The Power of Revelation ”
Brian Kocourek
This Evening I would like to
examine brother Branham’s thoughts where he said, “In the Laodicean age
the people were what? Naked (Are they?), blind. What good does light do to a
blind man? If the blind leads the blind, don't they all fall in the ditch?
Naked, blind, and don't know it. Even
their mental faculties are gone, their spiritual faculties of mental--spiritual
understanding. See? Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers
of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those
that are good, having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof,
The power of revelation, they don't even believe in it. See?”) They don't believe
in such things as prophets, and so... They don't believe in it.
Hebrews 11 which is commonly
known as the Faith chapter of the Bible and in our examination of this chapter
we looked very closely at each verse and made notation of the different
characteristics of Faith, or the power of Faith, which is the power of
Revelation, and we listed them so that we might see that the Power of
Revelation is not just limited to giving us Spiritual sight, but it is the same
power that created the worlds. And as we
have already seen that the eyesalve which is to restore our sight is an
anointing oil, and this anointing oil in the process of giving sight will also
sanctify and make Holy the Believer, for our righteousness is but filthy rags,
but we are the righteousness of God, made that way by the Power of Revelation.
[Hebrews 11:1] Faith is an actual
substance and an evidence.
[Hebrews 11:2] It will produce a good
report.
[Hebrews 11:3] By Faith the Worlds
were created
[Hebrews 11:4] Causes us to be found
righteous
[Hebrews 11:5] It will translate and Rapture us.
[Hebrews 11:6] It causes us to be
pleasing to God.
[Hebrews 11:7] It warns us of things to come....
[Hebrews 11:8] It calls us and directs us to our inheritance
[Hebrews 11:9] It keeps and preserves you. It keeps alive
the hope that is given you by the Word of God.
[Hebrews 11:10] It allows you to see
the works of God.
[Hebrews 11:11] It gives us strength
and ability to receive New Life and a new birth.
[Hebrews 11:12] It brings forth a multiplication of
blessings, peace and Grace.
[Hebrews 11:13] It keeps us going, it persuades us, it brings
forth confession from our lips.
[Hebrews 11:14] It keeps you focused.
[Hebrews 11:16] It causes us no shame. God identifies &
claims those who have it..
[Hebrews 11:17] It carries you through the trials and
testings.
[Hebrews 11:18] And brings a purpose and focus to our tests.
[Hebrews 11:19] It doesn’t look at the test, only at the
promise.
[Hebrews 11:20] It allows us to see things to come and to
accept them as already coming to pass.
[Hebrews 11:21] Allows us to bless and worship.
[Hebrews 11:22] It directs us for our future. Why did He want
His bones sent back to the Promised land?
[Hebrews 11:23] Notice again how they just knew and foresaw
things to come. Direction and insight.
[Hebrews 11:24] It brings forth a true identity, and helps us
to manifest in our true identity.
[Hebrews 11:25] Again we see how it gives us power to look
past the tests
[Hebrews 11:26] It brings us respect for God’s plans
[Hebrews 11:27] It brings us to the place of having no fear.
[Hebrews 11:28] It gives us power to keep the commands of
God.
[Hebrews 11:29] It conquers the laws of physics/nature,
[Hebrews 11:31] It brings you peace where no peace can be
seen.
[Hebrews 11:35] Raises the dead, endures hardships, and
keeps you focused.
[Hebrews
[Hebrews 11:39] Energy to keep moving forward regardless of
the present result.
[Hebrews 11:40] It
provides a good report
We also found that the
Message, The shout, which is the Revelation of Jesus Christ has come forth as a
work of Faith with Power. [2 Thess 1: 7, 10-12] Notice we are told that this
work of faith is with Power. And in [Luke
Now, you might ask. What
kind of power does Faith have? Well, we know that through Faith we receive
Spiritual sight, right? Therefore through Faith we are justified, sanctified
and given new birth. Therefore Faith has within it the power of Life itself.
And not just life but Eternal Life. But beyond that, we know that through the
exercise of Faith we have seen many people healed from whatever ailments
they’ve had, whether it was a tumor, or cancer, or leukemia, or misaligned body
joints, or a broken back, or broken bones, or paralysis, or hearing loss, or
gang green.
