Righteousness and Unrighteousness part 7
“Ye know what Withholdeth”
January
9th, 2022
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
This morning we
will continue our mini-series on Righteousness and
Unrighteousness, and open to 2 Thessalonians 2 and read from
verse 3
for our text. We will be examining this morning in depth what the Apostle Paul
had to say in 2
Thessalonians 2 concerning the last days, and in this second letter
to the Thessalonians he gives warning of what is to take place in these last
days on earth.
2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we
beseech you, brethren, by the “Parousia”
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, (a time of great
wavering and unsettledness of mind)or be troubled, (loud
noisy protests) neither
by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is
at hand.
So we see at the
time of the parousia of Christ which began in 1933 and ends when Christ takes
up the bride in a rapture of the church, that it will be a time of trouble and
stress. This is a time during which he says men will be shaken in their minds and also
troubling time of loud protestation and chaos at the time of the Parousia of
Jesus Christ. So this will be a time of great conflict and warfare. And you
might ask why? Because we will find out that When God descends with a shout and
reveals Great Parousia Presence that Satan comes with his parousia as well to
reveal Himself. Therefore the war which began in heaven as we see in Revelation 12
comes down to earth at this time as
well, and you have at the same time two Parousia’s. First we see the Parousia
of Christ where He comes down with a Shout which is a Message, and then we will
see the parousia of Satan which he comes in a desperate battle for the minds of
men. And we find ourselves right in the thick of the battle for the survival of
God’s lineage.
Revelations
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.
Brother
Branham told us that Michael was Christ in his sermon Beginning ending gentile dispensation 55-0109E P:36 "And at that time Michael shall
stand, the great prince." Michael
was Christ, of course, Who fought the angelic wars in heaven
with the devil. Satan and Michael fought together, or fought against
each other, rather.
Questions and answers COD 59-0628E P:44 Lucifer in heaven tried to exalt himself
and even be just a little higher than his Boss. And he betrayed Michael,
and made himself a great kingdom in the north, and come down. Now, and he and his angels was cast out. The person asked of the Revelation...
That's on Revelations
12, on the Isle of Patmos. But now notice this here at
the 12th verse, and watch how he sets in the kingdom of men.
How many people here understand that the devil controls every nation under
heaven? The devil controls the United States. The devil is government of
the United States. The devil is the government of Germany. He's
the government of every nation under heaven. The devil controls every nation.
The Bible says he does. Read Matthew
the 4th chapter, when Satan took Jesus up to the top of the
mountain, and showed Him the kingdoms of the world, and claimed them to be his,
and said, "I'll give them to you if you'll worship me." Jesus never
said, "You
lied, Satan." He knowed they belonged to him. But over in
the Book of Revelation, said, "Rejoice, you heavens and you earth, for
the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His
Christ. And He shall reign on earth."Jesus knowed that in the
millennium that all the governments and kingdoms will be broke down, and He'll
be God and Ruler over all of them. He knowed He fell heir to all of it; so
therefore, He told Satan, "Get thee behind Me, Satan," for He knew what He had to do.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,
Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power
of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them
before our God day and night. 11 And
they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony;
and they loved not their lives unto the death. 12 Therefore
rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them.
Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of
the sea! for the devil is come down unto
you, having great wrath, because
he knoweth that he hath but a short time. 13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast
unto the earth, he persecuted the woman (the
church) which
brought forth the man child.
No, the Apostle
Paul goes on to say, 3 “Let no man deceive you
by any means:
for that day
shall not come, except there come a
falling away first, and that
man of sin.
“and that man
of sin (this
man of unbelief, for “sin is unbelief”.
We are taught that by the prophet David
in Psalms 78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
Notice that David said their sin was their unbelief. And Jesus in quoting David said in John 16:9,
“Of sin because
they believed not.” Therefore as William Branham taught us “sin is unbelief”.
“and that
man”
“of sin, That man of unbelief be revealed, (apokalupto: to take off the cover, to reveal or disclose,
so we see he shall be exposed here.
So we see that
not only is Christ to be Revealed
(apokalupto) at
His Parousia, And we know how Christ is revealed
as brother Branham taught us in his sermon “Christ is revealed in his own Word.”
