Questions concerning Alpha and
Omega
May 26th, 2007
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
Opening Prayer: Dear Omnipotent and
Omniscient Father, we come to you this evening knowing that You are the Author
and Finisher of our Faith, and we also acknowledge that what things we do know,
we have not learned through earthly channels, but we have received from
revelation that you gave to us through Your only provided channel, that of Your
prophets. We also acknowledge dear Father, that
we are here because we want to know Thee better and we wish to let our
own thinking go and receive your thinking. For your thoughts are higher than
our thoughts and your ways are greater than our ways. Therefore, help each of
us here this evening to let the mind that was in Christ be in us, and we know
this is not possible unless your Spirit has taken over our thought process. For what man knoweth the things of God except the Spirit of
God is in him. And as the Apostle Paul said, “And
we have the mind of Christ”. Therefore, Father we ask that Your Divine
presence will be with us throughout this series as we attempt to bring clarity
to eh many questions that your children have throughout the world. And we ask
this in Jesus Christ’s Name, Amen.
Good evening. As we remain standing and open our Bibles to the Book of 2 Timothy chapter 3, I would like to begin
examining tonight several questions I have received from around the world
concerning the Alpha and Omega Principle.
In 2 Timothy 3:16
we are told that “All
scripture is given by inspiration of God, That means it is God breathed and is profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
And in verse 17 God
tells us His purpose for giving us His word. 17 That the man of God
may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”
Now, in Hebrews Chapter 1:1 we read
that God in
various ways and in diverse manners spoke unto the people through the prophet.
And since God used various ways and diverse manners to do so, I have found that
the questions I have received from brethren all over the world have come in
various ways and in diverse manners, and yet they are all asking the same
thing. And that is a clarification on the Alpha and Omega Principle which we
have learned from the doctrinal study of Reverend William Branham Vindicated
Prophet of God and as taught by Reverend Lee Vayle, Indicated Message Teacher
who received his doctorate in this Message from God Himself through His
End-Time prophet William Branham.
I just thought I would add that to help the scoffers out who are always
trying to use the fact that God’s prophet called
Now, with that aside, since we are entering into this series, I will say
the following for those who will scoff at what I am doing and saying to
themselves, “what gives you a right to Answer questions from around the world?”
First let me say this. When I first placed our website on the world wide
web in 1998, I asked brother Vayle if he would be interested in answering the
people questions since brother Branham said the following;
Jesus Christ the same 58-0323 P:0022 And
if there's anything you lack of understanding, something that
you do not understand, my associate Brother Vayle here, is
available at all times to explain anything that seems mysterious to you
ministering brethren, or wherever you are, or any lay member, anything. If
there's a question, if we ever preach anything, or do anything, that's
not a promise of God in this Bible, you got a right to come to us and
ask us like brethren. And we ask you to do that. We ask you as
our brothers and sisters to come to us. We want to be servants of Christ.
That's what we represent the world around.
So with that in mind, I asked him if he would do so, and he agreed to do
so. Then when hi wife took sick he said that he would not have time to do so
and said, “Brian,
you know this message as well as anyone, why don’t you just answer the
questions, and if there is anything you need help with, call me and I will do
what I can.”
Therefore, all answers that I give will either come from Scripture or words
from Brother Branham and I will not give you my own opinion unless that opinion
can be backed up solidly by Scripture and God’s End-Time prophet William
Branham.
To answer your questions correctly I can not have an opinion of my own.
My opinion must be either what God said through His Son or through His servant
William Branham. Now, if any listening to this tape have a problem with that,
then that is your problem. I know that I will give an account to God for my
Words, and I just hope you know that you will one day give an account to God
for yours as well.
Now, these questions which I have received are from all over the world.
We have more than 162 nations coming to our website and in any given month we are
receiving nearly 90 countries coming to one or both or our websites. That
includes not only the Message-Doctrine website, but also Br. Vayle’s sermons
and My own on a second website.
