Spoken
Word no. 160
The
Borrower is Servant to the Lender
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
May 5,
2010
Proverbs 22: 7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the
borrower is servant to the lender.
This even we will
close out the first half of the Spoken Word is the original Seed with brother
Branham’s closing prayer. For this we will pick up at paragraph 176 and read
through paragraph 180.
176 God bless you all in the car. Many
of you all that's in the cars that couldn't come in, that's listening through
this mike. And God bless you that's standing around these walls, and you that
sit here this morning. And I trust that
by the grace of God, I haven't brought any offense. But I'm making myself clear. Now, if you believe the same thing
that I have said this morning, would not you stand the same way? Sure you
would. Let us bow our heads just a moment.
177 Gracious heavenly Father, we're not
trying to bring the meeting to a close but just a halt for a little rest for a
few moments. And now, may these seeds
that's been sown this morning, may they have fallen upon good fertile ground.
May they bring forth abundance, Lord,
abundance of Eternal Life. Now, we
pray, Father, that these seeds that's sown will be laying waiting for the
latter rain to fall. Waiting... They that wait upon the Lord, they shall
renew their strength. God, may we not
run ahead of the Word; stay with the Word. Grant it, Lord. Bless us now,
and those who go off to eat, I pray that You'll give them their lunches, and
bless their food, and give them strength, and bring them back this afternoon
real early. Lord, may they be setting in the temple here waiting. And may You
help me as I go to pray and come back.
I pray that You'll a-freshly anoint me this afternoon. Grant it, Lord, that I
might bring what I believe to be Your Word to the people. Grant it, Father.
178 I pray that You'll bless our dear
beloved pastor, Brother Neville, our precious brother, a few minutes to get
into the water here with a group of people to go into baptism. And, Father, if
there's any here this morning that has been baptized otherwise than Christian
baptism that Your great servant, Paul... And he said that he had the Word of
God within him, and he said, "If a man or an Angel (even an Angel come down from heaven, like
Satan was in the form of an Angel) come down and said anything
different than that what He said, let him be accursed." Father, we know that that's written
in the Scripture, and I pray, Father,
that it will sink into their hearts that Paul was the very one that made
the people that had not been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the
remission of their sins, he was the one
who commissioned them to be baptized over again. May it go to the people,
Father. May they realize that this baptismal service moving up, may they
realize that that's the truth, knowing that they can't produce one word in the
Scripture to support their Trinitarian three god idea... Father, of course we
believe You're trinity of offices, of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Most surely
we believe that, Lord, but not making You three gods: making You one God that
serve three offices, both Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and the Name of that God was called Jesus Christ. Now, that is the Name
of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost.
179 Father, may the people see it and
be obedient to water baptism for the remission of their sins. And may these few
words for baptism fall deeply now in the heart of everyone, for we don't know
how much longer we have, Father. It's getting very close. The enemy, as we
expect to speak on this afternoon, is growing deeper, more bolder all the time.
Since they've took the throne; they're moving right on in. Lord, we see it on
every hand. Not Communism, Lord, may the
people be able to understand that it's Romanism, the old mother whore and her
harlots; and we see them, Lord, coming an image unto the beast and here we are.
Father God, be merciful now, and let us all get into the safety, into the ark
and be ready for the latter rain. We ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
180 Now, to you that's here in the
building, now if you want to slip out and get something to eat, all right. And
if you want, and then come back... Get in here just as quick as you can after
the service. Now, let's stand just a moment. Let's stand up together. How many
believes the Word of the Lord, raise up your hand. Amen. Oh, thank the Lord.
"Oh, How I Love Jesus." Oh, how I love Jesus; Oh... Lord Jesus, bless
these handkerchiefs. Give to them, Lord, the anointing of the Spirit upon them.
Lord, we believe it in Jesus' Name...?... Because He first loved me.
Now for this evening, I would like to focus on just
one thought and that is, that as we see even this nation moving more an more
what seems to be communism, yet we have been repeatedly warned to not fear
that, but it is Romanism that we must fear and that is what we must keep our
eyes on.
