Unveiling of God no 121
End time insanity no 3
Anxiety leads to Compulsion
October 20 2019
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
Three weeks ago we were examining paragraph 125 of William Branham’s sermon the Unveiling of God and we read where he spoke of people who because of their denominational filter can look right at the Word of God being manifested and not even see understand what they are seeing.
Jesus said in Matthew 13 that they will see but they will not perceive what it is they are seeing, and they will hear but will not be able to understand what it is they are hearing.
So we read in Matthew 13 where Jesus says, 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. 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 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.
Notice again what Br. Branham said in paragraph 125 of his sermon The Unveiling of God “Now, what if a fellow refuses to see the sun, say, "Oh, there, I know God said 'Let there be light,' but there is no such a thing. I'm going down in the basement. I just refuse to see it"? The guy's crazy. There's something wrong with him. There's something wrong with a man or woman, can see the promise of God, and see It manifested, and then refuse to believe It because the denomination pulls the veil down.”
Notice he said, “the man sees the manifestation of the promise of God but refuses to believe it because of his denominational filter”. He said “this man is crazy”, no different than the man who refuses to believe there’s a sun so he goes into his basement to hide from it.
Yet they can see Malachi 4 in the Scriptures, they saw evidence of God’s Presence in the earth, and yet they refuse to walk in the light of it and that shows that not only are they crazy, but if they do not repent they are lost, because one word off is Satan’s kingdom.
So we examined how the whole world is losing their mind, and we showed you last week that God sent a True Five Fold Ministry into the world to help bring the Bride to a maturity, and they have been gifted by God to bring His Word in such a way as to help bring the mind of Christ into a manifested form in the Bride of Christ. We showed you in part one that the first symptom of this end time insanity is anxiety. People worry about what might happen. It isn’t even worrying about what is happening now, And in fact there is a lot to worry about if you don’t have the promises of God of a Jubilee in the form of a Raptur.
Let me explain by reading a letter that was just sent to me this morning which lays out the worlds economic situation.
I would like to read you an article by Egon von Greyerz founder of Matterhorn Asset Management in Switxzreland.
“As we are now facing the end of a major economic, political and cultural cycle, the world is likely to experience a dramatic change which very few are prepared for.”
So let’s instead look at the real coming disaster that the world needs to focus on and a number of facts that are self-evident even though very few are aware of them. Instead of worrying about global warming, which we humans cannot effect, we should instead issue a GLOBAL WARNING about the coming economic cataclysm so that the world can be prepared for the extremely serious problems that will hit us all in the next few years.
· BIGGEST ECONOMIC DISASTER IN HISTORY The world is heading for an economic disaster of a magnitude that is much greater than the 1930s depression. There is really nothing to compare with in history since the world has never been in a similar situation before when every single major economy is at risk.
· GLOBAL DEBT WILL KILL THE WORLD ECONOMY Never before in history have all major countries lived above their means for such an extended period. And never before has global debt been almost 4X global GDP.
· $2 QUADRILLION DEBT AND LIABILITIES In addition, unfunded liabilities, like medical care and pensions, are at least $300 trillion globally. If we add gross derivatives of $1.5 quadrillion, which are likely to turn into real debt as counterparties fail, the total debt and liabilities are above $2 quadrillion.
· DEBT AT 30X GLOBAL GDP CAN NEVER BE REPAID $2 quadrillion is almost 30X global GDP. Who is going to repay this debt? Certainly not the current generation which has incurred most of it. And certainly not future generations which will neither have the means, nor the inclination to pay for the sins of the previous generation
· DEBT IS GROWING AT AN EVER FASTER RATE Most major economies are continuing to spend money they haven’t got and thus to print money and expand credit at an ever faster rate. The US for example has increased debt by $800 billion since June. As the US economy falters, annual deficits of $1-2 trillion will increase manifold in the coming years. And when the banking system comes under pressure, which is happening right now, money printing will accelerate at an ever faster pace. As the global economy falters, most major countries will see deficits and debts rising quickly.