I believe my motives are clean and pure and as Paul said to the church in
his day, according to Acts 20:26 Wherefore
I take you to record this day, that I am pure
from the blood of all men. 27 For
I have not shunned to declare unto you
all the counsel of God. 28 Take
heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy
Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the
Now, since these questions come from many peoples with many diverse back
grounds, they come to me in many variegated ways, and in different manners just
like God Himself gave us His Word Through many different Prophets from many diverse
backgrounds but who all declared the same Message. Thus our mission is to declare the same
Message as was given to us.
Therefore the questions are multifaceted because there are many aspects
to understanding the Alpha and Omega principle.
For example Br. Serge from
A Paradox 65-0117 67 And so
has the church world in this last day! It's come along, it's played its part,
but there is coming a time where it must cease. It must do it. There has got
to be an Ephesians, also, of this journey, just as there was of other
journeys. There has to come an Ephesians, an
From the same sermon, he says in three
times the promise of another Ephesian today. Please,
What’s that means? Does he speaking about the Presence?
Br Serge
Now, we
can not understand that statement without understanding also that there are
thre exoduses in the history of God dealing with man, and in each the Pillar of
Fire came to gather a people together and take them from one setting to
another. Out from one place and into another.
Is your
life worthy 63-0630E P:20 it's
Third Exodus. The Holy Spirit in the form of a Pillar of Fire, God coming down
in manifestation brought out the first exodus and back in, brought
The
Indictment 63-0707M P:19 Now, we would appreciate, if you like to
hear the message, The Third Exodus. Now, we've had many exodus, but we can definitely put our hand on the
place, time of three exodus that God in the form of a Pillar of Fire has come
down to call and separate people. And now,
it's separating a people. And we find out that when He called His first
exodus, He went before them in a Pillar of Fire and led them to a--leading them
to a land, where later He appeared before them in a form of a Man called Jesus
Christ. (He come from God and went to God.) And the--then He was rejected. And
He come then to call a people out of a--out of a formal condition that they had
got into, like they had down in
And
again another brother from a different country, The European country of
Br.
Koen Kolkman wrote: Brother Brian, I read it and is great!! I prayed for it.
Because in this hour I only want to follow the Bible, and be
very sincere in it. Trusting that Our Lord Jesus will guide me into his Truth. The
way I saw things that sounded good but were not scriptural at all not at all the same revelation what the Apostles had,
I was caught up by my own power of reasoning and was not subject to what the
bible said.
Thanks!
Br.
Koen Kolkman
And a another brother from
Br. Silas kalule
wrote:
We
are faced with many enemies, as Islam has spread its evil influence throughout the world. It is
even necessary for us to occasionally
move about in other churches in order to do the things that must be done. Daily we pray asking
God to touch those who He would and
bring them to this Ministry. I think the enemy that troubles me the most are those who call themselves Christians
and still maintain an anti-Semitic
attitude towards Israel and Jews and those who interpret this message for their own selfish gains.
I can not believe this to see a bosom friend and minister of the message
embracing cult teaching simply for search of miracles and signs. Pray
for the peace of
Shalom,
Brother
Silas Kalule.
And just one more email from the
Brother
Kocourek, Do you know if anyone has done a comparative study on the Alpha
ministry and the Omega ministry? There are many types that I can see, but
I'm sure there's a whole lot more that I haven't. Is there anyone that you know
or have you yourself went through the entire life of both our Lord Jesus Christ
and Brother Branham and made a comparison study as Brother Branham did with
Joseph and Jesus Christ? Also when listening to Brother Branham yesterday he
spoke of the days of Lot, and he said that the two angels sent to warn Lot were
typed as Billy Graham and Oral Roberts, but the one that stayed with
Abraham was God. Was the type we are seeing is God staying with Brother
Branham as the called out and elect bride or God in Brother Branham calling out
the bride?
Thank
You, Sister Goldie
With these questions in mind, I would like to first of all read where the
doctrinal principle of the Alpha becoming the Omega comes from. It comes from
Jesus Himself. But in order to understand further which Jesus, (the Father or the
Son) said this to John, we must understand more about what is being said here.
Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the
Almighty. 9 ¶ I John, who also am your brother, and companion
in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the
isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus
Christ. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a
great voice, as of a trumpet, 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and
the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven
churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos,
and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
Revelation 21:6 And he said unto
me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will
give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life
freely.
Revelation 22:12 And, behold, I come
quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work
shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Therefore what
we see is that Jesus Christ declared himself to be the Alpha and Omega and what
he said had to do with the churches. The Bible Doctrine that
deals with the "Alpha and Omega" principle is
purely the most important revelation we can receive from God. In
fact in the following quote we will hear brother Branham make several points
which we shall consider.
Point #1. He says "It is the Greatest of all
revelations" because it
teaches us the Supreme Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Point #2. He said "it is the first thing you have to
know," because it concerns
the Supreme Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, "I'm Alpha and Omega, the first of all
revelations." You must know Who He is so that you might recognize
His voice when you hear it.
Point #3. He said, "I am the Beginning and the End. I am
Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last." Therefore, what He did at the first he must do at
the last, for He can not change.
Now, the main thing
concerning what Jesus Christ said here, is not what can I make out of this myself
using my own imagination. To do so would be spiritual suicide. But rather with
words so important, what did William Branham vindicated prophet fo God have to
say concerning these words?
Patmos Vision 69-130 60-1204E 143
076 "In the Spirit on the Lord's day..." Now, we hear
it. Now, what? And what was he done? He was transferred from the isle now, in
the Spirit, over into the Lord's day. And as soon as he got over into the
Lord's day, he heard a trumpet. What is it? It's Somebody approaching. A great
One's approaching. Trumpet sounds, Somebody's coming. He looked. Hallelujah. ...
trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last:... (Hm.
Not announcement of the second party, or the third party, but the only party. "I'm
both Alpha and Omega; before I show you anything, I want to let you know Who I
am." Amen.) The greatest of all the revelations is the Deity, the Supreme
Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. You can't get to first base until you
believe that, walk out... That's what Peter said, "Repent, and then see
the Deity. Be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your
sins, and then you're ready to go in the Spirit." The first thing you
have to know is the Deity of Christ. "I am Alpha and Omega. I'm from A to
Z; there's no more but Me. I was at the beginning; I'll be at the end. I'm
He that was, which is, and shall come, the Almighty." Think of it. That's
what the trumpet said.
145 077 Be careful John. You've entered into the
Spirit. Something's going to be revealed to you. What is it? A trumpet sound, the
first thing, "I'm Alpha and Omega." The first of all
revelations. (Oh, sinner, bow, repent now before the time's too late.) "I'm
Alpha and Omega." That's the first thing that He let him know Who He was.
(Who's this approaching? Is this King Jesus? King God? King Holy Ghost?) He
said, "I'm all of It. I'm from A to Z. I'm the Beginning and the
Ending. I'm the immortal, eternal One." Just a little later we watch
Him in His sevenfold Personage, watch what He is then. See? "I am the
Beginning and the End. I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last. I was
before there was a first; and after there's no more last, I'll still be there,"
in other words, "The First and the Last." ... and, What thou
seest, write in a book, and send... to the seven churches which are in Asia;
unto Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to
Laodicea.
147 078 All
right, the first of all revelations is the Supreme Deity of Jesus Christ.
You must know Who He is when you hear the voice (All right.),
the same voice that sounded on Mount
Sinai, the same voice that
sounded on
2 Peter
Chapter 1 Verse 17
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when
there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Luke 9:35 And there came a voice out of
the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.
Mark 9: 7 And there was a cloud that
overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my
beloved Son: hear him.
