Stewardship
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Alpha of Rev 13, 21 & 22: Gen 2:10-14
Value System, Materiality and Commerce
Heavenly Father, we welcome Your
Presence tonight knowing You also welcome our presence. We know, Lord, there is
a rapport between us, and we know, Father, it is recognized by both of us. We
sought, recognized, when the prophet brought them in the line when he would say
to them, woman or a man, “You have a very welcoming spirit,” and
knowing that person then was a believer, that one was a seed.
And
we are grateful for that, Lord, that we have believed unto righteousness, unto
eternal life, unto this day and age, Lord, when there are going to be some
standing here that will not see death, but will pass on in even as John said,
“There’s a great day coming when the sons of God will see that which has never
yet transpired upon the earth,” but will transpire. That there will be a group
of people living, walking into immortality, and taken out of here in a rapture.
And how wonderful it will be, because, Lord, we know that is the ultimate, that
is the last act, the great act, that is done to human beings here before the
catching away to the Wedding Supper; and we thank You for that, Lord.
And
we pray we may never forget it, never forget at any time that You are here,
Lord, and we are in Your presence. And this Word is Your manifestation of Life
to us, because we know Your life is in the Word. And this Word of Promise,
Lord, will not return unto You void, but it will accomplish whereunto You’ve
sent it, which is to get a Bride ready, to catch Her away, to reveal the great
secrets of God, even those that were not known from the beginning of time, all
those revealed to Her.
As
Bro. Branham spoke of a groom whispering secrets of love to a Bride, we know
that is true, this great invisible union. We have our hopes, Lord, and our
whole lives built upon it and nothing less than that. We cherish nothing else,
we know only that Your Word is true, has been proven to us. And we know the
perfection in the Blood, and we know there’s perfection in the Word ministered
to us. These things we know, Lord, getting us all ready. So we thank You for
it.
May
Your Name be glorified tonight as we further look into the studies of the Word
that You brought us. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.
You
may be seated.
1. Now,
just before we go back to “Stewardship,”
we have noticed that, from evidently the proper sources that this, what I call
the fifth vision, that is chronologically, as given to Bro. Branham, which was
concerning the egg-shaped car that was run by remote control to Bro. Branham
signified to be by magnets, of course, and, perhaps a type of radar, at least,
electronic devices, that that actually took place on July 21, out in San Diego
area, about 7.5 miles or so of road. And it said in the Dayton Daily News,
July 22, that there are 7.6 miles.
“The nations first stretch of automated highway
that lets computers do the driving for you made its debut Tuesday and was
proudly declared: ‘Really dull.’” (And, of course, you’ll find why.) “Once the
computer takes over, drivers can take their hands off the steering wheel, feet
off the pedals, and eyes off the road. ‘It’s really exciting for about the
first fifteen seconds, then it gets really dull,’ said Jim Rillings of the
National Automated Highway System Consortium. ‘It’s like driving with a
chauffeur; you just sit back and let your mind wander.’”
Bro.
Branham said he saw them playing games. Right now they play games; it’s called
“Chicken and death,” the way people are. You just even look at somebody,
they’re ready to “bang;” they’re ready to shoot you or run you off the road.
Thank God we enter a type of boredom. May the roads come in a hurry.
“Tuesday’s test was purely a demonstration, a
glimpse of the future. The specially equipped cars necessary are not even
available to the public. The prototype highway should be running by 2002 but
the location has not yet been selected. Test vehicles equipped with video
cameras, magnets, and radar navigated down the nations first 7.6 miles of
experimental automated highway on Interstate 15. Tiny magnets embedded in the
asphalt on either side of traffic lanes at four foot intervals enable the
magnetized vehicle to constantly orient itself within the lane’s boundaries.
There is no price tag for the project, but supporters insist it will save
millions of federal dollars, because it relies on existing infrastructure and
eliminates the need to build more freeway lanes.”
So
you can see it could come quite rapidly.
2. Now
Bro. Zvonko Knezevic in
You
see, already, Cadillac has a system, you know, whereby you can find exactly
where you want to go, the street and everything else, it’s run by the [ ]
Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) System. [ ] I just wonder if that’s what
they’re talking about over there.
Now
on the other hand, we don’t need to actually say that Bro. Branham’s vision had
to be an American car, because remember, the other visions were in
3. Now
also, you’ll notice in Bro. Branham’s speaking of the various visions, when
John Kennedy, or became president [ ] Bro. Branham likened that to the sixth
vision, which was chronological as I understand those visions went. And he put
it as number five on the grounds that the Catholic Church had taken over under
Kennedy.
Now
at that particular time, I don’t believe the nation was actually predominantly
Catholic. Now the other night I find that Andy Rooney, (And I imagine he’s an
Irish Catholic. He could well be. I don’t know. I don’t want to impugn
something to him, because I’m a little vicious about these things.) said
there’s so many hundreds of churches in
4. So
I’m looking at this thing, and I just wonder now, did the Catholic Church,
which we know has been in power in politics even before Kennedy came in… We’re
looking at the fact, then, [that] this Catholic Church, though [it] hasn’t
taken over to the extent of what we see in Revelation 13, would have to be or
actually [is] building the network and building the image to the beast; and
that is way before Mr. Kennedy took office. Because I was in
And
George was puzzled at what happened through his knowledge of being a very close
friend to the sheriff, which was Mr. Kirk, John Kirk. And he told me how it was
that the Florida Assembly, the government, that is the legislative body in
Florida, were trying to get something done and could not get it done, because
it had to have the Federal Government sanction it and actually initiate it or
do something which was evidently relevant to the Federal constitution and the
Federal machinery much more so than the state level. And so as they tried time
after time to get whatever it was done, (I forget what they wanted to get done,
get passed, and get this thing in operation. Time after time they failed to do
it.) until somebody said, “You bunch of idiots. You simply don’t know how it
works. You go to Father So-and-so.”
