Rising of the Son no 1
Son
not sun
Brian Kocourek
September 18th, 2016
Therefore I believe brother Branham was referring to the Rising of the Son of God, and it is not the solar s.u.n. that he's speaking about, but
he is pointing us to the Resurrected Son of God, and The great Spirit that
lived in Him being back on the scene. And in order to understand why I have
chosen this sermon and its series to be called "Rising of the Son" we
have only to skip ahead and look to paragraph 20 to see what this sermon is all
about. It is not about the sun but it is all about the SON. and thus the Title
should be "The Rising of the SON."
Rising of the sun 65-0418M P:20 The first time
the sun rose in Genesis, it was bringing a message that there will be
life upon the earth: mortal life. But this time when the sun rose,
there was a--a dual sun-rising, another son-rising. It was a not only s-u-n
rising, it was a S-o-n had risen to bring Eternal Life to all
God's promised seed, that by foreknowledge He's seen laying upon the earth.
No more could the botany life live back there at the beginning without the
s-u-n to bring it to life; no more than today, when sons of God is upon the
earth, it take the S-o-n Light to bring them to Eternal Life. His chosen ones that He knew
before the foundation of the world, He had chosen them in Himself before the
foundation of the world. And on Easter morning then, in this dirt
somewhere, laid our bodies at that time, for we are the dust of the
earth; and in heaven there was a book of memory, and His attributes was
in Him, knowing that because this Son of God raised, It would also raise
to Life every son that was foreordained to this great time. He knew it
would be, and what a more glorious sonrise that was than it was at the
beginning, at time when it first dawn.
Now, the person who transcribed this from the tape keeps using the word s.u.n.-rising
instead of son
rising,
so I have changed the spelling to that which focuses our attention on the Son of
God rather than the s.u.n. For s.u.n. worship is pagan, but S.o.n. worship is
God ordained.
But in order for us to back ground this we will need to go to the Book of
Genesis to begin our reading in order to
get a background for this sermon. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and
void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God
said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God
divided the light from the darkness.
Notice that the first time God speaks, He
causes a division to take place, the light separates darkness.
Total separation from unbelief 64-0121 P:3 Now, the
thought of God's Word calling a total separation... We only know this by as
we read the Word and see the Word manifest Itself. Now, in the beginning (Genesis 1:3) we find that
there was darkness upon the earth. And the Spirit of God moved upon the water
and said, "Let
there be light," and there was light. And God saw that the
light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. So the Word of God began to
separate the light from the darkness from the beginning, so does
it remain to this day.
Man that can turn on light 63-1229M P:45 And to you men
that's listening to this across the world, wherever you may be, there's
something wrong with your experience when you say that you love God and refuse
His Word. There's something... You refuse the very... No wonder the things
can't, the church is in its condition and things cannot be done as God
promised, is because you won't even receive the Word or walk in the Light. The
Bible said, "Let us walk in the Light as He is in the Light, then
the Blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanses us from all sin." Sin is
unbelief. Then if we are walking in the God-given Light of the hour, then God
takes that Word that's given for the hour and vindicates It just like He did in
Genesis 1:3. He said, "Let there be light," and light
come forth. His Word went forth, and light followed it and it cleared away the
mist. And the darkness went to one corner, and the light shined on the other
side. That's the way God does today. He sends His Word for this hour,
and the Holy Spirit comes and makes that Word live. And the darkness
goes onto their creeds and denominations, but Light shines; because it's the
Word of God being vindicated that His Word is true. Now, there's nothing
fictitious about that, that's just exactly Scriptural. All right.
Man that can turn on light 63-1229M P:30 "Now, great Light, the
Gentiles who set in the regions of the shadows of death, great Light sprang up
among them. And Zabulon, the Nephthalim by the way of Galilee of the Gentiles,
great Light, they saw a great Light."
30 continued "Now, light, the first time light, we find it in the
Bible, is found in Genesis
1:3.