· NEGATIVE RATES – A RECIPE FOR DISASTER Negative rates are a disaster for the world. Over $17 trillion debt now carries negative interest. Firstly, it kills the incentive to save. A fundamental economic principle is that savings equal investments. The world cannot grow soundly with investments financed solely by debt or printed money. With no savings, most banks do not have funds to lend to businesses. Thus investments will slow down dramatically. Negative rates also lead to investors chasing ever riskier investments to get a higher return. Also, pension funds will not achieve adequate returns to cover outstanding liabilities.
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DEBT AND ALL BUBBLE ASSETS LIKE STOCKS AND PROPERTY WILL
IMPLODE
Like the climate virtually all asset classes are overheated. The bubbles that
the credit expansion has created will implode in the next few years together
with the debt that created the bubbles. Central banks around the world will
make a desperate attempt to save the world economy by printing unlimited
amounts of money.
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ALL CURRENCIES WILL GO TO ZERO – DEFLATION WILL FOLLOW
HYPERINFLATION
As money printing accelerates, paper money will become worthless and a
depressionary hyperinflation will hit the world. Hyperinflationary periods on
average last for around 1-3 years and are followed by a deflationary implosion
of all asset values in real terms. At that point substantial parts of the
financial system will cease to function properly or go bankrupt.
· GOVERNMENTS WILL LOSE CONTROL Before new financial and political systems emerge, there will be social upheaval and unrest. Criminality will be widespread as desperate and hungry people will do what they can to feed themselves and their children. In many countries, immigrants will be blamed for the misery of the people. Right and left wing radicals will fight immigrants. There are likely to be periods of anarchy as governments lose control. I do not believe that an elite will control the world at that point. The disorderly unwinding of asset bubbles and the world economy will be uncontrollable.
Once bubbles burst, the course of events could be very rapid. The above scenario could all happen over a few years and probably not more than five. This doesn’t mean that the economy will start recovering rapidly in five year’s time. It just means that markets and the worst problems reach a bottom. But after that the world will crawl along that bottom for many, many years.
There is no absolute protection against this scenario since it will hit all aspects of life and virtually all people. Obviously, people living off the land in remote areas will suffer less whilst people in industrial and urban areas will suffer considerably.
The best financial protection is without hesitation physical gold and some silver. These metals are critical life insurance. But there are clearly many other important areas of protection to plan for.”
But these people have no out, they have no understanding of the things of God, and so the world is on the cusp of the greatest depression the world has ever faced.
Hebrews Chapter 3 - 57-0901M
This Anglo-Saxon people is finished; that's all. There's no more Gospel that America will receive. Oh, you get a few stragglings now and then; but just as the Gospel, it's over. And you can't even preach to them, can't talk to them. They won't believe nothing. See? They just got their own hardheaded ideas, and they're set, and the next thing's for this nation is judgment. She's going to have it too. It may be through Depression; it may be through an atomic bomb; it may be through a great plague, a disease or something; but she's ready. It's a-coming; thousands times thousands will fall.
And the thing of it is, everything he mentioned is on its way. Depression, plagues and finally atomic warfare because that is how every economic depression gets solved, blow everything up and start over.
And from his sermon Jezebel religion - 61-0319 63. Preached right here a few miles away in Middletown Ohio brother Branham said, “When God sends forth a message and tells the people, and they don't receive it, then He withdraws His servant and sends His plagues: famine, death, spiritually speaking, physically also. You watch for a Depression, brother. You think you've seen something; you just wait after while. You haven't seen nothing. You think you're dying for a good spiritual revival; you wait till after a bit. You just wait, long and cry to hear the Word of God. The Bible said so. "There'll be a famine in the last days," said the prophet, "and not for bread and water alone, but for hearing the true Word of God." But that voice will be quiet in the wilderness somewhere, hid away.
But the world are are without God and without the promises for this hour of His great Jubilee to the saints, which is the rapture of the saints. And we have the evidence for this Jubilee, because or the very God that gave us the promise is here to confirm them to us.
From his sermon From that time 62-0713 P:2 brother Branham said, “We pray each night. All's included. The main thing that we try to do is to let people see that Christ is not dead, that He is alive. And if we can just see, the One Who made us all these grand promises is here to confirm those promises...”
