The LOGOS Section II
The
Greek word LOGOS means "the expression of thought," or "concept which
we get our word conception from. The idea of conception not only directs our
minds toward creative thought, but also toward life itself or the beginning of
Life. In St. John 1:1 God is called the Logos or Word. God's thoughts, being
eternal and real must come to pass in their designated season and time. His
thoughts are only attributes of Who He is as a person or being, and express His
innermost nature, and character, in
essence Who He is. The Bible is God's story of Himself unfolding or as Brother
Branham said, becoming, from the Eternal Spirit dwelling alone with His
thoughts, through the spoken Word, to the manifestation of what He is in the
Form of flesh, declared and manifested through His Son. By the manifestation of
Himself, the Word, or Logos, He displays His glory and deserves worship in
those who love His appearing.
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.
The
following Scriptures give us an appreciation of the nature and purpose of God
as He has revealed Himself to man using a mask of various different forms but
of which all express the same nature, thus revealing the very nature and
purpose of God.
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him
in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the
bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will
now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when
the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto Him out of the midst
of the bush, and said, "Moses, Moses." And he said, "Here am
I." And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians,
and to bring them out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land
flowing with milk and homey... (Exodus 3:2-4,8.)
Behold,
I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into
the place which I have promised. Beware of Him, and obey His voice, provoke Him
not; for He will not pardon your transgressions: for My Name is in Him (Exodus 23:20-21.)
For the
Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God (Deuteronomy 4:24.) God came from Teman, and the
Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth
was full of praise. And His brightness was as the light (Habakkuk 3:3-4.) Who coverest Thyself with Light
as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain (Psalms 104:2.)
Bless
the Lord, O my soul, O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with
honor and majesty. Who coverest Thyself with Light as with a garment: who
stretchest out the heavens like a curtain (Psalms
104:1- 2.) He revealeth the deep and secret things: He knoweth what
is in the darkness, and the Light dwelleth in Him (Daniel 2:22.)
I the
Lord have called these in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will
keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the
Gentiles (Isaiah 42:6.) For our
God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29.)
No man
hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the
Father, He hath declared him (John 1:18.)
And unto
the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; these things saith the amen,
the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God (Revelation 3:14.) 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 (Colossians, 1:15-17.)
Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His Person (Hebrews 1:3.)
And now,
O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine Own self with the glory which I had with
Thee before the world was. I have manifested Thy Name unto the men which Thou
gavest Me out of the world (John 17:5-6.)
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 (Ephesians 3:9.) In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The
same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without
Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life and the life was the
Light of men (John 1:1-4.) 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 (John 8:12.)
The
following quotations were taken from sermons by William Branham, God's end-time
prophet Whom God vindicated to be the Elijah of Malachi 4:5-6 and the seventh
angel messenger of Revelation 10:7. Here we see and hear him expound the Logos in these quotes.
Questions
& Answers on Genesis - 53-0729 13-13. Well, now, if you'll notice close now, in
Genesis 1:26, let's get the first part first. God said, "Let us make man
in our own image." Of, 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. But when God made His first
man, if you noticed, He made Him in the likeness of Himself, He was made in the
image of God. And what is God? Now, if we can find out what God is we can find
what kind of a man He made.
Now in
St John, the fourth chapter...23rd and 24th verse. All right. Ye worship...
(that's it)... Ye worship and you know not what: we know what we worship: for
salvation is of the Jews, (and that's right, see)... But the hour cometh, and
now is, that the true worshippers (Jew or Gentile) shall worship the Father in
the spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Now, the
next verse is where I want: God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth.
Now, if
God created man in His Own image and in His Own likeness, what kind of a man
did He create? A spirit man. Now, if you'll notice, after He had made all the
creation, and created a spirit man, the close reading of this now (to the one
that asked the question) will find this, that God give dominion of the cattle
and the fishes and everything to the man. But, in His making up there, He made
man in His Own image to lead the cattle, lead the beasts of the field, just
like the Holy Spirit leads the believer today. See?
He was,
in other words, Adam, the first man in the lower creations of God. The first
creation was God Himself; then 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.
Oh, I
got a beautiful picture in my mind now, if you can take a little trip with me.
I believe I've talked on it before, but to get this to the place where you'll
be sure to see it. Now, let's take a little trip and go back for a little
while. Now, don't think about how hot it is, let's get our minds right on what
we're going to talk about and think now.
