The Parables of Christ no. 36
The
Unjust Judge
Rev. Brian Kocourek
Prayer…
LUKE 18:1
¶ And he spake a parable unto them to
this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Now, this is an interesting
parable in that we are told up front what outcome Jesus is expecting to see as
a result of telling this parable. The Wuest translation says,
And he was giving them an illustration which had for
its teaching point that it is necessary in the nature of the case for them at
all times to be praying and not to be losing courage.
So we see that this parable
or illustration is being used to bring home the point how important it will be
that we continue top pray and never become discouraged and lose hope.
Now, then, the next question
we ought to ask is why does he tell us this parable about an unjust judge, and
a woman. Who are these two people that he is speaking about? Now, in reading from verse 2, we read, 2 There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, (Now,
first of all since he does not mention the name of the city, this parable has universal implications. Because
it can be any city in the entire world.
And this judge that Jesus is speaking of is not God, nor is he the Son
of God, because the Son of God had a reverent fear toward God and this judge
does not. So this is speaking of an authority figure, and it could be any
government over any nation, or simply it can represent any government over any
people.
Now, it is not the Son of
God because in the Book of ISAIAH 11:1 we
read ¶ And
there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow
out of his roots: 2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit
of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge
and of the fear of the LORD; 3 And shall make him of quick understanding
in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4 But with righteousness
shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth:
and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of
his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of
his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Now, Jesus tells us this
judge did not have a fear of the Lord,
and then he tells us neither does he regard man: (That means he does not
respect men either. Now, this then is the condition of those in power at the
time when the Son of Man comes. You will see this in just a minute. But before
we look at this we are introduced to a second party in this parable.) 3 And there was a
widow in that city; (Notice she is a widow. Her first husband had
died… And she was not remarried at this time for she is called a widow. Now,
remember the woman always throughout scripture represents the church. Either the
nominal church, which is the whore church, or a woman can be the type of the
True Bride of Christ. Now, we are told that this woman had been married, and her
husband had died. And she was left on her own without a head at this point. ) and she came unto
him, (the judge over this city where she lived) saying, Avenge (this word is translated
from the Greek word ekdikeo
{ek-dik-eh'-o} which means to vindicate. So she asks this Judge to vindicate
her before her adversary) she says, Avenge me of mine adversary. 4 And he would
not for a while: (notice this one was not interested in her problems
at all ) but
afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; 5 Yet
because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual
coming she weary me.
Now, it was not for her
sake that he decided to act, but for his own sake.
There is an expression that
says, “The squeaky wheel gets the
grease”) and that is apropo for this parable. Remember, Jesus’ teaching
point is that we pray always and faint not.
Now, the Wuest translation
says, Now, there
was a widow in that city, and she kept on coming to him at recurring intervals,
saying, “protect me by an equitable administration of justice from my
opponent in a lawsuit”. And he kept on being unwilling to do so for a
considerable time, However, afterward he said in himself , Although God I do not fear, or man respect,
at least because this widow is continually furnishing me trouble, I will see
that justice is done her in order that lest by her continual coming finally she
may be assaulting me.
6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge
saith.
So we see here that Jesus
is telling us to look with a clear view to understanding what the words of the
unjust judge are saying.
7 And shall not God avenge (vindicate) his own elect,
which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 8 I tell you
that he will avenge (vindicate) them speedily.
Let me take a moment to read
this from The Wuest translation … And God, shall He
not most assuredly accomplish the vindication of His
Now, this last part of the
parable is the most important. Because up to this point we are told that we
must have a persistent attitude of prayer and we must not faint which means to
become discouraged. But this next portion of the parable, the last portion of
this parable, is the most important point for us to understand. Jesus says, “Nevertheless (and that means, in spite of all
this)when the Son
of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”
Now, this does not say,
upon His arrival will He find Faith already present? But the word when
is used which should thus have made this translation read, “The Son of having already arrived and being
present for some time, will He find Faith anywhere in the entire world?. And the word find means to find by inquiry, thought, examination,
scrutiny, observation, to find out by practice and experience,
So we can see by this
parable that the Son of Man when he comes will be examining the faith of all,
and will be observing our Faith or lack of it.
