The Three Phases of
God Becoming Known
April 28, 2001
Brian Kocourek
WHO IS THIS
MELCHISEDEC 65-0221E 55
Notice now His attribute. Then the attribute was first God, the thought,
the attribute itself all in one, without being expressed. Then when He expressed,
secondarily, He became then the Word. And then the Word was made flesh and
dwelled among us, St. John the 1st chapter and the 1st verse. Notice, this is
in the beginning, but before the eternal. Notice, in the beginning was the
Word. When the time begin it was Word, but before it was Word, it was
attribute, a thought. Then it was expressed. In the beginning was the
expression, the Word. Now, we're getting where Melchisedec is. That's this
mysterious Person. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. And then the Word became flesh and dwelled among us. Hold
that there now. Notice. His first being was Spirit, God, supernatural (All
right?), the great Eternal. Second, He begin to form Himself towards flesh in a
theophany, it's called, "the word, a body." This then is the state He
was in when He met Abraham, was called Melchisedec. He was in the form of
theophany. Now, we'll get to that and prove it in a few minutes, the Lord
willing.
58 He was the Word. A theophany is something
that you could not see. It could be right here now, yet you cannot see it. It's
just like, well like television, that's in another dimension. Television...
People are moving right through this room now singing; there's colors also, but
the eye is only subject to the five senses. Your whole being is only subject to
five senses, rather. And you are only subject to what the sight has been
limited to see. But there is another dimension that can be seen by a
transformation by television. Now, television does not manufacture a
picture. A television only channels it into a circuit, and then the television
screen picks it up. But the picture's there to begin with. Television was here
when Adam was here. Television was here when Elijah set on Mount Carmel.
Television was here when Jesus of Nazareth walked the shores of Galilee. But
you're just now discovering it. They wouldn't have believed it back there.
You'd have been crazy to have said something like it. But now it's become a
reality. And so is it that Christ is here. The Angels of God are
here. And someday in the great millennium to come it'll be just more real
than television or anything else, because they are here. He reveals Himself
in His great form of what He claim as He "En morphe's" Himself into
His servants and proves Himself. Now, here He is in the form of Spirit. And
then He comes in the form of "En morphe." Now, He appeared to Abraham
"En morphe." When Abraham was returning from the slaughter of the
king, here come Melchisedec, talked to Him.
This evening I
would like to take these paragraph and break them down to show the progression
of the Becoming God.
A) The attribute that
lay within God, were what and Who God
is; His essentiality and His Intrinsicality.
1) These Attributes were the very thoughts of God which are the very attributes of
Himself all together in one making up His
Being.
2)
These Attributes or
thoughts were without expression.
3)
God could not be known
in an unexpressed form..
B) Secondly, God then began to bring forth an
expression of Himself, He became then
the Word. John 1: 1 In the Beginning was THE WORD, and THE WORD was with GOD and
THE WORD was GOD.
1) God can not be known "without", if there
is nothing "without". Therefore God had to become God. Before he was
God He was All alone, He was Elohim, the self existent One. (Remember, the
word, "God", is an object of
worship and without anyone or anything to worship Him, He could not be God.)
Therefore, in order to give expression of Himself, the "Who and What"
He is, it was essential that He bring forth others to express Himself to.
1.
God being God, it was necessary for him to create beings to worship
him, FIVE.IDENTIFICATIONS 60-0911E 177 So the
first thing He created... Now, some of you want to know about my Genesis story;
God said, "Let us make man." The first thing He created was angels to
worship Him, then He become God. God being a Father, it was necessary that He have
children to bring forth an expression of His attribute of Fatherhood. Then when He said, "Let us make man after our own
image," what kind of a man did He make? Spirit man; then when He made that
man, He give him control.
2.
"God being a Saviour, it was necessary that He predestinate a man who
would require salvation in order to give Himself reason and purpose of
being." Then He made man out of the
dust of the earth; then he fell. Then He become a Saviour: a God, then a
Saviour.
