LOOK
#26
What
are you waiting for
Brian
Kocourek
PP.
139 <read> - Prayer -
What are we waiting for? The troubling of the waters?
It's al
ready troubled. (What is it? It's the Holy Spirit,
among us.) The
angel will leave pretty soon, and all virtue is gone. And then
there's no salvation left. You'll be left in outer
darkness."
This
statement that brother Branham makes here is so
tremendous,
it is so forceful and so powerful, that we do not dare
pass over
it or take it lightly. He is telling us that the people were
looking for the moving of the water and
the very Presence of
Christ was among them. Then He brings it
down to our day and
let's you know that the same Holy Spirit is here in
our midst and
people are still waiting for something else to
happen. He says,
the waters have already been troubled.
What
did the troubling of the waters represent to the people back
then? They knew
when the waters of the pool at
troubled, that it was an evidence to the people that
the presence
of supernatural was in their midst.
And brother Branham let's us know point blank that the same One
Who was there then is here now, and the people are still
looking
for something else to happen. They have missed His Appearing
altogether.
Now
what is so troubling about this, and the reason I want you to
examine this statement with me this morning is
that by missing
His Appearing, by missing the
Troubling of the waters,
they
missed their healing, and you will miss your
salvation. He said,
"The angel will leave pretty soon, and all
virtue is gone. And
then there's no salvation left. You'll be left
into outer dark
ness."
We saw
an example given of a man who had been looking at this
troubling of the waters and had been there as a
witness for 38
years, yet he could not on his own enter into
it. And since he
did not enter into the waters when they were troubled
year after
year, he never received the promise that
the troubled waters
brought.
You can be a witness to "The troubling of the waters
all you
want, You can be a witness to what God has done in His
Appearing
by manifesting His presence among us and declaring it
through the
Prophet, and even see it in progress, and still not be a part
of
it. Just as that man had witnessed the troubling
of the waters
for 38 years and still was not any better off after 38
years than
he was in the 1st year that he witnessed that
supernatural visi
tation of God among the
people.
What
a terrible thought. To be aware of the supernatural presence
of God having come down in our day, and not be able to
enter into
it. How many are aware that God has sent a messenger
in this day
and yet are still not aware that the very Divine Presence of the
Holy Spirit in the form of the Pillar of Fire
has come down and
is in our midst. And even further still, how
many are aware of
His Divine Presence among us in some form and
yet can not enter
into that Presence.
Now
we know that the essence of this message LOOK is that brother
Branham is trying to get the people to focus their attention
on
the presence of the One that he is to declaring.
In his
message entitled FROM THAT TIME PP. 227, brother Branham
said,
"THIS
IS MY MINISTRY, SEE, TO DECLARE HIM, THAT HE IS
HERE!"
Now
if His Message is to declare that Christ is here, then
every
thing he said and did was for one purpose and one purpose
only,
and that was to get the people's attention completely focused
upon one thing and one thing only, and that is
The Presence of
the Resurrected Lord Jesus Christ Who is among us.
But notice this passion plea by brother Branham is stating, The
troubling of the waters gas already happened. The angel of the
Lord will leave pretty soon, and all
virtue is gone. And then
there's no salvation left. You'll be left into outer
darkness.
That
is pretty cut and dry. Time is running out. There's no
more
delay. To find this in scripture let's first turn to the book of
Revelations.
REV
10: 1 - 6 <read> when each seal was opened a thunderous noise
was heard. A mystery of God unfolded like the scroll.
NIV
REV 10:6B
"THERE
WILL BE NO MORE DELAY!"
LAMSA
REV 10: 6B
"THERE
SHOULD BE NO MORE RECKONING OF TIME,"
"DELAY
NO LONGER SHALL THERE BE,"
WUEST
REV 10:6B
"THAT
THERE SHOULD BE NO LONGER ANY DELAY OR RESPITE."
RESPITE: ( a
delay or postponement, especially a postponement
of
the carrying out of a death sentence. )
Now of
course the scripture doesn't just end here and keep you
hanging, (no pun intended).
let's
examine further what it is tell us
REV
10: 5 - 7. <read>
NIV
REV 10: 2 - 3
HE WAS
HOLDING A LITTLE SCROLL, WHICH LAY OPEN IN HIS HAND. HE
PLANTED HIS RIGHT FOOT ON THE SEE AND HIS
LEFT FOOT ON THE LAND,
AND HE GAVE A LOUD SHOUT LIKE THE ROAR OF
A LION.
Now we
see in AMOS 3:7-8 that the voice of God which
comes
through His prophets is likened unto the roar of a lion. It is a
prophetic Voice coming forth in a loud "SHOUT".
AMOS
3: 7 - 8
" Surely the Lord will do nothing, but He revealeth
His secrets
to His servants the prophets. The lion roareth, who will
not
fear? The Lord hath spoken, who can but prophecy."
Notice
also I THES 4: 16 - 17 <read>
We see
even further in REV 5, the One who comes down in REV 10
with this open book is the very one who died as the LAMB
of God.
REV
5: all <read>
Now in
going back to REVELATIONS 10, we see that this mighty
Angel which is none other than Christ Himself, the angel of
the
covenant, He comes down
and puts His feet upon The land and the
sea which we know according to REV 18 that the sea is
multitudes,
nations, tongues and peoples which is all of
SHOUT and hands the open book to the
Prophet Messenger in verse 7
which is also the 7th angel OF REV 3:14 - 20. Let's
read REV 10:
7 again. <read>.