But there is
also a mystery here that the son of perdition
is also to have a Parousia as well. And
he is to be known not as son of man, but as “son of destruction” that is what
perdition means. And he will also be revealed at his own Parousia as to what he
really is) “and that man” is called “the son of perdition”;
Now,
in our series on Faith we preached two sermons on the Parousia of Christ, and
showed there were 23 times in the new Testament where Jesus, Paul, Peter, James
and John all Spoke of the Parousia of Christ, and in those 23 verse we
identified 84 signs and events that were associated with the Parousia of
Christ. But here we see that there is but one Scriptural reference to Satans
Parousia and we know by that reference that it is to take place sometime during
the Parousia of Christ. But where as
there are 84 signs and events that accompany the Parousia of Christ, there are
only two that accompany the Parousia of Satan. And we will see this in the
adjective that is spoken of him.
(He
is called the Son of perdition which is
translated from the Greek word “apoliea”
which means “destruction”,
“death”, and “pernicious
ways” destructive ways) “and that man of sin
be revealed, revealed. Revealed as what? He tells us, “the son of perdition”.
Now,
this word perdition according to Thayer's
Greek Lexicon is defined as: the word “apōleia” means 1) destroying,
or “utter
destruction of vessels”, I think that is very fitting for what
is taking place today with the push to change every ones DNA. And the second
definition is 2) a
perishing, ruin, destruction of money.
Therefore,
the Parousia of Satan is the hour of destruction, and he is here to do two things, “to destroy the vessels of men,” and to
destroy “man’s money system”. And we
can see that taking place in all the news on a daily basis.
So
we see the apostle Paul warning us through the Holy Ghost that this demonic power (Satan) with the face of a man (the false prophet
and anti Christ) will come forth with his own parousia
and his presence will be manifested as a destructive demonic power (apoliea)with the face of a man, and he will come forth not only to destroy human
vessels causing them to become trans-human by changing their DNA. Which
is exactly what he did in the Garden when he used the Beast to impregnate Eve
and bring forth Cain, who was a trans human. And a trans-human is a hybrid
human.
If
we are to understand what is taking place today, we need to understand the
language of Satan’s movement. One must understand where the globalists are
headed to understand why they are doing what they are doing today. And one
needs look no further than what the beast did to Eve, and thus to all mankind
with one act in the Garden of Eden.
Wikipedia defines Trans-humanism as “a
philosophical and intellectual movement which advocates the enhancement of the
human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated
technologies able to greatly enhance longevity, mood, and cognitive abilities,
and predicts the emergence of such technologies in the future.[1][2]
Trans-humanist thinkers study the potential benefits and
dangers of emerging
technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations
as well as the ethics[3] of using such technologies. Some
trans-humanists believe that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings
with abilities so greatly expanded from the current condition as to merit the
label of posthuman beings.[2]
We
are warned of such by the apostle Paul in
2
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.
So
this notion of transforming the human race actually gets its beginnings from
Satan.
This
word “apōleia” which speaks of the destruction
of the vessel, also
means destroyer of money, so we see as
one of the identifiable characteristics of his parousia we will not only see
man become hybrid and we know this
is happening through the modification of man’s DNA through technological
advances, but another identifiable characteristic will be that he also will
destroy the money system as well.
Now,
when the Apostle Paul spoke of the man of sin
(unbelief) that is to “be revealed” (or manifested) “the son of perdition,”
this is exactly what this word perdition, “apōleia” means,
and this is exactly what we are seeing manifest throughout the world right now,
as we are in the midst of what they call the great reset. And that reset will
be the destruction of human vessels (the human DNA) and also the destruction of
the fiat currency as we already mentioned.
Yet
God has His great reset coming as well which will be the annihilation of the
world system, and the ushering in of the millennium. And as Satan wishes to enhance
which means to destroy the DNA of men to do his bidding, God has promised to
enhance our DNA to a glorified condition that will never perish. I hope you can
see what is taking place is that two kingdoms at war, the Kingdom of God and His
Christ, and the Kingdom of Satan.
But
we Who believe God’s Word know that God shall prevail. But in order to save our
DNA he will have to remove us from this world for a period of time while he
utterly cleans the world with Fire. In the end God will take out those who have
His Spirit, and glorify our bodies that we will never know any suffering and
sickness again, and we shall never age.
But
Satan mocks Gods plan by trying to do through science what God will do by His
Spoken Word.
Now,
in getting back to the apostle Paul, he continues by saying, 4 “Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, (and remember, “God is the Word,”
(John 1:1 “In the beginning
was the word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God). Therefore
this demonic power will oppose and exalt itself above the Word of God) “or that is worshipped; so that he as God” (the
object of worship) “sitteth in the temple of God,
So I want you to
notice that he will be setting in the Temple of the One who Should be worshipped, “shewing himself that
he is God” (Showing himself that he has become the one who
is worshipped).