And beyond this we’ve been
made partakers and eye witnesses to what the effectual prayer of a
righteous man can do, [James 5: 16-18]
And we’ve seen this power of Faith in action our selves turn the weather
condition which not only had an effect upon your lives, but millions of others
who knew nothing about it received the blessings as well, Nature turned upside
down, the laws of physic made of no effect. Therefore we find the power of
Revelation has the Power to heal; and the power to save; the power to sustain;
and the power to raise from the dead and make alive; the power to give new
birth; and the power to discern ; power over the elements; and power over
nature; as well as the power to create. (“squirrels”)
And yet brother Branham
said, “they don’t even believe in the
Power of Revelation.” What an indictment, when the very God of Heaven has
descended with a Shout and has performed miracle after miracle and yet they
still wander in their own unbelief. Now wonder they are lost. They couldn’t
find their way if they were given clear and implicit instructions. Why? Because
they have a mental deficiency, and they are devil possessed. That’s
187-235 QA Image of
the Beast 54-0515 The
church was built upon the Divine revelation of God. "Flesh and blood has
not revealed this to you, Peter, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed
it to you. And upon this rock (spiritual revelation of the Word of God) I'll
build My church, and the gates of hell
will never prevail against it." ... when the church of God moves on in
the power of the inspiration, she'll move right on and on and on and on, and no
denomination stop it; nothing in the world will stop it. "Upon this rock
I'll build My church, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it": spiritual,
revealed truth.
E-13 I Know My
Redeemer Liveth 58-0406S God's purpose can never be defeated. There is nothing can defeat it. So how happy ought we to be
today, resting upon that beautiful revelation of the Word of the living God,
that there is neither things present nor things that can come; there's no
sickness, no sorrow, no death, no perils, nor nothing can separate us from the
purpose of the living God. What God has imagined in His mind, what God has
purposed in His heart to bring to pass, there is no demon, there's no power,
there is nothing can ever separate God's great immortal inter--eternal plan. It
must be as God has said.
82 Discernment of the
Spirit 60-0308 It's all right, but flesh and blood has not revealed this to
you. It's not a intellectual conception of how you can make your speech, how
you must bow yourself, how or what great thing you must do here on earth. That
isn't what it is. It isn't build a great thing or do a great thing. What it is
a revelation of the Word of God. He was the Word. "In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was
made manifest and dwelt among us."
46-4 The
Absolute 62-1230M Watch the words now. "Blessed are thou, Simon, son of
Jonas; flesh and blood has not revealed this to you (You never learned it by
some priest; you never learned it by some seminary.), but My Father which is in
heaven has revealed it to you. And upon this rock (spiritual revelation of the
Word), I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against
It."
E-47 God Keeps His
Word 57-0407M Way down in
55 Palmerworm, Locust
and Caterpillar 59-0823 The other day I was talking, and we were
thinking of Scripture. I said, "Why can't people see that?" I said,
"There it is," and I happened to think. I don't care how clear it is,
how much the Scripture teaches it, you'll never be able to see it until God
Himself shows it to you. I don't care how clear it is. And the whole Bible is
built, and the whole Church of the living God is built upon a spiritual
revelation of the Word. Why did Abel offer a more excellent sacrifice than
Cain? Why didn't Abel follow Cain? He had the most beautiful church? But it was
revealed to him. When Jesus came from
E-64 Identification
63-0123
But now, looky here. What it is, is the spiritual revelation of the Word
of God, that everything else is wrong but that Word, and you believe it. He was
the Word, and He is the Word, and He'll always be the Word. And when God can
open that channel, then He can flow freely through that sanctified body.
306 Harvest Time
64-1212 By revelation of the Word, God's Word before
It was even written, "Abel by faith offered unto God a more excellent
sacrifice than that of Cain, which testified that he was righteous," the
Word reflecting Itself through him by his offering.
