WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC #154

Closing Prayer for the Sick

September 29,  2001

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 Phoenix. She was raised from the dead. And her doctor come with the x-rays and showed cancer in the heart. She died in the prayer line. How long ago has that been, Mrs. Waldrop? Eighteen years ago, and there she sets tonight, a living testimony. Her doctors come to the meeting, brought the... Said, "How can the woman live?" But there she is, and no sign of it. She's brought someone, and she's praying for him. Now, he's dying with diabetes. Now, that I knew. But being that you're praying... You know I don't know who he is, Mrs. Waldrop. He's from Missouri, and his name is Mr. Cooper. That is right. Now, you believe? You can go back home and be well, sir. It's up to you if you'll believe it.

  189    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 Georgia. Miss McKenny, you believe with all your heart and believe that God will make you well? Stand up on your feet if you're a stranger to me and that is true. Jesus Christ healed you. You believe? To my back, there's a man setting behind me. He's contacting God. And what he's wanting, he's got a baby that's got heart trouble. And that baby has got a murmur in his heart, so the doctor said. And that man's name is Mr. Cox. Stand up, Mr. Cox. And He told Sarah what she was thinking behind Him. Right across the aisle from him, back a little farther, is a man who comes not from here, but from New Mexico. I never seen him in my life. I'm looking right at him now; he's behind me. He's from New Mexico, and the man has a girl that he's interested in. And the girl has got something wrong with her mouth. It's a... The palate in her mouth is what's wrong. And the man's name is Mr. West. Would you stand up, sir. I'm a total stranger to him, but the Lord God will heal his child. Do you believe now with all your heart?

  192    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 Samaria. And them lepers said, "Why do we set here till we die, because all kids are starving to death and eating one another's children." They said, "If we go down to the enemy's camp, the Syrians... If they kill us, we're going to die anyhow. And if they save us, we'll live." And they took that chance. And by that faith, they not only saved their self, but the whole group. Now, you're going to die; you can't live. But you're not asked to go to the camp of the enemy, but you're invited to the house of the Father...?...

  196    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 Milwaukee. It's true. That's right. From the city, I know. Right. Do you believe? Will you accept God now as your Healer? If you will, no matter how weak you are, how bedfast you are, I believe in your case I would rise up in the Name of Jesus Christ and take that cot and go home and live to the glory of God. Will you obey me as God's prophet, then rise up and go home; be well. Don't be scared; get up off the cot. God will make you well. See? Somebody hold her so she can get up and get strength. You believe God? Just let her get a little strength; she'll be all right. That's it, sister. There she is in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Let us stand and give praise to God. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever...?... the Lord Jesus Christ bless you...?...

 

ACTS 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. 39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: 40 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; 41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, [even] to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. 42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God [to be] the Judge of quick and dead.

 

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 4:23   And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. 25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and [from] Decapolis, and [from] Jerusalem, and [from] Judaea, and [from] beyond Jordan.

 

MATTHEW 9:35   And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. 36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. 37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly [is] plenteous, but the labourers [are] few; 38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

 

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 kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. 3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for [your] journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece. 4    And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart. 5    And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them. 6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.

 

LUKE 9:10    And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. 11    And the people, when they knew [it], followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.  

 

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 Ephesus now. Where that in our intellectual denominations and so forth, and all of our educational programs has come to its--its Jordan, then we must have an--an Ephesians again. We must have an exodus we--to "come out" and to "go into," for the rapture.

 

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...

 

WE 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.