Preparation #46 (The Appearing)

Sunday October  24,  1999

Brian Kocourek

 

 

I TIMOTHY 3:16   And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Brother Branham called it the Appearing which takes place before the coming. He said in End-time Evangelism,

 

MARK 4:10  And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.   11    And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all [these] things are done in parables:  12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and [their] sins should be forgiven them.

 

REVELATION 10:7  But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

 

STANDING IN THE GAP  63-0623M  129  I never crossed up the oneness and the trinity. I stood between them

 

THE END TIME EVANGELISM 6-3-62  "Now, we have already seen and are witnessing the APPEARING of the Lord. Now, remember, APPEARING and Coming are two different words, to APPEAR and then to Come. Now is the APPEARING, He's already APPEARED in these last days. Right here with us in the last few years. Now, it's a sign of His Coming. He's APPEARING in His church, in the form of the Holy Spirit, showing that it's Him, 'cause people cannot do these things that you see the Holy Spirit doing, so that's the APPEARING of the lord. Now remember, it spoke both places, "APPEARING" and "Coming."

 

TITUS 2:13  "Looking for that blessed hope, and glorious APPEARING of the great God and Savior Jesus Christ;"

 

Now, who does this tell us will Appear? Who is it Paul is speaking of here? Let's read it together again. TITUS 2:13  "Looking for that blessed hope, and glorious APPEARING of the great God and Savior Jesus Christ;"

 

It is the great God who is savior that Paul is speaking of.

 

ISAIAH 43:10     Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.  11 I, [even] I, [am] the LORD; and beside me [there is] no savior.   12    I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when [there was] no strange [god] among you: therefore ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I [am] God.

 

Now the question then is in what fashion will this God Who is the Only savior come?   For almost two thousand years men have looked upon this scripture and have presumed that this glorious Appearing and His Second coming were one and the same event. But in this last hour God promised to "restore" and reveal all the mysteries.  Brother Branham rightly divided this Appearing from the second Coming and in doing so established it as doctrinal truth and allowed us to see that The Appearing of the Lord comes before the actual 2nd Coming of the Lord.

 

FROM THAT TIME   pp. 225 7-13-62  "How many knows there's a difference between the Appearing of Christ and the Coming of Christ? It's two different words. Now's the Appearing; the Coming will soon be. He's Appearing in the midst of us, doing the works that He once did, in His church.

 

Then. In the next breath  he goes on to say "This is my ministry, see, to declare Him, that He's here." Now the question then remains, Who is here. God, or the Son of God? Which Jesus is here.

 

Brother Branham used 1 Thessalonians 4:16 for his text when He preached the Rapture message, and he told us that the Message is the Shout.  I THESSALONIANS 4:16   For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:    17    Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.   18    Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

 

RAPTURE THE 65-1204   082   He ordained these things to be, and He must send this. The first thing come when He starts descending from the heaven, there's a shout. What is it? It's a Message to get the people together. A Message comes forth first. Now, "Lamp trimming time. Rise and trim your lamps." What watch was that? The seventh, not the sixth, the seventh. "Behold the Bridegroom cometh. Rise and trim your lamps." And they did. Some of them found they didn't even have any oil in their lamp. See? But it's lamp trimming time. It's Malachi 4 time when you come... It's Luke 17. It's--it's Isaiah... All those prophecies that it can--perfectly set in order for this day in the Scriptures, we see it living right there.

Now the question still remains, Who came down with a Shout. Paul calls Him Lord in this verse.  He says, for The Lord Himself shall descend with a shout which brother Branham told us is the Message.  But is this Lord God? Or is it the Son of God?   So which Lord comes down?     You say which Lord, what are you talking about, there is only one Lord.  What then will you do with  PSALMS 110:1   The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

 

Well you say that is a mistake, and I say is it? You say, well, The old and new testament speak of only One Lord, and that may be true, but how does it speak of One Lord. Let's just examine what the Scripture speaks concerning One God and One Lord.

 

DEUTERONOMY 6:4    Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD: Now, this word LORD is a Hebrew word Yhovah the existing One.

 

The next time we see in scripture where it tells us that there shall be One Lord, we see it in  ZECHARIAH 14:6  And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the light shall not be clear, [nor] dark:  7    But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, [that] at evening time it shall be light.  8       And it shall be in that day, [that] living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.  9    And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.  Again, the word LORD is Yhovah, the existing one.