Let's go
back a hundred million years before there ever was a star, moon, or anything in
the world. Now, there was a time when there wasn't nothing here, it was just
all forever and Eternity. And all of ever and Eternity was God, He was there in
the beginning.
Now,
let's go out here on the edge of this banister and look over and see these
things happen.
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," 1st... 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, Who covered all space of all places at all
times. He was from everlasting from everlasting, He is the beginning of
creation. That's God. Can't see nothing, can't hear nothing, not a move of an
atom in the air, not nothing, not no air, no nothing, but yet God was there.
That was God. (Now let's watch for a few minutes, and after a while...) No man
has seen That, now, That's the Father. That's God, the Father.
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.
But 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 ... part of God begin to
develop into something so human beings could have some type of an idea what It
was. Was a little, low ... or 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.
Now, in
St. John 1, He said, "In the beginning was the Word." And the
first... "And the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us." God unfolding Himself, down to a human being. Now watch how He
did it.
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." And when He did, an atom bursted and the
sun came into existence. She whirled for hundreds of millions of years, forming
clinkers, and burning, and forming like it is today: still burning, still
breaking atoms.
Questions
& Answers on Genesis - 53-0729. 17-41 Then, now we get in
Genesis 1, we get to the Bible now, and out of our picture at the Bible.
Genesis 1, "The world was without form, and void; and water was upon the
face of the deep." Is that right? "And the Spirit of God moved upon
the water." Now, He separated the water, brought up the hills and the
lands and so forth; dried it off. Vegetation and everything, He made it. And He
made the moon. And set its boundaries, of the sea, so it could not pass.
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."
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). He manifested or
unfolded Himself a little more, to make a trinity of Himself by Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit. 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 God out there... The voice of man, rather,
could speak and say... call the cattle this way, call the sheep over in this
pasture, call the fishes to this water. See, he had dominion, everything obeyed
him
Questions
& Answers on Hebrews - 57-1006. 339-74 Now when He (the
Logos) went out of God, which was God coming from this one big fountain into a
body in the form of a man; and it made the Logos, which we call theophany.
Now, if
you take the theophany when you are looking at that, that's a man. Now, that's
where we were in the beginning. Now, you do not understand it now, but you was
back there in the beginning that way. When God made man in His image, He made
him a theophany. And He only placed him in flesh ... When God made man in His
image, in His likeness, they were ... In Genesis 2, there were ... or Genesis
1:28, I believe it is, "There was no man yet to till the soil," and
God had done made male and female. That's right, "No man to till the
soil."
Then God
brought man a little lower down and put him in animal life, that's this body,
just like the animals so that he could till the soil, could touch. That
theophany doesn't touch, it doesn't see, taste, smell, hear; these senses that
we have. So God put man down there in order to touch and to feel.
And as
he walked through the Garden of Eden, first as a theophany, (like the Holy
Spirit is in here now walking in here), it led the animal life. It controlled
everything, but it couldn't till the soil, see. So God put him in flesh so that
he could till the soil. Give him his five senses, to till the soil and fix up
the vineyards and so forth, and then the man still looked lonesome. Oh, this is
a beautiful picture.
Look,
for when he was first made, he was made two people together. He was made both
male and female, the man was. The Bible said he was. God made man both male and
female, "created He him." Notice now, when man was separated from the
theophany and put in flesh, he wasn't just altogether there; part of his being
was still a theophany, so it didn't look right.
Questions
& Answers on Hebrews - 57-1006. 21-129
Now, here's what happened. Oh... Excuse me; I--I--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 the--by--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
Hebrews
Q & A 273-385 And the body... In the first
place, when God, the Logos that went out of God... Or, as I have went through
it, the Catholic call It, "the eternal sonship of God."... Which as I
have said before, the word doesn't even make sense. See, there cannot be an Eternal son, because a son
had to have a beginning. And so Jesus had a beginning, God had no beginning.
See? But the Son that was with the Father in the beginning was the Logos that went
out of God. And it was the theophany of God that went out, the human form that
didn't have eyes like you see: a better eye. It didn't have ears like you hear,
but a far more hearing. See? It was a Theophany, that all this rainbow
condescended into a--a Theophany. Moses saw It when It passed through the rock
like that. He saw the back parts, said, "It looked like a man." Abraham saw Him when He stepped down into
human flesh and eat a calf,
Who
Is This Melchisedec 95- 65-0221 2E Now, the true revelation of Melchisedec comes into view was--that
He was God, the Word, before He became flesh, God the Word. 'Cause He had to
be; no one else could be immortal like Him. See, I had father and mother; you
did too. Jesus had father and mother. But this Man had no father or had no
mother. Jesus had a time He started; this Man didn't. Jesus gave His life; this
Man couldn't, because He was Life. And it's the self same Man all the time. I
hope God reveals it to you, the self same Person all the time.
