Who Is This Melchisedec? # 6
Bro. Lee Vayle
August 17, 1988
Father, we just want to commend ourselves to You this evening hour knowing Lord that as it was in the days of Paul, Paul said, “Some things were hard to be understood,” and because their minds were back in the childish day Lord, of speaking in tongues, dividing the church and working out little things in their lives Lord, which gave them glory rather than You and we’re Lord in that same old Pentecostal Corinthian Laodicean age. We pray therefore You’ll help us to come to a place of maturity in our hearts and our minds concerning Your Word, to hear the things that Bro. Branham said, they might not be twisted, they might not be one word out of place but just exactly as he said it. Help us Lord to understand what lies in this message tonight, we have to rely upon You. We know as the prophet said, “That anybody’s hand can open the book but only You Lord can reveal it to us.” We pray You’ll do that tonight. Help us O God. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.
Now we’re looking at number six in Who Is This Melchisedec?, and in this
message Bro. Branham categorically states that Melchisedec was no mere man of
whom there is no genealogical record whatsoever, but actually He was God manifested
in a human form. He’s not called in
human flesh as in the case of the Lord Jesus Christ but this is God revealed in
a human form, He was a man. Now this
appearance in Genesis fourteen is only one of many appearances wherein God
simply put on one of several forms He uses from time to time according to what
He desires or according to what He wants to, or how He wants to reveal Himself
to His people at that certain time that He wants to do it.
So there’s a time when God wants to reveal Himself. I think Bro. Branham called it a juncture, and
when He wants to reveal Himself then He will use a form which is convenient to
Him and revelatory to the people. Now it
is known that God has appeared in light--that’s one of the forms. He appeared in a Pillar of Fire, He took the
form of angels, even a cloud, and another time caused His Presence to be known
by moving in nature as the wind blows in a tree, other times it’s just a voice,
most of all, that is numerically, He uses prophets as in Hebrews 1:1, “God in
the prophets.” And the full sum of these
appearances was to the end that one day God would actually indwell a human
body, a real human being called His only begotten Son, or the only begotten Son
of God, to be known as Jesus which is ‘Jehovah Saviour’, or Emmanuel; God with
us, or as the Scripture says, “God manifested in flesh.”
Now the great revelation contained in this message and that which
pertains to us at the end time, which is the end of the age as is signified in
Ephesians 1, which means a spirit of wisdom and revelation comes into the
church, and in Heb 5:11 on into 6, especially shows you there’ll be an end time
revelation of Melchisedec. And then in
Ephesians 4, speaking of the time of maturity when we will know the doctrine
and we’ll know it in such a way that we cannot be detained from learning it, or
we cannot be swayed from it at any time.
And you’ll find that is given to us on page fourteen and paragraph 64,
starting, now we took this last Sunday but we’ll go over it again.
[64] Now God in this stage of His creation later formed into flesh
Jesus.
Now what is he saying? He’s talking about the time of Genesis fourteen when God appeared to (as) Melchisedec in a human form and we know that it wasn’t human flesh and blood as it was in the time of Jesus, and it wasn’t truly a man as we recognize humanity, but it was God as Bro. Branham says,
[64] Now God in this stage of His creation.
What stage of God’s creation? Creating Himself in the form of human flesh according to Rev 3:14. So let me read it again.
[64] Now God in this stage,
In other words applying the principles of how He wishes to actually come into a human vessel Himself, from this stage Melchisedec, chapter fourteen of Genesis, there is a time later, and this is just one of the stages that
[64] ...He comes into the flesh of Jesus. Now he says, from what? Now, in other
words, what does Jesus actually come from?
Where does this God manifest in flesh come from? He says, “From the great
beginning Spirit.”
Now, we understand that the Spirit never had a beginning. So he’s not talking about that. I would suggest that Bro. Branham is actually saying here, From the great beginning Spirit, He is using beginning as an adjective. And we would perhaps use another word which would be a little clearer to understanding and that is from the great begetting, the great beginning power or the great begetting power that lay within the Holy Spirit then God would start something and then bring it to a climax, whatever climax He wanted. So now he’s saying here,
[64] ...From the great beginning Spirit, then came down to be Word, bringing
Itself out.