3.
God Being a Healer, it was
necessary that He predestinate a man who would need healing. Sin brought on sickness; then He become a Healer.
Hallelujah. There ain't nothing going wrong. He knowed all about it before the
world was ever formed. He knew we'd have this meeting tonight. He knowed every
gnat would ever be on the earth, and how much tallow he'd make, and how many
times he'd bat his eyes. He's the infinite God, knows all things. Amen. Aren't
you glad tonight that your name is on the Book?.
4.
God being a provider, it was necessary that He predestinate a man who
would need provisions. JEHOVAH JIREH 55-1117 E-20
Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice. Now,
Jehovah, in the Old Testament appears to the human race in a seven compound
relative Names that He was going to be to the people. He appeared first as
Jehovah-Jireh, "the Lord will provide a sacrifice." Second, He
appeared as Jehovah-Raphael, "the Lord that health thee,"
Jehovah-Manasses, Jehovah, our banner, Jehovah... seven compound redemptive
names that God appears to the human race, as of the all-sufficient Provider for
every thing that we have need of from the beginning to the end. Now, last night
we were speaking on Abraham, and we left him where God appeared to him in the
Name of Almighty God. And in the Hebrew word was used the "El Shaddai,"
which means "the breast, or the--or the breasted One, the all-sufficient
One, the strong One, the Life-giver." And we give the illustration last
night as the breasted--breasted One.
5.
Yhovih {el-o-heem'} hiAh>y a variation of 3068 [used after 136, and pronounced by Jews as
430, in order to prevent the repetition of the same sound, since they elsewhere
pronounce 3068 as 136];
6.
I Yhovah yireh
{yeh-ho-vaw' yir-eh'} Jehovah-jireh = "Jehovah sees" symbolic
name given by Abraham to Mount Moriah in commemoration of the interposition of
the angel of Jehovah who prevented the sacrifice of Isaac and provided a
substitute
7.
II Yhovah nicciy
{yeh-ho-vaw' nis-see'}
Jehovah-nissi = "Jehovah is my banner" 1) the name given by
Moses to the altar which he built in commemoration of the discomfiture of the
Amalekites
8.
III Yhovah Tsidqenuw
{ye-ho-vaw' tsid-kay'-noo}
Jehovah is our righteousness 1) a sacred name symbolically applied to
Jerusalem and the Messiah
9.
IV Yhavah shalowm
{yeh-ho-vaw' shaw-lome'}
Jehovah-shalom = "Jehovah is peace" 1) the name of a sacred altar built by Gideon in Ophrah
10.
V Yhovah shammah
{yeh-ho-vaw' shawm'-maw}
Jehovah-shammah = "Jehovah is there" 1) a symbolic name for Jerusalem
11.
VI Yhovah ra'ah
The Lord is our Shepherd PSALMS 23:1 ¶ The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not
want.
12.
VII Yhovah
rapha' {raw-faw'} or raphah
{raw-faw'} The Lord Exodus 15:26 for I [am] the
LORD that healeth thee.
C) And then the Word
was made flesh and dwelled among us, St. John the 1st chapter and the 1st
verse. JOHN 1:1¶ In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was
in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was
not any thing made that was made. 4In him was life; and the life was the light
of men.
GENESIS 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth.
2 And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of
the waters.
3 ¶
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called
the light Day, the darkness he called Night.
6 ¶
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let
it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the
waters
8 And God called the firmament Heaven.
9 ¶
And God said, Let the waters etc.
10 And God called
the dry [land] Earth; and God saw that [it was] good.
11 And God said,
Let the seed, bring forth fruit after his kind,
12 and God saw
that [it was] good.
14 ¶ And God said, Let there be lights
16 And God made
two great lights;
17 And God set
them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 God saw that
[it was] good.
20 ¶ And God said, Let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above
the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created
great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought
forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and
God saw that [it was] good.
