Unveiling of God no 225
Worshipping God or the Beast system
July 25, 2021
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
From The Unveiling of God 64-0614M P:55 brother Branham said, “In the Old
Testament God was hid when He was on His mercy seat, on the mercy seat by
a veil. In the Old Testament God was in His temple. But the people come
in and worship like this; but remember, there was a veil (Amen.) that
hid God. They knowed God was there. They couldn't see Him. That
Pillar of Fire never appeared anymore there. Did you notice? There's not
one time in the Scripture, from the time that Pillar of Fire went in behind
that veil, that It ever showed again till It come from Jesus Christ. God was
veiled. When He stood on earth, He said, "I come from God and I go to God."Then Paul (after His death, burial, and
resurrection), on his road to Damascus, there was that Pillar of Fire again.
What was It? Out from behind the veil. Glory to God. He was from behind the
veil.
Now it is very apparent that people worship a God that they cannot see,
and thus that which they do not understand.
And we hear Jesus Himself say to the people of Samaria in John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we
know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
And then Jesus told them in verse 23 But
the hour cometh, and now is, when the
true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:
for the Father seeketh such to worship
him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit
and in truth.
So it is very
apparent that the only way you can worship God correctly is to worship Him in
the Spirit and in Truth, and He is the truth. And that is why the apostle Paul
taught us in 1 Corinthians 2 that “No man can understand the things of God
except the Spirit of God be in Him, because God reveals them unto us By His
Spirit, and if you do not have His Spirit living in you, then you will never
understand the things of God and therefore what is Truth.
So we are
looking at the mark of the beast and most people understand there is to be one
attribute of those who receive this mark and that is that they will be able to
buy and sell while others will not. So that attribute is the boycott which in
21st century terms is called cancel culture. If you have this mark
you will not be canceled out.
But this morning
I want you to open your minds and examine another attribute that identifies
thos who take the mark, and that is they worship the beast and his image.
And so this morning we will examine just what it means when it says that
they will worship the beast and his image. We want to know what this word
worship means.
Unveiling
of God 64-0614M P:51 The Greeks
wanted to see Him. In St. John
12:20, many of you heard me preach on that
saying, "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Did you notice that? Now, the Greeks were
scholars, they were great men. And they had a great feeling for God, as
Paul preached to them on Mars' hill. And they were... They led the world in
science and education; they were great people. But they
worshipped and believed in mythology and so, books of art and curious arts, and
so forth.
So these Greeks which were pagans, believed in all sorts of Gods, and
mystical things, and although they were a very scientific people, and leaders
in medicine, and arts, and so forth, yet their worship was false.
But they got
stirred up about this Man Who could heal the sick and could foretell things
that happened to the dot. And they got stirred up, so they come to see Him.
Now, watch close now; don't miss this. See? And they come and they said
to Philip, which was of Bethsaida, "Sir, we
would see Jesus." And
Philip and another disciple brought him to Jesus, to see Jesus. Now, notice the
very words that Jesus reported back to them, for they come to see Who He was,
and they could not see Him. They seen the form, but He was in His
temple. God was in His temple, veiled in human flesh. Notice the Words
He said, "Except a corn of wheat falls into the
ground (See?) and
die, it abides alone." See?
"The hour is come, it'll soon be that the Son of man be glorified (See?), and He must pass from this
earth. And except this hour comes, you'll never be able to see It." See?
And so they came
into the very presence of God and missed Him, because they beheld only a man.
They were blinded by the vessel. And so is it today. And so they returned home
to their false worship. And I think it is ironic that people can come to this
message and see only the vessel God used, and not understand that God Himself
is greater than any vessel he uses. And
so we see the world going plumb into the end time insanity and we are seeing
the optics of the mark of the beast gaining world-wide control every single day
it is growing in control.
And that takes
us to end time prophecy that we see in Revelations 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and
saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his
horns ten crowns, and upon his heads
the name of blasphemy.
Ok, so we first
read where the people worshipped the beast and his image, so now we take you to
Revelations 13
to understand the Beast and its image so you can see who it is that is being
worshipped, and how.
In Revelation 13
we see this Beast rise up and we know according to Br. Branham that a Beast in scripture always represents a power or a government as we first see in the Book of Daniel.
Now, it is
interesting when we studied Daniel 8 we saw a lot of what is happening in our
present time, with President Trump coming on the scene and all the identifiable
characteristics showing that this Fierce King in the vision of Daniel 8
identified this one to be President Trump in so many ways. How he would make
manufacturing to prosper in his hand through his policies just like the bible
said and William Branham instructed us. We saw all that and his self seeking
narcissism and his venturing into enigma’s and mysterious speech. We also saw
how he went up against the pope as the Bible said he would do, and how through
the pope and the Vatican’s three satellites took Trump out of power, and stole
the election from him, and he was broken without hand, meaning he lost his
power and not by his doing, That ought to tell you the election was stolen.
That was all foretold to us in Daniel 8:23-25.
Now, this
morning to understand what we are up against in these closing last days on
earth we must go back to the Book of Daniel again only this time to chapter 7. And
unless you understand Daniel 7 you will never understand who the beast
of Revelation 13
and 17
is.
We find in the
book of Daniel
during the reign of Belshazzar that Daniel had
a dream concerning four beasts
that rose up from the sea. And Daniel broke down that dream and
showed us that those beasts were kingdoms that would rise up, one
succeeding another.
He sees the "great sea" stirred up by the "four winds of heaven," and from the waters emerge
four beasts, the first a lion with the
wings of an eagle,
the second a bear, the third a winged leopard with four heads, and the fourth a beast with ten horns, and a further horn appeared which uprooted
three of the ten.
1.