Notice
His title, King of righteousness. Now, Hebrews 7:2: King of righteousness and
King of peace. He's two Kings. Now watch! Hebrews 7:2, King of righteousness,
also the King of peace. He's two Kings there. Now, since He has come in the
flesh and received His body up, in Revelation 21:16 He's called the King of
Kings. He's all three of them together. See? King God, King Theophany, King
Jesus; He's the King of Kings. It's all met, just like soul, body, and spirit.
All comes to make one.
Also He
is the Father which was the first, Son, and Holy Ghost, the Spirit. King of
righteousness, the Spirit attribute; theophany, King of peace, theophany; and
in flesh He was King of Kings - same Person.
When the
theophany ... Moses seen Him, Exodus 33:2, He was a theophany. Moses wanted to
see God. He'd heard His voice, heard Him talk to him, seen Him in a bush there
with a big Pillar of Fire. And he said, "Who are You, I want to know Who
You are?" Moses said, "If You'll let me see You... I'd like to see
Your face."
He said,
"No man can see My face." He said, "I'll put My hand over your
eyes, and I'll pass by. And you can see My back, but not My face." See?
And when He did, it was the back of a Man; it was theophany. Then the Word that
come to Moses, I AM; that was the Word. The Word came to Moses in the form of a
Pillar of Fire in a burning bush, the I AM.
Hebrews
- 57-0901 2E 144-146 In the beginning was the Same. He was that great
Spirit Fountain where all the trueness, all the love, all the peace, everything
that was pure was in this Fountain. It begin to form a body, a theophany, the
kind of body that we go to. Not a glorified body, but an angelic body like; has
shape, form.
I
Have Heard But Now I See 65-1127 2E Could you think, church, that
you're looking with your own eyes... the Living Word of God made manifest (the
promise of the hour, in the last days), looking with your own eyes at the
Living Word being interpreted in natural form, God among us!
Discerning
the Body of The Lord - 59-0812 19-7
Who was the I Am? - that burning Light that was in the bush
that talked to Moses? He is the same Jesus tonight. That's a statement, isn't
it? I challenge that, challenge any believer to believe it.
Discerning
the Body of The Lord - 59-0812 17-5
That same Angel is here. A witness before Sodom and Gomorrah's
destruction - goes to destruction
Deceived
Church by the World - 59-0628 1M But
as Israel was bound by their kings, that they could not follow the real King;
and the real King, when He came, they didn't recognize Him. So is it today, O
Lord, the King of Glory has appeared in the form of the Holy Ghost, and, Lord,
they don't know it. They don't recognize it. They're so organized so tight,
that they do not understand it, because it's not in their organization. Lord,
this is a work of the Devil that's done this to the people.
Discerning
the Body of the Lord - 59-0812 19-3 How many knows that Jesus today, is a Pillar of Fire that
followed the children of Israel? "I came from God, and I go to God."
Is that what He said? And when Paul met Him on the road down to Damascus. What
was He? The great Light, the Pillar of Fire. He is the same One today and the
Holy Spirit of God. The Body of Jesus sits at the right hand of God on His
Throne in Heaven, but His Spirit is here on earth completing and finishing His
work. And that same Spirit that lived in the Body of Jesus Christ was the same
Spirit was in that Angel that come to Sodom and Gomorrah. Do you believe that?
The same One that followed the children of Israel, the same God
The
Third Exodus - 63-0630 1M And today, what we have among us, this great Holy Spirit is more
than a prophet. It's God manifested among us with His Word to prove it. Does
more than a prophets--thousand times more than the prophets do. Elijah, the one of the greatest prophets of
the age only done four things supernatural in all his life of eighty some
years. And Elisha, with a double portion done eight, and we've seen thousands
times thousands with our own eyes! Look at The Angel of the Lord in a Pillar of
Fire. Scientific search taken it to the world, knowing that their going to be
judged by it. What did that Lamb do?