And
he was in the central part of
They
went to him; they got it done. Don’t tell me the Catholic Church doesn’t run
the Government. Now that[’s] back in 1953.
Now,
when did Kennedy become president? Was it ’62? [Someone in the congregation
says, “1960”] Well, see, seven years before, I knew all about it. Don’t think
Bro. Branham didn’t know about it. He did know about it. But he said that was
the evidence of the woman rising up. So anyway, we want you to consider these
things.
5. Now
let’s say that we don’t have chronology and the woman rising up is number five.
Well that shows you way back there that God showed you He had grace at that
particular time. How long would it be before that grace ran out? If it’s number
six, you’re going to see it rise up as the woman, take complete charge. And, if
the cars number six, then you’ve got one thing you positively do know: this is
the last evidence of man’s ingenuity and his ability; this caps it. In other
words he’s taken the hand off the wheel. Who’s got his hands on the wheel? You
better know it isn’t God.
Bro.
Branham quit praying for
6. So
all right, let’s go to our subject tonight then, and we’re looking at
“Stewardship.”
Now
for quite some time we have viewed and reviewed the stewardship of
Satan—because he was a steward—and angels and spirit beings, and we have seen
how they have failed in their offices though endowed with tremendous gifts from
God with Elohim Himself standing behind those empowerments that Elohim Himself
had ordained unto them; even to the extent that when Michael the archangel
contended with Satan over the body of Moses, he could do nothing to this great
high creature, or control him, get him out of his office, get him away from his
stature. He could only say, “The Lord rebuke you.”
And
remember when Paul called the high priest that struck him, “Thou whited wall,”
or called him that, a servant of the high priest struck Paul, and Paul asked
why you did it, he said, “Why do you dare to come against the high priest?” And
he said, “I apologize. I did not know that he was the High Priest.”
So
you can begin to see the actual position and the strength and authority of the
office of stewardship, especially in these. Then, we saw Satan, via the beast,
invade Eden (The Bible said, “Thou wast in Eden,” the headquarters of God on
earth.) and take into captivity Eve and, subsequently and consequently, Adam,
through means of a perversion and misapplication of the Word, and even reveal
some Scripture that, evidently, had not been revealed to them by God, because
he said, “When your eyes are opened, you’ll be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
And then, God said, “Behold, the man has become as one of us knowing good and
evil.”
So
you can see that this steward had tremendous functional ability that God stood
behind—the gifts and calling of God being without repentance—but he was
required, as in all stewards, to be faithful. He was anything but faithful.
Utilizing every single thing that he had from God upon himself to establish
himself, to make himself preeminent, actually hoping and planning and
attempting for the day when he could dispose of God, or at least to have his
moment of glory to be worshipped as God.
7. Now
I hope you’re listening carefully and let[ting] your minds begin to go and
think, “What in the world was going on with that individual? How deluded was he
and how deluding?” As the Scripture says that these men are of that type,
denying or saying ‘no’ to God, lying, deceived, having deceived themselves, and
now entirely deceiving, so that the whole product, and whatever’s involved, is
a matter of delusion and deception.
So,
here we find Satan, via the serpent, through means of a perversion and
misapplication of the Word, and there he starts up his (which is Satan’s)
kingdom on earth, to establish a religion and a religious system by the very
endowment gifts and the very essence—all the qualities and everything that lay
within his being. And the original calling to which he was called, which we
note was of the highest order of creation in heaven, and was exceeded only by
the seed of God, and God Himself, as to not only essentiality, (that’s the
actual quality of the being itself—what it really was) but preeminence and authority.
So,
when you look at Satan, there were only two above him. And that was the Son of
God and God. And that has never changed, because the head of woman is the man,
and the head of man is Christ, and the head of Christ is God, period! One God
with a preeminent Son, and with other eminent sons according to how they use
their birthright or their stewardship and, then, stand before God at the time
of the judgment, the handing forth at the Bema where recognition is made and
the final placing as Bro. Branham mentions adoption, which is placing of sons;
the great placing is in the Resurrection, which is coming up very, very
quickly.
8. Now,
what I have just said here, which is: we saw Satan via the beast invade Eden,
the headquarters of God on earth, and take into captivity Eve and,
consequently, subsequently, Adam, through the means of perversion and
misapplication of the Word, because he certainly did, and start up his (that is
Satan’s) kingdom on earth and establish a religion and religious system by the
very endowment gifts and the very essentiality of his being and original
calling, which we note was of the highest order of creation in heaven, exceeded
only by the seed of God, and God Himself (that would be the seed starting with
Jesus—and we were there. We don’t remember it.) as to not only essentiality but
preeminence and authority.
9. This
we see positively in Ezekiel. So we go back there, and you know I’m belaboring
these things, because I want to get this absolutely across, so we don’t have
anybody hearing me in these meetings and these tapes, will know positively,
this is a fight, and the fight is a religious one. And it’s only politics
insofar as politics has to be used for religion. See? Okay, Ezekiel 28, and
beginning, of course, at Ezek 28:12, he says here:
(12) Son
of man, take up a lamentation against the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus
saith the Lord God; thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in
beauty. (Now we know when you’re talking of ‘son of man’ that’s absolutely
concerning the prophet and its one of the titles that Jesus took up because he
is a prophet.) Thus saith the Lord God; thou sealest up the sum, full of
wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
(13) Thou
hast been in
In
other words every single thing that was there that Satan misused was there for
the glory of God, and created for the very purpose, which was leading in
worship of Almighty God. In other words Satan was created a religious being,
and his allegiance should have been to God who so richly endowed him and endued
him. See? Now:
(14) Thou
art the anointed cherub that covereth; (So he had a very special anointing upon
him.) and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy
(15) Thou
was perfect in thy ways from the day thou was created till iniquity was found
in thee. (The only thing that happened was, and could happen actually, was
Satan began to bend the Word. He began to pervert it. By the mount… Let’s see
now. We want to go 18.)
