Satan’s Eden no 19
Rightwiseness and Unrightwiseness pt 1
The right-wise-ness of Revelation
December 5th 2021 Am
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
Romans 1:17 For therein is the rightwiseness of God revealed from revelation to revelation:
as it is written, The just shall live by revelation.
Let
us pray.
Now,
we know that the word righteousness comes
from the old English of Rightwiseness
and we also know that Br. Branham taught us in his Rapture message that Faith is a Revelation.
Rapture the 65-1204 P:40
But to the church, the Bride, the rapture is a
revelation to her. It's revealed to her, that the revelation, the true Bride of
Christ will be waiting for that revelation of the rapture. Now, it is a
revelation, for the
revelation is faith. You cannot have a revelation without it
being faith. Faith
is a revelation, because it's something that's revealed to
you. Faith is a
revelation. Faith is something that has been revealed to you like it
was to Abraham, that could call anything contrary to what had been revealed to
him as though it wasn't so. Now, faith... That's what faith is, is the revelation of God.
The church is built upon a revelation, the whole entire body.
Works is faith expressed
65-1126 P:50 There's some that's trying
hard to believe it, trying to work themselves into it. Some just can't do it at
all. And others, it's just by grace; it's just given to them. Now, there
is the difference. See? That does it. That's the real revelation, because
faith is a revelation from God. It must be revealed first.
Works is faith expressed
65-1126 P:46 Now, "faith" is a "revelation from God."
Now, "faith" is a "revelation." There's where I want to stay there just a moment. It's a
revelation. He has revealed it to you by His grace. It's nothing
you did. You didn't work yourself up into faith. You never had faith;
it's give to you by the grace of God. And God reveals it to you;
therefore, faith is
a revelation. And the whole Church of God is built upon the
revelation.
Therefore
as I read all scriptures this morning that refer to righteousness, we will reword it rightwiseness and when we refer to all
scriptures referring to Faith we
will use the word revelation in
its place, so that the continuity of thought can be consistent.
Therefore,
we can read this as Romans
1:17 For therein is the right-wise-ness of God revealed from revelation to revelation: as it is written, The just shall live by revelation.
Revelation
from God therefore is an all important function that God has enabled his elect to
possess. And it can only come by receiving the Holy Ghost. For the apostle Paul
taught us in 1 Corinthians 2 that “no man can understand the things of God except the Spirit of
God be in him.”
Therefore as we enter this
mini-series on Righteousness vs unrighteousness, and keep in mind all the way through that rightwiseness
comes by revelation,
and un-right-wise-ness
comes by a lack of revelation, as we will see in the many
scriptures I present to you this morning. That ought to tell you how important revelation is to the believer. For
without it, you can never receive the right-wise-ness of God, and “your own right-wise-ness
is as filthy rags” as we read in Isaiah
64.
Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean
thing, and all our rightwisenesses
are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like
the wind, have taken us away.
Now, the apostle Paul also tells
us in Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in
his sight: for by the law is the
knowledge of sin. 21 But now the rightwiseness of God without the law is manifested, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the
rightwiseness of God which is by revelation of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe:
for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the
glory of God;
There he also tells us in Romans 4:1 ¶ What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to
the flesh, hath found? 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory;
but not before God. 3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, (he had a revelation from God and he
believed that revelation) and it was counted
unto him for rightwiseness. 4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace,
but of debt. 5 But to him that
worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his revelation is counted for rightwiseness.
6 Even as David also
describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth (or attributed to Abraham) rightwiseness without works, 7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and
whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed
is the man to whom the Lord will not impute (attribute) sin. 9¶Cometh this
blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also?
for we say that revelation was
reckoned to Abraham for rightwiseness.
