Colors of the Rainbow
Covenant part 4
- Breastplate Stones - the Colors
March 26, 2017
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
For the past couple weeks we've
been looking at the Colors of the Rainbow Covenant of God, and we've found that
the seven colors of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. Each color
has a significance or reason why, and each plays a vital role in God's motives
and attitude towards man. In other words these seven colors are seven
individual bows that come together to form a rainbow covenant. Each color signifies a specific promise from God and all
together they form the seven compound redemptive covenant of God with man, like
a great bar code that contains the legal language in each stripe of the bar.
We have also found that brother
Branham said the seven colors are also represented
in Scripture as the following.
1) The seven gifts of the Spirit,
2) The seven fruits of the spirit,
3)The seven spirits of God as seen
in Revelations chapters 1, 3, 4 and 5
4) The seven stars as mentioned in
Revelation 3
5) The seven lamps of God
6) The seven Church age messengers
7) The seven church ages
And finally 8) the seven steps in
attaining the stature of a perfect man which is the adopted son who has come to
full maturity.
Revelations Chapter 4 pt 2 24 Elders 61-0101 196 But when John saw Him here, what was it?
The day of redeeming was over. It was all over, so he seen Him back in His
original condition, an amber color. The sun can only shines on half the
world at a time (See?), as it goes around. But when John saw Him, He was setting to look upon as jasper and sardius stone, amber colors; mix
the two together, you got amber. "And a amber color around the throne." Oh, my. Oh, I tell you, that just... We
could just go on and on. Seven Spirits, seven colors, seven church ages, seven
ministers, seven lights, everything's in a seven. God's perfect in seven.
God worked six days; the seventh day He rested. The world will exist six
thousand years, and the seventh thousand is the millennium.
Revelation 3:1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis
write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God,
and the seven stars; I know thy works, that
thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Revelation 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the
throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as
it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. (Church Age
Messengers)
Revelation 4:5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings
and thunderings and voices: and there were seven
lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
Revelation 1:4 John to the seven churches
which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which
was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which
are before his throne;
In our study we have seen that God
before there was anything, dwelt alone in a great seven colored rainbow
fountain of life. QA Hebrews Part
3 57-1006 339-Q-74 In the beginning God... We'll go back to our Hebrew teaching just for
a few minutes. God
was this great big fountain of seven colors. How many knows
that? See?
We have also seen that as the
Great seven colored rainbow of God's presence brought forth life, it came forth
as a white light which is the summation of all seven colors. This white light
was called the logos that came forth from God, and brother Branham called it
the son of God.
Brother Branham spoke of this in his sermon, QA Hebrews Part 3 57-1006 339-Q-74 In the beginning God... We'll go back
to our Hebrew teaching just for a few minutes. God was this great big fountain
of seven colors. How many knows that? See? … Now, when He, the Logos went out of God, which was God coming from this
one big fountain into a body in the form of a man, and it made the Logos, which
we call theophany...
We saw also how that when a person
receives the Holy Spirit, he receives a small white light that enters him which
he said was the size of a button on a man's shirt.
Now, we do not have time this
morning to read all those quotes but I will take just the parts where I have
stated these facts and read them here.
QA Hebrews Part 2 57-1002 273-385 See, there cannot be an eternal son, because a
son had to have a beginning. And so Jesus had a beginning; God had no
beginning. See? But the Son was the... Not eternal sonship, but the Son that was with the Father
in the beginning was the Logos that went out of God. And it was
the Theophany of God that went out, the human form that didn't have eyes like
you see: a better eye. It didn't have ears like you hear, but a far more
hearing. See? It was a Theophany, that all this rainbow condescended into a Theophany.
And from his sermon QA Hebrews
Part 2 57-1002 273-385 And so Jesus had a beginning; God had no
beginning. See? But the Son was the... Not eternal sonship, but the Son
that was with the Father in the beginning was the Logos that went out of God.
And it was the Theophany of God that went out, the human form that didn't have eyes
like you see: a better eye. It didn't have ears like you hear, but a far more
hearing. See? It was a Theophany, that all this
rainbow condescended into a Theophany.
Now,
when all seven colors condescended into that theophany, it came forth as a
white Light because white is the culmination of all seven colors coming
together.
From the Message ATTITUDE AND WHO IS GOD? 50-0815 015 notice
that brother Branham tells us this light that came forth from God was" a little white Light, like a mystic Light, like a Halo. Let's listen to what he says here. "And we're taught in the beginning, that
the Logos, or the Son of God went out of
God. Now, I do not believe in eternal sonship. That's even radical to even
mention such a thing, eternal sonship. How could He had an eternal
sonship...?... He had to have a beginning.
See? 016 So He first was God, Jehovah. And
out of Him... Let's just picture now as a little drama so you can get it. Let's
see coming out of space where there's nothing, let's make it a little white Light, like
a mystic Light, like a
Halo. And that was the Logos that went out of God in the beginning.