Now,
remember, this word “worship”
comes from two words, the first word, “worth”
meaning “the value of” and the suffix “ship”,
which means “The state or condition
of being”.
Verse
5 “Remember ye not, that, when I was yet
with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he
might be revealed in his time.”
Now,
this is where I want to get to this morning, so that we might understand the
next few things the apostle Paul tells us here. Notice the words, “And ye know what withholdeth” and we
see that this is a person, and this one who is withholding is not God who is doing the withholding. For this word withholding is used in the Scriptures of men
who hold down or hold back,
thus suppressing the truth. So we see the Parousia of this wicked one is the Parousia
of the one who is also withholding, or suppressing the truth. That is
also an identifiable characteristic of his Parousia, is that the truth will be withheld or suppressed.
For
every weapon the devil has at his disposal, God has more at His disposal as
well. So
we see in Satan’s Eden, the earmark of his Parousia is that he is busy
withholding the truth from as many as he can, and we see that also in the
policies coming forth from his fallen angels of light, his ministers who
control every government in the world.
But
we also see at this same time, God also has His Parousia that is also earmarked
with many identifiable characteristics as well, such as a Shout, Voice and
Trump. And God is said in 2 Thessalonians 2 that he allows Satan to
withhold, for a period of time in which God does nothing to stop Satan’s plan
for his Eden.
Let’s
just examine further in this scripture what God does while Satan in his Eden is
withholding or hold down the truth, which then brings forth his destructive
plans for destruction of the body and currency.
Let’s
see what Satan is doing and why God does not step in to stop him. And we will
see that the reason God lets him do what he is here to do, is to expose exactly
what and Who Satan and his minions are. God actually lets Satan manifest his
Eden plan in order to expose his destructive nature. So we see in the next few
verses that God just lets him withhold.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only He (God) who now letteth will (continue to) let, until He (God)
be taken out of
the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked (that
transgressor, those one’s who’ve gone beyond the limits of law, the lawless
one’s, one’s who are without law) be revealed,
Notice that 2
Thessalonians speaks of two Parousia’s and yet unless we know what is to take
place during each, we would have no idea that the events which are taking place
are a result of the identifiable characteristics associated with these two
Parousia’s.
Now, back in our
Faith series numbers 38 and 39 we showed you the 84 signs and events that
identify God’s Parousia here on earth in these last days. But we did not show
you the identifiable characteristics of Satan’s parousia at the time of his end
time Eden.
But notice the
apostle Paul tells us in verse 8 And then shall that
Wicked be revealed whom The Lord
shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, (His Word that goeth
forth from His mouth like a two edged sword) and shall destroy with the brightness of his Parousia (Presence):
So
the Parousia of Satan will be destroyed by the parousia of Christ, by those 84
signs and events which accompany God’s Parousia. As Paul continues in verse 9 destroying him,
(the
wicked one) whose
Parousia (whose presence) is after the working of Satan with all power and
signs and lying wonders.
So
again we see Satan’s Parousia is manifested in the setting up of his Eden, and his
agenda is exposed to all and is destroyed by the Parousia of God’s Word. So the
greatest battle ever fought is for the mind of man, but God will let only so
far and then God will cut Satan off short of fulfilling his Eden.
10 And “with
all deceivableness of unrighteousness” (showing that un-right-wiseness
or wrong understanding is deceptive) in them that perish; because they
received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Now,
notice these words, “with all
deceivableness of un-right-wiseness” And we are told this
deception will be in them that are in the act of perishing. And we are also
told the reason they perish is that “they never received a love for the truth that they might be
saved.”
11 And for this cause (the fact that they never came to
a place where they had a love for the truth, we find that) God shall
send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie:
Now,
notice that by rejecting God’s Truth, brings on their delusion, and delusion is defined as: A belief that is not true; a false idea. A false idea or belief
that is caused by mental illness. So we can see this end-time insanity
is actually what makes the delusion real to people. A
persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects
outside the self, that is maintained
despite indisputable evidence to the contrary.
So
we see there is either a real love for the truth in you, or you will be “given over to a
strong delusion, that you might believe the lie,” which is the same
lie Eve believed.