Presence of God unrecognized 64-0618 P:1 “ working for this one purpose, for you to recognize the Presence of Jesus Christ. See? If He is present, then, why, everything is settled. He made the Word. He is here to confirm It. He proves that He'll confirm It. "He is just the same yesterday, today, and forever." We see Him do it last night, infallibly; we see Him night after night, and day after day, and year after year. Never one time has He predicted anything, regardless of what it was, when it would happen, out of the thousands of times, of what was perfectly on the dot, on time, and right. How can it? How many knows that, and knows the ministry, and knows that that's true? There you are. Not one time, regardless, how even impossible, happened just the same. He's God. And if we would just recognize that, take ahold of it.”
But that is the promise, we let circumstances reign in our Life instead of the promises God Himself gave us.
You know we sing that song, “yes o yes I’m a child of the King,” and we say, a tent or a cottage, why should I care? He’s building a palace for me over there! Though exiled from home, yet still I may sing; All glory to God, I’m a child of the King.”
And brothers and sisters, He’s already proved He is here to fulfill all promises to us. He Himself has already descended with a Shout, A Message, and we know the next thing is the Voice of the Resurrection, and then the catching away out of here, our Jubilee. Our setting us free from the cares of this world.
But the world don’t have the solution which is in Christ. They are dealing with a condition in their own mind looking at end time conditions and then presuming and assuming certain things will happen to them and they refuse the only solution to it all which is to get in the Ark of safety which is Christ.
In other words, there are things prophesied in Scripture to happen, but not to the Bride. And so people see those prophesies, and many times their own mental condition focuses so much on those conditions that they actually bring those conditions on themselves.
That is what Job said happened to him. “The things I feared the most have come upon me.” And so we saw in part one how that anxiety is the beginning of this end time insanity, because people do not trust in Thus Saith the Lord, so they in their minds think things that are contrary to what the prophet and scriptures teach and say they are believing the prophet when they are not.
A good example is what brother Branham said about all those people who thought you had to move to Tucson to be with brother Branham to make the rapture. Br. Branham said “they say they believe me but they don’t. Because I’ve told them not to go, not to move out there”.
And so that fear led to anxiety and that anxiety led to the second phase toward complete neurosis and that is compulsion. You see when you are anxious it leads you to do something about what you are anxious about. So you begin to do things compulsively to try to fend off what you are anxious about.
Therefore the 2nd attribute of neurosis that Webster speaks of is compulsion which is a compelling or being compelled; ( And the word compel has to do with a forcing of the issue, an "in your face attitude").
We hear so much today the expression, "with an attitude!" But did you know that this was spoken of by the Word of God to be this way?
Webster goes on to describe compulsion as being an "irresistible, repeated, irrational impulse to perform some act."
And we are warned that men will be this way in 2 Timothy 3:1 But understand this, that in the last days there will set in perilous times of great stress and trouble - hard to deal with and hard to bear. For people will be lovers of self and utterly self-centered,...
Let me read this from the Amplidied Bible for the effect. 3 But understand this, that in the last days dangerous times of great stress and trouble will come, difficult days that will be hard to bear. 2 For people will be lovers of self narcissistic, self-focused, lovers of money impelled by greed, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane, 3 and they will be unloving, devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, “incontinent” devoid of self-control, intemperate, immoral, brutal, haters of good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of sensual pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of outward godliness (religion), although they have denied its power for their conduct nullifies their claim of faith. Avoid such people and keep far away from them. 6 For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate morally weak and spiritually-dwarfed women weighed down by the burden of their sins, easily swayed by various impulses, 7 always learning and listening to anybody who will teach them, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Now, listen, this is God’s warning to the end time people. It is “Thus Saith the Lord”. Yet we see this condition right among people who claim to believe the Message. So don’t think it can’t affect you.
And notice what he said in verse 3, we read that these people will be “incontinent.” And this word “incontinent” means they are without self control which is why they are compulsive. They have no self control and therefore they’re out of control.
Now, I want you to notice how this attribute is picked up in Revelations 3:14-19 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Notice that these people spoken of here in the Laodicean church Age have a mindset that is fixed on material things and they don't even know that these things have blinded them from the reality of the hour.