It was God's spoken
word made the
light. God said, "Let there be light," (Genesis
1:3), and there was light. Now, remember, then
light comes by the
spoken Word of God. And light is the vindication, or the
subject that He has spoke is light. When the light flies, shows that... God
said, "Let
there be light." There was no light, and He said, "Let there be light." and there was
light.
That's a proof; the light is a vindication of His spoken Word: same
thing today, a vindication of His spoken Word."
Now, let's continue our reading... 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the
morning were the first day.
Notice that "God
called the Light "Day"." Therefore, we
can see that this first Light in Genesis 1:3 is the Son of God, because the Apostle Paul spoke of this light in II Corinthians
4:6, where he said,
"For God,
who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ."
Remember, when
Paul was thrown from his horse on his road to Damascus, he said, "Who are you Lord,
and He said, I am Jesus Whom you persecute". Paul knew right then that he had been persecuting the followers
of Jesus of Nazareth, but that Jesus the Christ was more than just a man,
because this pillar of fire which led Israel had been living in Him.
We also find in the book of
Revelations that "The
Son of God is the Light of the world".
Revelations 21:23 And the
city had no need of the s.u.n., neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the
glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is
the light thereof.
And in the Book of Peter calls Him the "Day Star". II Peter
1:19 ¶ We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light
that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the
Day star
arise in your hearts:
And remember this Light that God called Day, he also
called Morning. Therefore, we also see He is also called the bright and morning
star in Revelations 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto
you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and
the bright and Morning
star.
And it was this same bright and morning
star that appeared in this hour, for He is the Alpha and Omega.
Approach to God 55-0123A E-47 We were
singing that when the Morning Star, the Angel of the Lord made It's first
appearance over where I was standing in public, for the first time in my life,
at the foot of Spring Street in the Ohio river in June '33, as a young Baptist
minister, there baptizing.
In fact Jesus Himself spoke of being this
light in John 8:12 ¶ Then spake
Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth
me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Now, for those of you who might think I am
taking this out of context, brother Branham said in his sermon Door To The Heart
60-0312 e-56 "After His death,
burial, and resurrection, Saul of Tarsus, on his road down to Damascus, was
stricken down by a light that put his eyes out. For a
season he was blind. That same Light was
Jesus Christ, which is the Light of the world,"
Notice Brother Branham was talking about
this same Pillar of Fire.
Again we see Paul speak of this in II Timothy
1:9, "Who hath saved us, and called
[us] with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own
purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus
before the world began, 10 But is
now made manifest by the appearing of our
Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath
abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light, through the
gospel:
Man
That Can Turn On The Light 63-1229M 80 God's
Word comes only by the Bible. God's Bible is the printed form
of the Son of God, because the Bible said that it is the revelation of Jesus Christ. It's God revealing Himself through Christ,
and Christ is the Word. And it takes the Light of God to shine upon
that Word to vindicate It, to prove that God still speaks Life, Eternal
Life, He speaks... The natural light brings the life. Life only comes by the
Light, the Word made manifest--or made flesh...
Now, we could take all day long and go into Scripture
and quotes concerning the light of Genesis 1:3 but we will never get through if we do
not continue on.
Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a
firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from
the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the
waters which were under the firmament from the
waters which were above the firmament: and it was
so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day. 9 And
God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And
God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering
together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it
was good.
Notice the second time God speaks He
separates the waters from above from the waters from below. And in doing so He
separates the waters from the land.
Notice we see separation again, although
if you look closely there is a gathering together of water with water and land
with land. That means that when God's Word goes forth there is always a
separation, even though it may be in the form of a gathering, but that
gathering always causes a division to occur.
Now, the third time God speaks He brings forth
Seed Life. And I want you to understand that although some might be critical
because preaching Doctrine may seem to be divisive, or causing separation, yet we've
shown that it is God's Word that always separates because God's Word is Life. And
therefore it is life that causes separation, always.
Without cells separating and thus dividing
you can never have multiplication of cells and thus reproduction or life, for
that is the law of life. Therefore there must be separation in order to bring
forth life.