 

Now what is this a picture of here.  It is of the new Jerusalem, right? 

 

Now, there are five times total in the Scripture where we hear the words ONE LORD used together, so let's go to the next verse which we will find Jesus Himself speaking in MARK 12:28   And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?   29    And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is], Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30  And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment. 31 And the second [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.  32    And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: 33    And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love [his] neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

 

Now, notice how specific Jesus answer was….  The Lord our God is one Lord… In other words, He spoke of God as being One Lord in contradistinction to being more than one.  He was speaking of God being ONE, and the Word LORD that He used here is the Greek Word kurios, which means master or ruler.

 

We next see this ONE LORD used by the Apostle Paul in I CORINTHIANS 8:4  As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one.   5    For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)That word LORD is also kurios which is master   6    But to us [there is but] one God, ( and notice the title Paul gives to this ONE GOD!)  the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him. 7 ¶  Howbeit [there is] not in every man that knowledge:  He tells us to us who are believers, there is but one God and there is one Kurios or master, and that is Our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things… in other words this one He is speaking of is the Creator.

 

Now, finally we will come to the 5th time this word phrase is used in God's Holy Word. Paul again is the speaker, in the book of EPHESIANS 4:4 where he says,  [There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5    One Lord, (ONE KURIOS OR MASTER) one faith, one baptism, THEN NOTICE VERSE   6  One God Who is Father of all, Who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all.

 

Now, first of all this ought to tell us that if there is ONE GOD Who is the Father and He is in you all, then the Holy Ghost is none other than that part of God the Father which has come into you.   And what part of any Father comes into his children? His Life! in  JOHN 5:26  26    For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

 

Now the question we must have then is this. If there is but One God who is Father, then Who is the Son. And how does He differ from the Father? Because the Scripture tells us that He is called the Son of God, He is never called in scripture, "God the Son". 

Did you know the Pharisees were also bothered by this question because they really did not understand Who the Messiah would be, and they did not understand His relationship to the Father.  Jesus said to them, ye do always err in your hearts because you do not understand, neither do you know the scriptures.

 

In MATTHEW 22:41 we read,    While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,   42    Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, [The Son] of David.   43    He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,  44    The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?   45    If David then called him Lord, how could he be his son?

 

Brother Branham taught us that the only difference between  the Father and the Son is that the Son had a beginning.

 

From HEBREWS CHAPTER 7 PT.1  57-0915E  062   that same Melchisedec that met Abraham coming from the slaughter of the kings. Certainly. The God of heaven, the Elohim, the Great I AM, not the I was, the I AM (present tense). "And He blessed him."   Listen here just a little further, so we can get the lesson a little closer together. Now, the 4th verse... Now consider how great this man was,... (I just think that too.)... consider how great this man was,... He's beyond the Son of God. The Son of God had father and mother; He didn't. The Son of God had a beginning of time and an ending of time; He didn't. Who was that? That was the Father of the Son. That's Who it was.

 

HEBREWS CHAPTER. 7 PT.2 57-0922 035   And this Melchisedec was not Jesus, for He was God. And what made Jesus and God different, that... Jesus was the Tabernacle that God dwelt in. See? Now, Melchisedec... Jesus had both father and mother, and this Man never had father or mother. Jesus had a beginning of life and He had a end of life. This Man had no father, no mother, no beginning of days, or ending of life. But It was the self same Person; it was Melchisedec and Jesus was One; but Jesus was the earthly body, borned and fashioned after sin: God's own body, His own Son, borned and fashioned after sin to take the sting out of death, to pay the ransom, and to receive sons and daughters unto Himself. You get it? That's the reason that He had--He had a beginning; He had an ending.