(16) By
the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with
violence, and thou has sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the
Now
notice what It says there, “by the multitude of thy merchandise they have
filled the midst of thee with violence.” There’s a statement right in there, we
go right back to the garden, right back to Genesis 2 and show you that very
thing. Just keep that in mind. And then, you go right to the Book of Revelation
and see where it actually then ends. So you’ve got an alpha, and you’ve got
omega. And in between you’ve got through all that which fills up from the alpha
to the omega. So just keep it in mind. [It says]:
(17) Thine
heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou has corrupted thy wisdom by reason
of thy brightness: (Notice, reasoning comes in here.) I will cast thee to the
ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
(18) Thou
hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, (Notice, a
multitude of iniquities, the constant changing of the Word of God. See?) and by
the iniquity of thy traffic; (What’s he trafficking in? To traffic in something
means to be merchandising, selling and buying and a lot of other things. And so
you’ve got that all full of changing, shortchanging God, try to bring a big
change for yourself.) therefore I’ll bring forth a fire from the midst of thee,
it shall devour thee, (Now that’s a good thought right there that God doesn’t
have to do this thing, the things going to be done unto him by the very things
he’s doing himself by perversion.) in the midst of thee, and it shall devour
thee, and I’ll bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that
behold thee.
Well
you know right there you’re talking, not about a single person. You’re talking
about the whole one and the entire system.
10. Now
notice carefully and indelibly the words in Gen 3:1a: “Now the serpent was more
subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God (Jehovah-Elohim) had
made.” Now that’s what you’re looking at. You’re looking at the highest
creation in heaven. Now the highest creation, and I’m talking of pure
creativity (See?) was this serpent. Satan now uses the highest, totally created
mammal life on earth to get at the children of God, to induce iniquity within
them, wherein they, like Satan, could now use their marvelous endowments
contrary to the very purpose of their being and be in a fallen condition and be
used of Satan to originate and nourish a system of worship that would
eventually lead to the enthronement of Satan as spoken of in Rev 13:8. [“And
all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in
the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”]
Now
you know that, when it comes to Adam, Adam was not only created, he was formed,
and also, God breathed into him the breath of lives, and he became a living
soul, which was the Holy Ghost. And that’s where the souls come from, because
the Holy Ghost is God. And a part of God is, by natural election, handed down
to us. As Bro. Branham said, “You were in your father’s loins.” Who are
you? You are a soul; you are a gene or a part of God.
So
therefore now, Satan could not use those two. One could not talk to the other
in a corrupted manner—iniquity. So he took the highest totally created
individual or being, mammal, which was the serpent, who could reason, who could
talk, who could intelligently discourse, but did not have a seed of God in him,
which meant he did not have a soul.
10. Now
you can go to Bro. Branham, like all theologians stated, “Animals do not have
souls.” Now remember, they said, positively, the Indians did not have souls
until one day they saw them cry. Now you got a bunch of idiots that try to say
the same thing and said it for generations about black people. Those men are
pitiful liars, and they’ll meet their god. It was the serpent who had a place
for a soul but didn’t have a soul.
Now
then, as I mentioned, all theologians, Bro. Branham included, say, “All people
have souls; all human beings. Animals don’t have.” Yet you can go the Hebrew
and find where it says in the Hebrew, “Animals can have a soul.” But Bro.
Branham, you notice, said, “Do not have an inner soul.” So therefore,
there was a quality that came from Eve, because remember, she had to have the
same life that Adam had. There’s no difference. He created them male and female
in one body.
So
therefore, when the separation came, He took the female spirit and the male
spirit, which would have to be a created spirit, because Bro. Branham said, “When you’re
born, you come down,[and] you are given
a spirit allowed of God but not of God.” The same reason why he told
the Mormon that he would see that little baby in heaven, the baby that was
stillborn evidently, but the baby, having had life, had a soul. That’s why
abortions mean murder. Of course people don’t believe that, and I’m not exactly
wasting my breath reminding you of these things, because you know them. Okay.
11. So,
now we have a beast mingled with human flesh, two mammals: one which was pure
creation; one which was part creation: part formed from the dust, and part the
life that God gave, which God breathed into Adam the breath of lives, became a
living soul. Now the only way Eve could be a living soul is having taken a part
of what God put into Adam.
And
let’s understand this flat, women have just the same soul that a man has;
there’s no difference whatsoever. And remember, the Scripture is erroneously
translated as ‘sons’ of God. It [actually] means ‘born ones’ of God, which
means ‘issued forth’. And a woman is just as much born of a man, in fact Paul
explains that. He said [ ] the woman was not formed before the man, but the man
was formed before the woman. Yet he said positively the woman is of the man;
but also, you reverse it, and the man is of the woman, or he wouldn’t be born.
He wouldn’t even be here.
So
you can’t talk of a separation of male and female anymore than you can talk
about Christ the husband being away from the Bride; they’re one. And Bro.
Branham even said, “The Bride of David, five hundred, was counted as one,”
one wife. So I don’t know how many hundreds of thousands there are in the Bride
of Christ. It makes no difference; you’ve got that one.
12. Anyway,
the point is we’re bringing out here that the highest order of created life now
is under the dominion of Satan, and he used that. And thereby, in the
reasoning, twisting the Word of God and misapplying it, they now find
themselves as children of God in disobedience to the Word and in a fallen
condition. And therein enters the animal part that here, in Garden of Eden,
which at the end time, as Peter explains, and Paul explains, and Jude explains,
you get into Revelation: they’re brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed.
And that’s all they are.