It's not uncommon today to hear the expression, "He's a compulsive gambler."
In fact there was a time that gambling was not only considered sinful, but even average, non Christian citizens, considered gambling to be a sickness that needed to be treated medically or psychologically. It was considered an immoral illegal blight upon our society that only low moral societal misfits would get involved in. Yet today just about every state uses lotteries and gambling to fill up their coffers.
And what it has produced is the “me generation”. The, "I want It, and I want it now, generation!"
People no longer have the patience to wait for anything. They’ve got to have it now!, now!, now!.
I remember when I graduated from college, I got an apartment and used potato crates for my furniture. My couch was a cheap outdoor lounge chair, remember the kind that had hard nylon tape weaved in two directions and the edges felt like a razor blade?
Just look at the young people of today. Young people going into debt way above their ability to pay it back. And they don’t even think about how they’re going to pay back what they just bought. They just think, “I can afford so much a month” and so they buy and buy and then buy some more until they hit their limit, with no thought as to how long it will take to pay that thing off and how it puts great stress upon their lives.
In my parents and grandparents generation you paid cash or you didn’t buy. My Father in Law bought his farm with his life savings, and paid cash. My grandparents bought their house and paid cash.
But today, they don’t think of the total amount they are borrowing, they just think in terms of a monthly payment and can they afford it or not.
And so the trend today is installment loans on everything, including not only appliances, but now it has come down to even clothing and food.
Everything goes on a credit card with one thought in mind, can I make the minimum payment, with no thought of paying it off. And so their condition goes from bad to worse, and become so indebt that they will never be able to pay it off. And that is just where satan wants you.
But you are not alone, the entire world is in this condition. The US debt is so great it will never be paid off. And neither will your debt.
And the Bible says that the debtor is servant to the lender, and so you are looking at world dominance by a few who lend out to the rest of mankind.
Brothers and sisters, if you are in this mess, then there is only one way out for you and that is a Jubilee, when the slave to the lender is set free of his debt.
But this is where the world is being pushed into. Anxiety leads to compulsion and compulsion is manifested in compulsive behaviors.
The young marriages today result in tension between the husband and wife over money issues, and the tension can get so great that marriages are dissolving at a 50% clip.
In fact the latest statistic is that young people getting married today have only a 30% chance of their marriage lasting for the duration of their life.
So what’s causing this tension. The spoiling of this generation by parents who both worked and to assuage their guilt so they spoil their children with things. But Kids don’t want things! Kids want you their parents to spend time with them.
I heard another survey on the radio where they had interviewed parents who had children in their forty's and fifty's who were still asking mom and dad to help them out financially. One man who retired as a painter, has already helped his son to buy his third house, this one laying out $55,000. Another Father, gave his 42 year old daughter $4,500 to buy a large screen TV because they didn't have the money because they had just spent $2,000 on a stereo set, and this couple made good wages, but they take two skiing vacations every year, and two cruises. And yet they have no shame in going to mom and dad for help. Their dad said, he still drives his 1979 Buick while the kids are living high of the hog and have the gall to ask for his help, and yet he complains, but still dishes out the bucks.
It's incredible what’s happening today. The kids are used to living high off the hog and they do not know what it means to do without. And so they can't wait to have it all, and even more than their parents have, and after they get to the place of insolvency, and bankruptcy, they are left with nothing. Huge houses standing empty with no furniture because they can't afford the house and that too. They have homes with no children, maybe just a dog or a cat so they can mother something.
That is what compulsion has brought. The news is filled with stories of Kids murdering their parents because so they can get their inheritance now.
Kids killing kids for their tennis shoes, because mama says she can't afford to buy them now and junior will have to wait for Christmas, but they can't wait.
And that’s Compulsion.... and Brother Branham called it Neurotics! And yet he said it’s everywhere. Almost every nation is broke. Why? They’ve spent money they don’t have. "They think they are rich because they are increased with goods, but they don’t know that they are poor, miserable, blind and naked...and the worst thing is that they don’t even know it. And that shows their mental condition right there.
So we see that self constraint is a very important thing which will be hardly found in the end-time. Just look at almost any famous person today, they can hardly constrain themselves when it comes to money, women and popularity. And they are not satisfied with adultery, but they break every one of the ten commandments. And not just once in a great while. It seems that they repeatedly break them day by day.
