties would do a lot of social activities together even though they opposed each others politics, they were still friends and they would often do social events together or go out to eat together or go picnic together and they enjoyed each others company and had many family interests where they would share with each other. But she mentioned how vicious the atmosphere has become where they actually hate you because you are not in their party.

 

17.  I think that is because politics has become a religion to many and we all know that the most vicious attacks throughout history have been one religion against another.

 

18. It wasn’t the street prostitute that crucified Jesus Christ, it was the most religious people of the day. And as we see politics go so go the people. Now, just because it is called politics doesn’t mean it is not a religion. Liberalism was a religious view long before it became a political view.

 

19. The Jesuits poisoned the Christian world by interjecting liberal theology in order to weaken the conservative church world. That poison has worked its way into almost all denominations today until it has come even into the message churches. Now, they don’t like to be branded liberals so they call themselves progressives.

 

20. And what they mean by that is that they claim that they are open minded, and not closed minded. So the person that is conservative is called closed minded because they are not open about alternative lifestyles, homosexuality and illicit behavior. Lifestyles that they choose to lift up were called evil and wicked by God Himself, so they want to do away with God and any reference to Him in the public arena, and if they had their way in the private households as well.

 

21. They have pushed to have government school to do their bidding in raising up your children so they can begin to control their little minds at an early stage in their life when they are most vulnerable to influences. They make children to think that if they are not progressive then they must be archaic. But it just doesn’t end there. They not only disagree with you about your moral stand, but they actually hate you because you do not eschew their values, or their lack of them.

 

22. But God said, Isaiah 5: 20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

 

23. It is not uncommon today even right in this message to have this sort of warfare and hatred coming from the pulpits. But no wonder, because we are living in a time that the Apostle Paul described as perilous times.

 

24. In 2 Timothy 3: 1 the Amplified version, we read: "But understand this, that in the last days there will set in perilous times of great stress and trouble - hard to deal with and hard to bear. Now Brother Branham told us it is the hybrid foods and the tensions that are rotting the bodies and if the bodies are rotting then the brains which are part of the body are becoming rotten as well.

 

25. So tensions or stress are a very critical thing in the undoing of the human race. And you will notice that 2 Tim 3:1 tells us these times of great tension and stress will be hard to deal with and hard to bear, that is why the suicide rate is so high.

 

26. In our study of “The End Time Neurosis” brother Branham said, "Men now and people today are in such a neurotic condition, the whole world"... Therefore we see this neurotic condition is universal, for he said, the whole world! And we know also that he spoke of how the body is becoming rotten and women are reaching menopause at an earlier age, and we know menopause is a condition that the body goes into after it passes out of it's life cycle and enters into it's dying cycle.

 

27. Brother Branham also said, the deteriorating mental condition of the people is happening so quickly that the entire world is going insane. He said, The whole human race is rotten. Well, if them physical beings of our body is tearing down like that from eating hybrid foods, tensions, that rotten it, does not that also rot the brain cell? Then we can see how women can get on the street naked. We can see how they can speed through the streets at a hundred and twenty miles an hour, all these things. It's come to a place where the whole nation, the whole world, not only this nation, but everywhere, mentally gone.

 

28. Then after all this Brother Branham said,  Men will be so insane after while and we see it almost every day when you pick up a newspaper, or turn on the radio, or watch the news on your computer or television. We see how the whole nation if not the whole world are losing their minds and becoming open to hateful intolerance of that which is good and righteous, while telling you that if you are not tolerant of their sin then you are a bigot, and a homophobe etc.

 

29. And so, today we see the condition of man in this last hour and the condition of the mind. And if the condition of man has fallen, then that explains the politics of corruption and vitriol that we hear in the daily news. Brother Branham is telling us that the whole world has come to a condition that it is mentally gone. He said, the hybrid foods and the tensions have caused our bodies to rot and since our brain cells are part of our bodies, they are rotting as well. And we hear men making extreme statements on a daily basis. Our ex Vice president going to a terrorist supporting state such as Saudi Arabia and making public speeches that this country is a terrorist nation. And then he expects to run again for office to represent this same nation that he calls a terrorist nation. The man is completely insane.