74 Communion 62-0204 We see that the astronomers are predicting,
sometime in this early part or the first part of the month, beginning on the
second or the fifth, or somewhere along this month, the Indian astronomers
predict the world to blow to pieces. And the American newspapers make fun of
it. I do not believe the world's going to blow to pieces, but I do say it's
wrong to make fun of it. Because something's fixing to happen one of these
days, something similar to that, when the five planets, Mars, Jupiter, and
Venus, and--and so forth comes into their--their... They never have did it. Oh,
they claim maybe twenty-five thousand years ago, but who was back there to know
it? I predict that this has a spiritual
application. I believe it's the coming in of the issue of God, that the great
revelation of the Word will be opened during this time. Remember, they
claim it was three stars came into the orbit when Jesus was born. And this is
five, and five is grace, the number of grace. Three is the number of
perfection. Five is the number of grace: J-e-s-u-s, g-r-a-c-e, f-a-i-t-h, so
forth, number of grace. God ever sends His power to the church, it'll be His
grace; it won't be the obedience of the people. And Isaiah said in the 40th
chapter, how to cry to
288-1 {64} The Fourth Seal 63-0321 Now, the power of revelation brings stimulation
to the believer, for the power of wine, natural wine is to stimulate. See?
It's to bring a person that's all
slumped down to a stimulation. See, see?
Well then, now there's a power of
the revelation of the Word gives stimulation of joy to the believer,
stimulation of satisfaction, the stimulation that it's vindicated, it's proved.
It's called in the Scripture, as we want to refer to it, as new wine. We always
refer to it like that as "These are drunk on new wine," (See?), all
right, or spiritual wine. I think the best interpretation would be--would be on
spiritual wine.
41 His Unfailing
Words of Promise 64-0120 Each age has had its allotment of Word to be
fulfilled. God always sends a prophet. The Word comes to the prophet, the
written Word, a Discerner of the thoughts of the heart. Did you always notice?
The prophet, being that he knowed that he was a prophet, is because that the
Word of God discerns the thought that's in the heart, foretells things,
forth-teller and teller-forth. Did you ever take the dictionary, the old Hebrew
dictionary, and see what the word "seer" means? It's the one that has
the Divine revelation of the written Word. And how it's vindicated, he foresees
things that he foretells, and they come to pass. Now, how does that type in with the
Scripture? Just exactly. "If there be one among you, who's spiritual or a
prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him, speak to him in visions. And
if these things comes to pass, then it's God. If they don't come to pass, then
don't hear him; don't fear him at all, but just ignore it." But God's Word
is always right. Therefore, that's how they knew of the man that was speaking,
whether he had the right revelation of the Word or not. The Divine Word that's
written, is because he had the Word of the Lord come to him. Now, we stay
there; we place ourselves and our
confidence upon this Word.
25-1 It is the Rising of the Sun 65-0418M Upon
this Rock I'll build My church; the gates of hell can't prevail against It. And
I give unto thee the keys. Whatever you bind on earth, I'll bind it in heaven;
what you loose on earth...'" That's that Divine revelation of the Word
made flesh. If it was flesh in that day by the Son, the Groom, it's of flesh
today by the Bride.
164 God of this Evil Age 65-0801M As She is part of
the Groom, true to Him in every point, waiting the Wedding, uniting, not at the
ecumenical council, but in the sky, the wedding supper. She has been given
(This is for our own church.) the... She has been given and revealed to Her the
Seven Sealed mysteries of the Bible. She--she sees the folly of the deceiver,
so very close to the Truth that almost deceive the Elected; She sees it. She... See the two opposing spirits at work
in this evil age? Can you see it? Each very religious, Cain and Abel, spirits
again coming to their heads, still same as they started: one worshipping by
beauty, and by knowledge, and by education, and by science, and by ethics; and
the other one by faith of the revelation of the Word of God. Both of them is
standing right in this building this morning. That's right.
E-40 What does it
take to make a Christian Life?
57-0113 May you take me to
record this morning, friend. There isn't enough power in all hell can ever
defeat the purpose of God. God will do it anyhow.
