Spoken
Word no. 148
False
Anointed Among us
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
February
28, 2010
MATTHEW
24:24 For
there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs
and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very
elect.
NIV
1 TIMOTHY 4: 1 – 2 The Spirit clearly speaks that in the last
of times some will abandon The faith and follow deceiving spirits and things
taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose
consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
Let’s bow our heads in prayer,
Dear Father, we have read from Thy Word
this morning, and it warns us that at the end time there is to be much
deception Help us Father to be so in tune with Thy word, and Thy Spirit that we
will not be even close as to this deception You speak of in Your Word. Thank
You Father for coming down and giving us a Message that seals us in by Your
Spirit and keeps us from all evil. Stay with us, protect us, heal us, and bless
us with all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus we pray, amen!
Now, this morning I would like to
continue reading from brother Branham’s sermon The Spoken Word is the Original
Seed where we left off last night at paragraph156 156 Oh, yes.
You say, "Well, Brother Branham, don't you believe the Holy Ghost speaks
in tongues?" Yes, sir, but give it
the Word test. See, Jannes and
Jambres worked miracles. That's right, didn't they? Yes, sir. Jannes and
Jambres... When Moses went down to Egypt, everything that Moses done in the way
of a sign, Jannes and Jambres, them two
witches, could produce the same thing:
two devils. Moses would say, "Fleas." They said,
"Fleas." Moses said, "A stick on the ground." They said,
"A stick on the ground." "A serpent." "A
serpent." That's right. They could work miracles. The Bible said that in the last days that devils would rise working
miracles and would deceive the people. Awful hard, brother, but you must
know the Truth.
157
Jesus said, "Many will come to Me in that day and say,
'Lord, Lord, have not I did this, and did that, and did that, and so forth, in
Your Name?'" He'd say, "Depart
from Me, you worker of iniquity." What is iniquity? Something that you
know that's wrong, and you do it anyhow;
and you know that God's Word is right. Why do you play the hypocrite? Because
of your organization and pick a little bit here and won't take the rest of it.
"You worker of iniquity,"
He said, "depart
from Me; I never even knew you." Now, that's... You
either wade through hell here or hereafter, so... See?
158 Now,
remember, that's true; that's what Jesus said. Jannes and Jambres withstood
Moses; remember and the Bible said, "As they withstood Moses, in
the last days they would reappear, those spirits, again."
What? Just before the liberation of the people. Hallelujah. The liberation
time's here. Jesus said in Matthew
24 over there that they would deceive the very elected if it was possible.
Just the elected will catch it, just one here and there: the very elected, if
possible... "As
Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so will these men of reprobate mind
concerning the Word..." concerning the Truth,
and the Word is the Truth. Is that right? Now, this is not skim milk, friends.
See, see?
159 Look,
they... The Bible said. Jesus said that they would be so close that they would deceive the very
elected, if it was possible; but
it ain't possible. That Seed's going to fall there, because of it's predestinated to fall there. The
seeds has went forth. The denominations is sowed; the Word's been sowed. See?
And Jannes and Jambres, they, them people... The Bible said these devils would rise up in the last days and would
deceive the people by these miracles and signs that they could perform. How you going to know the difference? The
Word.
160 Even the
Old Testament said, "If
they speak not according to the law and prophets, there's no life in them."
If they deny one thing... Then show me one person was ever baptized using the
title of, Name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Why do you do it then? A creed,
hybrid, dead children, bastard children,
twice dead, plucked up by the roots. "And every root that my, every plant that My heavenly Father hasn't
planted will be rooted up. Both heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall not pass away,"
said Jesus. Now, you see why I've stood the way I have?
161 Show me
one place, if it isn't a curse for a
woman to cut her hair. There you are. Then you fuss at me. Then people say,
"Brother Branham's a prophet. Oh, you can believe him as long as he's
talking to the people, telling their sins and things like that; but when he
goes to teaching, don't you believe that." Well, you poor hypocrite. You
don't know nothing. Doesn't the Bible say the Word of the Lord came to the
prophets? I don't call myself a prophet; I'm no prophet. But you said so; I'm
saying what you said. And then turn around and say a thing like that. Don't say
you didn't do it. I've even got it taped where you said it. You didn't know
that, did you? Just want you to say you didn't one time; that's all I want you
to say. I'll let your own voice play back to you.
162 As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses: miracle workers, but where was the Word,
the true Word? There was guys working miracles. There was guys could do
everything in the miracle line that... But there was two anointed prophets
standing there, or one prophet and his helpmate. There was an anointed prophet called Moses, stood
there, had THUS SAITH THE LORD. And
at the end, it was all manifested before the deliverance. Is that right? The
so-called miracle workers died right out.