Matthew
17: 5 While he yet spake, behold, a
bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which
said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
Matthew 3:
17 And lo a voice from heaven,
saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. )
And Again we see concerning
Exodus 19: 20 And
the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD
called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
Leviticus 25: 1 And
the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
Exodus 24: 16 And
the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six
days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
Brother Branham continues “Now, watch in this next verse. All right. And
I turned... (the 12th chapter now) We're going to leave these churches
alone just for a minute, because this whole week coming on these churches. See,
so we're just going to pass over that. But He said, "These... I'm going to
direct you to send this message that I show you." Who is? "I'm the
First and the Last. I'm the Supreme One. I'm the Almighty One. And I've
come to tell you that I'm giving you a message to seven churches. I want you to
write it, get it ready." See? "And the seven churches that are in
Now, why would brother
Branham tell us that the Alpha and Omega principle is the most important
principle for us to Know. We have already seen that this principle deals
with the very essence of the Lord Jesus Christ and Who He really is. And
knowing that He is the same yesterday, today and
forever, and in Malachi 3:6
"I am the Lord, and I change not."
And as brother Branham said, we won't know
what to do with His Voice if we do not recognize who He really is. Therefore
there are three reasons we must understand the Alpha and Omega Ministry of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
#1) In order to understand the day and hour in which we
live.
#2) In order to be able to recognize what is being done
in the hour which we live,
#3) We must know Him. And He described Himself to John
on the Isle of Patmos with the words, "I am
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end."
Notice he never said he was
the in-between, He said he was the first and the last.
The Masterpiece 64-0705 170 The
Alpha has
become Omega. The first become last; and the last is
the first. The Seed that went in has come through a process and become the
Seed again. The seed that fell in the garden of Eden and died there, come back
from that imperfect seed that died there, come back to the perfect Seed--the
Second Adam. 172 The first Eve that fell, and was
used in the second reformation--second coming, as bringing forth a child, now
has become true Bride again, the Seed, right back with the original Word again.
The Alpha and Omega is the same. He said, "I am Alpha and Omega. "He never said anything in between, "I'm Alpha and Omega, the First and
the Last." That's it. The first ministry and the last ministry is the same. The first Message and the second--last
Message is the same thing. (Notice that brother Branham said second and
then corrected Himself and said the last. This is important to see because He
also preached a Message called the Third Exodus and showed us that in all three
exoduses the same God appeared the same way with in the same manner with a
similar Message in each.)"I was in Alpha; I'm in Omega." "There'll be a day that won't be
called day nor night, but in the evening time it shall be Light." See?
Alpha and Omega; it's become the first and the last. Oh, my, brethren, we
could stay hours on that. And so in this series on questions and answers we
will do just that.
Again notice how brother
Branham points out that He (The ministry of Jesus Christ ) was the first and the
last, but not the in between. He said, the Alpha has
become Omega. Then he said the first Message and the last Message must
be the same. This is because Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever.
And if the Message is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, then it is the
revelation of Who He is, and he is the word. Therefore, if He has changed, then
His first Message and His last Message would have to be different. Also, this
let's us know that since the first and last Message are the same, and that
Message was a revealing of Who was in our midst, then we must surely know that
the last Message must also be a declaration of the One Who is here. And if He
is here, then He must perform the same way and do the same things that He did
back there. Again in the next quote we will hear brother Branham reaffirm
this same thought that the ministry must repeat in this hour.
Queen of Sheba 61-0119E E-58 Now, what kind of a light would it give?
If that was the first sunlight that shined on the eastern people, which is
S-o-n of God, and He did the things He did there on that day on Alpha, He
does the same thing at Omega.
Here, we see brother
Branham tell us that what God did in the first age He must repeat in the last.
Now, why would God do the same at the first and the last? Because if He is the
unchanging God. He can not change. Then, if God can not change, what He
did back then at the first, He must do again at the last.