23-3 Invisible Union
of the Bride 65-1125 You can't be virtuous to Christ, the Word of
God, and serve a manmade denomination at the same time. It's contrary to the
Word. Paul said here. "Where about?" Romans 7. Neither can you bare God's sons of His Word
to this illegitimate denominational group. You cannot do it. In your incubator
you cannot bring forth a Word son of God. I'm speaking to the church. But still
you claim to be very religious. So was Cain, the prostitute Eve's, son: very
religious, built altars, and offered sacrifice, and paid his tithes, and done
everything that any other religious man would do; but he failed to keep that
Word. He failed to have the revelation. And the revelation is the only thing: the revelation of the Word. What
is a revelation? Jesus said, "Upon this Rock I'll build My church, and the
gates of hell can't prevail against it." Faith is a revelation, because faith
has been revealed to you. Abel, by faith
offered by revelation (faith) offered to God a more excellent sacrifice
than that of Cain.
70 The Rapture
65-1204 Cain and Abel didn't have a Bible to read,
but it was revealed to Abel by faith,
which is a revelation. Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice
than that of Cain, which God testified that he was righteous. When Jesus was
asked here in Matthew 16:17 and 18... We haven't time to read it, but if you
want to write it down. He said, "Who does man say I, the Son of man, am?" One of them said, "You're Moses, Elias,
or someone." He said, "But who do you say I am?" He said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son
of the living God." He said,
"Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonas, for flesh and blood has not
revealed this to you; My Father which is in heaven has revealed this to you.
Upon this rock..." The spiritual
revelation of Who God is, Who Jesus is, and He is the revelation of God, God
made in flesh and revealed to the world. He was in the world; God was in Christ
reconciling the world to Himself, revealing what God was in a body of flesh.
"Thou art the Christ, the Anointed One, the Son of God." He said, "Flesh and blood never revealed
this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed this to you. Upon
this rock, I'll build My church (the revelation of the Word in It's
season)--I'll build My church and the gates of hell cannot prevail against
it." The Book of the Revelation is the last Book of the Bible. It's sealed
to unbelievers. In there the Bible says in the 22nd chapter, "Whosoever
shall take one word from It or add one word to It, I'll take his part from the
Book of Life." We realize that then It was altogether given for believers.
And it opens the Book of Revelation and reveals Who the Author of this entire Book
is (He's to look upon as Alpha and Omega, from Genesis to Revelations, Jesus
Christ just the same right straight through), and reveals His complete mystery
of Himself and His plans for His church ages that's to come, and was sealed in
there by seven seals. Now, the Book was written, but then remember, It was
sealed with seven seals. And these seven seals was not to be opened,
Revelations 10, until the sounding of the last earthly angel on earth,
Revelations 10:7. See? "And in the days of the sounding of the last angel's
Message, seventh angel, the mystery of God should be finished in that
age." That's... And that's the age
that we're living in. We all know
we're living the Laodicea age. There will never be another age to it; it can't
be. So we're living in the Laodicea age, and these seven seals that's held that
Book is a mystery to people, should be open at that day. That's what He
promised. Now, it won't be nothing outside the Word, because you can't add to
the Word or take from the Word. It's got to remain always the Word. But the
revelation is to reveal the Truth of It, what It is, to make It fit with the
rest of the Scripture. And then God vindicates that to be the Truth.
309 Harvest Time
64-1212 Riches, Laodicea, great name, great person,
rich. "But dead, and naked, and don't know it." That's what the
church age ended in. But she denies the
Word. To make Matt 24:24 real to her, she tries to move in with a lot of noise,
and a lot of this, and a lot of social standings, and things like this, trying
to say, "Well, we got power. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We got power."
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, so close that it
would deceive the very elected... How can a man dance in the Spirit and speak
in tongues, and deny the Word of God being the Truth, and be the Holy Ghost? It
just can't be done. Every Word... God
says one thing, that's just exactly what He means. Don't interpret It no other
way. The Bible says that It's of no private interpretation. Say it the way He
said It E-50
Identification 63-0123 We are invited to
shape our own character to His by His grace. We are invited (Think of it.) to
become characters like His, if we're ready to lay our character down and the
molding that we had: "heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of God, false accusers and incontinent, despisers of those that are
trying to do right, having a form of godliness and denying the power of the
Word"... How can God come into a place like that when they deny the Word?
When He watches over His Word to vindicate It, to make it come to pass, and the
Word is pushed out, how can He identify Himself with something like that?