10 How was it then
reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in
circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11 And he received the
sign of circumcision, a seal of the rightwiseness of the revelation which he
had yet being uncircumcised: (in other words before it even took
place God attributed what he was going to do because of his revelation he
received from God before he could even believe.) that
he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not
circumcised; that rightwiseness might be
imputed (attributed) unto them also: 12 And
the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but
who also walk in the steps of that revelation
(revelation) of our father Abraham, which
he had being yet uncircumcised. 13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of
the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the
rightwiseness of revelation (revelation). 14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, revelation (revelation) is made void, and
the promise made of none effect: 15
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. 16 Therefore it is of revelation,(revelation) that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be
sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also
which is of the revelation of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 17 ¶ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many
nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and
calleth those things which be not as though they were. 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed
be. 19 And being not weak in revelation,
(revelation) he considered not his own
body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness
of Sara's womb: 20 He staggered not at
the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in revelation, (revelation) giving
glory to God; 21 And being fully
persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22 And
therefore it was imputed to him for rightwiseness.(right-wise-nes)
Again lets go to Romans 5:18 and read, “Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men
to condemnation; even so by the right-wise-ness of one the free
gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
And from Romans 9:28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in right-wise-ness: because a short work
will the Lord make upon the earth. 29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord
of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto
Gomorrha. 30 ¶
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after rightwiseness, have attained to rightwiseness, even the rightwiseness which is of revelation.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of rightwiseness, hath not attained to the
law of rightwiseness. 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by revelation, but as it
were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and
rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Now that is the key right there. They stumbled because their focus was wrong. Because
it was not revealed to them. Therefore they had an un-rightwiseness.
Now, today we have an
example of this un-rightwiseness in a false five-fold ministry
who have no revelation
from God concerning His Word, and thus their own rightwiseness is no rightwiseness
at all, but considered by God as filthy rags. Therefore it is un-rightwiseness,
which is a wrong thinking, a wrong understanding.
Again in the book of Romans 10:3 the apostle Paul tells us…For they being ignorant
of God's rightwiseness, and going
about to establish their own rightwiseness,
they have not submitted themselves unto the rightwiseness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for rightwiseness to every one that
believeth. 5 For Moses describeth the rightwiseness
which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. 6 But the rightwiseness which is of revelation speaketh on this
wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring
Christ down from above:) 7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that
is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee,
even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of revelation, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth
the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto rightwiseness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever
believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 ¶
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord
over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of
the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they
have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not
heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written,
How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring
glad tidings of good things! 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For
Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? 17 So then revelation
cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
So then, the entire source and origin of salvation
rests on this one thing, that God sends out someone, (A true minister of the
Word).
For if He does not send out any, then they who
preach, (preach falsely), and
their preaching is no preaching at all. In fact, it would be better for them
not to preach.
Then they who hear, (hear error), and it would
be better for them not to hear.
Then also they who believe, would (believe falsely),
and it would be better for them not to believe.
Then also they who call upon Him would call falsely
(upon a false Lord), and it would be
better for them not to call.
For such preachers do not preach,
such hearers do not hear;
such believers do not believe;
such callers do not call;
they will be damned because they would be saved by
falsehood. Which is Un-rightwiseness
Then we would see what is spoken of in Proverbs 1:28
which says, “Then
shall they call upon me, But I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but
they shall not find me: for that they hated knowledge and did not choose the
fear of the Lord.”
16
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath
believed our report? 17 So
then revelation cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God. The true,
revealed, and vindicated Word of God.
The apostle Paul also
taught us in also said in II Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath rightwiseness
with unrightwiseness? and what communion hath light with
darkness? You put truth speakers together with false speakers and
what do you get, confusion and a hybrid gospel.
From his sermon Oneness 62-0211
113 brother Branham said, “Can a man who believes in all the Word of
God have a unity with them who just believes part of the Word of God? God wants separators.”
Let’s read some more
scriptures to nail down this point.
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
the revelation of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if
rightwiseness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Philippians 3:9 ¶ And
be found in him, not having mine own
rightwiseness, which is of the law, but that which is through the revelation
of Christ, the rightwiseness which is of God by revelation:
II Timothy 4:1 ¶ I
charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge
the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove,
rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves
teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the
truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure
afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. 6 For I am now ready to be
offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept
the revelation: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown
of rightwiseness, which the Lord, the righteous
judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
So we see at the time of the
Appearing of God, which is the unveiling
of God, also known as the Revelation of Jesus Christ, and this he says comes before
the actual coming, and there is to come by the revelation of Jesus Christ a rightwiseness
that God will bring down with a Shout to the end time believers.
Hebrews 5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful
in the word of rightwiseness: for he
is a babe.
Hebrews 11:7 By revelation Noah, being warned of God of
things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his
house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the rightwiseness which is by revelation.
I John 2:29 f ye know that He (God) is rightly wise,
ye know that every one that doeth rightwiseness
is born of him.
I JohnN 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he
that doeth rightwiseness is rightly wise, even as he is rightly wise. 8 He
that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.
For this purpose the Son of God was manifest 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth
in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the
devil: whosoever doeth not rightwiseness
is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Now, this morning we will approach a subject that
brother Vayle taught in 1972 and I have also taught this same subject several
times over the past 40 years as your pastor.