In the first year
of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed:
then he wrote the dream, and told the sum
of the matters. 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, (a
vision by night would be a dream) and, behold, the four
winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
Now
there are two symbols here that we need to know and understand. Daniel said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon
the great sea.
So the first
symbol is the four winds, and the second
symbol is the sea.
From his sermon QA
Hebrews part 1 COD 57-0925 P:21 brother Branham tells us exactly
what those symbols mean. “Let's get Revelations the 7th chapter, and we'll find out in here now where--what It said.
It's a beautiful thing. And after this... I saw
four angels standing on the four corners of the earth,... (Now, this parallels Ezekiel
9, where he saw the destructions of the
Jews. And here he
sees the destructions of the Gentiles, Revelations the 7th chapter.)...And... I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth,
holding the four winds... ("Winds" means
"war and strife.")...
that the wind should not blow upon the earth, nor on the sea,... or any tree... (Now, that's war, holding.).
So the four winds are wars and strife, but what is this great sea
that he is talking about here that the wars and strife that strove upon this great sea
as Daniel said.
Well, in the
book of Revelations John is told what the symbol of the sea represents. Now, I
want you to keep in mind many of the symbols that Daniel saw in his night
vision are also seen by the apostle John in his vision while he was on the isle
of Patmos.
Revelations 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me,
saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the
inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names
of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Now,
when the scriptures refers to a woman it always represents a church. Israel was
referred to an adulterous woman by God. The apostle John referred to the church
he was writing to as the elect lady.
And you will notice that this woman sets upon a scarlet colored beast. Now, we
have already seen that a beast in scripture represents a political power or
government. And this one was scarlet colored, as are the cardinal who get their
very name from the color scarlet. It is the color of royalty as they are the
princes of the church. And notice this
Beast or power is scarlet colored.
4 And the woman (this church) was arrayed in
purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Ezekiel
16:1-63, we do not have
time to read it all but to make it short, God rebukes Israel for playing the
part of a harlot, an unfaithful Bride who breaks her marriage vows to Him by
having intercourse with the kings of the earth, instead of being faithful to
him.
And
so we see this woman, this church in the book of Revelations also has played
the part of a whore, by having intercourse with the kings of the earth, instead
of standing alone and being true to her marriage vows.
5 And upon her forehead was a name
written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE
MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Now,
this verse is important because she is a whore herself, unfaithful to her
marriage vow as the Queen of heaven, married to God, and she has children (daughters) that she gave
birth to (The protestant denominations) who also like their mother are also harlots
as she was.
If
we had read all of Ezekiel 16 we would have read also in verse 44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb
against thee, saying, As is the mother,
so is her daughter.
And
a study of history will show you that every denomination also cavorted with the
world leaders from the Catholic church up through the days of Luther, and into
the Wesleyan days.
6 And I saw the woman (this church) drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and
when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
If
you ever read Schmucker’s Glorious
Reformation you would know that the Catholic church put to death more than 68 million people during her inquisitions.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell
thee the mystery of the woman, (the church) and of the beast (the
political power)
that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast that thou
sawest was, and is not;
Revelation 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which
the woman sitteth. 10 And there are seven kings:
five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not
yet come; and when he cometh, he
must continue a short space. 11 And the beast that was, and
is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. 12 And
the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom
as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. 13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto
the beast. 14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome
them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Brother Branham
told us in the Second Seal who that is.
He said,
Second seal the 63-0319 P:122 And here is the mind which hath wisdom... (How many knows there's nine
spiritual gifts, and one of them are wisdom? All right.)... The seven heads are seven mountains, on
which the woman setteth. (Oh, you'd have to be totally blind, deaf and dumb
not to get that. All right.)... there are seven kings: five are fallen, and
one is... (Nero)... and... one is... to come;
and when he cometh, he must continue just a short space. You remember what he done: burnt the
city and laid it on to the Christians, and put his mother on a single tree of a
horse and run her through the streets, and fiddled while Rome burned. All
right. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth,...Pagan Rome brought into papal
Rome, when the incarnate antichrist spirit become incarnate
and was crowned, he was made a crowned king of Rome, both in state and
church together. Oh, brother. See? It's just full of it. See?... is... the seventh, and he goeth... (How long does he last? They never
change the system.)... to perdition.... the ten horns which thou
sawest are ten kings, which have received no kings--kingdoms as yet; but
receive power as kings one hour with the beast. (That's dictators, you see, of
course.) These have one mind,... (Now, look here. And they talk about
Communism.)... These have one mind, and shall give their power and
strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall
overcome them: for he's Lord of lord, and King of kings: and they that are with
him are called, chosen, and faithful.
“and shall ascend out of the bottomless
pit, (that’s
satan) and go
into perdition: and they that dwell on
the earth shall wonder, whose names
were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is
not, and yet is.
Notice
John tells us that the world will wonder but not the elect. He says the world ,
those whose names were not written in the lambs book of life before the world
was formed will wonder, and that tells us that he is not speaking of the elect
for the elect shall not be deceived. They can’t be deceived they have the Holy Ghost
and therefore they will understand. And that is what Daniel also said, the
Elect will know and understand at the end time.
Daniel
12:9 And he
said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are
closed up and sealed till the time of
the end. 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none
of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Revelations 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which
thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and
nations, and tongues. 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate
the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and
burn her with fire. 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree,
and give their kingdom unto the beast, (The Papacy) until the words of
God shall be fulfilled. 18 And the woman (the church) which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Notice she (a church)
is also a city
that sets upon seven
mountains, and we all know that is Vatican City which is a city state that reigns over the kings of
the earth.
