The Mysteries of God Revealed
MATTHEW 13:10-17
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
(Whenever Jesus tells a parable, then there is always a mystery of truth hidden underneath that parable)
12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. (The more revelation of the word you have, the more God will build on top of that revelation)
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. (Notice that God imparts understanding to some and yet purposely keeps it hidden from others)
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
(That is certainly what we can say in this age of when all the mysteries of the word have been opened to an end time people)
REVELATION 10:7
7 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 Mysteries of God Revealed
Almost everyone loves a good mystery story. A story with a mystery attached to it gives it a far greater level of interest to keep you reading to find out what happens and to solve the mystery.
*Human beings are born with a natural passion to ask questions and to solve questions and to understand the mysteries of the universe and of quantum mechanics, and to somehow discover the theory of everything – we want to know everything because God made us that way for a purpose.
*This is why the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was so tempting to Eve, because there was such a mystery attached to it, she wanted to know about it, but there was far greater mystery attached to God of the great mysteries of His great eternal being and truth that would have satisfied her in a far greater way.
*We are now living in an age of where many scientific mysteries that have never been understood before since the world began have now become known to man, and so there must also be a parallel in the spiritual realm of the mysteries of God to be understood in this age also, because science only parallels what God is doing in the spiritual realm. Like Elon Musk wanting to go to Mars - that is showing us that there is also another people getting ready to leave planet earth, not in a spaceship, but in a rapture.
**So we want to try to understand why it was so important to God that all these mysteries of God that he had kept hidden from the beginning of time should be revealed to a people in these last days – what is it all about? Why is it so important for this end time age?
*We could say that well, Isn’t it good enough to know that Jesus died on the cross and that we are saved from sin, and to know that when we die we will go to heaven, what could be greater than that, why would we need more than that because Jesus is all you need - right?
**And this is about where most denominations stop, because that makes sense to most religious people, and most don’t really want to go any deeper than that because they are more interested in mysteries of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil then they are about understanding the mysteries of God?
***Firstly - to answer that question in a nut shell. Faith for basic salvation and then faith to fulfil a prophecy for this end time hour of a body change and rapture is two very different things.
**There has to be a word released of a mystery reveal to us in this hour in order to release a faith upon us to fulfil what God has promised for this time to get us off the earth.
The mystery of the rapture is a revelation that has to be given to a people in this end time age.
**We are spiritual scientist mixing the chemicals of the word in order to produce an energy of faith to lift us off the earth, not in a rocket ship, but in a rapture.
13-4 THE.REVELATION.OF.JESUS.CHRIST - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.1
The importance of revelation by the Spirit to a true believer can never be over emphasized. Revelation means more to you than perhaps you realize. Now I am not talking about this Book of Revelation and you. I am talking about ALL revelation. It is tremendously important to the church. Do you remember in Matthew 16 where Jesus asked the disciples this question,
"Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am?
And they said, Some say that Thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but My Father Which is in heaven.
And I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
The Roman Catholics say that the church is built upon Peter. Now that is really carnal. How could God build the church upon a man so unstable that he denied the Lord Jesus and cursed while doing it? God can't build His church upon any man born in sin. And it wasn't some rock lying there as though God had hallowed the ground at that spot. And it isn't as the Protestants say, that the church is built upon Jesus. It was the REVELATION. Read it the way it is written: "Flesh and blood hath not REVEALED it, BUT MY FATHER HATH REVEALED IT, and UPON THIS ROCK (REVELATION) I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH:" The church is built on Revelation, on the "Thus Saith the Lord".
How did Abel know what to do in order to offer a proper sacrifice to God? By faith he received the revelation of the blood. Cain didn't get such a revelation (even though he had a commandment) so he couldn't offer the right sacrifice. It was a revelation from God that made the difference and gave Abel eternal life. Now you might take what the pastor says, or what the seminary teaches, and though it might be taught to you with eloquence, until God reveals to you that Jesus is the Christ, and that it is the blood that cleanses you, and that God is your Saviour, you will never have eternal life. It is the Spiritual revelation that does it.
Notice that it’s not a spiritual sensation that does it, but it’s the spiritual revelation that does it, when the word for your age is made clear to you by the spirit of God - that is the rock.
