Spoken
Word no. 47
The
End-Time Depression Judgment Pt. 1
Brian Kocourek
In
this message we wish to examine a thought that brother Branham spoke and then
take it to the scriptures to see where he was coming from when he said these
words.
From PP. 100 of the Message JEZEBEL RELIGION 61-0319, brother Branham said, When God sends forth a message and tells the
people, and they don't receive it, then He withdraws His servant and sends His
plagues: famine, death, spiritually speaking, physically also. You watch for a depression, brother. You
think you've seen something; you just wait after while. You haven't seen
nothing. You think
you're dying for a good spiritual revival; you wait till after a bit. You just
wait, long and cry to hear the Word of God. The Bible said so. "There'll
be a famine in the last days," said the prophet, "and not for bread
and water alone, but for hearing the true Word of God." But that voice
will be quiet in the wilderness somewhere, hid away. He ordained the ravens, His servants. Bless
them birds, His servants, that kept the voice of--of Elijah alive during the
time of his--his isolation from the church.
Now,
there are those people who think he meant a spiritual depression, which I can
understand why they would think that, but as you will see by scripture and
other things brother Branham tells us that there is coming an economic
depression on a scale that the world has never seen before.
From,
Daniel 8:23-25: we read, And in the latter time (in the last days) of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the
fullness (Completion), a king of
fierce countenance (mighty Presence), and
understanding dark sentences (double dealings), shall stand up (shall present himself or come on the scene). 24 And his power (wealth), shall be mighty (vast), but not by his own power (not by his own ability to produce wealth, which
means he gets it from others): and he shall destroy wonderfully (Bring to ruin, pervertion and
corruption), and shall prosper (make great profits) , and practise (bring about a press or squeeze), and shall destroy (bring to ruin) the mighty (the many nations) and the holy people (the set apart nation of God, The Jews). 25 And through
his policy also
he shall cause craft (deceit and fraud) to prosper in his
hand; and he shall magnify [himself] in his heart, and by peace (quietness, ease and prosperity) shall destroy (corrupt, pervert and ruin) many: he shall also stand up (stand forth and present himself) against (on behalf or on account of) the Prince of
princes (Christ); but he shall be broken without hand (when the final act is played out).
2 Thess 2:3-13: ¶ Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall
not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition; 4
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is
worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
that he is God. 5 Remember ye not,
that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he
might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth
already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the
way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be
revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall
destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9
[Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and
signs and lying wonders, 10 And with
all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they
received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13
¶ But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of
the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Daniel 11: 21-23: ¶ And in his estate
(office) shall stand up(rise up) a vile
person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall
come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. 22 And with the arms of a
flood (or overwhelming political force) shall they be overflown (swept away)
from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. 23 And after the league [made] with him he
shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a
small people.
Daniel 12:1-10: ¶ And at that time
shall Michael (Christ) stand up (Come on the scene and present Himself), the great prince which standeth for (takes His stand with) the children of thy people: and there shall be
a time of trouble (distress), binding or press upon as to
squeeze), such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that
same time: and at that time thy people (Kinsman) shall be delivered (slip out unknown to safety), every one that shall be found written in the book (genealogical record).
Now, I want you to notice
this next verse because it provides a clue to the time of this great escape.
2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall
awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt. In
other words, this will be at the time of the Resurrection. 3 And they that be wise (This speaks of the Wise Virgin) shall
shine (send forth light by warning and teaching and this
teaching shall be) as the brightness of the firmament; and they
that turn many to righteousness (right-wise-ness) as the stars (brothers) for ever and ever. 4 But
thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the
end (In
which time)
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. 5 ¶ Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there
stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other
on that side of the bank of the river. 6
And [one] said to the man clothed in linen, which [was] upon the waters of
the river, How long [shall it be to] the end of these wonders? 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which
[was] upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left
hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that [it shall be] for
a time, times, and an half (time = one, times = 2, and 1/2
= total of 3-1/2 years); and when he
shall have accomplished (or brought to a finish) to scatter (the shattering or breaking) of the power of the holy people (God's set apart nation, the Jews), all these [things] shall be finished. 8
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what [shall be] the
end of these [things]? 9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words [are] closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
And when is that? When the
Seven Seals are opened, at that time everything will be in place for the
fulfillment of this prophecy
10 Many shall be purified ("by the washing of water by the Word", Eph
5:26-7 , Psalm 119:9) , and made white,
and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall
understand; but the wise shall understand.