Even the law of Mathematics tells you that
without division you cannot have a multiplication. And without the division of
cells you absolutely have no multiplication of cell life.
So we find in Genesis 1:11 "And God said, Let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in
itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And
the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding
seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw
that it was good. 13 And the evening
and the morning were the third day."
Now, thus far we have seen that God has given the
earth everything it needs to bring forth life. He sent Light, then water, and
now seeds. Now, it would not have done God any good to place the seeds in the
earth first without Light and water, because Light and water are instrumental
in bring forth life and to maintaining life.
Therefore, without Light and water even if you placed
life on earth it would soon perish. So there had to be a deep in order for
there to be a deep calling.
After God had set in the earth Light and then Water he
brought forth the seed life, then he continues with the rest of creation.
14 And God said, Let there be
lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and
for days, and years: 15 And
let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament
of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the
day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw
that it was good. 19 And
the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Notice after he brings forth first of all
His logos as a sacred light, he then separates the water and land,
and then places all seeds that will ever come forth in the earth at that point.
That is before anything else is created including the Sun, moon and stars. And
just think of it, in Ephesians
1:3-4 Paul tells us that we were actually chosen out or elected
by God before the Foundations of the World to come forth as predestined sons
and daughters for adoption and placing of sons.
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According as he
hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that
we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having
predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ
to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Now, it is interesting that
as it was at the beginning it will be in the new Jerusalem. God with his First
born son, and us as His predestined children. Before the s.u.n. was created,
the earth was lit by the glory of God's Logos, the little sacred light that
came forth from God, that played before the door of God's Eternity like a child
as we have already read from Br. Branham's sermon.
And we read in the Book of Revelation
21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither
of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And remember
without that Light, nothing can come to life.
Man
That Can Turn On Light 63-
1229M 95 There's nothing can give you Life but the spoken
Word of
God. It's
the only way that Life can come is through His spoken Word.
Now, in verse 3 we read again, "And the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters. 3 ¶ And God
said, Let there be light:
and there was light. 4 And God saw
the light, that it was
good: And
remember, Jesus Himself said "call no man Good but God."
So
this light had to be a part of God Himself for God to even call It Good.
Again we read in verse 5 And God called the light
Day. Therefore the first time God
speaks we see His Word brings forth a Light. This light cannot be the
s.u.n because we see the sun spoken of in verse 14. Genesis 1:14-19 ¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs,
and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for
lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it
was so. 16 And God made two great
lights; the greater light to rule
the day, and the lesser light
to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the
firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.
18 And to
rule over the day and over the night, and to
divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the
evening and the morning were the fourth
day.
I believe, based upon what Brother Branham
has told us, this light in Genesis
1:3 is the pre-incarnate Son of God, as we will see in his sermon, Attitude and who is God? 50- 0815 P:18 "I
can see Him speak to this world hanging there as an icicle, whatever it was, way away. And He moved
it over here. I can see this little Light go
out. Now, we got two now. The Father, and out of the
Father came the Light, the Son.
Therefore, we know that the Light that
went forth from God was “the Logos” or “a
part of God”, which is the Son of God in spirit form,
pre-incarnate. And after the light of Genesis 1:3 we later saw in Genesis 1:14-19 an account
of the s.u.n. and moon being created.
Now, these lights were placed here to regulate
the seed life that God placed in the earth, and these other lights were for
signs and seasons etc.
Therefore, this first Light we see in
Genesis 1:3 is described by brother Branham in his sermon, "QA On Genesis 53-0729 010 as, "Out of
God came the Logos, which was the Son of
God;
And
from his sermon, Life 57-0602 E-22 The
great fountain of all eternity was that spirit of love, joy, that spirit of
honesty, that spirit of trueness in this perfection. And then out of the
existence of the Father went the Logos which was the Son, which was
the theophany, which was the body of the great Jehovah God went forth in a celestial Body. That's the Logos. The Word spoke out of them great Fountains of
Life and went forth. And there was the theophany, which was God made into Word.