The subject is Righteousness and Unrighteousness.
And I feel this is a very important subject, because at the end time the
spirits are so close that it's very difficult, except for the very elect, to
discern which is which.
And, if you have a people at the end time who cannot
tell right from wrong then you can realize how close the spirit must be in
order to cause this great confusion. We know that this is the hour that our revelation is going to be turned right back to
the fathers, to really know by Divine revelation---"THUS SAITH THE LORD"---and this is the
hour there will be a living people who will stand in a oneness with this Word,
and will have a proper understanding and
thereby have and live a true revelation in God.
Now, in the Book of Malachi 3 we read from verse 16,
"Then they
that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and
heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared
the Lord, and that thought upon his name."
Now we've read this verse many times. But, because as
with most Scripture because we have preconceived ideas of what we're about to read,
then even before we read it, we don't even read it correctly. Now the average
person will read this verse, and he will say, "That's wonderful there will be a people that talk to God." But
see, they are not talking to God. No,
they were talking to each other, and
God was listening to what they were saying to one another. "They that feared the Lord spake often one to another."
See!
The people were talking to each other. And God was so pleased by what He heard that He wrote a book of
remembrance.
Now what kind of a language, and what kind of talk
were these people doing that God was so pleased that He Himself in turn did something
very special about these people, which was not done through other ages?
He said concerning them, Malachi 3:17a "They shall be mine
in the day when I make up my jewels,
and I will spare them, as a man spareth
his own son that serveth him."
See that is adoption talk there. “I will
spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him
Therefore, this must be the day of the First Resurrection and catching away of the church when all
are together and gathered at the great Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Now, how do I know this? Because in verse 18, It
says, "Then
shall you return, and discern
between the rightly wise and the wicked,
between him that serves God and him that serves him not."
Therefore, this morning we’re going to take this verse
for our text. 18.
"Then shall
you return and discern between the rightly wise and the wicked, between him
that serves God and him that serves him not."
So therefore, at the end time, before the Rapture, the people are evidently speaking in a
certain way that it pleases God, and nobody
else speaks that way, and they are the only ones who evidently fear His name, and understand His name, and are considered rightly wise, because they
are the only ones at the end time who will comprise
the gathering together of the jewels at the end of the age.
And we know the gathering together of the saints
William Branham taught us is at the time of the resurrection when we gather
together first and then are caught up to meet the Lord in the air.
Questions
and answers COD 64-0823M P:34 All right, fifth
question: Will the Bride be gathered together in one place at the rapture, and will it be in
the west? Nope, don't have to be there. Yeah, the Bride will be
gathered together in one place. That is true, but not until the resurrection.
See? "For we which are
alive and remain unto the coming (Parousia) of the Lord..." II Thessalonians the 5th chapter, I believe it
is. "We which are alive and remain unto the
coming of the Lord shall not prevent (or hinder) those which are asleep
(universally); for the trumpet of God shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall
rise, and we shall
be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air." Therefore, the Bride will all be together when it goes to meet the
Lord. See?
And now concerning Malachi 3:17-18 that we are
discussing here this morning, there is, of course, only one group of people who
can qualify, and they will be those who give back to God, by speaking to each
other, the true understanding of the Word of Almighty God.
That is why the apostle John said in 1 John 5:9-15 If we receive the
witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God
which he hath testified of his Son.
So what God is listening to in Malachi 3 is not the witness of men,
but God is witnessing His own word being spoken or echoed one to another by
men.
Lets read on in 1 John 5:10 “He
that believeth on the Son of God hath (echoes)
the witness in
himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth
not the record that God gave of his Son.
So it is the record that God gave of his Son that each
one is echoing one to the other.
Now, 1 John 5: and verse 11 “And
this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in
his Son.”
And that is what John
tells us in verse 12 “He that hath (echoes) the Son hath (echoes) life; and he
that hath (echoes) not the Son of God hath (echoes) not life.”
And that is what they
were doing when they were speaking one to another and God was listening and he
hearkened, which means he paid special attention to what they were saying, and
then we know what He does as a response and that is to confirm His predestined
election and selection, "They shall be mine in the day when I make up my jewels, and I
will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him."
As I said earlier, This
is adoption talk.