Now, this must seem odd at this time, especially when
it seems the Catholic church is being damaged daily in the News, with all that
has transpired concerning the pedophiles that are in the priesthood, and with
the millions of dollars being paid out because of the literally millions of
cases of pedophilia amongst it’s clergy, and
the closing or perish after perish because of lack of attendance, but
just remember one thing. The golden rule. And the golden rule is he that owns
the gold rules. They don’t have to be the biggest, they don’t have to be the
most moral, they don’t have to be the most loved. But if they have the gold,
and the paper becomes worthless, the gold will take over as that which will
have to back any currencies if the people are to once again have any trust in
them.
That is what is
happening now, the money is being devalued all over the world. There are 100
currencies going through the same thing that the US dollar is. The central
banks around the world are using the same policies to bring down all the world
currencies so it matters not which one you are holding onto, they are all going
down.
From
PP. 100 of the Message JEZEBEL
RELIGION 61-0319,
brother Branham said, When
God sends forth a message and tells the people, and they don't receive it, then
He withdraws His servant and sends His plagues: famine, death, spiritually
speaking, physically also. You
watch for a depression, brother. You think you've seen something; you just wait
after while. You haven't seen nothing. You
think you're dying for a good spiritual revival; you wait till after a bit. You
just wait, long and cry to hear the Word of God. The Bible said so. "There'll be a famine in the last days,"
said the prophet, "and not for bread and water alone,
but for hearing the true Word of God." But that voice will be quiet in the wilderness somewhere, hid away. He ordained the ravens, His servants.
Bless them birds, His servants, that kept the voice of--of Elijah alive during
the time of his--his isolation from the church.
Now, there
are those people who think he meant a spiritual depression, which I can
understand why they would think that, but as you will see by scripture and
other things brother Branham tells us that there is coming an economic
depression on a scale that the world has never seen before.
From, Daniel 8:23-25: we
read, And in
the latter time (in the
last days) of their kingdom, when the transgressors are
come to the fullness (Completion), a king of fierce countenance (mighty Presence), and
understanding dark sentences (double dealings), shall
stand up (shall present himself or come on the scene). 24 And his power (wealth), shall be
mighty (vast), but not by his own power (not by his own ability to produce wealth, which means he gets it from
others): and he shall destroy wonderfully (Bring to ruin, perversion and corruption), and
shall prosper (make great profits) , and
practice (bring about a press or squeeze), and shall destroy (bring to ruin) the mighty (the many nations) and the
holy people (the set apart nation of God, The Jews). 25 And
through his policy also he shall cause craft (deceit and fraud) to
prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify [himself] in his heart, and by peace (quietness, ease and prosperity) shall destroy (corrupt, pervert and ruin) many:
he shall also stand up (stand forth and present himself) against (on
behalf or on account of) the Prince of princes (Christ); but he shall be broken without hand (when the final act is played out).
2 Thess
2:3-13: ¶ 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 be revealed, the son of
perdition; 4 Who opposes and exalteth himself above
all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is
God. 5Remember 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. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth
already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the
way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be
revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall
destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 [Even him], whose coming is after
the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; 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 a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who
believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13 ¶ But we are bound to give thanks
always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the
beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and
belief of the truth:
Daniel
11: 21-23: ¶ And in
his estate (office) shall stand up (rise
up) a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the
kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. 22 And with the arms
of a flood (or
overwhelming political force) shall they be overflown (swept
away) from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of
the covenant. 23 And after the league [made] with him
he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a
small people.
Daniel
12:1-10: ¶ And at that time shall Michael (Christ) stand up (Come on the scene and present Himself), the
great prince which standeth for (takes His stand with) the
children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble (distress), binding or press upon as to squeeze), such as
never was since there was a nation [even] to that same time: and at that time
thy people (Kinsman) shall be
delivered (slip out unknown to safety), every one that shall be
found written in the book (genealogical record).
Now, I
want you to notice this next verse because it provides a clue to the time of
this great escape.
