PREFACE
This booklet is a study of the Godhead.
The reason I have written this booklet on the Godhead is because
there is a need among God’s people to have a better understanding about the
One we spend so much time and energies in worshipping.
The Godhead is the most important revelation to us
in this hour. In fact brother Branham said it is the greatest of all
revelations and you can not even get to first base until
you believe that. Therefore, we should do all we can to know what it is that
Brother Branham said about it. He told us that the purpose of the 7th
angel messenger's ministry was to reveal the mysteries of God as we see in
Revelation chapter 10.
From his message IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE
END SIR 62-1230E 29-5 he said, I believe that the
seventh angel of Revelations 10 is the seventh church age messenger of
Revelations 3:14. Remember... Now, let me read... look... where I can read...
Now, this was the seventh angel. But in the
days of the voice of the seventh angel... (7th verse)... when he shall begin to
sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his
servants the prophets. Now, you notice,
this was a angel; and it's the angel of the seventh church age, because it says
here, it is the seventh angel of the seventh church age. Found that... If you
want to see who the--where the angel is, Revelations 3:14, it's the angel to
the Laodicean church. 30-1 Now, you remember when that was told there,
the angels and the church ages. And now in this, it'll dovetail right into
these seven seals that we're coming to speak.
Now, brother Branham is pointing us to the fact
that the whole ministry of this seventh angel is for one purpose and that is to
reveal the mysteries of God which we will find out includes the most important
revelation of all, the Godhead. Then he tells us that Jesus said it is not
given for everyone to know these mysteries. And he defines for us what a
mystery is.
Again from his message IS THIS THE
SIGN OF THE END SIR 62-1230E 30-3, he
said Now, listen close. The seventh angel
of Revelations 10:7 is the seventh church age messenger. See? Now, watch.
And in the days... Now, watch here. But in
the day's of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the
mystery of God should be finished... Now,
sounding forth, this messenger, the seventh angel here, is sounding forth
his message to the Laodicean church. Notice his type of message. Now, it
wasn't to the first angel (wasn't given that), second angel, third, fourth,
fifth, sixth; but it is the seventh angel that had this type of message.
What was it? Notice, his type of message: finishing all the mysteries of God
that are written in the Book. The seventh angel is winding up all the
mysteries that's lain loose-ended, all out through these organizations and
denominations. The seventh angel gathers them up and finishes the entire
mystery. That's what the Bible said: finishes the mystery of the written
Book.
30-5
Now, let's note a few of these mysteries. And if you want to, write them
down. First, I'll take what Scofield says here in Matthew 13. If you
would like to--to type some of them down... If you haven't got a Scofield
Bible, you might read what he thinks some of the mysteries are. Now, in the 11th verse: He answered
and said unto them, Because it's given to you... (his disciples)... Because it
is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but not to
them... but to them it is not given. (The mysteries) Here's
the mystery: A "mystery" is Scripture--is "a previously
hidden truth, now Divinely revealed, but which is a supernatural element still
remains despite the revelation."
Is this sign of the end sir 62-1230E P:100 The Book that is written
within is then completed when this angel ceases. Now, please understand this.
When the seventh angel's message is completed, the Godhead mystery, the serpent's seed mystery, all the other
mysteries of all these things, Eternal
Sonship, as they talk about. How can He be an Eternal Son, when Eternity
never began or never ends? And a son is something that's begotten of. How can
it make sense?
Now, notice that the mysteries gthat Brother
Branham is pointing too is the Godhead and how that God had a son, and as a son
all sons have a beginning, and therefore how could there be an eternal son?
Then brother Branham goes on to list the mysteries which are to be revealed by
this end-time seventh angel.
IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE
END SIR 62-1230E 31-1 The 7th mystery is of God, even Christ, as the
incarnate Fullness of the Godhead embodied, in Whom all Divine wisdom and
godliness is restored to man."
IS THIS
THE SIGN OF THE END SIR 62-1230E 31-2
That's some of the mysteries that this angel
is supposed to wind up, all the mystery--all the mysteries of God... And the
other one... May I say this with reverence, and not referring to myself, but
referring to the Angel of God. The serpent's seed, that's been a hidden mystery
all through the years. The grace straightened out, not disgrace, but real true
grace. No such a thing as an eternal burning hell. You'll burn for millions of
years, but anything that was eternal had never beginning or end, and hell was
created. All these mysteries. The mystery of the baptism of the Holy Ghost
without sensation, but the Person of Christ performing in you the same works that
He did.
The mystery of water baptism, where the
extreme trinitarianism has brought it into titles of Father, Son, Holy Ghost,
and the mystery of the Godhead being fulfilled in the baptism in the
Name of Jesus Christ according to the Book of the Revelations, that the church
in this time was to receive. There's some of the mysteries.
The Pillar of Fire returning back. Amen.
That's the thing that is supposed to take place, and we see it. 32-4 Oh, how we could go on naming the
mysteries. Seeing that Pillar of Fire that led the children of
Now, notice that brother Branham listed the
presence of the Pillar of Fire on the scene again after nearly 2,000 years of
absence. Brother Branham also told us the mystery of the Godhead was revealed
in the correct baptism. Then if the ONENESS baptized right, why did we need a
seventh angel to reveal to us this baptism?
The Oneness believe brother Branham was a
Trinitarian, and the Trinitarians believe Brother Branham was a Oneness or
Jesus Only. Now why do they still believe this way? Because so many who claim
to be preaching what Brother Branham taught have actually swung totally into
the Oneness teaching without even knowing it. Look at the tracts they pass out
and I can show you the same tracts being used by the Oneness Pentecostals. But, why do the Trinitarians believe brother
Branham was Oneness and the Oneness Pentecostals believe he was a Trinitarian?
Because he did not speak their language concerning the Godhead, brother Branham
said, Godhead
Explained, E-74 Many of you
people listening to this would say, "Brother Branham is a Oneness." I
am not. I think you're both wrong, both oneness and trinity. Not to be
different, but it's always the middle of the road."
Now, if he was ONENESS, then why would he deny it?
And if he is not, then his revealing the Baptism in the NAME of the Lord Jesus
Christ must be different than the ONENESS formula for baptism.
Again in the following quotes we can see that
Brother Branham denies being ONENESS and therefore how can we as his followers
even think that he was ONENESS in his thinking and doctrine. Then why do so
many that claim to follow him and His Message preach a Oneness doctrine? Please
be honest and answer this question in your heart. Ask yourself, what is this
middle of the road that he is talking about?
E-96 SHOW US THE
FATHER 53-0907.1A There's
only one God. And I differ and disagree with the organization of Pentecost
that calls the Oneness like your finger is one. That's wrong. Absolutely, it's
wrong.
TESTIMONTY
RAISING DEAD BOY 53-1203 P:50 There's only
one true, living God, and His
Son is Christ Jesus.
E-32 I
WILL RESTORE 57-0309.1B Now, of course, we people today, we believe that there's three,
the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost is the three persons of the one
true God. It's three offices, not three Gods. But that same... Listen now,
we think that was ridiculous in the Catholic church, but we went right down
here at Pentecost and tore yourselves to pieces with it--set up another
organization, started something else. Instead of coming like brethren with
brotherly love and with unity, the first one begin to see the--that the three
Persons of the Godhead was in one Person, Christ Jesus; He was the
manifestation of God in flesh, not another man. And then you set up and got
the little dogmatic idea of the oneness, so-called. Then you started on
that, begin to harp on it, and you made God one like your finger, one,
and you know that's wrong. You scholars know better than that. But what was
it? It was because the palmerworm begin to eat first. Instead of setting and
reasoning together when I come into the factions of the Pentecostals they set a
table bigger than that, with their heads around, "You go this, and you
can't go to this. You preach for them, you can't preach for me."
Brother Branham goes on to explain that the purpose
of the seventh angel's ministry is finished after he reveals the mysteries
which have to do with Godhead and the fact that the Son is not eternal and must
have a beginning.
IS THIS THE
SIGN OF THE END SIR 62-1230E 36-7 The Book that is written within
is then completed when this angel ceases. Now, please understand this. When
the seventh angel's message is completed, the godhead mystery, the
serpent's seed mystery, all the other mysteries of all these things, eternal
son-ship, as they talk about. How can He be an eternal Son, when eternity never
began or never ends? And a son is something that's begotten of. How can it make
sense?
Therefore, we can see the importance of our letting
our own thinking go, and receive "Thus Saith The Lord."
There are eight major statements Brother Branham
makes concerning the Godhead that if those who claim to believe Him as God's
end-time Messenger Prophet would only let go of their Oneness doctrine, and
look at these statements, they would have to change their doctrine concerning
the Revelation of Jesus Christ. I will list these eight statements up front in
this study and we shall delve into them in more detail as this study
progresses. These eight statements are
as follows:
FACT #1) Brother Branham never claimed to
be a Oneness. In fact he outright denies being Oneness.
Godhead
Explained, E-74 Many of you
people listening to this would say, "Brother Branham is a Oneness." I
am not. I think you're both wrong, both oneness and trinity. Not to be
different, but it's always the middle of the road."
FACT #2) Brother Branham said that God is
not one like your finger is one.
E-96 SHOW US THE
FATHER 53-0907.1A There's
only one God. And I differ and disagree with the organization of Pentecost
that calls the Oneness like your finger is one. That's wrong. Absolutely, it's
wrong.
FACT #3) Brother Branham said that Jesus
could not be His Own Father.
128 HEBREWS CPT.
4 141-126 -- 57-0901.2E Now the Oneness took it, the oneness group of people, and
try to make Father, Son and Holy Ghost, just one office and one place, and
like your finger, one. That's wrong. God could not... Jesus could not
been His own father. If He was, then He was a... Well, how could He been His
own father?
FACT #4) Brother Branham tells us there is a difference between the
Father and the Son because the Son had a beginning.
25
HEBREWS Chapter 7, Part 1HEB 292-25 -- 57-0915.2E Now, the reason that there's a difference between God
and Jesus: Jesus had a beginning, God had no beginning; Melchisedec had no
beginning, and Jesus had a beginning. But Jesus was made liken unto
Him.
FACT #5) Brother Branham speaks of God not even being in Jesus until
He was baptized in the
282
PARADOX -- 64-0206.1M, And this little Boy, twelve-year-old Child, no wisdom at all, why,
but just a twelve-year-old Boy. The Father didn't dwell in Him at that time;
because He come on the day when He baptized Him, "He saw the Spirit of God
coming down, see, and went in Him." But, look, this little
twelve-year-old Boy, being the Word; He was born the anointed One, see, to be
the anointed. And here He was. "Know ye not that I must be about My
Father's business?"
Notice
Brother Branham tells us that the Father did not yet indwell Jesus at this
time. He tells us that God entered the Son at the river
In the Message, ELISHA THE
PROPHET 56-1002.2E E-21,
brother Branham said, "And Jesus, the
baptism He had was the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which was in Him, that come
on Him at the river
And in the message, MANIFESTED
SONS OF GOD 60-0518 88 He said, "In the
Also from, THE
RISING OF THE SUN 65-0418 He said, " When God looked down upon the body... (The Spirit left
Him in the Garden of
E-40
TESTIMONY WILLIAM BRANHAM 60-0210
Brethren and sisters, we're men and women, got to
die, but the Spirit of God that's among us, is the same God that met Moses
in the wilderness, was in Jesus Christ on earth, because the life of It
proves It's the same Spirit. It's doing the same thing. It's a promise of
Christ. Oh, how... There's just no place to stop.
FACT #6) Brother Branham tells us the
Body was not Deity, but Deity dwelt in
the Body.
GOD'S
GIFTS ALWAYS FIND PLACE 63-1222 93 The man, the body was not Deity, but Deity was in the body.
IDENTIFIED CHRIST
OF ALL AGES 64-0617 36 Now, notice now, God... Jesus said that those who the Word
came to was called gods; that was prophets. Now, not the man himself was God, no more than the body of Jesus Christ
was God. He was a Man, and God was veiled
behind Him.
BLASPHEMOUS NAMES 62-1104M .”… Now, they was looking at that little body that was
borned of Mary. See? That wasn't God; that was the Son of God, but God was in that body.It was God…”
Therefore you must ask yourself the question, How then was God in that body, and in this study you will find out.
E-37 FUNDAMENTAL
FOUNDATION FOR FAITH 55-0113
Now, when He was here on earth, He was a perfect
example of everything of the godhead. He was the fullness of the godhead
bodily. In Christ dwelt God. The body of Jesus was only the tabernacle of
God. It's where Almighty God Himself lived and dwelt in a human being. You
believe that, don't you? You have to, to be saved.
You have to believe that.
FACT #7) Brother Branham tells us that when God birthed forth Jesus,
there were two beings involved. One who is God and One who is the Son of God.
ATTITUDE
AND WHO IS GOD? 50-0815
018 There He puts the first Bible. Oh, back in the
days of--ancient days, they looked at those things. Today, He's got His Bible
wrote here. But He wrote It in the heavens, that man would look up and realize
that Jehovah the Creator lived above. And then I can see Him, He looked at
that...I can see Him speak to this world hanging there as an icicle, whatever
it was, way away. And He moved it over here. I can see this little Light go
out. Now, WE GOT TWO NOW. The Father, and out of the
Father came the Light, the Son. And I can
see that Light moving over here and pulled the earth over near the sun to dry
it off. And begin to...?... raise the water up, separating the land, earth from
the water, and so forth.
Now,
this in no way makes it two Gods. There is One God and he has a Son. The
Scripture calls Him the "Son of God", never does it say he is
"God the Son".
QA ON
GENESIS13-13 53-0729
007 Well now, if you'll
notice close now, in Genesis 1:26, let's get the first part first. God
said, "Let us..." Now, "let us," us is a... "Let us
make man in our own image." Our, 'course, we realize He's talking to
someone; He was speaking to another being. "Let us make man in our
own image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the cattles of
the field." If you notice in creation, the first thing that was created,
of course, was light. You come on down through the creation; the last thing was
created was what? A man. And woman was made after man. All right, the first...
Last thing that was created of God's creation is mankind.
CURTAIN
OF TIME 55-0302 E-22
They couldn't understand Him. He was a mystery,
even to the Apostles. No one could understand Him, because there was two
people talking all the time. -23 The Person Jesus Christ was talking,
and God was talking in Him, also. Sometimes it was Christ himself;
sometimes it was the Father that dwelt in Him. You see it? He--they
couldn't understand some things He would say; He talked in riddles to them.
FACT #8) Brother Branham tells us that Jesus was a dual being,
because God was living in Him.
SHOW
US THE FATHER IT'LL SATISFY 56-0422 E-36 Now, it's many times it's been said that no man can see God at
anytime, the Bible said so. But the only begotten of the Father has declared
Him. Philip, here was very inquisitive; he wanted to see the Father. Says here
He said, "I've been so long with you, Philip, and you don't know Me?"
Said, "When you see Me you see My Father." In other words, you see
the Father express Himself through the Son. Him and the Father were one in the
sense that His Father was dwelling in Him, not Him doing the works; He was a
Son, Himself, the immortal, virgin born, Son of God. And then in Him was
dwelling the God the Father, expressing Himself to the world, His attitude
towards the people. See? Well, that's how Christ and God were one. God was in
Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Now, He said, "When you see Me,
you see the Father, and why do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
JEHOVAJIREH 56-0429
053 "That's the
reason people couldn't understand Him. Sometime it was Christ speaking... or
was the Son speaking. Other times it was the Father speaking. He was a dual
Person. He was one Man, the Son. God was in, which was tabernacling in
Him. But what did He do? Did He go around saying, "I'm the
Healer." Very contrary, He said, "I'm not the Healer." He said,
"It isn't Me that doth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in
Me." And in Saint John the 19th chapter when He was questioned for passing
a whole bunch of crippled, lame, withered, halt, blind people, healed one man
laying on a pallet, the Father showed Him to go there and heal. Walked away and
left the rest of them laying there, they questioned Him. A man packing his bed
on the sabbath. Listen to what He said.
LET
US SEE GOD 131 59-1129
…I said,
"He was more than... God was in Him. He was a man, but He was a dual
Person. One, He was a man; the Spirit in Him was God." I said,
"God was in Christ." She said, "Aw, no." I said, "Look,
lady, I'll take your own Scripture. He was a man, but He was a God-man. When He
went down to the grave of Lazarus, He did weep like a man. That's true. But
when He stood there, straightened His little stooped shoulders up, and said,
'Lazarus, come forth,' and a dead man, that'd been dead four days come to life
again, that was more than a man. Man couldn't do that. That was God in His
Son."
Notice
that brother Branham pointed out that we are not talking about two physical
beings like a man and wife are two physical beings. They are not two in that
way. But he explained that there is one that was a man, and we know to be a
man you must have body, soul and spirit. But in that man that was fully man,
indwelt the God, the Father, who is Spirit. Thus making them one by the
indwelling. But notice in this next quote how brother Branham is more specific
and shows that the oneness of God and His Son is not like Husband and wife and
He is more clear as to why it is different.
Baptism Of
the Holy Spirit 58-0928M 94 Jesus,
He said, "I and My Father are One. My Father
dwelleth in Me." No one could read that any
plainer. They said, "Why don't You
show us the Father, and it'll satisfy us."
John 14:8. He said, "I've been so
long with you and you don't know Me?" He
said, "When you see Me, you see My Father." As a lady once jumped up, she said, "Why, Brother
Branham," she said, "the Father and the Son are one, just like you
and your wife are one." I said, "Oh, no they're not." I said,
"Do you see me?" She said, "Yes." I said, "You see my
wife?" Said, "No." I said, "Then they're not the same
kind of one. Jesus said, 'When you've see Me, you have seen the Father.
The Father dwelleth in
Now,
that is the key to understand what Brother Branham meant when he uses this
story about the confrontation with this woman. He said, "Then they're not the same kind of one. Jesus
said, 'When you've see Me, you have seen the Father. The Father
dwelleth in
Palmerworm
Locust Caterpillar 59-0823 140 God Almighty, the Father, dwelt in Him. At the day of the baptism,
when He received the Holy Ghost on the day when John baptized Him, John said,
"I beheld and saw the Spirit of God like a
Dove descending from heaven, and a Voice saying, 'This is My beloved Son in
Whom I'm pleased to dwell in.” Jesus said
that God was with Him, "I and My Father are
One. My Father dwells in Me.” Not
Jesus, and being one with God; but God was in Christ, reconciling the world to
Himself. 143 And you Oneness brethren, many of you get off the wrong
track when you try to think that God is one like your finger is one. He
can't be His Own Father. He can't be.
I
want to show you the hypocritical nature of those who preach against what we
stand for in one simple prayer that Jesus preached. In JOHN 17:11
¶ And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I
come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast
given me, that they may be one, as we are. And how is it that
we might be One even as which means in the same manner as Jesus and His Father
were One? Jesus said, JOHN 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them,
because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Jesus
tells us we become One with God through the same Word that He became One With
God. JOHN 17:20 ¶ Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou,
Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that
the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou
gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
Therefore
it is very apparent that we are one by receiving the same Word which bring us
into the same Glory or same mind as the Father. And the
glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we
are one:
HARVEST TIME 641212 87 034 Jesus said, "That they might be one, Father, as You and I are one." Not for some man to be over something, it never will work;
one denomination wants to take over the other, and one man over the other. But
that you might be one with God, like Christ and God was one; that's
what the prayer is. That... He was the Word, and Jesus prayed that we
might be the Word, reflecting Him. That's His prayer to be answered.
See how Satan scruples it up in the carnal mind? But that wasn't Jesus' prayer,
at all, that we might all congregate together and all have a certain creed and
so forth. Every time they do it, they go further and further from God.
He wants us to be one with God, and God is
the Word. Each individual in his heart must
be that one with God.
Now,
that we have examined these 8 statements of William Branham,
let’s look at a few questions that seem to pop up here and there.
Question
1: How can brother Branham say Jesus was a dual
person when Jesus Himself said “I and My Father are One”, and “when you see me you see the Father”?
Answer: This is probably the
most asked question by those with the Oneness Mindset in our midst. First of
all, most people do not read the entire encounter between Jesus and Philip. If you
read the entire scripture reference Jesus explains how He is one with His
Father. But most people will not read the scripture in context. No, they read only what will suit their doctrine,
whether it be Jesus Only or Trinity.
In John 14:8
we read, Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew
us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him,
Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he
that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us
the Father? 10 Believest
thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words
that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in
me, he doeth the works. 11 Believe
me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me
for the very works' sake.
When
reading the entire conversation between Jesus and Philip, it is very apparent
that Jesus is telling him and the others that were listening, that when
you see Him, you see the Father, because the Father was in Him, doing the works
and telling him what to say. Therefore what you saw Jesus do, the Father also
was doing, thus manifesting Himself to the World through the speech and actions
of His Son, who was 100% yielded to the Father in all things.
Notice
in JOHN 5:17 Jesus is being accused by
the Jews for working on the Sabbath because He healed on the Sabbath. His
answer to them is found in verse 17. ¶ But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh
hitherto, and I work. Now, this was not a very satisfactory answer to
them, and it only made them much more angry, because instead of cow-towing to
their Oneness understanding, He was letting them know that it was the Father
that was doing the works. 18 Therefore the
Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath,
but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with
God. 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do:
for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Now,
it is very apparent here that Jesus is telling the Jews that he is helpless
unless the Father shows him what to do. He says, the Son can do NOTHING. Then
the son cannot save, he cannot heal, he cannot redeem, he can do nothing,
unless shown by the Father what to do. These are not the words of One who is
Sovereign. But God is Sovereign. God
is Omniscient and Omnipotent.
1.
One who is sovereign answers to no one.
2.
One who is sovereign reigns supreme above all.
3.
One who is sovereign is completely independent of all others.
Therefore,
the Son of God is not and was not Sovereign, for He was completely dependent
upon the Father to act and to speak. He did not have his own words, nor his own
actions, nor his own doctrine, and he subjected His own will to the Father. I
challenge you to make a chart that lists these three attributes of Sovereignty,
and then take any Scripture that speaks of the Son of God and check yes or no
to whether he displays the attributes of One Who is Sovereign, and the answer
is you can’t find one Scripture speaking of a Sovereign son. You will find
scripture for an obedient son, but never any Scripture of a son who is
sovereign. It is God that indwelt that
Son that is sovereign. God is Omniscient, and God is Omnipotent, but the son
was always dependent upon the Father for everything including; speaking,
acting, His doctrine, and even submitting His own will to the Father’s will.
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Scriptural references |
Attributes
of Sovereignty |
Sovereign |
Sovereign |
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YES |
NO |
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John 5:19
The Son can do nothing but what the Father shows Him |
Answer to
no one |
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X |
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Reigns
above all |
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X |
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Completely
independent |
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X |
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John |
Answer to
no one |
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X |
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Reigns
above all |
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X |
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Completely
independent |
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X |
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John 14:10 The Father that dwelleth in me He doeth
the works |
Answer to
no one |
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X |
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Reigns
above all |
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X |
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Completely
independent |
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X |
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John |
Answer to
no one |
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X |
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Reigns
above all |
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X |
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Completely
independent |
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X |
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John 5:17 My Father worketh
hitherto and I work |
Answer to
no one |
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X |
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Reigns
above all |
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Completely
independent |
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Hebrews 5:8 Though he were a
son he learned obedience |
Answer to
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independent |
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And
what about "Father, I would that you take this
cup from me, But not My will but Thine be done", etc.
Those are not words of one who is sovereign. We could continue with this study
using many more scriptures, in fact all
Scriptures concerning the Son of God, but I’ll leave it up to you to try
it yourself.
JOHN 5:20 For the Father
loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he
will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. Notice
again that Jesus is speaking of this unique relationship He had with the
Father. He says, the Father shows Him all that he is to do, for the Father
Himself is first doing those things, and then shows them to the Son for Him to
perform. . This is exactly what William Branham also had to do. He was
completely helpless until the Father first showed Him in Vision what he had to
do. Then in the role as another obedient son, he did what was shown Him
to do, having seen the Father already performing it in Vision before he then
acted out the role to make that vision come from that dimension to this one,
bringing flesh to the Spoken Word..
In
the next verse we find Jesus again explaining how it works. JOHN 5:21 For as the
Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth
whom he (The Father) wills. Now,
in your own thinking you may have read that Jesus was saying that He (Jesus)
raised up whomsoever he the son of God wills, but that is not what He has been
saying for the past few verses. He has already been saying that he can do
nothing but what He sees the Father doing, and then why would he turn and say, For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them;
even so the Son quickeneth whom he himself wills. You see how far off the Scriptures
everyone reads them. To read it that way you will have to completely throw out
everything Jesus the Son of God had just been saying about how His relationship
with the Father works.
Now,
let’s continue reading what Jesus says concerning this unique relationship he
has with His Father. JOHN 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all
judgment unto the Son: Now, the word here that is used for
committed is the Greek word didomi which means to grant. And Paul uses the same
word when he says in ROMANS 15:5 ¶ Now the God of patience and consolation grant
you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: Notice
Paul uses this word in speaking of God giving us an ability to be likeminded,
and he adds, according to Christ Jesus. Therefore, he is telling us as
Jesus was likeminded with the Father in all things, so too Go has given us the
same ability to become likeminded with Himself. So when God is committing all
judgment to the Son, Jesus is saying, that God has given Him an ability to Judge
as the Father Judges. He is not saying that His judgment is Sovereign, nor is
he saying that His judgment would somehow be different from the Father’s
Judgment. But what He has been telling us is that He can do nothing except what
He has first learned from the Father to do. And if you read it any other way,
you are making Jesus a Hypocrite. How could He be speaking in one context for
several examples and then suddenly change his course. He is the same yesterday,
today and forever. And if we do not believe that we might as well hang it up.
JOHN 12:44 ¶ Jesus cried
and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him
that sent me. Notice he is telling us here that
the things we hear and thus believe, are not his words, but the Father that sent
him, thus by Believing the Son we are believing the father. For they are the
Words the Father gave the son to declare. 45 And he
that seeth me seeth him that sent me. 46 I am come a light into the world,
that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man
hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the
world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not
my words, hath one that judgeth him: The Word that I have
spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. And Who is
the Word? In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was God! Notice how, Jesus
again tells us that the words He spoke were not even His own Words to speak,
but were the very Words His Father told Him to say. 49
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he
gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I
know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore,
even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
So
how can we refuse Him that speaketh when He is only speaking the words of the
Father. Now, let’s get back to JOHN 5:23 That all men should honour the Son, even as
they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the
Father which hath sent him. Now, first we want to point out that
Jesus tells us if we do not give Him honor then we cannot honor the Father that
sent Him.