Now, we look at the thought here
again, “From the great beginning Spirit,” that’s where it started. There was something there that could begin to
do this, so it begins to evolve, then watch, “then came down to be the Word.”
Now, I cannot help but go back to Philippians, the second chapter, to
get his meaning. Verse 5.
(5) Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
(6) Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
(7) But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: (And so on.)
Now, I see here then a stepping down, a condescending, where God begins
to do something which involves Himself and us, and it is a coming down. In other words, God beginning like a
transformer to begin to adapt Himself to humanity, begin to start already to adapt
Himself to the Zoe that lay within Him that He would have to accommodate. You follow what I’m saying?
Well, let me see. Over here we
got it. [Bro.
Vayle draws diagrams.]
We’ll start here [1] with God as a
circle and we’re looking at the fact that in God, which is eternal Spirit not
having a beginning or an ending, He has in mind that He will form Himself into
human flesh. Now this is because there
lies within Him Zoe. Now Zoe in here [1z] is not manifested. It lies in there inherently but cannot be
visible unless God does something about it.
Now it’s not that Zoe lies in Him as though every building block is in
Him but Zoe as an attribute, as the manifestation which can come forth from Him
and only come forth from Him because all things were created by God and there
was nothing made that was not made by God.
So this [1] is part of
creation. This is a part of the
omniscience that lies within omnipotence.[1o]
Now, He’s going to bring it down here [5] at some future time.
See? In this area here. And He’s going to identify Himself with
whatever He has done here [6] and
the identification is going to lie within Adam, Adam’s race, or sons. Okay?
So that’s what you’re looking at.
See? Now God’s going to identify
Himself and in the identification you will understand there is also there
redemption which must be worked out. So
he says here in this verse here,
[64] From what? From the great
beginning Spirit, then come down to be the Word bringing Itself out.
So he’s got in here [1b ]a
beginning, and of course you’ve got the beginning up here [1z] in Zoe too. But in this area here [1b] and I won’t try to make it the whole coverage of God, I won’t
try to do that, but in here [1b] a
part of that make up in here, [2] He
then begins to step it down. See? Now He’s beginning to step that [2] down from just being God Himself.
“And in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God.” And I think this beginning with
God and the Word is God is merely a figure of speech more so than anything
because let’s face it, God is God. Now,
so now he says here, [2] “We got
Word.” Let’s take a look and see if
that’s what he says. Okay.
[64] ...Then came down to be the Word, bringing Itself out. Okay, there’s got to be then a
manifestation. All right, we go a little
further. The Word doesn’t yet make Itself, it’s just spoken out, En morphe.
Now En morphe positively means a mask or a form. So if it is spoken out and it’s no longer then contained in silence. It’s no longer contained in silence. There is a moving of some description begins to take place. Now then, in here you have En morphe. “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, (and the Word had to be in God,) the same was in the beginning with God,” then it talks about all the things that were transpiring, then it says here, that this Word come on down. But it’s not down there yet. See? All it tells you is that here were beginnings up here and the beginnings were to go down to here, in that area. So that’s what I’m looking at now. Now,
[64] The Word doesn’t yet make Itself,
What’s he talking about? Flesh.
It’s just spoken out, En morphe, later He becomes flesh, Jesus mortal
to taste death for all us sinners.
Now, we’re going to bring this then down here, after He becomes a Word form and in that Word form you can find a...actually you’re going to that find Bro. Branham puts this here as Melchisedec. He was that form. Now he said here, He come on down, later He’ll tell you, we don’t see Him any more, we come on down here and we see Him, in Jesus, and He’s fully identified with the Adamic race. Adam’s race, fallen sons. Takes their form but not entirely flesh, He only took a part of it. So, that’s what he’s aiming for and of course that’s where it’s going to go. So let’s look some more. Now it says,
[64] ...Jesus, mortal to taste death for all sinners.
