ONENESS 33
They go backwards
Brian Kocourek
The last few weeks we
examined pp. 143 , "What was He?"
He not only was but is
the Word.
JOHN 1:1
JOHN 6:63
Now
let's
read further into this pp. 143 and examine the other question brother Branham asks.
143 ONENESS
62-0211 The expressed image come, Jesus, the
immaculate One, the lovely One,
the fairest of ten thousands, the Lily of the Valley, the
Rose of Sharon, oh, the Morning Star. What was He? What did He come for? Listen close now. To
re-establish oneness between God and man. Oh, do you see it, brother?
Now He asks the
question, "What did He come for?" Then He answers it by saying, "He came to
re-establish Oneness between God and man."
Now if we
are to gain the understanding that brother Branham wanted us
to gain from this sermon then we must take
these thoughts back to the scripture from whence they came.
First of all, he said
that Jesus came to re-establish oneness. So we must
ask ourselves what this oneness is and how
is it established.
Now we have covered this
Oneness and what it is for 33 weeks now and
therefore for those who haven't been here I'll try to break it down
into a nutshell for you.
To have Oneness with God
you must have the mind of God. You must think
His thoughts. Speak His Words. Live His Life.
JOHN 17: 14-26 <read> explain
This Oneness can only
come by having the same mind.
PHIL 1:27, 2:5
1 COR 1: 4-10
143 ONENESS
62-0211 The
expressed image come, Jesus, the immaculate One, the lovely One, the
fairest of ten thousands, the Lily of the Valley, the Rose of
Sharon, oh, the Morning Star. What was He? What did
He come for? Listen close now. To re-establish oneness between God and man. Oh, do you see it, brother?
Now brother Branham
says, "What did He come for?" and the way he words this concerns me
because it brings 2 questions to my mind.
#1) Why
is he pointing back to Jesus of 2,000 years ago.
Now to answer that HEB 10:1, 8:5,
HEBREWS 13:8 and MALACHI 3:6
Now
we
should then read it as this. What is He and why
is He here. Present tense. You see,
what I want to attempt to do this morning
is to establish in your minds and hearts that brother
Branham was not a Prophet looking back. A Prophet is a foreteller and an expounder of the Word for His day. So when he refers to Jesus at His first coming, he is
actually trying to get us to see what He is doing today. So let me read a
number of quotes before we go to the scripture
so that we can hit them running.
E-2 AUDIO LETTER TO LEE VAYLE 64-0500
"Would it be, you think, advisable in here, to say
that God then, in order to proclaim this, has to send a
prophet in order to inject this, make this real again, show the
people the hour we're living in? Because if they only see it
in the hour past,
then there's no hope for the church. The church must see it in the present tense. So God sends His
prophet to manifest, present tense of it. You
see? And then, after it's over, then history is.
Now, you might
inject that, Brother Lee. I don't know whether
that's any good or not, but it's just--just a thought right here. Thanks a lot.
So
now
if brother Branham is using the scripture and preaching past tense
only then we have no hope. But I believe he was using
past tense to only help us to see what is happening in this hour.
So
let's
read these questions over again in the present tense because
after all if He is the same yesterday, today and forever, then what He was back
then He must be the same today. Right?
What was He? What did He
come for[1]? Listen close now. To re-establish oneness between God and man. Oh, do you see
it, brother?
E-59 WE WOULD SEE JESUS
62-0727 " I
AM was the one that was with Moses in the wilderness in that
bush of fire before...
I
believe
it was Winston Churchill who once said, "When
man forgets history, he is doomed to repeat it."
171 THE
MASTERPIECE 64-0705 The
Alpha has become Omega
172 The Alpha and Omega is the same. He said, "I
am Alpha and Omega." He never say anything in
between, "I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last." That's
it! 173 The first
ministry and the last
ministry is the same. The first
Message and the
...last Message is the same thing. "I was in Alpha;
I'm in Omega.
Now this
is the problem today in this message as I see it. The people do not see a present tense Christ. They see a historical Jesus though a historical message. He
isn't real to them because they are still
looking backwards at some experience or something out of
their past. Or if they happen to
be one of the misfortunate children who've
been raised in this message by parents who really never
left the Pentecostal Message, then they haven't stood a chance
because no doubt they have been taught a hybrid message. And onece it has been interjected with
something other than the Genuine Word for the hour, it
become hybrid and powerless.
