Who Is This Melchisedec? #
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Bro. Lee Vayle
November 5, 1988
Let us pray.
Heavenly Father, we welcome You in our presence this evening through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, having
made separation of us from the world, Lord, to be a sanctified people, holy
without blame before You--through love Lord You’ve done this, predestinated to
that end. We thank You Lord that we are able by the acceptance of Your
messenger that you sent in this last day to get the revelation that You have
for us Lord in this last hour, the restoration of Your Word, a reality as never
before; God Himself head of the church, putting all things in order for the
great Wedding Supper. Father, we appreciate that.
Now teach us
Words of Life tonight we pray, and fill us to the full with those same Words of
Life that that Life might come forward in the plan of the Resurrection and the
New Jerusalem which You have for us. We shall praise Your Name forever. In
Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.
Now, I realize we’re taking a lot of time on this message, Who Is Melchisedec?, but I believe the reason for the length of time that we are employing ourselves in its study is because of 1st chapter of Ephesians beginning especially at verse seventeen--Paul praying:
(17)
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, (Now the God of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Father of glory
are the same person.) may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in
the knowledge of him: (It
could be read; “May give unto you the spirit of wisdom even revelation in the
knowledge of him.”)
(18) The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Now that’s the
revelation that we are to receive. You’ll notice it’s a revelation of God,
especially of the individual, a knowledge of Him, which in turn will lighten
our souls, our eyes with understanding, (the inner man), to the end that we may
know what is the hope of His calling and what the riches of the glory of His
inheritance in the saints is. This brings about the further knowledge, the
dynamics following the spiritually energized mechanics.
(19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
(20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised
him from the dead,
So the living
Bride will experience the same power that Jesus Himself experienced when He was
raised from the dead and the dead will also receive the same mighty experience,
and even beyond that because the body of Jesus did not corrupt, so that His was
not a creation from the dead as theirs will be, and then of course that will
put us into a Rapture.
Now, eight
years ago, I suppose it’s eight years ago now, we took a whole series which I
enjoyed, preached maybe twenty-four, twenty-eight sermons on just this little
section in here, took every single word and looked at it as carefully as I
could to get to the bottom of it. And also we took an understanding of the
Presence of God, all those various words that speak and describe it; but as we
go along the same Word always is more illuminating and illuminated to us, it’s
illuminated to us and then it’s illuminating in the sense that the dynamics of
it work within us, within the soul and then extends to the cells. And just
wondering tonight about why we are so long on this subject here, I’ve come to
the conclusion that this message gives us more of an understanding of what this
set of Scriptures is than any other sermon that Bro. Branham actually preached.
Now, we have
received and are receiving from his messages, and particularly this, the
revelation of who, and what, and how God is, and that relationship to us to the
extent that the eyes of our understanding is enlightened, that we may know what
is the earnest expectation of His calling--and we could even use the
conjunction ‘kai’ there as the word ‘even’ because it can be a preposition,
even what the richest of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. In other
words: what God is desiring to bring forth and will bring forth being God is
His inheritance in the saints.
Now, actually
in the Greek the word ‘calling’ with the preposition ‘His--designates that it
is literally His own calling and we can know what the calling of God is, the
real calling, we’re going to talk about it tonight as the word calling is
really vocation as in contradistinction to avocation. So therefore God would
have a distinct position superior and dominant above all other positions, and
if we are not privy to God’s own wisdom concerning Himself and His particular
prominent or elite position that He desires, we could unfavorably attribute to
Him other positions that are inferior instead of attributing the superior
position.
Now I hope
you’re following what I’m saying--it’s not all that hard. So, as we look at
this God is trying to get across to us--as I see this in this message of Bro.
Branham’s, the sermons he’s preached and the great revelation of the Word--that
God is trying to get across to us what actually he has to do with all of this
and I refer to this as six thousand years of mankind history, and anything else
that might precede it relative to us, and anything subsequent to it. What is
it? What is he evoking? And what the riches, even the riches of the glory of
His inheritance in the saints.
Now, let’s
look at then the thought of inheritance, and of course I thought right away I’m
going to have to go to the Psalms and so I did. And I want to look at the
Psalms with this for a little bit before we get to the sermon, and this
sixteenth Psalm is this great Psalm where Jesus is speaking...David is speaking
in the first person, God speaking through him and he said:
(1) Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
(2) O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
(3) But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
(4) Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
(5) The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
“The Lord is
the portion of mine inheritance.” Now you notice in there, The Lord is the
portion of our inheritance, and that’s good to know that.