And
then we are told in verse 12 “That they all might be
damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in un-right-wiseness.” Therefore the
apostle Paul is informing us here of what happens at the time Satan is setting
up his Eden, and how God actually assists him by turning over those who do not
love the truth thus turning them over to a strong delusion
to believe the same lie Eve believed.
And what was
that lie? “Take this into your
body and you will not die.”
Now, brother
Branham lays it all out very clearly as to what is to take place at this time that
the Apostle Paul refers to in 2 Thessalonians in his sermon The First seal: 63-0318
From Brother
Branham’s message on The First seal: 63-0318 42 “Oh, let's
just read a Scripture. You all like to put down some of the Scriptures? Let's
take II Thessalonians just a moment and--and look here just a minute. It's such a
beautiful picture here. I like it. And
let's see. Yes, II Thessalonians, and I want the 2nd chapter of II
Thessalonians and the 7th verse. Let's see. II Thessalonians 2:7. I
think that's right. Now, I was writing this down, quivering and shaking....
“the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only
he who... letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.”
And then
brother Branham says, “Who? He that letteth. See? See, a mystery... “The
mystery of iniquity” way back in that very
first church age here, here's Paul writing, saying that the mystery of
iniquity... What is
iniquity? Iniquity
is something that you know you ought not to do, and you do it anyhow.
And Paul said there's such in the earth today, “workers of iniquity.”
The First seal: 63-0318 43 the 3rd verse. “Let no man deceive you by any means:
for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and
that... (m-a-n)... man of sin be revealed, the son of
perdition; (That's right.) Who opposeth and exalts himself above all that's called God, or that
is worshipped; so that he as God setteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
that he is God. (remitting sin). Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with
you, I told you these things?... (I'd like to set under some of his
teaching. Wouldn't you?)...
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed
in his time. Ok, so this word
withholding
or holding
down the truth, The Greek word is the same word used by Paul in Romans 1:18 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and un-right-wiseness of men, who hold down (katecho) the truth in unrightwiseness.
This Word hold
down was translated from the Greek word “Kat-echo” and is actually made up of two
words, “kat”
which means to
with hold or hold down and the Greek word echo.
So it means to suppress the echo of God’s Truth as we see in 1 John 5.
1 John 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God 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. 11 And
this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that echoes the Son echoes life;
and he that echoes
not the Son of God echoes not life. 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.
And we see
that Jesus spoke of this spirit as being in the hypocrites of his day as
well when he said in Matthew 23:13, But woe unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! (actors) for ye “shut up the kingdom of heaven” against
men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye
them that are entering to go in.
And Paul says
this one that is “withholding will be revealed in His Time,” So this one will
have an apokolupsis which is a revealing or a time of manifesting or unveiling
himself. And we find out it is the very religious ones, those are the ministers of
light as Paul called Satan’s workers.
2 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.
Those workers
of iniquity are the very religious ministers of Satan that Jesus tells us of,
where the two spirits would be so close it would deceive the very elect if it
was possible.
Notice, the
Parousia of God does one thing while the Parousia of Satan does completely the
opposite thing. God comes down with a
Shout and Satan uses his false ministers of light to suppress the shout, and so
he withholdeth while God just lets him. So we see the one doing the letting is
“God who now letteth
will do so until he removes himelf from the midst of humanity in a rapture where he takes up the elect. But we see
that it is Satan who “withholdeth.”
Notice verse 6 And
now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. And as I have
pointed out Satan is the one who with his ministers of light withhold the
truth. But notice in verse 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: (so
this mystery of iniquity, this holding back and suppressing the truth is
already at work in Paul’s day, and on through the seven ages right up until the
end, but then we read in verse 7) only He (God) who now letteth will let,
until He (God) be taken out of the way.
So Satan through
his ministers are allowed by God to withhold the truth,
and way they can until the end time, when God comes down in His Parousia with a
Shout, Voice and Trump. And Paul says, God will let
him do so until the very end. 6 And now ye
know what withholdeth that he
might be revealed in his time. So
his withholding actually reveals who he is and what spirit he has. 7b “only He
(God) who now letteth will let, until He (God) be taken out of the
way.” In which Time God takes us up in a rapture.