Now, back to Daniel 7:3 And
four great beasts (Political
powers) came up
from the sea, diverse one from another. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld
till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a
man's heart was given to it. 5 And behold another beast, (another
political power) a
second, like to a bear, and it
raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the
teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. 6 After this I beheld, and lo another, (another
beast or political power) like a leopard,
which had upon the back of it four wings
of a fowl; the beast (political
power) had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. 7 After this I saw in the night visions, and
behold a fourth beast, dreadful and
terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had
great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue
with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. 8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them
another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up
by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes
like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Now, we already
read where brother Branham said in the 2nd Seal that these ten horns
were ten dictators. Who rise up or are given power from the 4th
beast.
Mark of the beast 54-0513 P:80 If we'd take the history, and go right
back and show it, where the kings had fallen in Rome, since the Babylon
kingdom. ... one is... (Nero)... and one is to come;... and he must continue a short space... (about six months when he comes.) And the beast... (Oh. Look at this. Now, the power is
going to take the pagan place.) And the beast that was, and is not,
even... is the eighth,... (now watch)... and is of the seventh. You all know what a terrible king he
was. He hate... He hooked his mother to a single tree of a horse and drug her
through the streets, and set the city a fire, and fiddled up on the hill. That's
the same kind of a spirit that's dominating the church that sets in the place
of pagan. "The eighth, which is of the seventh. And then he is, and is not; and is, and is
not; and is, and is not," on down.... and goeth into perdition. Plumb till the time of the coming of the
Lord and he's cast into hell. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings,
which have received no kingdoms as yet; but receive power as kings one hour
with the beast. Oh, if we just had... "Received no power as yet." They're not kings. They
didn't have... They ten... The horns didn't have crowns. "They received power like kings." What is it? Dictators;
not crowned kings, dictators. Oh, my.
Why are we not a denomination? 58-0927 P:60 Watch that now, these ten horns, these
ten kingdoms. See, that's everything falling in, what these dictators
are. Watch the way dictators lean to. Where's it leaning to? Just
look, tell me a dictator that doesn't lean towards communism.
See? And they shall what? "Hate the whore," the woman, the church. But watch.
Watch what's going to do it.... these shall hate the whore, and shall make
her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
63-0818 - "The Uniting Time And Sign" 87 Nations are breaking, for the time now
that we see that they’re supposed to do this. We’re in the process of
national disturb. We see the nations are breaking relationship. Year
by year, we find
this nation being swallowed up in communism; this one being swallowed up in
communism. And right here in our own nation, it’s honeycombed with communism,
and it will take over! See, it’ll do
it, no way of stopping it. Why? The same reason that you couldn’t
stop Titus. The
people has rejected God and His Word. Yes, sir, so they’re going
to do it, and we see it right in process.
Why are we not a denomination? 58-0927 P:49 Let's see. And the beast that was, and is not,... (the 11th verse)... and yet is the eighth, now the seventh,
and goeth into perdition. (He'll continue on until he hits the bottomless
pits at the end of the road.)And the ten horns which thou saw are ten kings,... (Now watch here. If you want to see
something striking, watch this.)... are ten kings, which have received no
kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. They're not crowned kings; they're
dictators. See, they never was crowned king, but they received power as kings one hour in
the reign of the beast. That's just in this little shadowy time right now where
dictators are rising up (See?), "Received power as king one hour with the
beast." Now, all right.
Daniel 7:9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down,
and the Ancient of days did sit, (the
white wigged one which is The Son of Man Himself, God) whose garment was
white as snow, and the hair of his head
like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and
his wheels as burning fire. 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him:
thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand
stood before him: the judgment was set,
and the books were opened. (The White throne is set) 11 I beheld then
because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed,
and given to the burning flame. (That is when Russia finally destroys the Vatican in
one hour as we are told in the book of Revelation 18)
Revelations
18:1 And
after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great
power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he
cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the
habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every
unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of
the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth
have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her
delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of
her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not
of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her
iniquities. 6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she
hath filled fill to her double. 7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much
torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore shall her plagues
come in one day, death, and mourning, and
famine; and she shall be
utterly burned with fire:
That is when
Russia, Most likely under Putin shall nuke her after she has ruined every
nation) for
strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed
fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament
for her, when they shall see the
smoke of her burning, (has to be television, no other way for all nations
to look upon her ruin.) 10 Standing
afar off for the fear of her torment, (yeah, they won’t
want to get too close with all that radiation) saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that
mighty city! for in one hour is
thy judgment come. (in
just one hour she is gone, finished, burnt up, that has to be a nuke) 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and
mourn over her; for no man buyeth
their merchandise any more: (the economy is so demolished, such a great
depression and no one wants what these evil people have to sell. They are
finished.) 12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones,
and of pearls, and fine linen, and
purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of
ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron,
and marble, 13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and
frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and
sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. 14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are
departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are
departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. 15 The
merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her
torment, (she is not only destroyed, but radiated. Who would come
near her) weeping
and wailing, 16 And saying, Alas,
alas, that great city, that was
clothed in fine linen, and purple, and
scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
That
is the description of the Vatican attire, but all Cardinals, princes of the
church, and Pope are all destroyed.
17 For in one hour so great
riches is come to nought. (yeah, great riches, she’s worth trillions of
dollars. Perhaps quintillion, as brother Branham said you couldn’t buy what’s
in her for a billion-billion dollars. That is a quintillion) And every
shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by
sea, stood afar off, (Can’t get close
because of the radiation.) 18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city
is like unto this great city! (yeah the smoke, like a huge mushroom cloud.) 19 And they cast dust on their heads, and
cried, weeping and wailing, saying,
Alas, alas, that great city, wherein
were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness!
for in one hour is she made desolate. (in one hour she is
come to nothing, laid waste.)