Then that theophany was made flesh in the Person Christ Jesus.
Now, you might say, well, "he
was before all things, and by Him all things consist", and that
is right. Then you say, well when this light came
forth, the Bible says that the earth already was in existence.
But that is not what it really says in verse 2. It says the
earth was without form. Genesis
1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And
the earth was without form, and the word form if you look
it up in the Hebrew was translated from the word "tohuw"
which means "empty space". In
other words it was not created yet. It was in
God's mind, but was not clothed upon as yet. And
the Bible further explains it as being and void; and that was
translated from "bohuw"
which means emptiness like a vacuum. So you
see to this point there isn't any creation yet. There was only
emptiness like a vacuum.
I remember when brother Vayle as my
mentor, have me his sermon notes on the Logos, which he had hand written word
by word. I still have them today, and he said in his notes that when God
created horse, he said horse was a spirit being. When he created man, man was a
spirit being, then in Chapter
2 of Genesis God
dressed his created beings with the dust of the earth to bring them into
manifestation. But even before they were clothed upon, they still had their
nature and characteristics they would have when clothed upon. Because it was
the life that was created and that life is invisible until clothed upon.
Verse 1 tells you
only that God created the heavens and the earth. And Verse 2 tells you
the conditions that were there when God set forth the creation into motion.
and darkness (obscurity,
absence of light;) was upon the face of the deep (the Hebrew
word for deep was "thowm" and
it means "an abyss", and an abyss is defined
as an immeasurably profound depth
or void: So you see
there was only nothingness out there.
There was not even an atom yet to make anything from.
From his sermon, Invasion of the USA 54-0509 P:12 brother Branham
said, "If
we would think, this is the very earth that we're living on, this morning, is
the Word of God. That tree is the Word of God. And you, your
body, is the Word of God. God spoke it into existence like that, made it from nothing,
which had nothing...Did you ever notice the human life, where it come from? One
little cell so small that a human eye couldn't see it, only through a great,
powerful glass. And out of there come a hundred-and-fifty, two-hundred-pound
man. Where did it come from? See? God just spoke it, and it just started by
nature, growing, and there it produced just exactly. He spoke every
tree, everything into existence. And it's such a wonderful, wonderful thing
this morning to view the Word of God.
I just want to shout right
now, I can hardly contain myself. And we were in Him, in His thoughts, in Him
as a Royal Seed line, a God Lineage. Oh, my and people want to put fear on you
through the doctrines of man.
The literal transliteration
of this is there was an absense of light was upon the face of nothingness. And the
Spirit of God moved upon the face (or presence) of the waters (Translated
from the Hebrew word "mayim"
which means a course, a flood, or a spring. So we see
here the thoughts of God beginning to
erupt into a stream of life and the first Life He brought forth
was His Son through the Spoken Word.). 3 And God said, Let
there be light: and there was light. And so God birthed forth His
Son, the logos, as brother Branham explained it..
Hebrews Chapter 1 57-0821 P:4 Now,
here's what happened. Oh... Excuse me; I just get on this... This just gets me
right where I love it. See? The Logos, and this great Fountain; this great Fountain of Spirit
which had no beginning or no end, this great Spirit begin to form in the creation; and the Logos that
went out from It was the Son of God. It was the only
visible form that this Spirit had. And It was a theophany, which means a body,
and the body was like a man. Moses saw It when It passed through by the rock.
And he looked at It, said, "It looked like the hind part of a man."
It's the same type of body that we receive when we die here, "If this
earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already
waiting." That was it. And that was
the Theophany which was the Son of God. That Son, that Logos became flesh because
we were put in flesh. And the Theophany, the Logos, became flesh here among us,
and It was nothing else but the dwelling place; for that entire Fountain dwelt
in Him. Oh, do you see it? There it is. That was the One that in...
Now, that is how I view Genesis 1:3 based on
what I see a vindicated prophet saying that the first light was the Son of God.