If the word for this day has been revealed to you and made clear to you, then flesh and blood did not teach you that, that can only come by the spirit of God, and that is the evidence of the new birth according to the scriptures.
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234 What is the new Birth then? You'd say, "Well, Brother Branham, what is the new Birth?" It is the revelation of Jesus Christ personally to you.
**This is what we are to ask God to give us – don’t ask Him to give you a sensation, but ask Him to give you a revelation of the word by the Holy Spirit overshadowing your life and leading you into all truth for this age.
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195 …The evidence of the Holy Ghost is when you can receive the Word; not some system, but have a clear understand.
REVELATION 10:7 opening scripture
7 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.
This word “mystery” is the Greek word “musterion” {moos-tay'-ree-on} meaning: hidden thing, secret, mystery; generally mysteries, religious secrets, confided only to the initiated and not to ordinary mortals - a hidden or secret thing, not obvious to the understanding.
THE.FIRST.SEAL_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318
127-3 {68} Takes the Book and... of Seals and breaks them and shows the seventh angel, for this alone, the mysteries of God, is the ministry of the seventh angel.
**Brother Branham was told to do the work of an evangelist until the time came for him to fulfil Revelation 10:7 and revealed the mysteries to the elect of this age of what God had given to him. “the mysteries of God, is the ministry of the seventh angel.” - this is a key quote in the message.
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74-1 {39} Now, but it--it is a Book, a mysterious Book. It's a Book of Redemption. (We'll get into that in a little while.) And now, we know that this Book of Redemption will not be thoroughly understood: it's probed at through six church ages, but at the end, when the seventh angel begins to sound his mystery, he winds up all of the loose ends that these fellows probed at, and the mysteries comes down from God as the Word of God and reveals the entire revelation of God. Then the Godhead and everything else is settled. All the mysteries: serpent's seed and whatever more is to be revealed.
***Look at what he is saying – “Then the Godhead and everything else is settled. All the mysteries: serpent's seed and whatever more is to be revealed”.
THE.FIRST.SEAL_ JEFF.IN MONDAY_ 63-0318
127-4 {68} Now, remember, in the days of the seventh angel, his sounding forth, blasting forth the Gospel Trumpet, he is to finish all the mysteries of God.
*So as believers of the message of this hour, we need to know why it was so important for God to reveal these mysteries to us in these last days, especially if that was the whole purpose of the ministry of the seventh angel. “the mysteries of God, is the ministry of the seventh angel.”
327-1 LAODICEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.9
Now this messenger of Malachi 4 and Revelation 10:7 is going to do two things. One: According to Malachi 4 he will turn the hearts of the children to the fathers. Two: He will reveal the mysteries of the seven thunders in Revelation 10 which are the revelations contained in the seven seals. It will be these Divinely revealed 'mystery-truths' that literally turn the hearts of the children to the Pentecostal fathers. Exactly so.
***So all the truths of what God kept secret until this last age, when these truths are made known to the elect for this age, then that is what will turn our hearts back to the faith of the Pentecostal fathers fulfilling the scriptures of Malachi 4.
***This is why as ministers of the message, if we are not preaching these mystery truths of this age, then we are not preaching the message of the hour that will turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers, and then we won’t be preparing our people for rapturing faith, and then we’ll end up fulfilling the foolish virgin portion of Mathew 25 and not the wise virgin portion.
*That is why for me personally - when I listen to other message ministers preach, I listen carefully for those mysteries to be preached as an underlying theme during the preaching of the word, and if there is no mysteries being revealed by their ministry, then I have a little question mark about that because what then is the difference between them and a good denominational preacher.
*Some denominational preachers can preach really good sermons, but they don’t preach from an opened book of where these mysteries have been revealed in this age by the seventh angel messenger – but it will take these divinely revealed mystery truths to fulfil the promise of God for this hour.
IS.THIS.THE.SIGN.OF.THE.END.SIR_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-11 SUNDAY_ 62-1230E
30-3 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." The greater mysteries and the great mysteries are:
31-1 Number 1. The mystery of the Kingdom of heaven. That's the one we are talking on now, 13... Matthew 13:3-15.
