Spoken
Word no. 57
God
hides his Word from the Make-believer and Unbeliever
Brian Kocourek
This morning we will continue with our study from The Spoken Word is
the Original Seed and we will pick up at paragraph 40. If God contradicts Himself, He's not no more
than I am or no more than you are, for He
can contradict Himself. The Word's there, but It's hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent. That's why someone
says that Matthew 28:19, where: "Go ye, teach all nations, baptizing them
in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost"; Acts
Notice that brother
Branham said, that God can not contradict Himself or he would not be God. Now,
there is no man living that can say that about themselves. We are all mortals
and we all make mistakes in our thinking or in the way we try to line things
up. Or sometimes in our way of expressing what we are looking at because of our
inadequacies and inability to verbalize what we know by revelation. I will be the first to admit, I am not
vindicated. I never have been vindicated nor will I ever be vindicated in the
sense that Brother Branham speaks of vindication. Because in the sense of the
word and according to the dictionary only, the word vindicate means simply to
prove. But in the Biblical sense it means a whole lot more than that. The word
vindicate as used by William Branham is that God proves His Own Word in the
mouth of His prophet by bringing to pass what the man speaks. In other words,
only a prophet has “Thus Saith The Lord”. And God gave us the teaching on what
to look for if a man comes with thus Saith the Lord. Therefore, I do not
believe all the nonsense that is going around amongst some Message preachers
that are teaching their people that the Five Fold ministry is vindicated. The
Five Fold Ministry are not vindicated. And if you can show me by the Scriptures
or by quotes from the prophet that the Five-Fold ministry are vindicated, then
I will gladly admit my error. But you can’t because that is not the way he used
the word vindication.
One minister recently tried to
tell me that the five fold ministry is vindicated, and his reasoning for that
is that brother Branham preached a sermon called 5 identifications of the
Although the
Now, I do not mean to sidetrack
from my message this morning, but let me show you that that God only vindicates
His word by His prophets. You can not tell me that God vindicates any five-fold
ministry. Because God uses signs and wonders and “Thus Saith the Lord”, to
vindicate his man for the hour.
Therefore first of all let’s
look at what the scripture teaches concerning this.
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise
them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he
shall speak unto them all that I
shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he
shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
20 But the
prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not
commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even
that prophet shall die. 21 And if thou say in
thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? 22 When a
prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to
pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not
spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it
presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
So God made it crystal clear
that if the man says God told him to tell you something and if that thing does
not come to pass, then get away from that man. So God must back up that man if
God sends him with a message. Therefore the backing up of that message is what
we call vindication. Outside of that you are not vindicated. God backs up only
His Word. He vindicates only His Word and His prophet that he sends with it.
Now, let’s see what William Branham vindicated prophet of God has to say about
this.
God
has a provided way 62-0728 P:45 And when God sent a man down,
a prophet, who the Word comes to, he had the original Word of God. "I have
heard the groans of My people and I remember My promise." Hallelujah. That
God don't change. He stays with that Word, letter
by letter. Not only that, but He had
vindicated His prophet. He came
down. He had a Pillar of Fire over him, a vindicated him. He was God's... That was God proving that the man was
right, because he's exactly with the Word. Oh, my. He preached the Word.
God worked with him, confirming the Words with signs following. Exactly what
God told Moses to do, Moses done. Moses had a lot of impersonators. But in
every case God always rode the tide above all the impersonators and brought it
out right. Jesus said... The Bible speaks that, "In the last days as
Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so will men stand up in the last days"
impersonation: promised it.
So from this quote we can
see that God’s very presence in the form of the pillar of fire is what
vindicated the man with his Word. God don't change. He stays with that Word,
letter by letter. Not only that, but
He had vindicated His prophet.
He came down. He had a Pillar of Fire
over him, a vindicated him. He was God's... That was God proving that the man was right, because he's exactly with
the Word.
So don’t tell me that
because you consider yourself one of the five fold ministry that, that makes
you special to the point of God vindicating you and your ministry. I don’t buy
that for two seconds.
Again from his sermon, God's only
provided place of worship 65-1128M P:41 Now, watch that Cain spirit
come right down through the Scripture, right on to this very last day.