Now let’s go
to the 28th Psalm and the 7th verse.
(7) The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
(8) The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
(9) Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: (God is our inheritance and we are God’s inheritance.) feed them also, and lift them up...
Ps 33:12.
(12) Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. (And inheritors also.)
Ps 78:71.
(71) From following the ewes great with
young....
Let’s read 70:
(70) He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
(71) From following the ewes great with young
he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and
David there,
the prophet king inheriting the people.
Now let’s go to Mark the 12th chapter and read a bit, 1st verse.
(1) And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
(2) And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
(3) But they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
(4) And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
(5) Again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
(6) Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
(7) But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.
(8) And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
(9) What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
(10) And have you not read this scripture: The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
(11) This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
(12) They sought to lay hold of him, but feared the people:
See? But they
understood that they were the inheritance of God and the Pharisees and Scribes
were taking over the inheritance of God, the people of God, and destroying
them. What will He do then? What’s God going to do with the churches, the
priests, the lawyers, the doctors, the theologians, who have attempted to
destroy and try to take over the inheritance of God? There’s nothing left for
them but destruction. Now, I just wanted to bring that to your attention so
you’ll know why we are talking at length upon God and upon us.
Now, we’re at
page 19 and paragraph 95, which I won’t read quite at this time and here at
this particular point Bro. Branham is making a very definite statement as to
who Melchisedec is and this is not the first time he points out Melchisedec is
actually God made visible in a certain substantial form, which was the form
that appeared to be the form of a man, and could actually function as a man in
so far as eating, and drinking, and doing those things that God of course would
do. And at the time that he says this in paragraph ninety-five, he says in
paragraph ninety-four that which is previously said, that this revelation here
is a part of the seven seals and no doubt a portion of, if not
one of the seven thunders actually.
So, what we
see here as I look at this; is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory, has come down because He is that Spirit of wisdom and revelation because
only He can reveal Himself and to whom He will because God alone knows God, and
He’s the only wise One. He’s coming to bring a knowledge of Himself and that
knowledge of Himself will throw a light upon the inheritance, will throw a
light upon the people even as Bro. Branham said, Jesus, you and we came the same way, except He showed us where
there was one major discrepancy or deferring from that pattern and he spoke of
that theophonic form.
Now, what I
want to do here is to more or less read my notes and I hope I can cover this
quite rapidly on the grounds we want to have a communion service, foot washing
tonight. So we’ll just start up here [1]
and we’re going to put God up here, and that’s God, and my writing is horrible
but this God, this known as pre-Logos God, or pre-creation God--that’s what
we’ll look at there. That’d be number one. And number two, [2] we’re going to look at God, and this
is going to be Logos God because in the beginning was the Word, the Word was
with God, and the Word was God so Logos was God--this was the Logos God. And then down here [3] of course we’ve got here
God...whoops I put a three there by putting God here, okay God...and we’ll put
there then this is an actual creation etc.
Material drawn on the board
[1] [2] [3]
God God God
Pre – Logos Logos – God An Actual Creation
Pre - Creation
All right, now, to begin with and I won’t write this in because it’s going to be too hard and you won’t likely be able to read it anyway except you hear me tell it by God.
Number one up
there: [1] which is Logos God, we look at two
distinct factors: pre-Logos God, pre-creation, pre-anything where there was not
even a breath of air nor nothing moved because there’s nothing to move, we just
saw God all alone. And in there we see number one: Omniscience; and that is
original, perfect, and true, and that’s the source of all wisdom and knowledge
even to the extent of that which is perverted. Omniscient.
Number two: [2] is Omnipotence--the only source of
power. All power is of God. Now, we know the truth as it is in Christ Jesus,
Paul makes this statement so we see where Christ becomes the truth. He said, “I
am the way, the truth, the life.” But before that we see Omniscience and Omnipotence.
Then the next
one [3] we see is Logos God which is the
beginning of creation. Without Logos
there would be no creation at all. Now the word ‘Logos’ as we’ve said before,
comes from the word ‘Lego’ which has within it about five distinct meanings,
four special ones.
l. To lay or
to spread out.
Now you’ve got
to apply this to God when there was only Omniscience and Omnipotence, God
wasn’t doing anything about anything, with anything--except, He was bringing it
all together. See? You and I can’t do that. If we were omnipotent and
omniscient we could do it. We can’t do it. We never get our act together. See?