That
again ought to tell you that He is saying, since everything the Son doeth, the
Father has shown Him first to do, then we should honor Him even as we
honor the Father.
In
honoring the Son we are honoring the Father, because the Son is only doing what
the Father has instructed Him to do. Thus what we see being done is the Father
working and the son working hitherto. Thus in giving honor to the son we are
acknowledging the Father’s preeminent role, and the son’s role of complete
obedience to the Father.
Now,
in reading the next verse, we must remember that the Words Jesus is speaking He
had first learned from the Father to say. JOHN 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my
word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not
come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. We find
Jesus clarifying this in JOHN 14:10b The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself:
but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Notice
he is saying, these are my Fathers words, not mine. This is identical to what
we had read in various other Scriptures so far, and should need no further
elucidation.
JOHN 5:25 Verily, verily, I
say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the
voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. And
why is He saying this? Because He has already established that His Words, and
thus His Voice is nothing short of an echo of God’s own Words and thus God’s
own Voice. And He explains that in the next verse. 26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath
he given to the Son to have life in himself; Notice then that
the very Life that Jesus had was given to Him by one greater than Himself. His
Life came from the Father. And thus the Father who is the giver of Life.
Now,
in moving forward we find Jesus say in verse 27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment
also, because he is the Son of man. Remember, we had read earlier in
verse 22 that the Father had committed all judgment unto the Son to execute,
and we had stated that this was an ability to be likeminded with the Father.
Notice in this verse Jesus tells us the authority to do so was also given Him
by the Father, because He is His Son. John 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all
that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29 And shall come forth; they that
have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil,
unto the resurrection of damnation. 30 I can of mine own
self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just;
Why? because I seek not mine own will,
but the will of the Father which hath sent me. There you have
it. Jesus can judge because God, His Father knows that he will only judge what
God has already judged. He said, I have not come to do my own will but the will
of the father which sent me. Then he says, 31
¶ If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is
another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he
witnesseth of me is true.
In
verse 56 we find out Who the witness is, Jesus is speaking about. And if Jesus
is consistent in what he has been telling them, then it has to be His Father
that He is speaking about as we see in JOHN 5:36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the
works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear
witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. 37 And the Father
himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither
heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. 38 And ye have not his word
abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
Now, let’s stop for a moment and look at
another scripture that Jesus is speaking of this Judging. Let’s turn to JOHN 8:16 And yet if I
judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and
the Father that sent me. 17 It is also written in your law, that the
testimony of two men is true. 18 I am one that bear
witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know
me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. Notice
the words of Jesus, he says, I am not alone. Now, that speaks of another, meaning more than
one is involved here. And he tells us immediately who that other is… I and the Father that sent me. Then he says, 17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two
men is true. Then notice
who those TWO MEN are that he uses for his witness. I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that
sent me beareth witness of me.
Now if Jesus considered Himself to be One with God
in that way, why would he speak these words? But they could not see His Father
because they did not understand what He was talking about. And so they looked
for one that can not be seen, and missed seeing that He was living in His Son.
Now, in getting back to John
14:8 we read, Philip saith unto
him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him,
Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he
that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us
the Father? 10 Believest
thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words
that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in
me, he doeth the works. 11 Believe
me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me
for the very works' sake.
Obviously
from what we have seen so far, Jesus is not saying here that He and His Father
are one like your finger is one. But what He is saying is that the same Word
that is in the Father, is abiding in Him and that makes Him one with the
Father. Brother Branham further clarified this in the sermon,
SHOW
US THE FATHER IT'LL SATISFY 56-0422 E-36 Now, it's many times it's been said that no man can see God at
anytime, the Bible said so. But the only begotten of the Father has declared
Him. Philip, here was very inquisitive; he wanted to see the Father. Says here
He said, "I've been so long with you, Philip, and you don't know Me?"
Said, "When you see Me you see My Father." In other words, you see the Father express Hisself
through the Son. Him and the Father were one in the sense that His
Father was dwelling in Him, not Him doing the works; He was a Son, Himself,
the mortal, virgin born, Son of God. And then in Him was dwelling the God,
the Father, expressing Hisself to the world, His attitude towards the
people. See? Well, that's how Christ and God were one. God was in
Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Now, He said, "When you see
Me, you see the Father, and why do you say, 'Show us the Father?'"
Again
in the sermon, He Swore By
Himself 54-1212 we
can find William Branham clarifying that this is what was meant by Jesus when
he spoke to Philip. He said, "I and My Father are One. My Father is in Me." Said, "Show us now
the Father." Philip said, "Showeth me the Father and it'll satisfy me." Said, "Philip, I
been so long with you, and you don't know Me?"
He said, "When you see Me, you see the
Father. And why say, 'Show me the Father.' I and the Father are One. My
Father's living in Me now. It's not Me that doeth the works; it's Him
that dwells in me, that does the works." Oh, my.How could I tell a man what was wrong with
him? How could I tell him what his future will be ten years, or what he was
forty years ago? It isn't me. Hallelujah. It's Him that lives in me,
that come down, that through His Blood brought me in fellowship with Him.
Hallelujah. How could my hands do anything by healing the sick? It hasn't got a
bit of power. It's not me. But it's Him that dwells in here that does
it.
And
since three is a witness, let me share one more quote with you where William
Branham further elucidates my point that Jesus and God were one by reason of
the Father abiding in Him, directing Him by His Word. CONFERENCE 60-1125 E-73 When He said,
"It's not Me that doeth the works.
It's My Father. He dwelleth in
AS
I WAS WITH MOSES 51-0503
E-15 When Jesus of
GIFTS
56-1207 E-29 Now, in Christ dwelt the Fullness of the
Godhead bodily. He had all the Spirit of God in Him. "I and My Father are One,"
said Jesus. That's the reason the people couldn't understand Him. Sometimes
He'd say something, might look like He turn around and say something different.
It was Him speaking, then the Father speaking. See? They were... And even
the disciples could not understand Him. And right at the last, they said,
"Lo, now speakest Thou plainly. Now, we
believe by this if you know all things; no man needs to teach you." Jesus said, "Do
you now believe?" After all that time,
they couldn't get the... Why? That sometimes He'd say this and then say that. It
was Him and the Father speaking. E-30 Now, notice closely. Now, God dwelling in Christ used His
voice to speak by. Jesus said in His miracle, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in
Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Is that right?
SUPER
SIGN 59-1227M 86 When
He was here on the earth, He proved that He was God, proved that God was in
Him, because the signs of God followed Him. He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. But if I do
the works of My Father, if you don't believe Me, believe the works, the sign": Immanuel. "I and My
Father are One. My Father has sent Me. And as He sends Me, so send I you. The Father that sent Me is with Me; He's in Me and
doing the works of Himself. It's God in flesh."
SHOW
US THE FATHER AND IT WILL SATISFY 60-0731 E-15 "The works that
I do, shall you also." And seeing the
same results by human beings so submitted to God, until the Holy Spirit can
work through those human beings just like the Holy Spirit worked through Jesus,
Who just has confessed that, "I and My
Father are One.
My Father dwelleth in Me. He
doeth the works. It's not My words; it's His words."... See? He was so submitted to God.
Revelation Chapter One 60-1204 198 He was the true and faithful Witness to God's eternal Word. He
was the Word, was God's Word; and being the Word, He was a Prophet. For the
Word of God flowed through Him; He'd say only the things. "I can do nothing within Myself, but what the Father shows Me to do. Not
Me that doeth the works, but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works. I and My Father are One. My Father's in Me," said Jesus, the Man, the Tabernacle.
SIRS
WE WOULD SEE JESUS 61-1224 21-3
I and My Father are One," not three, "We are One." God is in
Him. God speaks through Him. He's no more His own, but He's God's voice through
human lips. Hallelujah.
SIRS
WE WOULD SEE JESUS 61-1224 24-1 Jesus
said so. Argue with Him, not me; I'm just saying what He said. "I and My Father are One. It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My
Father; He dwells in Me. If you don't believe Me, believe the Word, 'cause
He is the Word.
QA
IMAGE OF THE BEAST 54-0515 194-282
And God came down and dwelt in His Son, Christ Jesus, making Him God
on earth. When Thomas said, "Lord, show us
the Father, and it sufficeth us." He
said, "I've been so long with you and you don't
know Me?" He said, "Why sayest thou, 'Show us the Father'?" Why, He said, "When
you see Me you see the Father. I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth
in Me."
HE
SWORE BY HIMSELF 54-1212 156 And God Himself living in
this, making a tabernacle, and He dwelt in Christ. There's God walking
around. He said, "I and My
Father are One. My Father is in Me."
Said, "Show us now the Father." Philip said, "Showeth
me the Father and it'll satisfy me." Said,
"Philip, I been so long with you, and you
don't know Me?" He said, "When you see Me, you see the Father. And why say, 'Show me the Father.'
I and the Father are One. My Father's living in Me now. It's not Me that doeth the works; it's
Him that dwells in me, that does the works." Oh, my.
HEBREWS
CHAPTER 1 57-0821 25-158
Thomas said, "Lord, show us the Father
and it'll satisfy us. Said, "I've been so long with you and you don't know Me?" Said, "When you see
Me, you see the Father. And why say, 'show us, Thou the Father'? I and the Father are One. My Father
dwelleth in Me. I'm just a Tabernacle called the Son. The Father dwells in Me. Not Me that doeth the works, it's My
Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works, not Me."
SHOW
US THE FATHER 0722 E-64 God
in His Son, do you believe He was? He looked like God; He
acted like God; He said He was God. He cried like God; He healed like God; He
died like a man; and He rose like God. He was God manifested in the flesh. God
was in His Son. Do you believe it? God was in His universe. You believe it?
God is in His Word. You believe it? God is in His Son. You believe it?
Could you see Him in Christ? Jesus said, "When you see Me you see the Father. Why sayest thou, Show Me the
Father?" God was in the Son, reconciling the world to
Himself. Now, God in His universe, you believe
it? God in His Word, you believe it? God in His Son, you believe it?
UNVEILING
OF GOD 64-0614M 257 Jesus
once said, "When you see Me, you see the Father." See? God and His Word is One. Now you understand?
When the Word is manifested, what is It? Right. See? 260
Jesus said, "Search the Scriptures, you think you
have... You believe in God, believe also in Me. If I do not the works of My
Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do do the works, I and My Father are
One. When you see Me, you have seen the Father." And when you see the Word made manifest, you see the
Father God, because the Word is the Father; the Word is God. And the
Word made manifest is God Himself taking His Own Word and manifesting It among
believers. Nothing can make It live but believers, just believers.
MASTERPIECE
THE 64-0705 69 There in His
own image reflecting God, for He said in
Question
2) What about quotes where brother Branham said that Jesus and God were one,
but not in the same way as a husband and wife are one. How does that fit then
with what you are saying? Notice how brother
Branham used the same quote twice, but the second time he elucidated his point
much more clearly than the first. And yet if you understand the doctrine, you
won’t have trouble with the first quote, because you will know what he is
saying.
QA
HEBREWS PART 2 57-1002 281-Q-63
63. Please explain the Trinity. How can the Son set at the right hand of
the Father, interceding to the Father, if they are not two persons?
Well, beloved friend, that's a... That's a revelation. If Jesus said, "I and My Father are One," then
how can they be two? See? Now, they're not two. A woman once said to me,
and I was explaining that, said, "You and your wife are two, yet you're
one." I said, "But God and the Son is different from that.
See?" I said, You see me?" "Yes." "Do you see my
wife?" "No." I said, "Then Father and Son's different;
Jesus said, 'When you see Me, you've seen the Father.'" See? The Father and the Son... The Father was Almighty
Jehovah God dwelling in a Tabernacle called Jesus Christ, which was the
anointed Son of God. Jesus was a Man; God is a Spirit. And no man has seen
God at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. He
was... He... His Personality, His Being, His Deity, whatever He was, He was
God. He was nothing less or nothing more than God. Yet, He was a man. He was
a man, a house that God dwelt in. That's right. He was God's dwelling
place.
Notice
that brother Branham pointed out that we are not talking about two physical
being like a man and wife are two physical beings. But he explained that there
is one that was a man, and we know to be a man you must have body, soul and
spirit. But in that man that was fully man, indwelt the God, the Father, who is
Spirit. Thus making them one by the indwelling. But notice in this next quote
how brother Branham is more specific and shows that the oneness of God and His
Son is not like Husband and wife and He is more clear as to why it is
different.
Baptism
Of the Holy Spirit 58-0928M
94 He said, "I and My
Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me."
No one could read that any plainer. They said, "Why don't You show us the Father, and it'll satisfy us." John 14:8. He said, "I've been so
long with you and you don't know Me?" He
said, "When you see Me, you see My Father." As a lady once jumped up, she said, "Why, Brother
Branham," she said, "the Father and the Son are one, just like you
and your wife are one." I said, "Oh, no they're not." I said,
"Do you see me?" She said, "Yes." I said, "You see my
wife?" Said, "No." I said, "Then they're not the same kind
of one. Jesus said, 'When you've see Me, you have seen the Father. The
Father dwelleth in
Question
3) What about where brother Branham said that Jehovah was born over a manure
pile? What about it? God was never born? If He was born
he had to have a beginning. If you examine that quote carefully you will find
that brother Branham said, “Little Jehovah” born over a manure pile.
IDENTIFICATION
63-0123 E-23 Now therefore, His
loving character of love, oh, for us, it makes plain John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but would have Eternal Life." God, projecting Himself, and become man that He might have
upon Him the form of His creation. In other words He changed His tent. He
spread it amongst human beings. And the infant Jehovah, crying in a manger, could
you imagine it? It ought to alarm the hearts of believers. And that was all
done... Could
you imagine Jehovah, being a baby in a manger, in a stable of manure? Could you
imagine that? Could you imagine little Jehovah playing as a boy? It's an
example. Could you imagine Him as a teenager? Could you imagine in the
carpenter's shop? And could you imagine Him in such complete obedience to
God, dying on a cross to redeem His fallen creation? That's the kind of a
love that God had. And He had to become that in order to die, to hold the sting
of death.
Now,
if you think he is talking about Jehovah God is the one born, then how could he
speak of this one and say, you imagine Him in
such complete obedience to God. Do we have Two God’s Now? I
don’t think so. He is talking about John 3:16
God sending forth His own Son.
Now,
the Body was both God’s Body and He also loaned it to His Son. They shared the
same body, and that is the key to understanding the Godhead. Jesus was not the
fullness of the Godhead, but IN Him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead.
WHEN
THEIR EYES WERE OPENED 64-0416 E-14 He was a man when He died on the cross crying
for mercy; He was a man. But when He broke the seals of death, hell, and the
grave, rose up on the third day, He proved He was more than a man. He was God in
a man. No wonder every man
that's ever amounted to anything believed that. All poets and everything that's
ever amounted to anything believes that. That's right. He was more than a man;
He was God. Now, God in His own Son built a body that He
lived in, tabernacled, changed His strength. Just think, Jehovah laying
in a manger over a manure pile in a barn, crying like a little baby. Those
little baby hands, little Jehovah, coming down and in-veiled
Himself in that form. Look at the Jehovah out playing as a teenage boy. Look at
Jehovah building in a carpenter shop, Jehovah hanging on the cross. Then when
He rose up, He proved He was Jehovah. That's right. God in Christ,
reconciling the world to Himself... He was more than a philosopher; He was more
than a prophet. He was Emmanuel.
WE WOULD SEE JESUS SIRS 60-0109 E-36 Jesus had to give witness of His Messiahship. So He... No
doubt the Father had told Him. So He said in
Question
4) What about Isaiah 9:6. This tells us the one
born is the everlasting Father, and the Almighty God. Does
it? Let’s read it thought by thought. ISAIAH 9:6 For unto us a child is born, Now, if the
child is born it has a beginning. Then how can it have a beginning and be the
everlasting Father. William Branham said he cannot be His own Father, so we
have an oxymoron here, but let’s read on, “unto
us a son is given:” Now, if this Son is given, then someone greater
had to give Him, and who could that be? We find our answer in John 3:36 For God so
loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. Therefore
when Isaiah 9:6 tells us this son was given it is imperative that someone
greater gave him, and we have our answer, the Father gave His Only begotten
Son. “and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
Now, in order for the government to be on this ones shoulder, he
would have to be elevated to that place, and we find the Scripture tells us in
the Book of Acts, 2:36 that God hath made Him both Lord
and Christ. Now, if God made Him Lord then he
wasn’t Lord to begin with. ACTS 5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand [to be] a
Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to
“and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Notice
it does not say he is, but His name shall be called, and that is very
significant because Jesus said I come in My Father’s name. JOHN 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not:
if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. And what
does the name Jesus come from? It comes from Joshua which means “Jehovah
Savior”. Therefore, His name shall be called…Called what? The same as
the almighty God and the everlasting Father…
Now,
that we have looked at these eight FACTS may we now, enter this study with open
hearts to see just why God sent us a vindicated Prophet to restore back to us
what was taught by the early church Fathers. In fact if you examine 2 John 3
and 9 you will find John was very specific as to the revelation that there is
One God and He had a Son.
II
JOHN 1:3 Grace be with you, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father, and
from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and
love. 9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of
Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath
both the Father and the Son.
John
is very specific and tells us that if you do not have the doctrine of Christ
you do not have God, and then He tells us what the doctrine of Christ is, He
says, you must have BOTH the Father and Son. And the word BOTH means TWO, not
three, not four, not one, but TWO. And if you do not have TWO in reference to
the doctrine of Christ you have not God. TWO beings, but only One is God and
that One Who is God dwelt in the One who was not God, for He was the Son of
God, not God the Son.
Brother
Branham tried to take us back to this wonderful revelation of Christ, but most
of his followers think they know more than he did concerning God and His Son.
Please
keep in mind these eight major definitions of Brother Branham's as you read
this study and you will not have any difficulty in changing your own thinking.
FACT #1) Branham never claimed to be a Oneness. In fact he outright
denies being Oneness.
FACT #2) Brother Branham said that God is not ONE like your finger
is ONE.
FACT #3) Brother Branham said that Jesus could not be His Own
Father.
FACT #4) Brother Branham tells us there is a difference between the
Father and the Son because Sons have beginnings.
FACT #5) Brother Branham speaks of God not even being in Jesus until
He was baptized in the
FACT #6) Brother Branham tells us the Body was not deity but Deity dwelt in the Body.
FACT #7) Brother Branham tells us that when God birthed forth Jesus,
there were two beings involved. One who is God and One who is the Son of God.
FACT #8) Brother Branham tells us that Jesus was a dual being,
because God was living in Him.
We
know Trinitarian thinking people lack understanding of Scripture because it is
very easy to see that the Holy Spirit and God the Father are the self same
person. We know God is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in
Spirit and Truth. But the real trouble
comes with the ONENESS thinking people in this message that think they have the
Godhead figured out when they are just as wrong in their thinking as the
Trinitarians.
CURTAIN OF TIME 55-0302 p:22 They couldn't understand Him. He was a
mystery, even to the Apostles. No one could understand Him, because there
was two people talking all the time. 23 The Person Jesus
Christ was talking, and God was talking in Him, also. Sometimes it was Christ
himself; sometimes it was the Father that dwelt in Him. You see it?
He--they couldn't understand some things He would say; He talked in riddles to
them. Jesus finally said, when He was talking to them one day, how, "I
came from God; I come into the world; and I go back again to God. "And so
the disciples said, "Now You speak plainly. Now we understand, and we
believe that You know all things, and by this we believe that You are the Son
of God. We believe on You, now, because You know all things; God shows You
all things; and You need no man to have to tell You, because God just shows
it to You. And that's the reason we believe that You come out from God."
44 CALLING
JESUS ON THE SCENE 63-0804.2 There is One God, see, not three gods. Oh, how many of you
Trinitarian people got that mixed up. And how you Oneness people got it mixed
up, too, of Him being one like your finger. Uh-huh. See? They're, they both of them got it mixed up.
See? That's right...., how could He be His
Own Father? See? See, He can't be His Own Father. And if He had another Father outside of the Holy Spirit,
and if God is a man, a person, then He is a... the Holy Spirit was His Father,
and God is His Father, Matthew 1, so then He was an illegitimate child. See? So
you can't make it either way, you, it's both wrong. He was God manifested in
a flesh of His creative Son. See? Now, that's, God created the Son. 46 And
when you Catholic people say, "Eternal Sonship," where do you
get such a word? It doesn't make sense, to me. How can He be Eternal and be
a son? A son is something that's "begotten of," how can it be
Eternal? Eternal never did begin, it never does end, so how could it be Eternal
Sonship? Oh, my! 47 If these denominations hasn't scrupled things up, I don't
know what has. No wonder people can't have faith, they don't know what to have
faith in. That's right. What we need is a good old-fashion, back to the Bible.
That's right. Exactly right. That's right. Now, Jesus being man, physically,
was tired, weary. Now laying there, tired; virtue had gone from Him. And then
Him being God, He could only do what... 49 Now you say, "How could
He be God and be man?" See, there is the mystery. See, in body He was
man, in spirit He was God. See? Someone asked me, said, "Then how did,
who did He pray to in the
GODHEAD
EXPLAINED 61-0425B 26-1 I thought God
was His Father? Now, has He got two fathers, brethren? He can't have. If He
was, He was a bastard child, and what kind of a religion have we got there?
You've got to admit that God the Father and the Holy Ghost is the same self
Spirit. Sure it is. Sure, it's the same self Spirit.
UNITING
TIME AND SIGN 63-0818 102 What a day! What a time that we're living,
this great mystery of God being finished: bringing in the Godhead, showing
what It is; how these little isms, and went off and made Him this, and
somebody made Him this, and somebody made Him that. But the Angel of the Lord
come down and brought up all their isms, and pulled out that Truth out of it,
and presented It. And there It is just as perfect as It can be:, no other way
you could go. There It is, that's what He is.
Now,
why is it that we will admit that God and the Holy Ghost is the self-same
Spirit, and yet when it comes to differentiating between the Father and the Son
we will not take those quotes and scriptures that Brother Branham said? I
believe it is because the people have been influenced by wrong teaching. We
have not yet learned to let our thinking go and receive ALL that the prophets
say.
In
LUKE 8:18, Jesus said… "Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever
hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have." Now, the word "how"
that Jesus uses here is the Greek word "POS" which means
"the manner in which we hear".
Jesus is warning us that even in the way we hear, we need to be careful,
because we could be hearing but not perceiving, seeing yet not recognizing as
He also said in Matthew 13:10-17 and
Mark 4:11-12…And he said unto them, Unto you it
is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that
are without, all [these] things are done in parables: 12
That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear,
and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and [their] sins
should be forgiven them.
And
in MARK 4:24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye
hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you
that hear shall more be given. Notice again that Jesus tells us to
be careful what we think we are hearing, and tells us that the measure we use
to weigh out the Word is the measure we will actually receive. Therefore, if
you approach this Message with a filter of any sort, you will view it in that
same manner.
In
MODERN
EVENTS MADE CLEAR BY PROPHECY 65-1206, P. 66 Brother Branham said, The Messiah had
to come right to their group or He wasn't Messiah. Well, it's that way almost
today, "If you don't see through my glasses, you're not looking at all."
See? And so that's--that's just the way it--it is. We... That's the truth. We
hate to think that, but it's absolutely the truth.
I
realize in attempting to put down my thoughts in word form that I will receive
some criticism. However, after much prayer and deliberation, I felt led to
write this booklet. I also realize that some have already preached on
this subject and may feel that their sermon/s have covered this subject
thoroughly. I certainly hope that is the case. However, my own experience tells
me that I am able to comprehend things much better if I read it for myself. I
have also found when people listen to a sermon, their attention span is not as
good as when they read one. Therefore I wish to make available to the Bride of
Jesus Christ the things spoken to us through God’s Word and through His
end-time Prophet on this Great Subject.
I
do not claim to be an authority. There was only one Vindicated in this hour. I
believe that one, and rest my soul on what he said, (I hope that you will do
the same.) I will do my best to say only what God has already
said either in His Word or through His vindicated Prophet. All I ask you to do
is to read it, and pray that God will reveal to you the wisdom and
understanding that lays within the Message of William Branham concerning the
Godhead.
As
a Pastor I recognize that God’s people still have sincere questions.
Therefore, in a sincere effort to help, I am simply stepping out by faith and
sharing with you what God has placed upon my heart in response to questions I
have been asked concerning,
THE GODHEAD
INDEX
Chapter One ...
"Life"
The relationship between The Father and the Son
GOD'S
GIFTS ALWAYS FIND PLACE 63-1222 93 The man, the body was not Deity, but Deity was in the body.
BLASPHEMOUS
NAMES 62-1104M 34-2 Now look. What was
their fuss with Jesus? Their fuss with Jesus, because He was a Man making
Himself God. He was God. God was in Christ. See? And He told them; He
said, "Don't look at Me. It's not Me; it's My Father, and He dwells in
Me." See? Now, they was looking at that little body that was borned of
Mary. See? That wasn't God; that was the Son of God, but God was in that
body. It was God. He said, "If I do not the works of My Father then
condemn Me. But which one of you can condemn Me of sin (unbelief of the Word)?
Which word has God spoke that hasn't been fulfilled in Me? (Sin is unbelief.)
Which one of you accuse Me of sin? (Sin is unbelief.) Show Me. If I do not the
works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do the works of My...
though you can't believe Me, believe the works that I do for they
testify." Otherwise, "The Father's in Me, testifying of
Himself," 'cause God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.
You get it?
Chapter Two...
"Life"
"God-Hood & Sonship"
The relationship between The Father and His Sons.
(The expressed Attributes of God)
Chapter Three...
"God-Life vs. created-life"
The difference between sons and created beings.