Now, remember, Brother
Branham taught us that Faith is a Revelation. Therefore, when the Son of Man
cometh, when he is here, shall He find revelation throughout the earth?
Now, I can say that I am
certain that is what Jesus is talking about because brother Branham used this
verse of scripture in this very way, and asked the same question Jesus did.
From the ANOINTED ONES AT END TIME
65-0725M 123 "Oh,
124 Oh, so many things, how could we just go
through it, our time would be away. But you know enough to know what's right
and wrong. And how can I make them do it? How can I do it? You say, "Well,
what you hollering about?" I'm a witness against you. Someday in
the day of the judgment you'll have not a corner to go into.
125 How could Micaiah stop that? How can Moses
screaming, trying to stop it, and Joshua and them running among the people; and
Levi pulled his sword and slayed them even? They went on just the same.
It's predicted that they're going to do it, and they're going to do it; for
it's THUS SAITH THE LORD they're going to do it. You think them denominations
will ever break up their denomination and come back to the Word? It's THUS
SAITH THE LORD they won't. Will they go into the antichrist? Exactly, it's THUS
SAITH THE LORD they will. So what are you saying about? I have to be a witness
and so do you. All believers.
126 Watch. "Silly women laden with divers
lust..." "Oh, all the rest of the women do." False prophets. Now,
listen. False prophets I'm speaking of. Now, what will they do in the
last day? Lead silly women, led away with divers lusts. "Well, I know all
the rest the women..." All right, go ahead. What'd I say just before this
big happening here in
129 Now, just a minute. I want to look up
something here. I think I wrote this down right. I'm not sure, but I want to say
it, and look it up before I say it. Now, just one minute. Reprobates concerning
the Truth, concerning the faith, the faith. There's
only one faith (That's right.), concerning the faith, reprobates. Now,
I want to read Luke 18. Just a minute. You don't need to put it down; you don't
have to read it. And he spake a parable unto them unto this end, that men ought
to always pray, and not... faint; Saying, There was in a city a judge, which
feared not God, and regardeth not man: And there was a widow in the same city;
and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary. And he would not for
a while: but afterwards he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor
regard man; Yet because this widow trouble me, I will avenge her, lest by...
coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge said. And
shall not God avenge his... elect, which crieth day and night unto him, though
he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
130 Now, that's the question. Here's
where I want to get to. In Revelation 10, we will get to it in a few minutes to
another Scripture verse, he said, "In the days of the message of the
seventh Angel, the mystery of God ought to be finished." Here's the
question, if you follow in that line in this hour: Will it be finished?
"Will I find the faith?" Will Malachi 4 be fulfilled in this
time: restore the faith of the children back to the faith of the fathers, the original,
the Word? See?
131
Reprobates, Jambres and Jannes, as they withstood... Now, also listen.
II Timothy 3:8: "As Jannes withstood Moses, also in the last days these
same reprobates would come (Now, see where it says here?) having a form of
godliness, anointed ones... Now, let's just, you go back and read it
when you get home, so that I can finish out this morning if I can.
132 Reprobates concerning. Not reprobates in
living, they're fine, cultured men. Now, notice, when Moses went down to
133
"As it was in the days of Noah, wherein eight souls were saved by
water, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. As it was in the
days of
So we see here that even
brother Branham in reading from this parable places the emphasis on the last
few words of Jesus, “When the Son of Man has come and has been present for some
time, shall He find through observation and examination Faith, Shall He find
Revelation?