That Angel of the Lord, which was Christ. You believe it
Is
Your Life Worthy - 63- 0630 221 When the Gospel of Jesus Christ can be preached and proved and
the God of Heaven in the form of His Pillar of Fire wave over the people and
show that Jesus Christ is in the last session of His coming, giving them the
last sign, and laugh at It and make fun of It, and call themselves church
members, and then say they're not neurotics? Explain that. My time just keeps
on going. But just ask if they're not neurotics. Sure, they're educated
neurotics. That's exactly!
The
Evening Messenger - 63-0116
68 Now, if you notice,
the Holy Spirit fell on the Eastern people first. Then we've had a time of just
church-joining and little ends to be picked up, and little causes to be fought
for. But then in the evening time, on the Western hemisphere, it shall be
Light. And we're at that time now!
Jehovah
Jireh #II - 62-0706 152 What was it? God getting Sarah and
Abraham ready to receive the promised son. Showing that the next thing after
the manifestation of this Angel of God, the Holy Spirit showing His last sign,
the next thing, this mortal takes on immortality and we're caught up in the air
to meet the promised Son, Abraham's royal Seed
Who
Is This Melchisedec - 65-0221 2E 101 See, there was God in a theophany, and the Bible said the Word
comes to the prophet. And here was the--the Word in the theophany... Now, you say, "Was that God?" Abraham
said it was ... He called Him Elohim. Now, in Genesis 1 you find out, "In
the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth." In Genesis 18 we
find out that Abraham called this Person that set there and talked to him, and
could tell him the secrets of his heart, tell him what Sarah was thinking
behind Him, Abraham said, "It is Elohim." He was in a theophany form.
You get it?
Third
Exodus - 63-0630 1M 40-3 God chose in the days of the exodus, He
called out a group and out of that group... I won't you to notice something. He
only got two, that went to the promised land. What did He choose to take them
out by? Politics? Organization? He chose a prophet with a supernatural sign of
a Pillar of Fire, that the people wouldn't be mistaken. What the prophet said
was the Truth. God came down in a Pillar of Fire and vindicated Himself, showed
His Word.
Third
Exodus - 63-0630 1M 41-4 By scientific proof, by the witness of
the Spirit, by the works of the Spirit, we see it today, the great Pillar of
Fire moving among us. And the signs and wonders of the resurrection of Jesus
Christ calling the people from denominationalism into the presence of Jesus
Christ to live - going to a land. There's no mistake, friends; it's not what
I'm saying; I'm just your brother; but it's what God's proving to you, what
makes it the truth. Same Pillar of Fire He used for the other two, He's brought
it among you today and proved it by scientific.
Deceived
Church by the World - 59-0628.1M 87
He's here. That same Holy Ghost, that One was on the Messiah, still
on His Church. He never leaves. "I'll be with you always, even in you, to
the end of the world. I'll be there
Who
Is This Melchisedec - 65-0221 2E 44And this that comes among us
as a Pillar of Fire, as something that changes our hearts, that is the same God
that said, "Let there be light," and there was light! He's the same
yesterday, today, and forever
The
Indictment - 63-0707 8-5 We
ask you, maybe if you can, to get the message on The Third Exodus, the third
time that the Light, the Angel of the Lord, that has called the people to an
exodus, has visibly showed Itself on earth in an exodus. See?
Future
Home - 64-0802 73-1 That
same Pillar of Fire is here with us. Are you aware of it? He has made some us
for one thing and some another. If you'll without one doubt believe that He's
in the midst of the building, I believe He will prove Himself to you. Will it
satisfy you? If I don't get to everyone (it's going on two o'clock), but if
you'll (it's a little after one o'clock, rather)--if you'll believe, let Him
ascend down upon us. Where is our faith? You got to believe that. You don't
doubt it one bit; it's going to work. I
recognize the divine Presence of the Being of Christ, Who is the Word
The
Evening Messenger - 63-0116 63 And,
by the way, has anybody ever heard them tapes on the Church Ages? On the last
time I had those Ages drawed out there on the blackboard, and the Heavenly
Father knows this is true, when I completed it with the best I could, under the
inspiration that God would give me, that Angel of the Lord that you see in the
picture (many have seen that picture, haven't you, that Light?), It came right down
in the room, before about three hundred or four hundred people, went right over
on the side of the wall (as a Light like that) and drawed those Church Ages by
Itself
The
Evening Messenger - 63-0116 64 Everyone
sitting there, screaming and everything else, I said, "There! Now, you've
wanted to see It, everybody can look right at It." Eleven o'clock in the
day, standing right there on the wall, and drawed off those Church Ages,just
which much Spirit, and then the darkness to show that the Spirit was smothered
out and went through the Dark Age and come right back down again, just the way
I had it drawed
Fourth
Seal - 63-0321 84 Now look at the promise of the
last days. And here we see it vindicated right before us - the present coming
of the Holy Spirit and the works that He was supposed to do, and we find it
right among us.