And then at that
time, Paul says, 8 And then (When
God has left the earth with His Elect, at that time) shall
that Wicked (that transgressor, those one’s who go beyond the
limits of law, the lawless one’s, one’s who are without law, at that time they
shall) be revealed, (totally uncovered and unmasked
and manifested openly) whom The Lord (The
One True Lord) shall
consume with the Spirit of his Mouth, (which is the Life of His
Word, in other words, His Word that goeth forth from His mouth like a two edged
sword will consume
and shall destroy with the brightness of his (Christ the Revealed
Word) Parousia (Presence): 9 destroying
him, (the wicked one) whose parousia (presence) is after the
working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.
In other words God’s Elect are taken up
as the last thing God does to destroy the works of Satan, because he can no
longer get to the elect, they are out of His reach. Because remember, Jesus
warned us in Matthew 10:28 And fear not them
which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him
which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
In Satan’s last
stand at his pinnacle of his Eden, he’s come to destroy the body, and money
system. He has gone after both body and soul of the elect with a germ warfare
in the form of an inoculation that will not only destroy the body, by causing
the body to produce proteins that have nail like barbs externally that tear
apart the organs of the body, and cut the organ linings, causing myocarditis
which is inflammation of the heart tissue, but also pericarditis which destroys
of the sac lining around the heart.
It also causes
damage to the endothelial cells
which is the lining around the blood vessels as well as it has been found to
cause lining damage around other organs in the body like the kidneys, liver and
brain. So that’s a good example of “that
which can destroy the body”, but it also changes the DNA code and thus causes the person to become
a hybrid Trans-human, thus destroying the soul as well.
This was proposed by BG to D-A-R-P-A and other military personnel
in a 2005 video which shows that their purpose is to destroy the interaction
between the person and God. It cuts off the M-2 portion of the brain which is the
portion that is responsive to spiritual communication between God and man. The
purpose of this “Germ Warfare” was
to eliminate the fundamentalist’s zeal for God and the things of God. It was to
pacify the person’s reactions to the leading of the Holy Spirit. The head
research scientist for Modern A that makes this germ warfare claimed, it is not a v-a-c-c-i-n-e, it’s a human operating system 2.0.
Thus as Jesus said, “fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the
soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
Now, 2 Thessalonians 2:10 And “with all deceivableness of unrighteousness”
(notice deception because of wrong understand) in them that are perishing; because they received not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall
send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie: 12 That they
all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in un-right-wiseness.”
He is speaking of those who took pleasure in a wrong understanding.
Now, let’s go
to Matthew 13:41-43 The Son of man shall send forth his
angels, (his
messengers, His true ministers) and they shall gather
out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them
into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then
shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who
hath ears to hear, let him hear.
The NIV states it this way, 41 The Son of Man will
send out his angels, and they
will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin (unbelief)
and all who do
evil.
For centuries the object of the true
Five-fold ministry was to weed out the evil doers from among the righteous. But
in this hour of Laodicea, if you preach hell and preach it hot, the people get
uncomfortable and want only things that their itching ears want to hear. How low
have the pulpits fallen.
Now, I like how The
Message Bible translates what Jesus said here. 41 “The
Son of Man will send his angels, to weed out the thistles from his kingdom,
pitch them into the trash, and be done with them. 42 They are going to complain
to high heaven, but nobody is going to listen. 43 At the same time, ripe,
holy lives will mature and adorn the
kingdom of their Father. “Are
you listening to this? Really listening?
And the Voice Translation
states it this way, 41 The Son of Man will send
His messengers out into the world, and they will root out from His kingdom
everything that is poisonous, ugly, and malicious, and everyone who does
evil. 42 They will
throw all that wickedness into the fiery furnace where there will be weeping
and grinding of teeth. 43 And the righteous will
shine like the sun in their Father’s kingdom. He who has ears to hear, let him
hear.
If you will
recall that is exactly what the Elect will do according to Malachi 3:16 “in that Day when they talk to one another and the Lord will
hearken and hear what they are speaking about,” which will be
echoing what He has come down in with His Shout. And “He will make a book of remembrance of them and as
a Son that serves Him, He will spare them the end time judgments.”
And these that
do iniquity which is they know to do and won’t don’t do, or they know not to do
but they do anyway. These are religious people, as Jesus shows us in the
following Scriptures.
Luke 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you
not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. 28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see
Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and
you yourselves
thrust out.
Matthew 7: 18 A good tree (And remember in Psalms 1 it likens a righteous mean to a tree, so he is saying here
a good man) cannot
bring forth evil fruit, (wrong teaching for the season) neither can a corrupt tree (a corrupt man) bring forth good
fruit. (good
teaching for the season).