22 And God blessed
them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and
let fowl multiply in the earth.
24 ¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the
living creature
25 And God made
the beast of the earth after his kind, and God saw that [it was] good.
26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness:
27 So God created
man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female
created he them
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
29 ¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every
herb and tree
31 ¶ And God saw every thing that he had made,
and, behold, [it was] very good.
I JOHN 1:1 ¶ That which was from the beginning, which we
have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and
our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested,
and we have seen [it], and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life,
which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
Notice, three things, in the
very beginning, even before the BEGINNING, God dwelt alone, then He begin to
form Himself into something that could bring forth expression, and we call that
the Word, and then that Word became flesh and dwelt in His Son Jesus, to bring
forth a complete expression of Himself.
MATTHEW 3:16 And Jesus, when
he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens
were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and
lighting upon him: 17And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased.
MATTHEW 17:5 While he yet
spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the
cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye
him.
II PETER 1:16 ¶ For we have not followed cunningly devised
fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the
Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent
glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 18 And this voice
which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
PARADOX 64-0206B 279 And this little
Boy, twelve-year-old Child, no wisdom at all, why, but just a twelve-year-old
Boy... The Father didn't dwell in Him at that time, because He come on the day
when He baptized Him; he saw the Spirit of God coming down (See?), and went in
Him.
Now, we have shown how there
were three stages in which God became. #1) He dwelt all alone in Spirit form.
#2) He began to take on the form of the WORD in order to bring forth an
EXPRESSION of Himself. Then #3) He took on the flesh of His Own Son to bring
forth complete Manifestation and Expression of His Total Essentiality and
Intrinsicality. Everything He was He poured forth into His Son, and then
entered that perfect likeness and performed in order to express Himself. Now,
let's continue with paragraph 58 of Who is this Melchisedec.
PP. 58. Notice, this is
in the beginning, but before the eternal. Notice, in the beginning was the
Word. When the time begin it was Word, but before it was Word, it was
attribute, a thought. Then ( or might we say, after that) it was expressed.
In the beginning was the expression, the Word. Now, we're getting where
Melchisedec is. That's this mysterious Person. In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And then the Word
became flesh and dwelled among us. Hold that there now. Notice. His
first being was Spirit, God, supernatural (All right?), the great Eternal. Second,
He begin to form Himself towards flesh in a theophany, it's called, "the
word, a body." This then is the state He was in when He met
Abraham, was called Melchisedec. He was in the form of theophany. Now,
we'll get to that and prove it in a few minutes, the Lord willing.
Therefore the Three phases
of God becoming Known or God expressing Himself, were
#1) Before Time when He
existed all alone in Spirit form.
#2) Time began when God
began to bring forth expression of Himself, taking on a theophonic form, a Word
Body, or Theo (God) - Phany (Body).
#3) When God came down at
the fullness of time, and indwelt His Only begotten Son, to bring forth the
complete expression of himself. This is why Jesus said, the Son of Himself can
do nothing, but what the Son seeth the Father do, that the Son doeth likewise.
He also said, My doctrine is not mine but his that sent me.
JOHN
7:16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his
that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine,
whether it be of God, or [whether] I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his
own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and
no unrighteousness is in him.
JOHN
5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for
what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
JOHN
5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my
judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father
which hath sent me.
JOHN
5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another
shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
JOHN
6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will
of him that sent me.
JOHN
6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he
that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
JOHN
7:28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both
know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but
he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
I
didn't come of myself, I am a dual being you are talking to, I and My Father that
dwelleth in Me. JOHN 7:2 But I know him: for I
am from him, and he hath sent me.
JOHN
8:38 ¶ I speak that which I have
seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
JOHN
8:54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my
Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
JOHN
14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth
us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou
not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest
thou [then], Shew us the Father? 10
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the
words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth
in me, he doeth the works. 11 Believe me that I [am] in the Father, and the
Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.