Closing Prayer for the Sick
Rev. Brian Kocourek
WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC 65-0221E 186 I'm looking at a woman that I talked to.
This woman, I'm looking right at her, 'cause she's praying so hard for a man.
She told me she had a man... She never told me nothing
about it, but her name is Mrs. Waldrop. She comes from
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Here's a woman, and she's suffering with a
asthmatic condition, complications. She's not from here. She's setting out
there in the crowd, right out there. I hope she gets... She's not from here;
she's from
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How many of you believe now with all your heart? Now, isn't Jesus Christ
the same yesterday, today, and forever? Do you accept Him now as your Saviour, raise your hands. Do you believe in Him as your
Healer? Here, here's a person setting here crippled or something, laying on a cot. (Can you hear me through this mike?) I
don't know you; you're just a woman laying there. If I could heal you, I would
do it. I can't heal you. It's just a man who's just rejoicing, his child was
healed. I don't know you. You're a woman; I'm a man. This is the first time
that we met in life, I suppose...?... right back there
with you, that brought you. Frankly, this is your first time here though, just
brought you in. You come from a long way. You're shadowed to death. You have
cancer, not crippled, but cancer. The doctors can do no more for you. It's
true. And you're sure to die, 'cause doctors can do no more for you. One time
there was two lepers set at the gate of
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You're dying with cancer; you can't live outside of God. You're not from
this city; you're not from around here; you're from a long way. You're from
ACTS 10:38 How God anointed
Jesus of
MALACHI 4:1 ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn
as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble:
and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it
shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with
healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the
stall.
MATTHEW
MATTHEW
LUKE 9:1¶ Then he called
his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all
devils, and to cure diseases. 2 And he
sent them to preach the
LUKE
MALACHI 3:6 For I [am] the
LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
HEBREWS 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day,
and for ever.
REVELATION 1:8
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
ending, saith the Lord, which is, and
which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
9 ¶ I
John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the
kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus
Christ. 10 I was in the
Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write
in a book, and send [it] unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto
Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto
Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
REVELATION 21:6 And he said unto
me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give
unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 7 He that overcometh
shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
REVELATION 22:12
And, behold, I
come quickly; and my reward [is] with me, to give every man according as his
work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 14 Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life,
and may
In
understanding the Doctrine of "Alpha and Omega"
principle we must look at what God did through hHis
Son Jesus at His first coming (His alpha ministry in flesh)to understand what
he has done in this last hour, or the Omega ministry. In fact in the following
quote we will hear brother Branham make several points which we shall consider.
MASTERPIECE
THE 64-0705 170 The Alpha has become Omega. The first
become last; and the last is the first. The Seed that went in has come
through a process and become the Seed again. The seed that fell in the garden of Eden and died there, come back from that imperfect
seed that died there, come back to the perfect Seed--the Second Adam. 172
The first Eve that fell, and was used in the second reformation--second
coming, as bringing forth a child, now has become true Bride again, the Seed,
right back with the original Word again. The Alpha and Omega is the same. He
said, "I am Alpha and Omega. "He never said
anything in between, "I'm Alpha and Omega, the First
and the Last." That's it. The first ministry and the last
ministry is the same. The first Message and the second--last Message is the
same thing. "I'm--I was in Alpha; I'm in Omega." "There'll
be a day that won't be called day nor night, but in
the evening time it shall be Light." See? Alpha and Omega; it's become the
first and the last. Oh, my, brethren, we could stay a--hours on that.
QUEEN
OF SHEBA 61-0119E E-58 Now, what kind
of a light would it give? If that was the first sunlight that shined on the
eastern people, which is S-o-n of God, and He did the things He did there on
that day on Alpha, He does the same thing at Omega.
Here, we see brother Branham tell us that
what God did in the first age He must repeat in the last. Now, why would God do
the same at the first and the last? Because if He is the unchanging God. He can
not change. Then, if God can not change, what He did back then at the first, He
must do again at the last.
Another
Ephesians…GOD
WHO IS RICH IN MERCY 65-0119 29 Now, if many of
you like to just mark down Scriptures that a minister reads... And I would like
for you to tonight, if you would, to turn to Ephesians. And I was speaking last Sunday on the
Ephesians, how that the Book of Joshua was the Ephesians of the Old Testament,
and how it was a Book of redemption. And redemption has two different parts:
"come out of" and "entering into." First, you have to come
out. Some people wants to bring the world in with
them; but you got to come out of the world to enter into Christ. You have to
come out of unbelief to enter into faith. There cannot be one thing in your
way. To really have genuine faith, you must absolutely leave everything that's
contrary to the Word of God behind to enter into faith, And
that was the Book of the Ephesians of the Old Testament: Joshua. Where, Moses
represented the law, could not save no one, but grace could, and here
"Joshua" is the same word like Jesus, "Jehovah-Saviour." And now then, we find out that we have
come to another Ephesians, another
PARADOX
A 65-0117 89 But
we're promised, according to Revelations 10, and according to Malachi 4, and
Saint Luke 22:17, and so forth, that there is got to come a--an Ephesians to
this. There is promised it, friends. There must come
an Ephesians, that these sevenfold mysteries of the Word of God must be
unfolded. And it's in the Laodicean age that this takes place. I believe
that we're--we're there. I believe we're right in the shadows of the coming
of the Son of God. And as Joshua, just before the Ephesians raised up, so did
John the Baptist raise up just before the next Ephesians. And we're promised
another, another Ephesians. It's predicted here in the Scripture; therefore, I
think that we are living in the Ephesians again. Back again to... We are
promised that what was left off during those seven ages...