In
other words, at the very end time, what we look upon as religion today, the
chaff, with every embellishment, every gift, every thing that is extant from
God Almighty, and He doesn’t take it back. It’s right here. [It] doesn’t change
until the hour of complete annihilation or destruction that comes before
annihilation. It remains right there, and they use it. And they’re chaff,
natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed.
That’s
religion as it is in this hour and you can say what you want about it, but
that’s what the prophet taught us, and I’m standing on it. Don’t think for one
minute that God would do any more than chasten His children, which means to
train them and to teach them the way of the transgressor is hard. It is better
to sow in season in the light and reap the rewards and works of God in darkness
when darkness comes. And that’s the thing that we have the hardest to learn.
13. Now,
Satan used the highest order at that time and to bring forth a system of Rev
13:8 where they worship the beast.[1]
Now notice the words of the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians, which we’ve read
many times, chapter 11, where he describes this church system that started way
back yonder.
Now
remember, as I showed you previously, and showed you from the fact of the
apostles admitting, concerning Judas, that Jesus said, “One of you is the
devil,” or ‘diabolos’. And he had every gift the same as the rest of them had.
And he could testify to God, he could testify to Jesus. Oh yes he could. But he
was not one of them. And the Scripture distinctly said he had a part in that
ministry, but he was not a part of it.
Satan
never was a part of the children of God, but he had a part in the same worship
that the children of God had, because he was created to that end. And think of
the position that he was given at that time as a cherubim, above an archangel,
a cherub that covered, stood right there with Jesus in the form of an
archangel, taking on the duties and the life which Michael had at that
particular time, even as that same Son of God had a body to come down here and
have it, and there leading at that time. Think of the position that he was
allowed, and he forfeited, by the twisting of the Word of God.
14. Now
you have to get in mind what I’m telling you, Satan was a very real being. He
was a very wonderful creation. He was the highest order that there was. He led
in the worship of Almighty God. This is what he was given, and this is what you
see when he perverted the Word. And in the perverting of Word, anybody that
perverts the Word of God immediately positions himself as superceding God.
Now
do you see where the church is? They say, “We’re God.” Oh my God, read your
papers and read ”Religion Today,” and on every hand you see the most diabolical
things that you could… Hey, you and I couldn’t imagine it, but the devil can.
You know that word ‘imagine’ in the Greek is ‘reasoning’? It’s a reasoning
process.
15. So,
all right. Paul is speaking here in 2 Corinthians 11, and he says in here,
those verses… I want to get the right ones first. First of all it’s verse 14:
“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” In
other words Satan, here, because of his ability and the gifts that God gave him
to lead in worship, can come and lead you to God in worship, one word off, or
one word on, and you won’t even know it. You don’t have to be a thousand words
off or a thousand words on.
What
you’ll start with is one word off, off, off, off; until you’re clear out of the
ballpark. Then, one word on, on, on, on; to try to get to heaven, you find
you’re digging a pit to hell, because that’s how it goes. That’s why Bro.
Branham said at the end time, the same as they said concerning Moses as
Revelation 22, you don’t add a word, and you don’t take a word. You leave It
just the way it is and, “You say what I said,” which is the perfect
revelation.
So,
all right. Here you find Satan, himself, is transformed into an angel of light.
In other words he transforms himself. Now that happened in the Garden of
16. How
do you think the doctrine of the rapture came about? Far as I know a woman in
an Irvingnite meeting, in a darkened room, fell into a trance, and she said
some things that were really correct, but a million miles off, because Bro.
Branham tells us in “The Rapture”
[message], “This is the revelation the Bride was waiting for.” Then, if she
was waiting for it, nobody had it. And only William Branham had it. And you and
I are the only ones named ‘Christian’ who believe in Jehovah-Elohim, who
believe in His Son, who believe in the vindicated Word of God. The rest of them
don’t have an inkling to the Rapture, and that is exactly as Bro. Branham said;
it’s tri-partite. It comes in three, because God always does things in three:
shout, voice, trumpet. And Jehovah-Elohim does all three in descending.
And
yet we got people everywhere that don’t even understand the Presence, and when
they do talk about it, they don’t say what we say. They haven’t got a clue.
[It] ends up the same: “Oh, He’s with all of us.” He isn’t with all of us. If
He is, I’m finished, because then, the Bibles a lie. Eight people aren’t going
to make the Rapture.
I
see a picture of one guy who’s supposed to preaching to ten thousand believers
in
17. So
Satan has transformed himself, “Therefore, it’s no great thing, if his
ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end
should be according to their works.” [2 Cor
Now
he’s talking about Satan and his ministers. He’s got a five-fold ministry.
Christ has got a five-fold ministry. And don’t tell me he hasn’t, because I can
go by Scripture and show you there are false prophets, there are false
apostles, there are false teachers, there are false evangelists, and there are
false pastors; every one named in the Bible.
And
you can find everything back in the Old Testament, especially when it comes to
the shepherds and the prophets, there’s dozens of Scriptures concerning it, if
not whole chapters. Can go to the book of Peter. Go to Jude. Check your
Scripture. You’re going to find Satan has an absolute five-fold hierarchy even
as God has a true five-fold ministry to bring a Bride to perfection once she’s
gone through the Blood.
And,
if you’ve ever had the Blood truly applied—under the Blood… It’s the Blood of
the covenant. And the covenant is what? That God would fill you with the Holy
Ghost and present you faultless in that day; as Paul said, “I know in whom I
have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have
committed unto him against that day.” [2 Tim 1:12b] And against that day, Paul
looked down and saw this day.
And
he could stand right there in the presence of God, and he wouldn’t be naked,
like the Laodicean Pentecostal church at the end time but clothed in the
righteousness of Almighty God, robes got by the Word of God by a prophet with a
sword to stand there dressed from the waters of separation; and she stood there
hearing the message and believing it. Listen brother/sister, that’s something
beyond what these people will ever recognize.