God got His act together on the principal of Omniscience which induced
foreknowledge, which was acceptable by Omnipotence. Huh? We’re not little kids,
you can understand what I’m saying.
1. To lay, to
spread out.
In other
words, all the resources within Him, options and so on you might say, were laid
out. But when you talk like this you give God a bad name because God does not
deal in options. You’ve got a God that knows what He knows what He knows what
He knows and always knew it, intrinsically and essentially and you’ve got to
look at that. You must look at Him in the terms of absolute--it’s necessary.
2. Then pick
out, lay out, pick out.
That means
categoriize into a master plan all the things coming in.
3. Gather.
That would be
synthesize as in doctrine and perfect orientation, and unity so that everything
would be harmonious, nothing out of order. You wouldn’t even have one leaf
turning in contradistinction to another leaf. You wouldn’t have one hair
growing gray while the rest of the hair stayed black, or one hair stayed black
and all the rest went gray. Now perfect orientation.
4. To pick up,
to package, get ready for action.
Then comes:
5. Logos.
All what God
put together, God Himself starts to manifest and He is Logos God at that
particular point. Now, thus we see:
1. God as
incipient or potential as to manifestation.
He is El, Ella, or Elohim, which is; the strong One bound by an
oath. God the omniscient One who cannot
use His strength apart from His wisdom and His wisdom apart from His strength.
The strong One bound by an oath. The ever faithful never changing God.
2. God
beginning within Himself to be Elohim by God manifesting Himself in the first
step as Elohim, which is Word or Logos. He has to make a step now. Something’s
got to start to happen so that from Logos, which means: He enters into
manifesting, which will embrace of course creation. And that’s what the Bible says.
“In the beginning was the Word, the Word is with God, and the Word was God, and
all things were made by Him, and there’s nothing made that wasn’t made by Him.”
So here we are
following our steps. It’s quite clear. It’s really very simple. Now, before we
go a step further we must know where God positions Himself as to His major role
or ultimate purpose. The priority of His omniscience which is God’s ultimate,
or natural outworking of His own nature or what came out as God is actually by
His own nature and attributes. Let me get that again for you. In other words,
what God is naturally, intrinsically, being God and cannot change and cannot
help being God, what would come forth naturally from that as the pre-dominant.
Now,
pre-dominant through Logos. Now it’s going to be pre-dominant through Logos.
Right? Because there’s nothing there to be dominant over. You can be dominant
within yourself as to your traits and capabilities but if there isn’t something
there to work it out you can’t really say, “Well my pre-dominant trait and my
capabilities lie in the realm of something that isn’t there.” Do you follow me? Like you take an aptitude
test and you write a very good test and you come out and you say, “Well you
could be a tremendous chef. On the other hand you could be a mighty good
chemist.” And you could end up as a tremendous chef chemist who takes products
and makes wonderful things and bakes with them.
I knew a man
that died that was that kind of person--Dr. Clifford, what’s his name anyway?
Dr. Cliff. Every time you eat a chiffon pie a chemist is the one that baked it
to begin with. So you see you could be a pretty good chef but the thing is
this, he wasn’t a chef per se, he was a chemist from the innate and he wouldn’t
have been that if there hadn’t of been a field of chemistry. Do you understand what I’m saying? So
therefore God must now become dominant or have within Him the pre-dominant that
lies within Him [3] [See page 5] if
He is going to take a headship based upon a creation. Okay, pre-dominant
through Logos because of what He actually is in His own nature.
Now working
the alpha and omega principle--now keep everything in mind as I talk, bring
your thoughts right in line with mine--working the alpha and omega principle,
we’re talking about this dominance and what really lies within God and
everything else will move around it. See? Working the alpha and omega principle
and taking the true question, “What is the dominant, the pre-dominant?” from
the true answer which we know is Revelation twenty-two, the Lamb on the throne
of Mt. Zion, the Pillar of Fire above it; and Hebrews two which is the Son with
many redeemed sons praising God. See?
Now, fully explained a redeemed people and a
redeemed creation. The original Logos or expression of God has to be Father.
Right--because the Son is on the throne and all the sons are in this great holy
convocation which is Eternal. The picture is absolutely one of the Father and
His family. Now Dr. Kenyan understood that but he didn’t know what we know he
just took a hit at it and made it a principle. The original Logos or expression
of God has to be Father as the inspiration for all creation as to its reason of
being, no matter what appears or is seen to come to pass.
