You Heard from your Theophany
September 9th,
2001
II TIMOTHY 3:16 All scripture [is]
given by inspiration of God, theo-pneustos God breathed, That's JOHN 6:63, the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they]
are life. And if they are
life , then they are alive. Therefore
This Living Word which is breathed out from God) And
[is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect completely
mature, and thoroughly furnished or finished off unto all good works.
Now, what is this thoroughly
furnished mean? It means that we are not done so to speak until we receive the
body change. And that can not come until we have joined to that Word body which
was in the mind or thoughts of God before the world began. And that is what we
are going to look at today from brother Branham's sermon on …
Who is this
Melchisedec 65-0221E. Therefore, let's turn to
paragraph 88
and read. Then after you recognize the very Word of
God was Eagle Food, then you left the other thing. You've then been formed into
the living image of the living God. You heard from your theophany.
"If this earthly body be dissolved, we have one waiting." You say,
"Is that right, Brother Branham?" All right, let's take a couple of
eagles and look at them for a few minutes.
Notice,
brother Branham makes the statement, You heard
from your theophany. In order to better understand what he is
saying we must find out what a theophany is. For if we read this statement, and
do not know what a theophany is, then our imagination can run wild, and we will
not really know what it is that we heard from. Therefore we must ask the
following three questions.
1)
What is a theophany?
2)
Where is this theophany at?
3)
How do we join to it?
Now,
for question number 1) What is a theophany.
The
word Theophany comes from two words, 1) Theos which means God, and the Greek
word phany which is derived from phaneros or phaneroo which means to manifest
in ones true character. Therefore, we are talking about a God-manifested body.
First of all John tells us He is the Word. John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. Secondly, Jesus
said, that God is a Spirit. JOHN 4:24 God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship
[him] in spirit and in truth.
Therefore
we can conclude if we are to receive a God-Body it will be a Word Body that is
Spirit.
The
Apostle Paul said, I CORINTHIANS 15:39 All flesh [is] not the same flesh: but [there is] one [kind
of] flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, [and] another of
birds. 40 [There are] also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial:
but the glory of the celestial [is] one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial
[is] another. 41 [There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the
moon, and another glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth from [another]
star in glory. 42 So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in
corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown
in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in
power: 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is
a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
And
Brother Branham called it a spirit body. From this sermon of brother Branham's
called Who is this Melchisedec, we find
he said more about what a theophany is than in any other sermon he preached. So
let's just recap some of the things he has said.
WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC
65-0221E 55 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--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.
67 Now, we see the attribute sons of His
Spirit have not yet entered into the Word form body, a theophany. This body is subject
to the Word and earnest--waiting for the earnest change of the body. Now, the
different between Him and you as a son... See, He was at the beginning the
Word, an "En morphe" body. He came in and lived in that in the
Person of Melchisedec. Then later... We never heard no more of Melchisedec,
because He became Jesus Christ. Melchisedec was the Priest, but He became Jesus
Christ. Now, you bypassed that, because in that form He knowed all things. And
you have never been able to know that yet. You come like Adam, like me. You
became from the attribute to the flesh to be tempted. But when this life is
finished here... "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one
already waiting." That's where we go; that is the Word. Then we can look back
and see what we done. Now, we don't understand it. We have never become the
Word; we've just become the flesh-man, not the Word. But... And look clearly,
makes it clear you will never be the Word unless you was a thought at the
beginning. That proves the predestination of God. See? You can't be the Word
'less you're a thought. You had to be in the thinking first. But you see, in
order to stand temptation you had to bypass the theophany; you had to come down
here in flesh to be tempted by sin. And then if you sin... "All the Father
hath given Me will come to Me, and I'll raise him up at the last days."
See, you had to be first. And then you see, He come right down the regular
line, from attribute to...
Notice
he said that God began to empty Himself into a body, He en-morphed himself into
a body. That means He poured Himself into this body. Now, God kenosed Himself.
He did not empty Himself, but he poured out every attribute of Himself into
another form. He poured Himself into, meaning that all that was in Him concerning
every attribute and characteristic, he poured into this Body.
MIGHTY GOD UNVEILED 64-0629
15-1 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 changed
from what He was to what He is. He never changes His nature.
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. 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.
WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC
65-0221E 70 Before the foundation of
the world his Name's put on the Lamb's Book of Life. Then from that He become
the Word, the theophany, that could appear, disappear; and then He become flesh
and returned back again, resurrected that same body in a glorified condition.
But you bypassed the theophany and become flesh-man to be tempted by sin.
And then "if this earthly tabernacle is dissolved, we have one already
waiting." We have not yet the bodies. But look, when this body receives
the Spirit of God, the Immortal Life inside of you, it throws this body in
subjection to God. Hallelujah.
WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC
65-0221E 78 Then when a man is borned
again from heaven, he becomes a spirit babe in Christ. And then when this robe
of flesh is dropped, there is a natural body, theophany, a body not made
with hands, neither born of a woman, that we go to. Then that body returns
back and picks up the glorified body. That's the reason Jesus went to hell when
he died and preached to the souls that were in prison. Turned back into that
theophany... Oh, marvelous. Thank God. II Corinthians
5:1 "If this earthly body be dissolved (this earthly tabernacle), we have
another one." See, we have bypassed
that to come straight from God, the attribute, to be flesh to be tempted and
tested by sin like Adam did. But when testing of His Word is over, then we are
taken up to this body that was prepared for us before the foundation of the
world. It is the Word there that we skipped to come right around down here to
be tempted and tested. If we'd have come through that, there'd have been no
temptation; we'd knowed all things. That's the reason Jesus knowed all things,
'cause He was Word before He was flesh. Then we become the Word. Here we are
formed to the Word image to be a partaker of the Word, feed on the Word, by
being predestinated since the beginning. You see, that little spark of life
that you had in you from the beginning when you started your journey... Many of
you can remember it. You joined this church and joined that church, and try
this and that; nothing satisfied. That's right. But one day you just recognized
it. Right.
WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC
65-0221E 92 For he said, "Why did
you call me out of my rest, seeing you become a enemy to God?" Watch him
prophesy. "Tomorrow night by this time you'll be with me." He was
still a prophet, though he was gone from this body. See, he become here and was
part of that Word, and he entered from the flesh life back into the body that
had been prepared for him before the foundation of the world. He entered
into the theophany which was the Word. You get it? That's where all
believers go when we turn from here. Then in that form the veil then is lifted.
You see you are the Word also when you enter into there.
WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC
65-0221E 95
Now, the true revelation of Melchisedec comes into view was--that He was
God, the Word, before He became flesh, God the Word. 'Cause He had to be; no
one else could be immortal like Him. See, I had father and mother; you did too.
Jesus had father and mother. But this Man had no father or had no mother. Jesus
had a time He started; this Man didn't. Jesus gave His life; this Man couldn't,
because He was Life. And it's the self same Man all the time. I hope God
reveals it to you, the self same Person all the time. Notice His title, King of
righteousness. Now, Hebrews 7:2: King of righteousness and King of peace, He's
two Kings. Now, watch, Hebrews 7:2, King of righteousness, also the King of
peace. He's two Kings there. Now, since He has come in the flesh and received
His body up, in Revelations 21:16 He's called the King of Kings. He's all three
of them together. See? King God, King Theophany, King Jesus; He's the
King of Kings. It's all met, just like soul, body, and spirit. All comes to
make one. Also He is the Father, which was the first, Son, and Holy Ghost, the
Spirit. King of righteousness, the Spirit attribute; theophany, King of peace,
theophany; and in flesh He was King of Kings: same Person.
98 When the theophany... Moses seen Him,
Exodus 33:2, He was a theophany. Moses wanted to see God. He'd heard His voice,
heard Him talk to him, seen Him in a bush there with a big Pillar of Fire. And
he said, "Who are You; I want to know Who You are?" Moses said,
"I'll put--if You'll let me see You... I'd like to see Your face." He
said, "No man can't--see My face." He said, "I'll put My hand
over your eyes, and I'll pass by. And you can see My back, but not My
face." See? And when He did, it was the back of a Man; it was theophany.
Then the Word that come to Moses, I AM; that was the Word. The Word came to
Moses in the form of a--a Pillar of Fire in a burning bush, the I AM. As the
Word from the theology--or from the theophany, rather (Excuse
WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC 65-0221E
101
There came a Man to Abraham, three of them, and set down under an oak
tree, three of them. And notice, after He talked to Abraham... Why did He come?
Abraham, being the one with the promise and the message of the coming son, and
also He was God's Word prophet that was trusting God's Word, calling anything
contrary as though it wasn't... See how perfect the Word is? The Word came to
the prophet. See, there was God in a theophany, and the Bible said the Word
comes to the prophet. And here was the Word in the theophany... Now, you
say, "Was that God?" Abraham said it was. He said His name was... He
called Him Elohim. Now, in Genesis 1 you find out, "In the beginning
Elohim created the heavens and the earth." In Genesis 18 we find out
that--that Abraham called this Person that set there and talked to him, and
could tell him the secrets of his heart, tell him what Sarah was thinking
behind Him, Abraham said, "It is Elohim." He was in a theophany form.
You get it? 103 Notice, after... Now, we find out that He was then in the
theophany form. He called Him, "Lord God, Elohim."
WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC 65-0221E 109 Therefore
the theophany, if you have died and entered into that theophany, what happens?
The theophany comes to the earth to pick up the redeemed body. And if you're here in the air, you take the body to meet the
theophany (There you are.), and caught up and go to meet the Lord in the air.
Who is this Melchisedec but God?
WE WOULD SEE JESUS 57-0516
E-15 Well, now, how can we see
Him? The way we can see Him is by His works. Now, he hasn't come in a corporal
body yet, among us. He's here in a spiritual body (You believe that?), a
spiritual body called the Holy Spirit. He's in the form of the Holy Spirit.
In the beginning God was a Spirit. And all the fountain of goodness and mercy
and power, and all the good things of love, God was the center of that
fountain. And then the Logos that went out of God in the beginning become what
we would call a theophany, or a supernatural body. God is just not like
the air, but He's in a body. Moses seen Him pass and said it looked like the
back part of a man, and so forth. And then that same theophany was made flesh
and dwelled among us. And we beheld Him, the only begotten of the Father:
Christ.
And
you hath he quickened. What you are here is a reflection of what you are
somewhere else.
