God en Morphe
March 7, 2001
Brian Kocourek
HEBREWS 7:1 ¶ For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God,
who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; 2
To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation
King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of
peace; 3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither
beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth
a priest continually. 4 Now consider how great this man [was], unto whom even
the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
Let's pray, Father we come
here tonight to seek your wisdom, for you have told us that you were to come in
this hour as the Spirit of Wisdom to make known to the church the hidden Wisdom
of God. And we trust that your descent with a shout is that very Message which
has revealed to us that hidden wisdom and revealed the unsearchable riches of
Christ. Grant to us a small portion of
your wisdom tonight Lord as we examine this Message of your Prophet William
Branham concerning just Who this Melchisedec is, for we ask it in Jesus
Christ's name, Amen.
Now, tonight we will pick up
at paragraph 38 of brother Branham's sermon, WHO IS
THIS MELCHISEDEC 65-0221E 38 Let's read, "Now, now, we find out that this
Person had no father, no mother, no beginning of days or ending of life. It was
God "En morphe". Now, the world--the word comes--the Greek word means
"change," was used, changing Himself, "En morphe", from one
person to... One person... The Greek word there, "En morphe,"
means... It was taken from the stage act, "that one person is changing his
mask to make him some other character." Like in--in school just
recently--I believe, Rebekah, just before she graduated, they had one of
Shakespeare's plays. And one young man had to change his clothes several times,
because he played two or three different parts, but the same person. He'd come
out; one time he was the villain. And when he come out next time, he was
another character."
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And now the Greek word "En morphe" mean that he changed His
mask. And that's what God did. It's the same God all the time. God in the
form of the Father, the--the Spirit, the Pillar of Fire, the same God was made
flesh and dwelt among us: "En morphe," brought out so He could be
seen. And now, that same God is the Holy Ghost. Father, Son, Holy--not three
Gods, three offices, three acts of the one God. The Bible said there's one God,
not three. But that's how that they couldn't... You can't get this straightened
out and have three gods. You'd never sell a Jew that; I tell you that, one who
knows better; he knows there's only one God.
Notice that brother Branham
used the term enmorphe.. This is a Greek word meaning -- form (3) 1) the form by which a
person or thing strikes the vision; external appearance.
What a statement, the thing
strikes the vision. That means there is an intrinsic and essential being that
uses a form to reflect itself through. God using a form to mask His presence
and to reflect His nature through. The first time the word En Morphe is
used in the Scripture is in referring to the manner in which Jesus showed
Himself alive to the disciples after His resurrection.
MARK 16:9 ¶ Now when [Jesus] was risen early the first
[day] of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast
seven devils. 10 [And] she went and
told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept. 11 And they, when they had heard that he was
alive, and had been seen of her, believed not. 12 After that he appeared in another form (En Morphe) unto two of them,
as they walked, and went into the country. 13 And they went and told [it] unto
the residue: neither believed they them. 14 ¶ Afterward he appeared unto the
eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness
of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
Again in PHILIPPIANS 2:6 we hear Paul use the word En Morphe
as follows, Who, being in the form (En Morphe) of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But
made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form (En
Morphe) of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
UNVEILING OF GOD 64-0614M
49 Notice, Jehovah of the Old Testament is
Jesus of the New Testament. See? He's the same God, just changing His form. Now,
someone said the other day, a--a--a Baptist minister out in Tucson, "How
can you say that--that Jesus and God would be the same Person?" I said,
"Well, it--it's very easy if you just let your own thinking get away and
think the Bible terms of it. They are the self same Being. God is a Spirit;
Jesus is the body that He was veiled in." See? I said, "Like in my
home, to my wife I am her husband. And I have a young daughter, Rebekah; I am
her father. And I have a grandson, and his name is Paul; I am his grandfather.
I am husband, father, and grandfather. And my wife has no claims on me as
father or grandfather, she has claims on me alone as husband. And my daughter
has no claims on me as husband or grandfather; she is my child. (See?) But yet
all these three persons is the same person. (See?) That's God: Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost is just the dispensation claim. God is same, the same God. God
changed Himself, changes His--His form."
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If you notice here in Philippians he said, "Not thinking it
robbery, but took the form of man..." Now, the Greek word there for that
form, I've been looking at it all day yesterday, trying to think out what it
was, I find, come with this word of "en morphe." It's spelled e-n
m-o-r-p-h-e. Looking in the Greek to find out what "en morphe" was...