Since I am not vindicated you can take it for what it's worth. But at least I
am doing my best to align the Scripture with what a vindicated Prophet said. I
do not know how you may
try to explain this "light", but
at least what I see makes more sense from the Scripture than any other
explanation I have seen anyone else come up with, because of the meaning of the
Hebrew words involved here.
And that explains the creation
by Him and through Him. And if the
Son of God is the Logos which came forth from
God, then God Himself had to be Logos as well.
Because every seed must bring forth after its own nature. And if the Spoken Word is the Original Seed, and that
is a Word seed, then if it produced
Logos, it can only be because He (God Himself) is
Logos. That is Why St. john said, "In the beginning was the
Word (Logos) and the
Word (Logos) was with God, and the Word (logos) was God."
What does it
Take to make Christian Life 57-0113 E-42 Now, I want you
to notice. In the beginning when God our Father looked over this bleak
earth, and it wasn't nothing but one great big ball of water, and God
sent the Holy Spirit to the earth, the Logos that went out of God, and It begin
to brood over the earth.
Questions and
Answers 64-0823E 1019-108 Now, that
Pillar of Fire is the
Logos that went out of God, the Logos, which is actually the attribute
of the Fullness of God. When God become into a form to where It could be seen,
It was the anointing of the great Spirit that went forth, Its
condescending, coming down, God, the Father, the Logos that was up over
Israel, that... He was holy, could not bear sin. There had to be a blood
offering right in Eden. Then that Logos become flesh and dwelt among us; and where this Logos
dwelt in a human body, which was the Sacrifice... When man was made
in the image of God... And then God came down in the image of man to
redeem man; that brought man and God together. Heavens and earth hugged
and kissed each other; God and man embraced each other as Fatherhood and
Sonship when the Logos
became flesh and dwelled among us. Jesus said, "I came from God, and I go to God."
Is that right? After His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension,
when the body was taken up to set at the right hand of God... Now, I
don't mean God's got a right hand; God's a spirit. But at the "right hand"
means "in power and authority of God."
That in that Name everything in heaven is named after It and subject to
It. Everything in earth is named after It and subject to It, a Name above
all names, Jesus Christ. Now, this Logos that was in Him, which was the
Spirit of God, the Anointing, through the sanctifying grace of the
Blood, brought many sons to God, which is anointed with this same Logos.
Notice Brother Branham tells us that the
Logos was God the Father that was above over Israel, and that this same Logos
came down and dwelt in His Son, making the Logos separate from the Son, yet dwelling
in the Son. Notice also that He said it was the Spirit of God that was in Him
and just as it anointed Jesus it anoints others sons. Brother Branham does not
speak of this Logos as being some sort of mystical thing, but he calls it the
Spirit of God. It is the very Life of God which came into His Son, creating in
Him a dual being as we shall see later on in this study.
We would see Jesus 58-0612 P:55 Look. When He was
here on earth, how many knows that that was the Pillar of Fire that followed
the children of Israel in the wilderness, that It was Christ, the
Angel of the covenant? All right. And how many knows that that was Jesus in Jesus, that same Spirit?
Look, when they questioned Him, Saint John 6, calling your...?... attention to it. They said,
"You
say you're greater than Abraham?" And said, that, "Why, you're only
fifty years old, yet."He said, "Before Abraham
was, I AM."
I AM was in the burning bush. Is that right? A Pillar of Fire...
When He was here on earth, He said, "I came from God, and I go to God." Did He
say it?
And
then, if He came from the Pillar of Fire, He returned back to it again. After
His death, burial, and resurrection, Saint Paul was on his road down to
Damascus and big bright Light struck in his face and blinded him. None of the
rest of them saw It. Paul saw It. It blinded him; he fell on the ground. What
is this Pillar of Fire, again? "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou
Me?""Who are You, Lord?""I'm Jesus." Is that
right?
Now, this is why some are having
trouble understanding there is only "One Lord", and there is not
any such thing as "Two Lords".
