Spoken Word no. 197

“That Hateful Religious Spirit”

Brian Kocourek, Pastor

October 24th, 2010

 

John 10: 24  Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.  25  Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. 26  But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28  And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29  My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30  I and my Father are one. 31  Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32  Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33  The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. 34  Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? 35  If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36  Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? 37  If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38  But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. 39  Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, 40  And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode. 41  And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true. 42  And many believed on him there. 

 

Let us pray,

 

Dear father we ask that you would help us to be at peace even when the enemy circles our camp like ravening wolves of a pride of lions waiting for the moment to attack us from all directions. We pray that you will keep us in the palm of your hand in the safety of Thy Presence. Help us this morning as we continue to study this wonderful sermon on The Spoken Word is the Original Seed, and thank you so much for opening our eyes to so much of Thy Word during the course of this study. Be with us, and may Thy Presence never leave us, for we ask it in Jesus Christ’s name, amen.

 

Now, this morning we will continue with our study and we are at the second half of paragraph 71 of the second half of Br. Branham’s sermon on the Spoken Word is the original Seed. We began studying this wonderful sermon of Br. Branham’s on January 8th of 2008, and we are approaching three years and it looks like we may go at least another years on this sermon before we come to it’s conclusion.

 

Br. Billy Paul told me a couple weeks ago, that brother Branham said if you want to know the Message, study the Spoken Word is the Original Seed, and truly that is so correct, for it has taught us so much concerning the  Son of God and we ourselves as sons of God.

 So let’s open our books to paragraph 71 where we left off on Wednesday evening and begin reading where we left off. 71b Look at them. Boy, they'd cut your throat in a minute for that, not only Catholics, but Protestants.   

 

72   Listen, you Methodists. Who killed Joseph Smith? Now, crow. Although I don't believe in his doctrine, neither do I believe in yours. That's not it; that's you. That's the reason... Joseph Smith had just as much right to preach his religion here in this nation as you do, but you killed him up here in Illinois: shot him without a cause, because he had something a little different. Then you holler about the Catholic church. Come out of that bunch of nonsense, you Methodists, that's ordained to Eternal Life. John Wesley'd turn over in his grave, acting like that. Sure she would. John Wesley never established no such a church as that. A bunch of Rickie’s and Elvis’s did it after John's death. That's right. Not John Wesley... Not them old early Pentecostals ever made such an outcome as this. It's the same group after this death. That's right. Jesus Christ wouldn't establish something like we got now called Pentecost; neither would the Holy Ghost. But it's something you got here instead; but the Holy Ghost is something they can't kill now. It's going to take a Bride anyhow. It's going to take one anyhow. He said He would: predestinated her.

 

Now, I want you to notice that brother Branham is speaking of that religious hateful spirit that creeps into each message after the messenger is gone, and try to take over that message, and those who stay with the spirit and way the Messenger presented it, are castigated and killed off.

 

We see that same religious spirit of hate that condemned Jesus to death on the cross is the same religious spirit that is holding our brother Youcef Nadarkhani in prison in Iran.

 

And just as the Pharisees broke their own laws to kill Jesus, the Islamic clerics are breaking their own laws to sentence our brother Yousef to death,  and they are even denying him access to his attorney which against all international law.

 

But that is nothing new for Iran for other lawyers in Iran which have tried to defend some of other victims from the religious oppression, have found themselves the target of these pathetic religious zealots of conspiracy against Islam, and they are themselves being arrested or else having to flee that country for their own lives. What a pathetic religious spirit. But we can not just blame that evil spirit on the religion of Islam,  as wrong as it is in its doctrine, for these are the same religious attributes of hate the Jews exercised against Christ and His followers.  It is the same religious hate that tried to stone Jesus, or tried to throw him off a cliff, and which eventually succeeded in crucifying the Lord of Glory.

 

This religious spirit of hate is what brother Branham is talking about in these two paragraphs from the Spoken word is the original Seed.  This is that same spirit of hate that put Jesus to death by the most religious Jews, and that same religious spirit of hate that hid behind the Gospel of Christ in their religious robes, when they burned at the stake and killed some 68 million people all because they claimed they were heretics against the Catholic church doctrine during the dark ages.