I may pronounce that wrong, but I... Reason I spell it, when if the tape is
released, the people will, scholars will know what I--I mean by it. He... When
the "en morphe"... That means that "He changed Hisself."
He--He come down. Now, the Greek word there means that "something that
could not be seen, yet it's there, and then it's changed, and the eye can catch
it." See?
54 Like Elijah was at Dothan. See, the--the
servant couldn't see all those Angels around there, and God just changed, not
brought the Angels down, but He changed the seeing of the servant. And there
was the mountains full of Angels, and fire, and horses of fire, chariots of
fire, all around His prophet. See? They... He changed the seeing. The--the
thing is already there. So that what I'm trying to say, that God that always
was is here. The only thing He done when He become man, He changed His mask.
See? He--He... This en morphe, He--He changed Himself to what He was, to what
He is, or His mask, another act.
56 Like in a great drama... As I was
speaking this morning, kind of catching up on this of Shakespeare. It's been a
long time. But when Shakespeare wrote the--the--the drama, the--for King James
of England, when he... The character of Macbeth... See, Shakespeare did not
believe in witches, but in the play... Where the King did believe in witches,
so he had to include witches. See? And now, in order to do this, they changed
the cast. Becky here, in Carmen they acted that in the--in the school where she
just graduated a few weeks ago. Now, maybe one person played three or four
parts. In order to do that he--he changed his mask. Sometimes he comes out he's
this character, and the next time he comes out he's another character. But it
is the same person all the time. 58 And
that's God. He changed Himself from--from a Pillar of Fire to become a Man;
then changed Hisself from that back in the Spirit again, that He might dwell in
man: God acting in man what He really was. Jesus Christ was God acting in Man,
in a Man, in a Man. That's what He was. He changed from the Pillar of Fire, and
then had come in, which was the veil in the wilderness that hid God from
Israel. Moses seen the shape of His body, but really He was hid all the time
behind this Pillar of Fire, which was the Logos that went from God. Now, we
find here, now, since Pentecost God is not acting in man, or acting--now He's
acting through man. See? He was acting in a Man then: Jesus. Now, He's acting
through man that He has chosen for this purpose. God in the form of man, He changed Himself from the
form of--of a--of God to a form of man.
IDENTIFIED CHRIST
OF ALL AGES 64-0617 77 Remember, God changes His form. "En morphe," the Greek
word means "He puts on a different mask." Like in Carmen or
something, or--or Shakespeare's plays, He's--He's like an Actor, He changes His
form. All what those prophets were, that was God in those prophets. Jesus said
so, "You call them gods, who the Word of God came to: and here I am, the
Son of God, how do you condemn Me?" Oh, my.The same thing is today, it's
God manifested in flesh, the Message of the hour, the Light of the day. We
can't have them other messages back there; they've done been lived up; we live
in a glare of a light.
MIGHTY GOD
UNVEILED 64-0629 5-4 We find down in Africa (South Africa) they use the word
"Amoyah," which means, "an unseen force." And this unseen
force in the whirlwind had an audible voice. It spoke out to Job, yet he never
seen His form; but He was veiled to him by the whirlwind. We find one of the
great prophets of the Bible, Moses, of the Old Testament, one of God's chosen,
selected, predestined servants, he also desired to see Him. He'd been so close
to Him and had seen so many things of His great, mystic hand going before him
and doing things that only God could do. He desired to see Him one day, and God
told him, "Go, stand on the rock." And while standing on the rock,
Moses seen Him pass. He saw the back of Him. And he said, "It looked like
a man," a man's back. Yet he did not see God; he only seen the veil of
God. The Bible said, "No man has seen God at any time, but the only
Begotten of the Father has declared Him." So Moses saw Him veiled as a
man.
6-3 And we find that Jehovah of the Old Testament was just Jesus of
the New Testament. And--and Dr. Scofield here, we find that his word changing
from form, we find the word "en morphe" in Greek, which means
"the unseen was made visible." Something that cannot... We know it's
there. It could be--cannot be seen, but yet, we know that it's there. And when
He changed His form of the en morphe, which means that He changed from
supernatural to natural... And He just changed His mask. And otherwise, it's
like a drama; He was acting. In--in the Greek when they would change their
mask, maybe one play--one player might've acted in several different parts. And
my daughter (present here)... They just had at the high school, a--a drama. And
they... One boy, that I knowed, played about four parts, but he would go behind
the stage and change his--his mask in order to come out to impersonate another
character.