Now
we see the same scene played out in the book of Luke.
Luke 21:25: And
there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars;
I have been reading much
about the year 2,000 and it is very interesting that in this year there is to
be an event that happens only once every 38 years. It has something to do with
a solar storm, a huge comet that has a long tail made up of thousands upon
thousands of meteorites into the earths path.)
and upon the earth
distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them for
fear, and for looking after those things
which are coming on the earth: for
the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and
great glory. 28 And when these things begin to come to pass,
then look up, and lift up your heads; for
your redemption draweth nigh.
29 ¶ And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the
trees; 30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know
of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. 31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come
to pass, know ye that the
Now, what is this distress
of nations and why is it so perplexing? This is what we must know if we are to
understand why everyone on earth is going to be affected. The word distress is a Greek word, sunoche
which means: a narrowing, a constraining or a press. To hold together with
constraint. To press on every side, like
the forcing a ship into a narrow channel
or the forcing of an animal into a position where it can not move so the farmer
can administer medication. To impel. From this we can see that the whole world is
being pushed or squeezed into a
universal condition from all sides in order to receive the medication called
the New World Order or one world government.
And then we see that the world will be perplexed by this Squeeze. And the word perplexed means that they are
confused and don’t understand what is really happening and thus begin to panic.
(Remember that Brother Branham said that the world must come into a neurotic
condition, and the first stage of this neurosis is anxiety which is to worry
about what might happen.)
Luke 21:26 Men's
hearts failing them for fear, and for
looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
We find also in Hebrews 12:25-29 25 See
that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if
they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more [shall not] we
[escape], if we turn away
from him that [speaketh] from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now
he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I
shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this [word], Yet once
more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things
that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace,
whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God [is] a consuming fire.
87-4 HEBREWS CHAPTER
3 57-0901M And so I believe
that--that Rosella will finally turn into the mission field somewhere; because
America doesn't want the Gospel (You know that.); we just might as well admit
that. This Anglo-Saxon people is finished; that's all. There's no more Gospel
that
18-7 THIS DAY THIS
SCRIPTURE 65-0219 We had a great
nation; but she is now rottening and crumbling and shaking and giving away, and
trying to tax people to get money to send over yonder to buy friendship with
our enemies. They're throwing it back in our face. One world war, two world
wars, and still moving on to a third one.
Certainly. Politics is rotten, corrupted, rotten to the bottom.
Testimony 63-1128M 20 011
I was trying to say last night, the
world’s coming to a place it's falling apart, politically, socially,
economically.You say, "Economics? More money." Yes, but where's it coming from? We're
borrowed on taxes that'll be paid forty years from today. She's broke. She's
bankrupt, the nation: not this nation, but all of them. And there's no way ever
getting it back. And it's a trap set
exactly to swing this nation into something. And all of you are wise on
that. Well, who's got the wealth of the world? Who holds it? [Someone says,
"
(That is what we need to do
ourselves. We need to be observant of what is happening, to be able to tell
what spirit is motivating the people.)
Now, we know that the
But we know the Jews hold
the paper, but the paper is becoming worthless. But who holds the gold? That is
the key, right there and we know
The problem is that our
entire world economy is based on a paper house that is soon to tumble. Oneness 62-0211 48 031 The
whole world's based on that. The whole
economy of this nation is based upon false conception.
The Supernatural 56-0129
E-37 037 Brother and sister, our great
167-4 {341}
The First Seal 63-0318 Now, watch. In the
end time, not in the early days when Christ was preaching, but in the end time,
the last part of the week, where we just took the seventy weeks of Daniel; and
Christ has prophesied for the three and a half years, and three and a half
years are yet determined. Is that right? And this prince in that time is to
make a covenant with Daniel's people, which is the Jews. That's when the
Bride's taken out now. She won't see it.