That was the Son of God that came
out of the bosom of the Father. That was what was in the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was
made flesh and dwelled among us. In the beginning was God. And then out of God came the
Logos, a part of God that went out of God.
Hebrews Chapter 1 57-0821 20-124 There's a Great Fountain going forth of Spirit, and out
of this Fountain came the most pure of love; 'cause there was nothing for it to
come from there but love.
We have seen where brother Branham
called these seven colors the Motives and attitude of God. He
called them the seven spirits of God, which he was not speaking of seven
individual spirit but rather seven attribute and characteristics of God.
Hebrews Chapter 7 PT 2 Church Order
57-092 345-329 The first was a color of red,
perfect love, redemption. And how if we had time to give
those colors, and show
that each one of those colors represents God's purity. Amen. Those colors,
there's seven natural
colors. Those colors represents the purity of God. And the... Those colors represent the
motives of God, the attitude of God.
And if they represent the motives and attitude, then they reflect
His attributes and characteristics which is his very nature, and thus His
character.
Now brother Branham also said these seven colors represent seven gifts
of the Spirit.
Hebrews Chapter 1 57-0821 20-124 The chip what makes a sparkle, the way it's cut.
It's cut, chipped, and then when it does, it makes a sparkle, and one
will go a green light,
the other one will go a blue
light, and maybe another an emerald light, and a red light, and different lights go from it like a rainbow color. They call it
fire in the diamond. Now, each
one of those lights represents gifts.
And finally Wednesday we showed
that just as the Logos of God the Son of God came forth from that great seven
colored fountain of Life as a little white light so too every son of God is
also a part of the same logos and when the Life comes to each son it comes as a
little lick of fire or white light just as it did the Son of God himself.
From The Messiah 61-0117 P:18 br.
Branham said, "when
a man gets saved,... The
Light that comes into him is about like this little white button on my shirt.
That's when God comes into the inner part of a man.
Uncertain
sound 60-1218 P:20 When a man's saved, that much of him is God. That's the little Light that
comes in to make him quit doing what's wrong. Now, if you can
take all the malice, and envy, and strife, and unbelief out, that little button-like of the
Light and power of God will keep growing, growing, growing, growing, crowding
out unbelief. And you don't do it by exhortations of bodily
exercise. You do it by a sanctified, consecrated Life, that the Holy Spirit
moves through you.
Now, with this background in mind,
I would like to move further into our study this morning and show you how that
these seven colors of God's Covenant rainbow are also seen in the Stones of the
Urim and Thummim which was the breast plate of Aaron.
Exodus 28:29 And Aaron shall bear
the names of Israel in the Breastplate of judgment upon his heart when he
goeth unto the holy Place for a memorial before the Lord continually".
God gave the design for this breastplate of
Judgment to Moses. It was to be worn over the heart of Aaron the High priest as
He entered into the presence of God.
Exodus 28:29 And Aaron shall bear
the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his
heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually. 30 And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim
and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he
goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of
Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
Remember, the Breastplate was designed by God
Himself, and through it He would reveal His divine will to man. The
breastplate was designed with the names of the twelve tribes engraved on the
stones that were placed in four rows of three stones each. Each stone of the twelve
stones represented one tribe of Israel and
therefore all the people of Israel. As the high priest came into the presence
of God, he carried over his heart the names of each tribe of Israel, which is
God's heritage. The breastplate contained 12 gemstones. The material of the
breastplate was woven with threads of gold and blue, purple and scarlet linen
threads. The number of the threads and the order of the colors were, according
to the "Targums” one
of gold, six of blue, six of purple, and six of scarlet.
The breastplate consisted of two pieces, which
formed a purse, or bag, and in which were kept the two sacred stones, named the Urim (representing
light and excellence) and the Thummim (representing
perfection and completion). These stones were God ordained
instruments in which the High Priest used them to inquire of God about matters
concerning the children of Israel.
The Urim
and Thummim were two Precious stones. When someone needed an answer from God before making an
important decision, they would go to the high priest, and enquire of him to
take their request into the presence of God for an answer. The high priest
would stand before the Lamp stand, holding the Urim in one hand and the Thummin
in the other. As the light reflected from the Urim and the Thummin onto the
stones of the Breastplate, this flash of light provided up to 24 combinations
(2 x 12). Since there are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, the flashes of
light could produce strings of letters.
Hebrews Chapter
1 57-0821 8-52 Now, in the Old Testament they had three
different ways they can know a message. First
the law, that was just the law. Then
they had a prophet, a dreamer,
and they had the Urim Thummim. Now, that may
be a little deep. The Urim Thummim was the
breastplate that Aaron wore on his breast. In there was twelve stones: jasper, sardius, carbuncle, so forth, on down. They got all twelve
of the big stones that was in the breastplate, showing that he was the high
priest of every tribe, the twelve tribes of Israel. This breastplate hung on a pillar in the church, and when a prophet
prophesied, and they wanted to be sure it was right or not, the prophet or the
dreamer stood before this Urim Thummim; and he told his dream or his vision, whatever he had saw. And if the sacred lights... Oh, do you see it?