The nature of the two trees
The Godhead
Chapter
One
"LIFE"
The
majority of Christian people today are confused about the subject of Godhead.
I believe the confusion comes in part due to the word "Godhead"
itself. The word is a compound word, made up of the two words
[God] and [head].
When
we as English speaking people say the word "Godhead,"
we have a tendency to think of the two words used to make up this word, "God"
and "head". Therefore, because of wrong teaching, the
Trinitarians immediately think of three and see in their minds three heads so
to speak while the Oneness or Jesus only conceptualize only One, but in so
doing this, they combine the offices and roles of God into one,
which is also erroneous. Actually the Word according to WEBSTER comes from two
words, God and the suffix hood or Godhood.
The suffix hood means "the state or quality or condition of being." We use
this suffix when speaking of boyhood, meaning (the
state, quality or condition of being a boy). We also use it when
speaking of the boy who has grown into adulthood, or manhood, or
even the girl who has matured into womanhood. In each of these words, we
see a state of being, the quality, or essence of that being, and the conditions
by which the nature has arrived, or has come to be. In other words, we see an
expression.
The
word Boyhood speaks of the time, or state, of being, which is the
representation, manifestation, or expression of being a boy. In manhood
we see the same thing, the representation, manifestation or expression of being
a man. GODHOOD then, is the state
of, quality of, or condition, of being God. Therefore, when we speak of
Godhood, we should think in terms of the representation, manifestation, or
expression, of Gods own Life, or nature. In the bible we find the Greek word
used for Godhead is THEIOS, which simply means "Divine",
and is used of the power of God, and of His nature; that which proceeds from Him, His essence of being.
In
this booklet we shall examine three Basic
principals of the Godhead, or Godhood.
The first is "the Principal of LIFE,"
or "God-Life." It is
impossible to even begin to understand the Godhead without first
understanding the principal of "God-Life". The second
principal we shall examine is the relationship
between the Father and The Son. The third principal we
shall examine is the relationship between the
Father and His sons. And finally in the last chapter we shall
examine the reasons why it is so important to understand correctly The
GODHEAD.
CHAPTER ONE
LIFE
In
this First chapter I wish to speak on the Godhead and particularly
the relationship between the Father and the Son, but
before we can do this, we must first understand the
principle of "God-Life". We find the beginnings of Life
spoken of in Genesis, chapters 1 & 2.
In Genesis 1:11, we see God establish the Law of Life or the Law or
reproduction which says, And God said, Let the
earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding
fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. Therefore, God established this law that
every seed must bring forth after it's own kind which means after it's own
nature.
DEMONOLOGY The Physical Realm 53-0608A
the life makes the first cell which was a germ, then everything after its
nature, dog after dog, bird after bird, man after man, developing cells, cell
on cell, cell on cell, comes up to where you are, human being, developing of
cells. Now, that was ordained of God to be so.
TRYING
TO DO GOD A SERVICE 65-1127B
335 If you were ordained from the beginning of the earth to that Word,
every Word will come right on top of the Word. Like a human cell will not have
one human cell, and the next the cell of a dog, and the next the cell of a cat;
it'll be human cells. But it's got to have a cell first to start with. Is that
right? say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Well,
if it is the Word cell to start with, the other Word cells are ordained to make
it a full body.
Therefore,
after God establishes the Law of reproduction in Genesis 1:11 He then begins to
bring forth Life in the earth. Finally we see God create man in His own image (verse
26 - 27) and in chapter 2, we see God bring forth a manifestation of this
created Life form. God forms a body to express this Life and then breathes into
this form the breath of Lives.
I CORINTHIANS 15:38 But God gives it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed
his own body.
I CORINTHIANS 15:40 [There are]
also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial
[is] one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial [is] another.
Now
as we examine this God-Life, let's go back to the very beginning of the Book of
Beginnings. We begin by watching the Spirit of God hover over the earth and we
first hear Him speak in Genesis 1: 3 - 9. The first time He speaks, we
see light coming forth, and light is an essential element needed to sustain
Life. The next time we hear God speak it has to do with water. Water
also is a needed element to sustain Life. After He speaks of light and
water, He then speaks of Life itself and He establishes the law of Life or the
law of reproduction in verse 11. We now see all the elements needed to bring
forth and sustain life. Light, Water and a carrier of Life, called a seed. And
God planted every seed in the earth at this time by speaking His Word as we
again see in 2 Peter 3: 5 - 7 where Peter tells us God did all this by His Word.
GENESIS 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters. 3 ¶ And God said, Let
there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God
divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God
called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the
evening and the morning were the first day.
Notice
that the first time God speaks, He causes a division to take place. The second
time God spoke He separated the waters from above from the waters below. The
third time God speaks He brings forth Seed Life. Now, I realize some might say
preaching this doctrine is divisive, but we have shown God's Word is divisive
because it is Life. And so is life in generally speaking. Without the dividing
of cells you can not have reproduction, and without the division caused by the
Word of God, you absolutely have no sign of Life. Brother Branham said in the
Message, Revelations
chapter 5, Part 261-0618 66 "any man that has not a doctrine has not a
ministry." So we must
have doctrine, and if we say what the Prophet said, then we have a vindicated
Doctrine. And it will bring forth Life, Eternal Life, because he also said in
the message, MAN
THAT CAN TURN ON LIGHT
63-1229M 95 There's nothing can give you Life but the
spoken Word of God. It's the only way that Life can come is through His spoken
Word.
Now,
in verse 3 we read And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there
was light. 4 And God saw the light, that
[it was] good: again we read in verse 5
And God called the light Day. Therefore the first time God speaks we see His
Word bring forth a Light. This light may not be the s.u.n because we see the
sun spoken of in verse 14. GENESIS 1:14-19
¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for
signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights
in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also. 17 And God set them in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth 18 And to rule over
the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God
saw that [it was] good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
I
believe, based on what Brother Branham said, this light could be the Son of
God, as we see in the sermon, Attitude
and who is God? 50-0815
P:18 I can see Him speak to this world
hanging there as an icicle, whatever it was, way away. And He moved it over
here. I can see this little Light go out. Now, we got two now. The
Father, and out of the Father came the Light, the Son.
Although
Brother Branham was never very clear on this specific Scripture, we know that
the Light that went forth from God was “the Logos” or “a part of God”, which is
the Son of God in spirit form, pre-incarnate. Later in Genesis 1, we see an account of the sun and moon in
verses 14 though 19. These lights were placed here to regulate the seed life
that God placed in the earth. What then is this first Light we see in Genesis?
From the Message "QA
ON GENESIS 53-0729 010 he said, "Out of God came the Logos, which was the Son of God;
LIFE
57-0602 E-22 The great fountain of
all eternity was that spirit of love, joy, that spirit of honesty, that spirit
of trueness in this perfection. And then out of the existence of the Father
went the Logos which was the Son, which was the theophany, which was the body
of the great Jehovah God went forth in a celestial Body. That's the Logos. The
Word spoke out of them great Fountains of Life and went forth. And there was
the theophany, which was God made into Word.
Then that theophany was made flesh in the Person Christ Jesus.
Now, you might say, well, "he was before all things, and by Him all things consist", and that is right. Then you say, well when this light came forth the Bible says that the earth already was in existence. But that is not what it says in verse 2. It says the earth was without form. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and the word form if you look it up in the Hebrew was translated from the word "tohuw" which means "empty space". In other words it was not created yet. It was in God's mind, but was not clothed upon as yet. And the Bible further explains it as being and void; and that was translated from "bohuw" which means emptiness like a vacuum. So you see to this point there isn't any creation yet. There was only emptiness like a vacuum.
Verse 1 tells you only that God created the heavens and the earth. And Verse 2 tells you the conditions that were there when God set forth the creation into motion. and darkness (obscurity, absence of light;) was upon the face of the deep (the Hebrew word for deep was "thowm" and it means "an abyss", and an abyss is defined as an immeasurably profound depth or void: So you see there was only nothingness out there. No atom yet to even make anything from. absense of light was upon the face of nothingness). And the Spirit of God moved upon the face (presence) of the waters (Translated from the Hebrew word "mayim" which means a course, a flood, or a spring. So we see here the thoughts of God beginning to erupt into a stream of life and the first Life He brought forth was His Son through the Spoken Word.). 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And so God birthed forth His Son, the logos, as brother Branham explained it..
Hebrews Chapter 1 57-0821 P:4 Now, here's what happened. Oh... Excuse me; I just get on this... This just gets me right where I love it. See? The Logos, and this great Fountain; this great Fountain of Spirit which had no beginning or no end, this great Spirit begin to form in the creation; and the Logos that went out from It was the Son of God. It was the only visible form that this Spirit had. And It was a theophany, which means a body, and the body was like a man. Moses saw It when It passed through by the rock. And he looked at It, said, "It looked like the hind part of a man." It's the same type of body that we receive when we die here, "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting." That was it. And that was the Theophany which was the Son of God. That Son, that Logos became flesh because we were put in flesh. And the Theophany, the Logos, became flesh here among us, and It was nothing else but the dwelling place; for that entire Fountain dwelt in Him. Oh, do you see it? There it is. That was the One that in...
Now, that is how I view Genesis 1:3 based on what I
see a vindicated prophet saying that the first light was the Son of God. Since
I am not vindicated you can take it for what it's worth. But at least I am
doing my best to align the Scripture with what a vindicated Prophet said. I do
not know how you may try to explain this "light", but
at least what I see makes more sense from the Scripture than any other
explanation I have seen, because of the meaning of the Hebrew words involved
here. And that explains the creation by Him and through Him. And if the Son of
God is the Logos which came forth from God, then God Himself had to be Logos as
well. Because every seed must bring forth after it's own nature. And if the
Spoken Word is the Original Seed, and that is a Word seed, then if it produced
Logos, it can only be because He is Logos.
That is
Now,
if the Son of God is the Logos which came forth from God, then God Himself had
to be Logos as well. Because every seed must bring forth after it's own nature.
And if the Spoken Word is the Original Seed, and that is a Word seed, then if
it produced Logos, it can only be because He is Logos. That is
WHAT
DOES TAKE MAKE CHRISTIAN LIFE
57-0113 E-42 Now, I want you to notice. In the beginning when God our Father
looked over this bleak earth, and it wasn't nothing but one great big ball of
water, and God sent the Holy Spirit to the earth, the Logos that went out of
God, and It begin to brood over the earth.
QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 64-0823E 1019-108 Now, that
Pillar of Fire is the Logos that went out of God, the Logos, which is actually
the attribute of the Fullness of God. When God become into a form to where It
could be seen, It was the anointing of the great Spirit that went forth, Its
condescending, coming down, God, the Father, the Logos that was up over
Israel, that... He was holy, could not bear sin. There had to be a blood
offering right in
Notice
Brother Branham tells us that the Logos was God the Father that was above over
Brother
Branham does not speak of this Logos as being some sort of mystical thing, but
he calls it the Spirit of God. It is the very Life of God which came into His
Son, creating in Him a dual being as we shall see later on in this study.
FUTURE
HOME 64-0802 49-1
Remember that the Holy Ghost descended
on Jesus, which Jesus was a part of the earth. Why? The germ of God, the Life
of God was designed in the womb of a woman (That right?), which was the earth.
All right. And then the Life of God came in, so He was the beginning of
the creation of God.
In
continuing with Q & A on Genesis COD 53-0729 pp. 26,
brother Branham went on to say, Now, "No man
has seen the Father at anytime." No man can see God in the bodily form,
because God is not in body form; God is a Spirit. See? All right. "No
man has seen the Father, but the only begotten of the Father hath declared
Him," I John... See? Now, but notice now, there's nothing; there's just
space. There's no light; there's no dark; there's no nothing; it's just seems
nothing. But in there is a great supernatural Being, Jehovah God, PP. 28
Now, notice. Then after while I begin to see a
little sacred Light begin to form, like a little halo or something; you could
only see it by spiritual eyes to look now, while we're looking, the whole
church now. We're standing on a great big banister, watching what God's doing.
And we'll get right down to this question here and you'll see how He brings it
in.
Now, no one has seen God. And now, the next thing we begin to see,
by eyes of supernatural looking, we see a little white Light forming out there. What is that? That was called, by Bible readers, "Logos," or "the anointed," or "the
anointing," or the--as I was going to say,
the--the part of God begin to develop into something so human beings could have some
type of an idea what It was: it was a little, low--a little Light moving. He...
That was the Word of God.
Now, God gave Himself birth to
this Son which was before there was even an atom
in the--or air to make an atom. That was... See, Jesus said, "Glorify Me,
Father, with the glory that We had before the foundation of the world."
See, way back in yonder...
Before
we go any further, let me say that most people read this wrong. They are
reading what brother Branham is saying here with a pre-filter that reads, God gave birth to Himself, but that is not what
he said. He said, God gave Himself … And
we should ask, “what did He give to Himself?” And the answer is, “birth to this Son”. That is totally different
than giving Himself birth. To read it as God giving Himself birth does not even
make sense, seeing He already existed. But to give Himself a son by birthing
that son forth into existence is altogether different. Now there becomes two
involved. One who is God and One who is His Son.
Again,
I want you to notice that brother Branham points out to us that it And notice
that it was a part of God which came forth in this birth process and brought
forth a SON.
Again,
I want you to notice that brother Branham points out to us that it was a part
of God which came forth in a birth process and brought forth a SON.
In
John 1: 1 we read, In
the beginning was the Word. Now if we read this thought by thought,
we would picture in our mind something that would remind us of a Bible.
In the Beginning was the Word. 
and so we view in our mind the word standing
all alone by itself.
Then
John goes on to make this thought a little more complex when he says,
And the Word was With God… 
+
And so we then conceptual there being two
alongside of each other, God and the Word. And brother Branham told us when we
do this we are misinterpreting this scripture.
74
CHRIST REVEALED IN HS OWN WORD 65-0822.1M To MISINTERPRET Jesus Christ being the Word, you'd make Him one god out of three.
Or you'd make Him the second person in a godhead. And to do that, you'd mess the whole Scripture up. You'd never get
nowhere. So It must not be misinterpreted.
UNVEILING
OF GOD 64-0614M 257
Jesus once said, "When you see Me, you see the Father." See? God
and His Word is One. Now you understand? When the Word is manifested, what
is It? Right. See? 260 Jesus said, "Search the
Scriptures, you think you have... You believe in God, believe also in Me. If I
do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do do the works,
I and My Father are One. When you see Me, you have seen the Father." And when
you see the Word made manifest, you see the Father God, because the Word is the
Father; the Word is God. And the Word made manifest is God Himself taking
His Own Word and manifesting It among believers.
Now,
if we are not careful we will picture this Bible or Word as being alongside of
God as though it is another being altogether. The word "with" does
not mean along side of. If it did, then it would be possible to see this as God
and the word cohabiting together. But the word "with" means a living
union. And that is exactly what John comes back with in his next thought when
he says, "And the Word was God".
Therefore the picture in our minds should be of this bible inside of God as a
living part of God.
From
the Message, DO YOU NOW BELIEVE
54-0725 E-12 Jesus plainly
said that He did nothing except His Father showed Him first what to do. We all
believe He was full of mercy and compassion, do we, all of us? We believe that
the very heart of God was in Him.
So
we see then, that when God gave birth to Himself a Son, it was a part of God
coming forth, the very Life of God coming into his Son.
PROVERBS 8: 22- 36
NIV
22 "The LORD
brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old;
23 I was appointed
from eternity, from the beginning, before the world began.
24 When there were
no oceans, I was given birth, when there were no springs abounding with
water;
25 before the mountains
were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth,
26 before he made
the earth or its fields or any of the dust of the world.
27 I was there when
he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the
deep,
28 when he
established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,
29 when he gave the
sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he
marked out the foundations of the earth.
30 Then I was the
craftsman at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing
always in his presence,
31 rejoicing in his
whole world and delighting in mankind.
32 "Now then,
my sons, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.
33 Listen to my
instruction and be wise; do not ignore it.
34 Blessed is the
man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.
35 For whoever
finds me finds life and receives favor from the LORD.
36 But whoever
fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death."
Now, this is speaking of the Son of God. He
is the one birthed, and in Him is the Life of the Father. In John 5:26 we read,
For as the Father hath life in himself; so
hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
The Apostle John also said, 1 John 5:11 “And this is the record, that God hath
given to us eternal life, and
this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he
that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
As
Brother Branham continued in Q & A
on Genesis, in pp. 32 he goes on to say, "Now,
in
Therefore,
we can see that this first Light in Genesis 1:3
is the Son of God.
Paul
spoke of this light in II CORINTHIANS 4:6,
where he said, For God, who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness, hath shined in our
hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of
Jesus Christ.
We
also find in the book of Revelations that The Son of God is the Light of the
world.
REVELATION 21:23 And
the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the
glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the
light thereof.
And
in the Book of Peter, He is called the day star. II
PETER 1:19 ¶ We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a
light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
He
is also called the bright and morning star. REVELATION
22:16 16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify
unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of
David, [and] the bright and morning star.
And
it was this same bright and morning star that appeared in this hour, for He is
the Alpha and Omega.
APPROACH
TO GOD 55-0123A E-47 We were singing that when the Morning
Star, the Angel of the Lord made It's first appearance over where I was
standing in public, for the first time in my life, at the foot of Spring Street
in the Ohio river in June '33, as a young Baptist minister, there baptizing.
In
fact Jesus Himself spoke of being this light in JOHN
8:12 ¶ Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me
shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light
of life.
Now,
for those of you who might think I am taking this out of context, brother
Branham said in his sermon DOOR TO THE
HEART 60-0312 e-56 "After His death, burial, and resurrection,
Saul of
Again
we see Paul speak of this in II TIMOTHY 1:9,
"Who hath saved us, and called [us] with an
holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and
grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus
before the world began, 10 But is now
made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light, through the gospel:
MAN
THAT CAN TURN ON LIGHT 63-1229M
80 God's Word comes only by the Bible. God's Bible is
the printed form of the Son of God, because the Bible said that it is the
revelation of Jesus Christ. It's God revealing Himself through Christ, and
Christ is the Word. And it takes the Light of God to shine upon that Word to
vindicate It, to prove that God still speaks Life--Eternal Life, He speaks... The
natural light brings the life. Life only
comes by the Light, the Word made manifest--or
made flesh...
MAN
THAT CAN TURN ON LIGHT 63-1229M 74 All life... So life is only by the Word of God made
manifest. Life comes only by the Word of God made manifest. As long as
it is just in the Book like this, it still can be questioned; but when it's
made manifest, then you see the product of what It spoke of being manifested;
then that is Light on the Word. See? That's what brings... The Word said so,
and then when it comes to pass, that is Life
in Light, Light bringing Life. Light brings life. Plant the wheat out here, it'll... You put it in a basement,
cover it all over, and it'll never bring forth anything, because it can't;
there's no light there. But as soon as light strikes it, then it'll bring forth
life if it's a germitized seed. That's the same thing it is in the Word. See,
the Word is God, and when the Light strikes It, it
brings the Word to life again. Every age
has always been that.
We
also see in JOHN 1:1 that God is
the word, and out of God came also the Word which was a carrier of Life, and
this life was also the first light. ¶ In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The
same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without
him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was
the light of men. Now, before this scene takes place we
find that God dwelt alone. The Scripture tells us here that in the beginning
God existed alone, and we find that the Scripture refers to him as Elohim,
(the self existent one). GENESIS 1:1
¶ In the beginning God, Elohim,
the self existent One.
God
was alone and in Him was Life. And as He began to bring forth this Life, it
first went into His Son, which is His Offspring, and the word offspring means
to spring off from. So we see, God, the great Fountain of Life, began to bring
forth His great plan to fulfill Himself, and He began this fulfillment by
bringing forth first a Son. We find in JOHN 5:26 "For as the
Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in
himself;"
Therefore
we can see what David meant when He described God as the Great Fountain of
Life. PSALMS 36:9 "For
with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.'
PARADOX 61-1210 253 Jesus did the
works of His Father because the Father was in Him. That's why the works was
done, because that the Father was in the Son. Do you believe that? That in
Him, He was the incarnate God. Do you believe that? That God the Father,
which is the Father of Jesus Christ, the Great Spirit dwelt in the fullness of
His power in Jesus Christ, which was the Tabernacle of God, made flesh and
dwelt on earth, representing the Word.
PARADOX 61-1210
315
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God, borned of a
virgin, conceived, God in a womb, a Tabernacle in which He would dwell in. I
believe that, in Christ, He is the incarnate God. He is God made flesh. When
the Father God came into Jesus Christ, He was the Fullness of the Godhead
bodily; in Him dwells all the Fullness. God the Father spoke the Words. Jesus
said, "It's not Me that speaketh, but My Father that dwelleth in Me. He
doeth the speaking." Therefore upon that basis, Him being made flesh
so He could die, God paying the penalty for the human race to redeem and bring
up, and--and come, bring together the things that His Own creation had lost in
the fall, He redeemed it back with His Own life.
Both
David and John saw two main characteristics in God.
#1) they both saw this great fountain of Life,
21-129
Hebrews Chapter 57-0821 "This Great Fountain of Spirit which had no beginning
or no end. This Great Spirit began to form in the creation, and the Logos
that went out from It was the Son of God. It was the only visible form that
the Spirit had. And It was a theophany, which means a body, and the body
was like a man.
#2) This Life was represented as a great Light. And
when we see the first expression of this fountain come forth, it is when God
begins to speak. What do we see first? Light is spoken, and what does that
Light bring forth? It brings forth the Life that was in it. The Father giving
birth to His Son.
Now,
we must not confuse God with His Son. John tells us that God is the Word. Some
men would tell you that Jesus, the Son of God is the Word, but that is not
entirely accurate. God is the Word. God is the Logos, and out of this great
fountain of Logos or Word came forth a Little Logos, or Word expressed, and
that was the Son. Brother Branham called Him Little Jehovah.
Smyrnaean
Church Age 60-1206 147 "Now,
if there's only one form of Eternal Life, and you get it and we're seeking for
it through Jesus Christ; that's God's Life, then when that blood cell
was broke on the Son of God, and that little Jehovah that was bottled up on the
inside of this man called Jesus…
This
is why brother Branham taught us there is a difference between God the Father
and His son because The Son of God had a beginning, because all sons have
beginnings.
From
the Message ATTITUDE
AND WHO IS GOD? 50-0815 015 brother Branham said, "And we're taught in the beginning, that the Logos, or the
Son of God went out of God. Now, I do not believe in eternal sonship. That's
even radical to even mention such a thing, eternal sonship. How could He had an
eternal sonship...?... He had to have a beginning. See? 016 So He first was
God, Jehovah. And out of Him... Let's just picture now as a little drama so you
can get it. Let's see coming out of space where there's nothing, let's make it a little white Light, like a mystic Light, like a Halo. And that was the Logos that went out of God in the
beginning. That was the Son of God that came out of the bosom of the Father.
That was what was in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. In the
beginning was God. And then out of God came the Logos, a part of God that went
out of God.
Notice,
brother Branham told us it was only a part of
God that went out of God. And we know as with any child
born, it is a part of the father in him. Brother Branham said from the Message,
GO TELL MY
DISCIPLES 53-0405S 170, he is a part
of God, (if) he's an offspring of
God.
Hebrews 1: 1-5 ¶ God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time
past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2) Hath in these last days spoken unto
us in [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he
made the worlds; Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express
image of his person, (The expressed image... or the out-raying or etching
of God.) and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by
himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 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? And again, I will be to
him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
AMPLIFIED = Hebrews
1:1-5, In Many separate
revelations, - each of which set forth a portion of the truth, - and in
different ways God spoke of old to our forefathers in and by the prophets. But
in the last of these days, He has spoken to us in the person of a Son, Whom he
appointed heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by, and through Whom, He
created the worlds, and the reaches of space, and the ages of time, - that is,
He made, produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order. He is the sole expression of the Glory of God, -
the Light-being, the
out-raying of the Divine, - and He is
the perfect imprint and very image of God's nature, upholding,
maintaining, guiding, and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power.
When He had, by offering Himself, accomplished our cleansing of sins and
riddance of guilt, he sat down at the right hand of the Divine Majesty on High.
Taking a place and rank by which He, Himself, became as much superior to angels
as the glorious Name which He has inherited is different from and more
excellent than theirs. For which of the angels did God ever say, "You are
My Son, today I have begotten you, And Again, I will be to Him a Father, and he
will be to Me a Son."
BELIEVE FROM
THE HEART 57-0623 E-46
Jesus was a witness of God. He become so full of God, till him and God
was One. God dwelt in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, the very
expression. A man's work declares
his character. Christ was God's work. And Christ declared God's character,
His feeling for the sick, His longing for saving of souls, till even He gave
His own life. God's work... God's character was declared in Christ.
Therefore,
we see that He was the very expression of God. This first light that God
brought forth was the Logos which was a part of God coming forth into an expression which God called His Son, and then
through this expression, or expressed Word, or Manifested Word, God brought
forth all of creation. ROMANS 11:36
For of him, and through him, and to him, [are] all things: to whom [be] glory
for ever. Amen.
But,
remember, it was not the Son creating, but God was in the Son doing the work.
Jesus
as His Son said, JOHN 5:19 Then answered Jesus
and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of
himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth,
these also doeth the Son likewise.
EPHESIANS 3:9 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:
COLOSSIANS 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, 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: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things
consist.
Now,
how was it that God in-dwelt his Son? The scripture tells us it was a mystery
how that God was in Christ. I TIMOTHY 3:16
And without controversy great is the mystery of
Godliness (God-like-ness): God was manifest in the flesh, justified
in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the
world, received up into glory. The
only way that God could make Himself known, was to live in His Son, Christ
Jesus, suffer death and temptation for all human race. And He had all the
qualities of the Father was in Him.
II
CORINTHIANS 5:19
"To wit, that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world to Himself". So all the great qualities of the
Father was in Christ Jesus the Son when He was here on earth. All the Father
has was His.
Now,
Jesus was not just a mask like the oneness want to believe. He was a man, just
like you and I with his own body, soul and spirit. But then God came into that
man which made him the God-man, and this made him a dual person.
HIDDEN
LIFE 55-1006A
When God was here on earth, He occupied a
three room House, the Soul, Body, and Spirit of Jesus Christ.