Fundamental? Just as fundamental as the other one was. Look at the prophet
Balaam and the prophet Moses. Both
of them with seven altars, Jehovah's altars, blood on each one; and not only
that, but rams on each one. In numerology, exactly the right number, seven,
"perfect," seven rams, just exactly like: both altars. As fundamental
as one was, the other one was also. But who
did God vindicate? (See, see?) The
one that was in His Word. Fundamental doesn't mean too much; it's the
revelation of God.
So you see even though
Balaam was a prophet he was not a true prophet, for he could not stay with
God’s Word. Listen, a prophet is not just someone that sees visions. He is a
revealer of the Divine Word. That is the main focus of his ministry is to bring
the Word of the Lord.
Trying to do God a service 65-1127B P:111 I
heard a guy say one time, said, "I believe that man prays for the sick; I
believe it's fine. But as being a prophet," said, "I believe he's
God's prophet; but as a teacher, why, he's a Jesus only." What kind of a
person would you call that? A man doesn't know what he's talking about. The
very word "prophet" means that "he is a revealer of the Word of
God"; the interpretation only comes
to that. And that's why today we're in such a need of this great person
that's supposed to be sent to us in the form of the prophet Elijah, because it'll be the revelation of God made known
to us by vindication, showing that it's the day and the hour and the season
that God promised it to be in. And remember, he'll be spoken against; always
has been, always will be. Rejected, just like the shuck will pull... First
he'll be accepted, because the shuck only holds the wheat until it's able to
get forth to the sun. Pentecost will only shelter the message, giving it an
open door until it gets scattered, and then the shuck will pull away, and the
wheat will lay in the Presence of the Son (See?), to ripen.
You see, in Moses day the so
called ministry tried to usurp his authority and position with the people, and
God took them off the scene real quick. You do not mess with a prophet and try
to use your works as a minister to make yourself somebody.
From his sermon, Works is faith
expressed 65-1126 P:122 Who was first? Moses. Then they impersonated him. But the
great truths still remains the same between the right and wrong; they cannot
accept the message. They cannot accept the message that's unadulterated, from
the Word of God. I don't care, Judas could've done all kind of signs and
wonders; but when he come to receive the Holy Ghost at the day of Pentecost, he
showed his colors. That Devil can come right up and impersonate right to the
very thing, till it comes to this Word; but he can't take all that Word. He can
bring it all up, maybe to one Word like Eve did, the Devil did to Eve, but he
can't cross it all. Because the only... The whole thing is the Body of Christ.
See, Word now...Neither could... They could not, cannot take the message now,
neither could Jambres and Jannes take Moses' message. They could not do it. Their
works of impersonation was made known, because they could not be able to follow
God's Word vindicated by His anointed
prophet. See?
Again from his sermon, Events made clear
by prophecy 65-0801E P:36 Now, every time that the
church gets mixed up, and God foreknew they would, for He foreknew all things;
therefore, He has His certain prophet ready for that age, to call His electing by His a-vindicated Word of signs and
wonders, and confirmation of His Word: confirming the Word with signs
following, as He promised. He gives the
true interpretation after the prophet himself has been vindicated. All but
those, the elected to whom he is sent, hate him. Now, examine every instant and
see if that's right or not. Only the ones that He's sent to. "He came to
His Own and His Own received Him not; but as many as did receive Him, to them
gave He the power to become sons of God."
And from Marriage and
divorce 65-0221M P:103 Now, you believe this to be true and believe
it to come from God. And by the
vindication of His Cloud and His Message that's brought me this far,.. So we see here that it is God’s personal Presence that
backs up and vindicates His prophets.
Why
it had to be shepherds 64-1221 P:83 Notice how again the
never-changing God, the great Shepherd Prophet took them that stayed by Him and
with His ministry to Mount Olive; the great Shepherd Prophet, the One we're
speaking of, Jesus. Seen and heard the Father (the same Pillar of Fire)
vindicate Him, that vindicated Moses.
The same God that Moses spoke of, come over Moses and proved by a Pillar
of Fire that He was Jehovah that was leading Moses. Again I want you to notice that it is God’s personal
presence that vindicates his prophets, even His son.
We also see this in the next
quote. Recognizing
your day 64-0726M P:62 He didn't show Himself down
in Egypt just only by miracles and signs, but when He got them all gathered
together, He appeared to them again, and
vindicated Moses' ministry before the elected and called out. When that
prophet had chopped them loose from that nation and brought them into a place,
then the Pillar of Fire appeared again and on top of
Again from Voice of the sign
64-0313 P:36 How that Elijah condemned that generation
with all that was in him, and God
vindicating him that he was a prophet, just before the coming.