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy
apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. 21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with
violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no
more at all. 22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and
trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of
whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more
in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; 23 And
the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the
bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the
great men of the earth; for by thy
sorceries (Pharmaceuticals)
were all nations deceived. 24 And in
her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain
upon the earth.
Ok, now back to Daniel 7 and
we will pick up at verse
12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were
prolonged for a season and time. 13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the
Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14 And
there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people,
nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is
an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. 15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the
midst of my body, and the visions of my head
troubled me. 16 I came near unto one of them that stood
by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the
interpretation of the things. 17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings,
which shall arise out of the earth. 18 But the
saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom
forever, even forever and ever.
And of course we
all know Jesus promised us “the meek shall
inherit the earth.”
19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse
from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of
brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and
stamped the residue with his feet; 20 And of the ten horns that were in his head,
and of the other which came up, and before whom
three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and
a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was
more stout than his fellows. 21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with
the saints, and prevailed against them; (see this is
Rome, the Vatican city using the strength of the united States to do battle
against the saints.)22 Until the Ancient of days came, and
judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the
saints possessed the kingdom. 23 Thus
he said, The fourth beast shall be the
fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall
devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. 24 And the
ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;
and he shall be diverse from the first,
and he shall subdue three kings. 25 And he shall speak great
words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High,
and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until
a time and times and
the dividing of time. (notice time,
that s one, times is two and half a time is one half, so we are looking at
three and a half years of tribulation here.) 26 But
the judgment shall sit, and they shall
take away his dominion, to consume and
to destroy it unto the end. 27 And
the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole
heaven, shall be given to the people of
the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an
everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. 28 Hitherto
is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my
cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the
matter in my heart.
Now, back to Revelations 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the
feet of a bear, and his mouth
as the mouth of a lion: and the
dragon gave him his power, and his
seat, and great authority. 3 And I saw one of his
heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. (That
is when Pagan Rome died and came back as Papal Rome) Entire world has been locked down
and are being forced the experimental death drug.
4 And they
worshipped
the dragon which gave power unto the
beast: and they worshipped
the beast, (political
power) saying, Who is like
unto the beast?(who is like this political power) who is able to make
war with him?
And you know
many people are not being fooled by this but what can they do? Who can make war with her when she is being
protected by the very image that was made in her likeness, the USA with its
civil and ecclesiastical horns.
5 And there was given unto him a mouth (papacy) speaking great things and blasphemies;
and power was given unto him to continue
forty and two months. (That’s three and a half years of tribulation) 6 And he
opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his
tabernacle, and them that dwell in
heaven. 7 And it was given unto him to make war with the
saints, and to overcome them:
and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 8 And all
that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose
names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. 9 If any man have an
ear, let him hear. 10 He that leadeth into
captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be
killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
So you see what John saw
is identical to what Daniel sees here in this night vision. Now let’s
move ahead in Revelations
13 and read from verse
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; (now notice,
this beast, this political power doesn’t come out of Nations, people multitudes
and languages. It is the United States which comes out of the earth.) and he had two horns (both civil
and ecclesiastical. The United Nations and The world council of Churches are
both located in New York City.) like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Looking like a
lamb says she looked like a Christian Nation, but she sure didn’t talk like
one, she talked like the devil himself, with her LGBTQRSTUV sodomite stuff and
her abortions, and drug culture, and all her political leaders prostituting
themselves in her capital. Oh, she sure looked like the mother Whore herself.
12 And he
exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, (Notice, he, not
a woman, not church, but he another
beast another political power) and causeth the earth
and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Notice it is the
United States that causes the world to worship the first beast, Rome, and her
Vatican city. Now, keep that in mind because we are going to examine this
worship and what it is and what it means.
13 And he
(He,
not a woman, not a church, but a country, a political power that appears to be
Christian but speaks like the devil) doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the
earth in the sight of men, (There’s all your space programs being viewed on
world-wide television. Fake, everything was faked. That is the main attribute of the end times,
everything of man is false.
And if Satan
controls all world governments, which Jesus admitted that he did, then why
would the father of lies, tell anything truthful? No sir, we’re not a gullible
people. I don’t believe anything any government tells us. Remember, the
deception is geared to the gullibility of them that are perishing. That is what
the 2
Thessalonians 2 tells us.
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.”
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 "Of every kind of wicked
deception geared to the gullibility
of those who are perishing.
This gullibility being caused by the fact that they did not accept the love for the Truth to the end that they might be saved. And because of this God sends them a deluding influence resulting
in their believing the lie,
in order that they all might be judged who did not believe the truth but took
delight in wickedness." And what was “The Lie” It was the lie the
serpent told Eve. “You will not surely
die.”
And isn’t that the very lie the world is being told today? Take this experimental vaccine (which by the way is not really a vaccine, but it’s a gene therapy and you will not die) And did not the serpent give gene therapy to Eve? And what happened to her. “The day you eat thereof that day you shall surely die.” So she took the word of Dr. Serpent and lost her life, and caused sickness, disease and death to enter the world. Why? Because the genes were changed. From Human to trans-human, part human part beast.
So if the delusion is geared to their gullibility that
means the delusion was made to fit the gullible. And the people of the world
are in the most gullible state I have ever seen them in my 68 years on earth.
People highly educated but totally gullible and are incapable having a right
thought.
And Dr. Wuest’s wording here is perfect, “them that are perishing are geared to their own gullibility” which if you understand what a gear is, it is made
in such a way that it fits itself to the gullible delusion.
And in the Book of Romans Paul said, Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power
known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Now, Revelations 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles (signs) which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth,
that they should make an image to the beast,
which had the wound by a sword,
(the word of God) and did live.