They seem to think that the man Jesus
Himself became Lord, but I keep telling them as brother Vayle told us, get your
eyes off the vessel and focus on the God who uses the Vessel. We do not call
the pillar of fire, Lord, and we do not call the cloud that led the children of
Israel Lord. Why would we then call a man Lord when as brother Branham said, The man, the body
was not deity but deity dwelt in the body.
God's gifts always find place 63-1222 P:50 Jesus was Deity
in service for death to redeem the world. But what did the world do to it? They
refused it. They rejected it. Why? Some of them, a big part of them, did that
because this: because He did die. They said, "He couldn't be Deity and
die." The
man, the body was not Deity, but Deity was in the body. This
body has to perish. The
very Christ that's in you is the only thing that can raise you up.
That's Deity, God in
you.
You ask them "when was Jesus made Christ",
because in Acts
2:36 we read, Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly,
that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Notice God made him, so How did God make him Lord has got to be the same
way God made him Christ. and they wouldn't dare preach there are "Two Christ's".
But brother Branham tells us
plainly how Jesus was made Christ. He said when God who is the Christ entered
into Him at the river Jordan.
Elisha the prophet 56-1002E P:21 Now, a double
portion of Elijah's Spirit come on Elisha, and he done twice the miracles that
Elijah did. And a double portion of the Holy Spirit... Now, I want you to
notice. Elijah had a robe as a symbol. A robe was what he was wrapped in. And
he... It was a symbol of the Holy Spirit. And as he went up... He
watched, and the robe fell back from the chariot. And he picks up the robe, and
laid it on his own shoulders, and went down to the Jordan, and started doing
miracles. And Jesus, the baptism that He had was the baptism of the Holy
Spirit, which was in Him, that come on Him at the river Jordan after He was baptized
in water. John bare record seeing the Spirit of God like a
Dove coming upon Him. And notice. Then when He went up, He sent back
the same Robe that He was wrapped in, the Holy Ghost upon the Church. And
now, people that believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit and afraid to take
Divine healing? When we... And afraid to declare yourself a member or associate
among those believers? Why, you should be ashamed. It'd be the greatest
honor to know that I have been wrapped in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Amen. And He seen fit to do that.
So you see, he became
Christ, Anointed when the Anointer entered into Him, And he even asked the
question, can you receive the same baptism I am baptized with?
Making the valley full of ditches 56-0728
P:22 Now,
Elijah was that type of man. And when Elisha knew that he was to take his
place, Elijah give him a trial. He said, "You stay here,
because I'm going to another city." And Elisha knew that he had to
watch him. He was inspired. He said, "As the Lord
liveth, and your soul never dies, I'll not depart from you." On and on
they went until finally the last trial. And they crossed Jordan. He said,
"Now,
what can I do for you?" He said, "That a double
portion of your spirit would come upon me." Now, that
seems strange, the spirit of a man coming upon another. "I want a double
portion of your spirit." Said, "You've asked a
hard thing. But nevertheless, if you see me when I go, you'll have it." So they
walked on. And after awhile, the chariots of fire, and horses of fire came
down, and Elijah stepped on, and pulled off his robe, and threw it back to
Elisha. And he put it on and walked down to the river with a double portion of
the Spirit of Elijah, a beautiful type of the Church. Jesus said, "These things that
I do, shall you also. And more than this shall you do. Can you be baptized with
the baptism that I am baptized with? Can you drink from the cup that I drink?" Said,
"Yes,
you will."
And a double portion (you see it?) of the Holy Spirit was to come upon the
Church. And a double of what Jesus did was to be done by the Church.
Oh, where is the faith of the Church tonight? That's afraid, crawled
back in the shell like a turtle, hiding. Now, listen. The only thing that you
need to do is to come out.
And I will just say, you
think he spoke that in vein? You think he believed himself that he was talking
only about himself? You think he had in mind that if the hand did it the rest
of the body did it? No, he was talking to the church. Why are people so afraid
to stand up as a son of God and walk like Jesus walked, and live like he lived,
and talk like he talked, and do the works that he did. So they make a theology
to excuse themselves because they don't have what he's talking about. Instead
of talking about the promise they bypass the promise through intellectual
thought.
