The Parables of Christ no. 11
The
Secret Growing of the Church
Rev. Brian Kocourek
Now, this leads us to our second
message today, or second parable rather. And remember the purpose of our
studying these parables is to show you how they are tied tot his end-time Presence
of Christ in our midst, and our understanding the
Mark 4:26 And
he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the
ground (1); 27: And should sleep, and rise night and
day (2), and the seed should spring and grow up (3), he knoweth not
how (4). 28: For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself;
first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.(5) 29: But when
the fruit is brought forth,(6) immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the
harvest is come(7).
1) And he said, So is the
2) And should sleep, and rise
night and day : this is a measure of days or chu4rch ages
3) and the seed should spring and grow up: the Seed Springing up is bringing forth of the new
leaves or new messages one after another from Luther until the last one is back
to the original seed again. He is talking about the process of the
4) he knoweth not how: Notice it is a mystery, they
know it not. A secret rapture of the church.
5) For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; The earth represents the field in which the Seed or
word was down. first the blade, then the ear, after that
the full corn in the ear : That represents the people
everywhere the True Word of God has been sown. This process of the Springing up
or Rapture
6) But when the fruit is brought forth The Fruit brought forth signifies the full maturity
of the fruit. And notice it is being brought forth, so we need to know what
that means as well as we must know what the Fruit is?
7) immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the
harvest is come The Harvest is
the IN-Gathering at the time of Christ’s Presence
Now, let’s look at this breakdown one by one.
Point Number 1) And
he said, So is the
And we found in several other parables that he also
referred to the Son of Man sowing seed to the ground. But in this parable He is
defining little more clearly because he
is not talking about the sowing of the seed, but the process whereby it must
first be buried in the ground, before it can spring up again. So the emphasis
here is not on the field but the children of God coming forth or growing up in
the Kingdom. And here we find the ground
represents the Gospel field again as it has in the other parables of the sower.
The Seed being cast into the
Ground represents the children of God being planted in death the first Church
Age, where the Seed of God was planted in the earth in martyrdom.
Jesus made this plain in JOHN 12:24 when he said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a
corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it
bringeth forth much fruit. And John makes this clear in verse 33 when
he says, This he said, signifying what death he should
die.
So we see in this parable that it is speaking of the
Now, in
moving on to point number 2) Jesus
is still speaking of this seed that has gone into the ground, and he says, And should sleep, and rise night and day : Now, plant seeds do not sleep. They just
exist. So He is talking about people here. And notice that they sleep, then
rise up, then sleep, then rise up, then sleep, etc. Now, we know that when a
believer in Christ dies, he is not dead, but he sleepeth.
I THESSALONIANS
And so too here we find
that this Seed that Jesus is referring to comes forth in one day or one age,
then dies off, or sleeps in the grave.
And then the next day, or the next age, another rises up, and then it
too sleeps in the grave, and then
another rises up, and it too sleeps in the grave, just as the seed life in the
wheat must go into the ground or it will abide alone.
Now, notice One Seed went
into the ground first, and then rose, and that was the Royal Seed of God, which
is Christ Jesus the Son of God. And from that one Seed has come forth in every
age others that have come off the same root and with the same Life rising them
up and then they have fallen asleep in the Grave. EPHESIANS 2:1 ¶ And you hath he quickened, who were dead in
trespasses and sins;
And that leads us to point number 3) 3) and the seed should spring and grow up: the Seed
Springing up is a putting forth of new leaves, and notice Jesus says it springs
up and puts forth new leaves, or a new message each time, and it grows as wall,
which means it does not stop, but one is adding from the next, just like the
process which began in Luther’s time and has come up through Wesley, and up
through Pentecost until this hour of harvest.
THE
RAPTURE 65-1204 40 What if Moses would've come
and brought Noah's message, "We'll build an ark and float down the
Notice Jesus is speaking of the different stages of the
same plant coming up. Notice what Brother Branham says concerning this is the
Rapture Message..
THE
RAPTURE 65-1204 43 Just like Jesus had
to fall to rise again, so did the
Now, that leads us up to point number 4) and Jesus said of this process, and “he knoweth not how”: Now,
if he knoweth not how, then it’s a mystery, right? Then he is speaking
about the Mystery of the Kingdom, and we know that there is to come a time when
all the mysteries are to be finished. So there has got to be a Knowledge come
forth that will unveil the entire Mystery of Christ. But notice this mystery is
concerning the
FIRST
SEAL THE 63-0318 127-4
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Now, remember, in the days of the seventh angel, his sounding forth,
blasting forth the Gospel Trumpet, he is to finish all the mysteries of God.
Just like here come forth in the early church ages (We'll get it after while.),
a doctrine, then it become a saying first, then a doctrine, and then become a
statute, then become a church, and through the dark ages, and out of the dark
ages come the first Reformation--Luther. And he brought with him all kinds of
mysterious things that happened during that church age, all back in there,
then... But he never finished it up. Then
along come Wesley with sanctification, got some more of it, but still never
finished it, left loose ends everywhere, such as sprinkling instead of baptism,
and Luther took "Father, Son, Holy Ghost" instead of the "Lord
Jesus Christ," all these different things.
127-6
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Pentecostal age with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and they cabbaged down on
that. Now, there cannot be no more ages. That's all of it; that's the
Let’s continue with point number 5) For the earth bringeth forth fruit
of herself; Now, remember, the earth
represents the Gospel field in which the Seed or children were planted in.