HEBREWS CHAPTER 2 PART 3
57-0828 80-279 But the difference
between an animal and a man, God put a soul in a man and He didn't put it in
the animal, because the soul that was in the man is that theophany.
E-35 EXPLAINING
HEALING AND JAIRUS 54-0216 You are now. Now, we're sons of God. Now, we're seated
together in heavenly places. Now, we have all powers in heavens and the earth.
See? Now, we have it. Not in the millennium, we won't need it then. We got it now. We're... Right now we
are the sons of God. "It does not appear what we shall be, but we know we'll
be like Him." What you are here is a reflection of what you
are somewhere else. "Those who He called, He justifies." Is that
right? "Those who He justified, He
has glorified." Already in the Presence of the Father, we have a glorified
body. Whew! Wasn't that deep? All right. We'll find out whether it's right
or not. "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already
waiting." Is that right? That's right. So right now, and what we are
there, is a reflection. Here, what we
are here, is a reflection of what we are somewhere else. So if your deeds
are evil, you know where it comes from. You know where your other body's a
waiting.
LIFE 57-0602 E-22 Let's close our eyes to our imaginations for
a few moments and go way back into the--'fore there was anything. The great
fountain of all eternity was that spirit of love, joy, that spirit of honesty,
that spirit of trueness in this perfection. And then out of the existence of
the Father went the Logos which was the Son, which was the theophany, which was
the body of the great Jehovah God went forth in a celestial Body. That's
the Logos. The Word spoke out of them great Fountains of Life and went forth.
And there was the theophany, which was God made into Word.
Entombment 57-0420 49 Bury me in Christ, for those that are in Christ will God bring with
Him at that day. How do we get in Christ? I Corinthians 12:13, "By
one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body, and become fellow citizens of the
THIRSTING FOR LIFE
57-0630 E-13 Now, when God was in
theophany, which was Christ in the making, then that theophany become flesh and
dwelled among us. Then that was to redeem. He came from there down through
this to redeem this creature, give it life, and take it back up into the
eternal one. See? Now, there's only one Eternal Life, and that lays in God
only. And God only has Eternal Life. And we have been privileged to become the
sons of God. Then that word: "He that heareth My words and believeth on
him that sent me, hath Eternal life." The Greek word "Zoe,"
there used for God's own life. The creature that accepts Him becomes a part of
God and is just as eternal as God is. That's right. There's no reason for us to
doubt that. It's God's everlasting, eternal Word. And everything that had a
beginning has an end.
JEHOVAH JIREH 57-0810 E-41 Walked down, He said, "I'm going down
to talk to Abraham, He might not understand Me. If I go as a man, he will know
it." That was nothing but the pre-figure of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
the Melchisedec and so forth. It was a theophany to begin with, and then It
become flesh. And They eat like men, hungry.
HEBREWS CHAPTER 1
57-0821 20-126 Could you imagine before there even was a
earth, before there was a light, before there was a star, before there was
anything? There's a Great Fountain going forth of Spirit, and out of this
Fountain came the most pure of love; 'cause there was nothing for it to
come from there but love. Now, we... What we call love today is a perverted
love. But just as we get a essence, or a little bit of that love in us, it
changes our whole opinion. Then out of there come another stream off of this
main Fountain, the Diamond, and it was called righteousness, absolutely
righteousness. Now, that's the reason we had to have law. That's the reason law
has to have judgment. If judgment doesn't follow law, law doesn't do no good.
And when judgment was passed by law, which brings death... And there's no one
who could pay the penalty but God Himself. And He paid the penalty of our
death, and took our sins upon Him, that we might be the righteousness of God
through Him. Now, when these great Lights went out, or great rays of Spirit:
love, peace... That's all there was. That... There wasn't no suffering; there
wasn't no--no hate, nor no malice. It couldn't come from this Fountain. That
was Jehovah. That was Jehovah God. And now, as the theologians call it, a
theophany went from That, which was called in the Scriptural the Logos, the
Logos that went out of God. It's hard to explain, but It was a part of God.
21-129
Now, here's what happened. Oh... Excuse me; I--I--I just get on this...
This just gets me right where I love it. See? The Logos, and this great
Fountain; this great Fountain of Spirit which had no beginning or no end, this
great Spirit begin to form in the creation; and the Logos that went out from It
was the Son of God. It was the only visible form that this Spirit had. And It
was a theophany, which means a body, and the body was like a man. Moses saw It
when It passed through the--by--by the rock. And he looked at It, said,
"It looked like the hind part of a man." It's the same type of body
that we receive when we die here, "If this earthly tabernacle be
dissolved, we have one already waiting." That was it. And that was the
Theophany which was the Son of God. That Son, that Logos became flesh
because we were put in flesh. And the Theophany, the Logos, became flesh
here among us, and It was nothing else but the dwelling place; for that entire
Fountain dwelt in Him. Oh, do you see it? There it is.
HEBREWS CHAPTER 2 PART 3
57-0828 80-278 And now, the Logos that
went out of God, which was the Logos, all this begin to form into a--a body
shape. And this body shape was called in the scholar's teaching,
"Logos," the Logos that went out of God. In other words, a--a better
word for it was a--what we call a theophany. Theophany is a human body that's
glorified, not exactly with flesh and blood like it will be in its glorified
stage, but it is of a form of a human body that doesn't eat, neither does it
drink, but it's--it's a body, a body that's waiting for us as soon as we leave
this one. Now, in there, we enter into that body. And that's the kind of body
that God was. For He said, "Let Us make man in Our own image and in our
likeness."