God's always dwelt in the supernatural realm. The conglomeration, those lights were just normal until this
voice went forth. And when the voice struck those stones, if it wasn't
supernatural, she laid dormant. But if it was
supernatural, those lights all reflected the rainbow color together.
Amen. Then that was God speaking, "That
is My prophet. That dream came from Me." It was according to the Urim
Thummim that they judged.
As God breathed upon the Ark, the Veil would
move, permitting a breeze to flicker the flames in the Lamp stand which would
alter the angle of direction of the light onto the Urim and Thummin, and
through them onto the Breastplate. In this way God communicated directly, but
not audibly, to the high priest and answer the enquiry. This is a type of the
Word which we have for this day as Paul tells us in
II TIMOTHY 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, (Inspiration from inspire or to
breathe, That means all Scripture is God breathed) and
is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished
unto all good works.
Revelation Chapter Four pt
1 60-1231 184 Oh, tomorrow we got a great lesson, the
Lord willing. Tomorrow we take the judgments; we take the
sardine stone, see what it represents, what part it played. And we take the jasper, and we take all the
different stones, and we take these all down through Ezekiel, back into Genesis, back over to Revelations, come down in the middle of the Bible, tie it
together, these different stones and colors, and so forth.
And then we bring it right straight back to that and see if that ain't right.
See? See if it ain't the same color and everything, just the same thing. And
the same Holy Spirit, the same God, showing the same signs, same wonders, doing
the same thing just as He promised...
Upon the breastplate
were four rows of precious stones
with three stones in each row. Each stone had the name of
one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Jewish historian Josephus described
these stones were laid in the breastplate "in the order of their
birth",
Judah Sardius (Red) |
Issachar Topaz (Yellow) |
Zebulon Carbuncle (Crimsom red) |
Reuben Emerald (Green) |
Simeon Sapphire (Deep
blue) |
Gad Diamond (Transparent) |
Ephraim Ligure (Amber
Yellowish
Green) |
Manasseh Agate (White with Red lines) |
Benjamin Amethyst (Indigo) |
Dan Beryl (Yellow) |
Asher Onyx (Greenish White) |
Naphtali Jasper (Green) |
ExodusS 28:17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a
topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first
row. 18 And the second row shall be an
emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. 19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an
onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold
in their in closings. 21 And the stones
shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their
names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they
be according to the twelve tribes.
The Breastplate of Aaron
stone colors
Notice the seven colors of the rainbow Covenant
of God are seen in the breastplate stones, (red, and orange, and yellow, and green
and blue,
and indigo and violet).
The Breastplate
Today, even after centuries of study concerning
the Breastplate of Aaron, we still cannot fully distinguish the exact color of
the stones because the translation of the Hebrew words for the stones is of
some uncertainty as yet. There seems to be a great deal of disagreement as to
their original colors; yet there are two of which we can be very certain. One
is the corner stone, the other is the last stone in
the breastplate. The corner stone is that of a sardius or sardine and
this is always red. Immediately as we look at the breastplate of the high
priest, with those twelve glittering stones, (each representative of a tribe of
Israel), upon his breast as he went into the Holy of Holies on the Day
of Atonement; we see him taking the problems, the troubles, the sins and trials
of the entire nation before Yahweh, seeking forgiveness. It is a beautiful
picture, but immediately we think of the Apostle Paul in 1 Cor. 15:46, where he tells us of the order. He says, "first that which
is natural, afterwards that which is spiritual."
We know that in the breastplate we are under the
Law of Moses, and it is only fitting as we look at the corner stone of that
breastplate that it should be a sardine or sardius --
a red stone, which speaks of Love. It is important that Christ
is called both a sardine and a jasper stone
in the book of the Revelation (4:3). He came bone of our bone, flesh of our
flesh; he was made in all points like unto his brethren, but later he was
immortalized -- he became the jasper stone, i.e. he gained immortality.
Expectation 54-0220 E-35 And when it did, there come a rainbow across the
valley. Now, this wolf hollering up here, and its mate in the bottom answering.
My, and the elk herd, and the rainbow... I had my gun down against the tree. I
run out there, and I raised up my hands, and I said, "O great Jehovah God,
Who looks down from the heaven, the God... gave
you this rain, and gave us this rainbow sign." I said, "I can see another rainbow sign in
Revelations 2, where Jesus setting to look upon like jasper and
sardine stone: Reuben and Benjamin,
the first, the last,
with a rainbow crossing the seven
church ages, the colors; oh, the same yesterday, today and forever;
Alpha, Omega; the beginning and the ending; He that was, which is and shall
come; the Root and Offspring of David; the Morning Star." Setting behind me, seven colors, God's covenant with the
Church, that He wrote with Jesus Christ, His Son, of a perfect redemption...
Show us the Father 54-0811 E- in Revelations 1, Jesus setting there with a rainbow over His head.