And that’s not just the rich and famous, my brothers and sisters, but people right in this Message living any old way they want to, and breaking every commandment of God in the process and still thinking they are ok with God. That’s insanity.
“Compulsion therefore is a compelling or being compelled; irresistible, repeated, irrational impulse to perform some act”. And that is basically losing control of oneself.
Now there is nothing wrong with having a desire for some things. But when the desires become overwhelming and takes control, and the person loses control of their ability to constrain themselves, then something is definitely out of kilter somewhere.
I’ve taught my own children not to impulse buy, that’s the worst thing you can do because it is a compulsive act. I’ve taught them to take a day or two to pray over the purchase and see whether you really need it, or is it just a compulsive thought.
I don’t know how many things I thought that I wanted and after taking a day or two away from it, and praying over it, I realized it was not a need but just a want, and so I crucified the thought right there.
Another thought concerning compulsion that you should take notice is that compulsion is not only “a compelling” but is also a “being compelled.”
This not only speaks then of something that is self inflicted, but it can also be inflicted by others, as in being compelled, thus showing outside influences such as peer pressure.
In 2 Chronicles 21:5-15 we read, 5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD. 7 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons forever. 8 In his days the Edomites (Those are the children of Esau) revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king. 9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots. 10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers. 11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto. 12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 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: 14 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: 15 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
Now, I want you to notice that it was politics that compelled these people to do what they did not want to do. And the same thing happens yet today. The same thing happened in Nazi Germany, and they killed millions of Jews because it was politically expedient. Don’t think those days are over. People not only wishing for the upending of those who believe different but actually calling for the murder of them. And that is happening in America today.
But it’s not just politics in government that causes this compulsive behavior, but in the churches as well. Let’s turn to the Book of Galatians to see how this same church politics affected the people in the Alpha so we can understand it in the Omega.
Galatians 2:1-14 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. 2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. 3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. 6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: 7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; 8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. 10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.\ 11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
So you see, the common thread is politics. Politics compels people to act a certain way whether it is politics for governance or politics in the church.
We are compelled by law to do certain things and to think certain ways and if you don't, the government will shut you down or turn you out. And the churches are doing that as well.
The devil rules the nations and he is bringing forth laws into every nation that want to control "what you think and say".
But God wants to control our thoughts as well, but with Him, He doesn't force it on you.
And with God His ways are beneficial to us, and not grievous.
David said in Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. 12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeem.
As you know this is the hour for 2 Thessalonians 1: 10 to be fulfilled, where He comes to be Glorified IN His Saints. And yet God does not force Himself upon us, but He is patiently waiting for us to hunger and thirst after His Right-wise-ness.
But with politics it is always different. It's all this "in your face" stuff to try and influence you by force if need be, to subject yourself to the mind-control police.
Today, If they heard Brother Branham say, "when a woman gets out of the kitchen she's out of her place," They would try to send him out to some culture diversity training to set his thinking straight, or they would take his church away from Him.
In fact in England just a couple weeks ago the courts ruled against a doctor who refused to call a “she” a “he” that this man and anyone who think God’s thoughts from the Bile are unfit persons to be in society. These insane judges are using fear of reprisal and character assassination to compel people to accept their insane idiotic LGBT Sodomite politics.
Whether we search the scriptures or individual examples in everyday life, we find compulsion has to do with “a forcing of the mind” into a certain condition or mental mind set.
We read in Matthew 23:13 Where Jesus said the Pharisees use compulsion to force the people to come in or go out. “But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.”
And the Apostle Paul said the same thing in Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold down the truth in unrighteousness;
And how do they hold down or suppress the Truth? By holding it back from the people. And not only holding it back from them but using peer pressure to keep others who are wanting to check out the truth from doing so.
And it isn’t just the churches either, look at the way our Media operates today.
In 2006 when I was in Kenya the brothers there told me that Barack Obama, who was a Senator from Illinois, was born in their country. And they knew exactly where he was born. But I got back to America and no one here new this. The press suppressed the Truth and kept it back from the people. And what do you think they tried to do in 2016 after Donald Trump was officially elected President of the United States?