HEBREWS CHAPTER 4
57-0901E 158-229 Just think of it. Is
there two Eternal Lifes? You couldn't answer that, could you? There's one
Eternal Life, and that's the Life of God. This other kind of life, no matter
what it is, it's got a end to it. And anything that had a beginning has an end.
But anything that had no beginning has no end. And God said He would give us
Eternal Life "without beginning." We were just made a part of Him.
And actually the Life that's in us, wasn't brought here by human nature. Nature
give us a spirit, but that spirit died, and we got the Spirit of God. Glory to
God. Was God a man? Certainly. "Let us make man in our own image."
What was God? A Theophany, a Body. And there God... Man was made like that
and put over the garden, but there's no man to till the soil in the senses.
Then He created man out of the dust of earth in the animal life, and that man
tilled the soil. And the man fell by transgression. Correctly. And God, the
Theophany, come down and was made flesh and dwelled among us to redeem the man.
HEBREWS CHAPTER 5 AND 6
57-0908M 174-55 What did we find Him to
be? We found Him to be the great Jehovah God made manifest in flesh. We
found Him to--to be not a prophet, but the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. He
was Jehovah made flesh. And the body, Jesus, only tabernacled Him, God dwelling
in man, God being reconciled to man, through man, by the virgin birth of His
own Son. And Jehovah, the Spirit, dwelt in Him. Now, how many remembers the
teaching about the Godhead? How we went back and found God like the great
rainbow with all the different spirits, how it was... And then the Logos went out
of God, which become the Theophany, and that was in the form of a man. And
Moses seen It pass by in the cleft of the rock. And then that Theophany was
made absolutely human flesh, Christ. And how we find out, that we through His
grace have Eternal Life. Now, the word "forever" is "for a
distance, for a space of time." It said in the Bible, "Forever and
forever," a conjunction. But "forever" only means "a
time." But "eternal" means "forever." And only
everything that had a beginning has an end. But things which had no beginning
has no end. So God had no beginning and He has no end.
175-57 And so therefore, Melchisedec, the great
Priest (like a man), He had no beginning, and He has no end. And when we, through
that Theophany that... We were made in the image of God before the world was
ever made. When that Theophany has been made flesh and dwelt among us, then
through His death we ourselves receive His Spirit and we have no end: Eternal
Life; not Angels, but men and women. Oh, I somehow, if I could only get it in a
way that my audience would catch it. You will never be an Angel. God made
Angels, but God made man. And what God does is off of God, which is as eternal
as God is. And man's just as eternal as his Creator, because he was made from
eternity.
HEBREWS CHAPTER 6 AND 7 57-0915M
267-611 Now, when we go from here,
there's a tabernacle, a theophany, just a image of a man, that don't eat, don't
drink, don't sleep, awake forever. There's where we go to. But they're waiting
under the altar, crying, "Lord, how long? How long?" to come back
down because they want to shake hands with one another; they want to set down
and eat and talk to one another. They're human. Blessed be the Name of the
Lord. When God made man in His own image at the beginning, He made him thus.
QA HEBREWS PART 2 57-1002
273-385 Now, he's speaking of the soul, the spirit.
For we pack our bodies over the grave of the saintest of us, for this body. And
the body... In the first place, when God, the Logos that went out of God... Or,
as I have went through it, the Catholic call It, "the eternal sonship of
God."... Which as I have said before, the word doesn't even make sense.
See, there cannot be an eternal son, because a son had to have a beginning. And
so Jesus had a beginning; God had no beginning. See? But the Son was the... Not
eternal sonship, but the Son that was with the Father in the beginning was the
Logos that went out of God. And it was the Theophany of God that went out, the
human form that didn't have eyes like you see: a better eye. It didn't have
ears like you hear, but a far more hearing. See? It was a Theophany, that all this
rainbow condescended into a--a Theophany. Moses saw It when It passed
through the rock like that. He saw the back parts, said, "It looked like a
man."
QA HEBREWS PART 2 57-1002
273-388 Now, notice, we find out that, Who was Melchisedec but God Himself.
It couldn't have been no one else, for He was the King of
QA HEBREWS PART 2 57-1002
277-412 Yes, notice, Now, my Jehovah Witness
friend, I'd like to ask you about that. See? If hell is a place... Hades,
Sheol, whatever you wish to call it, if that ceases at the grave, then why did
He say, "I'll not leave My soul in hell, neither will I suffer Thy holy
One to see corruption"? How about that? See? Here His body was in the
grave, and his soul was in hell, preaching, alive. What about that? He was
in His Theophany again. His soul was down there with those people that were
in...?... theophany also, and was witnessing to them that they repented not in
the long-suffering.
QA HEBREWS PART 3
57-1006 306-601 That's Genesis 1, where He
created man in His own image, which was in the theophany. And in Genesis
2, He made man out of the dust of the earth, which was the human man that we have
now.