Why do we think that God
has not pulled the plug yet? He’s still looking to find Faith, Revelation among
His Elect. He has been here for 70 plus years in the form of the Pillar of
Fire, since at least 1933 and since then He has been coming more and more into
the church by the Revelation of the Holy Ghost. That is what Brother Branham
said from the sermon, …
SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL 61-0806 67 It's laying back in that condition. And that only
shows that this is just a period of time. Can't you see? God don't have things
out of cater. He's just letting it run like that for a little time. And I truly
believe that that thing was done, and at this last days is when God is going to
reveal these secrets to the church. He hasn't done it before, and the reason He
hasn't done it is to keep the church a-watching and praying all the time, not
knowing when it was coming. But you remember in Daniel 12 He said, "The
wise shall understand in this last days"? It's been given to him. The
Spirit of wisdom comes into the church to make known to the church by the
revelation of the Holy Ghost--bringing the
church in and revealing what day that we're living in. Just the same as Gabriel
come to Daniel, the Holy Spirit comes to the church in the last days to
reveal these great, deep, secret things. Do you understand now?
What is so remarkable about
this hour is that the Revelation of Jesus Christ is growing in two directions.
There is a group of elect that are coming more and more into an understanding
while the rest of the world is growing more and more into a cloud of darkness. Therefore,
just as the Holy Spirit has brought with Him Wisdom and Revelation in the
knowledge of Himself, the Bible also speaks of Gross darkness coming among the
people until the light is almost totally gone.
68-3 EPHESIAN CHURCH AGE CPT 3 The
basic error, or errors, that crept into the first church and were revealed in
the Book of Acts and Revelation and also in the Epistles will become more and
more visibly manifested in each subsequent age, until we come to a complete
blackout of truth in the last, or Laodicean Age.
SHALOM 64-0119 17 Now, the prophet said, "Gross darkness
upon this people," upon the people of the world, gross darkness." Have
you noticed, in the last few years, some of you men and women around my age,
that how each year, it seems like that darkness comes more and more? I was
speaking the other day, and I said to my wife, "You know, it seems like
that as the years go on, as it just seems like that people begin to get further
and further away from the real thing that they should be coming closer and
closer to." I've noticed amongst men. Look out on the streets,
and most amongst the women, watch their desires and what they like to do, and
they're--they're changing attitudes all the time. Men are becoming more like
women, and women are becoming more like men, and seems like there's no way to
stop it. I cross the nation, preaching against the thing, and come back the
next year and it's worse than it was when I started. It's... Them people want
to do right, but, they--there's something about it that won't let them do
right. It just presses down on them, forces them. It's--it's like a heavy, dark
fog over the whole earth. Not only in Phoenix, but all over the world, there
seems to be just a grouping darkness that's gathering, getting more dense and
dense all the time, just smothering out real manhood, real womanhood. I'm
talking in the natural.
20 And they, seems like that the--it's coming
more and more into the churches. And then when you raise up and say something
against it, then they condemn you for doing it. See, you can see it coming, and
then when you speak against it, somebody misunderstands it. Sometimes women
misunderstand it; men misunderstand it, take the wrong attitude. Men sometime,
good men, have to cope with such things in order to hold their rights in the
religious ranks that they belong to, because if they don't, they're
excommunicated, and then they're--they're on their own. And then being once
excommunicated from a certain people, then it's hard to get in with someone
else, because they once knew that you belonged to this other group, then,
"What happened over here?" Then you've got to stand to your
convictions, or go on your own, or deny your convictions. So it makes it real
hard for the people.
22 And it looks like the time is, you can't
see that real stand out, like men ought to be. I... Even in taking it back,
from the spiritual now to the natural, I... It seemed to me that men wearing
velvet pink shoes, and all kinds of things like that, it just seems like
they've become more like women. And women smoking cigarettes, now they've got
cigars, and they just... and cut their hair like men; and it seems like that
the--the dainty, lady, feminish something is gone. And the real masculine man
is gone; all he seems to think about is something evil on the other side. I
think it's just about like it was in the beginning: every thought in a man's
heart continually becomes evil. Our--our programs, television and--and radio is
uncensored. Men can say anything, nearly, they want to, even swear and say
dirty, smutty jokes that--that--that simply it's not ought to be,
couldn't--shouldn't be said in a barroom. Yet they can say it on television, on
radio, and send it right into the people's homes. It seems like that gross
darkness covers the whole thing. The whole world seems to become polluted.