Now, let’s see how
that ties with 1
John 5:13 “ These things have I written
unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye
have eternal life, and that ye may
believe on the name of the Son of God. 14 And this
is the confidence that we have in
him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And
if we know that he hear us,
whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
So we talk to one another His Word, which is His Life,
and our lives begin to echo also his Life, and the confidence grows from word
to word, and from Glory to glory, and from image to image, as Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 3:18
We know that as we speak and echo His Word we know that He is listening, and
will gather us
together as a man gathers his jewels and spares His own sons who serve Him.
Now notice what He is saying here: Because this also
has something to do with serving. Evidently the rest of the people do not serve
Him. Many people speak, many people talk about God; even multitudes talk to
God. But at the end time it is not
you're talking to God; but it is
your talking to each other in a certain specific way, and echoing what God has given to you to know concerning His relationship
with His firstborn son and then sons.
It tells us that God will recognize you, and make you
one of His jewels, and consequently also, impute to you, the Life that was in
the first born son, and allow you to know for certain that you've been counted a
true son. And No one else is going
to qualify.
Now as much as this may seem unfair to some yet, but
this is what God said in Malachi 3, and his thoughts are no our thoughts,
for we have no thought coming.
Now we just can't go by what we think. For us to
become lax or generous in a grace which God has not extended, does not enhance the glory of God nor does it
do anything for us; but destroys us.
Now notice first of all, that this verse is very
obscure. People pass over it. They don't bother to memorize It. And neither do
you find it in the great texts wherein famous messengers of God in the past
have preached. And not only is It very obscure, but It is very wrongly
translated. This is one of the most terrible translations, perhaps, in the Book
of Malachi here. It says, "Then shall you
return and discern," not 'between
the righteous and the wicked,' but actually, "between rightwiseness and wickedness."
That is how you can discern between who is rightly
wise and who is not. Because he that doeth righteousness is righteous. Or He
that doeth what is right is right. So you must know right and wrong to know who
is right and who is wrong.
Now that's what the Bible teaches. The discernment is not between righteous
people and wicked people, but is actually between rightwiseness
and wickedness, and only certain people are going to be
able to judge between what is right and what is wrong. Otherwise the focus is
on the vessels and not the opinion, values and judgments. But the doxa of God
is his opinions, His values, and His judgments.
The Bible says the people of the end time, except for a certain few who speak in a
certain way, fearing His Name in a certain way, will not know the
difference between right and wrong. Neither will they know who serves God and
who does not serve God.
Now remember, this
is absolutely in the church. And furthermore, it's just like saying that the people at the end time do not know
their left hand from their right hand, spiritually speaking. This shows a tremendous blindness, as we
are told concerning the church in Revelation 3:17 they are
blind and don’t even know it.
But we know the Bible says they're going to be that
way and so that's the way they're going to be, and that's the way they are at
the end time.
Now, in getting back to Malachi 3 I want you to notice how The Spirit puts it. He said, "Then shall you return.” And after you have
returned, then you will be able to do this very thing, which is to “discern between right and wrong and be able to know who is
serving God and who is not serving God."
But you've got to return
first. And if they have got to return,
then they must first of all be away from God, because a man cannot return to a
certain point until first of all he has left that certain point. I cannot
return to something if I have never left that something. Therefore, people
cannot return to God until first of all they’ve left Him. And it is true that
everybody has turned away from God, everybody has left God, they are all away
from Him as the scripture says,
Romans 3:10-12 “As it is written, There is none rightly wise, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeks after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.”
So that is quite an indictment against mankind, here,
but it was necessary in order for us to be able to return.
And the problem is that no one even knew it, except
for this little group of people who “speak in a certain
way and fear His name.” And they are counted as jewels, which definitely show that they
have rightwiseness
because they are rightly wise. And by
echoing God’s record of His Son they will also echo His life and in so doing
will be found to be serving God, wherein the rest do not do so.
Now this proves that the Bride was in this mess. Now I
know many people don't want to believe that. They say, "Well certainly God has always had a very few
and a, Oh, yes, a few, but always He's got a few." I challenge you. At the end time, God does not have even the
few. He doesn't. They've all gone
astray. They've all left God,
and it ends up at this end time that there will be only a few that actually return, if they are going to be counted as the
true sons of Almighty God, they're going to be counted as those that know their
left hand from their right hand, spiritually, and they'll be talking in a
certain way. See? Now that's just exactly the way the Bible states it to be so,
so we're not going to switch It.
Now look at Malachi 3:7, and see for yourself. "Even from the days
of your fathers you are gone astray away from my ordinances, and have not kept
them."
See, there it is. "Even from
the days of your fathers..."