2 And many
of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting
life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt. In other words, this will be at the time of the Resurrection. 3 And they
that be wise (This speaks of the Wise
Virgin) shall shine (send forth light by warning and teaching and this teaching shall be) as the
brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness (right-wise-ness) as the
stars (brothers) for ever
and ever.4 But thou, O
Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end (In which time) many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased. 5 ¶ Then I Daniel looked, and, behold,
there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the
other on that side of the bank of the river. 6 And [one] said to the man clothed
in linen, which [was] upon the waters of the river, How long [shall it be to]
the end of these wonders? 7 And I heard the man clothed
in linen, which [was] upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right
hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that
[it shall be] for a time, times, and an half (time = one, times = 2, and 1/2 = total of 3-1/2 years); and when he shall have
accomplished (or brought to a finish) to
scatter (the
shattering or breaking) of the power
of the holy people (God's set apart nation, the Jews), all these [things] shall be
finished. 8 And I heard, but I understood not:
then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these [things]? 9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for
the words [are] closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
And when
is that? When the Seven Seals are opened, at that time everything will be in
place for the fulfillment of this prophecy
10 Many shall be purified ("by the washing of water by the Word", Eph 5:26-7 Psalm 119:9), and made
white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked
shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Now we see
the same scene played out in the book of Luke.
Luke
21:25: And there
shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26 Men's hearts failing them for fear,
and for looking after
those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be
shaken. 27 And then
shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28 And when
these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. 29 ¶ And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all
the trees; 30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and
know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. 31 So likewise ye, when ye see
these things come to pass, know ye that the
Now, what
is this distress of nations and why is it so perplexing? This is what we must
know if we are to understand why everyone on earth is going to be
affected. The word distress
is a Greek word, sunoche which means: a
narrowing, a constraining or a press. To hold together with constraint. To press
on every side, like the forcing a ship into a narrow
channel or the forcing of an animal into a position where it can not move so
the farmer can administer medication. To impel. From this we can see
that the whole world is being pushed or squeezed into a universal condition from all
sides in order to receive the medication called the New World Order or one
world government. And then
we see that the world will be perplexed by this Squeeze. And the word perplexed means that they
are confused and don’t understand what is really happening and thus begin to
panic. (Remember that Brother Branham said that the world must come into a
neurotic condition, and the first stage of this neurosis is anxiety which is to
worry about what might happen.)
Luke 21:26 Men's
hearts failing them for fear, and for looking
after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be
shaken.
We find
also in Hebrews
12:25-29 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if
they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more [shall not] we
[escape], if we turn away from
him that [speaketh] from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but
now he hath promised, saying, Yet
once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And
this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are
shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken
may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which
cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with
reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God [is] a consuming fire.
87-4 Hebrews Chapter 3 57-0901M And
so I believe that--that Rosella will finally turn into the mission field
somewhere; because America doesn't want the Gospel (You know that.); we just
might as well admit that. This Anglo-Saxon people is finished; that's all.
There's no more Gospel that
18-7 This Day this Scripture 65-0219 We
had a great nation; but she is now rottening and crumbling and shaking and
giving away, and trying to tax people to get money to send over yonder to buy
friendship with our enemies. They're throwing it back in our face. One world
war, two world wars, and still
moving on to a third one. Certainly. Politics is rotten, corrupted, rotten
to the bottom.
Testimony
63-1128M 20 011 I
was trying to say last night, the
world’s coming to a place it's falling apart, politically, socially,
economically. You say, "Economics?
More money." Yes,
but where's it coming from? We're borrowed on taxes that'll be paid forty years
from today. She's broke. She's bankrupt,
the nation: not this nation, but all of them. And there's no way ever getting
it back. And it's a
trap set exactly to swing this nation into something. And all of you
are wise on that. Well, who's got the
wealth of the world? Who holds it? [Someone says, "
I read the
following article back in 1999, it was sent to me by my brother who is an
international banking consultant who was called into fix
“They
said the Asian markets wouldn't crash. They crashed. They said the crisis
wouldn't spread. It spread. They said the catastrophe wouldn't affect us. Get
ready.
Not
long ago, at a very private briefing (by the way, that very private briefing
was at the Council on Foreign Relations also know as the CFR.) Not long ago, at
a very private briefing about the state
of the United States economy attended by senior government officials from as
far back as the Kennedy years and business and community leaders from all walks
of life, a powerful figure in the room stood up. "Sometimes," he said, "it feels like 1928."