163 Now, what
they're trying to do, they're trying to
manufacture a latter rain. Nonsense. Why, that latter rain will sweep the
world, brother. And then a former rain
sowing Word... That's right. Now,
you'll see what the latter rain produces. You'll find out there'll be an
affiliation. The Pentecostals and all
the groups will come together, and they'll shut the doors on them guys that
won't listen to it; and you won't even be allowed to open your mouth. That's
right. That's when He will come. That's when He will show. That's when you'll
see a rain. Oh, my, lay still; be quiet; let it go. See?
2
THESSALONIANS 2: 5 Do
you not remember that while I was still with you I kept on telling you these
things? And now you know with a positive assurance that which namely, the
departure of the church, the saints being assembled to the Lord, is preventing
his being disclosed as to his true identity, in his strategic, appointed time,
for the mystery of the aforementioned lawlessness is now operating. Only He,
the Holy Spirit, who is holding the lawlessness down, will do so, until He goes
out from the midst of humanity. And then shall the lawless one be disclosed in
his true identity.
So we see here that this Scripture speaks first of the
Saints assembling to the Lord and then it speaks of their departure from the
earth. Then, as if in the same breath, Paul also tells us this will happen when
the Holy Spirit departs from the midst of humanity. Now, the Holy Spirit could
not depart from the midst of humanity if He were not here. And if we are to be
gathered together to Him first, then when He goes we go, for nowhere in Scripture
does it speak contrary to this. Nowhere in Scripture does it speak of the Lord
leaving at a different time from the earth than the saints leave. So, if we are
gathered together unto Him first, then it is He that takes us up from the midst
of humanity just like Jesus took Peter James and John up into the
9
-12 AMPLIFIED & WUEST whose coming and presence is in the sphere
of every kind of wicked deception geared
to the gullibility of those who are perishing, this gullibility caused by the
fact that they did not accept the love for the Truth to the end that they might
be saved. And by unlimited seduction to evil and with all wicked deception
geared to the gullibility of those who are in the act of perishing, this gullibility
being caused by the fact that they did not welcome and accept the Truth but
refused to love it that they might be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a
misleading influence, a working of error
and a strong delusion to make them believe what is false.
Now, you don’t think that will not be
right here among us in this Message? They are already doing it, and being led
out of this Message by the hundreds if not thousands already.
JUDE
16 AMPLIFIED tells us These men revile (that
means they scoff and sneer at) anything they do not happen to be acquainted with and do not
understand; Notice the things they are not acquainted with it is those things
they sneer and scoff at. Therefore it shows they do not understand, so instead
of searching to find the Truth, they can only do what they are destined to do
and that is to mock it.
And we saw that this is exactly what took place in the
80’s and 90’s in this Message. First when br. Vayle taught that God is here and
it is called the Appearing before the coming, they mocked it, and smeared it,
and then some arose right among us who twisted it to be the Literal 2nd
Coming, not knowing the scriptures, so they taught contrary to the Scriptures,
and yet they are the ones who have multiple hundreds in their churches. And the
ones who mocked it and sneered at it, and called it false doctrine? Well, when
we put out the books and proved by this Message and the Scriptures with
hundreds and thousands of Quotes and scriptures lining it all up, they then
couldn’t fight it no more, so they started to preach it, but not understanding
the Godhead they preached it wrong. And
to justify themselves they said that they taught it right because they have the
right spirit, and we have a wrong spirit. And yet who was calling who was mocking
who? And who called the Doctrine false to begin with labeling those who teach
it as false.
Look, God is not dealing with an unbelieving world. He
is dealing with believers and make-believers. So the make believer to have a platform
will come in amongst the believers with their perversions of the Message and
try to take over. They have done it in every age because many more are the
children of the harlot than she which has a husband.
2
Peter 2:1 But
as there were false prophets among the people, even so shall there be false
teachers among you, who privily,
privately, in secret they shall bring in (Notice, privily, that means privately or
secretly do they bring in) damnable heresies, (Now, if they are going to
bring in, then they had to get it from somewhere else outside the Message in
the first place. And then bring it in among the Message people. Look, I do not
say this to boast but I will put up my sermons against any man that is on the
field today for accuracy to the Scripture and the Message. In fact not too many
have enough guts to put in writing what they believe. O, a lot of them put
their DVD’s out their and MP3’s out their because they know they can charm them
with a lot of nothing, and rake in the money, but I challenge them to place
their text out there for people to be able to examine for themselves when they
have come down from the emotion, but they won’t do it because they change what
they teach so often, and they know that they are unsure of what they believe
themselves. They teach opposing ideas so often that they can’t keep it straight
from one season to the next. I have 25 years of teaching on the internet, more
than 1200 sermons in written and MP3’s , and they can’t find one place I haven’t
said it from the Scriptures and God’s prophet’s own words.)