Now see what I
said awhile ago? You can look and miss what it’s all about because you’ve got
your eyes on a wrong track. Now remember they did that in the book of Romans;
who when they had a knowledge of God turned down the knowledge of God and ended
up worshipping beasts. And what did Bro.
Branham say was the god of this world? A
naked woman, a goddess. Pretty soon, I don’t know she is going to have to fight
for her principles because the men are going at men but the whole thing is
infected. See?
No matter what
you see you must keep your eyes on the ultimate. This is ultimate principle and
all else is expected to facilitate, expedite and enhance it as subordinate and
complimentary to it because what you’re doing is looking at what comes out at
the end and on top which is a Father having redeemed His children and the
redemption applies to children.
Now so you
don’t get carried away and start screaming about redemption, huh? If there
weren’t any kids you couldn’t redeem them. The children are not secondary--the
children are primary. God being a Saviour it was necessary He predestinate a
fallen child in order to give Himself a reason and purpose of being. But what
if He couldn’t have children? You can’t look in my understanding at this point,
we cannot look at the bare factor of redemption and become like the world out
there who believe man is just anybody with a free choice, it doesn’t really
matter, there is no foreknowledge, there is no election, there is no
predestination, it’s just everybody’s a reprobate, everybody’s a goat, and
somehow by divine alchemy they get turned from goats into sheep, dogs and pigs
into sheep--doesn’t work. It doesn’t work.
I’m looking at
the pre-dominant. The Father and His family is the Eternal and Immortal
scenario. History, or the story of God and His family is absolutely
autobiography and biography. Now what’s autobiography and what’s biography?
Well you know what that is. Okay, in this message of Melchisedec Bro. Branham
is saying as the mouth or voice of God, and I’m going to speak for Bro. Branham
from my notes and here’s what he’d be saying:
“Little Bride, to whom all the mysteries are
being revealed let me tell you about myself and about yourselves.” God speaking through a prophet and I’m taking
that place and using this as...you just listen. “At the time when there was absolutely nothing or anybody except Me I
began preparation for you and your welfare by first of all forming My essential
self into a personal God who could and would express Himself to His family.”
You’ve got to have someone to have a family
and family demands expression. And because the God who could and would express
Himself to His family, and because the expression must be that of Father and it
must be alpha, the very first thing was to bring forth a Son who is rightly
described by Paul in the book of Hebrews in chapter 1 to 3.
Now as the
Father notice:
(1) God, who in many parts and many ways spake in times past unto the fathers in the prophets,
(2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us in Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; (The ages.)
(3) Who being the brightness of his glory, the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power,
Now that is
the original Son. You can’t get away from it. At that time He had not taken on
flesh, He had not died. So here, God who could and would express Himself and
that expression would have to be that of a Father because we’re working
backwards. In our case we have to work from the seen to the unseen.
Now we see all
this brought to our attention. It is to be noted that this Son came as all sons
come--by begetting and birth. So that foreknowledge and election, and
predestination are manifested immediately as a sovereign purpose. Now you might
not think that but that’s absolutely true. Peter says he was elected, he was
absolutely foreknown and he was predestinated. Now what are you going to do
about that? You going to sit here as a bunch of old Methodist, Mennonite,
Nazarene, Missionary Alliance, Pentecostal, Armenian, Legalists? And that takes in the Catholics too because
anybody in the Catholic church that says, “I was surely predestinated,” the
Pope says, “Let it be an anathema to that man, let him be accursed.” Yet
instantly you see foreknowledge, election, predestination and Bro. Branham
brought that out in this message on Melchisedec. You know he did because he
said, “Predestination is in full view.” Okay?
This is His
sovereign purpose; that this act supersedes all acts of creation is wondered at
but explained by your prophet from Rev 3:14 and stated by Paul in Eph 3:9, Col
1:12-19. Now that this act of bringing
forth the Son, fore-known, elected, predestinated starts from the very
beginning. Absolutely was brought out by
Bro. Branham when he said, “Jesus Christ
mentioning in Revelation 3:14, the beginning of the creation of God.” He explains, “As God beginning to form Himself in human flesh.” Paul also tells of it. The pre-existent
One in Eph 3: 9. Categorically says:
(9) And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Notice he said
that. Notice what it says in Colossians and here is where it all starts to get
God down into a human figure to be one with His family.
(15) Who is the image of the invisible God, (That’s what Paul said.) the firstborn of every creature:
(16) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
That’s right,
everything’s put under His feet except God Himself.