Now remember “the hearts of the children are to be turned back to the
fathers.”
So therefore, he's
talking to the children. And remember, it's in the very age of 2 Corinthians
11:2-3 that the apostle Paul says “they will
leave the Word”.
And it's in Revelation 2 that John says “they have
left the Word; they have fallen.”
See?
Now notice how he puts It, "From the
days of your fathers." It was in the very first century
that the church began to turn away from God. See? Now he said, "How have they turned?" They have turned
from the ordinances, which is the Word
of God.
Notice what he says, "Return
unto me, and I will return unto you." Now how did they turn
from God? They turned from God by
turning from the Word. So therefore, only a turning to the Word will bring the people back to God.
You’ve got to come back to that Word. When you come
back to that Word, you’ll be saying that Word in a manner which is acceptable
to God, and the service, (what you do, your life), will be finally correct.
Paul tells us in Romans 12:1-2 what this service is once you have
returned to the Word. 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service. (the
NIV states that this reasonable service is your spiritual act or worship. And
then Paul says,) 2 And be not conformed
to this world: but be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that
ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God.
So the mind must first return to the Word and be
renewed in the Word before the righteous service can be performed and then
accepted.
1 John 3:7 Little children, let no
man deceive you: he that doeth rightwiseness
is rightly wise, even as he (God) is rightly wise. He
that doeth what is right is right. So your actions speak louder than your
words.
Brother
Branham said,
“don’t preach me a sermon, live me one.” And the Bible calls us “written epistles
known and read of all me.”
So you life will speak louder than your words. And if what you do is
based on what you think, and what you think is rightly wise, then what you do
will be called rightwiseness. And
that shows you are born of God.
1 John 2:29 If ye know that he (God) is rightly wise, ye know that every one that doeth rightwiseness is born of him.
2 Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is laid
up for me a crown of rightwiseness,
which the Lord, the rightly wise judge,
shall give me at that day: and not
to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Notice we are “His Jewels which He will gather
unto himself at that day”
and also “at that Day we are to be given a crown as well”
… of rightwiseness.
And where does the crown set? Upon the Head, right? And
He is the head of the church. And where are the Jewels placed?, in His crown. Therefore, the Jewels which are
the golden nuggets of His Word made manifest are to be displayed in this crown
of Rightwiseness, which the rightly wise
Judge shall give us at
that day of His Appearing.
Now, this tells us that no one else will be in that
Rapture. Only those who returned unto
Him, and He is the Word.
Then I ask you, when or at what time is this returning
supposed to take place and how does God do it?
In Malachi 4:1 We read “For behold, the day
cometh that shall burn as an oven; (well that's the day that the
rapture is, right at the end time) and all the proud,
(those that can't admit that they're off the Word---see?) yea, all
that do wickedly, (They don't even know right from wrong,
spiritually blinded, it said.) shall be as stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them
up saith the Lord of hosts, and shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that
fear my name shall the Sun of rightwiseness
arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves
of the stall. 3 Then shall you tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes
under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord
God of hosts.
We won't be coming with a big sword and trying to beat
everybody over the head. And you won’t tread them down neither, because they're
already treaded down. The Bible says, “yea, all that do
wickedly shall be as stubble:” That’s after the harvest. Go into
my field every year and the beans which were so nice and green, at harvest time
the leaves fall off and they dry up, and then the combine comes, and all you see
is stubble. And it tells us here in Malachi and Peter that they've been burned
up. You'll walk out on them just the way Noah and his family walked on the dead
that were in his day. God just laid down a big old bed of silt, and they walked
right on top of it. See? Now the same thing will occur again.
Now it says in Malachi 4:4 "Remember
you the law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all
Israel, and the statutes and judgments."
Now what does this got to do about that? It's very
simple: "Remember you the law of Moses, my servant."
What happened to Moses? In Horeb God had to give him the
Word twice. Now he tells you right here, the Word is
going to be given twice.
Now Sinai is what we usually call Mount Horeb. See?
Mount Sinai, the judgments of God, the broken Word of Almighty God, but now in
Horeb; we associate it more with a blessing where the Word of God comes to the
people for their acceptance, and they accept it. And with this, they were
supposed to go into the promised land. And so, at the end time he is saying remember the law of Moses, how that the
Word of God was given
twice; so therefore, I will give the Word
of God again the second time.
And how's God going to do it? The same way He did with
Moses, God came down and Gave Moses the Word, Twice! The first time it was broken,
so God had to give it again.