The
Breach - 63- 0317 2E 40 At
the sounding of the Seventh Church Age, the last Church Age, all the loose ends
that through these Church Ages have been probed at, will be wound up together.
And when the Seals are broke and the mystery is revealed, down comes the Angel,
the Messenger, Christ, setting His foot upon the land and upon the sea with a
rainbow over His head. Now remember, this Seventh Angel is on earth at the time
of this coming.
Just as
John was giving his Message, the same time that Messiah come in the days. John
knew he would see Him, because he was going to introduce Him. And we realize
that in the Scriptures over in Malachi 4, there's to be a one like John, an
Elijah, to whom the Word of God can come to, and he is to reveal, by the Holy
Spirit, all the mysteries of God and restore the faith of the children back to
the faith of the apostolic fathers - restore back all these mysteries that's
been probed at through these denominational years (ie. The Logos.)
The
Third Exodus - 63-0630 1M 45-1 That was a burning Fire, that
Pillar of Fire in the bush. When He died and rose on the third day, and Saul
met Him on the road down, He was back to that Pillar of Fire. Said, "I
come from God and I go to God." When Peter was in prison, that Pillar of
Fire come in and opened the doors and took him on the outside, that's right.
Where did
that Pillar of Fire lead them? Now, remember, Moses was not the Pillar of Fire.
He was the anointed leader under that Pillar of Fire, and the Pillar of Fire
only vindicated his Message with signs and wonders. And that Pillar of Fire led
them to the land that God promised them, where He, Himself, would be made flesh
among them some day. Is that right? What did they do? Murmured and squirmered
and everything else to show it was under the blood of an ordinary lamb.
But,
this time - Glory to God! - the Pillar that we see among us, the Pillar of Fire
will lead us to the Millennium, where He will return to His people in that
great Millennium reign after this exodus, where we'll live eternally with Him
Questions
& Answers - 61-0112 560-319 Look, one night Peter was in
prison. They had a prayer meeting down at John Mark's house, see. And so the
Angel of the Lord come in, that Pillar Fire, a Light come down, and Peter
thought he was dreaming when he seen this Light come to him. It... The Bible
said, "It was a Light." See? And I believe It's the same One with us,
see, He come down. And we get in the same trouble, maybe the same thing would
happen. See?
Christ
Is the Mystery - 63-0728 92-1 That great Angel of the
Covenant, that One Who was with Moses in the wilderness, that One Who come to
Paul on the road to Damascus, that same One permitted His picture to be taken
with us; the same One that was in the picture in the Life magazine the other
day, the same Word by the same God, through the same channels, by the same way,
by the same promise. "Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, I am
there in their midst." Then He's here. "The Angels of God are
encamped about those who fear Him," that hangs only to His Word. No man
can respect that Word without fearing God.
Then here
He is in here this morning with us as we worship Him in the Spirit. Oh, since a
hard Message like this, I think we just ought to worship Him a little bit in
the Spirit. See? Just close your eyes and let's sing that to Him again, "I
love Him, I love Him."
Discerning
The Body of the Lord - 59-0812 16-5
That Angel of God Who came to Sodom, He come and He is
promised. Remember, that same Angel came. Anyone knows that that was God. It
wasn't that body, because the body was dust.
Who
Is This Melchisedec - 65-0221 2E 88 Then after you recognize the
very Word of God was Eagle Food, then you left the other thing. You've then
been formed into the living image of the Living God. You heard from your
theophany. "If this earthly body be dissolved, we have one waiting."
Who
Is This Melchisedec - 65-0221 2E For
he said, "Why did you call me out of my rest, seeing you become a enemy to
God?" Watch him prophesy. "Tomorrow night by this time you'll be with
me." He was still a prophet, though he was gone from this body. See, he
become here and was part of that Word, and he entered from the flesh life back
into the body that had been prepared for him before the foundation of the
world. He entered into the theophany which was the Word. You get it? That's
where all believers go when we turn from here. Then in that form the veil then
is lifted. You see you are the Word also when you enter into there. As a little
baby as I said awhile ago...Now, notice. Praise God for these opening Seals is
my prayer, to know these things.