Now, in answering our brothers Questions from Gabon,
concerning what brother Branham said about “there must be another Ephesians”, we find in his
sermon God Who is Rich in Mercy 65-0119
29 brother Branham said, “Now, if many of you like to just mark down
Scriptures that a minister reads... And I would like for you to tonight, if you
would, to turn to Ephesians. And I was speaking last Sunday on the
Ephesians, how that the Book of Joshua was the Ephesians of the Old Testament,
and how it was a Book of redemption. And redemption has two different parts:
"come out of" and "entering into." First, you have to come
out. Some people wants to bring the world in with them; but you got to come
out of the world to enter into Christ. You have to come out of unbelief to
enter into faith. There cannot be one thing in your way. To really have genuine
faith, you must absolutely leave everything that's contrary to the Word of God
behind to enter into faith, And that was the Book of the Ephesians of the Old
Testament: Joshua. Where, Moses represented the law, could not save no one, but
grace could, and here "Joshua" is the same word like Jesus,
"Jehovah-Savior." And now then, we find out that we have come to another Ephesians, another
A Paradox 65-0117 89 But we're promised, according to
Revelations 10, and according to Malachi 4, and Saint Luke 22:17, and so forth,
that there is got to come an Ephesians to this. There is promised it, friends.
There must come an Ephesians, that these sevenfold mysteries of the Word of God
must be unfolded. And it's in the Laodicean age that this takes place. I
believe that we're--we're there. I believe we're right in the shadows of
the coming of the Son of God. And as Joshua, just before the Ephesians raised
up, so did John the Baptist raise up just before the next Ephesians. And
we're promised another, another Ephesians. It's predicted here in the
Scripture; therefore, I think that we are living in the Ephesians again.
Back again to... We are promised that what was left off during those seven
ages...
Ww would See Jesus 57-0516 E-11 And that's been my
theme through the years. I read that same Scripture when I was here before. And
I hope to read it until death shall take me from the earth. Because, I do
solemnly believe that with all my heart, that Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday, today, and forever. He's called in the Bible, "The Alpha and
Omega; He that Was, Which is, and Shall Come." That makes Him the same
yesterday, today, and forever. "He that Was, He that Is, and Shall
come," just the same. He never changes. We change; time change; but God
never changes.
Questions and Answers 64-0823E 1021-119 And Jesus cannot come until a church, a
body of believers and the ministry that He once (were in...?)... will have to be the
same as it was then to... And then, that brings... "Them without us is
not made perfect," Paul said, Hebrews 11. "Without us they cannot be
perfected." They must have this
ministry to raise up the Lutheran, Wesley's, and all them down through their
ages.
The importance then, of
understanding this Alpha-Omega principle, is that if God performed in a certain
way or did a certain thing at the first, then He must repeat that certain way
or do that same thing in the last. And this is the key to understanding
Brother Branham's ministry and the identification of the pillar of Fire which
vindicated that ministry just as He vindicated the Apostle Paul's.
Angel of the Lord 51-0502 E-17 And we're living in the
Laodicean age, the last. And He was standing with His hands out to look upon. And
there, one hand like this was Alpha, the other one as Omega. As the lights went
out, on up to the dark ages and come down; just as they come in, so will they
go out, the same kind of Church, same kind of signs, same kind of people, Alpha
and Omega.
This quote shows
the importance of the Omega ministry in this hour. Not only did God come down
again as He did at the first, but He again hid Himself in a veil of flesh to
minister as He did in the body of His Only Begotten Son. And if Jesus ministry
had a certain effect upon the saints in that day, then His presence should once
again have the same effect upon the church in this day.
Christ outside the Door 58-0330E E-13 And He
was standing in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, which represented
the seven church ages, with His hands out, and to look upon as Alpha and Omega,
first and last. The highest candlestick was the darkest, of course. And in
this last church age, is supposed to receive the same light that they had in
the first, alpha to omega. But the pitiful part, in the Scriptures we are
learned here that he said, "Because you say, I am rich and am increased in
goods..." You see the condition of the church today?