QA HEBREWS PART 3
57-1006 339-Q-74 Now, one more thing I
want to hit just before we close; it'll take me about two minutes. 74. Where
will the saints be after the one thousand years' reign? And what kind of a body
will they have? I think that's the sweetest question; I just love that. Now,
let's look right straight into it. In the beginning God... We'll go back to our
Hebrew teaching just for a few minutes. God was this great big fountain of
seven colors. How many knows that? See? And how many knows that God has seven
Spirits? Absolutely, seven Spirits. And there was seven eyes in the lamb, and
so forth, all that coming together now. See? Now, that was God. Now, when He,
the Logos went out of God, which was God coming from this one big fountain into
a body in the form of a--of a man, and it made the Logos, which we call
theophany...
QA.HEBREWS.PART.3 57-1006
339-824 Now, if you take the
theophany when you are looking at that, that's a man. Now, that we... Now,
that's where we were in the beginning. Now, you do not understand it now, but
you was back there in the beginning that way. When man made... When God made
man in His image, He made him a theophany. And He only placed him in flesh...
When God made man in His image, in His likeness, they were... In Genesis 2,
there were... Or Genesis 1:28, I believe it is, "There was no man yet to
till the soil," and God had done made male and female. That's right.
"No man to till the soil..." Then God brought man a little lower down
and put him in animal life; that's this body, just like the animals so that he
could till the soil, could touch. That theophany doesn't touch; it doesn't see,
taste, smell, hear, these senses that we have. So God put man down there in
order to--to touch and to feel.
QA.HEBREWS.PART.3
57-1006 340-826 And--and as he walked through the garden of
Eden, first as a theophany (like the Holy Spirit is in here now walking in
here), it led the animal life. It controlled everything, but it couldn't till
the soil. See? So God put him in flesh so that he could till the soil, give him
his five senses to till the soil and fix up the--the vineyards and--and so
forth, and then the man still looked lonesome. Oh, this is a beautiful picture.
Look, for when he was first made, he was made two people together. He was made
both male and female; the man was. The Bible said he was. God made man both
male and female, "created He him." Notice. Now, when man was
separated from the theophany and put in flesh, he was--he wasn't just altogether
there; part of his being was still a theophany, so it didn't look right. There
went the male and female in the cow; there went the horse; and there went the
ox; and there went everything else, pairs. But Adam, he... it was... See, there
was something lacking. That very crave showed that there was a mate waiting for
him. You get it? And the very thoughts that we have to die here, that we're
troubled and perplexed, and we long for a Life that has no death, it shows it's
waiting for us. See?
QA HEBREWS PART 3 57-1006 340-829 And Adam was lonesome. And
God, to show that they could not be separated... (Now, I'm going to get back
into this same thing, just a second.) Look, He never went and got dirt and made
a Eve, but He made from the original dirt: Adam. He took a rib from his side
and made him a helpmate, and that was Eve. She was made for the man and part of
the man. She was part of him in the beginning in the creation in the theophany.
She was part of him down here in this creation. She could not be divided in
another creation; she had to be made in the same creation. That's exactly why
Christ and God had to be the very same Person; it could not be anything
different. If He'd been a good man or a prophet, He wouldn't have been a
Redeemer; He had to be the Creator Himself. But He's still a theophany now (You
see?) and the way He was then.
CONFERENCE 60-1125 E-76 If
the God that dwelt in that flesh down there of that Man, that Theophany, or
whatever it was... The God that dwelt in Jesus Christ Who Jesus... Everybody
thought He talked double, but sometimes it was Him talking, sometimes it was a
Spirit talking Now, remember Jesus was
God. We're not God. He had the Spirit without measure. The Fulness of the
Godhead bodily dwelt in Him, but we have the Spirit by measure. Well, now if I
took a spoonful of water out of the ocean, that would be comparison. You'd
never miss it. Well, that's the Holy Spirit that's on me and on you, but
remember if I... And Jesus had the whole ocean was in Him, all of it. But if I
took a spoonful of water out of the ocean, the same chemicals that's in the
entire ocean is in that--that spoonful. Ever chemical in the ocean's in there.
It's in the water. It's the same Spirit, but not as much of it; but It'll act
the same way, 'cause He promised it.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
61-0112 561-329 When a baby is being--a
baby is being formed in a womb of a mother, soon as it's put there... See, see?
But first it's a spirit. As that spirit begins to take on flesh, a little germ
of life begins to take on flesh, and as soon as it drops from its... Now, in
the womb, it's a little, quivering, jerking muscles. We know that. That's
cells. Just like you take a horse hair and put it in the water, it'll cap over
and it'll move, and you touch it and it'll jump. That's the way a baby is. But
as soon as it's borned in this world and breathes its first breath, it becomes
a living soul. See? Because as soon as the earthly body is born into the world,
there's a celestial body, or a spiritual body, to take ahold of it. And as soon
as this natural body is dropped, there is a heavenly tabernacle waiting for it:
"If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, there is a heavenly tabernacle
waiting for it." Just as soon as--as the baby's dropped into the earth in flesh,
there's a spiritual body waiting to receive it. And as soon as the spiritual
body--the natural body is dissolved, there's a spiritual body waiting yonder
(See?), a theophany we call it (See?), a theophany.
JESUS CHRIST THE SAME
61-0118 E-62 Some minister said to me not long ago, "You don't mean to say
that was God?" I said, "The Bible said it was God. Abraham called Him
Lord; capital L-o-r-d, Elohim. He ought to know. He was the one talking to
Him." He said, "Well, that was just a theophany." I said,
"A theophany don't eat a calf and drink buttermilk." That's right. He
was God. The Bible said He was. He was God, brethren. These three Angels... He
said, "Why, do you mean they were Angels?" I said, "Sure."