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WOULD SEE JESUS 57-0516 E-11
And that's been my theme through the years. I read that same
Scripture when I was here before. And I hope to read it until death shall take
me from the earth. Because, I do solemnly believe that with all my heart, that
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's called in the
Bible, "The Alpha and Omega; He that Was, Which is, and Shall
Come." That makes Him the same yesterday, today, and forever. "He
that Was, He that Is, and Shall come," just the
same. He never changes. We change; time change; but God never changes.
QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 64-0823E 1021-119 And Jesus cannot come until a
church, a body of believers and the ministry that He once (were in...?)...
will have to be the same as it was then to...
And then, that brings... "Them without us is not
made perfect," Paul said, Hebrews 11. "Without us they cannot be
perfected." They must have this ministry to raise
up the Lutheran, Wesley's, and all them down through their ages.
The
importance then, of understanding this Alpha-Omega principle, is that if God
performed in a certain way or did a certain thing at the first, then He must
repeat that certain way or do that same thing in the last. And this is the key to understanding Brother
Branham's ministry and the identification of the pillar of Fire which vindicated
that ministry just as He vindicated the Apostle Paul's.
ANGEL OF THE LORD 51-0502 E-17 And we're living in the Laodicean age, the
last. And He was standing with His hands out to look upon. And there, one
hand like this was Alpha, the other one as Omega. As the lights went out, on up
to the dark ages and come down; just as they come in, so will they go out, the
same kind of Church, same kind of signs, same kind of people, Alpha and Omega.
This
quote shows the importance of the Omega ministry in this hour. Not only did God
come down again as He did at the first, but He again hid Himself
in a veil of flesh to minister as He did in the body of His Only Begotten Son.
And if Jesus ministry had a certain effect upon the saints in that day, then
His presence should once again have the same effect upon the church in this
day.
CHRIST OUTSIDE THE DOOR 58-0330E E-13
And in this text tonight, it is addressing the
Laodicean church age, which is the last church age. And did you notice
according to Scripture... This might not agree with many people's theology, and
that's all right; I could be wrong. Many times I'm wrong, no doubt. But just as
what I believe--that the last church age, we're now living in it. If you'll
watch how--how the church ages come. One was a bright one, the other a little
farther, a little darker, then the fifteen hundred years of dark ages, then
Luther, then Wesley, then Pentecost. And He was standing in the midst of the
seven golden candlesticks, which represented the seven church ages, with His
hands out, and to look upon as Alpha and Omega, first and last. The highest
candlestick was the darkest, of course. And in this last church age, is
supposed to receive the same light that they had in the first--alpha to omega.
But the pitiful part, in the Scriptures we are learned here that he said,
"Because you say, I am rich and am increased in goods..." You see the
condition of the church today?
PHILADELPHIAN CHURCH AGE
60-1210 135 Now, that's what He revealed at the very
first church age. Now, watch. As John saw him standing, the seven golden
candlesticks, He was standing with His hands out. Here's the first candlestick,
second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, with His hands out in the form of
the cross. He said, "I am Alpha and Omega." In other words, "I'll
be supreme in the first; I'll be supreme in the last." The Lights
rises in the east and sets in the west. It's been a dismal, dark time, but
"It shall be Light in the evening time." The same Gospel power
that raised up here on the one hand at the east, has shined over and now in the
other hand at the west, "Alpha and Omega, I'm A and I am Z." In His hand... You get it?
Therefore
we can see the significance of the Omega ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ to
this last church age. He said the
ministry that He once had must repeat again to raise
up the dead and perfect the Bride. And remember, brother Branham said the
importance of understanding the principle of Alpha and Omega is that we might
understand Who He is. And the purpose of that is that we might know His Voice
and recognize Him. And how could we recognize Him when he comes if he was a
changing God. Therefore, it is the very unchanging nature of God that allows us
to recognize him when he comes. As brother Branham preached, "God is identified by His Characteristics."
THE
TOKEN 64-0208 235 Just think, the great Holy Spirit coming,
identifying Jesus Christ alive after two thousand years. See, the very
nature of Him doing the same thing as He promised it would be done.
That's right.