Spoken Word no. 201
“The Whoring Spirit”
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
November 7th, 2010
Ezekiel 6: 9 And they that escape of you shall remember
me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am
broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with
their eyes, which go a whoring after
their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have
committed in all their abominations.
Proverbs
6: 26 For by means of a
whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious
life.
This Morning we will again speak from paragraphs
75b-79 where brother Branham speaks of a “whoring womb”, and as we saw Friday
night that there is all kinds of Scripture showing the condition of the mind of
a woman that is a “whore”. For to commit “whoredom”, one must first think
whorish thoughts and then when she waters those thoughts she brings that seed
to life within her first and then outwardly into manifestation in her actions.
Now, this morning I would like to further examine this
Church that is so whorish in its mind, and actions that the Scriptures calls
her the GREAT whore who has harlots for her children. But first so that you
might not think that I am just taking something out of context here, let me
read you in quite a few paragraphs in this Sermon, “The Spoken word is the
original Seed” where brother Branham keeps bringing up this thought because
after all throughout this entire Message he is speaking of Genesis 1:11 which speaks of how
that all seed must bring forth after their own kind, which means all seeds must
bring into manifestation the seed life that is in them. And it holds true for
all seeds, not just God-Life-Seed but when that God-life-seed is mixed or
hybrid with other life, it will still bring forth the nature of that other seed
life even though it is not genuine God-Seed-life.
We see him first bring up this thought in paragraph 42 of The Spoken Word is
the Original Seed 62-0318E P:41 Now, Jehovah had a bride that
He loved, but she went whoring. What did she do? After the other powers of
the world. Here he spoke of how
Hosea 9: 1 Rejoice not, O
Hosea 4: 12 My people ask counsel at their
stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone
a whoring from under their God.
In Paragraph 43 he again speaks of this thought on the church and it’s
whorish condition. The Spoken word original seed
62-0318E P:43 Jehovah's
bride wanted to go whoring after the rest of the people, like the rest of them. That's what Jesus' bride wanted to do.
In this paragraph he
shows how
The in The Spoken word original seed 62-0318E
P:46 Brother Branham shows us how that Jehovah’s bride went whoring after
the world because they could not wait for God to bring what He had promised to
bring, so they tried to manufacture it for themselves. So Jehovah's bride went whoring,
and what did she do? she brought forth a
bunch of illegitimates again. Is that right? We know it's the Truth. Even
had to be taken away by King Nebuchadnezzar and so forth. Christ's Bride's done
the same. What's the matter? Can't wait.
Oh, no. Huh-uh, just can't wait. They
have to manufacture something. They
can't wait for the Holy Spirit to come and get into the church. See, they
have to get more in their denomination. If it'd stayed the way it was back
yonder a hundred years ago, or fifty years ago, when Pentecost first started
out in this latter day, when the Word begin to be preached, if it'd stayed like
that, she probably wouldn't have had
over fifty members today. That's right. But they would be blood washed.
They'd had the power of God in them.
And then we see in The Spoken word original seed 62-0318E P:66 Now, now, watch, God confirmed His Word
through His body. Is that right? Then
she went whoring like Adam's wife did in Eden, and Jehovah's wife did in the
days of Samuel, that took a king, divorced God, her espoused Husband, and His
Word, and His prophet (His outlet to His Word), and went whoring like the rest of the nations; and God divorced her.
Same has He done today: same act.
Again in The Spoken word original seed
62-0318E P:67 Sons
of the bride commit adultery (See?) with the bride.
God's Son... His bride from Pentecost, virgin with the Word, went whoring and committed adultery just like
Adam's wife did, just like Jehovah's wife did; and here's the Son's wife, she
goes whoring, committing adultery with the Roman gods (plural), gods, and for
her lovers' sake, the Roman gods, tried to take her own husband and split Him
into three to please her lovers.
So we see here that the church has never shown itself to be satisfied
with the plan of God, but rather they are more interested in results now, than
waiting on God’s provided way to bring forth the needed results.
And then we find as we study further, in The
Spoken word original seed 62-0318E P:69 She tried to please her many
lovers. Uh-huh. Doing so she hybrid,
tried to hybrid with their lovers, the Word of God; so it would not work,
so she said, "Denounce that," and
made her own Word.
In Psalms 106: 39 we read, Thus were
they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own
inventions.