JEHOVAJIREH 56-0429
053 "That's the
reason people couldn't understand Him. Sometime it was Christ speaking... or
was the Son speaking. Other times it was the Father speaking. He was a dual
Person. He was one Man, the Son. God was in, which was tabernacling in
Him. But what did He do? Did He go around saying, "I'm the
Healer." Very contrary, He said, "I'm not the Healer." He said,
"It isn't Me that doth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in
Me." And in Saint John the 19th chapter when He was questioned for passing
a whole bunch of crippled, lame, withered, halt, blind people, healed one man
laying on a pallet, the Father showed Him to go there and heal. Walked away and
left the rest of them laying there, they questioned Him. A man packing his bed
on the sabbath. Listen to what He said. Saint John 5:19: "Verily, verily,
I say unto you: The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what he sees the
Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Is that what He said?
"I do nothing till the Father shows Me a vision first what to do."
LET
US SEE GOD 131 59-1129
…I said, "He was more than... God was in Him. He
was a man, but He was a dual Person. One, He was a man; the Spirit in
Him was God." I said, "God was in Christ." She said, "Aw,
no." I said, "Look, lady, I'll take your own Scripture. He was a man,
but He was a God-man. When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He did weep
like a man. That's true. But when He stood there, straightened His little
stooped shoulders up, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a dead man, that'd
been dead four days come to life again, that was more than a man. Man couldn't
do that. That was God in His Son."
Now,
this duality of being did not begin when He was in the flesh. We see in the
very beginning God birthed Himself a Son as we have already established and
then God worked in that Son to create all things.
ATTITUDE
AND WHO IS GOD? 50-0815
018 There He puts the first Bible. Oh, back in the
days of--ancient days, they looked at those things. Today, He's got His Bible
wrote here. But He wrote It in the heavens, that man would look up and realize
that Jehovah the Creator lived above. And then I can see Him, He looked at
that...I can see Him speak to this world hanging there as an icicle, whatever
it was, way away. And He moved it over here. I can see this little Light go
out. Now, WE GOT TWO NOW. The Father, and out of the
Father came the Light, the Son. And I can
see that Light moving over here and pulled the earth over near the sun to dry
it off. And begin to...?... raise the water up, separating the land, earth from
the water, and so forth.
Now,
this in no way makes it two Gods. There is One God and he has a Son. The
Scripture calls Him the "Son of God", never does it say he is
"God the Son".
QA ON
GENESIS13-13 53-0729
007 Well now, if you'll
notice close now, in Genesis 1:26, let's get the first part first. God
said, "Let us..." Now, "let us," us is a... "Let us
make man in our own image." Our, 'course, we realize He's talking to
someone; He was speaking to another being. "Let us make man in our
own image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the cattles of
the field." If you notice in creation, the first thing that was created,
of course, was light. You come on down through the creation; the last thing was
created was what? A man. And woman was made after man. All right, the first...
Last thing that was created of God's creation is mankind.
SIRS
WE WOULD SEE JESUS 57-1211
021 Now, Jesus was born for one purpose,
that was for God to manifest Himself through that body. God was in
Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He was a body that was made
physical, that men and women could see what He thought, and His expressions to
the people in His gratefulness. And His attitude towards all mankind, He
expressed it through Christ. Christ seemed to be a dual personality. He
would speak sometimes and they'd scratch their heads; and they didn't
understand Him. He'd speak one thing one time, look like, and something else
another time. What it was, was Jesus speaking, and then Christ speaking. Jesus
was the man. Christ was the God that was in Him. "Not Me that doeth
the works: My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the work." See? God
will not share His glory with no one.
BALM
IN GILEAD 61-0218
080 You know, Jesus right at the end of His ministry,
His disciples couldn't understand Him. No one understood Him. How that... How
many know that they couldn't understand Him? Sure. Why? They thought He had
a dual personality. No. Sometime it was Jesus talking, sometime it was
the Father in Him talking. See, see? That was it, the man...
THY
SEED SHALL POSSESS GATE 62-0121M 086 Why did David say, "I will not see My Holy--let My Holy
One see corruption (My Holy One see corruption.), neither will I leave His soul
in hell?" David said that. See, both soul, body, and spirit was created
of God by Him. The woman was not a mother; it was a woman. I believe she
was a good holy woman. Absolutely, she'd never been a incubator. God would've
never chose no dirty incubator (Lord willing, I'm preaching on that tonight)
but an old dirty incubator to bring His--to bring His Son to the earth in. He chose
a virgin, knowing not a man, neither did she have any sperm discharge or
anything else when the Holy Ghost overshadowed her, because God in His
immaculate, infinite way created in her: soul, body, and Spirit of Jesus
Christ. That's right. He was a virgin born Son of God. What did that do? It
broke the gate of the enemy. Hallelujah. Whew. This is getting good to me.
MATTHEW 3:16 And
Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the
heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a
dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Brother
Branham taught us that God did not indwell Jesus Christ in the flesh until He
was baptized in the Jordan river. He said in the message, JESUS
CHRIST THE SAME 55-0806 031 And when Jesus, a carpenter's Son, physically speaking, when
He come to the earth here that's all He was known of, and the day that when
John baptized Him, God a vindicated Him. God spoke from the heavens. John saw
Him coming in the form a dove, and said, "This is My beloved Son in Whom
I'm pleased to dwell." The right translation there is, "In whom I
am pleased to dwell in." Jesus immediately anointed with God, He
was just a man till that time, but now He becomes the God-man. Someone
telling me here not long ago, as I many times referred to it in this shiftless
day, that He was just a prophet, He was a good man. He was more than that. He
was the anointed God. The Bible said, "God was in Christ reconciling the
world to Himself." God in Christ. Amen. Notice it. How beautiful. The
Father, speaking from the heavens, when He was obedient to baptism, said,
"This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm pleased to dwell in." No
wonder Jesus could say, "All the power in heavens and earth is given unto
My hand."
INTER
VEIL 56-0121 E-58 You're living in a house, soul, body, and
spirit. That's the way God lived in Jesus Christ, both soul, body, and
spirit. "Not Me that doeth the works, the Father that dwelleth in
Me." You see?
Notice,
Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost. ACTS
10:38 How God anointed Jesus
of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing
good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
IT
BECOMETH US TO FULFILL 61-1001M 039 See, Aaron, the high
priest, before he could ever be anointed, he had to be washed with water.
Therefore, when Jesus, before He could be anointed our High Priest, He was
washed with water. And then not anointing oil poured upon Him to anoint Him,
like Aaron was anointed with oil; He was anointed with the Holy Ghost.
"For John bare record, seeing the Spirit of God descending like a dove,
and going upon Him, and a Voice saying, 'This is My beloved Son in Whom I am
pleased to dwell in.'" So the Bible said that, "Jesus was anointed
with the Holy Ghost, went about doing good things." See, He was
anointed.
Now,
we know that God indwelled His Son in the river Jordan and then left Him to
bleed and die as a mortal in Gethsemane. In the following quotations we hear
brother Branham tell us just this.
QUEEN
of SHEBA 60-0110
075 Then after He was baptized in water, John saw the
Spirit of God descending like a dove and going on Him, a Voice saying,
"This is My beloved Son (correctly like this) in Whom I am pleased to dwell
in." God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Jesus
said, "It's not Me that doeth these things; it's My Father. The Son can do
nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing."
GODHEAD
EXPLAINED 61-0119A
056 The Spirit of God, like a dove, descended and a
voice from heaven (which was above Him) saying, "This is My beloved Son,
in Whom I am pleased to dwell." (Really, the right translation... They got
the verb before the adverb, like all the foreigner is... "This is My
beloved Son, in whom I am pleased to dwell in." Or, "Whom I am
pleased to dwell." "In Whom I am pleased to dwell." ) That was
God coming into Jesus, and in Him was the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
And there's your Father, Son and Holy Ghost: in the name of Jesus Christ.
PARADOX 64-0206B 074
"When Jesus was standing there, and upon the
shores of Galilee, John looked up and he saw the Spirit of God, like a dove,
descending, and a voice saying, "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm
pleased to dwell in." "In Whom I'm pleased to dwell," the same
thing: verb before the adverb is all. See, see? "This is My beloved Son in
Whom I am pleased to dwell in." God and man becoming One, uniting
together for redemption. How God, that covered all space and time, could come
down and bottle Himself into a Man, so He could taste death for all the human
race, the Creator, dying, to save His creation. Heavens and earth kissed
each other, man and God became one (How can a man...) there, that He might
dwell in man and fellowship. It's nothing but God condescending, trying to get
to His man.
The
problem is that many people still do not understand that there is One God and
He had a Son. But brother Branham throughout his entire ministry made it very
clear that God was in Christ.
211
POSITION IN CHRIST AD.3 -- 60-0522.1M God
only had one Name, and His Name is Jesus. That was His Son, He took the Name of
His Son. God, Now, Jesus, the body was a man. We know that. That was
the Son of God that was overshadowed. Now we do not believe in a oneness
type, the people that says God's like your finger. We believe there's three
attribute... attributes of God. Three attributes of God, God manifested in. But
there's one God. See? That's right. We do not believe... We believe in a--in
a... Let me make it like this, we believe that God lived in three offices. He
had an office on earth one time.
44 CALLING
JESUS ON THE SCENE 63-0804.2 There
is One God, see, not three gods. Oh, how many of you Trinitarian people got
that mixed up. And how you Oneness people got it mixed up, too, of Him being
one like your finger. Uh-huh. See?
They're, they both of them got it mixed up. See? That's right...., how
could He be His Own Father? See? See, He can't be His Own Father. And if He had
another Father outside of the Holy Spirit, and if God is a man, a person, then
He is a... the Holy Spirit was His Father, and God is His Father, Matthew 1, so
then He was an illegitimate child. See? So you can't make it either way, you,
it's both wrong. He was God manifested in a flesh of His creative Son.
See? Now, that's, God created the Son. 46 And when you Catholic people say,
"Eternal Sonship," where do you get such a word? It doesn't make
sense, to me. How can He be Eternal and be a son? A son is something
that's "begotten of," how can it be Eternal? Eternal never did begin,
it never does end, so how could it be Eternal Sonship? Oh, my! 47 If these
denominations hasn't scrupled things up, I don't know what has. No wonder
people can't have faith, they don't know what to have faith in. That's right.
What we need is a good old-fashion, back to the Bible. That's right. Exactly
right. That's right. Now, Jesus being man, physically, was tired, weary. Now
laying there, tired; virtue had gone from Him. And then Him being God, He could
only do what... 49 Now you say, "How could He be God and be
man?" See, there is the mystery. See, in body He was man, in spirit He
was God. See? Someone asked me, said, "Then how did, who did He pray
to in the Garden of Gethsemane?" I said, "I will answer you that when
you answer this: Do you believe you have the Holy Ghost?" "Yes."
I said, "Then Who do you pray to? Where is He at when you are praying to
Him? When, you claim you have Him, and yet you're praying to Him." See?
People just... they just get some little idea and run wild with it, you see,
that's the way it goes. 53 Now, in Spirit, He was God. Jesus said, in Saint
John 3, see, "When, the Son of man which now is in Heaven, yet standing
here on earth, when the Son of man which now is in Heaven." How would you
answer that? See, He said He was in Heaven then, and here He was standing on
earth. See? Oh, my! You see, that, He had to be God, omnipresent. See? Sure, He
is present everywhere. He knows every thought. By being omniscient, knowing all
things, He can be omnipresent. See?
And
when Jesus was in Gethsemane, God left Him that He might be able to die.
Manifested
Son of God 60-0518 pp 88
When He was--last cry, "Eli, Eli. My God, My
God," That was a man. "Why hast Thou forsaken Me?" In the
Garden of Gethsemane, the anointing left Him, you know, He had to die as a
sinner. He died a sinner, you know that; not His sins, but mine and yours.
That's where that love come in, how He took mine. Oh, hallelujah, how He took
mine.
RISING
OF THE SUN 65-0418M
34-5 Now, notice this Quickening Power,
"Zoe," bringing the Word, the mind that was in Christ was in you
then. I'm trying to show you, that you, when you raised--when God raised Jesus
from the dead, He raised up you also, and also quickened to Life with Him (You
are now quickened to Life.), although then you were but an attribute in His
thoughts, but God had saw all in Him at the finish. See? When God looked down
upon the body... (The Spirit left Him in the Garden of Gethsemane; He had to
die a man.) Remember friends, He didn't have to do that. That was God. God anointed that flesh,
which was human flesh, and He didn't have... If He'd went up there as
God, He'd have never died that kind of death; can't kill God. But... He
didn't have to do it, but remember, He went there with you in Him. See?
God had never separated the Bride from the Groom yet. So when God looked down
upon the Body of Christ, He saw both male and female. It was all redeemed in
that one Body. See? They are one, the same, same Word. the same Word spoke
of the Groom speaks of the Bride.
SPIRIT
OF TRUTH 63-0118 012 And one of the great problems for God down through the
years, as the history of the church goes, is to find somebody that He can
completely get in His control. He only needs one man. He's always used one man
at a time. We studied that last few nights: one man, not a group, He just wants
one. That's all He needs, 'cause two men would have two different ideas. He
just makes one man, represents Himself through that one person. Never did He do
it otherwise than that. See? Now, He's got one person today, and that Person is
the One we just read after: the Holy Spirit. He is the Person that God has
sent forth, the Spirit of Jesus Christ into the earth, the Spirit of God, to
manifest and declare Christ through His church (See?) just to continue the Life
of Christ through the church.
It
is apparent that the scripture speaks of One who was with God in the beginning,
who was not God but was a companion of God whom God brought forth. In Colossians 1: 16 - 17 we read of Christ
that," 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: And He
is before all thing, and by Him all things consist. " So we see here
this One Who is not God, yet it was God through this One, Who created all
things. We see also in John 1:3 we
are told that all things were created By Him and then in verse 4 we see that
"in Him was Life;" Now,
life had to have started somewhere, and I believe that it all began in God and
was carried out through His Son. In John 5: 26
we read, " For as the Father hath Life in Himself; so hath He given to
the Son to have Life in Himself:" we also read in 1 John 1: 1 - 4 that this life was invisible as all
life is invisible, but this Life became visible and we have seen it and we
therefore declare what we have seen. In John 1: 14
we read, "and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." So
in order to Understand GODHOOD, we must understand this God-Life.
In
this study we want to point out a few things for those who are Jesus only.
#1) We are told by Holy Scripture that The Son is the
very expressed image of the Father, so He is not the Father.
#2) He sat down on the right hand of the
Father, showing a difference between the Father and Son.
#3) He is to receive inheritance from the
Father. Now if He is the Father then why would He receive inheritance from the
Father, (Himself?)
#4) The Father calls Him Son, the title son
tells us He has a beginning because every son has a
beginning as it also state "This day I have begotten thee'".
#5) The word begotten let's us know He was
born, or birthed. He had a beginning, and
#6) when He says, "THIS
DAY," the scripture is very specific that there is a beginning
to this Son. Now let's look further into this relationship.
The
scriptures tell us that Jesus Christ is The expressed image of the
Father. This word expressed is a Greek word EIKON and it
involves the two ideas of representation and manifestation.
BELIEVE FROM
THE HEART 57-0623 E-46
Jesus was a witness of God. He become so full of God, till him and God
was One. God dwelt in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, the very
expression. A man's work declares
his character. Christ was God's work. And Christ declared God's character,
His feeling for the sick, His longing for saving of souls, till even He gave
His own life. God's work... God's character was declared in Christ.
In
the WUEST Translation we read HEB 1: 3 ..."In
these last days spoke to us in One Who by nature is His Son, Whom
He appointed heir of all things, through Whom also He constituted the ages; Who
being the out-raying (the very effulgence) of His Glory and the exact
reproduction of His Essence..."
We also see in the DIAGLOTT : "Who being an
effulgence of His Glory and an exact Impress of His substance..."
Again, we also find in the NIV: "The
son is the radiance of God’s Glory, and the exact representation of His
Being..."
The AMPLIFIED version reads: "He is the sole
expression of the Glory of God - the light being the
out-raying of the Divine - and He is the perfect imprint and very
Image of God’s nature..."
In
HEBREWS 1: 1 - 6 we read, "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners
spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 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; Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express
image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power,
when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by
inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the
angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten
thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be
to me a Son? And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the
world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him."
Other
Translations also tell us, "He is the radiance of the Father’s Glory
and the exact representation of His Nature..."
And remember, when we speak of Life we are speaking of nature, for nature is
only an expression of the Life.
We
see here that Jesus is the very expression of the Fathers Divine nature, in
Whom God set forth as His Mark or representation and in Whom and By Whom
the very manifestation of the Father was made known to us. And what we must
keep in mind throughout this entire study is this Principle of God Life. Now,
although we see these scriptures speaking of a manifestation or an expression
of the father we must understand one thing, these scriptures speak of Two, not
One.
Where
most people make their mistake in understanding Godhead is that they can not
distinguish the difference between the Father and Son. We must never
deviate from Scripture that says, "Behold O Israel, the Lord thy God is
One." Yet when we look at Father and Son we are not speaking of Two
Gods, but One God Who had a Son, and it is through this Son that God has chosen
to express Himself.
In
2 John 9 we hear John speak of
two, not One, when he says, "He that abideth
in the doctrine of Christ, has both the Father and the Son, and
any child can tell you that the word both does not refer to one or three, but
TWO. This also tells us that if you can see that there is a Father and a Son,
two, and not One or three, then you are abiding in the doctrine of Christ. We
also find in the book of Proverbs this question. " Who hath established the ends of the earth? What is His
name, and what is His Son's name? [ for further scriptures see
the end of chapter 1].
In
DEUTERONOMY 6:
4 - 9, we read "Hear, O
Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD" We also
see the same thing spoken in EPHESIANS 4 : 4 - 6 [There is]
one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your
calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all,
who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all. How is He in you all? It
is speaking of God-Life. And if there is One God and He is Father of
all, then how can the Son be God. He is the Son of God. He is not God the Son,
but The Son of God. There is a big difference. We know that MALACHI 3: 6
and HEBREWS 13:
8 both tell us that God changes not. Notice both new and old
testament tell us there is ONE God and not three and also both new and old tell
us that He changes not. To better understand how there is only One God yet two
beings involved, let’s go back to the beginning.
Remember,
we read in JOHN 1: 4 " In
him was life; and the life was the light of men. " So, when we are
speaking of Godhead, we are speaking of God -LIFE, and as we already stated,
"you can not begin to understand Godhead unless you look at it in terms
of LIFE."
In ROMANS 1: 19 - 21 we read, " that
which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it]
unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world
are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
[even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without
excuse:" Notice how Paul speaks here of the invisible things of Him
being made known and understood by seeing it in Nature. So we are speaking
of Life. ZOE...
In
JOHN 1: 1 - 3 we see the same
thing, "That which was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked
upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (For the
life was manifested, and we have seen [it], and bear witness, and shew
unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and
was manifested unto us;) That which we have seen and heard declare we
unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship
[is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
The
Life was manifested, and we have seen
and we know because of what we see. Life
itself is not visible. It is Spirit. Yet the very essence and nature of Life is
that it has many qualities and characteristics, which brother Branham called
attributes, and these attributes by their very nature are to become expressed.
A rose without it’s beauty and fragrance would not be a rose. So therefore every
Life has attributes that are visibly and materially displayed to our senses
in order that we might better understand what the nature of the Life is.
That is why brother Branham spoke a message called "God is identified
by His characteristics." In it, he began by showing the difference
between two birds that are both yellow but each has a different flying pattern.
And the pattern distinguishes the difference between the two birds to the
careful observer.
Now,
I do not believe brother Branham was using this illustration to just give us a
lesson on birds. He was showing us by nature how certain attributes will
stand out from others and even when you have two beings who seems to be the
same, yet their will be certain attributes that will differentiate between
them. And so, by this very law of expression, God had to materialize in
order to express Himself. You can not remain hidden and be expressive at the
same time. You can not become or fulfill yourself and remain invisible either.
Then, in order to express oneself, you must show or make visible your nature
through expression. The invisible and intrinsic qualities becoming openly
displayed. A coming out. A bringing forth into manifestation.
In
COLOSSIANS 1: 15 - 19 we
read, "Who is the image of the invisible
God, the firstborn of every creature: 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: And he is before all
things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the
church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all
[things] he might have the preeminence. For it pleased [the Father] that in
him should all fullness dwell; " What we have here
is God bringing forth a Son and through this Son God performing all His
creative acts. Yet this Son was not God, but the Son of God. He was not the
Father, but He came forth in the image of the Father. You can not see life.
But Life will manifest its nature and characteristics. The manifestation that
you see is not the Life, it is only the expression or fulfillment of that life.
My body is not who I am, but My Life that is within my body is identified
through my body. Cut off my arms, you have not destroyed my life. I still am
who I am. Cut off my legs and my arms and I still exist. My Life is still
within me. So my body is not Life, but is an expression of that Life. And we
find that this scripture tells us that the Son of God is the very image of the
Father in whom all the Godhead dwells. Paul says here, "For It pleased
the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell. "Now, where did Paul
get that from?
In
MATTHEW 3: 16 - 17 We read, "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up
straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he
saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And
lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am
well pleased." Now, notice what God said about Jesus, He said,
"In Whom I am well pleased." From the Message GODHEAD
EXPLAINED -56 brother Branham
said, "The Spirit of God, like a dove, descended
and a voice from heaven (which was above Him) saying, "This is My beloved
Son, in Whom I am pleased to dwell." (Really, the right
translation... They got the verb before the adverb, like all the foreigner
is... "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am pleased to dwell
in." Or, "Whom I am pleased to dwell." "In Whom
I am pleased to dwell." ) That was God coming into Jesus, and in
Him was the fullness of the Godhead
bodily. And there's your Father, Son and Holy Ghost: in the name of Jesus
Christ" So brother Branham is telling us that God as Father,
when He says, "IN WHOM" He is
speaking of a place of abode.
We
read in 2 CORINTHIANS 3: 18 - 4: 6
"But we all, with open face beholding as in a
glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord. Therefore seeing we have this
ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; But have renounced the
hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word
of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending
ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But if our gospel be
hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath
blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious
gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto
them. Notice again we see Paul saying,
"Christ Who is the Image of God". The very
representation and manifestation. He is the
outraying or etching of God. Now, as we began this thought on the
Life Stream of God by going back to the beginning, let’s go back once again to GENESIS 1:1 - 2, 11, 26 - 27. In verse 1 - 2
we find God creating all things, and the Spirit of God moving forth upon the
earth. In verse 11 we find God setting forth an order, that all Seed Life must
bring forth after their own kind or nature. Then in verse 26 - 27 we find God
saying, "Let us make man in our own Image."
"Let Us." Who was speaking and to Whom was He speaking.
The
trinity think this answers their quest for three, and the Oneness do not know
what to do with this verse. But God sent us the answer in this day through the
lips of His Prophet, From QA
ON GENESIS, brother Branham said, "He got all those things together, made...?... Made all the
other things, all the animal life, the birds, the bees, the monkeys, and
whatever it was, put all of it here on earth. And then He asked this question
now. "Let us" (Who? Father and
Son) "make man in Our Own image."
So we see then the existence of the Son was even before the birth of
Jesus Christ in Bethlehem. So then what we see here is that Hebrews 1 and 2
Corinthians and Colossians are not only speaking of the Man
Christ Jesus, but there is something else we are dealing with here. Now, don’t
forget what we began this Message with. You must look at Life to understand
Godhead. we are dealing with Life. Now brother Branham asked a very good
Question. Who was speaking to Whom? He said, "Let us" (Who?
Father and Son "make
man in Our Own image." In PSALMS
110:1 we read, " The LORD
said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right
hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. So then who is talking to
whom? That is the question we must ask ourselves if we are truly honest in our
hearts. Notice, in LUKE 20:42 Jesus
quoting this scripture, "And David himself saith in the
book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right
hand," and then Jesus follows through with a question in verse 44,
" David therefore calls Him Lord, how is he then his son?"
Jesus knew that the people did not understand Godhead, and therefore this
is why they missed Him at His first coming. Paul goes one step further and
explains that this was not David speaking about Himself, but of another as we
see in ACTS 2:34 "For David
is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said
unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand," ... So then we see the
scripture telling us here that it was not David speaking about David and God,
but as a Prophet He was speaking of the Messiah Christ, and the Father speaking
to Him. Paul Himself quotes this scripture in 1
CORINTHIANS 15 : 12 - 28
Notice in verse 15, Paul says, "God raised up Christ."
Then in verse 24 - 28 Paul let’s you know
there is a difference between the Father and the Son. It is the Father Who puts
all thing under the feet of the Son. Even brother Branham taught us that in the
New Jerusalem, the Pillar of Fire will be at the very top, next will be the
Lamb which is the body, which is Christ Jesus and then comes the Bride in that
order. So we see that Jesus is still subject to the Father.
From
PP. 1046-237 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS COD 993-1060
- 64-0823 2E "On top of
To
understand how there is Two, and each one having His own throne, let's look to
the scripture again. In REVELATION 5: 6 -7 "And I
beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the
midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven
horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all
the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of
him that sat upon the throne." So then what happened? What
happened to this book that is now opened? In REVELATIONS 10: 1 -3 & 7 "And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a
Cloud: and a rainbow was upon His head, and His face was as it
were the sun, and His feet as Pillars of Fire: And He had in His
hand a little book open: and He set His right foot upon the sea
and His left foot on the earth. And He cried with a loud voice, as
when a lion roareth: and when He had cried, seven thunders uttered their
voices. ... but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel,
when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as
He hath declared to His servants the prophets."
The
first things I wish to point out here is that the mystery of God will be
finished when this scene unfolds. In other words, until this scene
happens God and Godhead will continue to be a mystery. But, when this happens,
then the mystery is done away.
Secondly,
this scene begins with a descent of this Mighty angel who brother Branham
called the angel of the Covenant, none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. From The Breach
pg. 74 he says, " And when the seals
are broken, ( Rev 5) and the mystery is revealed, down comes the Angel, the
Messenger, Christ, setting His foot upon land and upon sea with a rainbow
over His Head. Now, remember, this Seventh Angel is on earth at the time of
this coming."