HEBREWS CHAPTER 7 PT.2 57-0922  036   But this perfect body, in commemoration as a--as the earnest of our resurrection, God would not suffer that holy body to see corruption, because He created it Himself, and brought it forth, and resurrected it, and set it at His right hand. And today, the Holy Spirit that raised that body up is here in the Church (Blessed be the Name of the Lord.) and showing forth the same miracles and power. And someday this Holy Spirit, that's in the Church, will scream, and will lift up, and will receive Itself into this body form that's setting at the right hand of the Majesty of God, to make intercessions for we sinners, and by there we're perfectly kept from sin. Not that we don't sin, but kept from sin in the Presence of God; 'cause there's a bloody Sacrifice standing between me and God, and between you and God. That's the reason He said, "A man that's born of God, does not commit sin. He can't sin. For if you're borned again, the very Holy Spirit that lived in that Body, lives in you, and It can't sin. The sacrifice is laying before Him. Then if you willfully do it, shows that it's impossible for you to be into that Body. Amen. That's the Gospel. There it is.

 

Show us the Father 096   Now, my parents and my both--before me were Catholic. But brother, you see there's not much Catholic left in me as the triune beings. That's right. Yes, sir. They believed in the Eternal Sonship, or there's three actual individual being: God the Father, an old man with long white beard; God, the Son, a middle age man; and the Holy Ghost was a mascot boy like. There's no such things. There's only one God. And I different agree with the organization of Pentecost that calls the Oneness like your finger is one. That's wrong. Absolutely, it's wrong. God... Jesus couldn't have been His Own Father, and if God is a Man, then Jesus was born sexual desire and not virgin birth. That settles the whole thing. You see? If He's one like your finger's one, then what? Then He was His Own daddy. How could He have been? That's wrong. He had a Father, Jesus did.

 

JEHOVAH JIREH 56-0429  053   He said, "For My..." That's the reason people couldn't understand Him. Sometime it was Christ speaking... or was the Son speaking. Other times it was the Father speaking. He was a dual Person. He was one Man, the Son. God was in, which was tabernacling in Him. But what did He do? Did He go around saying, "I'm the Healer." Very contrary, He said, "I'm not the Healer." He said, "It isn't Me that doth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me."

 

Now, notice how brother Branham lays out the difference between the father and the Son. And if there is a difference, then they are different.  But you will w\find that the only difference is that a Son has a beginning, and God does not. Then the Son is not God, but He is the Son of God. Yet we know that God dwelled in Him, and anointed Him with His Holy Life, His Holy Presence, His Holy Spirit.

In the Book of ACTS 2:29 we read,  Men [and] brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.   30    Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;   31    He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.   32    This Jesus hath God raised up,   Now, let's just stop here for a moment… Notice he says, This Jesus hath God raised up, Now this tells you that God is not Jesus, for if God was Jesus then He would have raised up Himself.    

 

This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.    33    Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost,  ( Now let's examine this here. Notice, he says, that Jesus The Son of God had to receive the Holy Ghost Himself… Now if He had to receive the Holy Ghost, then where was it. 

 

This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.    33    Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost,  he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.  34  For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,   35    Until I make thy foes thy footstool.   36    Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.  Now, then… How did Jesus become Lord? God made Him Lord! And How did god make Him Lord? By indwelling Him.  God hath made this Jesus both Lord and Christ!  The fact is that God made Him Lord when He made Him Christ. And the Word Christ is the word Christos which means the anointed One. Now, I would like to ask this question, How could he be the anointed One unless He had been anointed. And Who anointed Him? If He was God then why would He need to be anointed, and recognized as The Anointed One?

 

In the Book of ACTS 10:38, we read,   How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.   39    And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:   40    Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;   

 

Now, if God had to anoint Him and Show Himself to be with Him and even raise Him up, then was this one that was raised up God?  The answer is quite apparent. The Son of God is not God the Son, but Paul clears up the relationship that the Son had with the Father in  II CORINTHIANS 5:19    To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.   Now notice what Paul tells us here,  God was in Christ… and that is what made Him deity.

 

Now, we have already established that it was God that raised up Jesus From the dead. And We know by scripture that it was God that anointed Jesus With the Holy Spirit. And we know that brother Branham taught us that the Spirit of God entered Him at His baptism, and left Him in the Garden of Gethsemane.

 

JESUS CHRIST THE SAME  55-0806 You got to come back to the Bible, back to the truth. And when Jesus, a carpenter's Son, physically speaking, when He come to the earth here that's all He was known of, and the day that when John baptized Him, God a vindicated Him. God spoke from the heavens. John saw Him coming in the form a dove, and said, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell." The right translation there is, "In whom I am pleased to dwell in." Jesus immediately anointed with God, He was just a man till that time, but now He becomes the God-man. Someone telling me here not long ago, as I many times referred to it in this shiftless day, that He was just a prophet, He was a good man. He was more than that. He was the anointed God. The Bible said, "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself." God in Christ. Amen.