19 Every tree (man) that bringeth not
forth good fruit (teaching) is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits (teaching)
ye shall know
them. 21 Not every one that
saith unto me, Lord, Lord, (see,
they got two lords there) shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in
heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, (see, there are
your two lords guys) have we not prophesied (preached) in thy name? and in
thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew (ginosko you, I never experientially
knew) you: depart
from me, ye that work iniquity. (you who do what you know is wrong).
Now, contrast
that to the group from Malachi 3 that we
spoke of in Righteousness
and Unrighteousness parts one and two. That group that God makes
a book of remembrances of them. Why? because they are those who can discern
righteousness from wickedness.
In Hebrews 1:9 The Apostle Paul says, “Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated
iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of
gladness above thy fellows.”
Notice you must love righteousness but
also you must hate iniquity. So God anoints our eyes with the salve of His Holy
Spirit (Revelation
3 and Matthew 25 the wise having the anointing upon their own eyes, so
they could see.)
But Jesus lets us know that those who are not rightly
wise, will appear rightly-wise to many. Matthew 23:28
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men,
but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. So the
appearance of these as being rightly-wise is only to men, and not to the elect
who know the difference between right-wise-ness and un-right-wiseness.
Now in getting back to 2 Thessalonians 2,
brother Branham says when this
will take place, “Not then (See?),” (he’s talking about not back in
Paul’s day) “not
then, but in his time... See, at the breaking of that
Seal we know exactly what it was.”
Brother
Branham continues, …“Who is this man of iniquity? Who is this man of sin, this
fellow that's a working iniquity, would he be revealed in his time?”
The First seal: 63-0318 44 For the mystery
of iniquity doth already work:... (deceivers, you see, deceiving the
people off into something. See?)... only he... (God)... that letteth will let, until he... (the Church, Christ, the Bride)...
be
taken out of the way. And then shall the Wicked one be revealed... (at the
breaking of the Seal, at his time.
Paul said, "Not in my time, but in
the time when he'll be revealed. See?)... whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit
of his mouth... (We're going to get to that after while.)... the Spirit of
his mouth... (Watch what that is.)... and shall
destroy with the brightness of his coming:
(that word coming
is the Greek word parousia, and it speaks of “the appearing of Christ
before the coming of Christ” as brother Branham declared to us.)
“Even him, whose coming (parousia) is
after the working of Satan.”..
So we see that
Both Christ Himself has a Parousia in this hour as well as Satan himself.
“(him, him, a man)... whose
working is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders. (See?) And
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness... (deceiving
people by unrighteousness)... in them
that perish;... (not this Bride,
in them that's looking for such a thing)... because
they received not the love of the truth...
(And
Christ is the Truth, and Christ is the Word, but they'd rather have a
creed.),... that they might be saved. And for this cause God has
sent them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:... (It should be
translated there, as I looked in the Lexicon, "the lie," not "a lie"; "the lie," same one he told Eve.)That they...
might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in
unrighteousness.
Now, we know the
Lie that was told to Eve. Satan using the serpent said to her, “thou shalt not
surely die,” in other words, “if you take this medicine I’m going to give you, you won’t
surely die.”
So the serpent
inserted Eve with his genes which altered her genes to produce a hybrid life in
Cain. And she brought forth a hybrid race of people (Serpent Seed or seed of
the serpent). And this is exactly what “the Beast system” is trying to
accomplish today.
Insert the
people with gene warfare that alters their human genes, and produce
trans-humans, a creature that is no longer purely human but which now has been
implanted with a human operating system 2.0. And this was openly stated by the
head scientist at the leading producer of this germ warfare. Those are his
words exactly. Oh, my, if you could just have God open your eyes to see and
understand we are living in Bible times,
In a 2017 Ted Talk
presentation by Dr. Tal Zaks, the chief medical officer at Modern-A Inc.,
clearly explains in layperson’s language just what the gene therapy technology
does in the shots. Dr. Zaks clearly states, they are
“hacking the software of life,” by
injecting their own genetic code into humans. He called it human operating system 2.0”.
And what is
the Beast system? It is the spirit of anti Christ,
The First seal: 63-0318 45 “What a statement.
My. After the Bride is taken away, then this man of sin will reveal
himself. She, the true Bride of Christ has been elected out of every church
age. Now, the other day I made a statement: The Bride could go home and you'd
never know nothing about it. That's true.
Somebody said, "Well, Brother
Branham, that would be a mighty small group." Jesus said, "As it was in the
days of Noah” (Now, you talk to Him about it. See?) “wherein eight
souls were saved by water, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of
man."