"In dusty clothes and eating?" I said, "Sure. You just don't
know how great our God is. He wanted to come down to investigate the situation
down in
Mary's Belief 61-0121 But we
notice, that the One that stayed behind to the elected church, He showed a
sign. And it was God doing that. it was not a myth, it was not a theophany. A
theophany don't eat. He eat the flesh of a calf, and eat some hoecake, corn bread,
and some butter on it, and drink the milk from the cow. A theophany doesn't eat
and drink: it was God made manifest in flesh. It sure was. And what was He
speaking? Jesus said, "As in that day, so will it be..." God will
come again, come into the flesh of His people that He had bought and
sanctified, and will show to His elected church the same sign that He showed to
His elected church back there.
IF GOD BE WITH
CONVINCED THEN CONCERNED
62-0118 E-106 Remember, that flesh... I
don't know what it was. They said a "theophany." Ministers try to say
it was a theophany. But how does a theophany eat veal chops? No, sir. A
theophany doesn't eat. He was a man in a body of flesh, but yet it was God.
CHRIST REVEALED IN HIS OWN WORD
65-0822M 139 When Jesus was manifested
in the Old Testament as we believe it... Now, you preachers out there, you can
argue with it, do whatever you want to, but I'm talking from my--what I think.
See?When Jesus was manifested in the Old Testament in a theophany, in the
Person of Melchisedec, not a priesthood, but the Person, the Man... See? For
this Man had yet not been born, but He was in a theophany so He had no father,
no mother. He was God Himself. He was manifested in the form of a Man called
King of Salem, which is King of Peace and King of Righteousness. See? He was Melchisedec.
He had neither father nor mother, beginning of days of ending of life. See? It
was Jesus in a theophany in the form of a man. Could you go that? All right.
I HAVE HEARD BUT NOW I SEE
SATURDAY_ 65-1127E 211 Do you believe that the God that made this
promise, that did appear Himself in the Book of Genesis, and appeared to
Abraham, and performed that miracle... That same God was made flesh, human
flesh, borned of a virgin. That was a theophany there, of course, but then when
He come in human flesh and was the same Man, and performed the same things...
Don't you believe that if God could get a person (that He promised to do,
according to Malachi 4), a channel that He could speak through, He'll perform
the same thing He said He'd do there? You believe that? I believe He would
HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 57-0821
20-124 Now, the diamond when it comes forth, it's
just a big smooth, round like piece of glass. There's a blue diamond, black
diamond, emerald, and a clear diamond, white diamond. But when it come forth...
Then when it's made and put into use there's a part of that diamond has to
lose. And it has to lose the--the chips off of it. Knock little chips, because
when it comes in direct light, like that, it makes a sparkle. The chip what
makes a sparkle, the way it's cut. It's cut, chipped, and then when it does, it
makes a sparkle, and one will go a green light, the other one will go a blue
light, and maybe another an emerald light, and a red light, and different
lights go from it like a rainbow color. They call it fire in the diamond. Now,
each one of those lights represents gifts. But it's only Christ is the Diamond.
And He was the One Who came, and was bruised, and wounded, and chipped that He
might reflect Himself back as a Light to the world. He's that Master Diamond.
20-126 Could you imagine before
there even was a earth, before there was a light, before there was a star,
before there was anything? There's a Great Fountain going forth of Spirit, and
out of this Fountain came the most pure of love; 'cause there was nothing for
it to come from there but love. Now, we... What we call love today is a
perverted love. But just as we get a essence, or a little bit of that love in
us, it changes our whole opinion. Then out of there come another stream off of
this main Fountain, the Diamond, and it was called righteousness, absolutely
righteousness. Now, that's the reason we had to have law. That's the reason law
has to have judgment. If judgment doesn't follow law, law doesn't do no good.
And when judgment was passed by law, which brings death... And there's no one
who could pay the penalty but God Himself. And He paid the penalty of our
death, and took our sins upon Him, that we might be the righteousness of God
through Him. Now, when these great Lights went out, or great rays of Spirit:
love, peace... That's all there was. That... There wasn't no suffering; there
wasn't no--no hate, nor no malice. It couldn't come from this Fountain. That
was Jehovah. That was Jehovah God. And now, as the theologians call it, a
theophany went from That, which was called in the Scriptural the Logos, the
Logos that went out of God. It's hard to explain, but It was a part of God.
21-129 Now, here's what
happened. Oh... Excuse me; I--I--I just get on this... This just gets me right
where I love it. See? The Logos, and this great Fountain; this great Fountain
of Spirit which had no beginning or no end, this great Spirit begin to form in
the creation; and the Logos that went out from It was the Son of God. It was
the only visible form that this Spirit had. And It was a theophany, which means
a body, and the body was like a man. Moses saw It when It passed through
the--by--by the rock. And he looked at It, said, "It looked like the hind
part of a man." It's the same type of body that we receive when we die
here, "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already
waiting." That was it. And that was the Theophany which was the Son of
God. That Son, that Logos became flesh because we were put in flesh. And the
Theophany, the Logos, became flesh here among us, and It was nothing else but
the dwelling place; for that entire Fountain dwelt in Him. Oh, do you see
it? There it is. That was the One that in...
REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS
61-0101 181 Jesus, God's accepted covenant surrounding the
heavens. And around about Him was a rainbow around about the throne in the
sight like a emerald, amberish, green Light around the throne. Praise be to
God.
REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS 61-0101
181 Watch. Noah's composed of primarily...
Noah's rainbow composed primarily of seven colors. Anybody knows the rainbow's
got seven colors. Now, what are the colors? Red, orange, violet... No,
red--red, orange, green, blue, indigo, and violet. That's the colors of the
rainbow. Now, we got a deep thing here, and I'm just going to have to hit the
high spots of it, 'cause it's getting too late, Now, remember, orange--or, red,
orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Now, if you notice, seven...
Watch. Seven rainbows... Seven colors; I mean, seven-colored rainbow. That
meant seven bows. Seven bows, seven churches reflecting seven lights, each
light wrapped into the other one. It started off with red, red. After red come
orange, which is a reflection of red. After orange was... After--after orange
come yellow, which is red and orange mixed together, makes yellow. Then green.
Green and blue makes black. Then come indigo. And then from indigo comes
violet, which is part of blue. Oh, oh, oh. Hallelujah. Don't you see? God, in
His seven-colored rainbow, His covenant that He made, a covenant that through
Seven Church Ages, the seven colors He would save the earth.
REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS
61-0101 154 Notice the color of the Spirit
of God which was above the likeness of these four Creatures, was amber. Amber
is yellowish green. Now, watch: yellowish green, amber... Oh, He's the same
yesterday... He revealed Hisself to Ezekiel in the midst of Ezekiel's vision.
This Light that he saw coming above the four living Creatures was yellowish
green. When He come to John, He appeared in the emerald which is also yellowish
green. He comes now to the revelator in yellowish green. He comes to us in
yellowish green, the Light. Walk in the Light; He is the Light.
REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS 61-0101 158 Watch. Are you ready?
Listen. Keep this now, just remember, to let you know. (Gene, you can hold this
tape.) Listen. (No, I don't have to hold it there; that's all right.) I mean
just keep the tape; permit this to the church. Notice this. Now, that you might
know that the color of the Light that's with the Lord, and the Lord's Light
that follows the Lord, and this is the Lord, is amber, yellowish green. That's
the same color of the Light that's with us today, as the scientists has took
Its picture: yellowish green, amber.
REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS
61-0101 170 Now, notice
how the Lord in His great mercy give us these things.Now, let's take another.
Both Ezekiel and John saw Him in the mystery of His colors and Light, and
called it a amber color. John later... You that puts your--putting down the
Scriptures: I John 1:5 to 7. John later (and was on the Isle of Patmos about
three years when he wrote the Book), when he come back, an old man in his
nineties, in I John 1:5 and 7, he said, "God is Light." John had an
experience; he had seen Him and he knowed that He was Light, Light, eternal
Light; not cosmic light, not lamp light, electric light, sunlight, but eternal
Light. Oh, how I love Him. "God is Light."
REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS
61-0101 185 But when
John saw Him in this amber color, the amber color, He surrounded and covered
around like a halo. A halo... [Brother Branham taps on something--Ed.]... A
halo of amber color surrounded His Being. See? One color, one God over all,
through all, and in all, but there is Seven Church Ages.
REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS
61-0101 196 But when John saw Him
here, what was it? The day of redeeming was over. It was all over, so he seen
Him back in His original condition, an amber color. Not only just half the
world, it can only... The sun can only shines on half the world at a time
(See?), as it goes around. But when John saw Him, He was setting to look upon
as jasper and sardius stone, amber colors; mix the two together, you got
amber. "And a amber color around the throne." Oh, my. Oh, I--I
tell you, that just... We could just go on and on. Seven Spirits, seven colors,
seven church ages, seven ministers, seven lights, everything's in a seven.
God's perfect in seven. God worked six days; the seventh day He rested. The
world will exist six thousand years, and the seventh thousand is the
millennium.
REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS
61-0101 202 So we see Him in the
circle bow of green, amber color. This greenish, what does green represent? Life. Green is the evergreen, always stays green, is life. What does it
mean? That God has promised, as He took a oath back there in Genesis, that He
would no--put the rainbow in the sky, that He would no more destroy this world
by water. He also takes His oath and swears by Himself, that all the Seed of
Abraham He'll raise up, and this world will stand all of its shaking judgments.
HEBREWS CHAPTER 6 AND 7 57-0915M 269-628 ... the forerunner is
gone--has for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest for ever after the
order of Melchisedec. This great Forerunner has gone before us, making a way.
He's become from a Spirit, the great fountains of the rainbow of God, Who had
no beginning or no end. He was forever God. This ray of light went forth;
it was a ray of love. That's the
main one, red. The next color follows, which was blue: blue, the trueness.
Next, followed after that was other colors to the seven perfect colors, which
is the seven Spirits of God, that went from that great Fountain and that great
Diamond that Jesus spoke of, that great Diamond that's chipped to reflect these
colors. God was made flesh and dwelled among us, that He might reflect His
goodness and mercy among us by gifts and signs and wonders. That whole big
rainbow had become in a theophany of--made in the image like man. Yet He wasn't
a man; He didn't have flesh yet; He was a theophany.