First they contested the election, and wanted recounts in several states. And after they lost that battle, then they wanted the Electoral College people to not cast the vote for Him where he had won. Then when that didn’t work, they created a Russian hoax, and destroyed the lives of several innocent people and sent them to jail all based on lies that were just made up. Then when their own people sent insider information showing how crooked their party was in stealing the DNC election from one of their candidates, and so he leaked the information to Wikipedia, they had him killed. Shot in the back. Talk about wicked, hell isn’t hot enough for these people.
And so the Media water all truth down or hide it altogether and they nullify their guilt by calling it spin. It’s not spin, Its outright lies. It’s the sin of omission.
It’s the same tactics the devil has always used, it’s called it’s called “misinformation” and it is meant to deceive, and it is nothing but lies, and Satan is the father of lies. But they use it because it works.
And Brother Branham taught us that the greatest lie is 99 % true because it tells almost all of the story true but then puts a spin on it to make it a lie.
Now, I want you to notice how they force or compel others to follow their schemes.
I want you to notice that back in the Garden of Eden, Satan didn't rape Eve, He seduced her through the serpent. And these men do not beat up their congregations in order to force or compel them not to check out truth. They seduce them away from the truth by telling lies about it.
And that is the same thing they did concerning John 14:12. Instead of telling the people to read up on what brother Branham said about “John 14:12 that it is “for every person who believes”. they told their people those people who believe John 14:12 are going back to Pentecost and they are now running with certain Pentecostal preachers in the Message.
Look, Satan doesn’t change his tactics, so if you know his tactics you will be ready to meet him face to face and you won’t be compelled by his tactics to miss out on what blessings God has for you.
Proverbs 7:7-27 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, 14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. 24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
I want you to notice verse 21 again With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. Notice by her flattery she forced him, compelled him.
1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Notice that they shall depart from which means they leave “the Faith” which means they leave the Revelation of Christ because there is only One Faith based on One Lord. And so the doctrines of devils and seducing Spirit takes them or compels them to leave The Faith, which is the Revelation of the relationship between God and Son and Sons which is fulfilled in and through John 14:12 manifesting in sons as it did in the first born son. And that is what the third pull is all about, and that is why Satan hates it so much he does everything in his power to lie about it and compel others through seducing spirits and doctrine of devils to avoid it.
Notice that Paul continues, 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; (in other words they tell their lies even though they actually know that what they are saying is not actually true, and when they have the gall to do that, they sear their consciences right there.) having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Then they open themselves up to other false doctrines such as 3 Forbidding to marry, (Now, that’s not just talking about the Catholic church and their priests not being able to marry, but it’s also right in this Message where they refuse to allow their own people to marry others who do not believe the same as they do concerning “The Faith” which is “The revelation of Jesus Christ.” And then they open themselves up to other false doctrines like) and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Then Paul says, 6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
Now, He said if you keep these things before the people and remind them of how deceitful the devil works and compels the people through peer pressure to avoid the Truth of the Doctrine of Christ, he said if you do this you are a good minister of Jesus Christ. But when you do, do this, there are always those weak Christians who think you are just targeting your sermon. Well do we believe what Paul taught or do we not? And then he said, But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
Now, notice he said, Seducing Spirit's and Doctrines of Devil's causes the people, compels the people to leave The Faith which is The Revelation of Jesus Christ for Faith is a Revelation. That’s what our prophet taught us.
The People being seduced into believing The Lie and then they are damned by it. Why, because you can't turn them away from it. They love a lie and will be damned by the thing they love.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The Wuest Translation says that “this deception is geared to the gullibility of those who are perishing and that this gullibility is caused by the fact that they did not have a love for the Truth.”
John 3:19-20 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved
And of course we are told in 2 Timothy 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
And that is because 1 Corinthians 2 tells us that “no man can understand the things of God unless the Spirit of God is in Him”. Therefore unless you are born again and filled with the spirit of God it is impossible for you to understand the things of God. Therefore, they must fall back to their own thinking, as John says they can't come to the understanding of the Truth because they will not give up their own thinking.
Let us pray…