Philadelphia Church Age 60-1210 135 Now, that's what He
revealed at the very
first church age. Now, watch. As John saw him standing, the seven golden
candlesticks, He was standing with His hands out. Here's the first candlestick,
second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, with His hands out in the form of
the cross. He said, "I am Alpha and Omega." In other words, "I'll
be supreme in the first; I'll be supreme in the last." The Lights
rises in the east and sets in the west. It's been a dismal, dark time, but
"It shall be Light in the evening time." The same Gospel power
that raised up here on the one hand at the east, has shined over and now in the
other hand at the west, "Alpha and Omega, I'm A and I am Z." In
His hand... You get it?
Therefore we can see the
significance of the Omega ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ to this last church
age. He said the ministry that He once had must repeat again to raise up
the dead and perfect the Bride.
And remember,
brother Branham said the importance of understanding the principle of Alpha and
Omega is that we might understand Who “He is”, (The One who is talking,
the One Who came down with a Shout.) And the purpose of that, is that we might
know His Voice and recognize Him. And how could we recognize Him when he comes
if he was a changing God. Therefore, it is the very unchanging nature of God
that allows us to recognize him when he comes. As brother Branham preached, "God is identified by His
Characteristics."
The Token 64-0208 235 Just think, the great Holy Spirit
coming, identifying Jesus Christ alive after two thousand years. See, the
very nature of Him doing the same thing as He promised it would be
done. That's right.
Grat Warrior Joshua 55-0119 E-44. And He's here tonight, the great
supernatural Lord Jesus Christ, the great I AM, the great Alpha, Omega, the
Beginning and the End. Why? The land belongs to us. "All that comes to
me I'll give him Everlasting Life and will raise him up at the last day."
Amen. We got the evidence of it here.
Rising of the Sun 65-0418M 45-3 He is the One Who opened
those Seals; He is those Seals. For the whole Word of God is Christ, and Christ
is the Seals that was open. What is the opening of those Seals then? Revealing
Christ. And the very seven Angels which represented the Seven churches was all
completed, and we couldn't even see It. They did--they took the picture, not
us. And there He is standing there, Supreme Judge, showing that He is Alpha and Omega, the
Beginning and the End. What identification. Quickening Power did that to us. Quickening
Power lets us see His coming.
What is the Attraction? 65-0725E 142 And the other day, standing there, turned
the picture to the right, and there's Jesus as He was in the Seven church Ages,
the white wig on, showing Supreme Deity. He's Alpha and Omega; He's the
First and the Last; He is the Supreme Judge of all eternity, standing there, confirmed the Message of
this hour. And
there shall be Light about the evening time! What's it all about? What was it?
Unveiling of God 64-0614M 370 How
many sees Him standing the Mighty Conqueror, the Word made flesh, unveiled
before us, the Alpha, the Omega, He that Was, Which Is, and Shall Come, the
Root and the Offspring of David; was the Son of man, the Son of God, Son of
man, and will be Son of David? You believe It with all your hearts? Unveiling
Himself in each age, brought it to the believer, veiling Himself in human flesh
from the unbeliever. He's hid behind a veil. May God break every veil and we
see Him as He is.
We would see Jesus 62-0627 E-106 O God of heaven,
forgive our unbelief. We know that's the only sin there is, the sin of
unbelief. And may the Holy Spirit come so upon each person just now that
they'll no more disbelieve because of the Presence of Christ tonight,
showing Himself alive after two thousand years, the Word Himself standing here
among us, in us, making His Word manifest.
Voice of The Sign 64-0313 E-68 Now He's here. Now each
one, in the way you pray at your own church--if it's to yourself, loud,
whatever it is. You pray for the person you got your hands on, 'cause they're
praying for you. And now, look up. And in the Presence of the Messiah, the Christ, the resurrected One still alive after two thousand years, how can we be so numb in the spirit? That ought to set this nation on fire.
That ought to make
Queen of the south 60-1127E E-46 The Bible said they would get a sign. What
kind of a sign would it be? The sign of the resurrection. Hallelujah. We have
it. Amen. It's here now. Jesus Christ has raised from the dead, and
is alive after two thousand years, showing Himself among us.