He's to look upon jasper and sardine stone; that's
Benjamin and Reuben's stone, First and the
Last, He that was, which is, and shall come, Root and Offspring
of David, the Morning Star, the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley;
standing with His covenant with the Church can't fail. The seven colors in the rainbow, the Seven Church Ages all blended
together make one great resurrection of the body of Christ." Oh,
my! Something begin to breathe out in me.
Now, remember the Breastplate is the Breast plate of judgment,
therefore the colors are very significant that are in this breastplate. Especially the first and last. The
first is red, which is Mercy, For God so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten son, and the red
is Love but it is love shown by
giving life. No greater Love that a man
has than he lay down his life for a friend. And yet when the love and mercy are rejected,
there is nothing left but judgment, and that is what the last stone is, Amber, a mix of Green and Yellow,
for the Judge of all the earth
is here in Judgment.
The great wigged one is here.
Revelation Chapter Four Pt
1 60-1231 174 Now, notice. Oh. He finished His
work in earth, and He's took His church, and now He sends the judgment.
The world rejected Him, and He sends His judgment. He and His church has gone
to glory. John, there on the Isle of Pat... Patmos, a revelator to the church,
has been the type of the church which is lifted up into glory, "Come up
hither." Showing.. You say, "He represented the church?" To everyone that hears this Word, John represented him.
Amen John was the representative of the Blood of Jesus Christ, testimony of the
Word. He was a witness of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, with a personal
fellowship with Christ, and he represented the entire church; that, every man
or woman, boy or girl that ever believed in Christ and accept Him on the same
grounds, he'll be summoned someday, "Come up hither," and be caught
up before the tribulation. Remember, the tribulation time hasn't set in yet. This is being the time of setting of the judgment.
John is being showed now what's going to take place after the church age. See?
So it was.
Revelation Chapter Four Pt
1 60-1231 178 Now, notice again in the 3rd verse, or 2nd,
"A throne set in heaven, and One set on the throne." Now, the same Spirit that
was in the earth, had left and had gone to glory, and was setting... The
same Jesus that's with us tonight in mercy was gone to glory and setting on the
throne. And He that set on the throne was
to look upon as jasper and... sardine stone: and there was a rainbow
around about the throne, in the sight like unto an emerald.
Now let us return to the breastplate for just a
moment. We can be very sure of the corner stone of the breastplate being a sardius
and as we said before, the last stone is a jasper. It is interesting too, to
notice that the two
center stones are blue in color and of this we can be sure. So the very center of the breastplate, or
that which is the controlling factor, is the power or Word of God.
In the colors as we have them and as agreed by
most commentators, it is interesting to follow the progression of color as we
go down either side to the jasper stone. For the most part, you see a variation
of reds (Love), merging into yellows (trial or tested), then on into blues (Trueness) and finally into that which is green (Life) and Indigo (Royalty) representing the
glorified immortal sons of God because in the Book o Revelations we are
promised that "we
shall reign as kings and priests." Either way you go on the breastplate, to the right and
down, or to the left, in all cases it is surrounded by the two blue stones that are in the center (Exodus
28:17). We here have a
reproduction of God in the midst of the twelve tribes of Israel during their
wilderness wanderings; Christ in the midst of his twelve disciples and in the
future our Lord as the completed manifestation of the Memorial Name, surrounded
by cleansed, redeemed, Israel whose flag is blue.
Baptism of the Holy Spirit 58-0928M 116 Now, just before the last
church age which was Pentecostal, is the lukewarm, Laodicean church age which
is rejected... But remember, as Jesus was seen in the cross standing in the
seven golden candlesticks, the darkest was what was the fartherest away from Him, His right
hand and His left hand. And He was to look upon as Alpha and Omega, not the
in-between, the Alpha and Omega, as He had His hand stretched. And He was jasper and sardius stone,
which was Benjamin and Reuben, the first and the last. There He
had His hands stretched; there He stood.
Revelation 4:2-3 and 9-11, "And immediately I was in the Spirit: and
behold, a throne was set in heaven, and ONE sat on the throne. And He That sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and
there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Revelations Chapter 4 Pt 2 24 Elders 61-0101 196 But when John saw Him
here, what was it? The day of redeeming was over. It was all over, so he seen
Him back in His original condition, an amber color. Not only just half the
world, it can only... The sun can only shines on half the world at a time
(See?), as it goes around. But when John saw Him, He was setting to look upon as
jasper and sardius stone, amber colors; mix the two together, you got amber.
"And a amber color around the throne." Oh, my. Oh, I
tell you, that just... We could just go on and on. Seven Spirits, seven colors, seven church ages, seven ministers, seven
lights, everything's in a seven. God's perfect in seven. God worked six days;
the seventh day He rested. The world will exist six thousand years, and the
seventh thousand is the millennium.
Israel In Egypt 53-0325 160 And there He was standing there.