 

QUEEN OF SHEBA  60-0110   075   Then after He was baptized in water, John saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and going on Him, a Voice saying, "This is My beloved Son (correctly like this) in Whom I am pleased to dwell in." God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth these things; it's My Father. The Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing." And then God was with us, God above us, God with us in Christ, Emmanuel, God with us.

 

FORMER AND LATTER RAIN  60-0303  014   And now, the sun has come across giving a dismal light because of the denseness of the faith of people. Jesus was the Son of God, as we was talking today. He was the Son of God as much as He was a man. At thirty years... We have no record of Him doing anything till He was thirty years old. When He was baptized in Jordan by John, then the Holy Ghost came upon Him without measure. In Him dwelled the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. He was Emmanuel. God was in Him. Why was God in Him? Because He was sinless born and because that He had a way that He could yield Hisself to God, and in Him dwelt all of God. Now, you and I could have no more God in us than what we can yield ourself. As much as we abide... As much Bill Branham as I can get out of the way, God will come in. But as long as William Branham's in there, then God has no way of getting in. And the same with you. It's getting ourself out of the way, not looking the way we think, not doing the way that we think, but letting Him do our thinking. Let Him do our looking, listening to the Holy Spirit.

 

WHY  61-0413  E-85  God the Father is a Spirit, The Son of God is a Man Who the Spirit of God dwelt in. RISING OF THE SUN  65-0418M 34-5    When God looked down upon the body... (The Spirit left Him in the Garden of Gethsemane; He had to die a man.) Remember friends, He didn't have to do that. That was God. God anointed that flesh, which was human flesh, and He didn't have... If He'd went up there as God, He'd have never died that kind of death; can't kill God. He didn't have to do it, but remember, He went there with you in Him. See?

 

LETTING OFF THE PRESSURE PP. 96 6-9-62  “But if you can beat all that away from you, say, "Lord God, I   believe just exactly what your word says, and I believe [ as we preached last night ] that the Appearing of the Lord comes before the Coming of the Lord," for it's just two different words altogether, see. Now's the appearing, as He promised in the last days that He'd be with us.”

 

BE NOT AFRAID, IT IS I  4-14-61 tape 1 side 1  "We pray that will take place among us tonight as we will see the Lord God Jehovah to which we are all worshipers of. May He come forth in His great power, and will SHINE FORTH His Glory into every gloomy heart. Bring forth faith, Life. We pray that every church that's represented here may go from here tonight with a fresh vision and a revival spirit break out in this coun­try, and in the schools,  that there will be prayer day and night, and hungering and thirsting. May the salt that seasons our life, come tonight and make us so thirsty to be like Him.  We commit this service unto Him now, The Author Who said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. May He come SHINING FORTH in His Word. And then afterwards SHINE FORTH in the people. And we will praise Him for it with humble hearts."

                      

II TIM 4:1 "I charge the therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Chris, Who shall judge the quick and the dead at His APPEARING and His kingdom."    II TIM 4:8  "Henceforth  there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them that also love His APPEARING." 

 

END TIME EVANGELISM  pp. 186  6-3-62 "I've kept the faith, and henceforth there's a crown of right­eousness laid up for me, that the righteous Lord will give me in that day; not only me, but all those that love His Appearing.' Not believes His Appearing; but loves His Appearing,..."

 

In II THES 2:10-11 those who did not love the Truth on the other hand are sent a strong delusion. It is during the time of the Presence of Christ that the false anointed ones bring forth their lying wonders. But unto those that Love His Appearing He shall give us a crown of Right - Wise - Ness or correct understanding. On the other hand, a strong delusion is sent to those who do not love His APPEARING. What is this strong delusion: Webster's says it is A FALSE BELIEF HELD IN SPITE OF INVALIDATING EVIDENCE.

 

 No matter how well you lay out this great revelation of Christ's Presence to the people they still refuse it and say that it is a false doctrine while  they themselves hold to their false teach­ings that are solely based upon denominational understanding. They have not yet learned to question everything they were taught under their denominational system and to bring it into focus with the Word as revealed by God's Servant and Prophet.