The
main
problem in this hour is no different than in the first age. The people
are always looking backwards and as a result they have completely missed the
True meaning of the message.
59 Q A IMAGE OF THE BEAST 54-0515 The Bible said, "Three unclean spirits
come out of the mouth of the beast." Do you know what unclean spirits are
like? Frogs. Did you ever notice how a frog looks? A
frog is always looking backwards, he never looks forward; looking back,
always back, look back.
37 COUNTDOWN 64-0209 But God in the spiritual achievement is
going forward, not going backward. He's going
forward, looking into the Word and believing the promises for
things that never has come yet, for the spiritual revelations
to manifest the spiritual things that God has promised. He sees
them come to pass. Just as the scientist in
his laboratory are working on different things to help man
take in creation; the spiritual man is looking forward
to something that God promised that has never yet been created. The
natural man looks backward. The spiritual man looks forward.
E-69 REMEMBERING THE LORD 63-0122 As
I've made the remark two or three times since
being in Phoenix, it struck me so, men are that way. They always praise God for what He has
done, and looking forward what He will do, and ignoring what He's
doing right now. They do it. They fail to see
it.
425-4 THE
SIXTH SEAL 63-0323 Here we are these denominationals
twist it up. They take all the glory and
power, place it back with the apostles and the rest of it over in the
Millennium.
It's
just like a man, as I have said before, a man is always
giving God praise for what He has done, looking forward to what He
will do, and ignoring what He is doing right now. Exactly.
Man is still the same thing. There were them Jews standing there saying,
"Glory to God." Why, as the 6th chapter of
35-2 THE
INDICTMENT 63-0707 And that's
the same thing they're doing now. They got a church
and they believe in Jesus Christ, and say they do, and
things, but deny the hour we're living in! Still brings the old proverb back again: Man always praising God for
what He has done, looking forward for what He would do, and--or will do, and
ignoring what He's doing, and being condemned by it. See?
They think God's wonderful; how great He is; what He's going
to do; He's going to come; there'll be a rapture someday and go home; and
denying the very signs and wonders right here at the time that the
Scripture says that He will be doing it; miss the whole
thing. "If the blind lead
the blind," Jesus said, "they'll all fall in
the ditch." Just pray God to
open our eyes in this last days. All right.
40-3
INVISIBLE
E-38 ONE OF THE MEANEST MEN IN TOWN 61-0429 1B See, they
had their own idea about religion. They had their own idea
about God, but it was a million miles from the real thing. That's the way today: We have our
own-made creeds and our thoughts about it.
158
ANOINTED ONES AT END TIME
65-0725.1M Notice! Remember, the shuck looks exactly
like the wheat grain. See? Now, you
couldn't say back there in the Lutheran age the stalk was the
wheat, yet it's got the Life in it. Stalk is
all right. The Life in the stalk was
all right, but remember, the
Life advanced on, advanced from Elisha to Elijah. The Life keeps
advancing on. But remember, it's in
another stage. It can't remain in that
stage! We can't eat the carrion of some other age. We
can't eat Pentecostal carrion, Methodist, or Baptist!
See, it's become carrion. We have fresh
Food, the Word of this hour, so forth.
190
LOOKING UNTO JESUS 64-0122 We're
living ahead of that now. We are beyond Pentecost,
the same as we are Methodist and Lutheran. We're way on up
to the coming of the Lord, where the
ministry that Jesus Christ exercised, Himself, has to be exactly.
Like the headstone on the pyramid, has to be so
honed till every stone fits perfectly. And the church has
got to get in that condition to receive the
Headstone, then take the whole thing in the resurrection,
when the Body is raised up.
224
ANOINTED ONES AT END TIME 65-0725.1M Remember, you couldn't feed
a Lutheran back in them days Catholic carrion (you can
now). No, sir! He had fresh meat. That was that
church age. You couldn't feed
Methodist, Lutheran message. Oh, no! He didn't want that
carrion; it's rotten. See the Life had done left it and went into something
else. That's the old stalk
that's dead back there. The Life's
moving on. Neither can you feed the Bride of Jesus Christ
Pentecostalism. No indeedy! Maggot blowed organizations, nothing doing! No, no!
