Romans # 61
The Two Vines #1
The Two Seeds
January 29, 2000
ROMANS 10: 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah saith, Lord,
who hath believed our report? 17 So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. The
true, revealed, and vindicated Word of God. 18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound
went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. 19
But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke
you to jealousy by [them that are] no people, [and] by a foolish nation I will
anger you 20 But Isaiah is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that
sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. 21
But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands
unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Wednesday night we examined these verses and took them back
to Isaiah chapter 28 where Paul was quoting Isaiah who tells us of a
people who actually did hear and yet did not believe, and we find Isaiah asking
the question, "Lord, who
hath believed our report?" We
examined the argument Paul used in verses 18 and 19, when he said, "But
I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the
earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. 19 But I say, Did not Israel know? And then
Paul answers his own question by telling us these people knew and yet they did
not know, they heard and yet they did not hear, just as Isaiah had spoken
hundreds of years before. Paul points to the chastening or these people by
Moses, and again uses the words of Isaiah and calls them a disobedient
and gainsaying people.
The word
disobedient here that Paul uses is a Greek word {ap-i-theh'-o} which means unbelieving (1) yet it means
more than just not able to believe, it means
1) not allowing one's self to be persuaded; and not willing to comply
with 1a) in other words, an outright
refusal to believe and subject oneself to an obedience which comes through that
belief, and therefore a withholding or holding back of the belief. Therefore we
see a willful ignorance that is involved here.
The
other word Paul used to describe these people is the Greek word {an-til'-eg-o}
translated into the King James version as the word gainsaying. This word means to
speak against, to contradict, to oppose one's self to, decline obedience,
declare one's self against, to refuse to have anything to do with.
Then
what we see by the combination of these words is a people who because they have
already made up their mind, refuse to surrender their thinking over to the Word,
or refuse to surrender their lives to the Lordship of the Word, and thus not
only willfully turn down the Lordship of the Word, but then in order to justify
themselves and their stand they have taken, they actually come against the Word
and even verbally attack the True Word of God.
Paul
quoted Isaiah where he says, "Lord, who hath believed our report?"
KJV ISAIAH 28:8 "For all tables are
full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean]. 9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom
shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk,
[and] drawn from the breasts."
Now, the first thing I want to show you is that this table Isaiah
is speaking of is the tables of the Lord. It is the table that has one purpose and
that is to show forth the Shew-bread, which is a type of the Word. The first place this Hebrew word is used is
in Exodus 25:23.
EXODUS 25:23 ¶ Thou shalt also make a
table [of] shittim wood ( pieces of wood from the
acacia tree): two cubits [shall be] the length thereof ( a cubit is a
forearm in length, or about 18 inches. This table then is to be 2 times
18" or about 36" inches or 3' feet long). , and a cubit the breadth thereof (18" wide), and a cubit
and a half the height thereof (27" tall).
ROMANS 11:1 ¶ I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also
am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, [of] the tribe of Benjamin. 2
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the
scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel,
saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine
altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to
myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to [the image of]
Baal. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant
according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then [is
it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of
works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. 7
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the
election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded 8 (According as it is
written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not
see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a
snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may
not see, and bow down their back alway.
HEBREWS 6:1 ¶ Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let
us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from
dead works, and of faith toward God, 2
Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of
resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this will we do, if God permit. 4 For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and
have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of
God, and the powers of the world to come, 6
If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing
they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put [him] to an open
shame. 7 For the earth which drinketh
in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by
whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers [is] rejected, and
[is] nigh unto cursing; whose end [is] to be burned. 9 ¶
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that
accompany salvation, though we thus speak. 10 For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of
love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the
saints, and do minister. 11 And we
desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance
of hope unto the end: 12 That ye be
not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the
promises.
The doctrine of
Twins is not well received among the so-called Christian world, because Paul
told us "Many more are the children of the harlot than she which has a
husband." This doctrine of twins
actually comes forth from the True understanding of Election and
Predestination. Many people preach an election to glory but refuse to preach of
an election to condemnation. The Doctrine of Twins, speaks of both, and you can
not fully understand predestination and election until you understand both
halves of the equation. Therefore, we will address both sides of election as we
present this study.
The doctrine
dealing with Two-Vines, is set forth by Jesus Christ Himself, the apostles
Paul, Peter, John and Jude and God's end-time prophet William Branham.
The following are
attributes and characteristics found in the doctrine of the Two-Vines:
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Define twins, One mother two children
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One is True the other is false Good and evil
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Separate at first until one lump eventually
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Perpetuation of seed (Source)
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Jesus said you have no place for the Word.
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No genealogy of Cain
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ANY PLANT MY FATHER DID NOT PLANT WILL BE ROOTED
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Offered rightly but could not divide correctly
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One lump goes to DNA
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Redemption not necessary if only one seed
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Created life has beginning and an end.
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One can never change over to the other
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2 dominant forces and Both are religious
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The bad outshine the good in works
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The baptism of the Holy Ghost is a matter of identification.
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Whoever does not have the seed of God is reprobate
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Mark of beast vs. mark of God
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The false vine have greater organization
Jesus spoke
concerning the sowing of good seed and the sowing of bad seed in the same
field, in His parables.
Let's examine
these parables concerning the Two-Vines or two-seeds as we read them in 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.
Notice Jesus
points out the fact that two very different types of life (seed) will be
planted alongside of each other in the same field. The field represents the
world, and the sowing is done first by the owner of the field, and then his
enemy comes into his field and imitates his sowing, but with a different life
(seed).
The facts of this
parable are as follows:
1)
There is one field, a woman, we are husbandry,
2)
There are two sowers, or sources of seed the owner of the
field, and his enemy.
