Unveiling of God no 116

The same Veil Blinds some but Reveals to others

September 22, 2019

Brian Kocourek, Pastor

Let us stand and open our Bibles to Acts 13:48 for our text this morning. “ And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”

Let us pray. Gracious Father we come before you this morning knowing that “in the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” And we also know that you “are the same yesterday, today and forever, and therefore we know that “you cannot change.” Therefore Father, help us this morning to look at Your Holy Words that you gave us in this Bible, and to line them up with what your Prophet came to teach us that we might better understand your ways and that we might be better prepared to come into the Presence of Your blinding light of Truth. For we ask it in Jesus Christ’s name, amen. You may be seated.

Now, this morning we are going to look at the Word of God and how God hides it in a human veil, and that veil is actually what blinds the Word and hides it from some, but that same veil actually helps others to see the Word and helps to Reveal that same Word that blinded the others.

So we are looking at a dichotomy of sorts because the same Word hidden by the same veil actually causes two extremely different reactions to take place. It’s is the same principle that is in play when the same sun that hardens clay will melt snow and ice.

The Word of God tells us also that the same rain that falls on the wheat and helps to manifest the wheat-life is also the same rain that falls on the Tares and helps to manifest the Tare-life.

Therefore this morning we will be looking at this two-fold purpose of the veil that God uses to hide His Word. The first purpose being to blind or hide the Word from those it is not meant for, and the second fold purpose is to that the veil actually helps to reveal that same Word to those that Word was sent to. And yet it is the same veil that does both.

Now, let’s see what brother Branham had to say about this as we continue in our study of the Unveiling of God as we pick up at pp. 109he says, “Notice now, so it can be manifested. The Word's had a veil over It all these years to the people, "It can't be done."You remember the sermon I preached the morning when I left here the first time about Goliath and David? I said, "Look at the challenger out there, saying that the days of miracles is past." Watch them tapes as they come down; watch each one how it's come in more plainer and plainer; if you have ears to hear (See?), eyes to see. Watch. I said, "There stands that great ecclesiastical world out there, saying this scientific age that it cannot be done." But I said... God in that Light, 'fore It was ever taken but once. Never was taken then, down on the river there, they never took the picture of It. See? I said, "He told me that it would be done: He would make a call and it'd sweep the nations." And even to Doctor Davis said, "You, with a grammar school education, passed into seventh grade, will be praying for kings and monarchs and will start a revival that will sweep the nations?" I said, "That's what He said." And it's been done. See? Sure, been done. That's the thing of it is: He don't need no interpretation; He's done it. See? He's already done it; that interprets itself (See?), calling His elected (See?) from all walks of life. Now, it's made manifest. See?

Notice, he tells The Word's had a veil over It all these years to the people, and then he quote people saying, “It can't be done,” Why? because they are blinded to the Word. And what blinds them? the veil that God chooses to hide His Word in.

Then brother Branham begins to speak about Goliath and how he was blinded to this little veil that God hid his Word in for that hour, and He was speaking of David, God’s anointed.

You see, God had already anointed David to be King in 1 Samuel 16 and then in 1 Samuel 17 we begin to hear about Goliath harassing the army of Israel. So before this could happen, God had already set the stage for the enemy to be conquered by anointing His Servant and hiding His Word in David’s heart.

In Fact in the Psalms of David he tell us just that very thing in Psalms 119:11 where David says,  “Thy Word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

In fact let’s just read from verse one to get a better understanding of the condition of David’s heart for God’s Word.  

Psalm 119:1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. 2  Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, and that seek Him with the whole heart. 3  They also do no iniquity: they walk in His ways. 4  Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 5  O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 6  Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. 7  I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. 8  I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. 9  Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. 10  With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. 11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. 12  Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes. 13  With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. 15  I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. 16  I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. 17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. 18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. 19  I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

David as a young boy studied the Words of God, the thoughts of God and God’s ways of doing what He does. He did not study not as a theologian would study, but as one who found beauty, joy and hope for the Life that God placed in His Word.