Only one way provided by God 63-0731 P:48 God provided
Look, I’ve seen a lot during
my ministry over the years, but I have nothing compared to what God did through
that prophet William Branham. He had more in one meeting than I have had in
over 1300 sermons. Why do you think it
takes me 150+ sermons to preach one of his. There’s so much in each of those
tapes that I marvel how he could say all that in one and a half hours, and the
same with the miracles and supernatural.
That is why he could say in
his sermon Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:158 Who did the Word of the Lord
come to? Prophet alone.
That's right. Is that right? And the
prophet had to be vindicated first. Not 'cause he said he was a prophet,
because he was born a prophet and proved
to be a prophet, and everything he said was exactly on the Word and
come to pass, then everything else let go.
Be not afraid 63-0607 P:48 "'Our people are told in
this Bible, that the Word of the Lord
comes to a prophet, a prophet
only. And then, first this
prophet has to be a-vindicated by God. He
has to tell the Word, and the Word has to come to pass, time after time.'"
They're born. They're just not just somebody laid hands on them and made them a
prophet; they are born. There's a gift of prophecy can come, but a prophet is
born a prophet. Jeremiah was. Why, God said, "Before you was even formed
in your mother's wombs, I ordained you a prophet over the nations." John
the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, Isaiah said he
was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Jesus Christ was the Son of God
before the foundation of the world. He was the woman's Seed that was to bruise
the serpent's head. Certainly. God places these things. God has set in the
church apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. All these things God
placed in the church. Then there's nine different gifts who operates in that church.
But these are offices that goes in the church.
So are we supposed to go
along with these puffed up ministers and believe they are vindicated just
because they say so? Not on your life.
Again he said, Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:106 Notice
in the seer how that when, you know, he's coming forth, he's divinely a-vindicated by foreseeing and it comes to
pass. "If there be one who's a prophet, will speak to you and tell you
certain things that's going to happen, and if it don't happen, don't listen
to him. But if it does happen, then I'm
with Him. You better fear him, because I am with him." See? That's exactly. There's the a-vindication. There, where
you know whether it's the truth or whether it isn't. Notice the a-vindication is that God is with that man.
Warning
then judgment 63-0724 P:48 What about Jonah going through the streets,
saying, "Oh, this city's going to be destroyed within so many days, forty
days," and then God didn't do it? See, you have to watch, God don't always
strike when He warns. But He... There's one thing, then the prophet is mocked.
But if he is a vindicated prophet with
the Word of the Lord (See?) signs of
God, vindicated, as God said the prophet would be vindicated which these men
were. See? His Word is not his, but
it's God's, and it will come to pass. It's
got to come to pass if It's God's Word. There's only one thing can stop it,
that's a quick repentance.
Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:105 When God says so, it's got to
happen. It's a vindicated prophet, and
it has to come to pass, 'cause it's God's Word, and the Word comes only to the
prophets. The word prophet means a revealer of the Divine written Word, as
same as it does a forth-teller (See?), a seer.
Third Exodus 63-0630M P:118 God chose in the days of the
exodus, He called out a group and out of that group... I want you to notice
something. He only got two, that went to the promised land. What did He choose
to take them out by? Politics? Organization? He chose a prophet with a
supernatural sign of a Pillar of Fire, that the people wouldn't be mistaken.
What the prophet said was the Truth. God
come down in a Pillar of Fire and vindicated Himself, showed His Word. That
right? That's what He brought His first exodus. His second exodus... God always
goes in threes. He's perfect in threes.
Seventh
seal the 63-0324E P:36 Notice,
Seventh
seal the 63-0324E P:32 Now, notice,
Breach
the 63-0317E P:24 Now, notice, the Seven Seals holds the
mystery of the Book. Until we can see what those Seven Seals has sealed in, we're
only presuming them things. Because as I've told you this morning, upon my
little message this morning of "God Hiding in Simplicity,"... You
see, we are sure to miss the thing unless it is absolutely, genuinely revealed
by the Holy Spirit and vindicated the
same. See? If the prophet rises and tells you that this is just that, and God don't vindicate the thing, forget it.