Nineteen
twenty-eight was, of course, the last good year before the crash of 1929. The
entire room was stunned. And perhaps most frightening was that not a single one
of the assembled wise men and women raised a voice to contradict that gloomy
assessment.
The
global economic crisis of 1997-98 is indeed a historic event. If there were an
Economics Channel as there is a Weather Channel, frenetic newscasters would be
interrupting regular programming right now to give us hourly updates on
something they would be calling the storm of the century, an economic cataclysm
as big as or bigger than the Great Depression of the thirties.
The
behavior of economic storms is as hard to predict as the course of a hurricane.
Still, this storm already has a track record, and it's pretty chilling.
If
it reaches the
In
a real meltdown, the damage wouldn't be limited to the financial markets.
Housing prices would plummet, leaving millions of highly leveraged home and
apartment owners sitting on mortgages that are worth far more than their homes.
Millions of people would lose their jobs, and tens of millions more would watch
their wages drop as employers frantically tried to cut back their payrolls.
Many cities would face bankruptcy as their tax revenues collapsed.
All
these things and more have already happened in many countries around the world.
Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, South
Africa--stock markets in these countries have fallen by as much as 90 percent,
unemployment rates are exploding, and countless people face the loss of their
businesses, jobs, and homes. Even starvation. Short or a massive asteroid
strike from outer space, no natural disaster could destroy this much wealth or
plunge this many people into misery And more than a year after the crisis
began, not one country where it has struck shows any signs of recovery.
With
This
isn't just an economic meltdown in a few emerging markets. It's a full-fledged
crisis of the international economic system, one that could plunge the entire world into a major depression. More than
that, it could challenge the strength of the international political system and
test the leadership of the country that widely and imprudently bills itself as
"the only global superpower."
Well,
the only global superpower has recently made some very stupid mistakes. We put
our confidence in two basic ideas that turned out to be wrong. The first is
that rapid deregulation of the international financial system would promote
growth without creating dangerous financial crises.
The
second idea is that the export-oriented development model pioneered by
Under
presidents Bush and Clinton, the
Having
watched this situation develop, I've got to admit, my feelings are mixed. I'm
frightened by what may lie ahead, heartsick over the suffering of tens of
millions of people who have already been forced back into poverty-and possibly
starvation--by this economic crisis, and hopeful that the various International
Monetary Fund plans and Japanese economic initiatives will solve the problem
before the world economy goes down the tubes. But there's another part of me
that is awestruck. I am astonished that what we thought was so substantial has
turned out to be so flimsy. I feel a little like a meteorologist in hurricane …”
Well, friends, I think
many of these things are here now, and as brother Branham said, it’s too late,
they will never be able to reverse course, and it is a trap to draw us into
something as brother Branham put it.
Oneness 62-0211 48 031 The whole world's based on that. The whole economy of this nation is
based upon false
conception.
The Supernatural 56-0129 E-37 037 Brother and sister, our great
167-4 {341} The First Seal 63-0318 And this
prince in that time is to make a covenant with Daniel's people, which is the
Jews. That's when the Bride's taken
out now. She won't see it. {342} Notice. In the last one-half of
Daniel's week, the people makes a covenant--this prince makes a covenant with
Rome; makes a covenant with them no doubt for the wealth, for Catholic and Jew holds the wealth of the
world. I was in the
Now, back when I
preached this in 1999 I noted that when brother Branham gave us these figures, when
gold was at a rate of $30 per oz. In the 60’s. When I brought out these things
in 1999 gold was $360 per oz or 12 times
greater in value than when brother Branham said it, and today we are 40 times
greater in value than when he warned us what was coming. Therefore, a billion billions would be 1
quadrillion. Multiply it times the difference between 30 and $1230 per ounce which
is today’s number, but may go as high as $15,000 per ounce before this
depression ends. Now, that number is so high I can not calculate it. I believe
that number would be something like 41 quintillion in Gold that she owns.
Basically that is 41 million trillion dollars.