What? And He was to look upon as Jasper and Sardius
stone. What was Jasper? Was Reuben stone. What was Sardius? Benjamin. The first and the last, He was to look upon as the First and the Last. And a rainbow around His head, over the seven golden candlesticks... A rainbow, a covenant that God had
made through Abraham, through Isaac, through Christ, through the church, by the
baptism of the Holy Ghost. The robe of the seven colors that was upon Joseph, that was upon Jesus; it's upon the church today,
protects. The body was covered up by the robe. And the church is not you; it's
the Holy Ghost that's got you covered with the Blood, God's covenant,
predestinated before the foundation of the world. Hallelujah. I just had to let
that out. All right. It was about to burst me.
The next chart I want
to show you is the 12 tribes of Israel and how they are associated with a
specific Stone and Color.
Judah-Sardius-(Red) Sardius - odem –redness From T root of adam = Red skins of rams ex 25:5
26:14, 35:7,23 36:19,34 Proverbs 23:31 Isa 1:18 red & white striped chalcedony |
Issachar-Topaz-(Pale
green) Topaz - pitdah Job 28:19 dchiy = A stumbling or
falling |
Zebulon-Carbuncle (Deep
red)Carbuncle - bareqeth =
lightning, flashing, fig. A flashing arrow-head.to cast forth lightning |
Reuben-Emerald-(Green)Emerald nophek
= 1391 To glisten . a beryl that is colored green by small specs of chromium |
Simeon-Sapphire-(Deep
blue) Sapphire - cappiyr sap- peer - root
caphar = to recount, count, scribe, enumerator, talk, rehearse |
Gad-Diamond-(Transparent)
Diamond - yahalom from halam = known for hardness to smite,strike, hammer strike down – yahalom precious stone known for hardness, from
halam - to smite could be crystal quartz…? |
Ephraim Ligure
(Dull red) Ligure – leshem - hadad – mighty Jacinth yellow, orange or red, used to engrave seals, difficult to polish |
Manasseh-Agate (white and red) Agate - shbho - from unused root to
flashes and streamers whose
meaning may suggest a flame.
Called blood-stone |
Benjamin-Amethyst (Purple)Amethyst-
achlamah – violet-purple
color stone from root of chalam, to dream to be healthy,
restore to health |
Dan -
Beryl - (bluish green) Beryl
tarshiysh- yellow jasper pure
beryl is colorless and transparent and actually has a sweet taste. Beryl crystalizes in the hexagonal system. 7.5-8 hd |
Asher
- Onyx - (Bluish white) Onyx -
shoham - to blanch.. From root of chavach , rock crevice hiding place to pierce,
thorn, brier, bramble, alternating bands parallel black & white stripes
of chalcedony |
Naphtali
- Jasper
- Green Jasper -
yashphew – meaning to polish. Dark green opalescent stone Ex 28:20 & Rev 21:18 |
Now, let me close in the next few
minutes as we see how that Satan tried to duplicate everything that was for the
sons of God, including the breastplate of the High Priest.
Ezekiel 28:12... Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest (thou fillest) up the sum, (the Hebrew word for Sum is Token, he filled up the
token, the pattern that the Son of God
set forth for all sons) full of wisdom, and perfect
in beauty. 13 Thou hast
been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone
was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the
workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day
that thou wast created. (Look, God created him that way.) 14 Thou art the anointed
cherub that covereth; and I have set thee
so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in
the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day
that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
(And iniquity is to know to do right and you won't do it.) 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the
midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned:
therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will
destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst
of the stones of fire.
Now, notice here. He has only
three rows of stones, yet God set four rows in the breast plate of His High Priest
Aaron.
Exodus 28:17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz,
and a carbuncle: This shall be the first row.
Exodus 28:18 And the second row
shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
Exodus 28:19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
Exodus 28:20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they
shall be set in gold in their
in-closings.
Exodus 28:21 And the
stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; (Now a signet is a
small official seal for legal documents, contracts,) every one with his name shall they be
according to the twelve tribes.
Notice row three which
is perfection, is the row that is missing from Satan's breast-plate.
Ephraim Ligure
(Dull red) Ligure – leshem - hadad –
mighty Jacinth yellow, orange or red, used to engrave seals, difficult to polish |
Manasseh-Agate (white and red) Agate - shbho - from unused root to
flashes and streamers whose
meaning may suggest a flame.
Called blood-stone |
Benjamin-Amethyst (Purple)Amethyst-
achlamah – violet-purple
color stone from root of chalam, to dream to be healthy,
restore to health |
Notice the three
stones and three colors which are missing from the breast plate of Satan.
The Ligure which was
used for producing seals, The Afate which is a blood stone signifying no blood
because it was missing, and the Amethyst which is the color of the grape, and
represents the stimulation of revelation, and notice this particular stone
means to be healthy, so no stone no healing.
So where did the life form come from that kills
and lies and shows forth a standard of judgment that is wicked and
evil? Jesus Himself called these men serpent seed. But even before
the serpent, we find the source of iniquity actually in Lucifer.