See? But God in every statement, in
everything has to vindicate it to make it right. See, see? So His children
will watch those things (See?), and be alert.
Investments
63-0126 P:45 You see, God watches over His Word to vindicate It. And how can He vindicate It when we deny that It's the Truth. See?
Identification
63-0123 P:65 If you were in that day, what group would
you be identified with? With the prophet
with the vindicated Word, although they were in the minority? Or would you
be with the popular opinion folks? "Well, I tell you; I believe that man's
crazy." And the only way that you'd ever know he wasn't crazy is for the
same God to reveal to you the same thing He'd revealed to Moses. And the only way that we'll ever be able to be
the images of God, and the sons of God, is for God to reveal to us, and express
Himself through His Word to us, and us to the world. That's the only channel,
for Christ was the Image here on earth that you could see God in a man,
expressed Image of God, because God was in Him so much that they were One. And
now when Christ left, He sanctified the church that the church might take His
place and express the Word of God. See? That's the only way it can be done.
Evening
messenger 63-0116 P:42 Now, for it is to the prophet that the Word always come, if they are a true
prophet of the Word, God vindicates His Word by that prophet. Now, there's
been many false prophets; we've had them all through the ages. We go back to
the Old Testament, see them raise up and speak in the Name of the Lord, and it
was--wasn't right. God would have nothing to do with it. He never vindicates nothing but His Own Word. He wouldn't run His
business like that. See? You just remember; God only vindicates His Word, and
only a true prophet is. And the only
way you can tell whether he's true or not, is by the Word. That's the way to
judge him.
Sign
of His coming 62-0407 P:36 A
vindication of God's Word being true, God bears record of His
Word by His signs.
Show
us the Father and it will satisfy 60-0731 P:70 What
was a prophet? A Divine interpreter of the Word, had the Divine interpretation.
The signs of Him foretelling, and foreknowing, that was a vindicate to the people that he was a prophet.
Blind
Bartimaeus 60-0713 P:24 Remember the vision does not heal people. The vision is only a vindication that the
Word is right. How many knows what the word "prophet" means? Sure
you do. A "prophet" means that--"a one that foretells or
forthtells." And it is a Divine
sign from God that this person that's speaking has the right interpretation of
the Divine Word, because the Word of the Lord came unto the prophets. And
the prophet foretold and done those signs, which
is a vindication that he had the interpretation of the divine Word.
Be
not afraid 60-0609 P:71 You believe on the Lord Jesus? Have faith
in God. It's all over, brother. Just believe it now. We are strangers to one
another. Now, that ought to settle it for the whole group of you. Does that
confirm that I'm preaching the truth? How would God let me tell something
wrong, and stand up with my very message. These
things are only to indicate a Divine a vindication that my theology is right.
That's exactly right. The Word of the
Lord came to the prophets. You believe that with all your heart? I don't
know you; Jesus knows you. You're a very fine person, and you're not here for
yourself. You're here for someone else. It's your daughter. You believe God can
tell me what her trouble is? It's in her spine. That's true. If that's right,
raise up your hand. Now, you believe with all your heart?
Redemption
by power 54-0329 P:81 I'm not reading your mind, friends. I only
speak the truth, and God vindicates it
to be the truth.
Do
you now believe 54-0307E P:73 If I've told the truth of Jesus Christ,
then He will vindicate that I'm telling
the truth.
In talking about the
discernment and visions in his sermon God commissioning Moses the prophet 53-0508 P:91 brother
Branham says, Only things this does, is
just declare His Presence, a vindication
of Him being here.
Expectations
50-0405 P:16 But
the only person that has a right to say, THUS SAITH THE LORD, is an a
vindicated prophet. You never seen anybody judging Isaiah, or Jeremiah, or
those people. They were prophets, foreordained and born in the world to be
prophets. And they foresaw the thing by a vision, and then said, "THUS
SAITH THE LORD," for the Lord had already said it. So what the Church
needs today, is a good old fashion teaching of the Gospel. That's right. To
know where they... I don't mean just educated teaching; I mean spiritual
teaching. Some people speaks about God, and--and knows nothing of Him. You
don't... See, you must get down and deal with the actual spirit itself, you
see, to know what you're speaking of.
Presuming
62-0117 P:151 Now, visions doesn't heal people. Visions only vindicates the Presence of God.