215 ANOINTED ONES AT END TIME 65-0725.1M Notice! But after it gets rotten, maggots get in
it, then here comes the vultures. They
can't smell it till it gets rotten. No wonder Jesus stood up there and
said, "
156 SEED
NOT HEIR WITH SHUCK 65-0218 Let's
close by saying this. Oh, Pentecostal hawks,
hopping around like vultures, partaking of the world just like the
rest of them does, having a form of godliness, enough to deceive
the very Elected if possible, but denying the power thereof, as
says the prophet here, a perfect example of what God's Word
said it would be in the last days,...she's changed from a hawk, a
similar brother to a prophet to keep the Word of God
straight, she's turned to a vulture and feeding her people on dead
ecclesiastical rabbits. That's exactly right! Wake up! My, how do you expect to be identified--or heirs with the eagles when
such things as that in this great hour when the rapture is at hand.
24-2 THE
EASTER SEAL 65-0410 No,
my brother, sister... you Pentecostal people, which is my own
dear people, the church is losing its identification. It's coming down and depending on some dead formal creed
instead of flying in the heavenlies our
here for fresh manna. A hawk used to
hunt his own manna, but today he takes what the
automobiles run over, and what the vultures eat. He
hops like one. He looks like one.
131 SEED
NOT HEIR WITH SHUCK 65-0218 Pentecost
is like her denominational vulture sister setting now in large council seats of
the ungodly (certainly!), listening to her worldly politics head,
feeding her on vulture food of dead rabbits of something that
passed by fifty years ago. That's the
condition of the Pentecostal church. Oh, my!
E-71 THE WORLD'S FALLING APART 63-0412.1M And
that's the way we do--Martin Luther, John Wesley, other
men. We're always looking back, see. See those things? And you make a tradition of their life--garnish
the tombs of them. And their message
is for another day. By the time you wake up, why,
that day's done lived by, and we're in another day.
195 THE
WORLD IS FALLING APART
63-1115 God sends us prophets, and--and
we put them to death, just exactly like Jesus said they would
do. Then we find out, after a century or two, or
a hundred years, or fifty years, God will send us a prophet, or a messenger,
and, first thing you know, we will criticize him and put him to death.
Then after a while, after he
is dead, you know, a while, the church will wake up.
What will they do? They'll say,
"Well, we will build a denomination
upon that." That's what happened to the Methodists, Baptists, and all the rest of you, built a denomination.
And the thing of it is, after he's done
dead, and his message is over, we're done living over into another place.
Then you go back there, his message for that
day, and you're trying to go back there and garnish
his
tomb, when here It's going on right here all the
time. You forget the hour!
28 WHEN
THEIR EYES OPENED 64-0212 Many
today hasn't listened to the message, hasn't listened to the
Scripture, and what Christ promised in these last
days. That's the reason that
people are in the condition they are today, and the churches
are all gaumed up among one another. They
haven't noticed what the Scripture said for this day.
They didn't notice these things had to be done.
It's just the fulfilling of the Scripture. Many
people love Him. Many people believe in Him. But yet it's too phenomenal. They can't understand it.
When you talk about Him, to being just the same
as He was yesterday, doing the same things, they claim they believe that. But
when it takes place, then they don't understand
it. They just can't believe it.
29 WHEN
THEIR EYES OPENED 64-0212 Notice.
They were talking of Him when He appeared. Now, that's
a good thing. We notice here in the Scripture,
it says, "and while they talked of
Him..." While they spoke of these
things, going along talking about Him, sad, when they find out
that He appeared. And when He appeared, He appeared unto them while they were going along
reasoning about Him. That's when He
always appears, is when we talk about Him. Always through the Scripture,
is when the people talk about God, that's when He appeared.
30 WHEN
THEIR EYES OPENED 64-0212 Now
we're too busy talking about other things. I think
that's the reason many people who love Him fail to see
Him. We're so busy with our creeds,
and denominations, and business about the churches, and memberships, and
getting more members, and things, we're too busy to talk about Him. He's
the Word. We're too interested in what some creed, some textbook, or something
else says. "How many members can we get in?