Now, 2nd mystery is the mystery of Israel's blindness during this age: Romans 11:25 with the context.
3rd--3rd mystery is the mystery of the translation of the living saints at the end time of this age: I Corinthians 15 and also Thessalonians 4:14-17.
The 4th mystery, of the New Testament church as One Body, composed of both Jews and Gentiles: Ephesians 3:1-11, Romans 16:25, and also Ephesians 6:19, Colossians 4:3.
The 5th mystery is of the church, as the Bride of Christ: Ephesians 5:28-32.
6th mystery is of the living Christ, same yesterday, today and forever: Galatians 2:20, and Hebrews 13:8, many places like that.
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.
(For some reason brother Branham skips this 8th mystery which Schofield writes in his notes: (8) the mystery of the processes by which godlikeness is restored to man 1Tim 3:16.
*This is the mystery of how God and man were one in the beginning and is also to be one again with man at the end and throughout eternity)
9th mystery is the mystery of iniquity found in II Thessalonians and so forth.
The 10th mystery is of the seven stars of Revelation 1:20 (that of course is the seven church age messengers – this mystery has been made known to us in this end time). We just been through that. The seven stars are the seven churches, the seven messengers, and so forth.
And the 11th mystery is mystery Babylon, the prostitute: Revelations 17:5-7.
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 Pentecostals thought it came by sensation, but the real truth is that the person of Christ comes into you by the revelation of the word and not by a sensation. It’s not an experience of a sensation on your outer realm, but it’s by an experience of a revelation of the word being revealed to you in your soul, and you receiving it like how Mary received it)
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 Israel, the same one that struck down Saul on his road down to Damascus. And the same One, coming with the same power, doing the same things, and revealing the same Word, staying word by word with the Bible.
*I thought it would be good for us (over the next few weeks) to take these mysteries one by one and look at them in the light of the revelation of the message of this hour starting with serpent seed (Lord willing) next week.
**As message believers, we all know about the serpent’s seed, and that it was the seed of the serpent who (at the beginning) was not a reptile but an upright beast at the time of him putting his seed into the womb of the virgin Eve by a sexual act.
*It was this act that produced the first hi-breading of a specie that was birth into the world that never originated from the thought of God, and that is why Cain, even though he loved God in his own way, he couldn’t humble himself to the revelation of that day because he never came from the original thought of God at the beginning – in other words, he couldn’t receive the word because he never came from the word at the beginning.
***That is why the evidence that your origin is from God is that you can receive the word for your day and not the fruit that you can present to God, because Cain had plenty of fruit that he could present to God, but he could not receive the word when it was made plain to him.
Every original thought of God was an original seed that was to bring forth after its kind and was never to be mixed with another seed.
*So we all know these basic truths about the serpent seed - but then there is something of this subject that we want to look at that the message reveals to us at a deeper level, because these basic facts of what took place in the beginning between the serpent and Eve has actually been known by many since the time of Adam, and so there must be a deeper mystery attached to this subject of the serpent seed that would not be fully revealed until this last day – and so may the Lord help up to look into these things so that it will help our faith to climb higher.
Scofield Reference Notes of Mathew 13
(1) The mysteries of the kingdom of heaven Mt 13:3-50.
(2) the mystery of Israel's blindness during this age Rom 11:25 (with context);
(3) the mystery of the translation of living saints at the end of this age 1Cor 15:51,52 1Th 4:14-17.
(4) the mystery of N.T. church as one body composed of Jew and Gentile Eph 3:1-11 Rom 16:25 Eph 6:19 Col 4:3.
(5) the mystery of the church as the bride of Christ Eph 5:28-32.
(6) the mystery of the inliving Christ Gal 2:20 Col 1:26,27.
(7) the "mystery of God even Christ," i.e. Christ as the incarnate fullness of the Godhead embodied, in whom all the divine wisdom for man subsists Col 2:2,9 1Cor 2:7.
(8) the mystery of the processes by which godlikeness is restored to man 1Tim 3:16.
(9) the mystery of iniquity 2Th 2:7 Mt 13:33.
(10) the mystery of the seven stars Rev 1:20.
(11) the mystery of Babylon Rev 17:5,7.