Their
eyes were opened 57-0421E P:16 The vision doesn't heal; the vision only vindicates His Presence.
Now, in getting back to our
text this morning, brother Branham said, The Spoken Word is the Original Seed 40. The Word's there,
but It's hid from the eyes of the wise
and prudent.
So the Word is there but they
just can’t see it or understand it because it’s hid from the eyes of the wise
and prudent. Now, why would God hide His Truth in His Word?
That is why we had the
discourse with that foreign minister. And Look, I really don’t care what he
believes or for that matter what any one else believes. What you believe is
your business and that is between you and God, but just don’t lie about it. And
don’t try to tare down others using lies. If the thing is worthy of being torn
down, then you don’t need to lie about it. Just show it from the scripture,
because after all there is none vindicated except God’s prophet in this hour.
So don’t try to tell me that you are vindicated because I’ll call you a liar and
deceiver if you do. Show me “Thus Saith the Lord.” Show me God’s evidence of
backing you up with signs and wonder and His written word coming to pass. You
can’t do it, so shut up and sit down, and put on the tapes.
Br. Branham said, God’s Word does not contradict Itself, It can’t, and be God. And God is the Word.
It’s just that plain. If William Branham wrote the Church Age book and it is
backed by Scripture, then believe it. That’s all. And if you can’t believe all
that the prophets have said, then don’t claim to be a defender of the Word of
God and the Prophets.
The Word of God is so full of genuine real promises,
why spend your whole life hunting the false. But that is what these brothers
have done. They have spent their entire life in the ministry to look for faults
in others. And that is what brother Branham described the make-believers as.
From his sermon, Go awake Jesus 63-1130E P:34 Now, there is
another group that always hangs around,
and that's the make-believer. Now, that
make-believer is considered the hypocrite. Now, let's take a make-believer.
It was Judas. He was the make-believer. And the make-believer hangs on and on, trying to find some way that they
can get something on it. They stick around long enough just to find out if they
can't find a little fault, then go out and expose it somewhere.
So I tell you what kind of
spirit is it in a man who dedicates his entire life to trying top find fault in
others? It shows he is a make-believer. Not because I say so, for who am I. But
God’s vindicated prophet said so.
Three kinds of believers 63-1124E P:58 As
a guy said to me one time--a minister, said, "I don't care, Mr. Branham,
how many people you could produce that you said was healed, I wouldn't believe
it." I said, "Certainly not; you can't believe it. You're a
unbeliever; it wasn't for you. It's only for the believers." You've got to
believe it. See? And they do not believe it. So when you see a person in
that... Well did Paul speak of (the prophets), saying that they'd be heady, high-minded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having forms of godliness, but
denying the power there, the power of the Word; from such turn away. Notice,
they deny the whole of the Word, but in every form very religious. They are unbelievers in the true Word,
though It be vindicated. All through
every age God vindicated the Word of these people I've talked about: Noah,
and on down through Moses, and all the prophets, and forth. God spoke through
the supernatural, and vindicated the
Word, and yet those people walked right out on it.
Again brother Branham said
in his sermon Three kinds of believers 63-1124E
P:70 See,
make-believers, deceivers, trying to
find some fault with God and His Word.
Three kinds of believers 63-1124E P:61 Now
the third class we're speaking about is the make-believer. That's the boy, the
make-believer. Now, remember, in there stood all three. Now, we find out they
do just exactly like their father does, Judas. There was Peter, and the rest of
the apostles: believers. There was the seventy: unbelievers. And there was
Judas hung right on; he was a make-believer. What do they do? This is the kind that holds on until they
can find something, a fault in it.
So you see
there are three kinds of believers right in this message, and the
make-believers are those who are always out to find fault with others. And
believe me as humans we all have enough faults, but that is what Love is
supposed to do. Love covers a multitude of sin or disbelief.
1Tm:6:3: If any man teach otherwise,
and consent not to wholesome words,
even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according
to godliness; 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy,
strife, railings, evil surmisings, 5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt
minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
So the
Apostle Paul tells us how to handle such a one. He says depart from them, for
their folly will manifest itself in due time.
Unveiling
of God 64-0614M P:131 It brings back to the same thing, in every congregation, you have
make-believers, unbelievers, and believers. It's been in every congregation. You find them all the time. Some of them make out like they're
believers; that's the worst of type.