Now, the
true revelation of Melchisedec comes into view was - that He was God, the Word,
before He became flesh, God the Word. Cause He had to be; no one else could be
immortal like Him. See, I had father and mother; you did too. Jesus had father
and mother. But this Man had no father or had no mother. Jesus had a time He
started; this Man didn't. Jesus gave His life; this Man couldn't, because He
was Life. And it's the self same Man all the time. I hope God reveals it to
you. The self same Person all the time
How
the Angel Came to Me - 55-0117 73-5 And I set down on this little
stool. And I just sitting, oh, kind of in this position, just like that. And,
all at once, I seen a Light flicker in the room. And I thought somebody was
come up with a flashlight. And I looked around, and I thought,
"Well..." And here It was, right out in front of me. And old wooden
boards on the floor. And there It was, right in front of me. And a little old
drum stove sitting in the corner, the top was tore out of it. And right in here
there was a Light on the floor, and I thought, "Well, where's that? Well,
that couldn't be coming"
I looked
around. And here It was above me, this very same Light, right there above me,
hanging right like that. Circling around like a fire, kind of an emerald color,
going, "Whoossh, whoossh, whoossh!" like that, just above It, like
that. And I looked at That, and I thought, "What is That?" Now, It
scared me.
And I
heard somebody coming, [Brother Branham imitates someone walking - Ed.] just
walking, only, it was bare-footed. And I seen the foot of a Man come in. Dark
in the room, all but right here where It was shining right down. And I seen the
foot of a Man coming in. And when He come into the room, walked on up, He was a
Man about... looked to weigh about two hundred pounds. He had His hands folded
like this. Now, I had seen It in a Whirl-wind, I had heard It talk to me, and seen
It in the form of a Light, but the first time I ever seen the image of It. It
walked up to me, real close
How
the Angel Came to Me - 55-0117 80-1 And the Angel stepped into the Light again that begin to come
around and around, and around and around, and around His feet like that, went
up into the Light and went out of the building. I went home a new person.
The
Third Exodus - 63-0630 1M 45-3 Let
this great Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ, in the form of God, thought it
not robbery to become equal with God. Now, He's a Pillar of Fire in the same
form that He was back there bringing that first exodus, bringing the second
exodus, and here He is with the third exodus.
The
first exodus, what did He do? He brought them out of a natural land to a
natural land. The second exodus, He brought them out from a spiritual condition
into a spiritual Baptism of the Holy Ghost. Now He is bringing them from a
spiritual Baptism of the Holy Ghost, right back into the Eternal Land of the
Millennium and the great hereafter. Same Pillar of Fire by the same anointed
system, the same God doing the same things.
Jehovah
Jireh #II - 62- 0706 126 You've had speaking in tongues, dancing
in the Spirit. You've had all these sensations, and you have seen miracles of
healing, and wheel chairs, and so forth. We've seen all of that. But here,
here's the last sign done come up now. Abraham seen all kinds of things God did
for him along the way, sure, but here comes the last sign, just before the
promised son come. And now the royal Seed is looking for a promised Son.
Hallelujah! Are we, are we looking for a promised Son? The Son of God to
return! Hallelujah! Oh, that makes me feel like shouting. Look! The royal Seed
is looking for a promised Son. As Abraham did down through the years, watching,
holding onto that Word, so has the royal Seed. And the Seed watching for this
coming Son, the coming of the Lord, through one watch, two watch, three watch,
on to the seventh watch, and here we are still looking for the royal Seed. And
what do we see just before the Coming? Of the Lord? What takes place? God comes down in our midst, showing the royal Seed
like He did Abraham's seed; and Abraham, and Abraham's seed, and here It is
with the royal Seed. God dwelling among
us in the form of the Holy Spirit, doing the same things He did back
there, performing, showing it's the same.
