The Parables of Christ no. 14
The
NET
Rev. Brian Kocourek
MATTHEW
13:47 gain, the kingdom of heaven is like
unto a net that was
cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind 48 Which, when it was full they
drew to shore and sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the
bad away 49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall
come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, 50 And shall cast them
into the furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Now, tonight by the Grace of God I would like to take this parable and
show how it ties with what God is doing in this last hour, for we have a
vindicated Prophet of God who said, “all the New testament speaks of this
hour.”
Therefore, let’s begin with the first thought that is laid out here in
this parable. Now, Remember, this is Jesus speaking and we find Him saying, “Again, the kingdom
of heaven is like unto a net,”
Now, remember that the
Now, we know the parable speaks of this NET being cast into the
sea, so we need to know that this net has to be big enough to be cast into the
sea. He was not talking about a lake or a stream of river, but the Sea.
Therefore we must know what kind of NET this is and what the SEA
represents, because after all, this parable speaks of the end-time gathering of
the Elect.
Now, this NET has got to be a really big NET because it is
cast into the Sea. And a NET is a device that is used to catch fish, but
Jesus told the early disciples like Peter that were fishermen, that he would
make them fishers of men. So we are
looking at a device that is used to catch men, and not fish. A NET to
catch Men.
Now. in those days they used nets made from ropes that were woven
together like a spiders web. But today, instead of a NET fashioned after
a spider-web, we have a different sort of NET that is fashioned after a WEB
and it is called the inter-NET, on the World Wide Web.
Another thing we must look at in understanding the parallel of this
parable to this hour, is that this NET Jesus is talking about was cast into the sea,
(Now, we are told by the Holy Spirit that the sea is multitudes nations and
peoples. Therefore, it is a world wide web, or NET we are looking at
here. A NET that is large enough to go to people, multitudes, nations and
tongues.
ISAIAH 17:12 ¶
Woe to the
multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas;
and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty
waters! 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters:
but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as
the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the
whirlwind.
Notice that the
nations are likened to rushing waters or like the noise of the sea.
Again in ISAIAH 23:2 we
read, Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou
whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have
replenished. 3 And by great waters the seed of
Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of
nations.
Notice God
calls them a mart of nations and likens them to the sea. Now, it is interesting
that they are likened to a mart, because that is exactly what the world wide
Net is all about, it is used to market product and ideas.
We also se this
type in the book of REVELATION
Now, I hope you do not think me to be too presumptuous to say this, but
the only NET that goes into peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues is
the interNET.
God used the Gospel net for ages and in this last hour He is using the
InterNET to gather His Seed to the True Doctrine Brought by His
Vindicated Prophet William Branham.
Now, in getting back to our parable we hear Jesus say, Again, the kingdom
of heaven is like unto a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of
every kind.
Now, the word kind, used here is the Greek word genos which speaks of race or nationality. So we
see that this NET is cast out into the peoples, multitudes, nations and
tongues and is used to gather in all races and nations of people. And then as
we read on we find out what happens after the NET pulls in the people.)
Jesus continues with the parable saying, 48 Which, when it was full… and this
means when the NET had done the job it was meant to do, and had gathered
out of every nation, then it would be full, or complete.
Now, this Greek word for full is used most often as the word fulfilled,
or fulfillment, but is also used of a job that is complete or even as the
preaching that is now complete or finished.
In other words the child training is completed.
In Matthew
We see the same again in Matthew Chapter 21:4 All this was done, that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
And again in Matthew Chapter 26:54 But how then shall the
scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
But in Luke Chapter 7:1 This same word is translated
as having finished his preaching, … Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered
into
And in the book of Acts Chapter
And the Apostle Paul used it in referring to his teaching the full or
complete Gospel to the people. Romans Chapter
And the apostle Paul also use this word in showing completion. Colossians Chapter
2:10 And ye
are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Now, in getting back to our parable we next hear Jesus say, Which, when it was
full…they drew to shore.
Now, notice they have by this time gathered by the NET what
they set out to gather. This tells us that it the NET will not be just
one man because THEY is plural. Now, it does not tell us how many, but there
will be more thasn one with this NET ministry. Now, NET will be used to gather both the Good
and those that offend, so there has to be more than one involved here. And
having completed that task they now leave the waters, or the nations,
multitudes and people, and come to land. Now, to come out of the waters, or the
sea, they have to come to an elevated
place which is what land is. It is elevated above the nation, multitudes and
peoples. And we are told they draw the NET full of the catch, and bring
it up to a higher elevated state.
The Word drawn to shore means they have been drawn up, or gathered up,
and brother Branham said in the message Feast of
the trumpets 64-0719M P:108 Now, as soon as this Church, the Bride is drawed together, she's taken up; in that mystery of the Seventh Seal,
or the Seventh Seal, the mystery going.).
Therefore, this NET must bring them into the mystery of the
Seventh Seal which is the presence of Christ.
Then Jesus let’s us know that once this NET ministry is completed
and the peoples, multitudes and nations have been caught up into the NET,
then it is drawn, which means it is closed up, and they that have been caught
up by this NET are sealed in. And
then they are taken to the elevated place.
Then the ones drawing, he says, “sat down” (and the word means to
make to sit down; to set, or to appoint, or to confer a kingdom on one. Now
this last definition is very interesting especially in light of what William
Branham said concerning the end-time ministry of the Holy Spirit in our midst.