Letting off the Pressure 62-0609E
E-60 We know that Thou keepest Thy promise, Lord. And I pray that You
will vindicate Your Presence tonight. And we ask You, Father, to grant the same
things to happen here tonight before the people, just like it did before Your
crucifixion. That they might know after two thousand years that Jesus is not
one day older; He's the same Christ that He always was. He can never fail or never
change.
Redemption by Power 54-0329 3 There was never One like
Him on earth, never will be. He was Emmanuel. He was Alpha, Omega, the
Beginning and the End, He that was, which is, and shall come, the Root and
Offspring of David; the Morning Star. In Him dwelt Deity. In Him was God.
"God was in His Son, in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself."
Jesus said, "It's not me that doeth the works, but it's My Father that
dwelleth in Me. My Father and I are One," God made manifest in flesh.
What a marvelous revelation of God's love to us, He would unfold Himself and
come down and dwell in human flesh in order to take away sin and sickness from
the human race and redeem us back to the Father. That's wonderful, isn't it?
[Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] We sure appreciate that.
QA Image of the Beast 54-0515 195-291 He's Alpha, Omega,
the Beginning and the Ending, the Root and Offspring of David, the Bright
and Morning Star, Father, Son, Holy Ghost. "In Him dwelled the Fullness
of the Godhead bodily," said the Bible. The Fullness of God was in Him.
Hebrews chapter 5 AND 6 57-0908M 170-32 But
before Paul would accept this experience, knowing that the Angel of the Lord
was the Pillar of Fire, which was Christ, the... Well, He was the Angel of the
Covenant, which was Christ. Moses thought better that--chose rather to suffer
the afflictions with the people of Christ, and to be led by Christ, than all
the treasures of
What Hearest Thou Elijah 59-0412E
E-81
How--how many could just almost see the Presence of the Lord Jesus standing
there looking over His audience? The great Jehovah God, the Alpha and the
Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last, the same yesterday,
today, and forever, He's God.
Palmerworm Locust and Caterpillar 59-0823 138 There's one God. There's only One. He's
Jehovah God, the Great I AM; the Alpha, Omega, the Beginning and the End.
Revelation chapter One 60-1204M 183
Now, God at the beginning was the great Jehovah that lived in a Pillar of Fire,
hung above
We would See Jesus 62-0627 E-106 O God
of heaven, forgive our unbelief. We know that's the only sin there is, the sin
of unbelief. And may the Holy Spirit come so upon each person just now that
they'll no more disbelieve because of the Presence of Christ tonight, showing
Himself alive after two thousand years, the Word Himself standing here among
us, in us, making His Word manifest.
Perseverant 62-0719E E-99 Let us see You, Lord. One
day after the resurrection, Cleopas and his friend was on the road down to
Emmaus. And they talked with Him all day long, and they didn't know Him. But
late that evening, He went in the room with them, and they closed the doors.
And then He did something just the way He did it before His crucifixion, and
they knew that no one else did it that way, and they knew it was Him. So they
hurried back and told the people, after He vanished out of their sight, that
truly the Lord is risen. Father God, we're laid aside our task of the day. We're
here tonight. The room is closed in. Come, Lord. Do something among us tonight
just like You did before Your crucifixion, that we might lightheartedly, like
they were, go back along the road saying, "Did not our hearts burn within
us as He talked to us along the way." Grant it, Lord. One Word from You
will confirm everything that I've said. And if I've said the truth... And I
know, Lord, You'll only confirm truth. You will have nothing to do with lies
and errors. You only confirm the truth. Now, Father, I pray that You will
confirm what's been said to be truth. I commit myself to You with Your Word,
with Your congregation of people, and their faith that they have accumulated.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, we pray that You'll move on the scene now, and prove
to be with us after two thousand years. They... There's no death to Him. He's
alive, forevermore. Grant it, Father, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Presence of God Unrecognized 64-0618
138 "A
wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, notice, and they
will receive a sign." What? This generation. "For as Jonah was in the
belly of the whale three days and nights, the Son of man must be in the heart
of the earth three days and nights." What sign will that wicked and
adulterous generation receive? The sign of the resurrection. And today, after
two thousand years, we still see Jesus Christ in the power of His resurrection,
standing among us, doing the things that He did then and promised to do.