In MATTHEW
Now, notice He is talking about the fruit of the
Kingdom which would have to the doctrine of the Kingdom coming forth. Because Brother
Branham taught us in the False anointed Ones at the End-Time that the fruit is
the teaching of the season. So what we are looking at here in this point is the
doctrine coming forth. Notice, not fully
yet, but Jesus said, For the earth bringeth forth fruit, and if it is bringing forth, then it is not fully
there yet, but only in the process of
developing or coming forth, And then Jesus clarifies what this
doctrine is that He is speaking about when he describes it as: first the blade,
then the ear, after that the full corn in
the ear : Now, the Greek word “sitos” that was
translated here as “corn” is actually translated more often as the word “wheat”
than corn. Thus it signifies the Seed coming back to its original state or
condition. Notice then in this parable, Jesus is speaking of the three stages
of the plant coming up through the last three Church ages.
THE
RAPTURE 65-1204 115 Now, the Life that come up through Luther was what made Wesley. The Life that come out of
Wesley is what made Pentecost. The
Life that comes out of Pentecost makes the wheat.
But they are a carrier. See? The real Life goes through there. The Message goes
through, but it's heading on up into the wheat. That's the reason the wheat
come up and brings the whole thing in the rapture up here at the top. The Bride
itself comes out of each age, but the denominational stalk dies, dries up and
dies.
And notice Jesus word very
carefully, he says, first the blade, then the ear, after that the
full corn in the ear. He is talking about the ear not
being the end of it, but the ear is hiding the corn of wheat, or the seed,
protecting it until the harvest.
JOEL
1:2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.
Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? 3 Tell ye
your children of it, and let your
children tell their children, and their children another generation. 4
That which the palmerworm hath left
hath the locust eaten; and that
which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm
eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Notice it is the same worm in different stages doing
damage to the plant until God said He would come and restore again the plant to
the same condition it went into the Ground.
THINGS THAT ARE TO BE
65-1205 Luther believed in justification, but Wesley
had sanctification. The Pentecostals come along; they couldn't take just
justification and sanctification; it was time for the restoration of the gifts.
Now we're going from that. See? The
three stages of the vine coming up. The first, it's a little blade, Luther come up from the reformation. All right,
that was the stalk. Watch nature; God and nature works in continuity, because
God is in nature. Then next come the
tassel, the pollen, the Methodist age. Then come the Pentecostals. Oh, my,
just so perfect. See? Just like that grain of wheat look like it's a perfect grain
of wheat; open it up; there's no wheat there at all. It's a shuck, a carrier of it, but that Life
is working on through. See?
Now, let’s look at point number 6) 6) But when the fruit is brought forth and we know the Fruit now having been brought
forth, it is speaking of past tense. It is no longer speaking here of the process
of growing, but the final product is now on display and fully ripe and fully
mature. Therefore, being brought forth signifies the plant has come into full
maturity. And notice He is speaking of a time, He says, But when the fruit
is brought forth, so we must understanding Jesus is now speaking
of that time when the plant is come full cycle, the wheat is now in the ear,
the shuck is pulling away and it is now at this time for the final stage to
happen concerning the Kingdom of God.
Brother Branham describes this final condition to us
in THE RAPTURE 65-1204 116 Have
you noticed this last days how it's begin to pull away now? When that wheat
begins to grow, then the shuck begins to get away from it. Look back in that
little wheat when you look at it. Pull it open like this and look into it and
see; you got a little bud of wheat back there. You'd have to take a thirty
power scope to look into it to see the little bud of wheat back there. See? But
it's way back in there, but it starts growing. Now, that shuck has to be there
to shelter that to give it a chance to get out. But then when it begins to grow
and the Message begins to spread, then the shuck pulls away from it. And the
life goes right out of that shuck right into the wheat: goes on. That's the way
each age does. It just--it just can't beat nature; it's... That's God's
continuity, the way He does things. And now, that's the age that we're living
in right now, the seventh church age.
And that
leads us now to our final point which is number 7 which is completion) Notice the last words Jesus says in concluding this
parable immediately he putteth in the sickle, (The sickle represents the combine) because the harvest is come.
Notice he says Immediately. In other words, we do not
see any reason to delay any longer. And what causes Jesus to say, immediately?
When the fruit or doctrine finally comes forth in its maturity and understanding
and has manifested Itself in the Life of This Seed of the Kingdom.
INVISIBLE
RAPTURE
THE 65-1204 59 This is the end. The wheat's come back to the
wheat again. The wheat's come back to its grain. The shuck has pulled away from
it. And the wheat must lay in the presence of the sun to be ripened.
THINGS
THAT ARE TO BE 65-1205 89 Now, remember, in every reformation we've
had on all those Lutherans and so forth, in three years they organized. That's
right. Every revival brought a organization in three years. Think how long this
has been going on: twenty something years and no organizations. Why? It's the
seed coming, forming under the husk like this. Laying out now, it's got to lay
in the presence of the sun to ripen into the glorious grain like the One that
went into the first. The real church
that went down first, It's coming right back up through the stalk to come out
another church. When the combine comes to pick it up, the Life that went down
in Luther, the Life that went down in the Methodist, the Life that went down in
the Pentecostal will come into the grain; it'll all go right into the grain and
go out, forming the perfect Body of Jesus Christ.
And when is this to happen? He is here doing it now. It
is at the Parousia of Christ that we are gathered together unto Him.
In closing, Let’s just turn to II THESSALONIANS 2:1 ¶ Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming (Parousia) of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our
gathering together unto him,
The doctrine is perfect, the fruit is ripened and in
the presence of the Son and we are just waiting on the combines for finish
there sweeping across every nation bringing with it a full garner full.
MATTHEW 24:31 And
he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather
together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
MARK
EPHESIANS 1:10 That
in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one
all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in
him:
Let us pray.
Gracious Father our hearts are filled with great joy
for you have given truly an understanding of the