 

JEHOVAH JIREH  PART II 7-6-62 "This is the close of the Royal Seed's waiting. He's here, the APPEARING of Christ. Did you ever try to DIVIDE?... There's a place in the Bible, you know, I ain't got time to go into it, says "the APPEARING of Christ," and then "the Coming of Christ." That's two different things, altogether, the "APPEARING" and the "Coming." He's APPEARING now, working with us in the form of the Holy Spirit, making it just perfect, the Church, It has to."

 

SPIRITUALFOOD IN DUE SEASON  65-0718E  066   Now, He appeared here as a physical body, looked just exactly like Hofmann's Head of Christ at Thirty-three, and blood running out of His hand, and so forth, nail scars all over Him, I wouldn't accept it. No, no, no, no. When He comes, Hisself, "Every eye shall see Him, every tongue shall confess Him; and as the lightning cometh from the east unto the west, so shall it be." See? We don't believe these cults and clans. We believe God is the Word. But He embodies Himself, taking your body and my body, and gives you gifts, gives me gifts, and through these gifts He makes Hisself known. That's the secret Food. No matter how much He'd make Hisself known by me, you've got to believe it; you've got to have a gift of faith too to believe it. You believe that? And now if He will manifest Himself in that manner, will you believe Him with all your heart? You'll believe Him? Oh, how wonderful, just waiting on Him, just waiting to see what He says.

 

HAVE FAITH IN GOD  54-0900  017   Jesus is risen from the dead. He's just doing all kinds of things to get people to believe it, but we're just so loose. We let it slip through. He could come here tonight, walk out on a platform, visible in a body with nail scarred hands and return. He's here in the form of Spirit, but not in the form of flesh. When He brings His body back with Him, well, it'll be the second coming. It'll all be over then.

 

THE GREATEST NEWS FLASH IN HISTORY  4-24-61 "And then He APPEARED to His Elected Church only. The rest of them did not recognize Him. And if He was here today, He would just do the same as He did then; Appear to the Elected Believer. He never APPEARS to the unbeliever.. That's the same way He would do today. If He should come today, and which He has, in Spirit form. And you notice that He only shows Himself like we left off last night in Abraham. He never went down unto Lot's group. But He APPEARED to the Elected group. Turned His back to the tent and said, "Where is thy wife Sarah?"

 

If He APPEARS to His Elected only, then what is the delusion that causes the others to miss His APPEARING? They can not rightly divide the difference between the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and the Person of the Holy Ghost Himself. Didn't brother Branham in referring to Matthew 7 tell us that these people who had gifts of the Spirit were told, "Depart from me for I never Knew you." Did he not also teach us that when the church denomination goes for the oil it's all over. Why? Because they think they are receiving Him and they aren't.

 

He never knew them, yet they were baptized in the Spirit even as the tares received the same rain as the wheat. He also taught us that you can be baptized in your spirit with the Holy Ghost every hour of your life and still go to hell, unless you have the seed gene. And any time God sends forth a new Message it is preceded by healing. So, if the Message is a new Message and not the same old worn out Pentecostal message of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you can see that their old understanding becomes a delud­ing influence and points the people away from the very presence of the Baptizer Himself. They say, what do we need a prophet for when we already have God! "Why, I know he's here because He's in my heart. Don't you realize that the Baptist's and Pentecostal's all say the same thing? It's to late an hour to be ignorant of the difference between an anointing in the flesh and the Presence of the Anointed Christ Himself. So they will keep on looking for the an evidence in their flesh that they have been baptized in the Spirit.

 

 WE WOULD SEE JESUS pp. 170 7-4-62 "In the evening time it shall be light. What is it? The same sun that rises in the east, sets in the west. And the same Son of God that manifested and APPEARED in the east, is APPEARING in the west now at the evening time, evening light to the church that's called out and filled with the Holy Spirit."

                       

 THE TRIAL 4-12-64  "Our heavenly Father, the strain of this moment.. We're wondering Lord, just how many really believe. The seed has been sown, the Word has been read. Christ, the Holy Ghost, has APPEARED before us and showed that Life that was in this Light... And He was the light of the world. He's the Light now. He's the great Eternal Light, and He has APPEARED before us this afternoon and done just what He said He would do in this generation. The Word's been thoroughly spoken, the Word's been identified, and the people now, if they just thoroughly believe it with all their heart..."