The First seal: 63-0318 46 “If there was eight hundred
went in the rapture tonight, you'd never hear a word about it tomorrow, or the
next day, or no other time. They'd be gone and you'd know nothing about it.
See? It'd just be the same thing. What am I trying to say? I'm not trying to
scare you, worry you. I want you to be on your toes. Be ready, watching,
every minute. Quit your nonsense. Just get down to
business with God, 'cause it's later than you think.”
The First seal: 63-0318 47 Now, you remember, the true
Bride... Now, there is a false bride. We get that in Revelations
17.
She said, "I am a widow and have no need of nothing," (You
see?), setting upon the scarlet clothed beast, and so forth (the beast,
rather).Now, but the true Bride will be made up of thousands times thousands of
people, but it will be the elect out of every church age.
Every time a message went forth and the
people believed it and accepted it in all the Light it was, when they were
sealed away until that day of redemption...Don't Jesus speak the same thing
when He said the sound
come in the seventh watch? That's the last church age. See? And said, "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go out to
meet Him."
And then the sleeping virgin come, rubbed
her eyes, and said, "Suppose I ought to have some of that oil too; so
maybe we'd better have some." And the real true Bride standing there said,
"We
have just got enough for ourself. We just got enough to get in ourself. We
can't give you nothing. If you want some, you go pray up."
Again from pp 48 “And
while she was gone, the Bridegroom come (See?), and in went the Bride. And then
them remnant there, the ones that were absolutely virtuous, the church was left
outside. And He said, "There will be
weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth."
See? Now, that's the elect. And when the sound come, "The Bridegroom cometh,"
then everyone of those that slept down through those ages awakened, every one.
49 “See, it isn't God, as we'd think, just
going to hunt Him out a few thousand people of this age and take them. It's
the very elected out of every age. And that's the reason Christ has to stay
on the mediatorial seat back there as an Intercessor until that last one comes
in at the last age. And these revelations then of what it has been breaks forth
upon the people, and they see what's happened. See? You get it now?”
50 “All right. Notice, the rest of the
dead, church members, lived not again until one thousand years was
passed. The church members, the Christians, the church lived not again until
the end of the thousand years, and then they come forth to stand before the
Bride (That's right.), stand before the King and the Queen. Glory. Some
church today calls herself "The Queen of heaven."
The Queen of heaven is the selected Bride
of Christ, and she comes with Him. Daniel saw it and said: "Ten thousands
times ten thousands ministered to Him." Now, if you'll watch the Scripture
there in Daniel. Judgment
was set, and the books were opened.
51 “Now, remember,
when He come, He come with His Bride. The wife ministers to her husband. And
ten thousands times ten thousands of thousands ministered to Him. Judgment was
set, and the books were opened, and another book was opened which is the Book
of Life. Not the Bride at all, she's done gone up and come back and standing
there in judgment of those generations that refused the Gospel message.
Didn't Jesus say ‘the queen of
the south shall rise with this generation in her days of the judgment and will
condemn this generation, for she came from the utmost parts of the world to
hear the wisdom of Solomon; and a greater than Solomon is here’.”
52 There stood the judgment, the queen of
Sheba of the south stood there in the judgment, and her own testimony... Not
even a Jew came up with that generation that was Jews, and they were
blind and missed Him, because they were looking for Him; but He come so
simple that they went plumb over the top of it, like that. And there that
great queen humbled herself, and come and accepted the message. "And she'll stand
in the judgment," He said, "and condemn that
generation."
53 “Now, you see the three classes always? The
book, the dead were judged out; another book, the Book of Life: them who had
their names in the Book of Life...You say, "If your name's in the Book
of Life, it's all right, huh?" No, sir. Look, Judas Iscariot had his
name in the Book of Life. Now, say that's wrong.
Jesus in Matthew 10 gave them
power to cast out devils and sent them forth to heal the sick, and to cleanse
the lepers, and raise the dead. And they went out and returned back, Judas
right with them; and they cast out devils and done all kinds of miracles,
and returned back, and said, "Even the devils is subject unto us."
Jesus said, "Don't rejoice that the devils is subject
to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven," and Judas
was with them. But what happened? When it come down to the elected
group to go up there at Pentecost and really receive the Holy Spirit, Judas
showed his colors. He'll be there in the judgment. So the books was
opened and the Book of Life was opened, and every man was judged thus. Now, the
Bride's standing there with Christ to judge the world.