18. Now,
over here, these verses I read are the explanation of what Paul says in the
first few verses. He said the Bride is being corrupted, just like Eve was
corrupted; she was beguiled. That word ‘beguiled’ means she was thoroughly,
absolutely seduced. She wasn’t just chucked under the chin and kissed by the
beast. And she wasn’t even raped, but she entered into a union that brought
forth Cain. It means a positive beguilement; she was completely undone morally.
He said, “So your minds would be corrupted from the simplicity of Christ.” [2
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Now,
seduction brings forth a bastard child. What do you think your mind’s going to
bring forth if you’re seduced? It’s going to bring forth a bastard mind. A
bastard couldn’t even enter the church for ten generations. Do you think we’ve
got ten generations to purify our minds? No way, shape, and form.
The
Bride back there let herself into a mess, and she brought forth a bastard
child. And what did she bring forth? Another Jesus, another spirit, another
gospel. Can you find anything yet more illegitimate? Of course, the church
today says, “Well that was back there, but we’re not fooled, we’ve got the
light.” Hogwash! I’m with Bro. Branham, if the gun shoots off track one inch
from the barrel, it would be a mile off down the road. Then, how far off is the
truth? About fifteen hundred different denominations, and every denomination
[has] a million different ideas.
I
don’t believe there’s [anyone] outside of the Bride that [ ] can really have a
right revelation and say that’s exactly what is true, because that’s what the
prophet said. There’s nobody else can say it, because they don’t have the mind
of Christ. Paul said we do have the mind of Christ, which indeed he did.
19. [ ]
Then, we read in verses 1 to 4 and 13 to 15, they were such as were false
apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
Yeah, “I belong to Christ.” That’s what Joe Smith said, he saw an angel, oh
absolutely. Now they’re the
Now
let’s find out if the church of the latter day saints of the Lord Jesus Christ,
latter day haints, just like the Pentecostals. Then they got all these
ministers. Ok, let’s go forward now.
20. Now
this church here… What we’re talking about is 2 Corinthians. These are those
men of whom James speaks in Jas 3:1-18.
No
church tomorrow morning, we’ll be here until
Now
he said, “My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the
greater condemnation.” [Jas 3:1] He said you’d better watch what you teach, the
same as Peter said, because teachers are the ones that have the bad time at the
end time, because the teacher’s smart enough to know that he isn’t a prophet,
and a vindicated one. But he’s smart enough under Satan to change what the
prophet said. That’s the way it [has] to be. God’s got His five-fold; Satan’s
got his fold.
21. “For
in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a
perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.” [Jas 3:2] He’s telling
you right there that the whole body, everything that you do, is contingent upon
one thing, and that is what comes out of your mouth. He tells you that. Well,
doesn’t he? He said:
(2b) If
any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man.
(3) Behold,
we put bits in horses’ mouths, and they obey us; and we turn about their whole
bdy.
(4) And
ships are the same way and so on, (and he said, verse 5)
(5) The
tongue’s a little member, boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a
little fire kindleth!
(6) And
the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members,
defiles the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; set on fire
of hell.
22. Now
remember, he’s quoting in a certain way what Jesus said, when they said, “Well
just a minute, these people eat with unwashed hands.” He said, “Forget what
goes in the belly. Forget what goes in the mouth. It’s what comes out of the
mouth is what counts.” Well now we can just take that and run with it. But hold
it, you better go back to Matthew 7 then when you begin talking, because James
here is talking about a bush down here. What does he say? He said, “Can a fig
tree, my brother, bear olive berries?” Huh? Jesus said, “Can a good tree bring
forth bad fruit, and a bad fruit bring forth good fruit?” “Can a fountain bring
forth bitter and sweet?” as James says here. [Jas 3:11]
Now
you can’t take what James says and blame it on the Holy Ghost, and twist it
from what Jesus said, because he puts it on the Holy Ghost. So let’s get lined
up in our thinking. Everybody talks about, “Oh, you’ve got to say nice things
and you don’t dare say bad things.” And there is such a thing as saying bad
things. Negative things destroy you, and saying good things that are good… If I
could say all the good things I want about you, and praise you, and build you
up, and you can be a skunk, and I’m still supposed to say nice things about you
according to Bro. Branham, and not evil things. Don’t say anything at all, he
says, unless you can say good things.
So,
I can tell you how to build up your confidence, and I can tell you many things
on confession: how you begin to build up your faith. You build up your
prestige; build up your personality. That’s fine, but that’s not this, because
this is talking about sources.
(11) Can a
fountain bring forth bitter sweet?
(12a) Can a
fig tree bring forth brambles? Can a bramble bring forth a fig? (We’re talking
about life.)
23. Now,
if you’ve got a certain life, you’re going to say certain things after that
life. If you haven’t got it, you’re going to say things contrary. So therefore,
you cannot be seed non-seed for the shuck cannot be heir with the wheat. You’re
one or the other. And, if you think you can talk this Message and not talk It,
in other words, get It right and all—believe correctly according to what the
prophet revealed, because that’s the evidence of receiving the Word of God for
the hour, is the evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost
teaching you and me what the prophet taught, right down the line, what God
taught him, down the line—then, you are what James called a double-minded man,
which is the double-souled man, which Bro. Branham calls a dual. So then, how
can you be a wheat-shuck? How can you be a fig-bramble? How can you be a
true-false? How can you be a sober-drunk? Can’t do it; no way. You’ve got to
have the source.
Now
he says:
(12b) So no
fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
(13) Who
is the wise man endued with knowledge among you? Let him show out of his good
conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
(14) But
if you have bitter envying and strife in your heart, glory not, and lie not
against the truth.