Therefore, if Jesus was
anointed and became Christ Anointed when God entered into Him, then when he was
made the anointed one, and there is only one Christ, the Anointer Himself,
God who is the Only Lord. Then when he
was made Lord is when he was made Christ, and we don't say now there are two Christ's?
When God entered His Son, the son became the embodiment of God Himself and that
is when he, the body became the "Lord Jesus Christ." Not the man was deity,
but deity dwelt in the man. get your eyes off the vessel and on to the God who
uses the vessel.
We went over that last week
where brother Branham said Lord is the Father, God Himself, Jesus is the name
given to God's son, He came in His Father's name, and Christ is the anointing
or the Holy Ghost Life.
Look, brother Branham said in his
sermon, QA Hebrews part 2 COD 57-1002 P:90 It's
all about God, "So...it's all
one great perfect God; it's all one great perfect Christ, one great
perfect Church, one great perfect redemption, everything. It comes a trinity,
but it's all in one.
See? It's not three people, not three this; it's just one Person, one
Church, one Body,
one Christ, one Lord in you all, through you all,
and so forth like that: all one.
Now, here is brother Branham
saying there is one Lord in you and working through you. That doesn't make you
and me another Lord.
There's only One Lord
who works through any vessel he so chooses. So get your eyes off the vessel and
on the God who is using the vessel. That is the problem many message people
have, they want to elevate brother Branham to a greater than the son of God
almost. Why? Because they do not understand God has used many vessels to show
forth His glory, but he will not share his glory with no man.
Isaiah 48:11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake,
will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my
glory unto another.
Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another,
neither my praise to graven images.
Now, if God will not give His Glory to another, then
it is obvious that in order to have His Glory, you have to have Him. Then in
order for you to reflect His Glory, it must be Christ in you reflecting. See? So what did Jesus mean when he said in John 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify
thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee
before the world was.
God didn't give it to Him, or any other, or his word
would be broken, but he had it with God. That is why you can't have eternal
Life without having God's own Life in you. That is why those who teach that all
that was in the Father he poured into His son, and then they do away with the
father, that is so ridiculous. And all that was in Christ he poured into the
church so there is no more son, and it's now all in the church. That is so
contrary to Scripture. All God had he entered into the son and now the son
became God manifested through the flesh of His own Son.
And didn't the apostle Paul
show us this by saying in, Ephesians 4:4 There is one body,
and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
And don't we realize as Paul
said in 1 Corinthians 6:17 But he that is joined unto the (One) Lord is one spirit.
And of course brother
Branham's favorite scripture on this subject, 1
Corinthians 12:13 For
by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one
Spirit.
So It is not giving to
another and that other becomes Lord, but God Himself by entering into that
vessel, brings Lordship into that vessel as long as God The One Lord is
indwelling that vessel. When you say "Lord Jesus Christ" you are
speaking of the Father who indwelt His Son, you are not looking at the son
Himself as a separate entity who is Lord Jesus Christ.
Brother Vayle talked with
brother Francois from Switzerland and asked him, "what do
you immediately think of when you hear the name Jesus". And of course the brother described the bearded man with nail
scarred hands called Jesus. But then brother Vayle shows him that Paul met God
on the road to Damascus and God said, "I am Jesus whom you persecute." And what Paul
saw was God in the form of the pillar of Fire.
So we are looking at a
vessel called the son of God, and it is the
rising of that son that
brother Branham is addressing in this sermon, "It is the Rising of the Son."
Now,
in continuing this thought brother Branham said in his sermon, Future Home 64-0802 49-1 Remember
that the Holy Ghost descended on Jesus, which Jesus was a part
of the earth. Why? The germ
of God, the Life of God was designed in the
womb of a woman (That right?), which was the earth. All right. And then the Life of God came in, so He
was the beginning of the creation of God.
and again in Q and A
on Genesis COD 53-0729 pp. 26, brother Branham went on to say,
"Now, "No man has seen the Father at anytime." No
man can see God in the bodily form, because God is not in body form; God is a Spirit. See?