54 “Don't the... Paul say, "Dare you (talking to
the Bride) having any matter or grievance against each other
that you'd go to the unjust law. Don't you know the saints shall judge the
earth?" There you are. The saints is going to judge the earth and take
it over. That's right. You say, "How in the world is a little group
like that..." I don't know how it's going to be done, but He
said it's going to be done; so that just settles it as far as I know. Now,
look.
55 “Now, notice the rest of the dead (the
church members, dead church members) lived not again until the thousand
years, and then at the thousand years, they were gathered... Another
resurrection come, which is second resurrection, and they were gathered,
and Christ and the church, the Bride (not the church, the Bride) Christ
and the Queen (not the church)... Christ and the Bride stood there.
And they were separated like the sheep from
the goats. That's right. There's the church members come
up. And if they heard the Truth and rejected the Truth, then
what's going to be said when the big thing's spread across the canvas when even
your own thoughts will be there, what you thought about it. How you going
to escape, and it right there on the canvas of the skies; and God's great
television and there's your own thoughts rebelling right...
Your own thoughts will speak against you in that hour. So if
you speak one thing and think another, you better stop that. Get your
thoughts on God. Keep them pure, and stay right there with it, and speak the
same thing all the time. See? Don't say, "Well, I'll say I'll believe
it; but I'll go find out." You believe it. Amen.
56 “Notice, these type, the reason they die
out, they go through the purging of trial of the tribulation; because they're
not actually under the Blood. They claim they are, but
they're not. How can they go through a trial to purify them when the
bleach Blood of Jesus Christ takes every symptom of sin and stuff away from
you.
And you're already dead, and your life is hid in Him through God and sealed in
there by the Holy Ghost; what are you going to be judged for? Where you
going to get your purification? What do you have to be purified from when
you're perfectly in Christ, sinless? How... What's the judgment for? But it's
this sleeping bunch that them people can't make out.
57 “Now, they
haven't done it for years (See?), but this is the hour of revelation
(See, see?) being revealed, just at the coming of the Bride... The last
winding up, the last things are coming... It's coming to an end, friend, I believe.
When? I don't know. I can't tell you, but anything... I want to live tonight
like if it was tonight, I'd be ready. See? He might come tonight yet, and
He might not come for twenty years.
I don't know when He'll come, but
whenever it is, I... My life might be over tonight, and then whatever I've done
here is finished at that hour; I've got to meet Him in the judgment the way I
went down here. The way the tree leans; that's the way it falls.
58 Remember, when they went to buy oil, they...
"Oh," you say, "now, wait a minute, Brother Branham. I don't
know about that." When they went to buy oil, when they come back, the
Bride was done gone, and the door was shut; and they knocked and said,
"Let us in; let us in," but they were out in outer darkness. Now,
if you want a type of that, now look: "In the time of Noah..."
Jesus referred to it.
Now, in Noah's time, they went into the
ark, but they were carried over during the time of the judgment. But that
didn't type Christ's Bride; Enoch typed the Bride. Enoch... Noah went over
through... The Bride... Went over through the tribulation period, and suffered,
and become a drunk, and died.
But Enoch walked before God for five
hundred years and had a testimony he pleased God with raptured faith, and just
started walking right out, and went up through the skies, and went home
without even tasting death, never died at all.”
59 “That's a type of we which are alive and remain shall not
prevent, or hinder, those same type of people that are asleep, that fell
asleep on account of the human age and the state of human age. They died back
there, but they're not dead. They are sleeping. Amen. They are asleep, not
dead. And the only thing it needs is the Bridegroom to wake them.
And we which are alive and remain shall not
hinder those that's already fell asleep, for the trumpet of God shall sound and
the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them and will meet the Lord in the air. And the rest
of the dead lived not for a thousand years. There you are. They went through the
tribulation period. What was it? Like Enoch.”
60 “You know, Noah watched Enoch, for when
Enoch come up missing, he knowed judgment was at hand. He got to hanging around
the ark, but Noah didn't go up. He just lifted a little piece off and
rode over the tribulations. He was carried through the tribulation
period to die the death. See? But Noah
was carried through; Enoch was translated without death: a type of
the Church being caught up with those who are asleep to meet the Lord in the
air, and the rest of the church is carried over into the tribulation period.
Can't make nothing else out of it myself. Enoch raptured, no death...
Let us pray…