David took comfort and delight in the Word of the Lord. So David had chosen to hide God’s Word in own his heart, and God chose David to Hide His Word in his veil of flesh that the veil itself might hide His Word from some, but Reveal His Word to others.

So God used the same veil in a dichotomy of actions. That same veil God used blinded the Word that was hid within it to some, while that same veil was also used by God to reveal that same Word to others. And it was God who used that same veil to do both, to blind some to His Word while revealing His Word to others.

Now, back to what brother Branham was telling us in pp. 110   I said... That David stood out there, a little, bitty, scrawny fellow with his back all bowed in, a slingshot in his hand. And, why, Saul looked at him, the head of the ministerial association, said, "Why, you, you're not even trained."

Now, I hope you caught what brother Branham just said here, because most people think of Saul as being the first King of Israel, but they fail to remember that he was a prophet, a preacher, and he was anointed by God to prophesy, and he was head and shoulders above the rest. Now, you can look at his physical shape and think that he was head and shoulders above the others, but he was also that way spiritually as well. He was the man. He was the preacher who stood out above all other preachers.

1 Samuel 19:20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. 21  And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also. 22  Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah. 23  And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 24  And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

Now if you read carefully you will see that the Spirit of God also was upon Saul, and that Saul sent other prophets to prophecy, showing that he was their leader or as brother Branham put it,   Saul was the head of the ministerial association. And when he looked at David, he looked at this peculiar veil that the Word was hidden in, and it didn’t measure up to his standards for a preacher and leader, so he wanted David to look like what he thought a minister of God and leader should look like. After all this if this boy was to go out and take on the enemy of Israel he should look the part.

Now, back to brother Branham as he describes in a parable what actually took place between Saul and David. “He said, "Let me see if I can give you a Ph.D. or something." Put this armor on him, and he found out it didn't fit a man of God. Said, "Take the thing off of me." Said, "I don't know nothing about that." Said, "Let me go in the way that I know, what I fought the lion with, what I fought the bear with." He was kind of a woodsman.

He said, "Let me go in this way." And this old Goliath said, "Do you send a dog out to fight me?" Said, "I'll pick you on the end of my spear and hang your carcass up there and let the birds eat it."  David said, "You meet me as a Philistine in an armor and a spear, and I meet you in the Name of the Lord God of Israel." Watch the prophet; David said, "Today I'll cut your head from your shoulders." Amen. Oh, my. He knowed Whom he had believed, and was fully persuaded He's able to keep that which He committed to Him. See? So it happened anyhow. The old saying, "The days of miracles is past," the walls is tore down. Jehovah still stands in full view, manifesting His Word, unveiled One. That's right.

You know we sing that same song many times, from 2 Timothy 1:12 “I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able, to keep that which I’ve committed unto him against that day.” Yet do we really understand what we are singing, and that we also veil that same Word of God that our Prophets veiled?

Now, back to brother Branham…pp. 111 Notice, the Gentile church has also been blinded from the veil, after it's been tore off and showed God, the ecclesiastical veil. How? By veiling the Word in human being again. That's exactly what Israel failed to see. If it would've been some Angel or something, Israel would've believed It, but being... It could not be an Angel; it had to be a man... Amen. God can't break His Word. In the last days it has to be the same thing again. See? What blinded Israel? That Man. "You're a man making yourself God." That's what they killed Him for. And today, because the Message come through man and not Angels... See? God can't change His way, change His Word. He said He changed not. See? Notice, Thomas and the Gentiles are just as blinded today as Israel was. Because what? The veil. God veiled in a human Being blinded Israel. Notice, as ever blinded one... One It will blind, the other It will reveal the Truth. It'll close the eyes of some and open the eyes of the other.

That is why I said the two fold purpose of the veil is to blind some and reveal the word to others. You see, exactly what God’s prophet taught us here. Noticed the two fold purpose of the veil, he said, “One It will blind, the other It will reveal the Truth. It'll close the eyes of some and open the eyes of the other.”