And then they have those who are actually unbelievers;
he won't bother you; he'll just walk
away and shake his head. But those
who make-believe, say they're believers, that's the kind you have to watch, is those make-believers. And then
there's some genuine believers. See them three there? There was the
unbelievers. As soon as He said, "Eat the flesh of the Son of man," oh, man, that was it. The other one was
make-believers. They stayed till (just like Judas did) right up to the end. But then the
real believers, they couldn't explain it, but they believed it anyhow. They
went on through.
Go
awake Jesus 63-1130E P:57 They turned their back upon It, walked
away; they're unbelievers, Make-believers
still hang on to find a fault with It, just as much as they can, on and on. But
what is it? The same thing repeating again.
2
Corinthians 4: 2 But have renounced the hidden things of
dishonesty, not walking in craftiness,
nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth
commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Go
awake Jesus 63-1130E P:34 Now,
there is another group that always hangs around, and that's the make-believer.
Now, that make-believer is considered
the hypocrite. Now, let's take a make-believer. It was Judas. He was the
make-believer. And the make-believer
hangs on and on, trying to find some way that they can get something on it.
They stick around long enough just to
find out if they can't find a little fault, then go out and expose it
somewhere.
Now, look there are ways that
we are taught in Scripture to speak to one another.
But Apostle Paul said, Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be
always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to
answer every man.
And again he said, Colossians 3:8 But now ye also put
off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of
your mouth.
And again he said in Colossians 3:17 And whatsoever ye
do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God
and the Father by him.
Timothy 2:8 Sound
speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may
be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
But when ever you have three
kinds of believers there will be three kinds of motives for preaching the
Gospel. Paul said in Philippians:
But you can’t stop either one
from preaching as he is ordained to preach as we see in 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil
men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14 But continue thou in the things
which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast
learned them;
The apostle John said in 1John 4:7: Beloved, let us
love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God,
and knoweth God. 8: He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1John:
And
so they write their books trying to show that everyone ultimately is wrong but
themselves. I feel sorry for the whole bunch of them because Solomon wrote in
the book of Ecclesiastes
So we see that the Word of
God is presented in such a way that it actually blinds some while it opens the
eyes of others.
Brother Branham said in Revelation chapter one 60-1204M P:39 And the Book of Revelations has more symbols
in it than all the rest of the Books in the Bible. It has more symbols because
it is a Book of prophecy. It's a prophetic Book. Therefore it has to be
understood by a prophetic class. This Book is not meant for everybody. There's
nobody can understand it hardly. This Book is made for a certain class of
people. On over in Deuteronomy It says, "The hidden things belong to the
Lord." That is right. And He reveals to us, His children, the hidden
things. So it doesn't go...The carnal
mind cannot comprehend them great things of the Scripture, because it's foolish
to them. But to the ones who are lovers of the Word of God, that's who the
Book was written to: to the church: The Revelation of Jesus Christ to the
church at Ephesus, to the church of Smyrna, to the church, to the churches on
down: the Revelation of Jesus Christ to the church. I like that.
1
Corinthians 4: 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will
bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every
man have praise of God.
You know, I have gotten more
flack from those who oppose the Doctrine of the Message than you can shale a
slick at, but I could care less, because I know Truth and I can see what they
can not see.
Brother Branham said in his
sermon, Mighty God unveiled 64-0629 P:12 Back in the Old Testament we
find out that God veiled Himself from unbelievers. God has a very odd way of
dealing with people. He hides Himself
from the unbeliever and reveals Himself to the believer. God does that.
Jesus thanked the Father that He had hid these things from the wise and prudent
and would reveal it to babes such as would learn. So we find that God never
changes in His nature, and He's always doing His work the same. We find out in
Malachi 3 that He said, "I am God, and I change not." So He works in
the same principle all the time.
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:
God hiding Himself in simplicity 63-0412E
P:35 God is so great He can make
Hisself simple. Now, that's what makes God great to me, is how He can make Himself simple. And that,
for doing Himself, He hides Himself from the smart and wise. Now, just think of
that. He hides Himself from the smart people and reveals Himself to the humble people. The Bible said in Isaiah 35,
even though a fool should not err in the way, it's so simple. And as you try to figure it out and study it out,
you just figure away from God. Every
time you do that, you just get yourself farther and farther away. Quit
trying to figure it out. Just believe what He said. That's all there is to it;
just believe it. And then, hides Himself from the wise and shows Himself to the
simple.