Thirdly,
you will notice He comes clothed with a cloud and a rainbow over His
head. In Life magazine we have a picture of this Cloud which formed His Wig
which is part of His clothing and if you hold the picture up to the light, you
will see a rainbow over His head because there is a photo of a rainbow on the
reverse side of the page and by light we can see the revelation ( rainbow). A
wig is an ornament for the head pointing to or bringing the attraction to the
head. It also represents a Judge, being a white wig. We see also that His face
was so brilliant it shown forth as the very Sun itself. And His feet as the
Pillar of Fire.
Fourth,
He came down with an open book. And then He cried with a loud voice
as when a lion roareth.
And
Fifth, we find this happening at the time when the seventh angel is here
on earth. Now let's just examine these five points.
The
scene begins by a descent. So Who came down if Jesus took the book and then sat
down. Brother Branham said from, THE
FIRST SEAL 63-0318 271, " Now,
the Holy Spirit and the revelation and Christ is: the Holy Spirit is Christ in
another form. That's right. Notice, it is a Lamb that opened the Book, and
the Lamb is Christ; and Christ is not seen anymore from then, but He is seen in
the Book of Revelation, the 19th chapter, coming on a white horse.
Now
keep this in mind because brother Branham said, that the lamb is not seen again
until Revelations 19. Again we find in pg. 25-1
of SOULS IN PRISON
63-1110mHe said, "And John looked
to see a Lion, and what did he find?--a Lamb, and it was a bloody Lamb. A Lamb
that had been slain. How long?--since the foundation of the world. The Lamb
came forth, walked up to Him that had the Book in His right hand, and received
the Book. Climbed upon the Throne and sat down. That's it. It was over.
When?--when the seals was revealed.
And
again in, pp. 34 WHO
DO YOU SAY THAT THIS IS?
"John, looking to see a--a lion, he saw a Lamb
that had been slain, a--a bloody Lamb come forth and took the Book, climbed
upon a Throne and set down. "
So
we see here that the Lamb took the book in Chapter 5 ( He opened the book and then
He went and climbed up and sat down on the Fathers Throne. Now,
remember, If we do not see the Lamb which is the body from chapter 5 until 19,
because He is on the throne, then Who came down in Revelations chapter 10?
I
believe it is the same one we see in 1
THESSALONIANS 4: 15 - 18 which
tells us that the Lord Himself shall descend with a shout of which brother
Branham said, the shout is a Message going forth,
"The Shout, A
Messenger getting a people ready." So which Lord
came down? "The Lord said unto My Lord." So then, which
one came down? Which one are we speaking of Here? The Father or the Son? Our
answer is in verse 14.
1 Thessalonians 4: 14
"Even so they which
sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." Now, is this telling us God brings with
Jesus or is it saying God brings with Himself.?
Remember,
in Revelations chapter 10 we are told that when
this mighty Angel which brother Branham called Christ in the form of the Holy
Spirit comes down, notice He comes with a loud voice which is a shout. And this
Loud voice sounds like a lion. We find over in the Book of Amos that this is
the voice of God Himself. Amos 3: 7 - 8
" Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret (
Mystery) unto His servants the prophets. The Lion hath roared, who will
not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophecy" So we
see the scripture tell us that it is the Voice of God that comes forth in the
shout with a loud voice. And this loud voice sounds like the roar of a lion,
bringing fear to all who hear it and yet it is also a prophetic voice as stated
here in the book of Amos. So by now we must understand that it is God Himself
and not the Son of God who comes at this time to Reveal the Mystery of Himself.
That is where so many have fallen short in this Message. They do not know who
has come down. And that is because they do not understand Godhead. You ask them
who came down, and they will tell you the Lamb. But the Lamb is on the throne
until He is again seen in Revelations chapter 19. So who came down? You will
find the answer in Ephesians chapter one as well. It is "The Father of
Glory".
Paul
told us that it is God who will come. Ephesians 1: 17 - 20 "That the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give unto you the Spirit
of Wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Himself So that your eyes may
be enlightened and you may know what His expectations of His calling are
and what His exceeding greatness of His power is toward us who believe.."
From
Seventy Weeks of
Daniel 67, 61-0806 he said, "The Spirit of Wisdom comes in to the church to make known to the church by
the revelation of the Holy Ghost bringing the church in and revealing what day
that we are living in. Just the same as Gabriel came to Daniel, the Holy
Spirit comes to the church in the last days to reveal these great deep
secret things. Do you understand now." So we see God comes with
the Spirit of Adoption and let’s us know that it is He Who has come because He
is the Same One Who raised up Jesus.
In
2 Thessalonians 2
: we see that God’s Holy Spirit is holding down the lawlessness until He
departs and when He departs the earth He will take us with Him in a Rapture.
From
161-3 THE
FIRST SEAL brother Branham said, "Notice, and when this Holy Spirit that we have, becomes incarnate
to us, the One that is in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes
incarnate to us in the Person of Jesus Christ, we will crown Him King of Kings...?...
That's right. See?"
So
then Revelations 10 is not speaking of the Body that comes down, which is the
Second Coming. It is not the Lamb, it is the Holy Ghost Himself which the
scriptures refer to as the Appearing.
From
MESSAGE of GRACE, pg. 30 he said, "There’s
only one thing different in Him being here this morning than He was amongst the
people at
WE
WOULD SEE JESUS 57-0226 E-14 Now, if He is the same, there's only one
thing that would make Him any different from what He was when He walked on the
banks of
Now,
I would like to ask you this. If The fullness of the Godhead has come down, then
by what means is He ever Living? By what Life is He ever Living? I was
asked this question back n 1982 by a brother who came into the understanding of
Christ’s Presence and he asked me this question. " If the Fullness of
God is here now, then is the body of Jesus Lifeless laying there on the throne
of God?" I had never been asked a question like that, but something
inside of me said, "ask Him how Jesus went to the Cross if The Spirit
of God left Him in Gethsemane?" So I asked Him this, I said, "I
will answer that if you can tell me how Jesus got to the cross from the Garden
when brother Branham said, The Holy Spirit left Him in Gethsemane. And I
said, " Tell me, from birth to age thirty when He was baptized, and
from the garden to the cross, by what Spirit did he live if God did not enter
Him until He was baptized and left Him in Gethsemane?"
In
the Message, ELISHA THE
PROPHET 56-1002.2E E-21,
brother Branham said, "And Jesus, the
baptism He had was the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which was in Him, that come
on Him at the river
And
in the message, MANIFESTED
SONS OF GOD 60-0518 88 He said, "In the
Also
from, THE
RISING OF THE SUN 65-0418 He said, " When God looked down upon the body... (The Spirit left
Him in the Garden of Gethsemane; He had to die a man.) Remember friends, He
didn't have to do that. That was God. God anointed that flesh, which was human
flesh, and He didn't have... If He'd went up there as God, He'd have never died
that kind of death; can't kill God.
Now
in getting back to understanding Godhead, remember, we said first you must
understand Life. So let’s go back to the beginning again to see how God Who is
the Author of all Life began to bring forth His Life. E-18 ATTITUDE
AND WHO IS GOD? -- 50-0815 "What's He doing? Writing His first Bible. Notice, the human
beings once looked towards the heavens. And He puts all the stars in the
heavens, the zodiac, starting off with the Virgin, ending up with Leo the Lion.
First coming of Christ, the second coming. Came by the Virgin, come again as
the Lion of the tribe of Judah. There He puts the first Bible. Oh, back in the
days of--ancient days, they looked at those things. Today, He's got His Bible
wrote here. But He wrote It in the heavens, that man would look up and realize
that Jehovah the Creator was above. And then I can see Him, He looked at
that... I can see the seed of this world hanging there as an icicle, whatever
it was, way away. And He moved it over here. I can see this little Light go
out. Now, we got two now. The Father, and out of the Father came the Light, the Son. And I can see that
Light moving over here and pulled the earth over near the sun to dry it off.
And begin to...?... raise the water up, separating the land, earth from the
water, and so forth. Then He begin to create. And He made the fishes of the
sea, the vegetable life. Put the cattle on the hill. It all looked good to Him".
Then He said, "Let us make man in Our own image, after Our likeness."
Is that right? All right. So He made a man. God was Spirit, he had to be a
spirit man, made in His image. He put him on the earth to lead the animal life
and so forth, like the Holy Spirit should be leading the Church today. That was
man.
From
the Church Age Book page 309 brother Branham said, "If people can't see the Truth of Godhead, but fight it; they
can't ever see the rest of the Truth because the revelation is Jesus Christ in His Church and His
works in the midst of the Church for seven ages." And in page
332 of the Church Age book, he
said "Christ did not come down to make
Himself known He did not come to reveal the Son. He came to reveal and make
known The Father. He never talked about two Gods; He talked about One God. And
now in this last days, we have come back to the Capstone revelation, the most
important revelation of Godhead in the whole Bible. that is, JESUS IS GOD, HE AND THE FATHER ARE ONE: THERE
IS ONE GOD, AND HIS NAME IS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
By
now, you should know and understand this doctrine of Godhead and the
relationship between the One God Who is Father and His Son. The following few
pages are quotes and scriptures that reaffirm this revelation. The
following are quotations from brother Branham's message which shed further
light on this subject.
Q &
A ON GENESIS 15-32-- COD 11-58 --
53-0729 he said, "Now, back there, then, when
this little halo comes. Now, we can't see nothing yet, but just by eyes of just
supernatural we see a halo standing there. Now, that's the Son of God, the Logos, Now, I can see Him playing around like a little child,
before the Father's door, with all Eternity. See? And, now, then in His
imaginary make-up He begin to think of what things would be, and I can hear Him
say, "Let there be light."
21-129
HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 -- 57-0821 "The Logos, and this Great Fountain; this Great
Fountain of Spirit which had no beginning or no end. This Great Spirit
began to form in the creation, and the Logos that went out from It was
the Son of God. It was the only visible form that the Spirit had.
And It was a theophany, which means a body, and the body was like a man".
282
PARADOX -- 64-0206.1M, And this little Boy, twelve-year-old Child, no wisdom at all, why,
but just a twelve-year-old Boy. The Father didn't dwell in Him at that time;
because He come on the day when He baptized Him, "He saw the Spirit of God
coming down, see, and went in Him." But, look, this little
twelve-year-old Boy, being the Word; He was born the anointed One, see, to be
the anointed. And here He was. "Know ye not that I must be about My
Father's business?"
74
CHRIST REVEALED IN HS OWN WORD 65-0822.1M To misinterpret Jesus Christ in being the Word, you'd make
Him one god out of three. Or you'd make Him the second person in a godhead. And to do that, you'd mess the whole Scripture up. You'd never get
nowhere. So It must not be misinterpreted.
6
SHALOM -- V-13 N-5 -- 64-0112 But,
really, frankly, we have never seen each other. Did you know that? We have never
seen one another. You hear something speaking out of a body here that
impersonates whatever it's on the inside. So then when we talk to each other,
we're--we're really not talking to the body. It's the spirit inside, but the
body is the thing that identifies the spirit that's on the inside. And therefore, when we speak to each other, we are... quickly can
understand right away whether we are Christians or not, because there's a
fellowship in the spirit that we talk from. You see, that it vibrates to one another
that whether we are Christians or not. Therefore we have never seen each other.
7 Jesus. "No Man has seen God at any time, but the only begotten of
the Father has declared Him." See? In other words, God was identified. The--the
Person of God was identified in the Body, the Lord Jesus Christ, so He was the
expressed image of God. Or, God expressing Himself through an image, see,
through an image, Man. God expressed Himself to us, and He was God. Not a
third person or second person; He was the Person, God. He was God Himself,
identifying Himself, so we could feel Him. 8 1 Timothy 3:16,
"Without controversy, that's argument, great is the mystery of godliness,
for God was manifested, or made known, in the flesh." Isn't that
wonderful? God! And we could never understand God as He moved through a Pillar
of Fire, and so forth, as He did. But we understood Him when He become one of
us, see, when He become Man. Then He could talk to us, and we could feel
Him, handle Him, touch Him, and everything. And as the Scripture plainly says
that "we have handled God," see, with our hands, touched Him with our
hands.
E-44
CHRIST -- 55-0221 God, Immanuel,
creating around Himself a Blood cell that brought forth the Son, Jesus Christ.
WATER OF
SEPARATION 55-0121 E-24 Oh, I hope you see it. The blood cell bursted
at Calvary. Life was inside the cell. And then it broke the cell, Christ did
first, bringing Hisself into the womb of a virgin and creating around Himself a
cell, a blood cell that multiplied into many cells and brought forth the Son,
Christ Jesus.
E-12 BLIND
BARTIMAEUS -- 56-0414 E-12
Now,
Jesus--that I might speak to you this way, when He was on earth, He did not
claim to be a Healer, He claimed He only did as the Father showed Him to do. Is
that right? How many ever read that in the Bible? You know, Saint John 5:19.
That Jesus Christ Himself, never healed anybody, no. He said, "I do
nothing till the Father shows Me first what to do." He saw a vision of
what to do, and then He did what the Father told Him. He said that, and His
Words, of course, is true, isn't it? Saint John 5:19, when He said,
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what
He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." Now, He had to tell the truth, because He was
infallible;He was the Son of God. And God Himself, was in Christ reconciling
the world to Himself. The Body, the Man was Jesus, the Son of God; but the
Spirit in Him, was Jehovah Itself, tabernacled here in human flesh, in order to
take away sin.
197 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS COD 361-406 - 59-0628.2E Now somebody said, "Brother Branham is a oneness."
No, sir, I am not a oneness. I do not believe that Jesus could be His own
father. I believe that Jesus had a Father, and that was God. But God dwelled
and tabernacled in this body called Jesus, and He was Immanuel, God with us. And there's no other God besides this God. He is Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost. And the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost... Father: the Lord,
Son: Jesus, Holy Ghost: Logos, Spirit of God. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Lord
Jesus Christ; that's Him. And in Him dwelled the fullness of the Godhead
bodily.
QA
IMAGE OF THE BEAST 54-0515 And I'm not a oneness. No, sir. You trinitarian people get
that away from you. I am not a oneness. No, sir. I'm not a oneness,
neither a trinitarian. I believe what the Bible says. That's correctly. Amen.
Whew. I get too much on one. What was that? Did I get it out? Or, let's see,
what was it? Oh, yes, that's right, about the... how the Father was in Christ.
He was a man; He was a God-man.
E-40
TESTIMONY WILLIAM BRANHAM 60-0210
Brethren and sisters, we're men and women, got to
die, but the Spirit of God that's among us, is the same God that met Moses
in the wilderness, was in Jesus Christ on earth, because the life of It
proves It's the same Spirit. It's doing the same thing. It's a promise of
Christ. Oh, how... There's just no place to stop.
E-37 FUNDAMENTAL
FOUNDATION FOR FAITH 55-0113
Now, when He was here on earth, He was a perfect
example of everything of the godhead. He was the fullness of the godhead bodily.
In Christ dwelt God. The body of Jesus was only the tabernacle of God. It's
where Almighty God Himself lived and dwelt in a human being. You believe
that, don't you? You have to, to be saved. You
have to believe that.
25
HEBREWS Chapter 7, Part 1HEB 292-25 -- 57-0915.2E
Now, the reason that there's a difference
between God and Jesus: Jesus had a beginning, God had no beginning; Melchisedec
had no beginning, and Jesus had a beginning. But Jesus was made
liken unto Him.
HEBREWS
CHAPTER 7, PT. 1
57-0915E 291-20 Now, I think Paul gives
the right interpretation. For this Melchisedec, king of Salem,... (King of
Salem, and any Bible scholar knows that Salem was formerly... Jerusalem was
formerly called "Salem." And He was the King of Jerusalem. Watch
Him.)... priest of the most high God,... (That's an intercessor.)... who
met Abraham... (I want to get His genealogy, this great Man, so that you'll
know Who He is first, and then we'll go on with the story.)... returning from
the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; To whom... Abraham gave a tenth
part... first... by interpretation King of righteousness,... Now, watch:
righteousness... Now, we have self-righteousness; we have make-belief
righteousness; we have perverted righteousness, all kinds. But there's one real
righteousness, and that righteousness comes from God, and this Man was the King
of righteousness. Who could He be? Now, He was the King of righteousness,
the King of Jerusalem, the King of righteousness, the King of peace. Jesus was called the Prince of peace, and a prince is the son
of a king. So this Man was King of peace, then
He would have to be the Father of the Prince of peace. Get it?
291-22 Now, let's see, get His genealogy a little
further, to see where we're going. Without father,... (Now, Jesus had a Father.
You believe that? Sure He was.)... without mother,... (Jesus had a mother, but
this Fellow had neither father nor mother.)... without descent,... (He never
had anyone that He come off of, any descent. He always was.)... without
descent, having neither beginning of days,... (He never had any time He ever
started.)... nor the end of life;... (It could been nothing else but God.
That's all It could be.)
292-23 Now, now if you'll
notice, as we read the next verse. See? First, being by interpretation, King of
righteousness... (That's not where I want to do. The--the 3rd verse.) ... nor
end of life; but made like unto the Son of God;... (Now, He was not the Son of God. For if He was the Son, He had a beginning, and this Man had no beginning. If He was a Son, He had to have both
father and mother. And this Man had neither father nor mother, but He was
made like unto the Son of God.)... abideth a priest continually. Now, Dr.
Scofield tries to say that it was a priesthood, called the Melchisedec
priesthood. But I just want to take you on that just for a few minutes. If it
was a priesthood, then it had to have a beginning, and it had to have an end.
But This had no beginning or had any end. And he did not say he met a
priesthood; he met a Man, and called His Name Melchisedec. He was a Person,
not a denomination, not a priesthood or fatherhood; He was absolutely
a Man by the Name of Melchisedec, Who was the King of Jerusalem. Not a
priesthood, but a King without a father, priesthoods don't have father.
And this Man was without father, without mother, without beginning of days
or ending of life. Now, the Son of God….. Who this was, this was
Jehovah! This was Almighty God Himself. It could be no other.
292-25 Now, notice. ... He abideth for ever... (He
has a testimony here that He liveth, He never dies. He never did... He never
was nothing else but alive.)... He abideth for ever... Now, Jesus was made
liken unto Him. Now, the reason that there's
a difference between God and Jesus, Jesus had a beginning; God had no
beginning; Melchisedec had no beginning; and Jesus had a beginning. But Jesus
was made likened unto Him. ... a priest abideth forever.
HEBREWS
CHAPTER 7 PT.1 57-0915E 305-93 Now, we want to notice here now again, as we
go on with this lesson of this Melchisedec, this great Priest of
From
HEBREWS
CHAPTER 7, PT. 1 57-0915E
309-118 that same
Melchisedec that met Abraham coming from the slaughter of the kings. Certainly.
The God of heaven, the Elohim, the Great I AM, not the I was, the I AM (present
tense). "And He blessed him."
Listen here just a little further, so we can get the lesson a little
closer together. Now, the 4th verse... Now consider how great this man was,...
(I just think that too.)... consider how great this man was,... He's beyond the
Son of God. The Son of God had father and mother; He didn't. The Son of God had
a beginning of time and an ending of time; He didn't. Who was that? That was
the Father of the Son. That's Who it was.
HEBREWS
CHAPTER 7, PT. 2 57-0922 341-306 And this Melchisedec
was not Jesus, for He was God. And what made Jesus and God different, that...
Jesus was the Tabernacle that God dwelt in. See? Now, Melchisedec... Jesus
had both father and mother, and this Man never had father or mother. Jesus had
a beginning of life and He had a end of life. This Man had no father, no
mother, no beginning of days, or ending of life. But It was the self same
Person; it was Melchisedec and Jesus was One; but Jesus was the earthly body,
borned and fashioned after sin: God's own body, His own Son, borned and
fashioned after sin to take the sting out of death, to pay the ransom, and to
receive sons and daughters unto Himself. You get it? That's the reason that He
had a beginning; He had an ending.
WHY
CRY SPEAK 59-1004E E-48 Now, how many
knows that Christ is the Spirit of God? We all know that. He's the anointed
One. Jesus was the anointed. There's where people who believe that there's
three or four different Gods, get all mixed up. See? God is a Spirit. Jesus
was the body that the Spirit of God dwelled in, made Him Emmanuel, God,
tabernacled on earth. He was God. Jesus Christ was God, yet He was the Son
of God. His flesh was the Son of God 'cause God created it, but inside He was
God. "It's not Me," said Jesus, "does the works, it's My Father
that dwelleth in Me. And that day you'll know that I'm in the Father, the
Father in Me, I in you, and you in Me." There you are.
Godhead Scriptures
Now,
that we have looked at the eight FACTSUAL statements of Brother Branham’s, may
we now, enter this study with open hearts to see just why God sent us a
vindicated Prophet to restore back to us what was taught by the early church
Fathers. In fact if you examine 2 John 3 and 9 you will find John was very
specific as to the revelation that there is One God and He had a Son.
II JOHN 1:3 Grace be with
you, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 9 Whosoever
transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He
that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father
and the Son.
John
is very specific and tells us that if you do not have the doctrine of Christ
you do not have God, and then He tells us what the doctrine of Christ is, He
says, you must have BOTH the Father and Son. And the word BOTH means TWO, not
three, not four, but TWO. And if you do
not have TWO in reference to the doctrine of Christ you have not God. TWO
beings, One Alone is God, and this One Who alone is God dwelt in the One who
was not God, for He was the Son of God, not God the Son. Brother Branham tried
to take us back to this wonderful revelation of Christ, but most of his followers
think they know more than he did concerning God and His Son. Even Irenaeus used
the same definitions when defining the Godhead.
In
the writings of IRENAEUS AGAINST HERESIES, BOOK III. Chapter
I,.--The Apostles did not commence top preach the Gospel, or to place
anything on record until they were endowed with the gifts and power of the Holy
spirit. They preached One God Alone, maker of heaven and earth.
In
this chapter, Irenaeus after mentioning Paul, Peter, John Mark and Luke,
stated "These
have all declared to us that there is one God, Creator of heaven and
earth, announced by the law and the prophets; and one Christ the Son of God.
If any one do not agree to these truths, he despises the companions of
the Lord; nay more, he despises Christ Himself the Lord; yea, he despises
the Father also, and stands self-condemned, resisting and opposing his own
salvation, as is the case with all heretics."
Other
words spoken by Irenaeus are as follows: CHAP.
VI.--Explanation of the words of Christ,
"No man knoweth the Father, but the Son," ETC.; which words
the heretics misinterpret,
1. For the Lord, revealing Himself to
His disciples, that He Himself is the
Word, who imparts knowledge of the Father, and reproving the Jews, who imagined
that they, had [the knowledge of] God, while they nevertheless rejected His Word, through whom God is made
known, declared,
"No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any
man the Father, save the Son, and he to whom the Son has willed to reveal [Him]."(11) Thus hath Matthew
set it down, and Luke in like manner, and Mark(1) the very same; for John omits
this passage. They, however,(Those false
teachers, ed.) who would be wiser than the apostles, write [the verse] in
the following manner: "No man knew the Father, but the Son; nor the Son,
but the Father, and he to whom the Son has willed to reveal [Him];" and
they explain it as if the true God were known to none prior to our Lord's
advent; and that God who was announced by the prophets, they allege not to be
the Father of Christ.
a. But if Christ did then
[only] begin to have existence when He came [into the world] as man, and [if] the Father did remember [only] in the times of Tiberius
Caesar to provide for [the wants of] men, and His Word was shown to have not
always coexisted with His creatures; [it may be remarked that] neither then
was it necessary that another God should be proclaimed, but [rather] that the
reasons for so great carelessness and neglect on His part should be made the
subject of investigation. For it is fitting that no such question should arise,
and gather such strength, that it would indeed both change God, and destroy our
faith in that Creator who supports us by means of His creation. For as we do
direct our faith towards the Son, so also should we possess a firm and
immoveable love towards the Father.
3. For no one can know the Father, unless through the Word of God,
that is, unless by the Son revealing [Him]; neither can he have knowledge of
the Son, unless through the good pleasure of the Father. But the Son performs
the good pleasure of the Father; for the Father sends, and the Son is sent, and
comes. And His Word knows that His Father is, as far as regards us, invisible
and infinite; and since He cannot be declared [by any one else], He does
Himself declare Him to us; and, on the other hand, it is the Father alone who
knows His own Word. And both these truths has our Lord declared. Wherefore
the Son reveals the knowledge of the Father through His own manifestation. For
the manifestation of the Son is the knowledge of the Father; for all things are
manifested through the Word. In order, therefore, that we might know that
the Son who came is He who imparts to those believing on Him a knowledge of the
Father, He said to His disciples:(3) "No man knoweth the Son but the
Father, nor the Father but the Son, and those to whomsoever the Son shall
reveal Him;" thus setting Himself forth and the Father as He [really] is,
that we may not receive any other Father, except Him who is revealed by the Son.
4…. But the Lord did
not say that both the Father and the Son could not be known at all (in
tatum), for in that case His advent would have been superfluous. For why did He
come hither? Was it that He should say to us, "Never mind seeking after
God; for He is unknown, and ye shall not find Him;" as also the disciples
of Valentinus falsely declare that Christ said to their Aeons? But this is
indeed vain. For the Lord taught us that no man is capable of knowing God,
unless he be taught of God; that is, that God cannot be known without God:
but that this is the express will of the Father, that God should be known. For
they shall know(4) Him to whomsoever the Son has revealed Him.
5. And for this purpose
did the Father reveal the Son, that through His instrumentality He might be
manifested to all, and might receive those
righteous ones who believe in Him into incorruption and everlasting enjoyment
(now, to believe in Him is to do His will); but He shall righteously shut out
into the darkness which they have chosen for themselves, those who do not
believe, and who do consequently avoid His light. The Father therefore has
revealed Himself to all, by making His Word visible to all; and, conversely,
the Word has declared to all the Father and the Son, since He has become
visible to all. And therefore the righteous judgment of God [shall fall]
upon all who, like others, have seen, but have not, like others, believed.
7)…For the Son, being present with His own handiwork from the
beginning, reveals the Father to all; to whom He wills, and when He wills, and
as the Father wills. Wherefore, then, in all things, and through all
things, there is one God, the Father, and one Word, and one
Son, and one Spirit, and one salvation to all who believe in Him.