24. Now
notice what he said there, “lie not against the truth.” So the big thing is
here you can be looking at but, “if you have bitter envying and strife in your
hearts and… glory not, and lie not against the truth.” So what is the crux?
Lying against the truth. Now what were they doing in the Corinthian church? Oh
they had every manifestation and lied against the truth like a bunch of lying
sidewalks out there, a bunch of heathen. They had divisions. And Paul begged
them, as he said to the Philippians, which had the light the others turned
down, some turned down, “Be of the same mind, say the same thing.” Now what did
William Branham say? “Say the same
thing.”
Now
you can’t say the same thing, unless you’re the same mind. And you can’t have
the same mind, unless there’s a merging of the mind. In other words Paul said,
“We have the mind of Christ.” Paul told them flat; he said, “If you are
spiritual, if you’re a prophet, you’ll admit—acknowledge—the things that I say
are the commandments of God.” [1 Cor
25. Now
you cannot have James contradicting Paul. This is where I disagree with Luther
and all the others who made this a straw book and don’t understand the Word of
God. And I didn’t get this by reading books, you better believe it. I got this
straight from God by Him revealing to me and showing me. James could not say by
the Holy Ghost anything different from Jesus. So, when he began talking about
the tongue, and even him talking about trees, then he’s got to be saying the
same thing that Jesus said, or forget it, because Paul said the wholesome words
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So
what are we looking at? We’re looking at a church here that James condemned. He
said, “This wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly, sensual.” [Jas
3:15] Tell me, what wisdom did the beast or Satan impart through the beast to
Eve and Adam? Sensuality. And we’ll talk about that maybe tomorrow morning,
I’ll not get that far. I don’t think I’ll even finish this series before I die.
Doesn’t matter though. You get what I’m trying to drive at here. Sensual and
devilish.
26. “For
where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.” [Jas
3:16] What did the Corinthian church bring forth? Confusion. Don’t tell me they
didn’t have genuine gifts. Don’t tell me the psalms weren’t genuine. Don’t tell
me they didn’t have reality. What they had was real, but they were phonies. The
earthen vessel did not bear a seed of God; it simply bore anointing; gifts and
privileges from God. In other words they were good examples of their father,
which was in heaven, the devil being the prince of the power of the air. “You
are of your father the devil. He was a liar and a murderer from the beginning
and the truth is not in him.” [Jn 8:44] They couldn’t take it. People still
can’t take it.
Do
you understand the devil can testify to Jesus Christ the same as Judas did?
What about the fortune tellers that followed Paul and said, “These be the
servants of the most high God, listen to them.” And Paul turns and, “Shut up
and come out of them.” [Acts 16:17-18] Another man was dumb for a season. Isn’t
that funny how God turns on God. See? They don’t get it; they can’t get it.
They
say, “Well my, I speak in tongues. I’ve got this. I’ve got that. I’ve done
this, and I’ve done that. I’ve got to be right.” No you don’t have to be right.
Judas was not right, and he cast out devils in the name of Jesus Christ. He
testified to Jesus Christ. He might have even raised the dead. He healed the
sick. He was a flaming apostle. So was the devil. Judas was fine, till the
iniquity got him.
27. Now
this church is none other than 1 Corinthians 12, 13, and 14, and exists today
built on wisdom that Eve craved and is of the devil: vain philosophies of Satan
inspiring mankind. But notice, Bro. Branham reveals that the Corinthians were
in confusion with all of their gifts.
Now
what about Rev 17:1-5?
(1) And
there came one of the seven angels had the seven vials, saying unto me, Come
hither; and I will show thee unto thee the judgment of the great whore that
sits upon many waters:
(2) With
whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, inhabitants of the
earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
(3) So
he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and, I saw a woman sit
upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads
and ten horns.
(4) The
woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of
abominations and filthiness of her fornication.
(5) Upon
her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF
HARLOTS, THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
That’s
the church you see right today, the Laodicean Church of the end time,
Nicolaitane, the chaff, the Pentecostal movement, the Trinitarian, three God,
the Jesus-Only. How can you have the father without the son and the son without
the father? That’s two people. How [are] you going to make God a Father, unless
He is a Father? How you going to make a son, unless he is a son? You can’t just
say, “Well the Son is God. That takes care of it. The Father’s God. That takes
care of it.” Oh no, there’s three of them. Then Jesus had two fathers. That’s
the stupidest thing I ever heard of yet.
A
woman can have twins by two separate pregnancies by two different people: one
by a blond, one by a brunette. One baby comes forth a brunette; the other comes
forth the blond. Each one looks like his separate father. Many, many cases of
that in history, many cases. They’re extant right now. See?
Okay,
here you see this church at the end time.
28. Also,
Rev 13:16-18:
(16) He
causeth all, both great and rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in
their right hand, and their forehead:
(17) That
no man might buy or sell, save he had that mark—had the mark, or the name of
the beast, or the number of his name.
So
what you looking at there? Isaiah saw this church, or saw this, which we see in
the church at the end time, in Isaiah 14. And remember, Ezekiel 28 is Isaiah 14
all over again, but the same different description, same description—so-called.
Ezek 12-17:
(12) How
art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut
down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!
(13) For
thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my
throne above the stars of God: (that’s all the sons of God) I’ll set upon the
mount of the congregation, the sides of the north: (Now he started with Jesus,
he couldn’t get him.)
(14) I’ll
ascend above the heights of the clouds; I’ll be like the most High.
(15) Yet
thou shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
(16) And
they that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, consider thee, saying, Is
this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; (Now
notice that he’s absolutely resolved to a man, just the same as Jesus. He
became a man. This one now becomes a man with the full incarnation on a birth.)
(17) That
made the worlds a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not
the house of prisoners.