First
seal the 63-0318 P:135
When this Holy Spirit that we have, becomes
incarnate to us, the One that's in
our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us in the Person of Jesus Christ, we'll crown Him King of kings…
Now, notice the purpose of the NET is to gather the good, “and gathered the
good” and the word good means “beautiful by reason of purity of
heart and life”, which means they are virgins. And “hence they are
praiseworthy; morally good, and noble.”
Then that which has been gathered is placed into “into vessels”, Now,
the only other time this Greek word for vessel is used, is in speaking of the
five wise virgins who had oil in their vessels.
MATTHEW
25:1 ¶
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took
their lamps, The lamp signifies the Word of God, for we read in Psalm PSALMS 119:105 ¶ Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
But the vessel signifies the person itself. And notice that these
ten virgins had the Word, and went forth to meet
the bridegroom. 2 And five of them were wise, and five [were] foolish. 3 They
that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: Notice
they took no oil with THEM. Then is a personal pronoun. It speaks of the
person, not the lamp.. 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with
their lamps. Notice in their vessels WITH their lamps. So the oil which
signifies the Holy Spirit was in their vessel, or their person.
Now, in getting back to the parable in Matthew 13, Jesus continues
saying, “and gathered
the good into vessels”,
Now, the Apostle Paul said, II CORINTHIANS 4:6 For God, who
commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts,
to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face (or
Presence) of Jesus
Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of
the power may be of God, and not of us.
So we see that this NET ministry is to gather from all nations those that
are good so that the Light of the Glorious Presence of Jesus Christ might be
placed into earthen vessels. But those others that were gathered by the NET that
are not the GOOD which meant beautiful by reason of purity of heart and life”,
all that are not of this character, are then cast away.
Notice Jesus says, and gathered the good into vessels”, but cast the bad away. And that
means to throw or let go of a thing without caring where it falls.
We find that God does not watch over the way of the sinner. In the first
Psalm we read,
PSALMS
1:1 ¶ Blessed
[is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight
[is] in the Word of the LORD; and in his word doth he meditate day and night. 3
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth
his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he
doeth shall prosper. 4 ¶ The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the
chaff which the wind driveth away.(Now, right there you see the difference. One is
collected while the other is driven away like the chaff.) 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. Now,
this last verse here is the key… 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: (The
word Knoweth is the Hebrew word Yada which means to watch over with an active
participation, to be made known to or to reveal oneself by way of
instruction) but the way of the ungodly shall perish (and
the word perish is the Hebrew word abad which means to be left to oneself, to
lose, thus to perish).
So we see that the Lord gathers by means of instruction the Good and
places the Glorious light in their earthen vessels, but the others are cast out
meaning they are just left to themselves and thus they fall away on their own,
and self destruct.
49 So shall it be at the end of the world (Therefore this is speaking
of the end-time and thus we should see that it is speaking of this hour.)He
continues by saying, the angels (which
that is a small “a” and means messengers, or men with “The Message”) shall come forth, (if
they are to come forth, they must do some traveling and in the process they
will ) sever (which
means to separate, divide, or to mark off from others by boundaries, to
separate,) the
wicked (poneros, diseased, wicked, evil) from among the just (those that have
been justified.
And remember, you are justified by faith, and brother Branham taught us that
“faith is a
revelation”. Therefore these are those who have received the
revelation of Christ, which is the Doctrine of Christ…these are the innocent
ones, the faultless ones, those who have been found guiltless, and the word
just is also used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly
conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the
heart or life; only Christ truly . Those that are approved of, or acceptable of
God).
But what of the others? 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of
fire. This
signifies those that are not kept in the NET are those that are rejected
because they have rejected the Revealed Word and they are cast into the
tribulation period.) there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Ten virgins 60-1211M P:99 "They were cast into
outer darkness, and there'd be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth."
All right, that's the great tribulation, isn't it? The great tribulation...
Patmos
vision 60-1204E P:4 So then the foolish virgin was the one who
did not have oil in their lamps, that I believe that was cast out into outer
darkness where there'd be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. If you'll
compare that on your footnotes, it'll run it right back again to the great
tribulation. And I think they're the ones that stay back and goes
through the great tribulation.
QA on
the seals 63-0324M P:156 Now,
take
I hope that we can see by the fact that Br. Branham said,
“All the New Testament speaks of this Hour” that this parable is very much
alive today, and has become a reality, and we have been made partakers of what
God is doing in this hour. To me, the meaning of this paarable is as plain as
it can get. Jesus is definitely speaking of the End time, and of a NET that is
cast into all the world, so the Net would have to be big enough to reach the
four corners of the earth, and I know no other Net that could fit that except it be the InterNET.
Now, brother Branham taught us that God reveals His
Word by bringing it to pass, and if I did not see this coming to pass before my
very eyes, I would not be able to stand here and speak these Words. But the NET
has taken the end-time ministry and doctrine of Christ into all the World. We
have gone into more than 120 countries that I know of, and many more that I do
not know of.
Many Muslim countries (nine that I know of myself)
where you can not own a Bible are contacting me with questions about the
Message Doctrine. No other NET could
have done what this inter-NET has
done, and that is to cast its reach into all the world. Therefore, I feel that
based on the parable, and based on the Words of William Branham, and based on
the manifestation of what we have seen, we can truly see the fulfillment of
this parable before our very eyes.
Let’s just bow our heads and our hearts in a Word of
thanks giving and Prayer.