Now,
it is very apparent that Irenaeus taught exactly the same thing that Paul and
John and Brother Branham taught. There is but One God Who is the Word and he it
is that is Father. This One who is God and Father, had a Son in His Image. This
One who is God the Word, had a Son in His own Image to manifest or express his
Word, and this Son is the Expressed Word of God. This One Son as uniquely born.
He has a unique place in the Revelation of the Mighty God. He is the Revelation
or unveiling of God to us.
Thus
I want you to keep in mind these eight major definitions of Brother Branham's
as you read this study and you will not have any difficulty in changing your
own thinking.
Now,
Let's move back to the Apostle John and See what he wrote:
II JOHN 1:8 Look to yourselves, that
we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full
reward. 9 Whosoever transgresseth (The word
transgresseth here means to go beyond the limits), Whosoever goes beyond the
limits and abideth not (and does not make his home) in the doctrine of
Christ, hath not God. (this tells
you how important the doctrine of Christ is. Because if you go outside the
boundaries of that doctrine of Christ, you do not have God, and if you do not
stay within the boundaries of the doctrine of Christ you do not have God… So
what are the boundaries of the doctrine of Christ? ) He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, (he
that stays within the boundaries of the doctrine of Christ, what does john
say?) he hath both (what
does BOTH mean? Does it mean 1? Does it mean 3? Does it mean 4? Or 5? Or 6?,
No! It means two!!! And who are these Two? John says, …)
the Father and the Son. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath
both the Father and the Son. There you are. I don't know
how it could be any plainer. 10 ¶ If there come any unto you, and bring not
this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house, neither bid him God speed: 11
For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
What? Who you calling evil John? Anyone who does
not have the doctrine of Christ which says there is One God, the Father and He
has a Son. That is why john says just a few verses earlier, in II JOHN 1:3 Grace be
with you, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
Now,
why would john be so definitive in his statement if Jesus was his own Father,
as the Oneness try to make him. I JOHN 1:1 ¶ That which was from the beginning, which we have heard,
which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have
handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen
[it], and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the
Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3
That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may
have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and
with his Son Jesus Christ.
Why
would John be so specific as to mention the Father and then use the conjunction
"AND" to mention also God's Son, Jesus Christ. If Jesus is His Own
Father, then it makes no sense at all. It would just be double speak.
Now,
we could go to the Gospels of john as well, but we will attribute those things
in the Gospel of John to the very words spoken by Jesus Himself. But first, let
us look at what the apostle Paul said of this relationship between the father
and the Son.
HEBREWS 5:7 Who in the days of his
flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and
tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he
feared; 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience (to come
under subjection) by the things which he suffered;
Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect,
he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; (learn is to increase
ones knowledge, and obedience shows submission). He learned to come under subjection.
In
this statement from the Book of Hebrews the Apostle Paul makes several
statements about the relationship the Son of God had with His Father.
#1) The Son of God could learn which means He was not Omniscient as
God is Omniscient and Knows all things. Now,
if the son of God was God, then how could he increase in anything. God is all
knowing yet in MATTHEW 24:36 Jesus said, But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no,
not the angels of heaven, but my Father only, showing The Son did not possess
Omniscience. God can not change (Mal
3:6 and Hebrews 13:8)
#2) He was obedient to the Father.
Now, if he was the Father this statement would be a total misapplication
of the language, and totally inappropriate.
#3) He was made perfect. If
He could be become perfect, or complete and fully mature, then He wasn't that
way to begin with. God can not change. He is the same yesterday, today and
forever.
I CORINTHIANS 15:24 Then [cometh]
the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father;
when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he
must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy
[that] shall be destroyed [is] death. 27 For he hath put all things under his
feet. But when he saith all things are put under [him, it is] manifest that he
is excepted, which did put all things under him. 28 And when all things shall
be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him
that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
#4) The Son of God is subject to the
Father, which makes him a
different being than the Father.
#5) The Son of God is mediator BETWEEN
God and man. He could not be a mediator if he was God. Because
to mediate means to be in the middle, a go between. GALATIANS
3:20 Now a mediator is not [a mediator]
of one, but God is one. And then
Paul tells us in I TIMOTHY
2:5 For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus;
#6) The Son of God increased in his Knowledge of God: LUKE 2:40 And the child grew, and waxed
(increased and became) strong
in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. 52
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature,(maturity) and in favor(knowledge and influence) with God and man.
Jesus made progress in the things in which he grew. He grew in Wisdom,
he grew in maturity and he grew in the influence and knowledge of God.
#7) The Son of God increased in favor with God:
verse 52 is a total oxymoron if he is God. How could God grow in wisdom
and favor with Himself?
#8) Jesus had set aside His Glory that He had with the Father in the
beginning, and was dependent upon the Father to restore it to Him again.
JOHN 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the
glory which I had with thee before the world was.
This tells us that he had it but stepped aside from it, and now is
asking for it to be restored to Him again.
Most
notable is the fact that He stripped Himself of all privilege when he came to
earth to take on the form of man, and emptied Himself out completely and took
on the nature of a bond slave.
The
Weymouth Translation says, "Although
from the very beginning He had the
nature of God, He did not reckon equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped. Nay, He stripped Himself of His Glory, and took on Him
the nature of a bondservant, a man like other men.
And
as a bond slave, the main attribute expressed is that of submission to the will
of the slave owner.
Now,
let's look at Jesus own Words as he describes His relationship between Himself
and his Father.
#9) Jesus was dependent upon the will of His Father. Hebrews 10:7 ¶ Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is
written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8
Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and
[offering] for sin thou would not, neither had pleasure [therein]; which are
offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes
away the first, that he may establish the second.10 By the which will we are
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
#10) Jesus was restricted and could do nothing unless the Father
showed Him first. JOHN 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, The Son can do nothing of himself, (then he can not create, he can not save, he can not heal, he can
not redeem,) but what he sees the Father do: for what things so ever he
doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
20 For the Father loveth the Son, and shows him all things that himself
doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
JOHN 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I
hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the
will of the Father which hath sent me. 31 ¶
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that beareth witness of
me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. 9 He couldn't
even bear witness of Himself).
#11) Jesus was dependent on the Father for His doctrine as well. JOHN 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his
that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the
doctrine, whether it be of God, or [whether] I speak of myself. 18 He that
speaketh of himself seeks his own glory: but he that seeks his glory that sent
him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
#12) Jesus called God His Father and showed the difference between
the two. JOHN 20:17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am
not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I
ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and [to] my God, and your God.
#13) Jesus Called the God His God. So Jesus had a God outside of
Himself. I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and [to] my God, and your God.
#14) Jesus speaks of God as another, in the manner of another being.
JOHN 5:31
¶ If I bear witness of
myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another
that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of
me is true.
JOHN 5:37 And the Father himself,
which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice
at any time, nor seen his shape.
#15) The Father sent the Son. I JOHN 4:1 ¶ And we have seen and do
testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world. JOHN 5:36 But I have greater witness than [that] of John: for the works which
the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of
me, that the Father hath sent me. 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent
me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor
seen his shape.
#16) God raised up Jesus from the dead. ACTS 2:32 This Jesus hath God raised
up, whereof we all are witnesses.
ACTS 4:10 Be it known unto you all,
and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom
ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by him doth this man stand
here before you
ACTS 13:30 But God raised him from the dead:
#17) The Son receives Life
from the Father JOHN 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son
to have life in himself;
#18) Jesus prayed to the Father. JOHN 17:15 I pray not that thou
shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from
the evil. JOHN 17:16 They are not
of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 ¶ Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is
truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them
into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might
be sanctified through the truth. 20
¶ Neither pray I for these alone,
but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they
all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may
be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the
glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we
are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;
and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as
thou hast loved me. 24 ¶ Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast
given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast
given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Then
outside of Truth you can not worship God correctly. In fact to Worship God
outside His Revealed Word would be false worship. God is not three persons as
the Trinitarians believe, nor is He one like your finger is One, as the Jesus
Only believe.
John
4:20-24 God is a Spirit. We must know who we worship
1
John 3:2 We see Him as He is.
Luke
2:11 Born to be Savior.
Matthew
2:1-3 To fulfill destiny.
Matthew
2:4-6 Micah 5:2 Prophets declared
Genesis
3:15 Promised seed of the woman.
1
Timothy 3:16 God manifest in flesh
Romans
8:3 John 3:16 Son sent to die.
Psalm
2:6-7/11-12 Isaiah 7:14 Proverbs 30:4 Jehovah and His Son.
Deuteronomy
6:4 Declares one God.
Hebrews
2:11 John 20: 19 Jesus is our Brother.
Luke
1:31 Jesus (body) had a beginning.
John
13:3 /17:5 Pre-incarnate w/God prior to His coming in flesh.
Luke
2:8-12 Jesus born in flesh.
Hebrews
7:1-3 Proverbs 8:22-30 John 1:1 & :14 Pre-existed Jesus
pre-incarnate"
existence prior to coming into human form."
Luke
1:30-37 God overshadowed Mary created within it, sperm/egg.
God- life, into human cell
Luke
3:21-22 When Holy Spirit came into His Son, on the Jordan
River.
Colossians
2:9 Godhead dwelt in Jesus Christ.
Luke
10:21-22 Luke 11:1-4 The Son prayed to His Father.
Matthew
26:36-46 When (Holy Spirit) came out of His Son
Colossians
1:12-19 Through Son, God created all things.
Philippians
2:5-8 Pre-incarnate Son took o form of man
2
John 1:3 1 Peter 1:3 Hebrews 1:5 Matthew 17:1-8 Romans 1:1-3 & :9
Colossians
1:3 God who had a Son.
Hebrews
1:1-3 Son is the expressed image : Gods nature
Mark
14:60-62 Son did not claim to be Father.
John
10:30 Son claimed to be one with the Father.
John
14:8-10 Son claimed the Father was in Him.
1
Timothy 6:13-16 Exodus 33:20 God is an Eternal,
& Invisible Spirit.
1
John 1:1-3 Invisible Life made visible in Son
John
5:43 Philippians 2:9-11 Sons name same as Fathers.
Acts
9:1-5 Pillar of Fire is called Jesus
John
13:3 Son in theophany before he was flesh
John
17:5 Son with the Father before foundation of world.
Revelation
3:14 Son is first of God's creation.
2
Corinthians 5:18-19 "God in Christ." key to
revelation of Godhead.
Matthew
22:41-46 2 Lords. But 1 God
1Cor
15:20-28 roles of Father / Son
:24
- Son delivers up kingdom Father.
:25
- Father reigns until all things put under feet of Son.
:27
- Father places all under Son's feet, except Himself.
:28
-Son places self in subjection to His Father.
1
Thes 4:16 two Lords 1 who comes down, 1 we meet in air..
Philippians
2:9 Revelations 22:8-9 Jesus Christ only man permitted to
worship.
John
14:6 1 John 2:21-23 worship God through son (expression)
Romans
1:2-3 :2 - Christ was of David's flesh seed
:3
- Christ was Son of Holy Spirit, God.
Revelation
4:2-3 Ezekiel 1:26-28 Revelation 5:5-7 John 1:18 Lamb
of God came forth out of One who sat on Throne.
Romans
8:32 Immortal, Invisible Spirit, God had Son
Philippians
2:5-8 Christ pre-incarnate with God.
:6
- Christ laid aside theophonic form.
:7
- Christ took on a human form.
Hebrews
1:3 Christ is visible expression of Invisible God
Paul's,
Peter's Jude's John's introduction to
each church Epistle shows they knew the difference between the Father and the
Son.
ROMANS 1:1 ¶ Paul, a servant of
Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 2
(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy
scriptures,) 3 Concerning his Son Jesus
Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the
flesh; 4 And declared [to be] the Son of God with
power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
I CORINTHIANS 1:3 Grace [be]
unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus
Christ.
II CORINTHIANS 1:2 Grace [be] to you and peace from God our
Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 ¶
Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
GALATIANS 1:1 ¶ Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by
man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2
And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of
Galatia: 3 Grace [be] to you and peace from God the
Father, and [from] our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 Who gave himself for our
sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to
the will of God and our Father:
EPHESIANS 1:2 Grace [be] to you, and peace, from God our
Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.
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:
PHILIPPIANS 1:2 Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God
our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.
COLOSSIANS 1:2 To the
saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace [be] unto
you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3
¶ We give thanks to God and
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
I THESSALONIANS 1:1 ¶
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians
[which is] in God the Father and [in] the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace [be]
unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2
¶ We give thanks to God always
for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; 3
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and
patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and
our Father;
II THESSALONIANS 1:1 ¶ Paul, and Silvanus, and
Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
TIMOTHY 1:1 ¶ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the
commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, [which is] our
hope; 2 Unto Timothy, [my] own son in the faith:
Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
II TIMOTHY 1:1 ¶ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the
will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, 2
To Timothy, [my] dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from
God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
TITUS 1:4 To Titus, [mine] own
son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
PHILEMON 1:3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
HEBREWS 1:1 ¶ God,
who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers
by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us
by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he
made the worlds;
HEBREWS 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any
time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to
him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
I PETER 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God
the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and
sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be
multiplied. 3 ¶ Blessed [be] the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us
again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
II PETER 1:1 ¶ Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of
Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through
the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 2
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and
of Jesus our Lord,
I JOHN 1:2 2
(For the life was manifested, and we have seen [it], and bear witness,
and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was
manifested unto us;) 3 That which we
have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with
us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus
Christ.
II JOHN 1:3 Grace be with you, mercy, [and] peace, from
God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in
truth and love.
II JOHN 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in
the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of
Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
JUDE 1:1 ¶ Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and
brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and
preserved in Jesus Christ, [and] called:
I
hope you can see the distinction made by these verses of Scripture alone. Also
if you will, we could examine the 18 scriptures that speak of Jesus being
raised from the dead by God His Father, not by himself.
ROMANS 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and
shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt
be saved.
ACTS 2:23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel
and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and
slain: 24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the
pains of death: because it was not possible that he
ACTS 2:32 This
Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. 33
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of
the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now
see and hear.
ACTS 3:14 But ye
denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto
you; 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God
hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
ACTS 3:26 Unto you
first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning
away every one of you from his iniquities.
ACTS 4:10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that
by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised
from the dead, [even] by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
ACTS 5:30 The God of our
fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. 31
Him hath God exalted with his right hand [to be] a Prince and a Saviour,
for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. 32
And we are his witnesses of these things; and [so is] also the Holy
Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
ACTS 10:40 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed
him openly;
ACTS 13:29 And when
they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took [him] down from the
tree, and laid [him] in a sepulchre
30 But God raised him from the
dead: 31 And he was seen many days of them which
came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the
people. 32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how
that the promise which was made unto the fathers, 33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their
children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the
second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
ACTS 13:37 But he, whom
God raised again, saw no corruption.
I CORINTHIANS 6:14 And God
hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
I CORINTHIANS 15:23 But every
man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's
at his coming. 24 Then [cometh] the
end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when
he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25
For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy [that] shall be destroyed [is]
death. 27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But
when he saith all things are put under [him, it is] manifest that he is
excepted, which did put all things under him. 28 And when all things shall be subdued
unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all
things under him, that God may be all in all.
Here we see clearly that God will remain above the
Son.
GALATIANS 1:1 ¶ Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man,
but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
COLOSSIANS 2:12 Buried
with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with [him] through the faith of
the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
I PETER 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him
up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
ACTS 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that
God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to
the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; 31
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul
was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. 32
This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. 33
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of
the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now
see and hear.
HEBREWS 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered
up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten
[son], 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall
thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God [was] able to raise
[him] up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Chapter Two...
"Life"
"God-Hood & Sonship"
"The relationship between The Father and His Sons."
(The expressed Attributes of God)
In
the last chapter we examined the principle of God-Life. We found in our examination
that before creation God existed alone. In God, existed a Great fountain
of Life which we will call God-Life. God
then, Who is the Word. gave birth to a Son who is a part of God and in fact was
the very expression of God. God imparted His God-Life into His Son.
We
found in JOHN 1:4, "In Him was Life and the Life was the Light of man". And
in 1 JOHN 1:1 ¶ That which was from the beginning, which we have heard,
which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have
handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we
have seen [it], and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life,
which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
Therefore
we are dealing with God Life. And then if it was God Life which was imparted
into His Only Begotten Son, then It would have to be the same God-Life which is
also imparted to all of God's Sons. It is this God-Life that we shall examine
further in this chapter, which will deal with the relationship between God and
His Sons.
In
the book of Genesis 1:11 God placed a Law to rule over Life and the
reproduction of Life. It is called the law of reproduction. And we see in this
law that every seed must bring forth after it's Kind. Therefore, if God has a
Seed, and we know that His Word is called a Seed, then it must bring forth
after it's kind or nature.
CURTAIN
OF TIME 55-0302 E-18 God, which was a part of
God. God seen what the end would be, from the beginning, and the Logos come to
the earth, which was Christ the Word, spoken Word of God, part of God, and was
made flesh and dwelled among us. And then, we come out of Christ, which
makes the same life that was in God, in Christ, in you. And just as sure as
God raised this up, we've got to come with the same thing, if the same Spirit's
in us. Because it's the Spirit of God making us sons and daughters of God.
Now, we see here that Brother Branham has just quoted Paul to the Romans when He said, ROMANS 8:11 But if the
Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised
up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit
that dwelleth in you.
LAW
HAVING A SHADOW 54-1203 E-42 Notice, now in the germ,
but when God, when Christ, was in the womb of Mary... You're just a little
teeny germ. Before it was a germ... What's after that germ? Is a life. Then
you're in the supernatural; you're in the sixth dimension. You're plumb out
of human reasoning. You're into spirit life. Every little germ has a life; that
life come from somewhere. The life of the cancer come from the Devil. Your
life come from God; that's the difference.
And God being manifested in the flesh with Christ Jesus the anointed,
wrapped Himself in a Blood cell (Oh, my.) in the womb of Mary, brought
forth His Life. He lived a man; He died a man to give His Blood, that through
His body, and the shedding of His Blood that every believer could be wrapped in
that Blood cell with Him. Which if a borned again Spirit of a man is
wrapped in the Blood cell of the Son of God, and God can no more deny
you than He could deny Himself. For by one Spirit we're all baptized into
one Body, and become partakers of the same Spirit that's in this Blood cell.
And the Church is wrapped into the Blood cell of the Life of Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah. Then we are sons of God, joint heirs with Jesus Christ in the
Kingdom.
LAW
OR GRACE 54-1006 97 Now, when Jesus
come, it wasn't only human's life, but it was God's own Life, Himself.
That's what was in His Blood.
CONTENDING
FOR THE FAITH 55-0220E E-66 Jesus said, "Except
a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom." You can't understand
it. It's a mystic, mythical thing until you're born again. There the
very Life of God comes in you. Everlasting, Eternal Life, Zoe, God's own Life
comes in you, and then you're a part of God. You're a Son of God or a
daughter of God. And then you see as God sees. You believe as God believes.
THE
THIRD SEAL 63-0320 254-5
{193} Now, see,
they--they--they--they don't want it. They don't want God's Word. Because she held
to her traditions, she kept the Word of God from being of non effect. The same
now on spiritual Eve, she don't want... She wants to keep her traditions and
get away from the Word of God. She holds again to the denominations and
their creeds and traditions of her elders instead of taking the Word of
God. And when the promise of the Word
in the last days is brought to her, she will not receive it, because with her
traditions, like the Hebrew bride did, the real Word, though manifested,
proven, vindicated, she won't have it. Why won't she? Because there's her
type. She can't do it. That's right. She can't beat her type. See? And it's
predicted she would do it, so how you going to keep from anything... Now, the only thing to do is be happy you are
in. That's all, be ready for it. All right. God promised in the last days that
He would manifest and would vindicate His Word to her and still she wouldn't do
it. All that God promised her by His servants, the prophets, God promised
through Jesus Christ, God promised through Joel, God promised through Paul, God
promised through Malachi, John, God promised through John the Revelator, all
them prophets, just exactly what the last message would be to her. Now, if you want to write them down, 'course
you all know them: Jesus: John 14:12; and Joel: Joel 2:38; Paul: II Timothy 3;
Malachi 4th chapter, and John the revelator: Revelations 10:17, 1-17. See?
Exactly what would take place now. And to the church, what is it? The
incarnate Word made flesh amongst His people again (See?), and they just don't
believe it.
GOD
KEEPS HIS WORD 57-0306
E-45 Ever who believes on Jesus Christ, I don't mean intellectually
believes, but with your heart believes on Jesus Christ, God's Life comes
into you and you got Eternal Life. And you pass from death to Life, and
Christ said, "He will never come to the judgment, but I'll raise Him up at
the last day." Now, that's God's Word for it. Do you believe God's Word
or somebody else's? Better take God's Word for it. That's right. For
heavens and earth will pass away, but His Word won't. So stay with God's Word.
In the garden of Eden there were two trees: one
was Life, one was knowledge. Man left the Tree of Life to eat off the tree of
knowledge. Tonight, I would like to examine these words in more detail.
Therefore if you will open your Bibles to the Book of Genesis chapter one, we
will begin by reading verse 11.
GENESIS
1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after
his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12
And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his
kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind:
and God saw that [it was] good.
In
verse 11 and 12 we see the law of reproduction. Every seed must bring forth
after it's kind. This word kind spoken of in verse 12 is a Hebrew word miyn and
is pronounced meen. The word means specie and refers to nature. "Let every
seed bring forth after it's own specie or nature". Therefore, God's Law of
reproduction speaks totally against hybreeding. For hybreeding would bring together
two different specie or natures and produce a life that is not natural. Then we can see that God's Law of
reproduction is meant to be a protective law that would preserve the specie or
nature that He placed in the seed.
Now,
up to this point we also see in these two verses of scripture that God has
placed these seeds upon the earth at this time by His spoken Word. They are not
yet planted in the earth but the scripture plainly says they are upon (up - on)
the earth.
Now,
we know that you can not see Life, you can only see the attributes of life,
such as the color, or scent, or other attributes such the texture, growth rate
etc. Therefore life is a spirit. It is invisible, and can only be seen by it's
many attributes which it displays. When God spoke these words, the seeds that
He placed upon the earth were yet in spirit form. There were no manifestation
of these seeds at this time. But God's Word laid out the ordained path in which
they were to multiply. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb
yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed
[is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth
grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit,
whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
Now,
it would appear here that the reproduction is already taking place, but it is
not. At least not in the visible sense of the word, for we will see later in
verse 14-15 that the sun is not yet created, and if no light of the sun, no
life can manifest itself upon the earth. GENESIS 1:14 ¶
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to
divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and
for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament
of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and
the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also. 17
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth 18 And to rule over the day and over the
night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was]
good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the
fourth day.
Further
more, we will also see in verse that these seeds are to be planted in the
earth and when they are planted in the earth, then they will grow up out of the
earth as God's law dictates in verse 12.
Notice
in verse 12 that the earth is to bring forth.
That means that they would have to come forth out from the earth, but to
this point the seeds are only up and on the earth. They have yet to be planted.
But we see in verse 12 the order in which they are to come forth.
Thus,
#1) In verse 11 we see the spoken Word
seed going forth and producing seeds. #2) These seeds are placed up and on the
earth #3) they are awaiting there
planting in order to spring forth into manifestation out from the earth. This then is the order in which they are to
come forth.
Then
if we carefully read on in chapter 1 we see all the animals and all the
creatures of the sea being spoken into existence and finally man. GENESIS 1:20
¶ And God said, Let the waters bring
forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly
above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth,
which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged
fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. 22
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24
¶ And God said, Let the earth bring
forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast
of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of
the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that
creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. 26
¶ And God said, Let us make man
in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27
So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and
God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and
subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29
¶ And God said, Behold, I have
given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it
shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to
every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein
[there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for meat: and it was so. 31
¶ And God saw every thing that he
had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day.
Now,
if we continue reading in chapter 2 we shall find that this is not another
account of creation, but a continuation of the same creation account. In
chapter One we see only God's spoken Word going forth and speaking into
existence spirit beings. But in chapter 2, we see God clothing these spirit
beings with the dust of the earth.
GENESIS 2:1 ¶
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work
which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he
had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God
created and made.
4 ¶
These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they
were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
Notice this word generations is used. It is a Hebrew word, towldah pronounced
to led aw, and means the proceedings, or the account of or the results of the creation.
5 And every plant of the field before it was in
the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not
caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.
Now,
I want you to notice then, that we are
only given an account of the creation up to this point, as the spoken word
life, (the spirit life) of each seed and animal. We know this to be true
because we are told that this account of the proceedings is before it was in
the earth. 5 And every plant of the
field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew
6 But
there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the
ground. 7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living soul. Now, in chapter
1:26-27 we see that God had already created man in His Own Image.
Now,
notice here that up to this point God had created man in His Image. And we know
that, "God is a spirit, and they that Worship Him must worship Him in
Spirit and Truth", because that is what Jesus told us Himself in John
4:24.
Now,
we see in Genesis 1:26 God speak it,
¶ And God said, Let us make man
in our image, after our likeness: And in
verse 27 God performs what He spoke…
27 So God created man in his
[own] image, in the image of God created he him;. Then in chapter 2 we see God cloth man in
dust, giving him manifestation 7 And
the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Before
we go any further, let's just clear up a few things right here. God is speaking
and God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: Now, who is He
talking to here? He says, Let us! And then He says our Image! Who is the Image
of God in the first place?
Hebrews
1: 1-3 ¶ God, who at sundry times and in
divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of [his] glory,
and the express image of his person, (The expressed image... or the out-raying
or etching of God.) and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he
had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on
high; 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? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be
to me a Son?
And
the AMPLIFIED version says of Him,
"He is the sole expression of the Glory of God, - the Light-being,
the out-raying of the Divine, - and He is the perfect imprint and very image of
God's nature,"
129 HEBREWS
CHAPTER 1 57-0821 Now, here's what happened. Ooooh! (excuse me), This just gets me right where I love it. See?