We drop down to 66.
[66] Also we see Him revealed here in Ruth and Boaz.
No, that’s a little kind of a slip of the tongue because it’s not perfectly with what his thinking is. His thinking is we see Him revealed here in the book of Ruth, Boaz the kinsmen. Ruth is no kinsmen. That is, she’s no kinsmen redeemer. She’s kinsmen like Bride is kinsmen. But the Kinsmen Redeemer is what we’re looking at, the one Kinsmen Redeemer of flesh in the book of Ruth, typed in Ruth and Boaz, where He redeems the Bride and each one of those is counted male so you get a kinsmen effect there but the great Redeemer is there,
[66] ...How He had to become flesh.
Now how He had to become flesh was why? Shed blood. Now He couldn’t shed blood here. No way. Because what you’re looking here is this particular area here where God is beginning to move Himself into a form what He associated with His own children where He’s going to redeem them.
Okay here now, let’s go a little further here. Now, mortal to die for sin, but what about En
morphe today? Because Bro. Branham
mentions, we have God En morphe in a Pillar of Fire and in a prophet. Now there it is right there on the wall. Now what about today? And we jump... remember we’re talking about
today when we talk about Melchisedec.
Okay, number one; He reveals Himself to the Bride and number two; He
sits as Judge because He brings the Word for the last hour and judgement is set
in. And many other points we could say
too but we’ll just leave it there. Let’s
read this again.
[64] Now God in this stage of His creation, that’s at the time of
Melchisedec, He wanted to form Himself, not into that form [2] which is a Word form that comes from
up above. It’s all a Word form. From
what? He starts in the great beginning [1b] where it all started in the
sovereignty, omniscience, omnipotent of
God, [1o] then
came down [2] to be Word, bringing Itself out. The Word doesn’t make Itself flesh yet, it’s
only spoken out, and the speaking out brings that, later He became flesh, Jesus, mortal to taste
death for all of us sinners.
Okay? Let’s go to 65 now.
[65] When Abraham met Him, Now you can put that as Jesus or
God. I suppose the best way to do it is
because he’s talking about God later becoming in the flesh of Jesus, we’ll
leave it back there simply Elohim, God. When Abraham met God, God was Melchisedec. Now, notice what he says about Melchisedec
being what He is here, [3] talking
about today. And he says, He unfolds here
what all attributes will do in the end time.
Every son of Abraham. Now,
you almost have to hear the tape here I guess to see if the punctuation is
correct. And this is why this can be
very, very, difficult to understand. When Abraham met God, God was Melchisedec.
In other words, Melchisedec was the character He was playing in His great drama. Right? God...okay, let’s put it up here. Up here, [2c] there is a character in the great drama. Down
here, [3c] there is a character in the great drama. Down here [5c] there is a character in the great drama. Always God is in the drama and He is the star of His own production. Everything else rotates around Him but everything around Him contributes to the revelation, to the play, to the great drama, to the out working of the omniscience which was in Almighty God.
Okay, we got these characters here. Now, we look again.
[65] When Abraham met Melchisedec,
He was the character of the head of a great priesthood and His name was Melchisedec, which is King of Righteousness, also after that King of Peace [3krp] setting in order a perfect type for Jesus the Christ. Now, He unfolds here. See? At this point. He begins to unfold and the unfolding will have to go on to this very hour until it’s completely revealed.
Now I’m sticking my neck out--I’ll be honest with you. I have to believe God the same as you do to understand exactly what Bro. Branham is saying here. He unfolds here, [3krp] now listen, He unfolds here what all the attributes--okay, we’re going to get the blue here--all the attributes. Now, He unfolds here what all the attributes will do in the final end.
[65] ...Every son of Abraham.
Now I don’t know that you need a period there. I think you should have a semi-colon quite
possibly at the final end. Every son of Abraham; every son of faith. So what we’re looking at then, you are going to see unfolded what all the
attributes which are the sons of Abraham and every son of faith--see? At the final end will absolutely do the same thing.