Now, this is the main point I want you to see here. God veiled in a human being blinded Israel, and the same thing today, that human veil blinds the eyes of some while opening the eyes of others.

So the question is, opens the eyes to what? It opens the eyes of some to the Revealed Word because that is what the veil in hiding, the Revealed Word. It is the hidden Word to some. Hidden by the veil, yet that same veil manifesting the very Word it is hiding, becomes the manifested and Revealed Word to others.

Now let’s read the next pp. 112   Look. Jesus stood and said, "Well, your name is Simon and your father's name was Jonas." He said, "Lord God." See? Philip... He said, "How did You know?" He said, "Behold an Israelite, in whom there's no guile." And he said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." He said, "Rabbi, You're the Son of God. You're the King of Israel."

But there stood those there said, "He's Beelzebub." See? What did It do? Opened one's eyes, blinded the other. What did the priests say? "Why, that guy is Beelzebub."

Notice what blinded some and opened the eyes of others? It was the veil, the human veil, the veil that housed the Living Word.

Now that does not make the veil, itself God. But the veil, the human life is hiding the Living Word in his heart. And people see that veil and they are looking for God and they miss God because they see only the veil. But God is the Word. Never forget that, God is the Word.  “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” And Jesus told us, “My Words are Spirit and they are Truth.”

But so many have missed the Word of God being revealed to them because of the veil that God has used to hide His Word. We see this same scene take place in the book of John where certain Greeks came to see Jesus. This scene takes place right after Jesus had raised Lazarus from the grave. So these men being Greeks came to see God, but when they saw Jesus the man, they were blinded by the veil of his flesh. And that was the flesh that hid the Mighty God from plain view.

Let’s read this for ourselves, … John 12:20  And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: 21  The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. 22  Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. 23  And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. 24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 25  He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. 28  Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. 29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, an angel spake to him. 30  Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. 31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. 33 This he said, signifying what death he should die. 34 The people answered him, we have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man? 35 Then Jesus said unto them, yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. 37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: 38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who hath believed our report?” and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,

40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. 41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him. 42  Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: 43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. 44  Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. 45  And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. 46  I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes on me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48  He that rejects me, and receives not my words, hath one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. 49  For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

Now, John tells us that although they had seen many miracles done by Jesus, yet many did not believe. And so brother Branham tells us what happened to those Greeks who came to see God but only saw the man Jesus in his sermon Mighty God unveiled 64-0629 P:29 “He never changed His nature, 'cause Hebrews 13:8 said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. God was made flesh in order to die to redeem us from sin. That's why He changed Himself to be a man. We see in St. John 12:20, the Greeks had heard of Him. Now, there's no man can ever hear of Him, except their heart burns to see Him. Like Job and the prophets of old, they all wanted to see Him. So this Greek came to see Him. They came to Philip, which was of Bethsaida, and said, "Sir, we would see Jesus." The Greeks wanted to see Him; but they were unable to see Him, because He was in the temple of His humanity. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.

And as we read the account of this in the book of John we see that These things spake Jesus, and departed, and hid himself from them. 37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: 38  That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39  Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, 40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

So they departed not being able to see God because of the veil that hid the Invisible God who is a Spirit. And yet John quotes Isaiah letting us know that God blinded their hearts and their understanding that they could not understand the Word that was living among them because of the veil. And yet that same veil opened the eyes of others.

Now, we have seen the very same thing take place in this hour. Many who have left this message have done so because they were blinded by the veil that God used to hide His word from them. And that veil was His prophet William Branham.

These people say things against William Branham as though he was supposed to be God but because he made mistakes, and said some things wrong like 700 instead of 7,000 or got some dates mixed up they looked at those mistakes and in their mind they could not believe God could use a vessel that was not perfect. And they still do that today.