Adoption
#IV - 60-0522 2E 180 And what is it when you're way out there in redemption,
with a brand new body, you've turned back to a young man altogether again, or a
young woman, you're never going to die no more. And you look down on earth, and
think, "I could enjoy some grapes and some good cold water, but, you know,
I don't need it here." But someday Jesus is coming, and this angelic body,
this theophany that I'm living in, will not come through the womb of a woman
anymore, it'll not come through sexual desire anymore; but because that He was
born without sexual desire, I'll be resurrected without it, and He will speak
someday and the dead in Christ shall rise, and that body that I once lived in
will resurrect into a glorified body, and I'll walk and I'll talk, and I'll
live and I'll enjoy life (hallelujah) throughout the glorious ages that is to
come through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Hebrews
Ch 5&6 #I - 57-0908 1M 170-130 And we find the Pillar of Fire
led the children of Israel. And when It was made flesh here on earth, we hear
Him talking one day, and He claimed that He was the Pillar of Fire. They said,
"You say that you're greater than our father Abraham?" He said,
"Before Abraham was, I AM." Who was the I AM? The Pillar of Fire in the
burning bush, a perpetual memorial through every generation; not only that
generation, but this generation (the same Pillar of Fire). And we're thankful
this morning, that we even have the picture of It, that He has not changed.
He's the Immortal, Eternal, Blessed One! He does the same things now that He
did then, and how happy it makes us feel.
But
before Paul would accept this experience ... Knowing that the Angel of the Lord
was the Pillar of Fire, which was Christ, the... Well, He was the Angel of the
Covenant, which was Christ. Moses chose rather to suffer the afflictions with
the people of Christ, and to be led by Christ, than all the treasures of Egypt.
He followed Christ, which was in a form of the Pillar of Fire.
Then
Christ said, "I came from God," (when He was here on earth) "I
go back to God." After His death, burial, resurrection, glorified body
setting at the right hand of the Majesty to make intercession, Paul saw Him as
the Pillar of Fire again. A Light that put his eyes out, almost. Smote him
blind.
Peter
saw Him come into the jail as a Light, and open the doors before him as he went
out, We find out that He was the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.
And here
He is with us, today, doing the very same things that He did then, making
Hisself visible back to us, showing it to the scientific world.
Who
Is This Melchisedec - 65-0221 2E 78But when it comes forth from the
womb, God breathes the breath of life into it. And then he screams out. See,
just as sure as there is a natural body being formed, there is a spiritual body
to receive it as soon as it gets here.
Then
when a man is borned again from Heaven, he becomes a spirit babe in Christ. And
then when this robe of flesh is dropped, there is a natural body, theophany - a
body not made with hands, neither born of a woman - that we go to. Then that
body returns back and picks up the glorified body. That's the reason Jesus went
to hell when he died and preached to the souls that were in prison. Turned back
into that theophany. Oh marvelous, thank God.
II
Corinthians 5:1 "If this earthly body be dissolved (this earthly
tabernacle), we have another one." See, we have bypassed that to come
straight from God, the attribute, to be flesh to be tempted and tested by sin
like Adam did. But when testing of His Word is over, then we are taken up to
this body that was prepared for us before the foundation of the world. It is
the Word there that we skipped to come right around down here to be tempted and
tested. If we'd have come through that, there'd have been no temptation; we'd
knowed all things. That's the reason Jesus knowed all things, because He was
Word before He was flesh. Then we become the Word. Here we are formed to the
Word image to be a partaker of the Word, feed on the Word, by being
predestinated since the beginning.
Who
Is This Melchisedec - 65-0221 2E 58 St. John the 1st chapter and
the 1st verse. Notice, this is in the beginning, but before the eternal.
Notice, in the beginning was the Word. When the time begin it was Word, but
before it was Word, it was attribute, a thought. Then it was expressed. In the
beginning was the expression, the Word. Now, we're getting where Melchisedec
is. That's this mysterious Person. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. And then the Word became flesh and dwelled
among us. Hold that there now.
Notice.
His first being was Spirit, God, supernatural (all right?), the great Eternal.
Second, He begin to form Himself towards flesh in a theophany, it's called,
"the word, a body." This then is the state He was in when He met
Abraham, was called Melchisedec. He was in the form of theophany.
He was
the Word. A theophany is something that you could not see. It could be right
here now, yet you cannot see it. It's just like, well like television, that's
in another dimension. Television... People are moving right through this room
now singing; there's colors also, but the eye is only subject to the five
senses. Your whole being is only subject to five senses, rather. And you are
only subject to what the sight has been limited to see. But there is another
dimension that can be seen by a transformation by television.