Br. Branham continues,
Now, she claims to be the Word herself. But don't let
Catholics--or Protestants call Catholics, 'cause they do the same in the council of their own churches:
whoring. No wonder they're called harlots. That's rough, isn't it? That
shook the skin off your back, but that's what it takes to do to wake you up
sometimes. See? Right.
Notice here that
brother Branham is speaking of how that they are not satisfied with the word of
God, so they make up their own Word, and claim it as God’s Word for them.
And then we see him
bring out in paragraph 77 of The Spoken word
original seed 62-0318E P:77 That
what causes her and her children to be considered Whores is that they have
committed fornication against the Word. In other words, they have taken into themselves
another seed which is not God’s Word seed. All her daughters are harlots. How? By the
same as their mammy: committing just
spiritual fornications against the Word. That's how the Catholic church become a whore. That's how her daughters become harlots: same thing, spiritual fornication against the Word.
She and her daughters has a whoring
womb. And so Wednesday evening we studied how it is possible to
have this whoring womb and what it is.
Therefore, this
morning we will continue with this thought and expand on it to show you that
this thought first came out in this wonderful sermon, but instead of hitting it
just that once, brother Branham continued right up until his departure to hit
on this thought that the church has turned down the word of her husband in
favor of the word of another lover which he shows to be organization. Notice
the date of this sermon, the Spoken Word is t he original Seed was in March of
1962. Then in November of that year he hit it again.
From his sermon Why I am against organized
religion 62-1111E P:97 he said, “she was called a whore, and
she was a mother of harlots. What? What is a harlot? Could it be a man? It has
to be a woman. So if it's a woman, it
has to be a church; she was the mother of harlots, the same as she was. And
look, watch, "In her..." Let it soak. "In her was blasphemous
names." What is it? Now, ministers here and on the tape, now just hold
your peace. What is those blasphemous names? Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian,
Lutheran, Pentecostals, so forth. Blasphemous names, because it's organizations, whoredom to God, just like she was.
So here we begin to
see the identifiable characteristics of whore church as defined by William
Branham Vindicated Prophet of God. He says that she turns down the Word of God
for organization. So I want you to follow this thought through as we read now
the progression of this thought as to what constitutes a whorish spirit in the
church. You will see how organization is the main identifiable characteristic
she (The Whore church) manifests.
From his sermon, Why against organized
religion 62-1111E P:99 Then, if they are harlots, what is a harlot? What is a whore? Same
thing as a harlot. It's a woman that
lives untrue to her marriage vow. And any
church that claims to be the
So we see that this same spirit is not confined to just denominations,
but it is an organizational spirit that rallies behind a false doctrine instead
of the true doctrine of Christ. Notice he said a lot of you people out their
who make fun of the Catholic church have the same spirit on you as she does,
because you accept other teaching than what this Bible teaches. Now, that can
apply to many who sit right in this message claiming brother Branham as their
prophet but not teaching what he taught. Like those who claim that the Baptism
of the Holy Ghost and the New birth are two different things when a vindicated
prophet of God taught they are the same thing. Harlots, with the same whorish
spirit as their Mother Rome. And don’t just think that Roman Catholicism was the first church to have that whorish
spirit, because we find the same thing in Eve, and in
First
seal the 63-0318 P:132 And what was the first thing happened? An organization from it. Now, is that
right? Tell me where the first organized
church come from: Roman Catholic church. Tell me if Revelations don't say,
in the Book of Revelations 17, that she was a whore, and her daughters were
harlots. That's the same thing that
organized with her: harlots. Taken the abomination, filthiness of their fornications for doctrine, teaching for doctrine
the commandments of men.
So you see it comes
right down to whether you have the doctrine God taught or the doctrine that man
teaches. Because the Vow if the troth and the word troth comes from the word truth.
So when a woman pledges her troth or truth to the husband and takes His Word,
and then turns from that Word to the word of another, right their she has
committed spiritual fornication, and tell me that isn’t happening in 99 percent
of the churches in this World that claim to believe the Word of God, and yet
organize around the words of men.
Anointed
ones at end time 65-0725M P:51 Balaam, anointed with the same Spirit that
was upon Moses... What was the difference? The
teaching of Moses was perfect. The Bible said here in II Peter that it was the teaching of Balaam that
Deuteronomy 31: 16 And the LORD said unto Moses,
Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the
strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant
which I have made with them.