The Logos, and this Great Fountain; this Great Fountain of Spirit which had no
beginning or no end. This Great Spirit began to form in the creation, and the
Logos that went out from It was the Son of God. It was the only visible form
that the Spirit had. And It was a theophany, which means a body, and the body
was like a man.
From
the Sermon, QA ON GENESIS
53-0729 010 "out of God came the
Logos, which was the Son of God; then out of the Logos, which was the Word
("In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."), out of the
Logos came forth the man. 012 Now, "No man has seen the Father at
anytime." No man can see God in the bodily form, because God is not in
body form; God is a Spirit. See? All right. "No man has seen the Father,
but the only begotten of the Father hath declared Him," I John... See?
Now, but notice now, there's nothing; there's just space. There's no light;
there's no dark; there's no nothing; it's just seems nothing. But in there is a
great supernatural Being, Jehovah God, …013
And now, the next thing we begin to see, by eyes of supernatural
looking, we see a little white Light forming out there. What is that? That was
called, by Bible readers, "Logos," or "the anointed," or
"the anointing," or as I was going to say, the part of God begin to
develop into something so human beings could have some type of an idea what It
was: it was a little, a little Light moving. That was the Word of God. Now, God
gave Himself birth to this Son which was before there was even an atom in the,
or air to make an atom. That was... See, Jesus said, "Glorify Me, Father,
with the glory that We had before the foundation of the world." See, way
back in yonder... 018 And
then He asked this question now. "Let us (Who? Father and Son) make man in
Our own image." Now, if a man was made something like that little sacred
Light yonder, or something like that, It could not be seen (which is a
spiritual Being). … And here was God, unfolded Himself now, down into "let
us make man (which was His son, an offspring from Him) man in Our own image (He
was a supernatural being.), and let him have dominion over the cattles of the
field, and so forth." Now, the man led the cattle and everything, just
like the Holy Spirit leads a real true believer today. The voice of man, would speak and say... call the cattle this
way, call the sheep over to this pasture, call the fishes to this water. See, he
had dominion; everything obeyed him. 019
Now, but then there was no man to till the soil (Genesis 2), no man to
till the soil. "And then God formed man (Genesis 2:7) out of the dust of
the earth." Now, we follow it; He formed man out of the dust of the earth,
and put this supernatural Spirit...
Now,
in getting back to this creation scene, we pick up in chapter 2 and verse 8
¶ And the LORD God planted a garden
eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
Now, let's stop here just for a moment,
and I would like for you to
notice that God is now planting. The Scripture tells us that God plants, and
then out from the ground comes forth every tree that is good for food and
pleasant tot he sight. I can just
imagine all the color and aroma and beautiful fruit coming forth from this
garden.
But
if you carefully notice all the trees that were planted in the ground by God
were good for food or the sight. But let's read on, because we find that there
are two other trees which are found also in this garden but we do not know how
they got there, because these two are not said to be planted. . 9
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant
to the sight, and good for food; the
tree of life also (is) in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of
good and evil.
Now,
let's skip ahead to verse 15… 15 And
the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and
to keep it. 16 ¶
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden
thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die. 18 ¶
And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I
will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the
LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and
brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam
called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof. 20
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to
every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for
him.
Now,
remember, in chapter one everything God spoke forth, all life forms that God
spoke forth did come forth in a spirit form only. But now, God is bringing them
also into manifestation by clothing them of the dust of the earth. Therefore, just remember this…The Spoken
word is the original seed. Now, we
promised that we would examine where these two other trees came from. As you
have seen in chapter two, God planted every tree in the garden except two of
them. These two trees are different from all other trees, because all the other
trees were planted, but these two trees were not planted. So, where did these
two trees come from, and what or shall we say who were these two trees.
In
order to be able to distinguish between two of anything, we must have a way to
categorize them. Since the Law of reproduction was that every seed must bring
forth only after it's own kind, then we have a principle laid down. And that is
this, if every seed has a life within it, and every seed can bring forth only
after it's own kind or nature, then we must look at the nature of these two
trees which were not planted and see what their nature tells us about them.
After
all, in any field of science we designate differences based upon what we can
see. This is called empirical data which is observable data. We can tell the difference between a maple
tree and an oak tree by empirical data. The shape of the leaves, the nature of
the bark, the shape of the tree, etc. This form of science is called Botany,
which is a branch of Biology that deals with plants, their life, their
structures, their growth, their characteristics, and thus their
classifications. Therefore, if we are to
understand the differences between these two trees which were in the garden but
were not planted there, we must begin by examining there characteristics in
order to be able to define their nature.
The
first one we shall examine is this tree of Life. Notice it's name speaks of
life. It is the Tree of Life. Now, if we
are to find anything out about this Tree we must go to the Source of Life, which is God Himself, and He since he is the
Word, then if we are to find out about this tree of Life, we must go tot he Word
of God.
We
already know that God is the Source of all Life. In the beginning God was a
great fountain of Life as we see in
PSALMS 36:9 "For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light
shall we see light.' We also found that
John recognized this attribute of God as well. John 1: 1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning
with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without
him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life
was the light of men.
God
was alone in the beginning, and in Him
was Life. And as He began to bring forth this Life, it first went into His Son.
So we see, God, the great Fountain of Life, began to bring forth His great plan
to fulfill Himself, and He began this fulfillment by bringing forth first a
Son. We find in JOHN 5:26 "For as the Father hath life in
himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;"
Now,
one thing that we must not forget, Adam was not forbidden to eat from the Tree
of Life. He was only forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge. In the Book of REVELATION 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of
the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. So we see that
God wanted man to eat from the tree of Life, but before he could, he had
already partook from the tree of Knowledge, and when he did this, he had to
reap the promise, "The day you eat thereof, that day you shall surely
die."
GENESIS
2:16 ¶ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die. Therefore, man could have eaten from the tree of Life.
But notice what happened after he had eaten from the forbidden tree of
knowledge. GENESIS 3:22-24 ¶ And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is
become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his
hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore
the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from
whence he was taken. 24 So he drove
out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a
flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life..
Therefore,
God sent forth a fiery sword in the hands of the cherubims to keep, protect and
guard the way of the tree of Life. Man could not eat from the Tree of life in
his fallen condition.
Now,
so far we haven't seen too much concerning this Tree of Life. We know that in
it are the essential characteristics of Life and this Life came from God who is
the fountain of Life. But why is it described as a tree. That is what throws
men off in their search for the truth. God uses types and shadows and men then
are left to themselves to decipher what is not meant for them to know. Remember
in Matthew 13 Jesus said "it is for you to know the mysteries of the
Kingdom, but for those on the outside it is not meant for them to know,
therefore, He speaks to us in parables."
Therefore we must know what the symbolism of this Tree represents.
PSALMS
1:1-3 PSALMS 1:1 ¶ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the
counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the
seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight [is] in the law of the
LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also
shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Now, there is no doubt that the scripture
metaphorically speaks of men as trees. We found this in the first Psalm, where
a righteous man is likened to a tree that is planted by the river of water, and
we find it also in the Book of Jude where it refers to the natural man.
JUDE
1:10 But these speak evil of those
things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in
those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have
gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward,
and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your
feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear:
clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit
withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
And
we see trees represent men in general as we see in MARK 8:22
¶ And he cometh to Bethsaida; and
they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him. 23
And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and
when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he
saw ought. 24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as
trees, walking.
But
Who then is this tree of Life? We find our answer in the Book of ISAIAH
53:1 ¶ Who hath believed our report? and to whom is
the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender
plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and
when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.
Now,
all Bible readers know that this speaks of our Lord Jesus Christ. And so we see
then that He is the tree of Life that was in the Garden. Then who was this other tree, the tree of
knowledge. Well, we have already seen in
the Book of Jude that those who are called brute beasts are also called trees.
but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt
themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they are trees whose
fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Therefore,
if the scripture speaks of men, both the righteous and the unrighteous, as
trees. Then if they are trees, they would have to be descended from trees, for
every seed must bring forth after it's kind.
Now, don't think it strange that men are likened to trees, after all men
are also likened to wheat and tares, and as the grass of the field. But for this study we will look only at the
metaphorical view as trees, since we are dealing with these two individuals in
the Garden of Eden that were not planted there.
Now, Brother Branham taught us that these two trees were Christ and
Satan. From the Church Age Book, he said,
"We start with the fact that there were TWO trees in the midst of
the garden. The Tree of Life was Jesus. The other tree is definitely Satan
because of what came forth of the fruit of that tree. Now then, we know that
both of those trees had a relationship to man or they would never have been
placed there."
Another
thing we must understand is if one tree was the Tree of Life, then the other
called the tree of Knowledge was also the tree of death, "for in the day
you eat thereof, that day you die" is what God said. We hear brother Branham tell us the same in
the message, The Pool Of Bethesda
50-0811 "In the garden of Eden, there were two trees. One of them was the
Tree of Life. When man eat from that tree, he'd lived forever. And the other
was the tree of knowledge, which was the tree of death, which was the tree of
sickness."
FAITH
ONCE DELIVERED TO SAINTS 53-1129A 42 Now, the Tree of Life, I believe, was Jesus Christ. "He
that eats My flesh and drinks My Blood has Everlasting Life." He is the
Tree of Life.
97-4
EPHESIAN CHURCH AGE - CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT 3 But what is the Tree Of Life? Well, first of
all we would have to know what the tree itself stands for. In Numbers 24:6, as
Balaam described Israel, he said they were "trees of lign aloes (perfume
trees) which the Lord hath planted." Trees throughout the Scriptures refer
to persons, as in Psalms 1. Thus the Tree Of Life must be the Person of Life,
and that is Jesus. Now in the Garden of Eden there were two trees standing in
the midst of it. One was the Tree Of Life, the other was the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil. Man was to live by the Tree Of Life; but he was not
to touch the other tree or he would die. But man did partake of the other tree,
and when he did, death entered into him by his sin, and he became separated
from God. Now that Tree back there in Eden, that Tree which was the source of
life, was Jesus. In John, chapters six through eight, Jesus sets Himself forth
as the source of eternal life. He called Himself the Bread from heaven. He
spoke of giving Himself and that if a man ate of Him he would never die. He
proclaimed that He knew Abraham, and that before Abraham, He WAS. He prophesied
that He Himself would give them living waters that if man drank he would never
thirst again, but would live eternally. He showed Himself as the GREAT I AM. He
is the Bread Of Life, the Well Of Life, the Eternal One, the TREE OF LIFE. He
was back there in Eden in the midst of the garden even as He will be in the
midst of the paradise of God. Some have an idea that the two trees in the
garden were just two more trees like unto the rest of those that God had placed
there. But careful students know that this is not so. When John the Baptist
cried that the axe was laid to the root of all trees, he was not talking of
simply natural trees, but of spiritual principles. Now in I John 5:11 it says,
"And this is the RECORD, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this
life is in His Son." Jesus said in John 5:40, "And ye will not come
to Me, that ye might have life." Thus the record, God's Word, states
plainly and clearly that LIFE, ETERNAL LIFE, is in the Son. It is no other
place. I John 5:12, "He that hath the Son hath LIFE; and he that hath not
the Son of God hath NOT Life." Now since the record cannot change, be taken
from or added thereunto, then the record stands that THE LIFE IS IN THE SON...
Since this is so, THE TREE IN THE GARDEN HAS TO BE JESUS. All right. If the
Tree Of Life is a person, then the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a
person ALSO. It can't be otherwise. Thus the Righteous One and the Wicked One
stood side by side there in the midst of the Garden of Eden.
Ezekiel 28:12b- Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum,( though sealest up the
Token, the pattern) full of wisdom,(
fullness of Wisdom) and perfect in beauty.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the
garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and
the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald,
and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes
was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14
Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]:
thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the
midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the
day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.( the word iniquity
here is a Hebrew word evil and it speaks of un-right-wise-ness and having a
wrong word in his mouth) 16 By
the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with
violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane ( or
polluted) out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering
cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up
because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted (perverted) thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: 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, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will
I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will
bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. 19
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee:
thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt] thou [be] any more.
POWER OF TRANSFORMATION 65-1031M
280 And notice in the church
life. It used to be in the church life long ago, when the prophet had something
to say, THUS SAITH THE LORD, the people moved. They stayed right with it. They
moved. But now, "I don't like that guy. Vote him out." See, see? That
it? See, they don't have understanding no more. The people just don't move by
the Spirit of God anymore. God's Word is His Spirit, and His Word comes to His
prophet. And the Word is supposed to transform you from what the things of the
world are, into the image of sons and daughters of God. And the Word can only
come through these prophets, as they spoke. And it had to be compared with the
Word, and show that it was the Word. Then if you accept that Word, It'll
transform you from a son of God, or a daughter--or, from a son of the world,
the daughter of the world to a son and daughter of God.
In
the sermon WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC preached on
"Now,
now, we find out that this Person had no father, no mother, no beginning of
days or ending of life. It was God "En morphe".
Now, the Greek word means "change," was used, changing Himself,
"En morphe", from one person to... One person...
The Greek word there, "En morphe," means...
It was taken from the stage act, "that one person is changing
his mask to make him some other character." Like in school just
recently--I believe, Rebekah, just before she
graduated, they had one of Shakespeare's plays. And one young man had to change
his clothes several times, because he played two or three different parts, but
the same person. He'd come out; one time he was the villain. And when he come out next time, he was another character." 40 And now the Greek word "En morphe" mean that he changed His mask. And that's what
God did. It's the same God all the time. God in the form of the Father, The Spirit, the Pillar of Fire, the same God was made flesh
and dwelt among us: "En morphe," brought
out so He could be seen.
The Vines Greek
Dictionary tells us the meaning of “En morphe” is 1) the form by
which a person or thing "strikes the vision"; external
appearance.
Now,
I would like to show from Scripture where this word En-Morphe
is used to show by it that there is a difference between the Father and the
Son.
PHILIPPIANS 2:6 Who (that’s speaking of Jesus
as the pre-incarnate Son of God), being in the
form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made
himself (that’s the pre-incarnate Son of God) of no reputation, and took upon him (the
pre-incarnate Son of God) the form of a servant,
and was made in the likeness of men: (so we are told here
that the pre-incarnate Son became incarnate in a human form or body) 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Now,
we must ask ourselves the question. Who did He, the Son of God humble Himself
unto? The Answer is to God, His Father. Remember His words, “Father I would that you take this cup from me, but
nevertheless, not My will but Thy will be done.” LUKE 22:42)
From his sermon entitled, UNVEILING OF GOD 64-0614M 52 William Branham, Prophet of God said, If you notice here in
Philippians he said, "Not thinking it robbery, but took the form of
man..." Now, the Greek word there for that form, I've been looking at it
all day yesterday, trying to think out what it was, I find, come with this word
of "en morphe." It's
spelled e-n m-o-r-p-h-e. Looking in the Greek to find out what "en morphe" was... I may pronounce that wrong, but I...
Reason I spell it, when if the tape is released, the people will, scholars will
know what I--I mean by it. He... When the "en morphe"...
That means that "He changed Hisself." He--He come down. Now, the Greek word there means that
"something that could not be seen, yet it's there, and then it's changed,
and the eye can catch it." See? 54
Like Elijah was at
Again from his sermon IDENTIFIED CHRIST OF ALL AGES 64-0617 77 William Branham said, “Remember, God changes His form. "En morphe," the Greek word means "He puts on a
different mask."
And again from his sermon The MIGHTY GOD UNVEILED 64-0629 15-1 William Branham
taught, “He
changed His en morphe. He changed from what He was
to what He is. He never changes His nature.”
Now, in this study we are
not going to teach on the En Morphe, but I need to
bring this out to you because William Branham defines the En Morphe as the changing of what is being seen. So it has
to do with the presentation, although the nature is never changed, the
presentation or vessel is.
God in the Pillar of Fire
is no different that God in His Son or God in His Church. And yet, we know that
while in the state of the Pre-incarnation, the Son of God was in the form of
God. Therefore we have got to conclude that God had a form and the Son was in
the same form. Let's read it again carefully.
PHILIPPIANS 2:6 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: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
I would like to read this
from several other translations, so that we might get the full impact of what
is being said, because many people are confused about whether or not God had a
form other than the form that His Son dwelt in.
NIV: Who being in
very nature God; did not consider equality with God something to be
grasped. But made himself nothing, taking the very
nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in the
appearance of man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death, - even
death on a cross.
AMPLIFIED: Who, although
being essentially one with God and in the form of God (possessing the fullness of
the attributes which make God, God), did not think this equality with
God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained: But stripped himself of all
privileges and rightful dignity so as to assume the guise of a servant or slave,
in that He became like men and was born a human being. And after He had
appeared in human form He abased and humbled Himself still further and
carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross.
The
Weymouth Translation says, "Although
from the very beginning He had the nature of God, He did not reckon
equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped. Nay, He stripped Himself
of His Glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant, a man
like other men.
Emphatic Diaglott: Who, though being in God's form, yet did not meditate to usurpation to be like
God, but divested Himself, taking a bondsman's form having been made in the
likeness of men, and being in condition as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross.
Now we have read 5
translations (the number of Grace) and every one pointed to the fact that there
was a time when the Son of God was so much like God, that in all His
attributes, in His Nature and full expression, He was the very representation,
the very effulgence, or expression of God.
And Paul says, He was in the FORM, the EN
MORPHE of God. Therefore, God had a form, and the Son of God was identical
to God in that form in every detail, in every characteristic, and in every
attribute, except that He was not God.
Now, most people do not believe that God has a form. But if Jesus came
forth in the exact expression of the Father, then the Father had to have a form
to express although God’s form is invisible Spirit, yet the expression can not
be anything other than what God’s form is, or else it is not in the exact
representation or likeness. Therefore, God is not some floating cloud-like
spirit. He is not just an eternal Mind although He has an eternal mind, but God
has a form.
That is why brother Branham
could say from his sermon 25
HEBREWS Chapter 7, Part 1HEB 292-25 -- 57-0915 2E
“Now, the reason that there's a
difference between God and Jesus: Jesus had a beginning, God had no
beginning; Melchisedec had no beginning, and Jesus had a beginning.
But Jesus was made liken unto Him.
Now, here's the thing I
want to bring out in this message.
Brother Branham is telling us here that the very fact that Jesus had a
beginning and God did not have a beginning shows that there is a difference
between the two of them right there. Now, we are told that Jesus had the same
in nature, and the same expression in every detail as the Father, but notice
that brother Branham says here that One was God, (the One that is the Father),
and the other one (the one that is not God) was the Son of God, and the Son of
God is not God, but He is the Son of God. And if you make Him “God … the Son”,
then you have Two God's. Now, he quotes the Scripture that tells us He
was made like unto Him, but that does not make Him God.
HEBREWS 1:1 ¶ God, who at sundry times and in divers
manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these
last days spoken unto us in Son, whom He (God) hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom also He (God) made the worlds; 3 Who (The Son of God) being the brightness of His (God’s) glory, and the express image of his (God’s) person, and
upholding all things by the word of His (God’s) power, when He (The
Son of God) had by himself purged our sins, (He,
the Son of God) sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high; (That’s God) 4
¶ Being made so much better than the
angels, as he (the Son of God) hath by inheritance obtained a more
excellent name than they. (Therefore if He obtained His name by
inheritance, He did not have it to begin with, but was given that name, by His
Father.) 5 For unto which of the angels said He (God) at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?
And again, I (God) will be to him (The
Son of God) a Father, and he (the Son of
God) shall be to me a Son? 6 And again, when he (God) bringeth in the firstbegotten into
the world, he (God) saith, And let all the angels of God worship him (The Son of God). 7 And of
the angels he (God) saith, Who maketh his (God’s) angels spirits, and his (God’s) ministers a flame of fire. 8 But unto the Son he (the
Son of God) saith, Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever
and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. 9 Thou hast loved righteousness,
and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God,(whose God? The Son of God’s God)
hath anointed thee (the Son of God) with
the oil of gladness above thy(the Son of God’s ) fellows.
In the NIV translation
we read Hebrews 1:3 as follows: “The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of
his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.”
We also find in the Amplified version of Hebrews 1: 3 “He is the sole
expression of the glory of God, - the Light Being, - the out raying of the
Divine. And He is the perfect imprint and very image of God's Nature,
upholding, and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His
Mighty Word of Power.”
And I would like to add,
"This one, Who in every way resembles and
reflected the nature and will of God, laid it all down, to become like you and
I, in the form of man, En Morphe, he changed
His form to die the worst death a man could die.
PHILIPPIANS 2:6 Who, (speaking
of the Son of God) being in the form of God:
So God
has a form. 6 Who, being in the form of
God, the En Morphe of God, He
struck the vision of God. Brother Branham said, "He changed from what He was to what He is. He never changes
His nature."
From the MASTERPIECE 64-0705 79 William
Branham said, "The perfect image of the God-man, God En morphe
had changed from Supernatural to the vision. And the vision was
projected into the Image. And the Image was smitten so that
the Supernatural could taste the feeling of death,
God's perfect Masterpiece.
God in
His Son, living, breathing, and feeling the pains of rejection. Yet God is the only
immortal, and He can not die. Again in the sermon, MANIFESTED
SONS OF GOD 60-0518 88 William
Branham said, "In the
One man said to me that
William Branham made a mistake in saying that God left Jesus in the
Also from,
THE
RISING OF THE SUN 65-0418 William Branham said, "When
God looked down upon the body... (The Spirit left Him in the Garden of
Now, we know then that in
the pre-incarnate form that the Son
of God dwelt in, Paul tells us in Philippians, that He was in the En Morphe of God. He was in the form of God. Now, most people
think because God is Spirit that He has no form, but is only an eternal mind.
They think of God is some sort and shapeless cloud-like Spirit floating around.
And that thinking is error, and takes away from the person of God. Therefore,
let's see what the Bible tells us of God's form.
#1) God has a head like a
man.
Revelation 10: 1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a
cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun,
and his feet as pillars of fire: So we see God
has a head.
16
And in that head God has a mouth.
ISAIAH 40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and
all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken
[it].
DEUTERONOMY 8:3 And he humbled
thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might
make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every [word] that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man
live.
MATTHEW 4:4 But Jesus answered and said, It is written, Man
shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God.
B) Not only does God have a
mouth, but God has a voice as well.
Therefore God has vocal chords, as we would call them.
GENESIS 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in
the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from
the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
24 God has Hair on His head
DANIEL 7:9 ¶ I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and
the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment [was] white as snow, and the hair
of his head like the pure wool: his throne [was like] the fiery flame,
[and] his wheels [as] burning fire.
D) On God’s head God has a face
that has eyes and ears and even a nose.
I PETER
PSALMS 34:15 (a) The eyes of the LORD
[are] upon the righteous, (b) and his ears [are open] unto
their cry.
II SAMUEL 22:16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of
the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the
breath of his nostrils.
GENESIS 8:21 And (c) the LORD
smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his
heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the
imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; neither will I again smite
any more every thing living, as I have done.
#2) And on either side of God’s Head God
has shoulders.
ISAIAH 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
#3) And
attached to God’s shoulders, God has arms and at the end of those arms God has
hands.
PSALMS 98:1 ¶ A Psalm. O sing
unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous
things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
I KINGS
PSALMS 95:7 ¶ For he [is] our God;
and we [are] the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To
day if ye will hear his voice,
#4) And between God’s shoulders God has a
bosom,
JOHN 1:18 No man hath seen
God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father,
he hath declared [him]. Bosom = kolpos, the front of the body between the arms.
#5) And
in that Bosom The Lord God has a heart
GENESIS 6:6 ¶ And it repented the
LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
#6) And
not only in that bosom The Lord God has a heart, but below that God has bowels
as well.
JEREMIAH 31:20 [Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since
I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are
troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
#7) Which
is completion, therefore to complete God’s form, God has legs and feet.
DEUTERONOMY 23:14 For the LORD thy
God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to
deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy
camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
NAHUM 1:3 The LORD [is] slow to anger, and great in power, and
will not at all acquit [the wicked]: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and
in the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet.
And of course God has a
form. We have named all the parts which He has and when Moses got to take a
peak God would not let Him see His Face so He showed Moses His back side.
EXODUS 33:18
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy
glory. 19 And he said, I will make all
my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before
thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew
mercy. 20 And he said,
Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. 21 And the
LORD said, Behold, [there is] a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by,
that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will
cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 23 And I will take away mine hand, and
thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
Brother Branham said from
the message, ENTOMBMENT 57-0420 50 God isn't without a
body. God's got a body, and it looks like a man. Moses
saw it; others saw it, and it looks like a man.
HEBREWS CHAPTER 4 57-0901E 142-132 As we had it the other night, God in the
beginning was Spirit. And then from God went out the Logos, or the Theophany which was a form of a man called the Son of God
(prefigured). He came in earth in a body of flesh, even before He came in
Jesus Christ. Now, swallow that one once, brother. I'll prove it to you.
When Moses saw Him, he said, "Let me see Your
form, Lord." And God hid him in a rock. And when He passed by, he said it
was the back part of a man. That was that Theophany.
That's exactly. Then that Theophany had to be made
flesh, not another person, but the same Person had to become flesh to take the
sting out of death.
QA HEBREWS PART
3 57-1006 342-841 God had never become flesh yet; He was in a theophany. And Moses saw Him. Moses cried, "Lord, let
me see You." He said, "Go yonder and hide in
the rock, in the cleft. And Moses got back in that cleft; and when God passed
by, the lightning and thunders... And as God passed by, He had His back
turned like this. And Moses said It was the back of a
SIR WE WOULD SEE
JESUS 54-1205 E-12 Now, here comes Jesus,
God Himself, incarnate in His Son, Christ Jesus, tabernacled to take away sin. Notice what Brother Branham
said, here. He said here comes Jesus which is God Himself incarnated in His Son
Christ Jesus. Then what we have is Jesus in Jesus. That’s what William Branham
said in We would see Jesus 58-0612 P:55 he said, “Look. When He was here on earth, how many knows that that
was the Pillar of Fire that followed the children of
INTER VEIL
56-0121 E-8 No man will ever reach the plane that Jesus stood on. He was God,
incarnate God, made manifest here on earth in flesh to give us what God was. God
was in His Son reconciling the world to Himself. No man will ever reach
that plane. He's God's only begotten Son. Or, "In Him dwelled the
fullness of the Godhead bodily." Everything of God was in Christ. But
you have the Spirit by portion. He had It without
measure. You got a measure, like a spoonful of water out of the ocean. It's a
spoonful of the same chemicals, but not much of it.