15 And he
had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak,
and cause that as many as would not
worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16 And he
causeth all, both small and
great, rich and poor,
free and bond, to receive a mark (a sign or a
token) in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, (the
sign or token) or
the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is
Six hundred threescore and six.
It is interesting to note that the Mark of the Beast first appears in
Scripture in the 13th of the book of Revelations as we saw in verses 7-10 and
16-17.
Revelation 13:7-10 It was also
given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority
over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was
given to him. All who dwell on the
earth will worship him, everyone
whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of
life of the Lamb who has been slain. If anyone has an ear, let him hear.
Revelation
13:16-17 And he
causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free
men and the slaves, to be given a mark
on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or
the number of his name.
And it is no coincidence that the mark or
sign or token of the beast is to be pushed by the United States The beast
rising out of the earth that looks like a lamb, but speaks like a dragon, the
devil. Which is identified in Revelations 13. That is how the Beast from the
land, the united states gives power unto the Beast which is Rome.
First let me
establish this fact.
Hebrews Chapter 4 57-0901E
P:37 Did you notice this United States is number thirteen in everything it
does? You know it was established, the thirteen colonies? You
know the flag had thirteen stars in it first?
(I would like
to say also there are thirteen stripes in our flag, and jus look at the US
dollar. Thirteen arrows in the eagles claws, thirteen stars thirteen olive
branches, thirteen bars in the shield)
“You know everything that the United
States does is in the number thirteen? Did you know it appears in the Bible
in Revelations 13? Certainly
does. The little beast, the lamb that come up out of water, not
thickness and multitudes of people, not out of the water, but out of a land
where there's no one. It had two little horns: civil and ecclesiastic
powers. And he was a lamb: freedom of religion. And after while they
went together and he spoke like the dragon and exercised all the power that
Rome did before him. That's coming to our nation. You mark it down. You
watch to the Confederation of Churches and the Catholic unite together, and
watch what takes place. People who follow the Pillar of Fire will
certainly have a rough time, but they're ready for the translation at
that time (That's right.), just ready to go, "For the Lamb overcome them," said the
Bible. "And
them that followed Him because they were called the chosen and the faithful,
the elected of God."
Now this chapter speaks of a beast that
comes forth from the land, and gives power unto the Beast that comes out of the
waters which we know is Rome as John was very plain in telling us in Revelations
17.
We see also Revelation 14:9-10 John speaks of
the people who have the mark, the sign or token of the Beast worship him and
his image. “Then
another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone
worships the beast and his image, and receives
a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full
strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and
brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
And again we see this in Revelation 16:2 So the first angel
went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and it became a loathsome and
malignant sore on the people who had the
mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
And we see that these people who have
the mark which is a sign or token of the beast are a deceived people in Revelation 19:20 And the beast was
seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by
which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake
of fire which burns with brimstone.
And how did he deceive them? We already
read that in Revelations
18:23 “for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (Pharmaceuticals)
were all nations deceived.”
So man is taking mans advice and mans so called
experimental medicine instead of God’s Word, and by doing so they are denying
that God is the Healer of all our diseases. Think about that. Here is a disease
that kills only 1 in a thousand people, that is 99.997 people are going to be
fine, and yet the world has been
convinced to take a experimental vaccine which is actually gene therapy
and they know all the side affects people are having even death, and they say
it is worth it to be safe.
They have a death wish is all I can think that
means. Its end time insanity. They can read off a whole list of terrible side
effects and all the people can think is, I want to get back to normal. So is it
normal to take an experimental gene therapy? You see how deluded the people
have become? Delusional. The great delusion, and they receive this delusion
because they turned down the truth.
Webster’s Dictionary defines delusional as having false or unrealistic beliefs or
opinions: and in Psychiatry. “maintaining fixed false beliefs even when confronted
with facts, usually as a result of mental illness:”
So as I preached going into 202o the end time
insanity, we are seeing it, and I still marvel at How God directs our thinking,
first showing the end time insanity, the preaching on the plagues and
depression before it ever came. But “the footsteps of the righteous are ordered of the Lord.”
I think it is interesting that the end times
were ushered in by “The
Son of righteousness arising with healing in His Wings”. And God came down with a great healing
campaign to get our attention then a Shout which is a message to get us ready
for the Voice of the resurrection. And the age goes out with man no longer
looking for God to heal, but have taken man’s patented WO2020 060606 technology instead. That is exactly
what Cain did, turned Down Gods provided way for his own way, and received the
first mark of the beast.
We talked earlier on what brother Branham said
when he preached on The Mark of the Beast and the Seal of God, he said, “Now, I had to take both of the
subjects and put them together, because they run parallel one to the
other. So the mark parallels the token, because the token
brings God life into the believer
and the mark of the beast brings the
beast life into the unbeliever
through his gene therapy.
But I don’t wish to go into that again
today because this sermon is about what this worship is that the people worship the beast and his image. That to me is
an identifiable characteristic of
the people at the end time who take this mark of the beast.
So let’s read Revelation 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and
judgment was given to them. And I saw the
souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and
because of the word of God, and those
who had not
worshiped the beast or his image, and had
not received
the mark in their forehead and in their hand; and they came to life and
reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Now we want to look at this word worship because the difference between those who took
the mark and those who did not take it comes down to this worship or not worshipping the beast or his image.
We see everyone who has the mark worships the beast and his image, while those who are
given Life do not.
So to understand this word Worship let’s turn in our Bibles to Matthew 13:45 we read, ¶ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking
goodly pearls: 46 Who, when he had found one pearl
of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
Now, in this parable the man held that treasure
in such a high esteem or considered
it of such a great value that he valued it higher than all the things he had
accumulated throughout his entire life to that point. Jesus tells us that
he sold all that he had to gain that treasure. Therefore we are looking at the
words value and estimation. And this thought of this
greatest treasure is that it is eternal life. And Jesus said “where our treasure is there will our heart will be.”
From his
sermon Satan's eden 65-0829 P:17 Brother
Branham said, “The
god of this world today, the worshipped person of this world today is Satan,
and the people are ignorant of worshipping Satan. But it's Satan
impersonating himself as the church (See?), as the church. They
worship Satan thinking that they are worshipping God through the church,
but it's the way Satan has done it. Oh, you say, "But wait a minute;
we preach the Word." Look back here at my text tonight. Satan was the
one preached the Word to Eve first. "God has said." See? It's
that misconstruing that part of the Scripture that applies to the day.”
And remember, brother Branham told us that
because they could not push the mark through religion they will use politics.
Also in his
sermon Jezebel religion 61-0319 P:64 he
said, “Then one
day after sin had took its toll, and God has brought His people to their
knees... Jezebel took everything; she wiped it all up; and she'll do it again.
That's Thus Saith God’s Holy Bible. She'll do it again. She's right on the
throne now, behind the figurehead, twisting it anyway she wants to; and nobody's going to stop her.
“Certainly, nobody's going to stop her now, because what they couldn't get in the
religious circles (so) they cut it all into politics, and there they
done it.
So where did
they do it? He said they will do it in Politics. Though the Catholic
church is a religious organization, she will bring her power into politics, and
then the optics will become very clear.
Then brother
Branham goes on to say, “Uh-huh, that's exactly what they done. Which the political
will be a boycott (and what is a boycott? Its a cancel culture))
just exactly
back to the mark of the beast, as sure as I'm standing here. See? And the
Bible said it. Notice what brings the boycott, and cancel culture. Political.
See, so what is
a boycott? It’s nothing but a “cancel
culture”. And the world is full of cancel culture today which is
nothing but the boycott spoken of in Scripture that is to go along with the
mark of the beast.
Therefore when we look at this worship, we must understand what Jesus said, “where
your treasure is there our heart will be also”. Where the thing you hold most valuable, that is where your
heart will be as well.
Now, in our dictionary, Webster tells us that
the word value is “An amount, as of goods, services, or
money, considered to be a fair and a suitable equivalent for something
else; and hence the man was willing to sell everything he had to buy the field in
order to obtain the hidden treasure.
So too the people consider taking this gene
therapy is an equivalent value for getting back to normal. Only how can you go
back to normal once you are marked with this gene therapy. Your life will never
be the same again.
In the parable the man was willing to sell
everything he had in order to obtain a pearl of great price. Now,
remember, Jesus is telling us that the Kingdom of Heaven is
like the man that is willing to sell all to gain the Kingdom. So we are looking
at what the man values will be
the same as when He is getting ready to establish His Kingdom. The Kingdom is
very apparent in both of these parables that Jesus is telling us the value of
the Kingdom of heaven is worth more than all that we have in this life.
Now, let’s look at this word value for a moment. We know that the word value speaks of a comparison
between two things. One is the object or thing, and the other is what price we
are willing to pay to obtain it. So I want you to keep this thought of worth in mind, because there is something special about this word that
brings us one step closer to the Kingdom, and that is that the word Worth is actually the root for worship.
When we speak of worth we are talking about “the
quality of the thing that renders that something desirable, useful, or valuable”.
Now, it just so happens that the word Worship according to Webster’s
New World Dictionary and the American
Heritage Dictionary comes from the combination of the two words, worth and ship. Worth speaks of value and ship is the suffix
that is used and speaks of “the quality, condition, or state of being.”
Therefore when we speak of worship we are speaking of “the
value that we place on the object of worship”, and therefore “the quality, condition or state of that
object” we so desire to place our value in.
Thus when we hear Jesus speak on
the Kingdom of Heaven (eternal Life) as being of such a great value that we spend all we have
to obtain it, we are in essence looking at something that expresses true worth-Ship. In other words we are
looking at the quality that is such that we value it
extremely high and in fact higher than all that we have possessed in life.
The condition of this Kingdom of Heaven is such that
we are more than willing to lay everything else aside in order to obtain it,
and “the state of being” is such that we are single focused and have evaluated the
cost and have found the cost to be a fair assessment of its true value. Thus we
find that the Kingdom of Heaven (eternal Life) is the most valuable thing to be
obtained, and is actually a place or the state of worship or “worth-ship.”
In fact that is what worship is all about. Many people have a wrong notion
of what worship is. They think only in
terms of prostrating themselves
before some object or deity, or singing
songs of praise to that object or deity. But according to the correct
definition of the word, which fits quite well with what Jesus is teaching here
in these parables, the
kingdom of heaven is a place where we know true value and how to apply it.
The Kingdom of Heaven thus is a place of worth-ship. It is a place where we will have a true
understanding of the value of God’s Word. Worth-ship,
“the state of, the quality of, or the condition we apply
worth to.” Therefore we are actually talking about worth-ship. The value we place on something. Now, in
order to know the value you must know the thing that is being valued.
If you do not know the thing you are valuing,
how can you honestly place the right value on it. That is the problem Jesus
explained to the Samarian people, He said “you worth-ship what you know not.” You place your values on the wrong things.
But the Kingdom of God (eternal Life) is a condition where the
people have been taught in their Spirit the Truth. And they not only have been
taught right, but they have learned what they have been taught.
Jesus said, in John 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they
shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and
hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Oh, I just wish people understood more some of
these words like the doxa of god because the doxa of God is translated as Glory
and so it is, but its actual meaning is the opinions, estimation or values and
judgments of God. And when we value His thoughts above our own, and we receive
those thoughts and we treasure those thoughts, and when we do that, it is
called worth-ship.
Therefore our worth-ship has a rank as well, and that rank is the result
of the order in which we place God. He is to have the pre-eminent place in our
hearts, and minds and souls. Then any other would have to be a lesser being than
He for if He is the Sovereign, He is the Top in rank, the top in order, and the
top in class. That is why I cannot for the life of me figure out how people can
be so stupid when it comes to them not placing God first in their life.
You see, Jesus said “the true worshipper worth-ships God in spirit and truth”, and you cannot worth-ship
him in truth if you do not know what God’s Truth is.
For the apostle Paul taught us in 1
Corinthians 2 that “no man can understand the things of God except the
Spirit of God be in him.” And His truth is His doxa, which is His opinions, Values and
judgments. That is true worth-ship.
In Matthew 22:36 when Jesus is asked what the greatest commandment is, He
replied.. “To
love the Lord your God, with all your heart, all your soul, and mind.” But in Mark 12:30-33 He adds one other ingredient, and that is strength, which we find God Himself speaking of in the Book of Deuteronomy 6:4-18.
So actually when God speaks in His Word about
loving Him with all of our heart, He is speaking about Loving Him with all of our understanding. Then when He speaks of loving Him with all of
our Soul, He is speaking of loving
Him with all that we are as a person, because our soul is who we are, it is our life, our breathe and
our being. Then finally He tells us to love Him with all of our might or strength, which is to say, with all of our energies. Because, we could say that we love Him and even do perhaps in
our understanding, and in our being have a love for Him which supersedes our
love for anything else, but that is still coming up short of what God wants. He
wants us to place all our energies into this love. He said, “teach them diligently to your children!” That takes an effort, and that shows your love
to God.
For what woman would love a man, and never show
it. She may say, I love you but if there are no outward manifestations of that
Love then it really means nothing. For love in itself is self sacrificial in its
nature. Paul tells us that “Love suffers long, and is kind, and does not envy,
and is not over inflated, and does not behave itself unseemly, and is not self
seeking, and is not easily provoked, and thinks no evil, rejoices not in
iniquity, but only in Truth, it beareth all things, hopes all things, and
endures all things, and it never fails.”
Now, what is He saying? That Love is something
that is very difficult to have because you can’t have it by keeping it to
yourself. You must give it away, in order to possess it. And that
is what the men did in this parable that we read tonight. They gave all that they had to obtain the hidden
treasure and the pearl of great price.
You must exert what energies you have in the
process of showing this Love, and proper worship, or worth- ship. This proper showing of your love and devotion to the most
valuable person in your Life, Your God.
I Chronicles 16:29 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his
name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of
holiness.
Psalms 96:8 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his
name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. 9 O worship the LORD in the
beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
And Giving God the Glory that is due to him,
shows we give him the exact price he wants. And that is Worth-Ship.
Notice the Scriptures proclaims that our worship should show forth the value we place upon the Lord.
It says, Psalms 29:2 Give unto the LORD the glory that is due unto his
name (or that is fitting in
value); worship (worth-ship) the LORD in the
beauty of holiness. He’s
a Holy God, then give Him a Holy sacrifice.
Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to
offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of
worship. 2 Do not conform any longer to
the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then (when? After your mind
has become renewed, then ) you will be able to test and approve what God's will is, his good,
pleasing and perfect will.
In Matthew 15:7 Jesus says, Ye hypocrites, (and we know that a hypocrites is someone who
knows to do something and they won’t do it, or they know not to do it and they
do it anyway.) well did Esaias prophesy
of you, saying, 8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honor
me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. (and where
the treasure is there will the heart be also, but here He is telling us that these men’s hearts are far from him. That ought to tell you right there that He is
not the treasure of their heart and therefore their worth-ship of him is just a false, fake put-on act, like
so many so-called Christians worth-ship today. Jesus went on to say, that their worth-ship is in vain. That means it is meaningless,
because it does not represent the true value of God. ) 9 But in vain they do worship me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. And because their worth-ship
does not come up to the true value it then is rejected as being in vain. Just
like the man that offers way under value for a product he wants to have, and is
rejected in his low ball bid.
Again we read from Mark 7:6. He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of
you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but
their heart is far from me. 7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the
tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like
things ye do. 9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the
commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Notice here Jesus is saying their worth-ship
of me is
in vain because they have elevated their own thoughts above Gods
thoughts. He says they lay aside the Word of God in favor of their
own traditions. And they teach for doctrine their own traditions, and lay aside
that which should be taught for doctrine which are the commandments of God,
which bring eternal Life for that which is temporary and of much lesser value.
In John 4:22 Jesus said, Ye worship (worth-ship) ye
know not what: we know what we worth-ship: for salvation is of the
Jews. (now , if you do not
know what you are worth-shipping, and you are unaware of its true value, then it means very little
to you. Like the boy who found a postage stamp and sold it to buy an ice cream
cone, and the man he sold it to sold it for millions of dollars because he knew
the value. Then how can you worth-ship correctly if you have no clue to the value of the one you worth-ship? If you do not know what value to place then
how can you give the right value to your worth-ship?)
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worth-shippers
shall worth-ship the Father in Spirit and in Truth: for the Father seeketh
such to worth-ship
him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worth-ship
him must worth-ship him in
spirit and in truth.
Then how do we show correct worth-ship to God? We look at the Son of God for our
example. He said the
son can say nothing but what the father commanded Him to speak, and the Son can do nothing but what the Father showed Him first, and He said, My doctrine is not mine but the Father’s that sent me, and He said, I came not to do mine own will, but the Will of Him that sent me. Therefore we ask the question, How can we know
what proper worth-ship of God as our Father is? Well, we say what God says,
we think what
God thinks and we do what God says to do. We hold for doctrine only
what God has given us to hold. And most importantly, we let go of our own will and receive the
Will of the Father.
That is how we show the proper worth-ship of God. That is how we show that we place God’s
Word, and His thoughts above our own thoughts and words. And there
is no way we can truly worth-ship God outside of spirit
and truth. And notice that Jesus
is telling us that there is coming a time that we will worth-ship God as our Father. Then how do we show proper worth-ship to a Father? By rendering to Him complete obedience as the Son of God did.
Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to
offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is
your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then (when? After your mind has become renewed, then
) you will be able to test
and approve what God's will is, his good, pleasing and perfect will.
At the first exodus under the Pillar of Fire,
the vindicated prophet Moses was commanded by God to tell the people, Exodus 20:12 ¶ Honor thy father and thy mother: that
thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
At the second exodus under the Pillar of Fire,
The Vindicated Apostle Paul said, Ehesians 6:2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with
promise;)
Honor thy Father and Mother for this is the first
commandment with a promise. And what was the promise? Long Life. Then to honor God The
Eternal Father correctly, has a promise as well, and we found last night that
it is eternal Life.
John 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of
God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the
Father, cometh unto me. 46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he
which is of God, he hath seen the Father. 47 Verily, verily, I say unto
you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
Therefore, when you believe what you have seen
concerning the Father you receive eternal life. Why? Because all that are ordained to eternal life believe, Acts 13:48
Acts 17:22 ¶ Then Paul stood in the midst of
Mars' hill, and said, [Ye] men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye
are too superstitious. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld
your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN
GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto
you. (Notice that their
worship is in ignorance and therefore can not bring forth true benefits. For
without worshipping God in Spirit and Truth our worship is in vain.) 24 God that made the world and all things therein,
seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with
hands; 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed
any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Paul is telling us here that God is sovereign,
and our worth-ship of God adds nothing to
God at all.
I Timothy 6:15 Which in his times he shall show, [who
is] the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of
lords; 16 Who only hath immortality,
dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen,
nor can see: to whom [be] honor and power everlasting. Amen.
Now, God, our Father is King. And He’s is the
ONLY POTENTATE and He’s the only One that is sovereign. And without
understanding the sovereignty of God we will never understand His Godhood, nor
His Nature, and therefore we will never understand God, “Who He is” and “Why He
does what He does”. Our conception then of God becomes only one that is made up
in the minds of men. The God of our own imagination.
How different is the God of the Bible from the
God of the modern So called Christian church! The conception of what God is and
who He is that prevails in the churches today, and even among those who profess
to believe the Message, is a miserable distortion, a blasphemous mockery of the
Truth.
Then what are we worshipping anyway. For to
truly worth-ship God we must know Him in His power, and resurrection, and we
must understand He is sovereign, and that he is supreme above all that we
think, do, or say. He must be the treasure of great price, or our worship is no
worth-ship at all.
If God does not hold the pre-eminent position in
our life then we are not worth-shipping Him. We might be praising Him, but
praise can be given out in many different ways and to many different places,
persons, or things.
But we are talking of worth, we are talking of Value, we are talking of the proper Assessment
of that value, we
are talking of Worth-ship. And God truly cannot be Worth-shipped if we do
not place Him at the top of our list in everything. There is none that is
sovereign outside of God. There is none that is deserving of our all outside
of God. There is none that is deserving of our all outside of
God. There is none Holy as the Lord, and then why would you Worth-ship your job, and why
would we worth-ship your car, why would we worth-ship
your house, or why would we worth-ship any other
object that’s temporary.
God and God alone demands our ‘total separation from unbelief”, and our total dedication. Jesus said, the
greatest commandment is, “To love the Lord your God, with all your heart, all your soul, and
mind and all your strength.
Now, to worship
God or worth-ship God, shows we are placing a certain value or
assessment upon Him. A very High assessment or value to be exact. But what
about those in the book of revelations who worship the beast or his image? They
are placing the beast or the image which is the United State as their highest
and greater value or assessment. And I see that as the alt right in this
country and around the world. They do not hold to the Doxa of God but to what
Government and so called medical experts put in place by Governments tell them.
Instead of taking God t His Word as the God who healeth all thy diseases, they
take the word of man. And what is the number of the beast but the number of
man. And to worship the beat or its image is to place a higher assessment or
value, and to take their opinions and judgments over the doxa of God. So by
giving back to God His own Doxa we are showing proper respect for his values,
but taking on mans program is showing worship of him over the worship of God.
Now, if we have the
wrong value or assessment our worth-ship will be a wrong worth-ship, and thus a false worth-ship.
And that is what they did in the book of Revelations, that is why they worth-shipped
the beast (that Catholic church Beast system) and the image which is the United
States, Thus there are many examples in the Old Testament that it was a fearful
thing to Worship
God. Whenever the Lord appeared to man, man became very frightened, and for a
very good reason. God is the author and finisher of Life. And in His power He
has the keys of Life and death.
But we are talking of worth, we are talking of Value, we are talking of Assessment,
we are talking of Worth-ship. And God truly cannot be Worth-shipped
outside of His Word. For Jesus taught us that the true worth-shipper
will worth-ship God in Spirit and in Truth.
And only the Spirit filled believer can understand the
things of God and thus worth-ship correctly. And the worth-shippers of the
beast give a high value to his medicine, and not to God the Healer of all thy diseases.
I hope you can see this attribute of them that take on the mark,
look at what they worth-ship, and you will know who will take the mark of the beast
and who will take the mark of God.
Let us pray