Vote them in. Shall we take this one, that
one, the other one?" We should be constantly
giving ourselves to the Word of God in prayer, studying the
Word. But we're too interested in something else.
31 WHEN
THEIR EYES OPENED 64-0212 These
people were sad. They were talking, a great
thing had happened. He had
been taken away. But they were talking
about Him, and there He appeared. And when He appeared, He was a stranger to
them. They didn't understand it. First He... First we find out that He was...
32 WHEN
THEIR EYES OPENED 64-0212 As
they walked on the road down to the little city,
Emmaus, just a few a mile or two down there, a sabbath
day's journey or something, the first, He revealed the
promised Scripture ofHimself to
them for that day. Now notice. When Jesus comes on the scene,
if we want to see Him and talk with Him after his resurrection, like they did, like they saw
Him... The first thing He did to them was
reveal Himself to them by the Scripture. Amen. That's
to make it what? They were Hebrews. They
believed the Word. And He
revealed Himself, revealed the written Word of Himself,
what He was supposed to do for that age. Amen.
E-16 A TRIAL 64-0427 But we find the people living in a glare of
another light. As Jesus said, "You garnish the walls of the tombs of
the prophets, and you're the one that put
them in there." See, they build up
something over a message, and live in that glare of that light, and
refuse to walk in the light that is of the day.
E-87 A TRIAL 64-0427 And if you'll pardon this personal thing,
because it has to be a personal witness and it must be true, because I
know who is the
one we're defending, and He will know whether it's
truth or not. I believe that we're living in the last days, and the message of another day will not fit this day. It
cannot. It's got to be the message for
today (not for what it was ten years
ago), the message
for this hour, the message for this generation. The Word speaks it. And then if the Word
promises, there has to be something vindicate it.
And that's the reason they failed to receive Jesus
when He first come upon the earth, is because they were
living under a tradition. And Jesus
told them, said, "Search the scriptures. They testify of
me." Said, "We're Moses' disciples."
He said, "If you were Moses' disciples, you'd
believe me, for Moses wrote of me. Look in the scripture."
76
IDENTIFIED CHRIST ALL AGES
64-0617 We
haven't got Sankey's message. We haven't got Moody's message. We got
the Message of this hour! We ain't
got Luther's message or Wesley's message. They
were alright, but this is another
day. This is another promise. This is another church age. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and
forever!" How as
tounding it is, how blind people can get, in the age,
but it's got to be that way. "Lukewarm," in this age, the
Bible said, "and they would be spued from His
mouth," in this
313 WORKS IS FAITH EXPRESSED 65-1126 God, to the Pentecostal church of this day,
the restoration of the gifts; may, Lord, those man, maybe some of them
present here, some of them hearing the tape around the world, may they
realize that this is the calling out of the Bride, not
a Pentecostal
message. The Pentecostal message was to restore the
gifts back in the Church. But this is the
calling forth of the Bride, another Message that
was to come just before
156 GOD'S
PROVIDED PLACE WORSHIP 65-1128.1M And
remember--remember how we just went through the
Church Ages? The messenger to the church always comes just at the dying of the other church age,
always. The dying of the Pentecost
brings forth the rapture of the Bride. See? The dying of
Luther brought forth Wesley. See? The dying of Wesley brought forth Pentecost.
The dying of Pentecost brings forth the Message
now. Here, it's right
here, patterned all through the Scripture.
There's not a scripture in the Bible what hooks right
one with the other. See? All these types[1].
I have no education, but I have the Holy Spirit that
shows me through another channel that teaches me that from nature; and that's
by the Word. Has to be the Word, brings
His promise.
40 THE RAPTURE 65-1204 How
would... What if Moses would've come and
brought Noah's message, "We will
build an ark and float down the
worked by Moses. And neither will Wesley's message ever work in Luther or Luther's message vise versa.
And today, we--our last great
reformation was Pentecost. And today we're moving
from that, and the Pentecostal message won't mix with this,
because it's another day. It's all the Word of God, but it's building. Like
the feet, arms, coming up, it's forming a Bride
for the
rapture. See, It don't--don't displace them people back there; they lived to their
message. All them will come out that was in the
Bride. Just like life going through a stalk
of wheat. It leaves the wheat--the hull, but the wheat
forms itself, like the grain of wheat that fell
in the ground.