(17) He is before all things and by him all things do consist. (And he has the pre-eminence.)
And William Branham said, God creating Himself in the form of
human flesh, it started way back there.
The first and only Son begotten and born in the beginning was the start
of the journey to Emmanuel where God could literally form Himself into human
flesh by the virgin birth. God in Christ Messiah because they are the same
thing. Messiah, Mashiah is the Hebrew word and Christ means the anointed one or
the anointing. And this first Son and only begotten One--now that’s His special
name, He’s different from us--was not another God known as God the Son coming
forth from a spirit fountain with identical substance of one mind and purpose
and essence as Trinitarians say but is the “Son of God” as spoken of by Jesus
Himself in Jn 17: 5, who said, “Restore
to me the glory which I had with you in the beginning when you were my glory.” And is separate and distinct from
me, from God Himself, even as all sons are separate and distinct from their
source though they be one with their own father.
Now you could
literally say, “All right, God cloned Himself.” I don’t like the expression but
let’s say that He did. Let’s say that somehow we lost the image but we were
clones of God. I want to ask you a question: would those clones be identical to
the one from whom the cell came in the sense that they had no identity of their
own? You would say, “Sure they had identity. Sure they had principles. Sure
they had knowledge.” Then it’s not the same person. No, it’s not the same
person. Then Jesus in God is not the same person except where you use
terminology where the word Jesus is Jehovah Saviour and you’re designating
positively a major attribute or a role that’s played by Almighty God.
Then notice, how your prophet described creation by Christ Jesus when he answered in Genesis, “Questions on Genesis,” and on to the creating and forming of man. Now he took it right from the literal beginning and birth of Christ coming forth in the beginning to the creation of man. Now once paternity is established and God is established as paternal, then all other creation formed in the paternal mind can now come forth for all the sons. In other words what we’re looking at is this, whatever was in the mind of God as Father, all of that must accrue to the sons so the principles of what is inherent in God will one day all of it devolve upon His children.
Also you can see that whereas the Only-Begotten came out of the Father, as the Father alone was the source, there was nothing else there to birth, and born means: to come forth from, and Jesus says, “I came out of the Father,” Adam and consequently you did not. That’s right--did not, as we know Jesus came. “Let us make man in our image,” is followed by, “so God created man in His own image, the image of God created he him,” and also, “God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into His nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.” That is certainly not Heb 1:3. No, no it is not. See? But it does have to do with Philippians the 2nd chapter, where that one of Heb1:3, laid it aside and took upon the form of man to be the mask or the veil of God in order to give life to His lost ones. And we’ll see that in a little while.
Notice how in
Genesis it said, “Let us make man in our image and after our likeness.” So God created man in His own image. But what
is the image of God? Well Bro. Branham said, “First of all an image with God who is Spirit, therefore in Him was
making spirit.” But I want to ask
the question: who is the true image of God? Christ. So we see, “God in the Son,” as Bro. Branham says,
speaking on this great occasion wherein there will be many, many brought forth.
See?
All right, it
is not then Heb 1:3 and notice what is spoken to the Only-Begotten Son in
Hebrews one, beginning at verse 4.
(4) Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
(5) For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?
He created angels--this is a begetting, a causing to conceive from a source which brings conception. How’d you like to conceive an automobile? Stupid--it couldn’t be done. You can make them and form them, you can produce them, but you can’t conceive them. This is a conception, a begetting and a birthing. See?
(5) ...And again I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
(6) And again, when he bringeth the first begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
And the
angels, they are only ministering spirits, ministering flames of fire.
(8) But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
And so on,
right on down, and you can carry this through to the 2nd chapter, the 5th
verse.
(5) For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
It’s putting
into subjection to Jesus the Christ into us. And who’s going to do it? God’s
doing it right at this very minute.
(6) But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the Son of man, that thou visitest him?
(7) You made Him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
(8) Put all things under his feet.
Now he’s talking
there of something different. He’s talking of Him coming now to the place of
human sonship. See? He laid it all aside, took upon Himself the form of a man
and get it all back again. That’s what you’re looking at. Don’t be carried away
with Trinitarian hogwash and Jesus Only doctrine--get the picture. Now, this is
a great contrast to Gen 1:26-29.
(26)
...Let
us make man in our image,
(28) (And put him over the beast of the fields, and the fowls and those things on the earth.)