 

30. But we find this condition that brother Branham is speaks of in the scriptures. We are warned that there is coming a time that will be full of tension and stress and men will be traitors, and it will be a perilous time that is hard to bear. We are also told that the anxieties of life will be self-consuming everyone who lives on the face of the earth.

 

31. And not only is our President under attack but our government is under attack daily by these weird left wing people. The things they say are so filled with vitriol and hate speech that you can not help but to think you are hearing the ramblings of a bunch of insane people.

 

32. It worries me that we live in a very tumultuous time, where everything that can be shaken is being shaken. But I know that is only because we are getting ready to usher in a Kingdom that can not be shaken. But the question is who will be worthy of that Kingdom and what kind of person ought we to be to receive that Kingdom.

33. In II THESSALONIANS 1:2 The Apostle Paul speaks of the condition at the end time and also the process whereby we will be made to enter into the Kingdom that God is preparing for us, this kingdom that can not be shaken. Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the Love of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;(so we see a condition in the people of God whereby they have a faith that is growing and a love for one another is abounding or overflowing in a generous way toward one another) 4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: 5 ¶  Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

 

34. Here we see that our patience in our suffering at the hands of these who oppose this coming Kingdom is a righteous token that we are worthy to inherit this kingdom.

 

35. 6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,(Now, we have already seen and are witnessing the Appearing oft eh Lord, and this appearing in clouds of angels has been seen all over the World as a witness of the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ in His Great Parousia Presence ) 8 In flaming fire(That is in the form of the Pillar of Fire he has come as Judge of men’s hearts) taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

 

36. Notice then at the time of this Great appearing in a cloud with His angels and in the form of a Flaming Fire he is separating the sheep from the goats, and those who do not love His Appearing are being separated from His Presence because they will not be a part of this coming Kingdom of our God and our Christ. But notice on the other hand this is the same time when he comes to bring the very mind of Christ into the people, to make us fit for His Coming Kingdom. 10  When he shall come to be glorified in his saints,(and wee know this word glorified was translated from the Greek root word doxa which means the very opinion, assessment and judgment of God are to come into the Elect though this great Appearing.) and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed ) in that day. So here we see that the same Word Paul preached will be preached once again in that day.

 

37.  11   Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: 12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

38. Now, in closing let me say that there are several other Scriptures where Jesus tells us the attributes necessary to inherit this Kingdom and be found worthy to enter into it.

 

39. John 3: 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. So we see that no one but those who are born again by the Word of God will be able to enter into that Kingdom. For the Apostle Peter told us in 1 Peter 1:23 that we are born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, by the word of God which Lives and abides forever. Therefore if we are not born again then what life we have is only temporary and not fit to live and abide forever, because we are going to a kingdom that can not be shaken..

 

40. John 3: 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.  And if you can not enter into that Kingdom how are you going to see it which means to understand it. That is why so many are opposed to the Kingdom which we teach and preach, because they are not born again and therefore can not see nor understand what we are showing the people.  

 

41. Luke 18: 17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. Here we find our attitudes need to become more simple towards the things of God and we need to therefore simplify our lives as children of God.

 

42. Mark 10: 15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And not only do we need to simplify our lives but our hearts as well and look to the coming kingdom with great anticipation as a child would look for that special present that is waiting for them.

 

43. Matthew 24: 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.  And that is what we are seeing today with the internet ministry going into all nations. Our own little ministry has touched people in over 160 nations, and brother Branham’s and Brother Vayle’s ministries have gone into as many if not more. And I believe there aren’t very many more nations in all the world, so we see that we are getting close to the fulfillment of that promise.

 

44. That is why the Kingdom of heaven is likened unto a net as we see in  Matthew 13: 47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Now, remember the sea is defined as peoples nations multitudes and people. Therefore it would take an awful big net to go into all the world. So it has to be speaking of the inter-net, and therefore we see we are living in the hour of the fulfillment of this parable..