Now, to absolutely do the same
thing, can only mean one thing to me; follow in the identical pattern. That’s all I can see. It’s going to come to the pattern.
So, all right, what are these attributes? These attributes were there before there was
nothing but God. So therefore these are
the seeds. Now they are not just
thoughts. We showed you that and we’ll
show you that again. They are the actual
attributes, or seeds, or souls. So,
we’re going to look here--attributes, seeds, souls, sons of Abraham, sons of
faith, well it would be called sons of God too.
What else do you have here?
Attributes. Here you are.
All of that tells you literally that at the final end. Now if the final end is New Jerusalem, and it
could also be under the Seventh Seal because everything congeals and runs out
to the end. So, we either have an
induction at this point into New Jerusalem and the final or we are looking down
the road to the final. Now you know we
have already got an induction other wise why is there White Throne now?
Now keep your thoughts with me, don’t go to sleep on me. This is tough slugging and you will not get
it by wandering in your mind. You’re
going to listen carefully because I’m struggling myself. And if I am struggling you are going to
struggle. So you listen to me. Listen carefully now. We are looking here, he says,
[65] ...In the final end, every son of Abraham; every son of faith will
absolutely do the same thing. But I want
to watch how we have to come.
Now, “How we have to come.”--you
already know how you have to come.
You’ve got to have been in there in the first place, you’ve got to be a
sheep, you’ve got to have a call, you certainly have to have been elected
naturally along with the spiritual then you come into predestination. So, I don’t think that’s what he’s talking
about. I believe he’s talking about to
understand this we will understand in this hour what is transpiring and what
will transpire, and we say, “We are identified, we are a part of that
sonship.”
Now, we’ve got to look to New Jerusalem.
Why? Because it’s attributes,
seed, souls, sons of Abraham, sons of faith, sons of God. See?
Characteristics. All of those
things are in there and we’re looking at them.
Now, Jesus said, “I came from God and I go back to God.” Either He lied or didn’t lie. Now, we also as Jesus, come from God and go
back to God, we’ve got to fulfil our cycles but it’s going to be different from
Jesus and it’s got to be. There’s a
difference. We understand that. So, we’re looking at this then.
[65] When Abraham met God, God was playing the character of Melchisedec, King of righteousness,
after that King of peace and He was the High Priest to God. He
unfolds here what all the attributes will do in the final end, every son of
Abraham; every son of faith will absolutely do the same thing. Now that’s my punctuation not what somebody
else has got here. But I want to watch how we have to come, the processes.
[67] Now, we see the attributes, sons of the Spirit. That’s all we could be because God is Spirit
and here is your origin. So, okay, now we see the attributes. Okay, maybe I better put in there instead of
sons of God which is true, we’ll call sons of the Spirit. Okay. Now we see the attributes, sons of the
Spirit.
That’s what attributes are. Sons have beginnings, but these sons didn’t have any beginnings if they’re in God and part of God. How can God lose a part of Himself? So He’s talking about beginnings as per se, something is going on. Now he tells us that. “We’re going to tell you how it’s done,” he says. Okay...look it, I’m a Calvinist bless God; more than a Calvinist--I’m a Calvinist with understanding. That fellow didn’t have it.
[67] Now we see the attributes, sons of the Spirit have not yet entered into
the Word form body, a theophany.
Have not yet entered. That means these people here have got to come here. Let’s understand that. Here’s God again. Here’s an attribute. Now watch, the attribute here has got to come to a theophany, ‘theo’. Instead it goes over here to a body. All right? It’s right. It’s exactly true. Now,
[67] ...The attributes which are the sons of His Spirit, have not yet entered
the Word form body, a theophany.
What have they entered into? This body which is subject to the Word and
earnest--waiting for the earnest change of the body.
So, you were given a body over here in the flesh and that body is subject to the baptism. You say, “Why do you call it that.” Because that’s the earnest. Ephesians 1:13-14 is the earnest, the Holy Spirit which is the earnest.
[67] ...Now the body of the flesh is subject to the Holy Spirit.
I’ll just put HS there. To the baptism with the Holy Ghost. Why is it subject to it? Because it’s got the real little subject in it because itself is that subject. Only sons of God can receive the Holy Ghost and because you are sons, not become sons, but because you came from here and you went plumb over there. Going over there in the flesh does not lose what came out of here, to tabernacle. Okay, now.
[67] Now we see the attributes which are sons of the Spirit, sons
of Abraham, sons of faith, sons of God, have
not yet though they will enter into
the Word form body, a theophany. This body here that we have is subject to the Word and earnest.
Now how is it subject to the Word and earnest? You say, “Well I believe that subject to the Word means theophany.” I don’t believe that exactly. I believe it means the revealed Word of God is what it’s subject to. And I think we’re going to find that as we read along.
[67] ...Waiting for the earnest change of the body.
Waiting for the change of the body to get this. Now notice, you zoom back. Why? Don’t ask me, ask God. I’m not being facetious, I just stand here and I just got to see what the Word of God says and I say, “That’s right, wonderful.” Later on He may show us something, I don’t know. Now,
[67] ...Now we see the attributes, now we’re seeing by the revealed Word of
God, by the Word, the attributes which
are sons of the Spirit, sons of God and so on, have not yet entered into the Word form body, theophany.
But have entered into this present flesh body and we’re waiting to get there, and evidently the way you’ll get there is to be born of the Spirit of God, baptized with the Holy Ghost and die. In other words, this form here won’t do it but by the time you get here and go through what God wants you to go through you’ll be ready for that. Right? Sure it’s right. How are you going to be anything else but right? We’re waiting for it. Now, being in this body doesn’t mean the seed won’t get the Word body, you’ve just got to wait for it. Now let me see something here.
[67] Now we see the attributes, sons of His Spirit.
Now if we’re sons of His Spirit then His Spirit is our daddy. So now God at the very beginning begins to manifest [1b] as Father on the very ground that within Him is to be father because He is Father. You can’t manifest to be what isn’t within you. There’s no way, you can’t do it. You’ve got to be what you are to manifest it. So, in the father as part of the total sum of all His roles, and you can’t divide God you just divide the characters and the parts, it turns out that one of the parts is certainly father.
Now as the thought formed a division and a role, then there must be a beginning of the player of the role. So God in His omniscience looks over His omnipotence [1o] and He comes to all the characters He’s going to play in all the roles. Right. Now, if the player is God then the start is where He must become En morphe and do the act. You see, what’s in here, [1] He’s got to do something and get it into there. [2] That’s the En morphe,[2en] God doing something about the form. Okay. God’s a great actor and look, you’ll notice how He plays all the roles, God plays every role. This is going to be surprising, astounding, some of these things. I just know it. I don’t know too much right now but let’s keep moving.
[68] Now, the difference between Him and you as a son...
Okay, the difference between God as a son or the
difference between Jesus and the son or difference between Melchisedec? We’ve got a little thought here haven’t
we? Let’s read and find out.
[68] Now the difference between Him [5] and you [6]
as a son...See, He was at the beginning
the Word, an En morphe body. [2en] He
came and lived in that Person of Melchisedec. [3] Now Bro. Branham
categorically said that God, Melchisedec was God. Now he’s getting us a little bit mixed up in
here, where something is going to start running together. He came and lived in that Person
of Melchisedec.
Now we’ve got him starting up here, [2]
[John 1]
(1) The beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(2) The same was in the beginning with God.
(3) (And) All things were made by Him; and
without him was not any thing made that was made.
We come on down here, [3]
(14) And the Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of
the Father,) full of grace and truth (and so on.)
Now remember we saw the only begotten of the Father full of grace and
truth and He...now He is the image of God, it doesn’t say He’s God, says image
of God. He’s the express out-raying of
God. He’s the fullness of the attributes
of Godhead bodily so therefore God must have been working way back here, and He
was, in order to come on down in here.
Now let’s see if we can see something.