Let's stop here for a moment and break down the
attributes of this created being. "Thou sealest up the sum"… sealest = chattham meaning to affix a seal. Brother Branham said the seal could not be placed
until the item was full. Therefore he filled up the sum. SUM = tokniyth from the root word, To'-ken, which means the pattern. Next we read he was "full of wisdom" …
Full
= maw-lay
which
means fullness…. Wisdom comes
from Hebrew word chokmah hok-mah, wisdom in administration, and comes from the
root word chakam hawk-ham meaning to teach wisdom. So we see he was a leader in the administration
and in teaching in worship. In Marriage and Divorce 65-0221M 17-5, brother Branham said: Did you know Satan was coequal with God one day? Sure was, all but a creator; he
was everything, stood at the right hand of God in the heavens, a
great leading cherubim.
Seal Of The Antichrist 55-0311 E-18 The right hand man of Almighty God was Lucifer, the son of the
morning. The first, God granted him almost co-workers with Him; he
was a co-worker, partly equal with Him; only
Satan could not create. God is the only Creator, but Satan took
something that God created and perverted it back into something else, evil.
Let Your Light So Shine Before Men 61-0903 Do you know what caused the
first battle in heaven, was when Lucifer set up a greater class of
people, got a better class of angels, he thought, big a bigger kingdom, a more
brighter, shinier kingdom than Michael had. And he was kicked out of
heaven. See where class comes from? Stay away from class.
Christ is the Mystery 63-0728 79-1 Notice, in this last days, Lucifer's
doing the same thing. Can you see it? The devil doing
the same thing, building up a hybrid church, by hybrid members, hybrid by
knowledge instead of the Word, by intellectual men instead of born again men,
building an intellectual kingdom that'll outshine Christ's little bitty
flock. See? What is it that did that? Fallen angels. The
Bible said it was fallen angels who listened to Lucifer instead of Christ, who
they once belonged to? Is that right? Now, listen close. Fallen angels, what kind
of angels? Luther, Wesley, Catholic, Pentecostal who kept not their first
estate like the angels did and has fell into organizations like Lucifer's main
hold at Nicaea... And what have they done? Organized a great
ecumenical association of ministers to make an image unto the beast, as the
Bible said, and building a Christian economy that'll close the doors of this
church and others like it. See Lucifer at his work? I'm trying to bring you the
threefold revelation or mystery of God. What did they do? sold out to
reasonings of wisdom and education like Eve did, fallen angels did. Wesley
was a man of God, but what followed him? Fallen angels got into it. What was
the angels first? Created beings of God that fell for Lucifer's wisdom. And you
see what they become? Fallen angels. And organizations from man of God
who's went forth to establish truths in the earth, before that truth could go
along and proclamate and get on to the real revelation of Christ, fallen angels come in and took
it over and made denominations out of it.
Only One Way Provided By God 63-0731 56 Lucifer, at the beginning, wanted to build himself a
kingdom which was greater and more beautiful than Michael's Kingdom, Christ. That was his
ambitions to achieve something like that. And what did he get to
do it by? He took fallen angels who had lost their first estate. He
took that to do it with. And today Lucifer has got into the church, and
taken away the Word, and injected denominations, and he's building a church,
the ecumenical move that's going on now, to unite all the Protestants together,
and altogether come into Catholic. And this pope they got in now, to do the
same thing, exactly what the Scripture said it would do. And what's he doing it
by? He's doing it by men of those great ecumenical moves, who does not know
God; and the many of them in the Pentecostals, 'cause they're doing the same.
What is it? He's doing it with fallen angels, fallen Lutherans, fallen
Methodists, fallen Pentecostals, that lost their original estate from the Word
of God, and going right back in to make a great big ecumenical move. Fallen
messengers, messengers who once stayed with the Word, but sold
out their birthrights and joined in with the world...
God of this Evil Age 65-0801M 79 Sin never begin in the garden of
Eden; it begin in
heaven when Lucifer, the son of the morning, exalted himself in beauty and
wanted a more beautiful kingdom than that of Michael. And he thought that God
dwelled in beauty. And notice Cain. He didn't want no blood
sacrifice. He come down and offered the fruit or the fields of beauty upon his
altar. Very religious, done everything just exactly like Abel done, offered a
sacrifice, fell down before God in worship, obedient in every way, but without
the revelation of the Word. And the Word was from the beginning, God's
plan. But God
revealed by revelation the very thing that He vindicated and
punctuated that that was right: not religion, not an altar, not belonging to
church, not making a sacrifice, not being sincere, but by the revelation of the Word of
God, God revealing to him what his mother did not take a
apple that a snake give her, but she had a sexual affair with the person of
Satan in the form of the beast, not a reptile, but the most smartest, subtlest
of all the field,…
'Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth" He was the anointed or consecrated cherub that covereth. The word is cakak means to overshadow or lay
over…. "and I have set thee
[so]"…God made him this way. God created him to lead in the
worship with Michael, and God placed him on free moral agency knowing
this would bring on his own fall, and the fall of others. If you don't believe
this, then you do not believe God knew all things beforehand and ordained some
to condemnation, in which case there are several scriptures you will need to
rip out of your Bible.