The fifth verse: 5 Behold, I will send
unto you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of
the Lord: 6 And he shall turn the hearts of
the children back to the fathers.
Now I skipped the one part intentionally, because it's
been fulfilled. When the Word of God is fulfilled It passes away. See? For the Word of God shall not pass away till all be fulfilled.
See? Now this first part was fulfilled: the hearts of the
fathers turned to the children. But at the end time, the hearts of the children must be turned back
to the fathers. And notice what happens: it has to go back
to the Word; this is why the Word is given the second time so
the people may be correct. The Alpha must repeat in the Omega, for the
alpha and Omega is the same Word, and the same Message.
Masterpiece the 64-0705
P:99 The first Eve that fell, and was used in
the second reformation--second coming, as bringing forth a child, now has
become true Bride again, the Seed, right back with the original Word again. The
Alpha and Omega is the same. He said, "I am Alpha and Omega." He never say anything in between, "I'm Alpha and Omega, the
First and the Last." That's it. The
first ministry and the last ministry is the same. The first
Message and the second--last Message is the same thing. "I was in Alpha; I'm in
Omega." "There'll
be a day that won't be called day nor night, but in the evening time it shall
be Light." See? Alpha and Omega; it's
become the first and the last. Oh, my, brethren, we could stay a--hours on
that.
The first time was correct, but the people left the
Word. “They left their first love.” “Ephesians means relaxed and
drifting.” Now you've
got to get back to what the Word really says. See? And he says I'm going to
send Elijah to do it.
Now he says, if I don't send
Elijah, I'm going to come and smite utterly the earth with a curse.
But, because I do send Elijah, then I
bring you back to that Word, I return you, Like God told Abraham and Sara, “at the appointed time I will return thee unto the tie of life.”
and therefore, because I return thee unto the Life of My Word, you will speak often one to another this Word,
and you know My name, and you fear Me in the prescribed
way, then He said, “I will smite utterly the earth and they will be under the
soles of your feet. But you, I will make you as My jewels in that day, saith the
Lord of hosts.” Now here's your picture. See? People have turned
away from God but they must be turned back.
Let's go to the Book of Matthew 17, and see this very thing
brought to our attention. Jesus is speaking out to the Mount of
Transfiguration, which is a picture of the millennium, which is to come upon
earth: Jesus, the Son of David reigning upon the throne in a glorified body. In
the eleventh verse they said to him concerning this great kingdom that shall
come, Jesus said, "Elijah shall truly
first come." The disciples said in the
tenth verse: 10
Why then say the scribes Elijah must first come?
11 And Jesus said, Elijah shall truly first come, and restore
all things.
Now notice the same thing is brought to our attention
in the Book of
Acts 3, beginning at verse 19. “Repent ye therefore,
and be converted, that your sin may be blotted out, when the times of
refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which was appointed unto you:
21 Whom the
heavens must retain (not 'receive,' it's 'retain') until the restoration of all things, which God has spoken
by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Who is going to bring the restoration? Elijah is going to bring the restoration.
What is that restoration? That which was
spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since the world began.
What did the mouth of all the holy prophets speak? They spoke the
Word of God. So therefore, the people are going to be turned back to
the actual Word of God and not only the Word of God in a limited sense, but the
Original Seed Word of God.
Now then... So, if
you're going to get turned back to the Word, you're going to get turned back to
God. See? It absolutely synchronizes. It's synonymous. To have one is to have the other. You could not have God apart from His Word, and neither can you
have this Word apart from God. See? That's just absolutely perfect the way
the Lord lays it out here before us. “In the Beginning
was the Word and the Word was God, and the Word is God” and “He is the same yesterday today and forever. “I am God, I
change not.” Back to Malachi 3 again.
Now I mentioned that this period of spiritual
blindness is just before Jesus comes. The
people of Laodicea are so spiritually
blind that they cannot tell rightwiseness from unrightwiseness. They cannot
tell rightwiseness from iniquity. Now you know
that's true. They cannot tell rightwiseness
from wickedness. Why?, because they have not accepted the restored Word.
They have turned from God. Now this is exactly what
the Bible says at the end time in the Laodicean Church Age. This of course, is
in the Book of Revelation
3, verses 14 to 22. 14 And unto the
messenger of the church which is in Laodicea write; These things saith the
Amen, (it's going to wind up now) the revelationful
and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works,
that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16
So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,
I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because
thou sayest... (See?)
Ok, I think we will break it off here and we’ll continue
this evening at our communion service.
Let’s bow our heads in prayer.