3)
There are two seeds
sown, identifying two different
life forms, Wheat and tares.
4)
The tare seed is an intrusion but is allowed to grow up
alongside of the wheat until the harvest, for the sake of the wheat, until the
wheat is mature enough to withstand a separation.
5)
Separation warfare always
6)
There is to be a binding and bundling of these tares.
7)
The tares are destined for burning.
8)
The Wheat is to be gathered but not bundled and is to be
placed in the storehouse of the owner.
Notice the two
seeds are allowed to grow up side by side until the time of the harvest. Then a
separation is to take place. First there will be a gathering together of the
seed which the enemy sowed. The Tares will begin to gather together first.
Jesus uses the
word "deo" in describing this binding together. The word
actually means to bind by placing under obligation. Now, this binding is needed in order to control the assembly of
tares. And by placing the people under
obligations which take them from the word, we see that organization has bound
the people, keeping them from searching further for more light than what is
available in their church.
After the tares
are bound, Jesus tells us they are then placed into bundles. Now in using the
word bundle, Jesus is telling us that there is a certain characteristic
concerning the binding together. Although the word for bundle is a word which can means "binding"
as well, Jesus used two different words in describing the process which is to
take place.
He says the
reapers will bind them into bundles. He never said into one bundle, but into
bundles. Thus we see the word "bundles" further defines the
process that these tares must go
through, before they are ready for the burning to take place. They are bound
first and then bundled. The use of the plural tells us that there will be many
different bundles. They are gathered first. This gathering could suggest a very
loose coming together, but by adding the word bundle to further define the
binding process, Jesus shows us form and symmetry and purpose will be involved
in how they will be presented for the burning.
A bundle is not
just a rag-tag collection of sticks thrown together in any old direction. But a
bundle suggests to us that all the tares in each bundle will be lined up
together, all going in the same direction. Their Union into a bundle or
(assembly) will make them a more efficient
means by which to burn them all.
And so we see how
the organization is the means by which the tares are gathered and assembled
together. The church is bound first by a false word, and then by organizing
around that false word, they assemble the people into a more efficient, and
profitable means by which the whole group can be readied for the burning.
Thus we should
see clearly that the False-Vine is the organized church. For organization is
what binds them together. Then, one of
the main attributes of the false vine will be it's ability to organize in
numbers and thus utilize efficiencies to preach their false Gospel.
Now a bundle does
not represent a loose knit organization, but one which has structure and
symmetry. Every stick is heading in the
same direction, and they are there for the same purpose, and they must conform
to some standard in order to fit within the bundle. Now, let's see if this is
not exactly the picture Jesus Himself speaks of concerning the two seeds.
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.
Therefore we see that a Prophet will come forth sewing 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; the harvest is the end of the world; and the
reapers are the angels (messengers). 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire
(by messengers to the tares); so shall it be in the end of this world.
41 The Son of man shall send forth
his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend
(Those who would stumble others) , and them which do iniquity; (Those
who know to do right and will not do it).
42 And shall cast them into
a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (This is
tribulation period) 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in
the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
We now know that
the seed-life pictured here in this parable speaks of real people, the children
of God and the children of the wicked one, sown by the devil. These are serpent
seed as John tells us in I JOHN 3:12
Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And
wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's
righteous.
Now, if Cain were
the son of Adam then John could never have spoken such harsh and critical words
against him, because Adam was the Son of God. But we know that Cain was
conceived by the disobedient will of Eve with the Serpent.
Dr. George Ricker
Berry in his Interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament (Genesis-Exodus) shows
the literal linear translation of the Hebrew
Nasha as the word seduce. Other translations quote Eve as saying, "the
serpent beguiled me and I did eat."
Now, whether we
choose to use the word beguile or seduce they bth have the same meaning. Strong's concordance defines this Hebrew
word as a primitive root to lead astray, to mentally delude or morally to
seduce. And Webster's tells us the word seduce means to persuade in unlawful sexual intercourse especially for the 1st
time.
You can never
come to a full and clear understanding of predestination and election until you
see both sides of the picture. Paul makes this clear for us in the Book of
Romans chapter 9. Here he speaks of Jacob and Esau both born of the same
parents, and yet one was a vessel of honor ordained to be so, and the other a
vessel of dishonor. Paul let's us know that even before the children were born,
that the purpose of election might stand, God said, Jacob have I loved and
esau have I hated."
ROMANS 9:11 (For [the children] being not yet born,
neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to
election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) 12 It was said unto her, The elder shall
serve the younger. 13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but
Esau have I hated. 14 ¶ What shall we say then? [Is there]
unrighteousness with God? God forbid. 15
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and
I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then [it is] not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even
for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in
thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will
[have mercy], and whom he will he hardeneth. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who
hath resisted his will? 20 Nay but, O
man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him
that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to
make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 [What] if God, willing to shew [his]
wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels
of wrath fitted to destruction: 23
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of
mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Scofield
recognized the very near resemblance of human stature that the edenic serpent
possessed in Eden and noted so in his footnotes on the curse. If you notice the
serpent was an upright creature until after the curse.
GENESIS 3:14 ¶ And the LORD God said unto the serpent,
Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above
every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go,(Off go the
legs) and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between thy seed and her seed; (Now, this tells us the
serpent had a seed) it shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
16 ¶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy
sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and
thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Now, why would
God curse the woman in child bearing, if she ate an apple. What do apples have
to do with this curse in conception.
Another thing we
might consider in understanding this doctrine of the serpent seed, is that
there were two trees in the garden.
From paragraph 17
of Brother Branham's sermon Preparation
where he said, In the garden of Eden there were two trees: one was Life, one was knowledge. Man left the Tree of Life to eat off the
tree of knowledge.