Serpent's Seed 58-0928E 13-5
When He made Lucifer, He knowed he would be the devil. And He had to
let it be there to show that He was the Saviour, the Christ. He had to let it happen that way.
"Thou
was perfect (complete, entire, finished off) in all thy ways (course
of life). "Until iniquity was found in thee" This word iniquity
means un-right-wise-ness. It means to deviate. This
one deviated from the truth, and he is the progenitor of those who do
deviate from the truth. Jesus tells us how these two forms of
life came to grow up side by side with one another in his parable of the wheat
and tares.
MATTHEW 13:24 ¶ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom
of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his
field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the
wheat,
and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought
forth fruit, then
appeared the tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came
and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence
then, hath it tares? 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The
servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he
said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with
them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I
will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to
burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. But the question is who planted those tares? What
is their source.
Jesus explains this in Matthew 13:36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into
the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable
of the tares of the field. 37 He answered and said unto
them, He that
soweth the good seed is the Son of man; (Jesus is
called by the title Son of Man more times that any
other title in the scripture. This title, Son of Man,
signifies a prophet and he will come forth sowing seed. 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children
of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil;
Brother Branham explains this in 70-1 Ephesian Church Age Book CPT 3 The parable of the Lord Jesus Christ said that
the kingdom of heaven was like unto a man who sowed good seed, only to have an
enemy come and plant tares amongst those good seeds. God did not plant the
tares. Satan
planted those tares right amongst the good seed of God. Those two kinds of
plants (people),
from two different
seeds, grew up together. They partook of the nourishment in
the same earth, they shared in the same sun, rain, and all other benefits, and
both were harvested in their turn. Do you see it? Don't ever
forget these truths as we study the church ages and later the seals.
And above all, don't forget that it is in this last age, when the tares are
getting bound for their burning, that they will shove out the wheat that is to
be garnered by the Lord.
Now, we know that in the beginning God first
gave birth to His Son Jesus. He was not God the Son, but He
was the Son of God. Then immediately this Son of God, Who came
forth like a little light, began to be used by God in bringing forth the
creation of God.
As Brother Branham continued in Q & A on Genesis, in pp.
32 he goes on to say, "Now, in St. John 1 He said, "In the
beginning was the Word. And the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and
dwelt among us." God unfolding
Himself down to a human being, now, watch how He did it. Now,
back there, then, when this little halo comes... Now, we can't see nothing yet,
but just by eyes of just supernatural we see a halo standing there. Now, that's
the Son of God, the Logos, Now, I can see Him playing around like a little
child before the Father's door, with all eternity. See? And now, then in
His imaginary make-up He begin to think of what things would be, and I can hear
Him say, "Let there be light." And when He did, an atom burst and
the sun came into existence.
The Son of God was the first Born of God, but
the first creation were the angels.
Five identifications 60-0911E 177 The
first thing He created was angels to worship Him, then He become God. And that is because the word God
means an object of worship and he could not be an object of worship without any
to worship him.
Identified Christ of all Ages 64-0409 E-25 "In the beginning was the Word." Before It was even expressed, It was a thought, attribute. In this thinking He was to be God.
Probably created angels first, then He was worshipped, He was God.
Now, I believe the
first angel created was Lucifer, because he was called because he is the arch
angel or the chief or first angel.
Influence 64-0315 E-37
Note the heavenly Seraphims with coverings over their faces. Now, the Seraphims
is the burners of the sacrifice, which is one of the highest orders of angels. They're next to the cherubims. There is
angels, and then Seraphims, and then cherubims.
And Seraphims is actually the burner of the sacrifice, making the way for the
sinners' approach, a real high order of holiness in the temple of God.
Rev. Chptr. 4 PT 3 Throne
Mercy 61-0108 298 Cain and Abel come up here to
worship. So it must've been an altar that they guard (Is that
right?), these Cherubims.
So the cherubim is the highest order of angels, the
first order then Seraphims and then angels.
Revelations Chapter 4 Pt 3 Throne of
Mercy 61-0108 301 Moses was taken up into heaven: Moses,
taken from the earth up into heaven and saw the altar of God. Is that right?
I'm trying to prove my point here. You know what I'm trying to do, don't you?
All right. He went up in the Presence of
God. And when he descended from the Presence of God, God told Moses, "Make everything on earth as patterned after heaven." Is that right? All right. Now, then
when he did, when he made the ark of the covenant, he put two Cherubims to guard the ark.
See what it is? It was the
temple... It was
the altar, the throne guards. The two Cherubims, He said, "Mold them out of brass and put their wings a
touching like this,"
because that's exactly what he saw in heaven. That's exactly what John saw in
heaven, these four Cherubims on the
four sides of the ark of the throne in heaven. They were the guards of the ark.