Now, let’s continue with the next pp. 113 “The little woman said, "I know Messiah is coming, which is called the Anointed One." See? "The Anointed One will come. We haven't had prophets... You must be a Prophet. But the Anointed One will come; we're looking for Him. This is the last days for the Gentiles, or for the Jew." Said, "This is the last days." See, both Samaritan and Jew were looking for a Messiah. See? Said, "This is the time for Him to appear. We know when He comes He'll do these things; He'll tell us these things."He said, "I am He." Her eyes was opened; the priests was blinded. That's what the Gospel always does. It opens the eyes of some, reveals the Truth to some, while It blinds the others: has a two-fold meaning. Some can take that sun and look straight into it and go blind; others can take it and walk out with it. The difference...

114 As it was done in every age, Deity veiled in human flesh... Notice, He did, the prophets was deity veiled. They was the Word of God (Is that right?) veiled in human flesh. So they didn't notice our Moses neither (See?): Jesus. Notice, veiled behind the old badger skins in the old temple, was the Word, was the Word manifested on tables of stone.

So we are looking at the veil of God’s choosing which is always the man of God’s choosing, and that veil because it is imperfect itself, those who the Word was not sent to, will look at the imperfection in the veil and they will refuse the God-Life that is being manifested through that veil.

Now, the veil itself does not blind them, but their perception of the veil is what blinds them. Just like the same rain that falls on the just and unjust and waters both, doesn’t make one righteous and the other unrighteous. No, it is not the blame of the rain, but rather what seed they are to begin with.

The same rain that falls on the wheat also falls on the Tares, yet it is not the rain that caused one to be a Tare and the other to become a Wheat. No, that is not it at all. The tares are already tares and the wheat are already wheat but the same rain that falls on the tare brings it to manifest tare life, while the same rain that falls on the wheat allows it to manifest what wheat life is already in it.

So too we see the same principle at work in the veil. The veil does not cause one to see and cause the other to not see. No, they are already miserable blind and naked, that is their condition, and because the veil is what God uses to Hide his word from some, is not the veil that hides, but the blindness of their hear is what actually hides the God-Life because of their own interpretation of what they are seeing in that veil.

Brother Branham makes that clear to us in his sermon Lean not unto thy own understanding 65-0120 P:29 For now there stood others standing there, who seen the same thing done, and classed it a evil spirit. That was the theologians, because it wasn't in the taste of their theological teaching. And they turned it down, because they leaned to their own understanding, by their doctrine; when Jesus Christ came in the fulfillment of the Word of promise, and they were too blind to see it. They leaned upon what the priests said, and upon what the church said, instead of upon what God said. Now, Jesus rebuked them for it. He said, "Search the Scriptures, for in Them you claim you have Everlasting Life. And They are They that testify of Me. These Scriptures that I'm asking you to search, they tell you who I am."But they wouldn't lean to what the Word said, but they leaned to what their understanding was. They leaned to their own understanding. And the Scripture tells us that they were veiled. The veil of their own theology had them blinded.

Never forget that “as a tree leaneth, so shall it fall”. And so we are warned to be ever so careful how we approach the Word of God. Paul said, he had to lay everything that he thought he had known aside when He had come face to face with the Pillar of Fire. And so must we forget everything we know and think we understand, even our approach to the Word of God itself in the light of God’s vindicated Prophet.

Furthermore even Jesus said to the Pharisees in John 8: 38 "I speak that which I have seen with My Father: and you do that which you have seen with your father." In other words, He said, “I only speak what I understand My Father to have said, but you do that which you understand from your father.”

Jesus warned us in Mark 4:24 about “being careful how we hear”. 24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured back to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. 25  For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath. To paraphrase His words so that you might understand it better, what He says here in Mark is this... "Take heed how you hear: for with what measuring instrument you use to portion it out, it will come back to your understanding through that same measuring instrument, and what you understand will be according to what you already know.”

In other words, If you read this Bible with a Baptist filter you will only see Baptist theology. If you read this Bible with a Methodist filter you will only see a Methodist theology.

"As a tree leaneth, so shall it fall". Therefore we are warned to be careful how we approach the Word of God. Paul said, he had to forget everything he knew when He came face to face with the Pillar of Fire. And we are no different. We must forget everything we think we knew, in the light of what God’s vindicated prophet taught us.