Now, don’t tell me
that this same Doctrine of Balaam isn’t being taught right in this message,
when men will deny the absolute truth of this Message, and say this message is
not an absolute. It is an absolute, and if you believe otherwise you have
swallowed the same lie Balaam sold
Ezekiel 23: 30 I will do these things unto
thee, because thou hast gone a whoring
after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
2
Chronicles 21: 13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of
Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of
the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house,
which were better than thyself:
1
Chronicles 5: 25 And they transgressed against the God of
their fathers, and went a whoring after
the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
Judges 8:
33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the
children of
Judges 8:
27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city,
even in Ophrah: and all
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Judges 2:
17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went
a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly
out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the
LORD; but they did not so.
Now, I taught a
message on the doctrine of Christ or the doctrine of Balaam sometime ago, and
if you haven’t heard it you should go back and listen to it again, and perhaps
your eyes might open up to what is happening right among us in this Message.
Satan is right in the camp brothers and sisters, and the same one who lied to
Jesus in the wilderness is the same one who used Dathan and Korah to try to
divide Israel into two camps, and when he found out that did not work, he tried
to unite all together under one big false doctrine of unity, and so he used
another Prophet, a genuine prophet of God with the same anointing on Him as was
on Moses. And don’t think it was a different anointing, it was the same
anointing, that is what we just read from William Branham in anointed Ones at
the end-Time.
Leviticus
20: 6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar
spirits, and after wizards, to go a
whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut
him off from among his people.
Leviticus
20: 5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his
family, and will cut him off, and all that
go a whoring after him, to commit
whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
Leviticus
17: 7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils,
after whom they have gone a whoring.
This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
Exodus
34: 16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their
daughters go a whoring after their gods,
and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
Exodus
34: 15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land,
and they go a whoring after their gods,
and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his
sacrifice;
Now, You can’t have it
both ways my friends, either “God’s Word is true
and every man’s word a lie”, or it isn’t. Either you are true to
God and His word, or you aren’t. And for a church to step aside from God’s
Doctrine which is so clear and easy to understand in favor of other doctrine which
is cloudy at best and hard to understand, because how can you understand
something which doesn’t make sense and is in such great error. And yet they
will take the Oneness teaching or the Trinitarian teaching which can not be
proven by God’s Word, and reject the Doctrine of Christ which is made so plain
by Scripture and God’s Prophet William Branham.
And so brother Branham makes it clear that to turn down God’s doctrine
in favor of man’s doctrine is spiritual fornication.
Now, from The Second Seal which
was preached 63-0319
P:119 Brother Branham said, Now, look here, over here. That Whore, what is that? That's a woman.
Can't be a man. And what is the
woman symbol in the Bible? Church. Why? Christ's Bride and so forth (You
see?), it's woman, the church. Now,
"waters," what does that mean? Watch here. Read the 15th : of it
there. And he said unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore
setteth, are peoples,... multitudes,... nations, and tongues. This church is ruling
over the whole world (See?) "set upon many waters." With whom the
kings of the earth have committed fornication,... (Spiritual fornication is taking her doctrine (Nicolaitane doctrine.)...
and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her
fornication.... (Boy, you talk about a drunken bunch on it. You...)
So you see it was her
doctrine that intoxicated the kings of the earth. Why? because that
organization spirit is nicolaitane which means it sets men above the people to
rule over them. And that is not God’s doctrine, that is man’s doctrine, and
every where you go even right in this Message, those who turn down the doctrine
of Christ will resort to their own doctrine, their own Word, making themselves
the Word, and placing themselves as some sort of Gift to man that is above man.
And the rulers of the earth love that doctrine because it keeps them in power.
Now, do you see why they preach fear to the people. Because fear has a penalty,
and that penalty is that they bind the people to themselves instead of to the
Word of God.
Again from The Fourth seal 63-0321 P:88 Brother
Branham said, “We know what church that was. And
remember... she was not only a whore, she was a mother of harlots. And we find
out that what made her a whore was a
woman that's that type of a woman... (I'm just... It's a flat word to say
amongst a mixed audience, but the Bible says that. You see?). So then we
realize that that's a woman that lives
untrue to her marriage vows. And you see, she's supposed to be, calls
herself the queen of heaven. That would
be the bride of God, God is Christ. And we find that she's committing fornication; and she's causing the kings to the earth
to commit fornication, and all the rich men, and great men; the whole earth
went after her. See? And then we find out that she produced some daughters, and
they were harlots.