"A wicked and an adulterous generation will seek after a sign, always
wanting to 'show me this, and if you can do this and do this.' They'll get it,
the sign of the resurrection." He's the same yesterday, today, and
forever, the Word made manifest dwelling among us. How we should thank God for
His great sign.
The Patriarch Abraham 64-0207 66 After two thousand years have passed, two
thousand years, and still here He is in our midst, the mighty Conqueror
that rent the veil in two, that took every sickness, every disease, everything
upon Himself and bore our infirmities to the cross, and our sickness and our
diseases and triumphed over them, and raised up for our justification, and
stands alive after two thousand years to manifest Himself as the living Jesus
Christ amongst the royal seed of Abraham who are heirs of all things. Oh, my.
Those who after, goes through the test, promise of the Word. If you can believe
the Word, then you are also the seed of Abraham. That's how you come to it.
Greater than Solomon 63-0628E 151 And then after two
thousand years of Gospel preaching, and the Holy Spirit pouring out in this
last days, upon the people, the gifts of the Holy Ghost, and promised that this
great discernment would come back into the church again, what will she do to
this generation when she stands there, after her time plus two thousand years
of Gospel preaching in this last days to see gifts, not gift, but gifts of the
Holy Spirit? She surrendered her life to Christ. Why? 152
I have to close, 'cause I don't... I want--I want to pray for
you. Friends... She... They said, "Show us a sign. We want..." That's
what's the matter with the Pentecostals. You're looking for something, and one
of these days it's going to be too far; it passed right by you, and you didn't
know it. Remember, in the days of Elijah, they didn't know him. In the days of
John the Baptist, they didn't know him. And he was spoke of in the Scripture
that he'd be, "I send My messenger before My face to prepare the
way." And even the disciples come to Him, said, "Why must Elias
come?" He said, "He's already come and you didn't know it."
Greater than Solomon is Here 62-0628 E-35 The evening lights
are shining, and
they--this generation is receiving the sign of Jonas, the Christ that they
thought they got rid of. The church crucified Christ two thousand years
ago, and they could not kill Him no more. He said, "I'm alive
forevermore." And here He is after two thousand years among His people,
showing Himself, with the same things He did back there He's doing right here
again. Two thousand years has passed. He's alive forevermore, and has the
keys of death and hell. Amen.
Sirs, we would See Jesus 64-0304 160 You believe now? Just
have faith. All
right. That, you know, I didn't know...?... Come, sister. I don't know you.
We're strangers to one another, I suppose. If that's right, so the audience can
see that we're strangers. See? If the... This is just like where our Lord met a
woman one day. And here we meet again; we meet after two thousand years on His
promise, and here's a man and woman meets in the same way. I never seen you in
my life. I guess we're total strangers, but God knows both of us. Now, if the
Holy Spirit, Christ in here and in you, will reveal what you're standing here
for, or something about you, would you feel enthused like that woman did that
day?
The warning we receive with
this principle is that as the Alpha ministry was to the church, so would Christ
repeat that ministry to the Omega or end-time church. However, with that
ministry comes also judgment. And as the church began in the Alpha, so she
would end up in the Omega.
77-1
8-2 Ephesian Church Age -
CAB chptr 3 The fervent
desire to please God, the passion to know His Word, the cry for reaching out in
the Spirit, all begins to fade and instead of that church being on fire with
the fire of God it has cooled off and become a bit formal. That is what was
happening back there to the Ephesians. They were getting a bit formal. The
abandonment to God was dying out and the people weren't too careful about what
God thought of them as they began to be careful about what the world thought of
them. That second generation coming on was just like
REMEMBER, THEY LEFT THEIR
FIRST LOVE. HAVE YOU KEPT YOURS? Or is your heart set aflame by
God's word and Presence? Are you ready for the Rapture?