 

Now, remember, brother Branham taught us that “spirits don't die they just go from one body to another”.

So those same religious demons can go into any religious people and perform their hatred and murderous attributes and then say it is God’s will, thus blaming God for their own evil thoughts and crimes.  And why is that spirit of hate so strong? Because it comes from their father the devil which Jesus said he is the father of lies and a murderer in the beginning.

 

It seems, when anyone follows the leading and conviction of their own heart, and holds to a doctrine that has not been authorized by the established religious hierarchy, that evil religious spirit get’s into that hierarchy and wants to kill any who differ, because that is the nature of that seed.

 

If we go to the Gospel of John chapter 8 we can see this same contentious spirit battling with Christ the Royal Seed of Abraham. We see here the spiritual warfare between the two seed lines of life, the royal seed in Christ Jesus,  and  that religious seed of the serpent in the Pharisees.

 

John 8:1  Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. 2  And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3  And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4  They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5  Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 6  This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.

 

Now, let’s just stop here for a moment, and look at this scene. Here is a woman who was wrong, and there is no doubt that she was wrong because she was caught in the act of adultery. Can we all agree with that? But where was the man that was caught in the same act with this woman? Why was he not brought also to Jesus? Huh? Look at the hypocrisy  that is in their actions here. Where is the man? It takes two to commit the act, so where were both parties to the act they were caught in? The woman is there because she was dragged by those super religious zealots of the law, but where was their buddy that was also caught in the act with this woman? Oh, that’s right, they had a “good old boys club” which is the way with many religious circles.  They let the man sneak off home and they cast all the blame on the poor woman. Just like Adam did. When God said to Adam, Who told thee that you were naked? He said, the woman YOU GAVE TO ME, she made me do it.

 

And so many say, the devil made me do it, the devil made me do it. Now, come on, let’s face it, the devil can’t make you do anything you don’t want to do.

 

Now, look, David said, I have see a thousand men righteous and nhardly a woman, and brother Branham said “a woman is a thousand times more able to be deceived than the man”, and yet who gets blamed for adultery all the time? The woman does, and what about the man? He gets away with it.

 

Sixfold purpose Gabriel visit Daniel 61-0730E P:40 … The woman is a weaker vessel ...

 

Jehovah Jireh 56-0429 P:28 …The woman could not be saved in the Old Testament only by the man, 'cause it was circumcision. And she had to be joined to her husband in order to receive it. But in the last days, God's poured out His Spirit, and the women are circumcised in the heart just like the man.

 

So listen ladies, don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t make it without a man, I have the quote for you right here. And in talking with brother Vayle on this not too long ago, he mentioned how brother Branham said there would be a lot more women make it than men in this last hour, and I believe that, because when you look at the vision he had or he called it his translation there were so many women there on the other side that said Brother Branham we are counting on it”, when he said he only preached what Paul preached.

 

So let’s go back to our story here in John chapter 8 and pick up at verse 6b and see what Jesus did when they brought this woman they had caught in the act of adultery to him.

 

But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. 7  So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8  And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9  And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

 

Now, what do you suppose he wrote in the sand that each one got convicted of his own sin? Now, remember, the Word of God is a discerner of the thought and intents of the heart. He just told them that he that had no sin and then I believe the discernment went into action and he begun to write down their sins, one by one,

 

Perhaps something like, “thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife”, or thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods, or thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor,  and with the writing in the sand each law that was broken, perhaps he may have added some specific details like some dates, and perhaps times,  or places, so that when each date or time, or place was written in the sand next to the law that was broken, they got convicted because they new he knew their sin, and they got out of their before he could write their names next to those sins.

 

Now, brother Branham said in his sermon, God in His people 50-0227 P:26 Now, the gift declares all diseases. Now, this is the claim. The gift declares all diseases, rebukes sins, calls the secrets of the people's hearts. And remember, that any persons come into the prayer line, if you come with unconfessed sin, remember, it'll be told from this platform. No matter how vulgar and bad it is, it'll be told from the platform. Now, that's a great statement to make. And remember, I stand before thousands of people, but It's never failed one time. It's always been perfect, even telling here a few nights ago... 'Course, when I'd go under the anointing I hardly know what I'm speaking of. They tell me a young lady come to the platform at Beaumont, I believe it was, and was told, when I seen the person standing there, it looked like they just started getting little. They go down to a certain little age, and I just begin to tell what I see happening. And it comes right on. And it's always perfect.

And many times brother Branham warned the people that if they had un-confessed sin they had better step out of the line and go make it right before they could get back into the prayer line, or it would be spoken before all to bear witness.

 

In fact I remember one time, brother Branham was praying for people on the platform and a woman came up with un-confessed adultery in her life, and he said, how dare you come up here in the presence of God with un-confessed sin in your life. And then he said, “I see you committed adultery against your husband at such and such a place”, and when her husband heard it he came rushing to the platform to angrily confront brother Branham, and before he could reach brother Branham, Br. Branham said, just a minute sir, I also see you committing adultery against your wife in an automobile on such and such a night you’re your secretary under such and such a tree. …

 

So then in the book of John we see the same scene take place until one by one all her accusers snuck off to hide their sin before Jesus exposed them all to shame. 

 

Now, Let’s continue at verse 10  When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 11  She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

 

Now, how many of you can do that what Jesus just did? A brother in Poland came up to a sister over there to shake her hand and she would not shake his hand because of something that he had done many years ago. And when she pulled her hand back so he could not shake it, he said, sister, I know you probably look down on me for my sins of years ago, but I am thankful that my Saviour has washed me clean by His blood. So how many of you hold against people things that they did years ago? Huh?

 

Years ago I heard brother Billy Paul share something that he heard his father say. And that is this, if a man places his sin under the blood of Jesus Christ, the person that removes it from under the blood is guilty of that sin. So be careful my brothers and sisters what you hold against others “for all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God”.  

 

Now, verse 12  Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life”. 13  The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true. 14  Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. 15  Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. 16  And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. 17  It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. 18  I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me. 19  Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. 20  These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come. 21  Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. 22  Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come. 23  And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. 24  I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. 25  Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. 26  I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. 27  They understood not that he spake to them of the Father. 28  Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. 29  And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. 30  As he spake these words, many believed on him. 31  Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32  And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

 

Now, listen, these religious zealots did not like being told they were in bondage. They wanted all to think they were free all the while enslaving men and women to their rules and regulations of their religious circle.

 

33  They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Now, what they were saying was completely false and full of lies. Right even at that very moment they were under Roman control. They had been under Persian control and Babylonian control and in Bondage in Egypt. We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man. How soon they had forgotten their own history.  Yet they said,

 

34  Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

 

Now, remember, brother Branham taught us that adultery and smoking and drinking is not sin, because sin is unbelief. Those are just signs of unbelief.

 

From his sermon, Have faith in God 54-0900 P:28 brother Branham said, What is sin? Sin is unbelief. Drinking, smoking, gambling, committing adultery, that isn't sin; that's the attributes of sin. You do that because you're not a believer. And peace, and joy, and love, and goodness, that isn't salvation; you do that because you are a believer. See? See, that's... The whole thing hangs on whether you are a believer, or not a believer. If you're not a believer, you're a doubter. You say it isn't right and you do things that you ought not to do, that's because you're an unbeliever. And so that the Bible said, "Go, and disbelieve no more or a worse thing come upon you."

 

And from Speak to this rock 60-0612 P:20 What is sin? Disbelief. Unbelief is the only sin there is. Drinking, smoking, gambling, committing adultery, that is not sin; that's the attributes of unbelief. See? Righteousness is the attribute of salvation. But people can quit smoking, drinking, and everything, and still not be saved. See? So sin is a mark that the person that does it is not a believer. The Bible said, "He that believeth not is condemned already." So before you... If you never lied, stole, or done anything in your life, you're still a sinner to begin with. You're... You don't have a chance outside of Christ; He is the Way.

It is I be not afraid 59-0811 P:16 Sin is unbelief; we all know that. Because you smoke, drink, gamble, commit adultery; that's not sin; that's the attributes of your unbelief. See? It's because you don't believe Jesus is the reason you do those things, if you do. But if you believe Him, you don't do those things, is because you are a believer. So there's only one initial sin, and that's unbelief. And if you believe God, then you can just accept it anywhere you may be. God is everywhere.

 

Now, verse 35  And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. 36  If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. 37  I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

 

Notice he said the reason they tried to kill him I that His word has no place in them. “ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.”

 

Then he says those words which really tell the whole story…

 

He says in verse 38, “ I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father”.

 

In other words, My father worketh and I work hitherto, and your father worketh and you work in accordance with what your father does.  So Jesus here is telling them, look it is very apparent that we do not have the same father. And what is their reply to him?

 

39  They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Isn’t that what the Jews teach? Well, that is the same thing the Muslems teach. They claim Abraham is their father also. So you see that religious spirit will always try to lay claim to the rights to adoption, but it is not for them because they are not seed of God. So notice what Jesus said to them, Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40  But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. This is not the attributes nor is it the characteristics of Abraham…so how can you claim to be seed of Abraham if you have not come forth according to the law or reproduction which says every seed after its kind?

 

Then Jesus points out that their nature is the identifiable characteristic of the source of life from whence they came. He said,  41  “Ye do the deeds of your father”. And oh, how they didn’t like that, so they said, look we are not serpent seed, we were not born of fornication, we were not the ones whose mother was pregnant before she wed her husband, and you know what they were driving at here. Listen to their words, and that is exactly what they are saying…

 

Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we are not the one who was conceived out of wedlock… we have one Father, even God. But notice how Jesus answers the going back to the law or life, the law of reproduction of Genesis 1:11 every seed after its kind. 42  Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me:  And how do I know you would Love me? Because I came forth from my Father and He loves me.  for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

 

Then Jesus hones in on the reason they can not understand what he is telling them.  43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

 

Now, if they can not then they can not. And hear means to understand. Thus he is saying why can’t you understand what I am saying, because it is impossible for you to understand if you do not have the same mind, and how can you have the same mind unless you have the same life and spirit.

 

Paul taught us that in 1 Corinthians 2: 7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Look, it has been hidden by God until he reveals it unto us. And remember, we are taught in  Deuteronomy 32:1 “the hidden things belong unto the Lord our God, but those things revealed belong unto us and to our children forever.” So once it has been revealed it belongs to us. Then when God came down with a shout, a Message, that shout, that message was hidden until he revealed it to his servant the prophet. Then when that was revealed to him, it became his message. That is why Brother Branham called it his Message. But when it is revealed to you then it becomes your message. So then what are you doing with it. Brother Branham said, it’s on your hands tonight.   

 

Now, Paul continues in 1 Corinthians 2:8  Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

 

Now, here it is. Why do the religious persecute the elect? Notice they have no clue as to the true Message from God, because they have not the Spirit of God in them.

 

Notice what Paul says next, 9  But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10  But God hath revealed them unto us (They have no clue, they can’t see it nor can they hear it, nor in their heart can they conceive it, but God Himself has revealed it unto us. How? How has God revealed it unto us? he tells us.) by his Spirit: for The Spirit , not a spirit , not your spirit, but THE SPIRIT…God’s own Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.  Now, listen…11  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but The Spirit of God knows. 12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but The spirit, the Life which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

 

Notice then the very reason that God gives us His Spirit, His God-Life, is so that we might know and understand the things of God.

 

That is why we Are told in John 1:12  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:  13  Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

 

Now, notice it says as many as received him. That word received was translated from the Greek word “Lambano”, which actually means,  to take into and become part of you. And he says, to them that have taken into as to become one with the Word of God, it is them that He (God) has given them power to become sons of God. Not power as in “dunamis” which is miracle working power, but power as in “exousia” which is ability and authority to be what you were ordained to be. Because that word become was translated from the Greek Word Genomai, which is the root word for genes, as in progeny, or seed. So literally it means to come into being what you were ordained to be by seed. And not to become as though you were not and now hocus pocus you have changed specie. But that word become means to come into manifestation what you already are by seed. That is why the whole creations is groaning together until now, for the manifestation of the sons of God. In other words, the whole creation is groaning and travailing together for you to become what you are ordained to become.  It is all waiting for your seed to manifest into a mature fully developed son or daughter of God.

 

Then Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:  The natural man can not take into himself and become one with the things of God,  for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.  So if he can not know them because they are spiritually discerned, that means unless you have The spirit of God living and abiding in your by the baptism of the Spirit which is the new birth, then how do you ever expect to understand the things of God. 15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.  16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

 

Now, in getting back to our warfare chapter in John 8:44 we hear Jesus tell the self righteous, Pharisees,  “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts (the longings, the desires) of your father ye will do. And why is that? Because Genesis 1:11 the law of Life or the law of reproduction tells us, “every seed must bring forth after their kind”.

 

So what are these lusts? What are the attributes and characteristics of their father? Jesus says, “He was a murderer right from the beginning, and he abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45  And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
46  Which of you convinceth me of sin?(which of you can show evidence that I do not believe?) And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

 

 Now, her it is, listen… 47  He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

 

Now, listen, why did Cain slay Abel? Because God had revealed to Abel his plan, but not to Cain, because Cain was not of God Seed. Therefore it was impossible for Abel to communicate with Cain the revelation of God, and the more He tried the more irritated Cain became. Notice God said to Cain, you did rightly offer but you did not rightly divide. Because after all Cain and Abel both had the Bible in the heavens to read, and Cain did offer to God a correct sacrifice, but God rejected it because it was out of season. You see, he offered a first fruit sacrifice which is Deuteronomy 26 which is a resurrection offering. But without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. So it was out of season and out of order. There had to be a way back into God’s presence before there can be resurrection. So he was out of season in what he offered, and God did not respect it.

 

5  But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 6  And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? 7  If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin (unbelief) lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.  8  So wee see then  Cain went off and talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field talking and Cain just could not understand the revelation that Abel was trying to get across to him,  that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

 

And that is what Jesus is telling these Pharisees that they have the same nature as Cain in that because they cannot understand the doctrine he is teaching, they then gravitate to what Cain did to Abel and that is why they constantly conspire to kill him. 48  Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? 49  Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me. 50  And I seek not mine own glory: (I seek not mine own doxa, I seek not mine own opinion, nor do I seek my own values, nor do I seek my own judgments because there is only one who opinion means anything.) there is one that seeketh and judgeth. 51  Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. 52  Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. 53  Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? 54  Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:

 

Now, look. Let’s face it. God honored His son by backing up every word he spoke. All these guys that wish to dispute with William Branham show me their vindication. Show me where God came down and personally allowed his photo to be taken with them. Show me those who oppose William Branham where God ever came down visibly and verified what they were teaching is True like He did with William Branham in those three rainbows. He never asked for those rainbows to come, but God did it and the voice said within him, this is to verify that what you have been teaching for the past 33 years is true. So where are there indications of God’s presence. Where were the Pharisees vindication, where are the Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, where is their vindication by God personally showing Himself visible like He did with Moses, and Paul and William Branham. They haven’t got any.

 

So Jesus goes on to say, …55  Yet you don’t even known him whom you claim to be your God; but I know do him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and I keep his saying. 56  Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. 57  Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58  Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. 59  Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

 

Now, notice that the attributes of these men. When they can not prove their argument they resort to murder. And we find this same spirit even among us in this Message. When My brother in Law was of draft age, his father, my wife’s father was worried about him having to go overseas to kill, and so he wrote his concerns to brother Branham and this is what brother Branham write back. “You can kill a man more ways than with a knife or bullet, you can destroy their reputation, and you will be guilty of murder just the same.” So this is not a political thing taking place with br. Yousef, it is a religious war being waged by the darkness of satan's minions who in this case happen to be Muslem. 

 

And don’t think it is just because they are Muslem, because we have that same evil religious murdering spirit right among us claiming to believe this Message.  And just because they use words rather than stones, or the knife or bullets it is still the same spirit motivating them. 


And in the Words of their own Grand Ayatollah Grand Ayatollah Vahid Khorasani in a meeting with Qom province’s Law Enforcement Force commander, March 2008 he said,  “The circles for promotion of Christianity, ... should be eliminated with the efforts of the Law Enforcement Force as per God’s wish. The most significant psychological disease is created by these meetings and circles. They are corrupt and the biggest disrupters of the country’s security.”

 

Now, if that doesn’t sound just like the Pharisees and Sanhedrin council that plotted the death of Jesus, then tell me what does? And you think we are spared this kind of evil because we live in this nation?

 

Brother Branham seemed to think otherwise. In his sermon, Influence of Another 62-1013 P;54 he said, I understand that everybody that won't agree and come into the international agreement of this fellowship that they're trying to form to unite the churches together, the federation of the churches, that all that won't come in and unite with it, they're making them a little province; they're going to send them to Alaska. YOu might as well get ready for the cold weather, cause it looks like it's coming. So what a disgrace.

 

Now, the Bride of Christ will not go through the tribulation, and being hunted down like dogs, but it is coming for all who do not make the rapture. And there is a lot of evidence being gathered that they now have the largest internment camp in the world that will hold 2 million prisoners near Fairbanks Alaska. It is interesting that 2 million is listed in most of the websites that deal with the internment camps, because that is how many people are claiming the Message today, and it is the same number as those who followed the Pillar of Fire out of Egypt.


So what should we be doing ourselves? We need to learn how to pray with a desperation as we have not know before, for the days are definitely numbered and the greatest depression the world has even know that brother Branham said would make the first depression look like a Sunday school picnic is now underway, and is coming upon the world that has rejected this Message and is overtaking her.

 

Now, because of time, I do not have time to read all the curses that have come upon ths world and are overtaking her as promised by God in Deuteronomy 28, but here are a few.

 

Deuteronomy 28:15 15 However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

 16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. In other words, it matters not where you live, in  the city of if you flee to the country, it’s all the same at this point.

 17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

 18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, the crops of your land, the calves of your herds,  the lambs of your flocks.

 19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

 20 The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. [a] 21 The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed

22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, that’s mad cow, “Jacobs Krutchfield” disease, with fever, inflammation, scorching heat, drought, blight and mildew,.

23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 24 The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

 25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. 26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

 27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 28 The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29 At midday you will grope about like a blind man in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

 30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and ravish her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. (There’s your forclosures)You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. 34 The sights you see will drive you mad. 35 The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.  

 

 38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. 41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. 42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

 43 The foreigner who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 44 The foreigner will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail.

 45 All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. 46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. 47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, 48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

 49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, (That is Russia as per the seventh vision)50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. 52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.

 53 Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you. (Now, this already happened to Jerusalem and will happen to this country as well)54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For she intends to eat them secretly during the siege and in the distress that your enemy will inflict on you in your cities.

 58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God- 59 the LORD will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. 60 He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The LORD will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. (What about new diseases, ebola, swine flu, west nile disease, etc.)62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God. 63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

 64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. (This has already happened to the Jews, but beware God is not a respecter of persons. No wonder brother Branham said he would not want to be 5 minutes into the great tribulation.) There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. (So don’t think fleeing America will help, for there will be no place of refuge.) There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. 66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, "If only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If only it were morning!"-because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.

 

O what an awful time is coming for those who will not listen and obey the Voice of the Lord our God. And we have that Voice on magnetic tape and on CD’s and in more formats than ever before, and so there is no excuse. Flee my brothers and sisters into the arms of Your Loving Father before it is too late.

 

Let us pray,