 

45. Matthew 13:24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: We see that the Son of Man went forth in this hour sowing seed, and as a result there arose ministries to water that seed, and now the seed is coming to manifestation as son of God.

 

46. Matthew 13: 31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Now we know that grain of mustard seed represents Faith which begins very, very small but grows into a tree that covers much area. And we know that Faith is Revelation and there is only One Faith and that is the revelation of Jesus Christ and the Son of Man came in this hour with a Shout to give us that Revelation and we know the Revelation of Jesus Christ is being received throughout the world today as the Understanding of the Godhead is being taught and received. 

 

47. Matthew 13: 33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

 

48. GOD'S CHOSEN PLACE WORSHIP  65-0220  76    The Meal Offering was Christ. The--every burr had to be set the same, and every little piece of meal had to be ground the same for the meal offering, showing that He is the Healer, and He substitutes and takes away death and puts Life by the two laws. Hallelujah. Where death is one place, when Christ comes in, Life comes in. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And where there was death, there became Life, because that Christ was bought in, the Meal Offering.

 

49. Notice that the meal represents life, and the woman took three measures of this meal which represents three measures of life and yet she mixed in with life something to try to make that life more beautiful, to make it bigger than it is supposed to be, and to make it better looking than what it was meant to be, and by doing so she perverted it and caused death in the pot.

 

50. Now, we have shown you how that women represent the church, and yet we have also said if you look at the nature of the woman it will tell you if she represents a Bride or a false bride. In this parable Jesus tells us what kind of woman this church is. She is a false church because of her very nature declares what type of a woman she really is. Jesus says,  the woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. Notice that she hid it. she was sneaky about what she was doing. The word hid mean to 1. To put or keep out of sight; secrete. 2. To prevent the disclosure or recognition of; conceal: tried to hide the facts. 3. To cut off from sight; cover up: Clouds hid the stars. 4. To avert (one's gaze), especially in shame or grief. v. intr. 1. To keep oneself out of sight.

 

51. And notice if this woman reflected Christ as her husband she would not be trying to conceal but reveal. So we see this woman is a bad church. She is a whore. She has tried to hide and get away with this deed so no one would notice. And Jesus said what she did leavened the whole lump. Leavened the entire lump. And what is to be made from the lump? It is to be baked and the bread is the result. And so she leavened the entire bread of Life until there was not Life left in it, only death in the Pot. And remember, the same Word that is our blessing becomes our curse if we do not handle it  the way it was ordained to handle it. Thus  all three measures of meal were thus polluted, until Jesus said the entire lump was polluted. All tables become full of vomit.

 

52. What the canker worm didn’t eat the locust did, and what the locust left the palmerworm ate, and what the palmer worm didn’t eat the caterpillar ate and so on until the whole thing was destroyed. And that is why God had to come Himself in this last day to restore all that had been eaten right down to the very roots.

 

53. Now, what are those three measures of meal? Justification, sanctification and the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, and notice how she perverted the teaching of these three Scriptural doctrines.

 

54. And what did she pervert them with?  False Doctrine! She took false doctrine to pervert the True meal or true doctrine.  We find our answer to this from the very words of Jesus in Matthew 16.

 

55. MATTHEW 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. 7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. 8 Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? 9   Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? 11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? 12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

 

56. So we see that the leaven represents false doctrine that is added to the right portions of word. And remember the burrs had to be ground to the same in every detail. Therefore, the meal represents a rightly divided Word, and yet the leaven represents a false doctrine that was added to the three measures of Justification, sanctification and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that just perverted the whole understanding. 

 

57. And without these three rightly divided measures of meal you can not have communion and fellowship in the Presence of God without breaking the bread of Life with Him. God wants to have fellowship and communion with us, around His Word.  And Abraham, the Father of our Faith showed us how it is to be done.

 

58. Finally we see that the kingdom of heaven is vary valuable and if we are to invest in anything it should be in the Kingdom of God. Matthew 13: 44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.  

 

59. Matthew 13:45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: