Unveiling of God no 89
The Two Vines - The
False persecutes the True
April 7, 2019 pm
Brian
Kocourek, Pastor
Matthew
24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and
false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall
deceive the very elect. 25 Behold, I have told you
before.
Most
Christians who have read the Bible have read these verses of Scripture but have
a hard time understanding what they mean. Basically tonight I want to explain
what this scripture means. It has to do with the bible doctrine of Twins or the
Two Vines. The spirit of the true vine and the false vine is so close that it
will take being filled with the Holy Ghost to know the difference. This does
not deal with the True church vs the false denominational systems called
churches. This deals with One Church, and the two seed-life's that occupy that
church.
It is a
study of each revival that God brings and in each there are two forms of Life
that are begotten, one a truly spirit filled Christ centered child of God and
the other a formal but carnal (having a form of godliness, God-likeness, but
denying the power thereof. That is the power of an endless life as the Apostle
Paul speaks of in Hebrews 7:16
From 70-2 Ephesian Church Age CAB CPT 3 brother
Branham said, "I want to carry this
thought all the way through, so let us go a step further. Have you ever studied
the history of revivals? Now a revival
signifies a move of God in power. And every
time God moves, Satan is there to move also. It never fails. In the days of
the great Welsh revival (and most people don't know this), the insane asylums
filled up quickly, and there was a great display of devil power to take away
the attention from God. It is written that in Wesley's day the people would do
most peculiar things that were definitely of Satan to try to mock the goodness
and power of God. In Luther's day it is said that the miracle of his ministry
did not lie in the fact that he successfully protested the Roman Catholic
Church, but the miracle lay in the fact he could, and did, stay sound and sane
amidst the fanatics who were often filled with, and guided by, wrong spirits.
And if you have been aware of this last day ministry, you will have noted the
same invasion of false and wicked spirits. It has to be that way. Now I hope
and trust you are spiritual minded enough to get that, and capitalize on
it."
Therefore
in order to understand these Two Vines as Jesus mentions them in Matthew 24:24 and how they will occupy the true
Revival for each age, we must understand what brother Branham called "The Bible doctrine of Twins",
and we must first understand the two sources involved because to have Twins
there must be only one mother but there are two fathers who are the source of
the life of these twins.
The thing
of it is, you will notice that these twins never get along. We find that Cain
attacked Abel, Esau set out to destroy Jacob, Judas turned on Jesus to destroy
him, etc. Therefore tonight I would like to show this conflict between the two
vines is a very Biblical conflict, but it is such a nature that the false vine
always persecutes the true vine and never visa verse.
Now, Jesus
said that God would
bless both the wheat and the Tares, the two vines, so you cannot tell which is
which by the blessings they receive. And you cannot say the true is in the
Message and the false is not. The Two Vines are both in the church which makes
up the message for each hour. They both are birthed by the revival for their
hour.
As Jesus
said in Matthew 5:45 "That ye may be the
children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on
the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."
Brother
Branham further enlightens us on this parable in the
70-1 Ephesian Church Age CAB CPT 3 These illustrations depict perfectly the parable
of the Lord Jesus Christ when He said that the kingdom of heaven was like unto
a man who sowed good seed, only to have an enemy come and plant tares amongst
those good seeds. God did not plant the tares. Satan planted those tares right amongst the good
seed of God. Those two kinds of
plants (people), from two different seeds, grew up together. They partook of the nourishment in the same
earth, they shared in the same sun, rain, and all other benefits, and both were
harvested in their turn. Do you see it? Don't ever forget these truths as we
study the church ages and later the seals. And above all, don't forget that it
is in this last age, when the tares are getting bound for their burning, that
they will shove out the wheat that is to be garnered by the Lord.
But we see
in the 92-3 Ephesian Church
Age - CAB Chptr 3 that both
vines are to grow up side by side. so they will be right in the church. "Now to get the real meaning of what we are about to go into, I must
caution you to ever keep in mind that religion (spiritual matters if you like),
is composed of two parts that
intertwine but are as opposite as black and white. Religion and the
spiritual world are made of those two trees which had their roots in Eden.
Both the Tree Of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil stood in the midst of the
garden and no doubt their very branches intertwined each other. Thus in the Ephesian Church is that same paradox. The church is made up of good and bad. Two vines make the church. They
are like the wheat and tares, growing up side by side. But one is the TRUE. The other is the FALSE. Now God will speak TO each one and He will
talk ABOUT each one. He will call them the church. And only the elect will
really know which is the true Spirit. Only the elect will not be deceived. Matthew 24:24, "For
there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs
and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very
elect." So way back there
in the early church (a very short period after Pentecost) the false vine got to
intertwine itself around the True Vine and we find these deeds of the
Nicolaitanes. And that spirit is going to be found
fighting the True Vine until it is destroyed by God. Now have
you got it?"
And from
the 366-2 Resume of the
Ages - CAB CHPTR 10 brother Branham
said, "From our studies we have already learned that
much of the Revelation is totally misunderstood because we have not
formerly known that the `church' spoken of and spoken to in this book does not refer to the pure `ekklesia' the `elect', the `body of Christ', the `bride', but it speaks to the entire body of
people who are called Christians, whether they be true or merely
nominal. As "all Israel is NOT
Israel", so "all Christians are NOT Christians."
Thus we learned that the church is made
up of two vines, the true and the false. The two vines are motivated by two kinds of
spirits; one has the Holy Spirit
while the other is endued with the
spirit of antichrist. Both claim to know and be known of God. Both purport
to speak for God. Both believe certain very basic truths and differ on others.
But since both bear the name of the Lord, being called Christ-ians, and by such
name-bearing obviously claim a relationship to Him (God calls it marriage), God
now holds them both responsible to Him and therefore speaks to each.
So we have
established here that the church is the group of people who make up the people
birthed during the revival. For Every revival produces twins.
From his
sermon Ephesian Church Age 60-1205 113 brother Branham said, "Now,
as I said to begin, 'fore we start off on this again, every
revival produces a pair of twins. One is a spiritual man; the
other one is a natural man of the earth, "I joined the
church; I'm just as good as anybody." And that's what
this revival produced. That's what, every revival. That's what Luther's
produced; that's what Irenaeus' produced; that's what Saint Martin's
produced; that's what Columba's produced; that's what Wesley's
produced; and that's what Pentecost produced. Just exactly. You see
how they've gone to seed,
85-2 Ephesian Church Age
CAB CPT 3 Did you get it now? There are those twins again.
There are those two trees
again, growing side by side in the same earth, partaking of the same nourishment,
drinking in the same rain, and benefiting by the same sun. But they come from DIFFERENT seeds. One tree
is FOR the Word of God, exactly as God gave it, and loves and obeys it. The
other tree is from the seed that is anti the Word of God and changes it where
it wants to. It substitutes its own creeds and dogmas for the living true Word
exactly as did Cain, who ended up killing Abel. But fear not little flock. Stay
with the Word. Keep that Word between you and the devil. Eve did not do that
and she failed. And when the church lets down on the Word she goes into the
depths of the darkness of Satan.
Notice he
says twins come from different seeds, therefore they have different
natures.
Ok, so we
have established that this Message has produced twins, and so has the revival
that sprang forth from the Message concerning the Appearing of Christ in this
hour, which is the Parousia-Presence of Christ. That revelation revived the
bride but also produced Twins, and so
has the Revelation of the true understanding of Godhead, that there is one God,
One Lord who had a son. That has also
produced Twins. So no one escapes this fact. If there is a revival there are
twins that are produced during that revival. And brother Branham tells us that
one group will be natural, they will be carnal, they will talk the Word and
tell you all about what the revival is, but they won't live it. They are not
spiritual so they are talkers but not doers.
From his
sermon 359-1 Laodicean Church
Age - CAB CHPTR 9 Now we can see why there were two vines, one true and one false. Now we can see why Abraham had two sons, one after the flesh (that persecuted Isaac) and one after
promise. Now we can see how that out of the same parents two boys came forth as
twins, one knowing and loving the things of God, and the other knowing much of
the same truth, but not of the same
Spirit, and hence persecuted the child that was elect. God did not
reprobate for the sake of reprobation. He reprobated for the sake of the elect.
ELECT CANNOT persecute elect. ELECT CANNOT harm elect.
It is the reprobates that persecute
and destroy the elect. Oh, those reprobates are religious. They are smart. They
are of the Cain line, the serpent seed. They build their Babels, they
build their cities, they build their
empires, and all the while calling on God. They hate the
true seed, and they will do all they can, (even in the Name of the Lord) to
destroy God's elect ones. But they are needed. "What is the
chaff to the wheat?" No chaff, no wheat. But at the end, what happens to
the chaff? It is burned with fire unquenchable. And the wheat? Where is it? It
is gathered in His garner. It is where He is.
Now, I
know this is fact, this is true because I know brothers that have built
themselves a little following by doing just one thing, and that is persecuting
me for teaching One Lord. These men are not content to teach Two Lords
and prove it by the Scriptures and message because they can't. So they build
themselves little following by calling
me all manner of evil names because I teach one Lord, not two like they
do. That is what brother Branham is
talking about in the Church Age book. Because in all ages, the True Doctrine
went forth and then men came in after the Messenger went off the scene and
brought in heresy against what he taught, and there was warfare right in the
message for each hour.
175-4 Pergamean Church
Age - CAB CHPTR 5 But what do we have in this our day?
Multitudes are working signs until we
have a generation of sign seekers that know little or nothing about the Word,
or a true move of the Spirit of God.
If they see blood, oil and fire they are happy; it matters not what is in the Word. They will support any sign,
even unscriptural ones. But God has
warned us about that. He said in Matthew 24 that in the last days the two
spirits would be so close together that only the very elect could tell them apart, for
they alone would not be deceived.
From his
sermon E-30 True Vine and the False
Vine 55-0607 brother Branham said, "Notice those two spirits, leaving from there. Watch how it's dominated
the world. Here they come out of Genesis. Watch anything you want to; watch the world
order; watch everything. As it comes through Genesis, it comes
up through a process, and now, it's done gone up here, and blooming out in the seed to
produce the same thing it was in Genesis. Here's the false
vine; here's the true vine.
And they're both growing side by side. Did you
realize, that Judas Iscariot was treasurer of the church, out of the same tribe of the Lord Jesus? He was a big man, brothers with the rest
of them, set in the same pew,
sang the same songs,
worshipped the same God,
preached the same Gospel, and
was Judas? Do you realize that same spirit moves right up
through the church? But where Judas showed his colors was at
Pentecost, just before Pentecost, before they really got born
again. People don't
believe tonight, many of the people don't believe there is such as a thing as
an experience of being born again. They say, "It's all in your
mind." No, it's in your heart, brother. That's right.
E-22 Joseph
Meeting His Brethren 56-1230 Now, in the Genesis, "Genesis" means
"the beginning, the seed chapter." And remember that everything that there
is today actually began in Genesis. It was the beginning of all things. It was
the beginning of salvation. It was the beginning of sin. It was the beginning
of all the cults. It was the beginning
of the true church. It was the beginning of the false church. It was the
beginning of righteousness. It was the beginning of deceit. It was the
beginning of, all things started in Genesis. I wish we had just
about three months on this, to stay right on this one subject and just dig it,
tie it by the Holy Spirit by God's cords. And just wrap it together and watch
how every word just dovetails right in with the other words: such a beautiful
thing.
68 Revelation
Chapter One 60-1204M Now,
the ages appear in succession, each one, from the ascension of our Lord to His
coming again. Each church age is
described of its spiritual condition. Each church age can behold itself by
its Scriptural and spiritual speaking unto them; as the Spirit speaks, each age
can behold itself. Each age bore the
true vine of Christ, the wise virgin; and each age bore the grafted vine, the foolish virgins.
E-16 Things
wasn't so from the Beginning 61-0120 Now, you farmers, you Texans, Louisianians,
and what you may be here, any one that's got common sense, that ever seen a
vine grow, knowed that the vine does not
bear fruit. The branches of the
vine is what bears fruit, but it gets its life from the vine. Jesus is
our resource of Life. Yes, sir. Now, we'll notice then if Jesus is the resource
of our Life, that's He's the true Vine.
The very life that's in the vine is in the branch. And if that vine puts forth
a first branch, and a bunch of grapes comes forth on it. If it ever puts forth
another branch, it will be a bunch of grapes. It'll put forth another branch,
it'll be a bunch of grapes. And it'll be
the same kind of branch on to the end of the vine. O God. (Now, I need my
half hour; just getting ready...?...) Amen. Every time that vine puts forth a branch,
it'll be like the first branch. Why? Because
the life that's in the vine will put forth the same type of branch. If the
first vine brought grapes, the next won't bring pumpkins. The next won't bring
citrus fruit. And then, after while on down like that, it won't do
it. If the true vine puts
forth a branch, and if Jesus is the Branch in the first, or, the Vine. And the
first branch that brought forth, they wrote a book of Acts after it. Is
that right? The Pentecostal church, the real Pentecostal church... And it wrote a book of Acts, with signs and
wonders following the believer. If
that real true Vine brings forth another true branch, they'll write a book of
Acts behind it. Yes, sir. E-17 Here in Arizona not long ago, I was looking
at a tree in a man's yard: a citrus tree. It had nine different kinds of fruit
on one tree. It was... Every one of them was a different fruit. It was a orange
tree to begin with, but it had pomegranates; it had lemons; it had grapefruit,
all different kinds of citrus fruit. Why? They
were grafted in there. They were living off of the life of that tree, but they could not bring nothing but what
they was. They couldn't bring oranges, because they're a grafted vine.
But every time that tree brought forth a true branch from itself, it was an
orange tree; but oranges it bore. That's the way today. We've
grafted Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian vines into the true vine, and living
off of the strength of it. But it can't
bear nothing but creeds and denominations. But if that vine ever puts forth
another branch, it'll be interdenominational, powered with the Holy Ghost, just exactly like it was on the day of
Pentecost. Back to the beginning. Amen. I better quit. Amen.
So you
see, they come into the message but bring their own creeds and dogmas, and yet
claim they believe the message. Brother Vayle told me that brother Branham said
a few days before he left Tucson on his way back to Jeffersonville before the
car crash. "There are already 17
different variations of the Message." If it was 17 back then when
he was still alive preaching, what do you think it has become today? So we have
a group that says, I believe Br. Branham and I only listen to tapes, and yet if
you ask them to explain the Message they can't. because they don't know what
the message is. They're waiting for another prophet to come along and explain
it to them. And they're afraid to take it back to the Word because they live in
fear of saying something, anything, and then have someone else say, you are not
saying what their prophet said. So they won't talk what he said either. So they
in fear only listen to the tapes. Yet how are they going to know whether they
even know the message unless they speak it. As the angel said of Laodicea, they
are naked and blind and don't even know it.
And how many people claim to believe the Message and
don't even know what it is. There's more than 2 million people who claim to
believe it and yet they don't know Christ in the power of his resurrection. And
the messenger for this age told us there could be perhaps only 500 who will
make the rapture from this age. And did not Jesus say, "not everyone who
saith unto me 'Lord, Lord' will enter in, but they that doeth the will of my
Father. Yet they will tell you the message is "God sent a prophet". That's not
the Message. A Messenger does not come talking about Himself? Jesus said in John
5:31 If I bear witness of
myself, my witness is not true.
Now, listen. If the son of God
could come and say, "if I bare witness of myself my witness is not true."
Then how could it be that William Branham came to bear witness of himself? he
didn't, but many people believe that the message is about William Branham.
That's anti Christ.
Jesus
said, 32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know
that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. So who is this other that came to bear
witness to the ministry of Jesus? Let's read on and find out.
33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. 34 But I receive not testimony from man: but
these things I say, that ye might be saved. 35 He was a burning and a
shining light: and ye were willing for a
season to rejoice in his light. 36 But I have greater witness than that of
John: for the works which the
Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me,
that the Father hath sent me. 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me,
hath borne witness of me.
So what Jesus is
telling us here is that God Himself came down and is the one that bears witness
of his ministry. In fact he says the works I do in his name, these are the
witnesses to you that I am from God and am doing what he has commanded me to
do.
Then he adds,
"Ye have
neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. 38 And ye have not his word abiding in you:
for whom he hath sent, him ye believe
not. 39 Search the scriptures;
for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of
me. 40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have
life. 41 I receive not honour
from men. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of
God in you. 43 I am come in my Father's name, (So
the name of the Father is Jesus,) and ye receive me not: if
another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44 How can ye believe,
which receive honour one of another, and seek
not the honour that cometh from God only? 45 Do not think that I
will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. So
let's just make that a little more personal and read it again...
45 Do
not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even William Branham, in whom ye trust.
46 For had ye believed
Moses, (for had you believed William Branham) ye would have
believed me: for he wrote of me. (He spoke of me) 47 But if ye believe not
his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
So you see
William Branham did not come so that we might understand God sent a prophet. He
came to bring us to Christ, to Show that
God has come down in the form of the Pillar of Fire just as he did with Jesus
at the river Jordan.
And William Branham said in his sermon From
that time 62-0713 P:102 How many knows there's a difference between the
appearing of Christ and the coming of Christ? It's two different words.
Now's the appearing, the coming will soon be. He's appearing
in the midst of us, doing the works that He once did, in His church. Now,
you're a part of that church, and by grace you believe. I am a member of that
church. Now, I'm not a preacher. You know I'm not. I have not the education to
do it. Sometimes I feel reluctant standing here by men of God, who's called to
that office. There are apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and
evangelists. Not all are apostles, not all are prophets, not all
are teachers, not all evangelists. I'm standing here...But my ministry is a
different ministry from a pastor or teacher. I'm not. And if I say things
wrong, brethren, forgive me. I don't mean it. But this is my ministry (See?)
to declare Him, that He's here.
So the
ministry of William Branham was for one purpose and one purpose only, and that
is for us to see that God Himself has come down to get us ready for the rapture
of the church. And the True vine will respond to that the false vine will not
even know that is what the message is all about. They think it is about a man,
and not the God the man served.
Brother
Branham said in his sermon 52 Anointed
Ones at the End Time 65-0725M These trees--the true vine and false vine... You've heard me preach on
that since--from years ago, how they growed
up together.
Brought them in individuals and showed that from Cain and Abel, the two vines
that met at an altar, both of them religious, both
of them anointed, both of them desiring life and worshipping the
same God, and one was
rejected and the other received. And the only way that the one that was
received could've done anything different from his brother, it was revealed to him, for the
Bible said, "By faith (Hebrews 11th chapter)--"by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent
sacrifice than that of Cain, which God testified that he was righteous." Jesus said (the spiritual revelation of Who He was), "Who does man say I, the Son of man am?" He said, and Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." "Blessed art thou, Simon son of Jonas; flesh and
blood never revealed this to you; My Father which is in heaven has revealed it.
Upon this rock I'll build My church." What? The true
revelation of the Word. There's the
True Vine again. "Abel, by faith..."
Ok, so we
see that both vines grow up side by side in the same Message but the True Vine has
a revelation of what the Message is and they enter into it and they live it, as
Brother Branham said, "They hear it, and recognize and, and act upon
it," while the other Vine just hangs around and talks about it.
Again from
57
Anointed Ones at the End Time 65-0725M Brother
Branham said, "The true vine and
the false vine both had the same anointing. The water fell
on both of them. No wonder He warned us it would deceive the
very elected if it was possible.
Let me
just stop here for a moment and take us to Deuteronomy chapter 32. Notice here
that William Branham said they both had the same water fall on them. Right?
Remember Jesus said "The Rain falls on the just and the unjust".
Is that not what he said? So what is that Rain? Now, let's turn to Deuteronomy 32 and
find out what that rain is?
Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak;
and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 My doctrine
shall drop as the rain,
my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the
grass:
So they both
had the same doctrine, the same Message, because after all every revival comes
via God bringing Revelation of a certain Doctrine to a certain Age. Like Luther
with Justification and Wesley with Sanctification, etc.
He
continues, "Notice. They looked the same; they're
anointed the same. But notice, "By
their fruit..." How do you knowed it, how
do you know that isn't an orange? Because it's bearing a grapefruit. That
vine's all right; it's living in the tree; but it's bearing a grapefruit. It isn't like the first one. And if a
church says they believe Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever,
and deny His power, deny His works, (And
I would like to add, deny what works? John 14:12 the works
that I do shall you do also.) And if a church
says they believe Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, and deny His power, deny His works, (they)
deny His
Word...
You might
say, ok brother you are just obsessed by John 14:12, I'm just saying what the prophet
himself is saying. Just read on and the prophet says so himself.
If... The church that believes in Jesus Christ
will do the works of Jesus Christ; it'll have the Life of Jesus
Christ. And if it isn't... No
matter if the life is pouring into it, if it isn't predestinated from the
roots, it'll bear grapefruit every time or something different. But if it's the predestinated Life in the
Roots, it'll bear Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, if it's the Word coming up through the Root,
which He is the Root, the beginning of time.
You see
how God has been guiding us all along here and we didn't even realize it? Why
was there such a fuss over John 14:12?
Because it reveals who the twins are? The Ones with John
14:12 operating are the true vine and the false deny it and
persecute it.
E-64 End Time
Seed Sign 62-0319 There's a revival going on. What is it? A sowing. You don't hear very much of Billy Graham no more,
do you? What about Oral? What about the rest of them? You know the great
revival fire's not burning. What is it? It's
the end time seed sign. The words
has been sown. What is it? Denomination will reap denomination. That
makes them confederate themselves together. But the Word of God has
been sowed also. And when the Spirit
of God begins to fall, the
Word of God will live in the people. And that false bride that's
committed adultery out there, and brought herself into creeds, and sold out her
birthrights will reap what? A confederation of church, that's to be bound and
burned like the thorns and thistles. But where
the Word of God's been sowed into the people's heart, it will reap a Bride for
Christ as certain as I'm standing here: End time signs.
73-4 Spoken
Word is the original Seed 62-0318E That's what's the matter today. You want some kind
of a phony makeup with screaming, jumping, speaking in tongues, or something, instead of waiting for the real Word of God
to be made manifest to the Bride. Them kind that takes the Word is
God's true Bride, bringing forth children. They can't die. A child the Bride brings forth on the Word
can't die, because It's the Word. Amen. Did you get it? She can't die
'cause she's... That child can't die because he's a Word child; he's a seed child; he's an eternal child.
Hallelujah.
E-73 Conflict
Between God and Satan 62-0531 Fire is the
confirmation of the Light coming from the Word. They will fill... The smart
virgin, the wise virgin, had oil in her lamp, and she trimmed her lamp and lit it. Now, what is it? Now, God is the
Word; the Oil is the Spirit; and the Fire is the Gospel Light on that Oil.
Amen. God said so. See? That's the vessel. All right. The Oil is in the vessel,
and the Fire burning it, shows that it's
reflecting the Light of what the Word said. See? That's the reflection. Now, that wise virgin could do that; but
that other, foolish virgin, was on the outside, had no Oil. And they couldn't reflect nothing but just
their church and their denomination. See? Now, "You say the
Word... You said the Word was Spirit?" Yes, sir. God said, "My word is Spirit." That's right. The true Bride must be unified by the Word. Now,
remember, if she is a part of Christ, she
has to be the Word of Christ. In
order to be the Word of Christ, you have to be baptized into Christ.
And when you're in Christ, you believe
Christ and Christ is the Word. Amen. Amen.
Amen. Do you believe it? Amen. Do you love Him?
Amen. Will you serve Him? Amen. Amen, Amen. He's the
Light of the world. Amen. He's the joy of our hearts. Amen. He's the power of our life. Amen.
Amen, Amen. The Bride must be unified, unified together by
the Word. "My sheep hear My voice," and this is His voice on printed Word.
All right. Unified by the Word, she makes herself ready, not with the regular
creed.
318-5 {270} The
Fourth Seal 63-0321 They finally form up in the image unto the beast, another power,
notice, and act to the Lamb's Bride like she did in Revelation 13:14. That's what they do, just
persecute, just the same thing. The churches makes just as fun of the true Bride of Christ as Rome
ever did (Just exactly. Yes, sir.), acts to the real Lamb's Bride just exactly
like she did in Revelations 13:14. Now, notice, we see by God's Word of
promise, He will kill her children, the denominations, her daughters, with
spiritual death. (Now, that's Revelations 2:22. Don't forget it.) To kill is to put to death,
and death is eternal separation from the Presence of God. Think of that,
friends. Think of that. Don't you trust in any manmade creed. Anything that's
contrary to the Word, you keep away from it.
318-5 The
Fourth Seal 63- 319-2 {290} Notice, The antichrist refuses the true
Bride doctrine,
and therefore he takes his own bride now and builds her up under a creed of his
own,...
Hearing, Recognizing and
Acting upon the Word of God 60-0221 72 Whenever there is a revival, it always produces twins. That's a rude
remark, but it's true. When there was a birth out of, from Isaac and Rebekah, it
produced twins. When the world was created, it produced twins, two trees. And
when Cain and Abel were born, it produced two. When Ishmael and Isaac was born,
it produced two. And when Esau and Jacob was born, it produced two. One of
them, natural (one of them of the earth); the other one Supernatural. And one looked at the natural, intellectual;
the other one walked by the Spirit. It's always been that way. When the
Lutheran church came forth... 73 Let's take Pentecost
first. Look at the Pentecostal birth. It brought forth a great, powerful
revival that swept the known world: Pentecost. It wasn't long after Pentecost
till even Paul said that there would be men rise up among them, with perverse things, and
would turn the people away from God. And that's just exactly what they done. It produces two. When the Lutheran church was born, Martin
Luther brought forth a spiritual revival. It wasn't very long till here come
Esau, right behind him and organized it down. And it produced two. Then after
that come the Methodist, John Wesley, a spiritual revival. And after that come
the organization, organized it down. It'd produced two. And after that come
Pentecost, a revival. And now they've organized it, and now they settle down to
organization. And it produces two. 77 But that spiritual
seed of the living God, though it has to be a sojourner, though it has to be a
rambler, it always causes separation. Esau didn't last very long with Jacob. As soon as Jacob obtained
the birthright (Praise God), it called for separation. And when a man... I
don't care what church you belong to, if it's carnal, and your associates that
you run with, the people you play cards with, and your literature societies,
and so forth, when you obtain the birthright, that something that's down in
your heart that's hungered for God, when you receive that, it calls for
separation. "Come out from among them,
and be ye separate, saith God." Separation... 78 The church settles down. See, it cannot go
on. . . . Esau was a very
good type of the carnal believer today, never able to overcome the world.
He don't overcome the things of the world. They still like their carousing,
their dancing, their manicure make-ups, and, the women, on their faces, and
cutting their hair and wearing little old short clothes; and men likes to go
out to the poolrooms, and smoke cigarettes, and tell little dirty jokes; and
still belong to the church. They're never able to overcome those things:
neither could Esau. But yet, to be
religious, he had to settle down to an intellectual conception. That's the
same thing the church does today. "We'll become an organization. We'll put
ourself together. We'll make a clan, or a clique, or something like that."
And that's the way the church moves today, the spiritual and the carnal, still
the same. It hasn't changed and never will change.
Hearing, Recognizing and
Acting upon the Word of God 60-0607 E-18 Now, these differences has always
been since Cain and Abel, Cain and Abel, the first human beings that produced
life on earth. Adam and Eve brought forth two, one of one kind and one of
another. There was Cain and Abel. There was Esau and Jacob. There was... All along down the line, there's
always been that, the two spirits
warring against one another in the churches. We've had plenty of it.
And it always come to a place where there
had to be a time of separation. Abraham and Lot started out to find the
city whose Builder and Maker was God. Lot
was a carnal character. And it finally come to a place that Abraham and Lot had to be separated
before they could ever, Abraham could ever obtain the promise. They had to separate, one from the other.
And so is it tonight; you've got to
separate yourself from the things of the world. You've got to walk with Christians. I'm a great believer in
Christians fellowshipping with Christians. Yes, sir. You cannot walk
together unless you're agreed. And you agree first with Christ. And every man
agrees in Christ, will agree with you.
E-19 And Abraham and Lot had
to separate before God could bless Abraham. And Lot, did you notice the carnal
condition, yet as a lukewarm church member. He knew that Abraham was living up
there in a tent. But did you notice, his religion was so straight, till Lot
didn't ask the Angel, "Let me go up with Abraham, my uncle." But he
said, "There's a little city down here; let me go to that one." He
still didn't want anything to do with Abraham. See, that's the way it is today;
no matter what you do, the carnal can't associate with the spiritual, no more
than you can make oil and water mix. It will not do it. Therefore,
the church needs a good cleansing. What we need today is some old fashion
revivals, some sweeping revivals, some power of the Lord. We need men and women
who's willing to sell out to everything in this world, to burn every bridge
behind them. We need to take the world today, we ministers, like the old
Norwegians used to take a country. When they went in by ship, they hit the
shore and set the ship afire and burned it behind them. They had no way of
escape. That's the way we ought to do: Burn every bridge and every escape. Sell
out everything for the Kingdom of God and keep moving on. There's no place of
stopping. There's no place of compromising.
E-20 God don't like
compromisers. God don't want His Church to look like the world. He don't want
it to act like the world. He doesn't want to have anything to do with the
world, only to preach the Gospel to the world and to call those
forth. God wants separators.
The church wants mixers. They want a
pastor who'll not be so hard on them, and tell them good things, and not dig
right down, and just rake the hide off of them. Brother, that's what we
need. Here a few weeks ago in a certain place, I had a vision. And there was a
little kitten laying on a pillow. And I was raking him like that. And he was
just purring, and I noticed above him he had a name. And I thought he's the
cutest little fellow, and he was just purring away, like he was sleeping away.
And the Spirit said, "Rake him back the other way once." When I raked him back the other way, all
the snorting and squalling you ever heard, them green eyes shining, he was the
horriblest looking monster I ever seen. Oh, as long as you can let people just
go any way they want to, they'll give you some catnip, all right, but when it
comes to a place... We don't need catnip. We
need the power of the Holy Ghost back into the church and back into the
building, the resurrected Life of Jesus Christ that cleans us up, makes us new
creatures. We need strong wines, not catnip. That's for babies.
311-1 Philadelphia Church
Age - CAB CPT 8 Let me show you what I have been trying to teach all along about
the two vines which come from two different spirits. Take the example of Jesus
and Judas this time. Jesus was the Son of God. Judas was the son of perdition.
God entered into Jesus. Satan entered into Judas. Jesus had a full Holy Ghost
ministry for "How
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: Who went about
doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with
Him." Acts 10:38. It says "For he (Judas) was numbered with us, and had obtained PART of
this ministry," Acts 1:17.
Matthew 10:1, "And
when He had called unto Him His twelve disciples, He gave them power against
unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all
manner of disease."
311-2 Philadelphia Church
Age - CAB CPT 8 That spirit that was in Judas went right along through the ministry
of Jesus. Then they both came to the cross. Jesus was hanged upon the cross,
gladly giving His Life for sinners and commended His Spirit to God. His Spirit
went to God and then was poured out into the church at Pentecost. But Judas
hanged himself and his spirit went back to Satan, but after Pentecost that same spirit that was in Judas came back to the
false vine that grows right along with the true vine. But notice, Judas'
spirit never got to Pentecost. It never went up to receive the Holy Spirit. It
could not. But what did that Judas spirit go for? It went for the bag of gold.
How it loved money. It still loves money. If it goes about in the Name of Jesus
doing mighty things and holding great meetings, it still makes more of money
and buildings, and education and everything with a material concept. Just watch that spirit that is upon them
and don't be fooled. Judas went about as one of the twelve and he did
miracles, too. But he did NOT have the Spirit of God as his own. He did have a ministry.
He never got to Pentecost as he was not true seed. He was not a true child of
God. No sir. And it is that way right now in the synagogue of Satan. Don't be
fooled. You won't be fooled if you are of the very elect. Jesus said you
wouldn't be fooled. Yes, these folks say they are Christians but they aren't.
361-2 Laodicean Church
Age - CAB CHPTR 9 The Consummation of the Gentile
Ages This age is the last of
the seven church ages. What began in the first or Ephesian Age must and will
come to full fruition and harvest in the last or Laodicean Age. The two vines
will yield their final fruit. The two
spirits will terminate their manifestation in each of their final destinations.
The sowing, the watering, the growing is all over. Summer is ended. The sickle
is now thrust into the harvest.
361-3 Laodicean Church
Age - CAB CHPTR 9 In verses 15 to 18 which we have just studied lies the true picture
of the ripened false vine, false spirit, false church people. "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor
hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and
neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth. 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: 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." No words ever spelled out a more bitter
denunciation, and no proud and arrogant religious people ever deserved it more.
Yet in verse 21, "To
him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also
overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne," we find the true vine, true Spirit, true
Church people exalted to the very throne of God with the highest compliment
ever paid to a humble, steadfast Spiritual group.
64-1 Laodicean Church
Age - CAB CHPTR 9 Harvest time. Yes, harvest time. The two vines that grew together
and intertwined their branches are now to be separated. The fruits of those
vines which were at such variance will be gathered into separate garners. The
two spirits will go to their separate destinations. Now it is time to heed the
final call that comes only to the Wheat Bride, 'Come out of her My people that ye be not
partakers of her sins, and that ye (wheat) receive
not her (tares) plagues (the great tribulation of the sixth seal and Matthew 24).
70-3 Ephesian Church Age
CAB CPT 3 Just to seal this point
on the True and false vines mingling and demonstrating the two spirits that are
at work, let us look into I John 4:1-4, and Jude
3,4,12. "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the
spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into
the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that
Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth
not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that
spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and EVEN NOW
ALREADY is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome
them: (antichrist spirit) because greater is He, (God's Spirit) that is in you than he that is in the world." Jude 3,4,12. "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common
salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye
should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the
SAINTS. For there are CERTAIN MEN (not Saints) crept in unawares (these have not come into the fold by means of the DOOR and are
therefore robbers), who
were before of old ordained to this condemnation, UNGODLY men, turning the
grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our
Lord Jesus Christ. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast
WITH you, feeding themselves without fear..." It cannot be denied in the face of these Scriptures that
the True Church and the false church are intertwined, having been planted
together but of different seeds.
Wisdom
vs Faith
62-0401 70-3 These two sources has battled since Eden:
God's faith against Satan's wisdom. God has proven in all ages that it will not
mix; it must be separated to grow. Now, quickly let me run over just a word or
two on each one, just take a few things that I got wrote here. Esau and Jacob
was a perfect type: both of them religious, both of them twins. Esau was the ecclesiastical
type. He was a man that was smart. He had a good moral stands and things like
that, but he didn't have no use for that birthright. Jacob didn't care what he
had to do, just so he got the birthright. And as long as they were together
they could not produce. Is that right? One was against the other. Have you
caught it? Amen! "Come out from amongst it; be ye separate saith God, and
touch not their unclean things; I'll receive you." See? Jacob had to
separate himself from his denominational brother before God would ever bless
him. God told Abraham the same thing. Israel and Moab. The four hundred
prophets of Israel stood before Micaiah, and Micaiah separated himself from
them and got the Word of the Lord and come back with It. Moses and Korah, same
thing, wouldn't mix, they had to separate. Is that true?
Power of
Transformation 65-1031M 135 There's always twins. And that's
the reason... Don't forget this, little flock. The church in
the last days is going to be twins, so close that'd deceive the elected:
Matthew 24:24. See? The church is going... It's a Pentecostal move. It's so much
like the real thing, till it would deceive the very elected if it was possible.
And a little later on, if I get the chance, I want to explain what, how that
election comes. See, it's going to deceive them, because it's almost like the
same thing. See, just two fathers, that's all; same mother, same church, same
movement, same thing. The bedding ground is the same, where the Word falls; but
one of them, like here, is perverted. You understand? Say "amen" if
you did see. [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See, one of them is a perversion, because it's
the wrong father. Which, I will prove someday, if God will let me, that
denomination is the mark of the beast. See, it's a wrong father. He's steering
people to an organization instead of to the Word. See? It's the wrong father. It's a Cain move.
Let us
pray