Now,
television does not manufacture a picture. A television only channels it into a
circuit, and then the television screen picks it up. But the picture's there to
begin with. Television was here when Adam was here. Television was here when
Elijah set on Mount Carmel. Television was here when Jesus of Nazareth walked
the shores of Galilee. But you're just now discovering it. They wouldn't have
believed it back there. You'd have been crazy to have said something like it.
But now it's become a reality! And so is it that Christ is here! The Angels of
God are here! And someday in the great Millennium to come it'll be just more
real than television or anything else, because they are here!
Marriage
and Divorce - 65-0221 1M 5-1 And now, that was the Pillar of Fire
that led the children of Israel, was the Lord Jesus Christ in Spirit form. Do
you believe that? The Logos that went out of God. And then when He was on earth,
He said, "I come from God and I go to God.
(Hebrews Ch 2 #III - 57-0828.) Now, watch: He took
not... the nature of angels;" (Now who's "He," he's talking
about? Christ. Who's Christ? God! The Logos of God.)
And now
the Logos that went out of God, which was the Logos, all this begin to form
into a body-shape. And this body-shape was called, in the scholar's teaching,
"Logos." The Logos that went out of God. In other words, a better
word for it was a... what we call a theophany. Theophany is a human body that's
glorified. Not exactly with flesh and bloodlike it will be in it's glorified
stage, but it is of a form of a human body that doesn't eat, neither does it
drink, but it's a body. A body that's waiting. God put a soul in a man and He
didn't put it in the animal, because the soul that was in the man is that
theophany.
Questions
& Answers - 64-0823 2E 105 1019-105 And now, what was that other question? I get so wound up in these,
I forget what the things were. One of them was, "Was I the Son of
man?" and... Here it is I believe. "... the Son of man or was the Pillar
of Fire the Son of man?"
No. The
Pillar of Fire is the Anointing. The Pillar of Fire... Now, this may go a
little deep unless it's some of you theologians, Dr. Vayle, probably Brother
here, and some of these ministers here from Arkansas, and the--my good friends
around, they'd probably know.
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 Eden. Then that Logos become flesh and dwelt among us; and
where this Logos dwelt in a human body, which was the Sacrifice...
Questions
and Answers 1019-108 Now,
this Logos that was in Him, which was the Spirit of God, the Anointing, through
the sanctifying grace of the Blood, brought many sons to God, which is anointed
with this same Logos.
Now, on
the day of Pentecost It come down, that Pillar of Fire, and broke apart like
that, and tongues of fire set upon each of them, not their tongues, but tongues
of fire set upon each of them, a elected, selected group, identified by this
Pillar of Fire, showing that God had separated Himself into man. Do you get it?
God, the Logos, separating Himself into man! God, not in one person, He's in
His Church universal. That's the reason Jesus said, "The works that I do
shall you also, more." Now, I know the King James says,
"greater," but the right translation there is "more than this
shall you do." God was bottled and confined in one Man, Jesus Christ. But
now He's bottled and confined in the whole universal Church of the Living God.
Right
now while God is here speaking with us in our hearts, He's in Africa, He's in
Asia, He's in Europe, He's in England. Wherever believers are gathered
together, there He is in the midst of them.
Now, after
His death, burial, and ascension, and the coming of the Holy Ghost, Paul on his
road down - which was Saul - to Damascus, he was struck down by a Pillar of
Fire, the Logos. And that Jew would've never called that Pillar of Fire,
"Lord," unless he knew It was the same Logos that his people followed
through the wilderness. See? Now, that was not the Son of man, that was the
Logos. Now, we say this with reverence, and love, and respect. See? As Jesus
Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, and also that in the last days,
as it was before Lot's time, or in Lot's time in Sodom, so shall it be in the
day that the Son of man reveals Himself again, revealing Himself. Now, in this
last day the Logos that was upon Jesus - which He has become from that back to
the Pillar of Fire again and has descended down on the earth to (I was going to
say something, but I watch the tape. They wouldn't believe that if you told
them. It wouldn't make any difference. They... People wouldn't believe it, but
I'll omit that) - but has come down for, like an investigating judgment goes
on.
Sirs,
Is This the Time? - 62-1230 2E 10-3 When the Light, which you see on
the picture tonight, that's been proven to be a Supernatural Being by
scientific research...To me it was the same Light that struck down St. Paul. Is
the same Light that led the children of Israel, by night. Did you notice, here,
this Angel, He was clothed in a cloud. See, He was a cloud by day.
A Man Sent From God I
am a helpless human until I feel His presence.
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