And again from The Fourth seal the 63-0321
P:89 he said, “What
is a harlot but a whore, same thing, a fornicator, fornication, evil, adultery,
committing... What'd
they do? Organized, got a system, taught the manmade systems,
Pentecost and the whole bunch. Now,
don't let your conscience drop down in your pocket, Pentecost. But let me tell
you something. Let's look the thing right in the face. We're too late down the
road now to go to pulling punches. Looky here. We are living in the
And that is exactly what has taken place. The Pentecostal church holds
less to the Word of God than any other church before her. They have by-passed
the Word of God altogether in favor of the teachings on tongues and the gifts
and manifestations, etc. until you hardly hear them quote the Word of God, but
instead teach their own man made doctrine about tongues, and spiritual gifts
until it is filled with nothing but adultery and fornication in the natural
because hat is what they have become in the spiritual.
From his sermon, Lord just once more preached
in 63-0628A P:38 he said, “Now,
if she's a whore, that's a woman that
lives untrue to her husband. She claims Christ her Husband, and don't live by
His commandment. And what are the other churches doing? What is a harlot?
Is the same thing as the other. What is it? Prostitution to God's Word. And she was the mother of harlots. And
let that Jezebel doctrine, and so forth, because a bunch of intellectual men,
that wants to get together and organize
something so they can have big names themselves. And there stands the
church, divided brotherhood. Oh, my, what, what a disgrace in doing it. What a
terrible thing it is, spiritually blind. "Oh," you say, "well,
I'm not spiritually blind." Actions speaks louder than words; prove you're
blind by the way you stumble over things. See?
Now, can we deny that
those words are so fitting to those who turn down the doctrine of Christ? They
stumble at this message when the doctrine of Christ makes so plain the entire
Message. Yet they would rather grope in darkness and hold to their little
groups of brother hood, or as I like to call them, the good old boy’s club, and
they deny the very doctrine of Christ in favor of holding onto understanding
which makes no sense at all and can not be found in Scripture, nor in the
Message.
Then in July of 63, in his sermon Why cry
speak 63-0714M P:86 brother Branham says, “And the church has organized, and
all of them gathered together as harlots to the whore, and everything exactly
in the way of whoredom. Whoredom,
what is it? Telling women they can cut their hair, telling women they can wear
shorts, tell men they can do this and they can do that, and a preacher saying,
"Do this," and the social gospel and things. Don't you see it's
committing adultery with the true Word of God. And God has sent us His true
Word undenominational, no strings tied to It, and give us a Pillar of Fire, the
Holy Ghost that's been with us now for thirty years, and everything that He's
predicted and said come to pass exactly the way He said it.” And yet they would rather hold to their
organization brother hood than to follow that Pillar of fire that is still here
leading us to the Millennium.
A week later brother Branham says in his sermon, He cares do you care? 63-0721 P:70 We
got two churches at hand this morning. One of them is the
And from Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:231 May
I say this. His Spirit calls unto you, "whited walls, you hypocrites,
calling yourself something when you take the intellectual conception of men and
leave the Word go instead of come pregnated with the Seed of God, the Word in
you. You've taken every other hybrid..."No wonder she set as a whore,
because she commits spiritual fornications,
teaching the people things of man and not things of the God. But He said,
"Fear not, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the
Kingdom." That's right. Certainly. There we have it.
So you see the fornication is when the Word of God is not being taught in
favor of some man made doctrine which takes the people further and further away
from the truth of the Scriptures.
In his sermon, Once more 63-0804A P:30 Brother
Branham shows us how Delilah a type of the false church lured away Samson from
focusing on the Promise for his hour, and instead got him to focus on her the
church instead of the role God gave him to play out in that hour. “Let a lure of a woman take him from the
Word of God. (now,
don’t forget a woman is always in Scripture a type of the church.) Now, you say,
"Brother Branham, it wasn't." It was the Word of God. Delilah took Samson from the Word of
promise. And so has the Jezebel of
this day taken the church, lured it from the Word of the promise, God's
Holy Bible. …And a little later he says, “As
soon as they organized, they done the same thing they did there; they stripped themselves from the Word,
and have to follow the dictations of some organization.”
Again in paragraph 52 of Once more 63-1117
P:52 he says, Notice, the same thing has been done as it
was then: let Jezebel, the mother of harlots, Revelations 17... You remember,
she was called a whore; that's a--a woman that's immoral. And woman always is represents... The church is
represented by a woman. Because Christ, one He's coming after is a Bride.