 

SOULS IN PRISON pg. 21 pp. 4  11-10-63 "Notice. The same spiritual sign Jesus done has reoccurred on the earth in the last days...the very same spiritual sign that He identified Himself as Messiah, has identified Him today! He's still Messiah! The same material sign has APPEARED on the earth that APPEARED about what He was...the same Pillar of Fire that St. Paul saw, the same One. And all that has reoccurred with the same nature in it, doing the same thing."

 

DECEIVED CHURCH BY THE WORLD pp. 83  6-28-59 "But as Israel was bound by their kings, that they could not follow the real King; and the real King, when He came, they didn't recognize Him. So is it today, Oh Lord, The king of Glory has APPEARED in the form of the Holy Ghost, and , Lord, they don't know it. They don't recognize it. They're so organized so tight, that they do not understand it, because it's not in their organization. Lord, this is the work of the Devil that's done this to the people."

 

WHERE IS HE KING OF THE JEWS  pp. 99 12-21-58  "Yet in all of our theology and our great churches, and so forth today, when the great light of God has begin to SHINE, the church knows nothing about it."        

 

HEBREWS CHAPTERS 5 & 5 PT. 1 pp. 170 9-8-57  "Friends, let us go on to perfection. We're with out excuse today. We have no excuse at all. The God of heaven has APPEARED in these last days and is doing the very same things that He did then, when He was here before, when He was on earth. He's proved. As we are coming through this Bible, and you class, know this; that we have taken miracle by miracle and sign by sign and wonder by wonder that He did  with the children in the wilderness, the things and signs that He did. The things that He done when He was here on earth, manifest in the flesh, and the very same things are taking place today, right here among us. Here's the Word to Vindicate it. Here's the thing to say It's right, to make it right. Here's the Spirit of God to do the same thing, so we're without excuse."

 

WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST  57-0303E 031   What kind of people ought we to be? How should we conduct ourselves? We are sons and daughters of a King, not a king, but the King: Jesus Christ the Son of the living God Who is the King of kings.

 

II PETER 3:9     The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.   10    But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.   11      [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness,   12    Looking for and hasting unto the coming( Parousia-Presence)  of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

 

HEBREWS pp. 235 CHAPTER 4 9-01-57 "God come down and He showed them a Pillar of Fire; by His proph­ets, signs and wonders, He was with them. They didn't believe It. Oh, they liked to see the miracles. They liked to hear the proph­et. But as far as believing It, they didn't. their lives proves they didn't. [236] Now, He said, "Don't you fall after that same example of unbelief!" For if the last day, to the Gentile church, God has APPEARED again: Same sign, same wonder, same Pillar of Fire, Vindicated, Proven. Let us not harden our hearts and fall in that temptation back yonder of unbelief, for we'll rot on earth and that'll be the end of it. [237] And when the Holy Spirit knocks at your heart, "After so long a time when you hear My Voice, harden not your heart;" say, "Child of mine, this is the truth." Don't look at the messenger, listen to the Message."

      

INVISIBLE UNION OF THE BRIDE  pg. 11 pp. 3 11-25-65 "And so was God manifested in the beginning. And finally He Appeared as Jehovah, God the Father. Then He APPEARED as God the Son in Jesus Christ. Now, He has APPEARED as God the Holy Ghost, the same God all the time. Three manifestations of the same God."

 

THINKING MAN'S FILTER  pp. 34  8-22-65   "And when the Angels of the Lord APPEARED out there for the seven seals, and it went up into the air (which we had the pic­ture of It here and around over the country), there He was stand­ing there still wigged with the Supreme Authority. He is the Head of the church. He's head of the body. There's nothing like Him anywhere."

 

WHEN THEIR EYES WERE OPEN  3-12-64 “Remember, the reason they knowed that was Him, He did it just like He did it before He was crucified. Then He vanished out of their sight to get away from it. He did it that way. May He come tonight among us, and open our eyes by revealing Himself to us by the same things that He did when here on earth, because He promised He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Mat the Lord help us to see Him as He appears to us.”