WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC #57

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.