136 THE MASTERPIECE 64-0705 Notice
here. The life that was in the husk, in the stalk,
and in the tassel, in the husk, all gathers in the seed. And the
life that was in the stalk, went--one went to make the
other. Justification made a way for
Sanctification. Sanctification made a way for
the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. The Baptism of the Holy
Ghost made a way for the Holy Ghost Itself to come right
down in perfection, back
to the Word again to manifest Itself.
187 MAN
THAT CAN TURN ON LIGHT
63-1229.1M No--yes, sir! The clean rags--or the
dirty rags of yesterday, if you remain that Way,
it's got to--it'll just become dirty rags all the time. It served it's
purpose as clothing, but now it's become
paper. Justification served its time
in justification under Luther, then it had to become
sanctification through Wesley. And
sanctification served its time till it come the baptism
of the Holy Ghost. And [1]the
baptism of the Holy Ghost has served its time until
the Holy Spirit--which there's only
one God--blends into the Church, or the Church
into Christ, that makes Jesus Christ reflected on the earth,
what He promised here in the Bible. Might not believe
it. I can't make you do that. I'm only responsible for the Word[1].
See? That's right.
113 WHO IS
THS MELCHISEDEC 65-0221.2E The
stages of the eternal purpose He had in His secret has now been revealed.
Notice, there is still three stages to perfection. Just
like He redeems the world; same way He redeems His Church. He redeems the people in three
stages. Now look, first
is Justification like Luther
preached[1];
second, Sanctification like Wesley preached; third, Baptism of the Holy
Ghost. That's right! Then comes the rapture.
196 GOD'S
PROVIDED PLACE WORSHIP 65-0425.2E The church will come through
justification, through Luther, through sanctification,
through Wesley; through the baptism of the Holy Ghost,
or the Pentecostals; and go right on into the perfection of the Son
of man, that when Husband and Wife will be the same-self persons. God
will be so manifested into His Bride, His
Church, till they will both be the same. They are
one. Now you see where we're at.
37 COUNTDOWN 64-0209 But
God in the spiritual achievement is going forward,
not going backward. He's going forward, looking into the
Word and believing the promises for things that never has
come yet, for the spiritual revelations to manifest the
spiritual things that God has promised. He sees them come to pass.
Just as the scientist in
his laboratory are working on different things to help man
take in creation; the spiritual man is looking forward
to something that God promised that has never yet been created. The
natural man looks backward. The spiritual man looks forward.
79 COUNTDOWN 64-0209 Notice,
the natural man even counts backwards. I said he
did things backwards. He counts backwards. Watch his count, "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
five, four, three, two, one, zero!" See?
He goes back and starts counting. See? He's all... Ten's a bad number. That's right,
to start with ten, it's a bad number.
240
ANOINTED ONES AT END TIME 65-0725.1M A trinity of frogs. A frog is an
animal that always looks backward.
He never looks where he's going; he looks where
he's come from. See? Don't you see? Where was trinitarism
borned
at? Remember, three unclean
spirits, individual spirits. Are you
getting it?
1ST EXODUS:
EX: 16:1-3
Numbers
21:5 11:5-20 14: 2-4
Psalm 78: all esp 41 & 57 where they turned back.
Psalm 95 all
Psalm 106: all
waters of strife
EX 17:7 they didn't belive His Presence was with them.
2ND EXODUS
ACTS 15: 1-27 esp. 24 men entered in subverting their souls.
GALATIANS
1:6-11 vindicated
not by man but by God. 2: 1 - 3:5
2 COR 11: 1-4,
11- 13 Men entering in unawares
Alpha has become Omega!
3RD EXODUS
2 PETER 2: all, men claiming to be
teachers enter in with false doctrine.
EXODUS 32: 1-5
the people never
told him to make a golden calf. They just wanted something to worship. Notice
they did not ask for a golden calf, they just said, make us something to
worship.
HEBREWS 6: 1-8 Leaving means to leave. in order to go onto perfection or completion.
PHIL3:13-15 forgetting those things behind
press forward
HEBREWS 10:
38-39
ISAIAH 28: 8-15 they fall backwards.