24 Now, for years, I've been trying to hold a
standard, God's Word. And I'm more determined this coming year to hold that
standard than I ever was in my life (See?): stand right straight with that
Word. Now, I hope that anyone that gets in their mind that I'm doing that to
act smart, then, brother, sister, you're certainly wrong. I'm doing that because
I'm duty bound to That. I am bound to stay with that Word. Whatever It says,
put no private interpretation, just say It that way. Now, there's some that
might be able to interpret It and make It sound a little different, but I can't
do that. The only language I know is what is wrote on Here, just the way is
this a-way.
25 Now, a few, about three years ago, it will
be now, that, at home, at my home church, the Holy Spirit spoke to me, said,
"Go to Tucson; there's a--something waiting." I stood on this
platform and told every one of you, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, something's
fixing to happen." There's probably hundreds of people setting here that
know it. I just told you what I saw. The message is on tape, "What Time Is
It, Sir?" I saw a constellation of Angels like a--a pyramid come down just
north of
And they took the picture of It in the sky. It come
out in--in the magazine. I thought I had a copy. I do. That's it. You see it
here in "Life" magazine, this copy, just exactly the way the Holy
Spirit said it would be. And there stood those seven Angels just as natural as
you see me standing here, and told me to return to my home, that the mysteries
that the reformers down through the ages had failed to pick up, the mysteries
of the Bible, which the Seven Seals held, would be revealed. I challenge
anybody, get in those Seven Seals and look them over, and find a fault with
them. See, see? Because it's given by inspiration of God.
And if that Spirit of
Wisdom and Revelation concerns the knowledge of God as we see in Ephesians 1:17-20, That the
God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit
of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your
understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his
calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19
And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe,
according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ,
when he raised him from the dead, and set [him] at his own right hand in the
heavenly [places],
Then the Cloud of Darkness
over the people must also concern the same thing only in darkness and not
light. For their is only One Faith, One Revelation, and John said, “if you do not have
the Revelation of Jesus Christ, you do not even have God. And
this is the hour that total separation from God will occur. And men will go
plum into darkness and then into the lake of fire. And the Spirit of Wisdom and
Revelation as it concerns itself with understanding God, so does the spirit of
gross darkness among the people concern itself with a lack of knowing God. And
is not the doctrine the teaching of Christ? Is not the word doctrine mean the
teaching? And what did He come to teach, but Jesus said, The Son can not do the
works, whatsoever He seeth the Father do, that doeth the Son likewise. And in
this Hour William Branham taught us the same thing. He said, I was just near
when he tells you these things, and foretells these things. I am not the son of
Man, I’m just near when he does these things. And he also said, “My ministry is to declare Him, that He is here.”
Therefore, this pulling apart with a few coming more and more into Light
while the rest of the world is groping more and more in darkness is bringing
separation between the two groups of people. 2 Thessalonians 2: 3 " Let no man deceive
you by any means": (
not by letter, nor by spirit, nor by word) "for that day",
( The Day of Christ, His Parousia)
"Shall not
come except there come a falling away first," So we see the
earmarks of the Parousia of Christ is that there
must be a falling away. And notice that this falling away is at the time
of a gathering unto Christ at the time
of His Parousia as Paul states in verse 1.
"Now we beseech you,
brethren, by the Parousia of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering
together unto Him, that you be not soon shaken in your minds, nor be troubled
in your spirit by any word or letter as supposedly from us," and then
Paul tells us to watch for these earmarks of a falling away. Then we shall know
that we are indeed at the time of this great Parousia of Christ.