Voice
of the sign 64-0321E P:46 We're told that in the last days that will
repeat again. There's going to be a message come forth that'll introduce the
Messiah to the people. It'll be in such
a way they'll stand dumbfounded like they did then. He promised it.
Third
Exodus 63-0630M P:40 Didn't Jesus say that the two would be so
close together it would deceive the very elected if it was possible? The intellectual talks will be so smooth,
that it would--it would deceive the people. It's Gospel, it's men who can
handle that Word in such a way that he could almost make any intellectual
person, if you're just trusting in the intellectual, they'd condemn the Holy
Spirit and take the way of the man. We see that.
Second
seal the 63-0319 P:15 And aren't you happy to be living in this
day? That... See? Not only that, friends, but always remember now; last Sunday
morning where the whole thing was based on, simplicity (See?), simple, humble. Happens in such a way that people just go
right on by and don't even know it happened.
Why
against organized religion 62-1111E P:52 "Oh, It doesn't exactly
mean that." When a man says that,
get away from him. See? God watches over His Word, you know, the Bible
said. It's wrote just the way It should
be. See? Now, It's put in such a way
to deceive, or to make the wise stumble over It. It's so simple; that's the reason they stumble over It. See?
Unbelief
does not hinder God 62-0128M P:53 Now, Jesus, when He came into
the world, He came in the time of a massive unbelief. That's right. He came in such a way that it caused the
unbeliever to disbelieve more. God just pulls the... He's such a wonderful
Father. Brought right in the time, and give Him the (as the people thought) an
illegitimate child, and never sent Him into any schools, and so forth. And He
was a odd sort of a Boy. But yet there was something about Him that seemed to
be that what He said was truth. What He spoke, it was so.
Queen
of
Mighty
God unveiled 64-0629 P:12 Back in the Old Testament we find out that God veiled Himself from unbelievers.
God has a very odd way of dealing with people. He hides Himself from the
unbeliever and reveals Himself to the believer. God does that. Jesus thanked
the Father that He had hid these things from the wise and prudent and would
reveal it to babes such as would learn. So we find that God never changes in
His nature, and He's always doing His work the same. We find out in Malachi 3
that He said, "I am God, and I change not." So He works in the same
principle all the time.
Presence
of God unrecognized 64-0618 P:5 "The Unrecognized
Presence." What could these people be thinking of? God has always... It's
been that way every time He come. When Jesus was here the first time, He said,
"You whiten and you garnish the walls and the tombs of the prophets, and
you put them in there." See? Something
happens, and it passes by. "And
God hides it from the eyes of wise and prudent, and reveals it to babes Christ revealed in His own Word 65-0822M P:67
And notice. To whom He will reveal It... And He so designed that He could hide Himself in the Scriptures to
the smartest theologian there is. Oh, my. He can just hide Himself, set
right there in the Scripture, and you
look all day long and never see it, look a lifetime and never see it. He
can just hide Himself setting there. Now, please, everywhere, let that soak in,
that God in the Word can hide Himself so in the Word, that there isn't a theologian or a school in the world could ever find Him.
And yet He's setting right there. You say, "Is that right, Brother
Branham?" How about the Pharisees and Sadducees? How about in every age?
He's done it. Sure. He's done so in every age. Now, we could check that. Let's
think about the days of Noah, smart, intellectual age, how He hid Himself in
His promised word; in the days of Moses how He hid Himself; in the days of
Elijah how He hid Himself; in the days of Jesus how He hid Himself. "He
was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came to His own; His own received Him
not." See? He hides Himself from the smartest, intellectual man there is
on the earth.
Trying
to do God a service 65-0718M P:22 Now, He reveals His Word only
in Its season. Martin Luther read the same Bible we did. Wesley read the same
Bible Martin Luther did. Pentecostals read the same Bible we read. Jesus read
the same Bible that the Pharisees read, but they had... Trying to keep the corn
in a early stage when it was ripening, they failed to see their hour. Now,
David has done the same thing here. God
reveals this Word in the season and to whom He chooses to reveal It to. God chooses who He reveals It to. He
chose that before the foundation of the world. All of His doings were foreknown
by Him, hidden from man; He just reveals them as He will.
It is His chosen season, His chosen person. And He never did choose a party or
sect; it's a chosen person.