And she was the mother of harlots. What is a immoral woman? Now, it couldn't
have been men, because they were
harlots. See? Is a woman that would live untrue to her husband. And she
claims that she is the mother of all churches, and she is. And what made her a whore? Is because she
committed spiritual fornication. She adopted creeds instead of her Husband's
Word. Instead of becoming a real
true mate to her husband, she took another book of creeds. And what was
she? The mother of harlots that did the same thing. Now, you don't need any
more explaining to that. See? You see where it's at. What was it? Organization, getting away from the Word.
A few years ago I preached a sermon called death by organization, and in
it I showed you how that when the church turns from The Word of God, it goes
after organization, and then it dies, every time.
Now, we are getting to 1964 and brother Branham continues with this same
theme that he began in The spoken word is the original Seed, when he preaches
his sermon called, Shalom 64-0112 P:35 Now,
I have nothing against any denomination, people. But I have all that I can
think about against the systems, because
they're wrong. And the first system that ever rose up was the Roman system
of the Roman Catholic church. That was
the first organization that ever was organized, was the Roman Catholic church,
And the next month Brother Branham spoke to us his sermon called A Paradox 64-0206B P:25 and said, “When a church ever organizes, a message
ever organizes, it goes to the shelf and never rises again. Now,
you're historians here; I know one of you. See? And that's right. It never rises again, when it organizes.
Catholicism was the first organization,
called in the Bible, "a whore," she was, "THE MOTHER OF
HARLOTS," the same thing, organizations.
You see where it's all winding up again, up here in the ecumenical council?
Now, I'm put out because of that, amongst
the organizations. Them brethren doesn't realize what they're doing. It's
not me; I'm not put out. They're putting
the Word out. The Bible said in this
And at the end of 1964 Brother Branham continued with this theme and said
in his sermon, Harvest time 64-1212 P:124 Revelations 17,
"The whore and her daughters," not men; women, churches. The denominated, what made her a whore? She rejected the Word and took the
denomination; she become a whore. What did her children done? They were
harlots, which is the same thing. Done the same thing, rejected the Word and took to the denomination. "Her
children," daughters, churches, look at them.
And now we take you to 1965 where brother Branham continues to warn the
church against that organizational spirit that would lure them away from the
promise for the hour to look to her instead. From his sermon, Lean not unto thy own understanding 65-0120 P:35 "She
was a whore; she had prostitute daughters." And we know that that is the
Truth. Organized religion, it's contrary
to the Word, and it's antichrist in
its principles. Not everything in there is antichrist; but in its
principles, its system is antichrist, because it's against the Word of God. Every organized system is that way.
And from his sermon, Seed shall not be heir
65-0429B P:18 he said, “Now, that's why I am so
strongly today. And I thought this would be a good time, because I don't know
how much longer we'll be together, and maybe I could, some way God would help
me to show you the reason that I so
firmly denounce organized religion. See, see? It cannot be heir with the original program of God, because
organization is not of God. It's of
men. The first church was ever
organized in all the world was the Roman Catholic church at
Numbers 15: 39 And it shall be unto you for a
fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the
LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not
after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
And finally in paragraph 54 of Seed shall not
be heir 65-0429B P:54 But did you realize that Revelation 17, it
called the Roman Catholic church, the
first organization, a whore? How many knows that's true? How many know that
she was the mother of harlots? What is a immoral woman? Now, He said this woman
was a church. What is a whore? Is a
woman that's untrue to her marriage vow. What is a harlot? Same thing, same
word. Now, she gave birth. What kind of birth? Not to the Word, but to organization birth. Here's Methodist,
Baptist, and Pentecostals, and they all took the habits of their mother. Any ornery-ish woman in California can
give birth to a virgin girl; and that's why the first message come forth; but
when truth was presented to Luther's church--age, of sanctification, he
couldn't take it. When the baptism of the Holy Ghost was presented to the Methodists,
they couldn't take it. And now when the Seed time has produced to Pentecost,
she can't take it. She's organized.
But she has been a carrier of the Seed. See?
So I hope and trust
that you will put on your spiritual discernment and be careful when you look
out there amongst the churches. Be careful to see what spirit motivates the
church you attend, and see if it is the spirit of the Word, or as brother
Branham said, “Son of God seed will produce sons of God” or is it an
organizational spirit that is willing to step aside form the Word of God and
compromise in order to have more fellowship and acceptance by man.
In Ezekiel 16: 30 we read. How
weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
Take your pick, the
doctrine of Balaam that says we are all one, or the word of God that says come
out of her my people and be not partakers of her evil organizational deeds.”
Let us pray…