No angels are
worshipping Him and He’s not controlling angels, and He doesn’t have the power
of the world to come--somebody else has got it and by His merits we get it.
Then notice in Genesis three what happened. Kicked out of the garden, becomes
unrighteous. Show me where Christ ever failed. You’re talking of two
difference. You’re talking of the Only-Begotten Son as Bro. Branham said, “Had a theophonic form.” And the other ones who did not have it but
went into flesh-to-be-tempted and they sinned. But because, though they were
alienated, see? Aliens, they were still
sons of God. Now see, watch the
fatherhood of God bring them back. The father and the prodigal son and all
these things obtain in there.
Notice now how
the creation into the form of human flesh can come because all other sons save
the Only-Begotten are of flesh begun. Look it, let’s take a look at it. All
other sons are flesh begun. This was not flesh begun. Adam was flesh, formed,
created, breathed on by God, Son of God. But look it over here in Luke, 1st
chapter, verse 30.
(30) And the angel said unto Mary, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
(31) Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name (Jehovah Saviour) Jesus. (That’s Joshua.)
(32) He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
Now what does
that mean? Did she say, “You’re going to bring forth God out of your womb? Mary
the mother of God?” That’s absolutely heathen doctrine. Blasphemous folly.
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(33) And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
(34) And Mary said, How’s this thing going to be, I don’t know man? (I’m not married to anybody yet, living with anybody.)
(35) The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
It doesn’t
say, “God the son.” Says, “The Son of God.” See? Let’s understand these things. She was caused
to conceive by a begetting process. See? And all things are possible with the
Presence of God Almighty Himself. And here, here then we’re created sperm and
egg, physical substance for a flesh body but the life or a person was the Son
of God who laid aside His Word form for flesh. Now that’s tough! That’s the
mind boggler and we’ll get into more mind boggling.
And be very
aware that the Spirit life thought before the Logos began. Go way back here [Points to the board on page 5] to number one before number two. Be very aware that the Spirit life
thought before the Logos began was a redeemed family of sons and a redeemed
creation and that’s what it was all about--a redeemer Father, but He’s Father
not just redeemer. He’s a Father Redeemer. Everything hinges around the Father
and the sons no matter what takes place. No matter what takes place.
“Well I live
like a pig.” Certainly you live like a
pig--you look like a pig but you ain’t. You’re sheep that got so much mud on
you in the hog pen there that...I’m not hitting anybody I’m just trying to get
you shaken up to realize what I’m talking about. See? Redeemed creation--thus the first Son
was Heb 1: 4, as we read, but all other sons bypassed the original form and
came as Adam and all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. See? Now it is the Only-Begotten’s turn to
lay aside His glory of the pre-creation
form and that very life, take the form of flesh and grow and live as man but
die and give that Life to the rest of the sons. As it was God by Christ
creating it is God by Christ redeeming and fulfilling as in Jn 14:7-12 which
says:
(7) (You’ve seen Me you’ve seen the Father because He’s in me and He’s doing the works.)
And in 2 Cor
5:19
(19) That God was in Christ.
So that’s what
you’re looking at--you’re looking at God in Christ. Now, from what I have used
in the first person as though God spoke we’re going to proceed. Now, let us see
in our proceeding the continuity of God in Christ as a continuous principle. We
go back to Heb 1:1-2.
(1) God, who in many parts and in many ways (And in this last day, the last part of the whole speaking of God has come into view. No more parts, the parts are done away.)
Now you can
think what you want but I’m telling you the truth because I know I’ve got the
truth--got it from the prophet and I know what he said and what he meant.
(1) In many parts and many ways spake in time past unto the fathers in the prophets,
(2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us in Son,
That’s right--He
was in the Son. “I’m pleased to dwell in Him.”
(2) Whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the ages; (Way back there and so on.)
(3) (When he was the glory and the effulgence of God,)
There is no
doubt that the prophets were personalities separate and apart from God yet God
was in them by actually indwelling them--fact. Now, most people don’t want
that. They want to quote Peter. “These men, holy men of God were moved by the
Holy Ghost.” And they think an anointing kind of wham, wham them you know, kind
of spoke an elated wonderful manner--that is a lot of bosh and bologny. The
Bible said, “God in the prophets,” period whether anybody likes it or not--God
likes it, the Bible says it. “God in the prophets.”
Now, one life
suffused by the super imposition of God Himself--that’s what the prophet was.
One distinct life super infused, or super imposed by God. Then God left that
individual and notice that God left Christ in the