Cherubims, guards at the mercy seat. If you
want to read that Scripture (We ain't got time to go to it.), put down Exodus 25:10 to 22. Now, they guard the
mercy seat when God is in His Shekinah Glory. Where was the Shekinah Glory?
At the mercy seat. Is that
right? They
guard that Shekinah Glory. Um. Whew.
Now, to this point I believe we can establish
that Lucifer was a
co-worker leading in the worship of God as
we already read from brother Branhams words. He taught, therefore he was a teacher. He
knows the Word of God, but where he went off was by adding his own thoughts to what God said. He was perfect in all his ways until iniquity was
found in him. He
perverted the Word.
He twisted it for his own self interest.
He was not satisfied with being a good steward of the Word of God. He
wanted a bigger kingdom than Michael (Christ) had. That's
what Br. Branham taught us.
Notice, Paul calls him an angel of Light
in II Corinthians 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan
himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great
thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness;
whose end shall be according to their works.
And when Satan came to Jesus, what did he come
with? The Word of God, only twisted. He came to Eve in the Garden as
an indwelling spirit in the serpent and what did he come to Eve with? The Word of God, only twisted. He is always that way. It is His
nature.
Luke 10:17 ¶ And the seventy returned again with joy, saying,
Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. 18 And
he said unto them, I
beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
So we see that the first Light that come forth
was the Logos which brother Branham taught us was Son of God. Then we find the Cherubim's were created to guard the altar of
God. And Lucifer was the leading, anointed Cherub. He was anointed for a ministry of the Word and
he blew it by adding his own thoughts.
Ezekiel 28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou
hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: Notice it was his brightness
that corrupted his wisdom. This word brightness
is the Hebrew word, yiph'ah {yif-aw'} meaning; splendor, brightness, shining and comes
from the root word yapha which
is the same word which describes the Shekinah
Presence. It is the same word
used in the following Scriptures.
Deuteronomy 33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and
rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he
came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for
them.
Psalm 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Psalm 80:1 ¶ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannimeduth, A
Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a
flock; thou that
dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
So we see that Lucifer shown forth as a light.
And since the Son of God was that first light, we can see how that Lucifer, who also was a
light, and was made to fill the
pattern, was the same in every detail except without Eternal Life or
God life, for he was a created being, and being that he had a beginning
he will surely have an end.
And so we see the great falling away begin in
Heaven when Lucifer, now referred to as Satan, was cast out along with 1/3 of
the host of heaven who followed his wrong teaching. Then he came down to earth
to continue the war against the sons of God.
Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his
angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 And
prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan,
which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels
were cast out with him.
We find him in the earth back in the garden of
Eden as one of the two trees which God placed but did not plant in the garden. 85-2 Ephesian Church
Age - CA Book Ch 3 There are those twins
again. There are those two trees again, growing side by side in the same earth,
partaking of the same nourishment, drinking in the same rain, and
benefiting by the same sun. But they come from DIFFERENT seeds. One tree is for the Word of God,
exactly as God gave it, and loves and obeys it. The other tree is from the seed
that is anti the Word of God and changes it where it wants to. It substitutes its own
creeds and dogmas for the living true Word exactly as did Cain, who
ended up killing Abel. But fear not little flock. Stay with the Word. Keep that
Word between you and the devil. Eve did not do that and she failed. And when
the church lets down on the Word she goes into the depths of the darkness of
Satan.
Now, in closing let me
say this, we have shown you that Lucifer's breast plate did not have the three
things that are essential for every Christian professing to a Son of God. He did not have the seals, the blood and the
stimulation of Revelation. And
you will find that every true son of God must have revelation for if he does
not, he is not a son of God, because the Apostle Paul taught us in 1 Corinthians 2:11 I'll paraphrase,
"no man
can understand the things of God unless the Spirit of God is in Hm." And
Paul also said in verse 14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither
can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned. Notice he said ,
"he can't know them", that
means it is impossible for him that is not born again to understand the things
of God unless God's Spirit is living and abiding in him.
One more quote and we will close, 52 Anointed Ones 65-0725M These trees, the true vine and
false vine... You've heard me preach on that from years ago, how
they grew up together. Brought them in individuals and showed that from Cain
and Abel, the two vines that met at an altar, both of them religious, both of
them anointed, both of them desiring life and worshipping the same God, and one
was rejected and the other received. And the only way that the one that was received could've done
anything different from his brother, it was revealed to him, for the Bible said,
"By faith (Hebrews 11th chapter)--by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than that of Cain, which God testified that
he was righteous." Jesus
said (the spiritual revelation of Who He was), "Who does man say I, the Son of man am?" Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." "Blessed art thou, Simon son of Jonas; flesh and blood never revealed
this to you; My Father which is in heaven has revealed it. Upon this rock I'll
build My church."
What? The true revelation of the Word.
There's the True Vine again. "Abel, by faith..."
Let us pray...