LOOK #14

Envy

MARCH 29

Brian Kocourek

 

Last Sunday we focused our thoughts on brother Branham's state­ment in pp. 92 of His Message "LOOK" that he preached right after the Seals were opened. In pp. 92 he said, ""TODAY, EVEN NOW, THE HOLY SPIRIT IS IN THE EARTH MOVING, SHOWING THINGS; AND PEOPLE RUN FROM IT INSTEAD OF GETTING INTO IT."

 

We examined the scriptures and we saw that Satan has always  used envy as his chief weapon in holding down or suppressing the Truth.

 

ROMANS 1:18 (read)    

 

MATTHEW 23:13  (read)

 

ENVY: ENVY SEEKS TO DEPRIVE ANOTHER OF WHAT HE HAS, WHILE JEAL­OUSY SEEKS TO HAVE THE SAME, OR THE SAME SORT OF THING FOR IT­SELF.

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This week ... pp. 92 - 93.(read)

Now I just want to stop here and make this comment. If it never was done in the Bible then what would make people look for it. A false promise From a false source. It's the same lie told to Eve.

 

GENESIS 2:16 - 17  (read)

 

GENESIS 3:1  (read)

Look at that old fox quote scripture and watch the woman's reply.

 

GENESIS 2:2-3 (read)

She just repeated what God had told her head, Adam. But watch this interloper and his slick answer. Notice what he told her. Watch his nature all the way through.

 

GENESIS 3:4 - 5 (read)

'YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED AND YE SHALL BE AS GODS"

 

Isn't that the very reason He was kicked out of heaven?

 

EZEKIEL 28:12 - 15 (read)

Now what was that iniquity?

 

ISAIAH 14: 12 - 15  (read)

Who are those stars and clouds that he exalted Himself above?  Stars and clouds = SONS OF GOD. REFLECTORS OF HIS GLORY.

 

JOB 38: 4-7 says...

WHERE WERE YOU BEFORE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLD WERE LAID, WHEN THE MORNING STARS SANG TOGETHER AND ALL THE SONS OF GOD SHOUTED FOR JOY.

 

REVELATION 1:4 says...

JOHN TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES WHICH ARE IN ASIA: GRACE BE UNTO YOU, AND PEACE, FROM HIM WHICH IS, AND WHICH IS TO COME; AND FROM THE SEVEN SPIRITS WHICH ARE BEFORE HIS THRONE:


 

                      LOOK #14 (pg.2)

REVELATION 1:7 says...                                       

BEHOLD HE COMETH WITH CLOUDS AND EVERY EYE SHALL BEHOLD HIM.

 

REVELATION 1:12A says...

I TURNED TO SEE THE VOICE OF THE ONE THAT SPAKE TO ME...

 

REVELATION 1:14  says...

HIS HEAD WERE AS IT WERE WHITE LIKE WOOL, AS WHITE AS SNOW; AND HIS EYES WERE AS A FLAME OF FIRE. AND HIS FEET LIKE FINE BRASS...

 

( What does brass signify?  ... Judgment! He's Judge!

 

In REVELATION 3:1 It calls these seven spirits of God Seven stars

which brother Branham told us in the Church age Book that these Seven Spirits oF God are actually the One Spirit of God in seven attributes that come forth into the world seven times through seven men who reflect the word of God as a star is a reflection that gives light in the absence of the Son.

 

In the book of Jude it refers to men as both stars and clouds and in this reference is speaking of those lost souls who are clouds without water and are wandering stars which brother branham says are those who wander here and there and never find stability in this word. He also called them wondering stars because they are always wondering about this and wondering about that.

 

GOD'S POWER TO TRANSFORM PP. 242 9 -11 - 65

OH, WANDERING STARS, HOW LONG WILL YOU WONDER? WANDERING FROM PILLAR TO PLACE. WHY DON'T YOU COME OVER? HE LONGS TO HAVE FEL­LOWSHIP WITH YOU. HE IS LONGING FOR YOU. HE WANTS TO TRANSFORM YOU BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND....PP. 314..."WANDERING STARS, NEVER STABLE."

 

Now notice how Satan's own opinion of himself he wanted to be above the stars of God. I WILL EXALT MYSELF ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS. He wanted to be above the very Opinion and Assessment of God Himself.

 

LUKE 21:27  says...

AND THEN SHALL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY (doxa). And what made up THAT cloud that came to open the Seals? Seven angels. Seven spirits of the seven messengers which were the seven spirits of God or the seven attributes of The One True God displaying Himself in a seven fold mystery. Gods own opinion and assessment, come down with a SHOUT.

 

ACTS 1:9 - 10 says...

AND WHEN HE HAD SPOKEN THESE THINGS, WHILE THEY LOOKED ON HE WAS TAKEN UP; AND A CLOUD RECEIVED HIM OUT OF THEIR SIGHT. AND WHILE THEY LOOKED STEDFASTLY TOWARD HEAVEN AS HE WENT UP, BEHOLD, TWO MEN STOOD BY THEM IN WHITE APPAREL; WHICH ALSO SAID, "YE MEN OF GALILEE, WHY STAND YE GAZING UP INTO HEAVEN? THIS SAME JESUS, WHICH IS TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN, SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN.