2
Peter 2:1 But as there were false
prophets among the people, even so shall there be false teachers among you, who privily, privately, and
in secret shall they bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that
bought them, (And who is the Lord
that bought them? The Son of God paid the price with his Own blood, and they
deny there is a son of God by teaching that Jesus was His own Father. Of all
the ridiculous concepts to believe, that a man could be his own father.) and by doing so they
shall bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And
many (not a few, not in the minority, but many as meaning,
mostly, largely, and the majority) shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you:
whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth
not.The Wuest Translation says: 2 Peter 2: 1 But as there arose false prophets also among the people,
even as also among you there shall be false teachers who will be of such as to
bring in alongside of true doctrine destructive heresies even denying the Lord
who purchased them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
2
And many shall follow their
licentious conduct to its consumation;
It didn’t say that just a few will follow after their lies, it says many. The
Greek word is polus, and it means many; largely;
mostly, abundantly, altogether, much of, plenteous, etc. Now, look brothers and
sisters, that isn’t in the minority now, that is in the majority, and that
means the false brethren who come into this Message will take it over and
become the majority, so good luck trying to find a welcome pulpit amongst that
mess. And yet they came in and sat down
amongst you in the quietness of the 70’s and slowly took it over, lock, stock
and barrel.
2 And
many shall follow their
licentious conduct to its consumation;
on account of
whom the way of truth will be reviled.
(See? Many
will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. 3In their greed these teachers will exploit you
with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over
them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. They will revile the truth.
And what does that mean? They will speak evil of it. O, eventually they will
have to preach the Presence, and Godhead, and admit that we are right, but will
they have us come to teach them seeing that they didn’t get it in the first
place? Are you kidding? Then they would
have to admit that they were in error all along. But notice it says, that these
men are greedy, they want it all to themselves, and so they go out and
proselytize the small churches who do
not have the entertainment that is needed today to hold a crowd together, and
with songs, and large scale work efforts they lure those who are gullible away
from the safety of their smaller churches where your walk is not rewarded with
one party after another, but where you are every day walking in the way of the
Lord’s despised few.)
And it says, These men will come into the Message and give a wrong
understanding of the Word of God and the people will be caught up into what
these men say as evil interpreters of the Word of Truth. 3 And in the sphere of
covetousness with fabricated words they will exploit you, from whom: for whom
from ancient times their judgment has not been idle. Now, those are
not my words, friends. Those are God’s warning to His church. That is Thus
saith the word of God.
To get a good idea of the
character of these men let me read this same Scripture from the translation
called THE
MESSAGE 2 Peter 2:1-2 But there were also lying prophets among
the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you.
They'll smuggle in destructive divisions, pitting you against each other, biting
the hand of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They've
put themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, but not before they
recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can't tell right from wrong. 2-3They
give the way of truth a bad name. They're only out for themselves. They'll say
anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They won't, of course, get
by with it. They'll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let
that kind of thing go on.
And we are warned in 1 Timothy 4: 1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the
latter times some shall depart from The Faith,
(and Paul said there is only One Faith, so these will be departing
the End-time revelation of Jesus Christ) giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; seducing
Spirits and doctrines of devils. Satan's messengers masquerading as angels of
light. Which is 2 Cor 11: 13-15 (read) Paul calls them those super
fine apostles more righteous than God is righteous, but false to the bone, and
look what they did to the early church. Look at Vs{1-4 & Gal 1: 6-9}
Mark 7: 7-9 Howbeit in vain do
they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 8 For
laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the
washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. 9 And
he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep
your own tradition.
They reject the Word of God in favor of their own
teachings. And what does this do? It voids the power of the Word in their
lives. Thus they crucify the Word to themselves.
Hebrews
6: 4 - 8 For it is impossible for those who have been
once for enlightened, those who have tasted of the Heavenly gift and have been
made companions of the Holy Ghost Himself being brought alongside and made
aware of His presence, by tasting the goodness of God's Vindicated Word and
have been exposed to the Powers of the coming age, having fallen away and
deviated from the truth, it is impossible for them to ever come to a change of
the mind again, seeing that they have crucified themselves along with the Son
of God, and have subjected Him to public disgrace.
Now catch carefully what Paul says right after this...
For the land that
drinks in the rain (the doctrine, that’s according to Deuteronomy 32:1-2)
that often falls
upon it and that produces a crop that is useful to those who have sewn it (
And who did the sewing?, the Son of Man) it is this land which produces the crop which receives the
blessings from God. But the land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless
to the one who sewed the land and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it
will be burned. One produces a crop because it has life and the other has no
life therefore can not produce a crop.
Hebrews 6: 4 Notice they
can't crucify God who is a spirit but they can crucify the Word to themselves,
and that is exactly what they do, making it of no use to them by their own traditions
and creeds.