29. Now
John saw the same thing in Rev 13:1-18, which we’re not going to go into. Bu
what I showed you here in the alpha, in the Garden of Eden, goes through the
whole Bible, building and building, till you see the complete omega. In other words
the sowing and the nurturing, the revealing, all through the sixty-four books
of the Bible that lie between Genesis and Revelation, (there are sixty-four out
of sixty-six.) and actually, they include the entire sixty-six. But, when I’m
talking of seed, (That’s Genesis’ beginnings.) we’re talking about Revelation,
the endings. I’m putting the two between.
So
you see, as Bro. Branham said, “The devil hates two books: Genesis and Revelation,”
because Genesis is the seed book—the alpha; and over here [Revelation] is the
omega. You see the beginning and you see the ending. And, in between you see
the nurturing, you see the nurturing of God, the training of God, you see the
nurturing and the training of the devil. And you see they are two religious
systems in the world, one is of God, and all the rest are not of God. Even the
foolish virgin messes up. That’s why she dies in the great tribulation
evidently, the plagues added to her meant she added to the Word somewhere. It’s
Trinitarianism or Jesus-Only. I don’t care which it is, but there’s an addition
there.
30. Now
I want to read this article. Here’s a conversation and the title is, and this
is the US & World Report, last
year in June, I think I might have read it to you before. The
“Your novel depicts an international plot by
Socialism
by the church: ‘we will take care of you. We will take everything you’ve got,
and we’ll put it all in a nice little way so everybody gets something.’ And
this was started by Gillette, a Jew, Gillette, the man that invented the razor.
And he said, “It is easy to comprehend, if we can have a postal system that can
take mail all over the world, from one country to another, bar none, and make
it work, we can centralize our industry, our commerce, and all the goods we
have and see that they can be distributed around about.”
31. Who
started in
As
I say I’m not a racist here on this thing. I’m just telling where the thing
came from, where it started. Why? Because you cannot find anyplace in history
where Judaism or
So,
they’re conspiring with the filthy church system to which they adhered, wedded
themselves, became a part of. How’d they become a part of it? Oh, the same as
Adam took Eve back. [The same as] the kings of
32. Now
here’s this guy telling you truth. “We’re going to …?… see the church as the
only global structure able to do this. The one obstacle is John Paul II. He is
seen as the defender of medieval traditions.” They want a Pope who shares their
more liberal, globalist view. Who are those powers? Cardinals of the church;
the men who elect the next pope.
I
described him as ‘conciliarist’, and that’s what Cardinal Law is: ‘a
conciliarist’. And I don’t believe for one minute they’re going to get a
liberal, or they’re going to get a real conservative. They’re going to have to
get a conciliarist. So it’s possible that Law will still be the cardinal
that’ll be the next pope. Hope so. I don’t know.
Hey,
I’m just telling you what I want. I know what’s going on, but I don’t know the
end of it. Hey, look, I’m not that smart, but I hope I might be, but I’m not.
33. “The
church today is divided. Monolithic faith is gone.” See? They’re all daughters
now. They’re all… “The new rival faction, traditionalists who prefer the church
as it was before the reforms of the Second Vatical Council, and conciliarists
who want to liberalize church doctrine on everything from divorce and
contraception to abortion and homosexuality. The numbers are about even, but
conciliarists hold the position of power.”
So
I think maybe, I could… I hope I’m right, and we get this guy in. Well it would
wind things up that’s all. As I told you, if we don’t get a pope out of
“They
think John Paul is too conservative. Traditionalists don’t think he’s
conservative enough. What about the non-church party lines; who are they?
Academia, foundations, non-Government institutions, and even some Government
agencies. They have vast resources devoted to population control, education,
economics, and social stabilization.”
Oh,
put it all in one pot and dole it out. If they can get the Roman Catholic
Church to side with them, in the social and cultural field in a world that is
dysfunctional, they’ll have another element of stability. START HERE
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34. “That
sounds rather conspiratorial,” said the man. “It’s not a conspiracy but is
deliberate. Conciliarists and non-church globalists think the same way. Neither
likes the Pope’s policy. They are preparing for the selection of the next pope.
Then, why write this as fiction. Why not name names? Some of the cardinals
involved are well respected and loved. Understandably, many people would react
emotionally to, in defense of the cardinals, and will miss the larger point. I
plan to write a monograph in the fall that names some names.”
Well
he didn’t do it, because that was in June 1996. Malachi, we’re hoping you live
up to your word. I don’t know.
35. Now
you will notice that this article speaks only of intrigue or politics by the
church, and it’s
It
does not mention money per se. Notice how clever this is. But don’t forget that
(18) Unto
the messenger which is in the
(19) I
know thy works, and thy charity, and your service, and faith, and thy patience,
and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
(20) Notwithstanding
I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,
which calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants to commit
fornication, and eat things sacrificed unto idols.
36. In
other words they’ve gone entirely off of a true five-fold ministry through a
vindicated prophet—Paul. They’ve gone now into eating their bread of life,
so-called, is the iniquitous word that is now in place. And so they’re right
into idolatry. And all the time they’re talking about Jesus as Son of God,
they’re talking about ‘God the Son, and God the Father, and God the Holy
Ghost.’ And all the time, let’s get this flat, there never was a time when
there weren’t some gifts operating in the church.
Now
listen. I’ve studied enough Pentecost and know the books. I know the ones that
they quoted, and they quote many, many, many people. And they show you from the
first century on to this day: there were tongues, there were interpretations,
there were prophecies (correct), there were mighty works of God. Bro. Branham
himself testified how it was that Martin went, and the king would not open the
gate. And so, he was forced to open the gate, and he didn’t want to rise when
Martin came, so God sent a fire in the throne, and he rose up in a hurry.