                         LOOK #14 (pg.3)

 

And so we see Satan wanting to put forth the opinion he had of himself above the heights of the clouds or above even Gods own opinion of Himself reflected by His Stars and in His clouds of Glory.

 

JOHN 7:18

HE THAT SPEAKETH OF HIMSELF SEEKETH HIS OWN DOXA: BUT HE THAT SEEKETH HIS GLORY THAT SENT HIM, THE SAME IS TRUE, AND NO UN­RIGHTEOUSNESS IS IN HIM.

 

Now notice back in GENESIS how Satan began to get Eve to look at her own self, and to get her eyes off of the Truth that God had spoken to her head, Adam.

 

GENESIS 1:5  (read)

Now look at what he said to her and how it changed her opinion. She had just reflected God's opinion when she told the serpent, "YE SHALL NOT EAT OF IT NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT, LEST YE DIE." Now watch her change of opinion from God's opinion to Satan's opinion in the next verse.

 

GENESIS 1:6  (read)...

Now how could something that will kill you be good for food. She lost her mind when she lost the mind of Christ. Now the woman always types the church. And so we see Paul warn the early church that Satan had once again come in the disguise as ministers of light and had seduced that early church.

 

II CORINTHIANS 11:1 - 5... (read) by those super apostles.

 

Another Jesus, another Gospel, another Spirit. And I am sure that the Jesus, Gospel and Spirit preached by these super Apostles ha d to be a super Jesus, a super Gospel, and a super spirit. No suffering involved. Just on top of the mountain all the time.

 

Yet we see that the Tree of Life was in the garden with Adam and Eve and the only tree forbidden to eat from was the serpent. So why did they not eat from the tree of Life in their midst?

 

GENESIS 2: 7 - 9, 16-17...(READ)...

Now notice that man was told to eat of every tree except the serpents tree. So why didn't they run to the tree of Life?

 

ISAIAH 53: 1 - 6.

He was a tender plant like a root out of dry ground. And it says we esteemed Him not. Well, He hasn't changed has He? Doesn't MALACHI 3:6 and HEBREWS 13:8 say He is the same and changes not? So He must still be despised and rejected and esteemed not. To esteem means to give the proper value or assessment, in other words, to have the right opinion of, but He will never receive it from the religious world because of the way he hides in simplici­ty.


 

                            LOOK #14

 

Now notice VS (6). "WE HAVE TURNED EVERY MAN TO HIS OWN WAY." That is exactly what brother Branham is trying to telling us in pp. 93 -98.(read)...

 

THEY ARE LOOKING FOR BIG THINGS, SUPER DUPER THINGS TO HAPPEN. Notice in PP. 98, "NOW IF IT ISN'T GOING ON ALL THE TIME AND WE'RE ON TOP OF THE HOUSE JUMPING AROUND, WE FEEL, "WELL, WE'LL LEAVE THIS CHURCH. IT'S COOLED OF." WHAT A NONSENSE."

 

Then he tells us the people just can't wait for God to trouble the waters. He said We've gotten away from the very thing that God told us to LOOK at. And That Is to Christ and He is the Word.

 

The Revealed Word of God is our only hope and stay. NOTHING OUTSIDE THE REVEALED WORD WILL COME TO LIFE. IT CAN'T. Let's tell the whole story.

 

JOHN 3;16 - 21 ... (read)

 

It's not enough that God Raised the dead some seven times in William Branham's ministry, but that will never do. No, they got to have twenty and seven. And yet how often are they challenged to bring forth proof. But you come with The Truth of Thus Saith The Lord, and they will challenge you as quick as you could spit. And yet the people are so gullible that they just feed on that nonsense. Show me where the number twenty seven comes up any where in scripture. God deals in three's and five's and seven's. why would any more than seven be necessary. Seven is completion.

 

II THES 2: 8 - 12 (read)...

WUEST....AND THEN SHALL THE LAWLESS ONE BE DISCLOSED IN HIS TRUE IDENTITY, WHOM THE LORD JESUS SHALL SLAY WITH THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH <which is His Word>, AND RENDER INOPERATIVE BY THE SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF HIS PERSONAL PRESENCE, THE COMING AND PRESENCE OF WHOM THE MAN OF LAWLESSNESS IS ACCORDING TO THE OPERATION OF SATAN IN A SPHERE OF MIRACLES DEMONSTRATING POWER AND ATTESTING MIRACLES AND MIRACLES OF STARTLING, IMPOSING, AMAZEMENT-WAKENING CHARACTER WHICH DECEIVE, AND WHOSE COMING AND PRESENCE IS IN THE SPHERE 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 MIGHT BE JUDGED WHO DID NOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH BUT TOOK DELIGHT IN WICKEDNESS.

 

Always numbers. Super duper churches. The seat of Satan himself.

IT IS WRITTEN, REJOICE THOU BARREN THAT BEAREST NOT; BREAK FORTH AND CRY, THOU THAT TRAVAILEST NOT; FOR THE DESOLATE HATH MANY MORE CHILDREN THAN SHE WHICH HATH A HUSBAND.

 

II THES 2:13 (PRAYER)