MIGHTY GOD
UNVEILED 64-0629 15-1 In Joel 2:28 He promised that in these last
days there would be a latter rain poured out upon the people in the last days.
I think the Greek word there is "kenos," which means that "He
emptied Hisself out," not in the way that we would say, like something was
inside of somebody that had emptied out, but He poured Himself out. He changed
His en morphe. He--He changed from what He was to what He is. He never
changes His nature.
Now, notice what brother
Branham is telling us here. He said it is not as if He is poured out, as if
something is drained empty. But He changes His form.
UNVEILING OF GOD 64-0614M
77 Now, when It said here that He emptied
Himself or poured out, now, we'd think like this, that He "vomit
up," the English word of "emptied or poured out from Him (See?),
something went out of Him that was different from Him." But the word
"Kenos," in the Greek, does not mean that He "vomit
up," or some--His arm went off, or His eye went out another person.
(Notice here brother Branham
tells us the word Kenos does not mean that God emptied Himself out, leaving
Himself empty, yet that is being taught by many when they use the illustration
of the three glasses. They have three glasses and they fill one with water and
then they say, “All that was in the Father was poured into the Son, and then
they pour the water from the Father Glass into the Son glass. Then they set the
Father Glass aside. Then they continue, “All that was in the Son was poured
into the Church, and they take the Son glass and pour it out into the Church glass.
Then they set aside the Son glass, and we are left to see and thus rationalize
that God is in His Church and there is no God except what is in the church, because
after all, He emptied Himself out. This is an error and if we se what brother Branham
is telling us we can not use the word kenos in this manner. He says, it is not
a vomiting up or an emptying out, but raher a changing of the mask.
Brother Branham goes on to
say, That is, He changed Himself; He "poured
Himself into," (Amen!), into another mask, into another form;
not another person went out of Him called the Holy Spirit, but It was He
Himself. You get it? He Himself poured Himself into the people: Christ in
you. How beautiful, how wonderful to think, God pouring Himself into the human
being, into the believer: pour out. It was a part of His drama to do so. God,
all the Fullness, all the Godhead bodily was in this Person Jesus Christ.
He was God and God alone, not a third person, or a second person, or a first
person; but the Person, God veiled in human flesh.
Notice, God stepping into
another Mask. That is what we hear John tell us in 1
John 1.
1 John 1:1 That which was
from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes,(a Mask) which we have looked upon(a Mask), and our hands have handled(a Mask), of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested,
and we have seen it(seen what?, The Life),
and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with
the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3 That which we have seen
and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and
truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
The Life was manifested. And
how was the Life manifested? God En Morphe! God reflecting Himself
through a vessel. En Morphe: the form by which a person or thing
strikes the vision; external appearance. The Light striking the
lens. Therefore we see that God Himself using a form to reflect Himself
through. The thing, the En Morphe, the vessel is not God, but God reflecting
Himself through that vessel, that thing, that En Morphe.
From the MASTERPIECE THE 64-0705
79 Brother Branham
said, The perfect image of the God-man, God En morphe had changed from Supernatural to
the vision. (that is exactly what the word En Morphe means) God
reflecting Himself changed from Supernatural to the vision. And the vision was projected into the Image. (Again,
look at his definition, the vision projected into the image. Look what John
said, “that eternal life, which was with the Father, and
was manifested unto us”) And the Image was smitten so that the Supernatural could
taste the feeling of death,
(Notice, the image was smitten, not the One who projected Himself). God's perfect Masterpiece. He could not do it in Moses.
He could not do it in the prophets. Isaiah who was sawed with saws till he
was sawed to pieces... He could not do it in the prophets that were stoned. He
could not do it, because He couldn't feel it. They was just a portion of
Him. But in this perfect Masterpiece He was the Fullness of the
Godhead bodily. (Notice, He was in that Masterpiece, not He was
that Masterpiece, but HE was projected in that Masterpice. He was reflecting
though that Masterpiece. God, the only Immortal, meaning, the One that could never
die nor ever taste death, reflecting Himself through One who could taste death,
in order to identify with His children.) ) He could
not only project Moses, He could project His entire being into this Person
and taste death for the whole human race. God's perfect Masterpiece, God,
so inspired by seeing It, He become the Redeemer of all ages to speak for those
in the backgrounds who had been before and now. All promises was met in Him. He
was the Perfection of the perfection. All types was fulfilled in Him: our
Kinsman Redeemer in Ruth and Boaz; our Law-giver from Mount Sinai; our Prophet
from the wilderness, as He come from the mountain, as He come from the
wilderness, as He come from eternity and become man, the perfect Image.