So just think of a tree that is leaning in a certain direction, because that is the only way that tree can fall. And so we are warned to be ever so careful how we approach the Word of God. So must we forget everything we ever knew and thought we understood, even our approach to the Word of God itself in the light of a vindicated Prophet.

Now what I am trying to establish here is that you see and hear with your mind, and we read in Mark 4: 24 we are taught that we must be very careful, and we must take heed how we hear because the measure we use to measure out the word we hear is the only thing we will hear. As a tree leaneth so shall it fall. If our minds are already made up then what we hear will be filtered by what we want to hear. If our minds are not open then we will never come to the knowledge of the truth.

Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way that he should go that wehen he is old he may not depart.” And so a child will always revert back to the way he or she was trained. Therefore either you train them up to follow God’s Word of the devil will use others to train them up to follow after their own thinking. And the Bible teaches us in Proverbs 16:25 “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof is the way of death.”  So what the Bible tells you is that “either you indoctrinate your children to the Word of God, or the devil will use the school system to indoctrinate them to the ways of the devil.” Take your pick.

I’ve seen parents just leave their children clueless as to the ways of God, and they say, “well if they are elect they will turn to God.” To me that is a sad very sad personification of a parent. A real parent will brainwash their children with the Mind of God.” Yes, I mean that, wash their brains from everything that is not Godly, and place that Word of God before them day and night until it sticks so much in their little brain’s that all their thoughts will be God’s thoughts.  

So some liberal joker will come along and say you are brainwashing your children. Just answer them, that is right, we are washing their little brains by the washing of water by the Word.

We already read this morning what David said in Psalm 119: 9  “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.”

If you don’t do it no one else will. The Liberal education system thinks it is right for them to indoctrinate your children but it is wrong for you to do so. That is pure insanity. Your children are your heritage, not theirs.

Therefore the filter we must have, the measuring stick we must have must be based upon what God said and not what man says.

Notice that at each Exodus what has happened to the people? They wanted to go back. They had it set in their minds what they wanted and they did not want to move forward with God. In Moses day they wanted to go back to Egypt which is a type of the Pentecostal church with it's garlic's and leaks. That is what the people were used to so that is what they wanted to return to.

In Paul's day they wanted to go back into the law which was legalism. The Scripture tells us to "Train up a child in the way it shall go and when it gets older it will not depart." It also tells us "The way a tree leaneth that is the way it shall fall." Therefore if your mind is already made up as to what you believe, you will not go forward. In fact every decision we make we base upon what facts we already have in our knowledge bank in our minds.

Therefore, all of our decisions must go back to the way you were trained unless we have willfully repented of that training. That’s what Mark 4:24 is all about. Take heed how you hear, for with what measuring stick you measure it with, it shall be measured back to you."

In other words you will get what you are looking for.

And that is what we are looking at when we see that the veil God uses is not what causes blindness, nor is it what causes Revelation. It blinds to those that are already blind.

Matthew 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

In the Gospel of Mark the same parable Jesus tells he says “to them on the outside it is not given them to know”12 For whosoever hath,(that word is echo) to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, (echoes not) from him shall be taken away even that which he thinks he hath. 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. (You see they are blind to it. It is hidden from their understanding) 14  And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. 18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. 19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. 20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; 21 Yet hath he not root in himself, (The Word has no place in his heart like Jesus told the Pharisees) but endureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. 22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. 23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

The Apostle Paul tells us that it takes the baptism of the Holy Ghost for you to understand the Word. It is hid to all others except those with the Holy Ghost. That is why brother Branham said it is not for them.

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: 8  Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 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 by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 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. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 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: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 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.

Therefore, the veil God uses, the man of his choosing is simply a veil that God uses to hide His Word from those that the Word was not sent for, and it is just the vessel God has chosen to manifest His Word through and thus allows those who have purged their minds to see plainly the Unveiling of God, which is the unveiling of the Word, “for in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.”

Let us pray.