Now
Jesus’ ministry vindicated his word that brought forth those gifts. Gifts
follow the word; signs follow the word. Vindication goes before the word—“THUS
SAITH THE LORD.” Oh my, they’ve got this thing so messed up, it’s pitiful. I
would consider it pitiful. See?
37. Now,
we keep reading,
(21) And I
gave her space to repent of her fornication; she repented not.
(22) Behold,
I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great
tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
What
are their deeds? Fornication. Idolatry. If Maryolatry is not idolatry, and this
pope is steeped in it, I’ll eat it. There was Pope Pius XII, I believe, who
against every theologian said, “Mary has ascended bodily into heaven.” And,
because he said it three times, that made it so. Hogwash! I can boldly declare…
and you know what I’d declare? Where the pope is now. What right does he have
to make himself God? If that’s not the devil all over again. Protestantism is
just the same junk, because they’re going right back to it. See?
You
say, “Well, I thought the Protestant wouldn’t take Maryolatry.”
It’s
transubstantiation, turning wine and bread into blood and body flesh of Christ,
that they’re against. I’ll bet you many Protestant churches right now recite
the apostle’s creed and pray that prayer: “Mother of God pray for us.”
Hey,
don’t think I don’t know what I’m talking about, I come from the Reformed
Presbyterian Church of Europe. Joe, what do you know about it. You never were
in that church? You’d have to know the apostle’s creed and mother Mary, pray
for us. My mother prayed that all the time and taught us that prayer. I guess I
was the one …?… The family that didn’t enjoy it and wouldn’t do it. Even as a
little kid, I knew it was a bunch of hogwash somewhere down the line. Hey look,
don’t tell me pie in the sky, if you can’t give me a little licorice every now
and then on earth.
38. Now
he said:
(22) I’ll
cast her into bed, into great tribulation.
(23) And I
will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he
which searches the reins and hearts: and I’ll give unto every one of you
according to his works.
That
only took place, which is Heb 12:4, the discerning of the thoughts and intents
of men’s heart, at this time, which precedes the Great Tribulation, which every
church that the Roman Catholic Church spawned, which is every single
I
don’t care where I came from; I only care where I’m going. Sure, I came out of
the Catholic Church, because my forebears came out of the Catholic Church. Who
do think the reformatists were, before they were reformed? Catholics. And they
were still Protestants.
Why
they harkened right back to John Knox, Zwingly, Huss, and Calvin. And yet, I
was as dead a dodo, a child of God, dead in my trespasses and sins, until the
spirit of God woke me up to the Gospel.
39. Now
these here are in this hour, getting ready to go in to the Great Tribulation,
which they most assuredly and certainly will. So all right.
And
in Revelation 13 we see all others, such as Muslims, Buddhists, and every
single religion, and non-religion, in order to exist, will have to take the
mark of the beast and worship or they will die from lack of food, unless
somebody gives them something; and even then, [it’s] is highly unsatisfactory,
because at the end of the three and a half years, Jesus with the saints come
back, and all are destroyed. So it’s highly unsatisfactory to them. All right.
40. But
there is no way to possess headship without money. Thus the money system must
be taken over by the church. That this is so is seen in Rev 3:17, by the fact
that all the daughters come in.[2]
And when they come in, they will now form the great alliance and union, which
we see over here, the church expanded to the utmost—Rev 18:9-6:
(9) And
the kings of the earth, had committed fornication and lived deliciously with
her, shall bewail her, and lament her, when they see the smoke of her burning.
(Now notice this is the end time when the city… when it goes down. But this
tells you what lies there, see, before it goes down, the alliances.)
(10) Standing
afar off of her—for the fear of her torment. Alas, alas, the great city
(11) The
merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their
merchandise anymore.
(12) The
merchandise of gold, and silver, precious stones, and pearl, and linen, the
purple… (and all these …?… and all these things, every thing that you see, all
manner of food and clothing and every device on earth is controlled in this
system here, see, it is.)
Now
watch, this system that you see today, is going to go down, because Wall Street
is going to go down shortly. Everybody knows it. Now you simply cannot have the
papers full of the understanding and everybody walking in this sphere and their
mouths talking about the falling stock market, which will come, and it will
come. And don’t think it won’t. It’ll come. It’ll crash. And everything goes
with it. And they’re going to stand back, and there’s only one thing that’s
going to save it right now, the Babylonian mercantile system, all taken over by
the church. Now it says in one hour.
Does
anybody know about the stock market in 1929 falling? I do. All I remember, it
went down. People jumped out of windows and everything else. They said there’s
more risk in New York—somebody saw somebody falling out of seven stories
above—[of somebody] killing you while they’re falling on you than you being
struck by a car or anything else. They’re like rain; they popped out. What’s it
going to be like now? Oh, they’ll stop the computers, like they can stop them
right now. They’ll do a lot of things. It isn’t going to work. One hour, that’s
all it’s going to take. The whole system goes under.
41. We
know right today that great system… And why is it a great system America
produced? Because over 70 percent of all the money that controls the universe,
in commerce today, is American dollars. Right today, all the people talk about,
“Oh the great Euro dollar, oh the…” Hogwash! The Euro dollar will not get off
the ground. It’s not getting off the ground. Do you think the Germans want it
now? Europe has ruined the German’s economy. They had a pretty good system
going for them. They bit off more than they can chew, and now they got a lot of
trouble. Sweden carried—cradle to the grave; Norway, cradle to the grave. Their
systems are gone. The great money system [will] crash. Bro. Branham said so.
42. Now,
Rev 18: 9-16 and, then, 21-22:
(21) And a
mighty angel took up a great millstone, cast in the sea, saying, Thus with
violence shall the great city Babylon be thrown down, and be found no more.
(22) And
the voice of the harpers, all of those things, are gone out.
Sure.
I look at that in two ways, what’s going to happen right now and happen at the
very end.