Now, let’s get back to our
text. Again in WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC 65-0221E
42 Brother Branham goes on to say,
Notice, like the sculptor, he hides with a--a mask over it. Then
the mask has two purposes. #1) To Hide
what God is doing, and #2) To manifest or reflect Himself through that mask.
Hidden to one group and revealed to the other, just like what we spoke on last
week). That's
what God's done to this age. It's been hid. All these things has been hid, and
is supposed to be revealed in this age. Now, the Bible says they would be
revealed in the latter times. It's like a sculptor keeping his--his piece of
work all covered over until the time he takes the mask off of it and there it
is.( And when God took the Mask off the scene, When HE took His prophet
off the scene, there He was left alone in the great revelation of the Hour, the
Supreme Deity and Supreme Judge). And that's what the Bible has been. It has
been a work of God that's been covered up. And it's been hid since the
foundation of the world, and its sevenfold mystery, and God promised in
this day, at the age of this Laodicea church, He would take the mask off the
whole thing and we could see it. What a glorious thing, God, "En
morphe", masked in a Pillar of Fire, God, "En morphe" in a Man
called Jesus, God, "En morphe" in His church:
Now there are those who
would say that when God is masked in the church, that God split Himself up into
the entire church and that there is no more the person of God, only somehow God
split Himself up into the Church. Then how do you explain that HE is the same
and changes not. If He showed or reflected Himself in Moses, one man, one
prophet, and if He reflected Himself in Paul, one man and one prophet, and if
HE reflected Himself in His Only begotten Son, One God in One Man Jesus, then
how is it we would think in terms of God dividing Himself into the mass of
people called the church.
SUPER.SIGN_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-17 N-7 FRIDAY_ 63-1129
171-172 It's on your
hands tonight, throwed right back in your lap. Hebrews 13:8, regardless of how
many Council of Churches we have, still remains as Jesus Christ the same
yesterday, today, and forever. "The works that I do...(John 14:12) " If--if
His Life is in you, it'll manifest Jesus Christ. Amen. Now,
you all can't be that one, but you can be a part of that with your
faith. All of them couldn't be a Jesus, when they was on earth, but they
could believe Him and accept the message. There was one Moses, one
Elijah, one Noah, on down, always been that, but the rest of them could
accept it. And they would've had no ministry unless there'd been somebody
believe it. Jesus would've had no ministry 'less somebody believed it. Paul
would've had no ministry 'less somebody believed it. The Holy Ghost has
got no ministry by the Word today unless somebody's willing to get away
from their creed and come back to the Word again, no matter how well It's
here and how real It's here. It's here now. I know It's here.
I feel it. I know It's here. The Word says It's here. "Wherever two
or three are gathered in My Name, I'm in the midst of them." And I
truly believe that He's here, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now back to Who is this
Melchisedec. God above us, God with us, God in us, the condescending of God. Up
there holy, no one could touch Him; He settled upon the mountain, and even if a
animal touched the mountain, had to die. And then God come down and changed
His tent, and He come down and lived with us, become one of us, and we held
Him. The Bible said, I Timothy 3:16, "Without controversy, great is the
mystery of godliness, for God was manifested in the flesh," handled
with hands. God eat meat. God drank water. God slept. God cried. He was one of us:
beautiful, typed in the Bible. That was God above us, God with us; now it's God
in us, the Holy Spirit, not the third person, the same Person.
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God came down and become flesh and died the death in Christ so that He
could clean the church in order to get into it for fellowship. God loves
fellowship. That's what He made the man at the first time for, was for
fellowship. God dwells alone with Cherubims And notice now, He made man, and
man fell. So He came down and redeemed man, because God loves to be worshipped.
The very word "god" means "object of worship." And this
that comes among us as a Pillar of Fire, as something that changes our hearts,
that is the same God that said, "Let there be light," and there was
light. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.