DIAGLOTT
REV 10:7A
AND IN THE DAYS OF THE BLAST OF THE SEVENTH ANGEL...
( Remember
how brother Branham talked about the blast that shook
the hills when those seven angels came down from God?)
BREACH
PG. 104 PP.
3
A
TRUMPET OF GOD SHALL SOUND, THE LAST TRUMP WILL BLAST
SAME TIME THAT THE LAST ANGEL'S GIVING HIS MESSAGE ND THE
LAST
SEAL IS OPENED, THAT
COMES FORTH TO TAKE HIS REDEEMED
POSSESSION, THE CHURCH BLOOD
WASHED.
WHO
DO YOU SAY THIS IS P.
157
THe blast
was the Word coming forth. It was the thunder of Reve
lation 10. pp. 104 LOOK
WEYMOUTH
REV 10:7
There
shall be no further delay; but in the days when the seventh
angel blows his trumpet (what is a trumpet= a
Gospel trumpet
declaring a message) when he begins to do so - then the
secret
purposes of God are realized, in accordance
with the good news
which He
gave to His servants the prophets.
Delay no longer shall there be; but in the days of the sounding
of the seventh messenger as soon as
he is about to blow his
trumpet, then shall have been completed the sacred secret of
God
as He told the good news unto His own servants the
prophets.
Now
what is the message of this 7th angel messenger?
15 the condition, the inditement
16 the verdict
17 it's your perception
or mind set that is
so
wrong and needs changing.
18 The word is needed to
open your eyes
19
repentance is a change of your mindset
20 - 21 who's the
messenger? The Spirit!
So if
the Message of the seventh messenger is BEHOLD He's here,
knocking at the door, then there is more about this
presence than
meets the eye.
Remember, that in JAMES 5 it says, behold the judge is
at the
door. And in REV 10 it says there shall be no more be delay
or
respite which we saw is a relay to an execution of sentence.
Now in
coming back to brother Branhams message LOOK we
see him
say, THE ANGEL WILL LEAVE PRETTY SOON, AND AL VIRTUE IS
GONE. AND
THEN THERE'S NO SALVATION LEFT.
Now here it is, listen close: There is coming a time when you
will no longer be able to move from your mind
set that you are
in. We know that salvation does not deal with what we
can do for
God but what we accept from God. In
Revelations 22 it says there
is coming a time when there will no longer be a change
of the
mind among the people. Everything will be frozen in it's present
condition.
REV
22: 7 - 14 <read>
UNJUST
= from the root of ADIKOS which means unrighteous.
FILTHY
= from root of dirt meaning to become soiled.
RIGHTEOUS
= right wise or having the correct truth.
HOLY
= blameless, sacred or set apart for God, innocent, modest
perfect,
chaste, clean, pure.
Your mind must be changed by this angel who is here to change
your mind because if you do not let Him do so now, you
will never
have the opportunity again.
HEBREWS
6: 1 - 6. <read>
He said, " The angel will leave pretty soon, and all virtue
is
gone. And then there's no salvation left."
Now
I know you are probably thinking, how can there be no salva
tion left. I thought that is why He died on the Cross for me.
I've been told that on the cross when He
said It is finished that
he was putting the finishing touches to my salvation.
As I
have said, over and over, every thing, not just some, but
every thing you thought you understood about God and His
Word and
about your salvation that you learned while under the
teaching
and training of your denomination,
you've got to forget and
forfeit over to God. Paul even said, I count not myself to have
apprehended, but that which I had counted gain, I now
count as
loss that I might receive the excellency of the
knowledge of
Christ Jesus my Lord."
I
PETER 1: 5, 7 -10, 13 <read>
Brother
Branham used HEBREWS 9:28 for his text for this message:
<read>
So it says that this time that He appears it is not for
the suffering part but the salvation part. The Word in the Greek
here is soltare which
simply means deliverance. He has come to
deliver us. But the people will not even accept the fact that he
is here much less accept the deliverance He has for us.
As
I stated before, Brother Branham said in the message entitled
FROM
THAT TIME and in pp. 227,
"THIS IS MY MINISTRY, SEE, TO DECLARE HIM, THAT HE IS HERE!"
These
eleven words could very well be the most PROFOUND statement
that Brother Branham has ever said, and yet the
majority of
people who claim to follow his message
simply pass over these
words and do not understand what He is trying to tell them.
In the
synagogue at
ACTS chapter 13 and verse 41, Paul prophesied that there
would
come a ministry in the end time that would declare
that the very
Presence of the Resurrected Lord Jesus
was among the people, and
that Christ would even vindicate His own
Presence among the
people at this time but they will still not even
believe it.
"BEHOLD, YOU SCOFFERS, BE ASTONISHED
AND PERISH: FOR I WILL WORK
A WORK IN
YOUR DAYS, A WORK WHICH YE SHALL UTTERLY REFUSE TO
BELIEVE, THOUGH A MAN FULLY DECLARE IT UNTO YOU."
That
is why I can understand perfectly why people can not receive
it or even believe it, for they are destined not to
see it or
believe it least God would have to do for them what He has
come
to do for His own Elect.
pp.
139 - 146. <read> all & song. PRAY