We find in the book of Timothy the same warning. Here we find out where
they are falling away from. It is THE Faith. Not just faith, but THE Faith. And there is only One
Lord, And One Faith, and that is THE
Faith. And Since Faith is a revelation, then they will be departing
from THE Revelation. And
since their is only one revelation and that is THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, then we must concur
that these who are falling away from THE
Faith are those who have become aware of His Presence and yet they fall away
any how. This is of Course Hebrews 6,
where it is said, that these people "were once for all enlightened, (which
is Revelations 10, for the book is
only opened at this hour ) and they have
tasted of the Good word of God, and were
made aware of the power of the age to come, (which is the millennium), and
they were even made companions of the Holy Ghost Himself." Now what other people could this be speaking
of but those who saw the Millennial powers exhibited in God's Prophet with bees
being talked to and a mad bull understanding the words of God's servant and opossum’s coming for
prayer, and even violent storms being
turned back by the words of a man. And
to clinch the nail, we see that these people were even made companions of the
Holy Spirit just as the people who fell in the wilderness of Sin were made
aware that they were following the Pillar of Fire, and yet they also fell away,
because although they did not return to Egypt, yet their hearts had already
turned back and they had the desire to do so,
and so God just let them die off one by one in the wilderness of
Sin.
1 Timothy 4: 1- 2 "
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart
from The Faith, Giving heed, ( paying attention to) seducing Spirits and doctrines of Devils; And
Also Speaking Lies in hypocrisy; ( what lies? these are lies that they know better and are
even doing differently in their own actions, but they speak them to the people
any how, because these are hypocritical lies)
and the reason they do this is because they have no
consciences, their consciences have become seared with a hot iron."
Now, this is not just the church because
in
We also see in 2 Timothy chapter
3: That the last days will be
perilous time, times of great stress and troubles, hard to deal with and hard
to bear, because although they will have a form of God likeness, they will turn
down the power which is the Word according to Romans
Now, this leads us to another thought about this sealing in. Because we
find there is a group of people who will be sealed in, and then their will be
another group who are not sealed in, and yet both will be aware of the Presence of Christ or
the Parousia of Christ, in the last days. Yet the Ones who are sealed in will
not be deceived, and they will not go out from the presence of Christ, but
those not sealed into the Presence of Christ
will not be able to stay in His Presence as we see in 2 Thessaloninas 1:
7 - 10 these two groups. It
calls them reprobates, and this word means as we said, "those
who do not stand the test."
And since this reprobate condition is said to be concerning THE Faith, which is THE Revelation of Jesus Christ,
then the test must also be concerning THE
faith or THE revelation of Jesus Christ.
Now, if we would open our Bibles to
1 Peter 1: and read verse 5 we
will see that there is to be in the last
times a Faith or Revelation that will
bring forth salvation which is a deliverance. And then in verse 6 we see
that there is to be all sorts of testing
go on concerning this Revelation. Now, how does God ever test His People?
The same way we are told to try or test the Spirit. Give them the Word test.
And so the test of our Revelation will result in the Elect, a condition of Praise,
which has to do with our lips acknowledging this Revelation. And then a
condition of Honor, which is a sense of value or a high estimation, and so we
see that those who speak this Word also
will esteem it of great value. In fact, they will esteem it the greatest value
in their lives, and this will bring them to the place of Glory, which is the
Doxa of God, His very mindset in the Elect.
Now if those who are considered reprobate concerning THE Faith, or THE Revelation of Jesus Christ
and His Parousia with us, then this means that they have failed the test, which
also means that although they know it is True, or The Truth, yet they will not speak it, and thus it shows, and the
reason they do not speak it is because it has not the value to them that it has
to the Elect. Hence, they will never receive the Mind of God which is His Doxa
or Glory. And how could they ever receive the mind of God? For they are not
sealed. So then as a broken cistern, they would only leak out what Living
Waters they had poured in any way. That is why in Matthew 13 Jesus said, "To
Him that Hath will I give, but to them that have not, I will not give, because what they do have already is being
taken away. It is leaking out and they are loosing what they thought they
had."
God's Only Provided Place of
Worship. 250 You're sealed in there, you're beneath the Blood. You don't go out no more. And
then what are you? God's son in God's family, sealed in by the Holy Spirit. The Devil couldn't get you if he had
to; for you are dead, your old husband part is dead; and you are buried, and your life is hid in God through
Christ, and sealed by the Holy
Ghost. How's he going to get you? How
you going to get out? You're there!
Glory! Now, I will leave that alone; just enough so you'll know what I'm
talking about.
Now, remember, "if you walk in the Light as He is also
in the Light, then the blood of Jesus Christ His Son Cleanses you from all sin (disbelief).