HEBREWS CHAPTER 1
57-0821 8-52 Now, in the Old Testament
they had three different ways they can know a message. First the law, that was
just the law. Then they had a--a prophet, a dreamer, and they had the Urim
Thummim. Now, that may be a little deep. The Urim Thummim was the breastplate
that Aaron wore on his breast. In there was twelve stones: jasper, sardius,
carbuncle, so forth, on down. They got all twelve of the big stones that was in
the breastplate, showing that he was the high priest of every tribe, the twelve
tribes of Israel. This breastplate hung on a pillar in the church, and when a
prophet prophesied, and they wanted to be sure it was right or not, the prophet
or the dreamer stood before this Urim Thummim; and he told his dream or his
vision, whatever he had saw. And if the sacred lights... Oh, do you see it?
God's always dwelt in the supernatural realm. The conglomeration, those lights
were just normal until this voice went forth. And when the voice struck those
stones, if it wasn't supernatural, she laid dormant. But if it was
supernatural, those lights all reflected the rainbow color together. Amen. Then
that was God speaking, "That is My prophet. That dream came from Me."
It was according to the Urim Thummim that they judged.
BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
58-0928M 116 Now, just before the last
church age which was Pentecostal, is the lukewarm, Laodicean church age which
is rejected... But remember, as Jesus was seen in the cross standing in the
seven golden candlesticks, the darkest was what was the fartherest away from
Him, His right hand and His left hand. And He was to look upon as Alpha and
Omega, not the in-between, the--the Alpha and Omega, as He had His hand
stretched. And He was jasper and sardius stone, which was Benjamin and Reuben,
the first and the last. There He had His hands stretched; there He stood.
REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS
61-0101 152 Watch this prophet here,
five hundred and ninety-five years before the coming of Christ; see how his
vision compares with John's. ... a whirlwind came out of the north, a great
cloud,... a fire unfolding itself, and the brightness was about it, and out of
the midst thereof was the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. Also
out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this
was their appearance; they had a likeness of... man. Notice the color of the
Spirit of God which was above the likeness of these four Creatures, was amber.
Amber is yellowish green. Now, watch: yellowish green, amber... Oh, He's the
same yesterday... He revealed Hisself to Ezekiel in the midst of Ezekiel's
vision. This Light that he saw coming above the four living Creatures was
yellowish green. When He come to John, He appeared in the emerald which is also
yellowish green. He comes now to the revelator in yellowish green. He comes to
us in yellowish green, the Light. Walk in the Light; He is the Light.
REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS
61-0101 172 Notice, we're going to
start back now and see where we're at. On the 3rd verse yet, aren't we? Are we
going to get it? I hope. All right. He was to look upon as jasper and sardius
stone: and there was a rainbow... about the throne, in the sight like unto an
emerald, yellowish green. Now, rainbow, you notice it was a rainbow. Let's go
back in Genesis 9 and find out in Genesis 9:13. And we'll find back here the
rainbow, when a rainbow first appeared. Genesis the 9th chapter, and we will
begin at the 13th verse, Genesis 9:13. All of you like this? Oh, I love it. I
just don't like it; I love it. Look. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall
be for a token,... (Watch.)... token of a covenant betwixt me and the earth...
(What? "Betwixt Me and Noah"? No. "Betwixt Me and the
earth.") And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth,
that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant,
which--which is betwixt me and you... (Now, He come back to His covenant
betwixt them, but the rainbow covenant.)... See, the covenant was life for
Noah, that He spared him, but the covenant that God made with Himself was a
rainbow, that He would not... Now, I'll show you what Noah's covenant was with
God, in a minute. But this here was God's own covenant with Himself (Amen.), a
rainbow.
REV CHAP 4 PT 2 24 ELDERS
61-0101 196 But when John saw Him
here, what was it? The day of redeeming was over. It was all over, so he seen
Him back in His original condition, an amber color. Not only just half the
world, it can only... The sun can only shines on half the world at a time
(See?), as it goes around. But when John saw Him, He was setting to look upon
as jasper and sardius stone, amber colors; mix the two together, you got amber.
"And a amber color around the throne." Oh, my. Oh, I--I tell you,
that just... We could just go on and on. Seven Spirits, seven colors, seven
church ages, seven ministers, seven lights, everything's in a seven. God's
perfect in seven. God worked six days; the seventh day He rested. The world
will exist six thousand years, and the seventh thousand is the millennium.
ISRAEL IN EGYPT 53-0325 160 And there He was standing
there. What? And He was to look upon as Jasper and Sardius stone. What was
Jasper? Was Reuben stone. What was Sardius? Benjamin. The first and the last,
He was to look upon as the First and the Last. And--and a rainbow around His
head, over the seven golden candlesticks... A rainbow, a covenant that God had
made through Abraham, through Isaac, through Christ, through the church, by the
baptism of the Holy Ghost. The robe of the seven colors that was upon Joseph,
that was upon Jesus; it's upon the church today, protects. The body was covered
up by the robe. And the church is not you; it's the Holy Ghost that's got you
covered with the Blood, God's covenant, predestinated before the foundation of
the world. Hallelujah. I just had to let that out. All right. It was about to
burst me.