Brother Branham continued, Why, you... And just think, "The wealth of the world,"
the Bible said, "was found in her." All... Just think of the
great places, the billions times... Why did Communism raise up over here in
That's right. Communism ain't nothing. It's
a tool in the hand of God to bring revenge upon the earth for the blood of the
saints that... That's right.
The current national debt
is at $13 trillion but that number does not include all the programs the US
Government has committed to but does not have the income to follow through. the
is a high number but the debentures alone, which are unsecured corporate loans
together with unfunded congressional
spending is somewhere close to 4%0 trillion so far.
World
{349} And after the church is taken away,
{350} We can't call it in. And if we
could do it, do you think these whiskey guys and--and all these tobacco people
with billions times billions of dollars a year and write off all their income
tax for old vulgar pictures and things like that--go out in Arizona there and
buy millions of acres of land--or thousands--and dig them big wells at fifty
thousand dollars and pay it off with income tax? And they'd put you in jail if
you don't pay yours. But they write it off and throw up wells and send
bulldozers in. And
what do they do? They put housing projects in there, and the next turn around
with their money they made (they have got to make an investment) and put
houses, projects in there and sell them for millions of dollars. Do you think
them guys is going to compromise to change the currency?
{352} Like this fellow down here, Castro
did. He done the only smart thing he ever did do then, when he destroyed the
bonds: paid them off and destroyed them. Notice, but we can't do that. These
guys won't let us. The rich merchants of the earth hold it, and then there's
only one thing to do: The Catholic church can pay it off. She's the only one
that's got the money; she can do it, and she will do it. And in doing this to get it, she'll
compromise with the Jews and make a covenant, and when she makes this covenant
with the Jews... Now, remember, I'm taking this from the Scriptures. And now,
when she does this and makes this covenant, we notice in Daniel 8:23 and 25 he
will cause craft to prosper (And craft is manufacturing.), in his hand.
{354} And he makes this covenant with the
Jews, and in the midst of this three and a half years, he breaks his covenant
as soon as he gets the thing wrapped up and gets the money of the Jews tied up.
And when he does that, oh, my, oh, my, he's called the antichrist until the end
of the church age, for he and his children are against Christ and the Word.
This man's called the antichrist. Now, he's going to hold the money. And that's
where I think he'll come in. Just a minute, while I say this, then I want to go
back to it in a minute. He's
called the antichrist and will be called the antichrist in the sight of God
until the end time. Now, but then he'll be called something else. {359} Now, when he gets the money all under
control, then he'll break this covenant with the Jews, as Daniel here said he
would do it, in the midst of the last half of the seventy weeks of Daniel.
And then, brother, what will he do? He will
have all of the world trade and the commerce, a pact with the world, 'cause
he'll hold the wealth of the world completely. And during that time, them two
prophets will rise on the scene and call that hundred and forty-four thousand.
Then what'll take place? Then
the mark of the beast of Revelations 13 will set in, 'cause he holds all the
commerce, trade and everything of the world. And what will take place then? The
mark of the beast will come in that no man can buy or sell except him that has
the mark of the beast. Thank God, the Church will be enjoying a great three and
a half years in glory. Don't have to go through that.
E-26 026 You see, if Satan has a
kingdom, he's got to have a false
economy. He's got to have something that he can present to them to make
them think they are living. But it's absolutely on the vice versa side. It's
death in the form of life.
In closing let me leave some advise for all of us from brother Branham’s
sermon Knoweth
it not 65-0815 P:102 he said, Clean your lives up; pay your debts; owe no man.
Jesus said, "Now, I don't mean things like your house rent and stuff. You
got to do it. Get all your things off your hands. Get everything right. Make ready. Get ready. Remember in the Name
of the Lord, something's fixing to happen. I'm going into the hills this
week, not exactly to hunt squirrels, 'course I like to hunt squirrels; but I'm
going out there for this purpose, saying, "Oh, God, I don't know which way
to move, and I don't want to miss this. Help me.” You pray for me. Will you do
it? I'll be praying for you. I hope by the mercies of God that I meet everyone
of you, and we meet in a better land than this here.
Let us pray…