{342} Notice. In the last
one-half of Daniel's week, the people makes a covenant--this prince makes a
covenant with Rome; makes a covenant with them no doubt for the wealth, for
Catholic and Jew holds the wealth of the world.
I was in the
Note: that was at the rate of $30 per oz. In the 60’s.
Today gold is 30 times greater in value at $906 per oz. Therefore, 100 billion
billions would be 1.0 x 1022 power that means it would be worth
today about 100 sextillion. And I guess that only figures that it would be in
the SEXtillions seeing that the word
Why, you... And just think, "The wealth of the world," the Bible said, "was found in her." (now, if it is the wealth of
the world, then where did it get that wealth from? The rest of the world of
course. You ever wonder how it is that you can pay say, $50 for a share of
stock and then one day that stock is worthless? Where did the money go? Whose
got the money that you invested that is now worthless? Someone has to have it.
It just doesn’t disappear. Then brother Branham says.), Just think of the great places, the billions
times... Why did Communism raise up over here in
{349} And after the church is taken away,
{350} We can't call
it in. And if we could do it, do you think these whiskey guys and all these
tobacco people with billions times billions of dollars a year and write off all
their income tax for old vulgar pictures and things like that, go out in
Arizona there and buy millions of acres of land--or thousands--and dig them big
wells at fifty thousand dollars and pay it off with income tax? And they'd put
you in jail if you don't pay yours. But they write it off and throw up wells
and send bulldozers in. And what do
they do? They put housing projects in there, and the next turn around with
their money they made (they have got to make an investment) and put houses, projects
in there and sell them for millions of dollars. Do you think them guys is going to compromise to change the currency?
{352} Like this fellow down here, Castro did. He
done the only smart thing he ever did do then, when he destroyed the bonds: paid
them off and destroyed them. Notice, but we can't do that. These guys won't let
us. The rich merchants of the earth hold it, and then there's only one thing to
do: The Catholic church can pay it off.
She's the only one that's got the money; she can do it, and she will do it. And in doing this to get it, she'll compromise
with the Jews and make a covenant, and when she makes this covenant with the
Jews... Now, remember, I'm taking this from the Scriptures. And now, when she
does this and makes this covenant, we notice in Daniel 8:23 and 25 he will
cause craft to prosper (And craft is manufacturing.), in his hand.
{354} And he makes
this covenant with the Jews, and in the midst of this three and a half years,
he breaks his covenant as soon as he gets the thing wrapped up and gets the
money of the Jews tied up. And when he does that, oh, my, oh, my, he's
called the antichrist until the end of the church age, for he and his children
are against Christ and the Word. This man's called the antichrist. Now, he's
going to hold the money. And that's where I think he'll come in. Just a minute,
while I say this, then I want to go back to it in a minute. He's called the antichrist and will be called
the antichrist in the sight of God until the end time. Now, but then he'll be
called something else. {359} Now, when
he gets the money all under control, then he'll break this covenant with the
Jews, as Daniel here said he would do it, in the midst of the last half of the
seventy weeks of Daniel.
And then, brother, what will he do? He will have all of the world trade and the commerce, a pact with the
world, 'cause he'll hold the wealth of the world completely. And during that time, them two prophets will
rise on the scene and call that hundred and forty-four thousand. Then what'll
take place? Then the mark of the beast
of Revelations 13 will set in, 'cause he holds all the commerce, trade and
everything of the world. And what will take place then? The mark of the beast
will come in that no man can buy or sell except him that has the mark of the
beast. Thank God, the Church will be enjoying a great three and a half years in
glory. Don't have to go through that.
E-26 026 You
see, if Satan has a kingdom, he's got to have a false economy. He's got to have something that he can present to
them to make them think they are living. But it's absolutely on the vice versa
side. It's death in the form of life.