All right. "No man has seen the
Father, but the only begotten of the Father hath declared Him," I John... See?
Now, but notice now, there's nothing; there's just space.
There's no light; there's no dark; there's no nothing; it's just
seems nothing. But in there is a great supernatural
Being, Jehovah God, PP.
28 Now, notice. Then after while I begin to see a little
sacred Light begin to form, like a little halo or something; you could
only see it by spiritual eyes to look now, while we're looking, the whole
church now. We're standing on a great big banister, watching what
God's doing. And we'll get right down to this question here and you'll
see how He brings it in. Now, no one has seen God. And
now, the next thing we begin to see, by eyes
of supernatural looking, we see a little white Light forming out
there. What is that? That was called, by Bible readers, "Logos,"
or "the anointed," or "the
anointing," or as I was going to say, the part of God begin to
develop into something so human beings
could have some type of an idea what It was: it was a little, a little Light moving. He... That was the Word of God. Now, God gave Himself birth to this Son which was
before there was even an atom or air to make an atom. That was... See, Jesus
said, "Glorify Me, Father, with the glory that We
had before the foundation of the world."
See, way back in yonder...
Before we go any further, let me say that
most people read this wrong. They are reading what brother
Branham is saying here with a pre-filter that reads,
God gave birth to Himself, but that is
not what he said. He said, God
gave Himself … And we should ask, “what did He give to Himself?” And the
answer is, “birth to this Son”. That is totally different
than giving Himself birth. To
read it as God giving Himself birth does not even make sense, seeing He already existed. But to give
Himself a son by birthing that son forth into existence is altogether
different. Now there becomes two involved.
One who is God and One who is His Son.
Again, I want you to notice that brother
Branham points out to us that it was a part of God which came
forth in this birth process and brought forth a SON. Again, I want you to
notice that brother Branham points out to us that it was a
part of God , not God birthing Himself, if that were
even a reasonable thought, but it was a part of God that came
forth from God. which came forth in a process of giving birth to a SON.
I will restore 54-0809A P:12 Now, then in
order to get the basis of this for a few minutes, I believe that everything
that is now, began in Genesis. The word "Genesis" is "the beginning." And every
cult that we have on the face of the earth today begin in Genesis. Everything
that we have today started in Genesis. It's the beginning, or otherwise
known as the seed
chapter of the Bible where the beginning originated. When God, way
back before there was a star in heaven, before there was even light in the skies
(That's as far as our little mind could take it.), God was there. All that
great space of eternity to eternity, God was setting back in eternity. Then
out of God came the Logos, which we would say it, like a little sacred
Light that moved out of that darkness, or out of that eternity, as a
child playing before the father's house. And in His infinite mind He had
the scene what would be at the end from the beginning that He was then. And
He... Then He spoke and said, "Let there be." And an
atom split yonder in the sky somewhere, and the sun came into existence.
Therefore, as we close,
let's just read from paragraph 20 of "It is
the Rising of the Son" where brother Branham says, ...
Rising of
the Sun pp. 04-18-6518 Now, the sun, at this rising of the sun...
Well, there was a time when the world was laying in utter darkness. It was
without form and was void, and it was all covered with water, and was laying
there in the dark, dismal, gloomy atmosphere. And the Spirit of God moved upon
that water and said, "Let there be light."God had
a reason to do that, for down
beneath that water there was seeds that He had planted, and it had
to have that sunlight to make it live. And the first Light was ever given in the earth was God's
spoken Word. The
first Light that ever struck the earth was God's spoken Word; He
said, "Let
there be light." And there was light, that turned darkness
into light in order to bring forth a creation of joy and life upon the earth.
Wednesday night we will speak on these
seeds that God planted in the earth before he even brought forth the cosmic dust
to give shape to the earth.
Let us pray,...