I’ve already prayed the Lord help us and I trust I will not have to go
back and do a lot of clearing up on this, but this is the toughest part of all
that I know in the whole Word of God.
All right. “All things are of
God.” Chapter 5, second Corinthians,
verse 18.
(18) And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ,
So then there is an interposition between God and us, and I don’t care
how anybody spells it. I don’t care what
you do about the interposition, the thing is; somehow there’s an interposition
between God and man. And the
interposition is exactly according to Galatians. “There is one mediator between God and man,
the man Christ Jesus.” That’s not the
one I want. The other one is, “God is a
mediator of one” and there’s no such thing as a mediator of one. In other words, I don’t mediate, if you and I
have a problem, I don’t mediate the problem, we get somebody between us. But God didn’t allow anybody between us. He did His own mediating. Let’s understand it. Now,
(18) All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Christ Jesus,
Now, we’ve got a reconciliation that has gone on and once more God
intervenes Himself as the reconciler.
You know what? That’s dirty
pool. Understand what I’m saying? I’m kind of joking about it so you get my
drift. I’m going to come and mediate
between you and me and say, “It’s going to go my way. I’m going to reconcile
you to me. Heh, I’m going to do it and
you’re going to like it.” It’s not dirty
pool, I had to tell you so you’ll understand what I’m saying. God in His own character role, He does
it. And it gets a lot of people mixed up
into trinitarianism and God knows what.
Now let’s keep reading.
(18) All things are of God, (There isn’t anything that’s not of God.) who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
(19) To wit, that God was in Christ,
Oh listen, this is the tough part.
I wish Bro. Branham and I had of sat down and really talked this over or
he would appear in a dream or I’d get a voice out of a burning bush because
this is the tough part. God speaking in
and through a mask. Now listen, Bro.
Branham says, “The anointing that came
out of God was Christ.” He said, “I
come from God and I go back to God.” Are
we then looking, now, are we looking then at this?
In the beginning God begin to
form and in that form when He said, “Let there be light,” there appeared the
light as Bro. Branham says in Conduct and Church Order, “And like a little child playing around His Father’s throne He began
throwing and creating and moving things in the universe,” and the Father
would say, “That’s wonderful, that’s good.”
Then He said, “Let us make man in our image.” Now this is a great mystery. I will not take you on a short cut like most
people do because I am absolutely confirmed that there is one God who is Spirit
and He had a Son and that started right here.
Now, if God used this [2]
form and stepped into it yet gave it the full right of a personality which He
must have done to carry on a conversation because He wasn’t talking to Himself,
He comes down here [3] into
Melchisedec then He makes a true human being [5] with a will of His own because God cannot be tempted and this
man [5] was tempted. Neither does
God tempt anybody, and this man [5]
was tempted; and this all came down here [1a]
into here. [5] That’s what I’m
looking at. It may sound a puzzle to
you, I’m sorry, I’ve got to look at it.
Now listen.
[68] Now the difference between Him and you as a son...See, He was at
the beginning En morphe body. He came
and lived in the Person of Melchisedec.
Now he said that Melchisedec is a Person. [3pp] And he said a person is a personality. Right? Is that what he said? What was that? Was it the next step from this here.[Points from 2 to 3] He said it was. Do I understand it? Not too well. No. But I can believe it and I’m doing my best to understand it. I’m going to tell you something, my lack of understanding is hindering me to a degree, but it still doesn’t drive me off of one track--there is one God who is Spirit. And I don’t care what He does and how He does it. But according to Bro. Branham, I am to learn something from this which is valuable to me. So I’m going to do my best to do it. I can’t help it. I’ve just got to tell you and if I make a mistake I’ll come back.
[68] Now the difference between, he put the different between Him and you, the difference is what it would be. In other words there’s a difference between Him and you or He’s different from you. I don’t care how you say it. There’s a difference. He was at the beginning, the Word, the En morphe.
He was right here. [2] You
and I were not, we kept in there,[1a] locked up.
