WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC #123
False Brethren Creeping in Unawares
Who is this Melchisedec PP. 125 But there stood those priests there, self-styled,
self-starched, said, "This man is Beelzebub, a fortuneteller."Jesus
said, "I forgive you for that." Now, remember, they never said it out
loud, but they said it in their hearts. And He perceived their thoughts. That's
right. That's what the Bible said. Call it telepathy if you want to, but He--He
perceived their thoughts. And He said, "I forgive you for that, but someday
the Holy Ghost is going to come and do this same thing (after His going); speak
a word against It, will never be forgiven in this world or the world to
come." Is that right? Now, that was Jews.
2 Peter 2: 1 But
there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false
teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even
denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift
destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom
the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their
damnation slumbereth not.
damnable heresies: pernicious ways, waste.
even denying: Greek arneomai to contradict, disavow, reject, abnegate:--deny, refuse.
Now the problem has been in each
age that God would send to His People a Prophet, but the people would rather
hear someone else. Someone who would tell them pleasant things and things that
would not be offensive to them. But this has never been God's way of doing it.
He sends a man forth that is so trustworthy of His Word that these men will
never under any circumstances betray God or His Word. And so because these men take
a very strong strand for the Word of God they become misunderstood by the
people who usually want them to be nicer than they show themselves to be. What
we usually find in scripture and even in our own Christian experience is that
the guys who come forth with such nice talk and gentle manner are usually the ones who practice seduction
on the people. And that is what happened in the first Church Age as we hear
Paul rebuking them in ...
[ 2 Cor
11: 1 - 4] These men came in and brought
with them false teaching which also introduced the people to a false Gospel,
which then brought the people to believe in a false Jesus and thus gave them a
new birth but a false new birth which was not the Spirit of God but another
spirit which was a false spirit. And
who were these men?
In [ verses 13 - 15] Paul tells us they are Satan's ministers,
posing as ministers of Righteousness.
Now to you this may be puzzling but to God it is not. He has warned His
people from the very beginning to be careful what they hear and to whom they
listen to.
[ Deut 13: 1 - 5] Now notice that God allows these men to rise up in order to
test you. But I also want you to notice that God has never left His people
without a voice. And we know that God's voice is a vindicated one. The voice of
God is His Prophet's.
[ Jer 5: 21 - 31]
[ 2 Tim 4: 1 - 4 ] Now this scripture
was given to brother Branham by the Angel of the Lord as His Calling. And we
see that the people have itching ears and so they will heap to themselves a
multitude of teachers who will tell them what their itching ears want to hear.
[ Deut 18: 15 - 22] You will notice here that God will give us a True Prophet to
speak His own words, and in this Prophet God will vindicate the man by not
allowing His words to fail which he speaks, because it is not the man speaking
but God Himself is speaking through His lips.
But what we see in the end
time is a picture of men rising up who proclaim to be ministers of
righteousness but are actually only impostors. [ 2 Tim 3: 1 - 14] So we see the
importance of knowing the one who is teaching you. Not just know the man but
knowing what it is he is trying to teach you and knowing his motives for doing
so. This is very important, because we know that these false teachers will be
causing many to lose there place in the way of righteousness and these men will
cause a great falling away from the truth. And notice that these men are not
only deceiving, but they themselves are deceived as well. So they are sincere
about what they teach. Doesn't the scripture tell us that Judas himself was
sincere when he kissed Jesus with the kiss of betrayal. The actual Greek says,
he kissed Jesus affectionately again and again. [( kataphileo) To kiss much,
again and again, tenderly.] so there is what sincerity will get you. Brother
Branham said those people who sacrifice their children to the crocodiles are
sincere or they wouldn't do what they do, but they are sincerely wrong.
Sincerity has nothing to do with it, "it
is not him that runneth or him that willeth, but it is God who showeth
Mercy" " Not by might nor by power, but by My Word Saith
God." It must all come back to
this Word or it is of no good to us. Brother Branham speaking of the Gifts
said, why do people want to go after the false when the skies are so full of
the Real. And what was first written in the skies? The Word of God.
[ 1 Tim 4: 1] It tells us that some
shall fall away from the Truth. Now this falling away is from the Truth. Not
just from truth in general, but the Truth which is the Message of God for the
people of that hour. And there will be a falling away from what the end-time
Message is declared to be. The Truth of It.
Paul also warned us of this in the book of [ Acts 20 : 26 - 31] & [ Acts 13: 40 - 41]
Here we find that Paul tells the people that God will bring forth a
declaration to the people and this declaration they will reject. Now this is
fitting because brother Branham said of His own Ministry the following words,
" " This is my ministry, see, to declare Him, that He
is here!" [FROM THAT TIME
PP. 227]
Now if His Words are Spirit
and they are Life it is because we also read in [ John 1: 1] That God is His Word. (Read) And so if we see then that God is
the Word and His Word is a Seed according to [Mark 4: 13 -20] Those who do not go on to produce the same life as in the Word
seed are those who the devil takes the Word from their heart. Now as we have
studied, when the word heart is used in the scripture it means their
understanding. So when the word is not understood then it can't bring forth any
evidence of the Life is the Seed into the person. [ Matt 13: 18 - 19]. So you must
understand the Word of God. We find Jesus very specifically telling this
to the Apostles in verses [10 - 16].
Now, then, if the Word is
meant to be understood for it to do you any good, and if not just any one will
have an understanding of it, then we see that only the Elect can not be
deceived, because only the elect will have what it takes to receive the Word
and all others will not receive it.
And this brings us back to
what Jesus said about being Truly born again of the Spirit of God. If we are
born of the Spirit of God and God's Spirit is His Word, then our new birth can
only come by God's Word becoming alive in us, quickened by His very Presence. [ 1 Peter 1 : 23 ] And so here in 1 Peter we see two
forms of a new birth. One form is
Corruptible, and the other which is not corruptible is by the Word of
God entering in and setting your Soul aflame. Hat is why we find in [ 2 Peter 1: 2 - 4]
That every thing we have need of in this life comes through the Word of
God. Even the Divine nature which is God's own Nature in us. Therefore you can
not escape the fact that every thing must come back to this Word. We van not go by feelings, we must go by the
Word of God. Brother Branham many times said, " the Bible never asked you
if you feel it, it asked you if you believed it." And that is the crux of
the situation.
The Bible tells us that at
the end time people will be seduced away from the Truth by men of reprobate
minds concerning the Truth. Men who can not in any way shape or form come to an
understanding of the Truth because they are not ordained to understand it. And
because they do not understand it they therefore will preach error concerning the
Truth and therefore the Message of the Hour.
If brother Branham said,
" This is my ministry, see, to declare Him, that He
is here!" then we can be sure of one thing,
and
that is those who are not ordained to understand this, will not preach Christ,
and they will not preach that He is here. And if they do it will not be the
same one that He preached. As they did in the Alpha so shall they do in the
Omega. They will bring in another Jesus, another Gospel message and therefore
those that hear them will receive another Spirit.
[ 2 Peter 2: 1 - 3] read... Notice that these will bring in a false
message. It does not say that they are on the outside preaching there false
doctrine, for what good would that do.
They are on the inside of it but they bring into it, that which does not belong
in it, thus corrupting what is inside.
And notice also their purpose is to fleece the people. To make merchandise of
them.
[ Gal 1: 6-9 ] not a totally
different word, but a perverted word.