PARADOX 61-1210 315 I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of
the living God, borned of a virgin, conceived,
God in a womb, a Tabernacle in which He would dwell in. I believe that, in
Christ, He is the incarnate God. He is God made flesh. When the Father God came
into Jesus Christ, He was the Fullness of the Godhead bodily; in Him dwells
all the Fullness. God the Father spoke the Words. Jesus said, "It's not Me that speaketh, but My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the speaking."
IS THIS THE SIGN
OF THE END SIR 62-1230E 31-1 The 7th mystery
is of God, even Christ, as the incarnate Fullness of the Godhead embodied, in
Whom all Divine wisdom and godliness is restored to man.
FIRST SEAL THE
63-0318 161-3 {301} Notice, and when this Holy Spirit that
we have, becomes incarnate to us, the One that's in our midst now in the form
of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us in the Person of Jesus Christ, we'll
crown Him King of king...?..That's right. See?
Now in getting back to our
text let me read it again, PHILIPPIANS 2:6 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: 8 And being
found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross.
AMPLIFIED: Who, although
being essentially one with God and in the form of God (possessing the fullness of the
attributes which make God, God), did not think this equality with God was a
thing to be eagerly grasped or retained: But stripped himself of all privileges
and rightful dignity so as to assume the guise of a servant or slave, in that
He became like men and was born a human being. And after He had appeared in
human form He abased and humbled Himself still further and carried His
obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross.
The Weymouth Translation says,
"Although from the very beginning He had the nature of God, He
did not reckon equality with God a
treasure to be tightly grasped. Nay, He stripped Himself of His Glory,
and took on Him the nature of a bondservant, a man like other men.
Although
in the pre-incarnate form, or as Paul says here, Although from the very beginning He had the nature of God … Who, being in the en Morphe of
God, Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God (possessing the fullness of the
attributes which make God, God), yet he made Himself of no reputation, (that word is keno the root of kenos) He emptied
Himself out. Made nothing of himself, but took on
another en morphe, the en morphe
of a man. And in that state let's see what attributes He displayed. Now, up
until the time of the incarnation as man, he never made a reputation for
Himself. He never sought His own Glory, he never was recognized as a separate
being from God because He was so One with God that He became the very out
raying of God, and yet he was a separate being from God, but He reflected God
in every detail, in nature, in attributes and characteristics, that you could
not tell or separate Himself from God. When God created, He did it through His
Son. When God guided, maintained and controlled the Universe, he did it through
His Son. The Son had no distinctive features or attributes that could be
identified as being different from the Father, and thus He appeared to be the
same being. Philippians 2: 9 Wherefore
God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every
name: And what name is that? His own Name of
course, for what other name is above all names exept
the name of the Lord God Himself.
Yet when he come to earth, in the form or en morphe
of a man, I want you to see the attributes He expressed in this form.
I have put together a list of
things which I believe show that there is a difference between The Father and
The Son.
#1) God is God and He does
not have a God. Behold O
John 20: 17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my
Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and
your Father; and to my God, and your God.
Mark 15: 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being
interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Now, this word forsaken means to totally
abandon. How could Jesus cry out that God had
abandoned Him if the Man Jesus was God? Can God totally abandon Himself from
Himself?
Matthew 27: 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli,
Eli, lama sabachthani? that
is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
John 8: 54 Jesus answered, If I honour
myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
John 10: 36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the
world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son
of God?
John 8: 54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
And not only from Jesus Himself do we
hear this talk that God is His Father, but we also hear from the Apostle Paul
that God is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1: 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:
Ephesians 1: 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
#2)
God is Not only the God of Jesus Christ but He is the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ as well. Jesus called God His Father showing there is
a difference between the two. And William Branham said Jesus
could not be His own Father.
Seed shall not be heir 65-0429B
P:45 There's where the oneness missed it; there's where the trinity missed it, both sides of the road. But the
happy medium's right in between. If God could be His own Father, if
Jesus was His Own Father, He couldn't be. And if He had another Father
besides God, and the Bible said the Holy Ghost was His Father, and if they're
two different spirits, He's a illegitimate child.
That's right. Which was the Father of Him, God or the Holy Ghost? You say one
and watch how embarrassed you're going to get. See? God was His Father.
Is that right?
Questions and answers COD
59-0628E P:113 Now, somebody said Brother Branham is a "oneness." No,
sir, I am not a oneness. I do not believe that
Jesus could be His own father. I believe that Jesus had a Father, and
that was God. But God dwelled and tabernacled IN
this body called Jesus, and He was Emmanuel: God with us. And there's no
other God besides this God. He is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. And the Name of
the Father, Son, Holy Ghost... Father: the Lord, Son: Jesus, Holy Ghost: Logos,
Spirit of God. Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Lord Jesus Christ; that's Him. And IN
Him dwelled the Fullness of the Godhead bodily.
Show us the Father 53-0907A P:96 There's only
one God. And I differ and disagree agree with the organization of Pentecost
that calls the Oneness like your finger is one. That's wrong. Absolutely, it's
wrong. God... Jesus couldn't have been His Own Father, and if God is a
Man, then Jesus was born sexual desire and not virgin birth. That settles the
whole thing. You see? If He's one like your finger's one,
then what? Then He was His Own daddy. How could He have been?
That's wrong. He had a Father, Jesus did.
Cruelty of sin 53-0403 P:73 There He died,
friendless, even forsaken by God Himself. God, and, then,
His Own Father, forsaken Him, bleeding.
Palmerworm locust caterpillar
59-0823 P:79 And you Oneness brethren, many of you get off the wrong track when you
try to think that God is one like your finger is one. He can't be His Own
Father. He can't be. But He is God. God is Jehovah, the Spirit; Christ
was the House that He dwelt in.
Revelation chapter one
60-1204M P:66 Now, at the Nicene Council, they come to two great decisions on
the... Oh, many of them in that day of the early church fathers, they had
two extreme views. One of them was a triune God, a trinitarian.
And the other one was a one God. And they both come into existence and went out
on two straight limbs, out like that. The triunity
became a place of a three-god person. The oneness became a unitarian, just as far wrong as the other one was. So
they both went on limbs, but right in here reveals the Truth. Jesus could
not be His own Father. If He had a
Father outside of the Holy Spirit, then He is a
illegitimate child and not... The Holy Ghost conceived Him, and He said God
was His Father. So the Holy Ghost and God... That's Matthew 1:18, if... The
Holy Ghost and God has to be the same Person or He had
two daddy's.
Now, that we have seen what William
Branham taught concerning the Father and the Son, let’s see what the Apostles
taught as well.
Peter:
Matthew 16: 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of
the living God.
1 Peter 1: 3 Blessed be the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto
a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
2 Peter 1: 17 For he received from God the Father honour
and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This
is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Paul:
2 Corinthians 11: 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which is blessed for
evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
2 Corinthians 1: 3 Blessed
be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
1 Corinthians 8: 6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom
are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all
things, and we by him.
Romans 15: 6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
John:
2 John 1: 3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from
God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth
and love.
2 John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He
that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both
the Father and the Son.
Jesus:
JOHN
John 14: 28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you.
If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my
Father is greater than
Well, they will quote Isaiah 9:6, so
let’s look at Isaiah 9:6 and read it for ourselves.
Isaiah 9: 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government
shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The
Prince of Peace.
Now, let’s read this one thought at a
time. For unto us a child is born. Now,
if the child is born then he had a beginning. Therefore he can not be the
eternal Father. Also, if he is born then someone had to give
Him birth. And the word born suggests several things. It suggests
pedigree or lineage. It also suggests a carrying, for the one who gives birth
had to carry this one. And it also suggests to bring
forth. So if it brought forth from someone, then there had to be that someone
there before the one that is born.
Secondly, we read, unto us a son is given: Now, if the Son is given,
then someone Greater had to give it. And we are told in
Now, let’s examine the third thought
here, and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
So
we see that he will be placed in a position of ruler-ship. Luke 1: 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, let’s examine the last portion which
deals with the name of this child, this Son that will be born. : and His name shall be called
Wonderful, (is wonderful a name? No. It is a description.) His name shall be called Counsellor,(is counselor a name?
No. It is a title.) His name shall be called The
mighty God,(is the
Might God a name? No, it is a title. ) His name
shall be called The everlasting Father, (is Father a name? No, it is
a title.) His name shall be called The Prince of
Peace (is the Prince of Peace a name? No. It is a title.) Now, there is only one name of the Ever Lasting
Father and the Mighty God and the Counsellor, etc.
And that name is Jesus. Therefore when he says, His name shall be called, we
must further look at what it means when it says His name shall be “called”.
This word “called” was translated from the Hebrew word qara which means to proclaim. So we see His
name shall proclaim the Might God, and His name shall proclaim the Everlasting
Father. Therefore, the Name Jesus
proclaims the Mighty God and Everlasting Father, for it is the Father’s name.
Jesus told us that in,
John 5: 43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him
ye will receive. That
is why William Branham
said, And how many knows that that
was Jesus in Jesus?”
And that is why Brother Branham called
Jesus a dual being.
CURTAIN OF TIME 55-0302 E-22 They couldn't understand
Him. He was a mystery, even to the Apostles. No one could understand Him,
because there was two people talking all the time.
-23 The Person Jesus Christ was talking, and God was talking in Him, also.
Sometimes it was Christ himself; sometimes it was the Father that dwelt in
Him. You see it? He--they couldn't understand some things He would say; He
talked in riddles to them.
SHOW US THE
FATHER IT'LL SATISFY 56-0422 E-36 Now, it's many
times it's been said that no man can see God at anytime, the Bible said so. But
the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. Philip, here was very
inquisitive; he wanted to see the Father. Says here He said, "I've been so
long with you, Philip, and you don't know Me?"
Said, "When you see Me you see My Father." In
other words, you see the Father express Hisself
through the Son. Him and the Father were one in the
sense that His Father was dwelling in Him, not Him doing the works; He was a
Son, Himself, the immortal, virgin born, Son of God. And then in Him was
dwelling the God the Father, expressing Hisself to
the world, His attitude towards the people. See? Well, that's how Christ and
God were one. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.
Now, He said, "When you see Me, you see the
Father, and why do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
JEHOVA JIREH 56-0429 053 "That's the reason people couldn't understand Him. Sometime it was
Christ speaking... or was the Son speaking. Other times it was the Father
speaking. He was a dual Person. He was one Man, the Son. God was in,
which was tabernacling in Him. But what did He
do? Did He go around saying, "I'm the Healer."
Very contrary, He said, "I'm not the Healer." He said, "It isn't
Me that doth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth
in Me." And in Saint John the 19th chapter when He was questioned for
passing a whole bunch of crippled, lame, withered, halt, blind people, healed
one man laying on a pallet, the Father showed Him to go there and heal. Walked
away and left the rest of them laying there, they
questioned Him. A man packing his bed on the sabbath.
Listen to what He said.
LET US SEE GOD 131 59-1129 …I
said, "He was more than... God was in Him. He was a man, but He was a dual
Person. One, He was a man; the Spirit in Him was God." I said,
"God was in Christ." She said, "Aw, no." I said,
"Look, lady, I'll take your own Scripture. He was a man, but He was a
God-man. When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He did weep like a man.
That's true. But when He stood there, straightened His little stooped shoulders
up, and said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a dead man, that'd been dead four days
come to life again, that was more than a man. Man couldn't do that. That was God
in His Son."
Now, let’s just read a few more verses
that show that God is the Father of Jesus from Jesus own words.
Luke 10: 22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the
Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
John 15: 23 He that hateth me hateth
my Father also.
John 15: 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you
friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have
made known unto you.
John 15: 1 I am the true vine, and my Father
is the husbandman.
John 14: 20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye
in me, and I in you.
John 14: 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works
that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I
go unto my Father.
John 5: 17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh
hitherto, and I work.
Matthew 26: 53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of
angels?
Matthew 26: 42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my
Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will
be done.
Matthew 10: 32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I
confess also before my Father which is in heaven. 33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also
deny before my Father which is in heaven.
John
John 15: 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I
have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
John 12: 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from
this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
John 14: 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my
sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent
me.
John 8: 16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the
Father that sent me.
John 5: 30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my
judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the
Father which hath sent me.
Luke 23: 46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into
thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
John 8:42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for
I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came
I of myself, but he sent me.
#3) We know that
Jesus came in His Father’s name. Therefore the
name of the Father was Jesus.
John 5: 43 I am come in my Father's name, and
ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Therefore the name of the Father was
Jesus, the same name given to the Son. Now, we have already quoted a couple
times where William Branham said it was Jesus that was in Jesus. He said, “Jesus
in Jesus.” Now, I am not trying to trick you here, that is what he said. The Apostle Paul said, God was IN Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. He did not say God was Christ,
but God was In Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:
19 To wit, that God was in
Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses
unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Paul did not teach that Jesus was the
Fullness of the Godhead, but he taught that IN Him dwelt the fullness
of the Godhead. Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the
Godhead bodily.
Peter did not teach that the Holy Ghost
was Jesus, but he gave witness that God the Father spoke and said that He came
down and dwelt IN His Son. 2 Peter 1:
17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from
the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, IN whom I am
well pleased. And brother Branham interpreted this as God saying
that He was pleased to dwell in His Son, and so we must also.
Godhead Explained 61-0119A P:56 The Spirit of
God, like a dove, descended and a voice from heaven (which was above Him)
saying, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am pleased to dwell."
(Really, the right translation... They got the verb before the adverb, like all
the foreigner is... "This is My beloved Son,
in whom I am pleased to dwell in." Or, "Whom I am pleased to
dwell." "In Whom I am pleased to dwell." )
That was God coming into Jesus, and in Him was the fullness of the Godhead
bodily.
John 10: 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that
I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
#4) Jesus prayed to the
Father. JOHN
#5) The Son of God could
learn which means He was not Omniscient as God is
Omniscient and Knows all things.
HEBREWS 5:7 Who in the
days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong
crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard
in that he feared; 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience (to
come under subjection) by the things which he suffered; 9 And being
made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that
obey him; (learn is to increase ones
knowledge, and obedience shows submission). He learned to come under
subjection.
Now, if this young man was
God, then how could he increase in anything. God is
all knowing yet in MATTHEW
24:36 Jesus said, But of that day and hour knoweth no
[man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only, showing The Son did not possess Omniscience.
#6) He was made perfect or
mature and complete. This means that the
Son of God could change in His stature, wisdom and maturity. God can not change
(Mal 3:6 and Hebrews 13:8)
LUKE
#7) The Son is in
subjection to the Father. I CORINTHIANS 15:28 And when all
things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject
unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
#8) Jesus had set aside His
Glory that He had with the Father in the beginning, and was dependent upon the
Father to restore it to Him again. JOHN 17:5 And now, O Father,
glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before
the world was. This tells us that he had it but stepped aside from it, and now is
asking for it to be restored to Him again.
Most notable is the fact
that He stripped Himself of all privilege when he came to earth to take on the
form of man, and emptied Himself out completely and took on the nature of a
bond-slave.
The Weymouth Translation says,
"Although
from the very beginning He had the nature of God, He did not reckon equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped. Nay, He stripped Himself of His Glory, and took on Him
the nature of a bondservant, a man like other men.
And as a bond
slave, the main attribute expressed is that of submission to the will of the
slave owner.
#9) Jesus was dependent
upon the will of His Father HEBREWS 10:7 ¶ Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the
book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering
and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest
not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are
offered by the law; 9 Then said he,
Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will
we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for
all].
#10)
Jesus could not so anything unless the Father showed Him first. JOHN
5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, The Son can do nothing of himself, (then he can not
create, he can not save, he can not heal, he can not redeem,) but what he
seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. 20 For the Father loveth
the Son, and sheweth him all
things that himself doeth: and he will shew him
greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
JOHN
#11) Jesus was dependent on
the Father for His doctrine as well. JOHN 7:16 Jesus answered
them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but
his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the
doctrine, whether it be of God, or [whether] I speak of
myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his
own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent
him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
#12) The Father sent the
Son. I JOHN 4:1 ¶ And we have seen and
do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour
of the world.
JOHN 5:36 But I have greater witness than [that] of John: for the
works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear
witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. 37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me,
hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen
his shape.
#13) God raised up Jesus
from the dead.
ACTS
ACTS 4:10 Be it known unto
you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] by him doth
this man stand here before you
ACTS 5: 30 The God of our fathers
raised up Jesus, whom ye slew
and hanged on a tree
ACTS
GALATIANS 1: 1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ,
and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
#14) The Son receives Life from the
Father
JOHN 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given
to the Son to have life in himself;
#14) The Son is not sovereign.
In
JOHN
Now,
it is very apparent here that Jesus is telling the Jews that he is helpless
unless the Father shows him what to do. He says, the
Son can do NOTHING. Then the son cannot save, he cannot heal, he cannot redeem,
he can do nothing, unless shown by the Father what to do. These are not the
words of One who is Sovereign. But God is Sovereign.
God is Omniscient and Omnipotent.
1.
One who is sovereign answers to no one.
2.
One who is sovereign reigns supreme above all.
3.
One who is sovereign is completely independent of all others.
Therefore,
the Son of God is not and was not Sovereign, for He was completely dependent
upon the Father to act and to speak. He did not have his own words, nor his own actions, nor his own doctrine, and he subjected
His own will to the Father. I challenge you to make a chart that lists these
three attributes of Sovereignty, and then take any Scripture that speaks of the
Son of God and check yes or no to whether he displays the attributes of One Who
is Sovereign, and the answer is you can’t find one Scripture speaking of a
Sovereign son. You will find scripture for an obedient son, but never any
Scripture of a son who is sovereign. It
is God that indwelt that Son that is sovereign. God is Omniscient, and God is
Omnipotent, but the son was always dependent upon the Father for everything
including; speaking, acting, His doctrine, and even submitting His own will to
the Father’s will.
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Scriptural
references |
Attributes
of Sovereignty |
Sovereign |
Sovereign |
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YES |
NO |
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John 5:19 The Son can do nothing but what the
Father shows Him |
Answer to no one |
|
X |
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|
Reigns above all |
|
X |
|
|
Completely independent |
|
X |
|
John |
Answer to no one |
|
X |
|
|
Reigns above all |
|
X |
|
|
Completely independent |
|
X |
|
John |
Answer to no one |
|
X |
|
|
Reigns above all |
|
X |
|
|
Completely independent |
|
X |
|
John |
Answer to no one |
|
X |
|
|
Reigns above all |
|
X |
|
|
Completely independent |
|
X |
|
John |
Answer to no one |
|
X |
|
|
Reigns above all |
|
X |
|
|
Completely independent |
|
X |
|
Hebrews
5:8 Though
he were a son he learned obedience |
Answer to no one |
|
X |
|
|
Reigns above all |
|
X |
|
|
Completely independent |
|
X |
And
what about "Father, I would that you take this
cup from me, But not My will but Thine be done",
etc. Those are not words of one who is sovereign. We could continue with this
study using many more scriptures, in fact all Scriptures concerning the Son of God,
but I’ll leave it up to you to try it yourself.
JOHN
In
the next verse we find Jesus again explaining how it works. JOHN
Now,
let’s continue reading what Jesus says concerning this unique relationship he
has with His Father. JOHN
JOHN
So
how can we refuse Him that speaketh when He is only speaking the words of the Father. Now, let’s get back to JOHN
5:23 That all men should honour
the Son, even as they honour the Father. He
that honoureth not the Son honoureth
not the Father which hath sent him. Now, first we want to point out
that Jesus tells us if we do not give Him honor then we cannot honor the Father
that sent Him.
That
again ought to tell you that He is saying, since everything the Son doeth, the
Father has shown Him first to do, then we should honor Him even as we
honor the Father.
In
honoring the Son we are honoring the Father, because the Son is only doing what
the Father has instructed Him to do. Thus what we see being done is the Father
working and the son working hitherto. Thus in giving honor to the son we are
acknowledging the Father’s preeminent role, and the son’s role of complete
obedience to the Father.
Now,
in reading the next verse, we must remember that the Words Jesus is speaking He
had first learned from the Father to say. JOHN 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my
word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not
come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. We find
Jesus clarifying this in JOHN 14:10b The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but
the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Notice he is
saying, these are my Fathers words, not mine. This is
identical to what we had read in various other Scriptures so far, and should
need no further elucidation.
JOHN 5:25 Verily, verily, I
say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the
voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. And
why is He saying this? Because He has already established that His Words, and
thus His Voice is nothing short of an echo of God’s own Words and thus God’s
own Voice. And He explains that in the next verse. 26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given
to the Son to have life in himself; Notice then that the very Life
that Jesus had was given to Him by one greater than Himself. His Life came from
the Father. And thus the Father who is the giver of Life.
Now,
in moving forward we find Jesus say in verse 27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also,
because he is the Son of man. Remember, we had read earlier in verse
22 that the Father had committed all judgment unto the Son to execute, and we
had stated that this was an ability to be likeminded with the Father. Notice in
this verse Jesus tells us the authority to do so was also given Him by the
Father, because He is His Son. John 5:28 Marvel not
at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear
his voice, 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the
resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of
damnation. 30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I
judge: and my judgment is just; Why? because I seek
not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. There
you have it. Jesus can judge because God, His Father knows that he will only
judge what God has already judged. He said, I have not
come to do my own will but the will of the father which sent me. Then he says, 31 ¶ If I bear witness
of myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that beareth witness of
me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
In
verse 56 we find out Who the witness is, Jesus is
speaking about. And if Jesus is consistent in what he has been telling them,
then it has to be His Father that He is speaking about as we see in JOHN 5:36 But I have greater witness than that of John:
for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I
do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. 37
And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye
have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. 38 And ye have
not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent,
him ye believe not.
Now, let’s stop for
a moment and look at
another scripture that Jesus is speaking of this Judging. Let’s turn to JOHN
Now if Jesus considered Himself to be One
with God in that way, why would he speak these words? But they could not see
His Father because they did not understand what He was talking about. And so
they looked for one that can not be seen, and missed seeing that He was living
in His Son.
Now, in getting back to John
14:8 we read, Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you,
and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that
dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11 Believe
me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the
very works' sake.
Obviously
from what we have seen so far, Jesus is not saying here that He and His Father
are one like your finger is one. But what He is saying is that the same Word
that is in the Father, is abiding in Him and that makes Him one with the
Father. Brother Branham further clarified this in the sermon,
SHOW US
THE FATHER IT'LL SATISFY 56-0422 E-36 Now, it's many
times it's been said that no man can see God at anytime, the Bible said so. But
the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. Philip, here was very
inquisitive; he wanted to see the Father. Says here He said, "I've been so
long with you, Philip, and you don't know Me?"
Said, "When you see Me
you see My Father." In other words, you see the
Father express Hisself through the Son. Him and the Father were one in the sense that His Father was
dwelling in Him, not Him doing the works; He was a Son, Himself, the immortal,
virgin born, Son of God. And then in Him was dwelling the God, the Father,
expressing Hisself to the world, His attitude towards
the people. See? Well, that's how Christ and God were one. God was in Christ
reconciling the world to Himself. Now, He said,
"When you see Me, you see the Father, and why do
you say, 'Show us the Father?'"
Again
in the sermon, He
Swore By Himself 54-1212 we can find William
Branham clarifying that this is what was meant by Jesus when he spoke to
Philip. He said, "I and My Father are One. My Father
is in Me." Said, "Show us now the Father." Philip said, "Showeth me the Father
and it'll satisfy me." Said, "Philip, I been so long with you, and you don't know Me?" He said, "When you see Me, you see the Father.
And why say, 'Show me the Father.' I and the Father are One.
My Father's living in Me now. It's not Me that doeth the works; it's Him that dwells in me,
that does the works." Oh, my.How could I tell a man what was wrong with him? How
could I tell him what his future will be ten years, or what he was forty years
ago? It isn't me. Hallelujah. It's Him that lives in me, that come down,
that through His Blood brought me in fellowship with Him. Hallelujah. How could
my hands do anything by healing the sick? It hasn't got a bit of power. It's
not me. But it's Him that dwells in here that does it.
And
since three is a witness, let me share one more quote with you where William
Branham further elucidates my point that Jesus and God were one by reason of
the Father abiding in Him, directing Him by His Word. CONFERENCE
60-1125 E-73 When
He said, "It's not Me that doeth the
works. It's My Father. He dwelleth in
AS
I WAS WITH MOSES 51-0503 E-15
When Jesus of
GIFTS
56-1207 E-29 Now, in
Christ dwelt the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. He had all the Spirit of God
in Him. "I and My Father are One," said Jesus.
That's the reason the people couldn't understand Him. Sometimes He'd say
something, might look like He turn around and say
something different. It was Him speaking, then the Father speaking. See? They
were... And even the disciples could not understand Him. And right at the last,
they said, "Lo, now speakest
Thou plainly. Now, we believe by this if you know all things; no man needs to
teach you." Jesus said, "Do you now believe?" After all that time, they couldn't get the... Why? That sometimes He'd
say this and then say that. It was Him and the Father speaking. E-30 Now, notice
closely. Now, God dwelling in Christ used His voice to speak by. Jesus said in
His miracle, "Verily, verily, I say
unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing,
that doeth the Son likewise." Is that
right?
SUPER
SIGN 59-1227M 86 When
He was here on the earth, He proved that He was God, proved that God was in Him,
because the signs of God followed Him. He said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me
not. But if I do the works of My Father, if you don't believe Me, believe the works, the sign": Immanuel. "I and My
Father are One. My Father has sent Me.
And as He sends Me, so send I you. The Father that sent Me is with Me; He's
in Me and doing the works of Himself. It's God in flesh."
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US THE FATHER AND IT WILL SATISFY 60-0731 E-15
"The works that I do, shall you also." And seeing the same results by human beings so submitted to
God, until the Holy Spirit can work through those human beings just like the
Holy Spirit worked through Jesus, Who just has confessed that, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth
in Me. He doeth the works.
It's not My words; it's His words."... See? He was so submitted to God.