And so then, as long as you are walking in the Vindicated Word, you are under
the protection of the blood. We are told
in Romans chapter 4, that
Faith is counted for righteousness. And so "Blessed is the man in whom God imputeth
righteousness without works, saying Blessed
are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered, and
blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. " Now, he never said that you didn't do it,
but he just tells you here that God just
won't give you credit for it. This
doesn't mean that we have license to go out and freely sin, but it means when
you have fallen, it is the Grace of God which causes you to get up and move
forward again, all the while forgiving you seventy times seven in a single day.
In 1 John 3: and verse 9 we read, "He that is born of God, ( He that has
been sealed by God) Does not commit sin;"
Now, this word commit is a word which means to initiate and habitually practice. You may backslide daily, but
there is no willful intention to do so. You just got yourself into a trap. And
so we see the Seal of God go unbroken. Why? Because it says, "His Seed remains in you."
The Seed, His Seed is sealed in, and in Psalm 37 we read, " The steps of the
righteous are ordained of the Lord: and the Lord delights in your way, although
you may fall, you shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord shall uphold you
with His own Hand of Power."
Br. Branham said, from 251 God's Only
Provided Place of Worship. Then a new creation, not to a denomination
but to the Word. You're a creation of the Word.
Because the foundation stone was laid
in you before the foundation of the world, predestinated to be sons and daughters of God. It
is all a work of Grace and Election. He seals us in, and we are sealed. So we
mustn't ever desire to go out, but if you have His mind, how could you have
such a desire? Remember, The greatest battle takes place in the mind and you
have no thoughts coming. Your mind is only a filter and either God's
thoughts or satan's thoughts will filter
through your mind down to your inner man. That is why the Token is so important.
And the Life in that token must be displayed. Finally in closing let me read to
you from the Token.
28-1 The Token 63-0901M Oh. Oh, it should make us be--should make our
hearts... Oh, apply it, church.
Don't--don't fail. Will you not? Don't--don't--don't
let the sun set. Don't--don't--don't--don't--don't
rest day or night. Don't take no chance;
it won't work, children. It won't work. You
must have the Token. You say, "I believe, yes. I go...
Yeah, I believe the message." That's all right, but... That--that's good. But you must have the Token. Do you hear, Branham
Tabernacle? You must have the Token displayed.
Without it, all your believing's in vain. See? You'll live a good life; you
listen to what the Word says; you go to church; you try to live right; that's
fine, but that's not it. "When I
see the Blood," that's the Token, and the Token here is not... 'cause what
did... He had to see the actual chemistry, because the life had gone, he--had
gone from it. It was an animal. But here
it's His Own Life that was in the Blood, and the chemistry was only a
signal, or sign of sanctification. But
the Life Itself is the Token. For
without the circumcision, without the Token, you're not even in the covenant.
The whole thing works together. If you say you're circumcised to the Word,
and It only, then you'll believe the Word. If you believe the Word, then the Token's got to come. ( and remember, he said the Token is the Life of the Word).
For He said, "Repent,
and be baptized everyone of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission
of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." There you are.
Oh, my. Notice, then the preparation for His promised land people... Notice,
what he did. First, He had a people that He had made a land for them. He had
prepared a land for them. And now, He sent down there a preparation for it, for
the promised land people. It was only
for those who were predestinated to that promised land. Right.
And how He done it, He sent a
prophet with a message, identified it by a Pillar of Fire, and gave a token
that they could rest assure that It was right. That's right. It was for
consolation.
So we see then, that it all comes back to this one thing. If you are
sealed in by the Word of God which is a Seed, then you are quickened by the
Life of that Seed which is the very Life of God Himself, and you will not only
recognize your day and it's Message, but you will be a part of it. For every
Messenger that brings a Message, there
has to be someone to receive that Message.
As brother Branham preached the message called, "HEARING,
RECOGNIZING and ACTING on the WORD of GOD", we must also hear
it, and that is to recognize, or
understand it, and then if we do, then
we shall act upon it.