Now, we were locked up in there [1a]but
we came through the life that God gave Adam, now we are fallen sons. Jesus didn’t go that route. He went here, [3]and here. [5] We did
not go there. [4] We went here. [6] And remember the first was Adam and
Eve was in Adam and when they fell [6ae]
we fell. [6ac]
Every child of God fell, “As in Adam all the sons died even so in Christ all
are made alive.” Everyone will get back
into Him in a body. They will get back
into Him in a body. Watch this—[See diagram at
bottom of # 6] now any
difference between the two? No
difference except you’ve got a metamorphosis.
Sure that’s all, a metamorphosis.
I don’t see a bit of difference.
Okay, now let me go on my notes here if I can find something. I wrote this up. We’ll see if I’m going to agree with it. Now the difference between Him and us as a
son, Bro. Branham brings this up concerning a Spirit or a Word body. Now that’s the difference. There’s got to be something in there and it
has to do with the Word body.
Let’s go further. Let’s take a full, take the full philosophy
of the truth of this matter and quote first of all Iraneus. “God being a saviour, it was necessary that
God predestinate a sinner in order for Him to have reason and purpose of
being.” God being the chief actor, He
said, “I’ve got
to lay it out to play the star role. In Me is redeemer so I will see that the people
I work with, my cast I work with, will require redemption. So they bypass this and go here.” They’ve got to. How can you redeem a part of God? Don’t be ridiculous. You couldn’t shed blood for God.
In other words, this which is in God to become Zoe. It’s in the Zoe down here it was done and the
Zoe here is not the Zoe there, because Zoe automatically spells
propagation. This can’t propagate. That can’t propagate. This can propagate.
That dumb Greek that wrote that “Last Temptation of Christ.” And that louse bound heathen, Scorsece, and
his foul actor Dafoe, they wanted to make Jesus in some kind of a fantasy--
were wrong but they could have been right if they had done it right; because
being a man He knew what it was to desire an act of procreation but He never
got into it and He didn’t fantasize like those Judas’s did. Oh I’m so glad they did it to crucify Christ
again and make Him some scum. So now the
judgement comes more and more upon
Iraneus said it. Paul said also,
“As in Adam all die even so in Christ all shall be made alive.” And over here in the book of Eph l:3.
(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
(4) According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,
The choosing. Now Bro. Branham
said, God didn’t say, I choose this and I
choose that and I leave that. Of course not. It was the sons, and they [1a or 1s]were
already named before they ever got to earth and their names are in the Lamb’s
book of Life. Not some dumb heathen idea
that the legalist have got. The
Armenians, and don’t ever believe an Armenian for nothing. If they’ll lie about the Word of God what
else will they lie about? See that’s the
start of the whole thing.
Now, I’m reading in here. Okay,
this is also Hebrews the second chapter, about the difference between Him and
us.
(9) But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death,
Now, you can’t call the angels theophanies but they’re sexless. They could be tempted, they were and many
fell. But they’re not like you and me
they don’t have the bodies. So their sin
was another kind of a sin. Pride, lifted
up with Satan, trying to take over the
.Worship called to be God. You’re
blind tonight brother/sister. You need
to have your eyes opened.
(9) We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
He had to be in the flesh then.
(11) For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Now it tells you right here; there’s a God, who is the Father of this
man, who is our captain, and He was in him, reconciling the world. And He always was in him in order to bring it
out and to perform the prerequisites and the requisites for His great role,
whatever that role was. And it had to
come into Zoe and Zoe is where it fell.
Okay, let’s keep reading.
(11) For both he that sanctifieth and those who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,(So Jesus is not ashamed to call us brethren. No way, shape and form--because we are.)
(12) Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
(13) And again I’ll put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
Now you can...that’s, that’s...you know that happened in the gospels.
(14) For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, (They never partook of this. They partook of that.) He himself also likewise took a part of the same;
He never took on him, your flesh and my flesh. No siree, we’re polluted. He was completely the flesh that came out of the earth by the life of God in created sperm and egg. That’s a big difference honey. It’s a big difference.