The Great Redeemer Pt.7 – The Secret of Enoch’s Translation
I PETER 1:18-21
18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; (God didn’t have to part with a 1000 tons of gold in order to redeem us – that would have been far too easy and cheap for Him)
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: (This was the greatest price of what God could have possible paid in all the universe. The price a person pays shows what they consider the value of the thing that is being purchased – like someone bidding at an auction for a great piece of art, the price that the bidder is willing to pay reflects how valuable the piece of art is personally worth to them. - The current value of the Mona Lisa painting is suggested to be around $850 million dollars. Brother Branham speaks of the violin that sold at auction for over ten thousand dollars of which they could only get a single dollar bid to start with until the master revealed its true value. So God paid the greatest price of anything in the universe in order to redeem us back to Himself – and that was by the price of the life of His own blood)
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world (The plan of redemption was in the heart of God before creation ever came into existence. He was a Redeemer, and so He had to make a way to express this attribute of what He was so that His great character could be comprehended by man), but was manifest in these last times for you,
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.
(We are trusting in something far more valuable than silver and gold – the blood of the Lamb of God. God values each one of us extremely highly)
LUKE 18:7-8
7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
As message believers, we have witnessed this event of the coming of the Son of Man’s visitation in our generation. People want God to sort out the mess and right all the wrongs, but what He is really looking for is a certain specific revelation to be in existence in the heart of a people on earth.
HEBREWS 11:5-6
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
In every age, the faith that God is looking for is when a people come into a maturity of the revelation that God has sent for their age.
The Great Redeemer Pt.7 – The Secret of Enoch’s Translation
HEBREWS 11:5-6
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
**What pleases God the most, is when a person is able to fellowship with God in the light of a true realization and understanding of God’s true character and nature.
*Worship can only be received by God from the heart of a man when the knowledge of the true character of God has been placed within that person’s heart, only then can a man worship God within truth and in the right spirit of that truth.
JOHN 4:24
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
And so this is what God is seeking from within the heart of man, God is looking for a certain level of the depth of the revelation of Himself in the hearts of people on earth, and access to the fullness of that can only come through the channel of the 7th angel of Revelation 10:7.
**This is why that our maturity in this hour is to come into the fullness of the clarity of what Christ has revealed Himself to us for this age.
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31 And Jesus said that to weed down His crowd, see, till He could get the group together. And out of all those people, they, only eleven of them then understood actually Who He was. They knowed that He was God, and God alone. Now, the...
32 My subject this morning is to reveal, or, unveil that God.
33 God has always, in every age, has hid behind a veil, all ages, but He's been God all the time. See? But He's kept Hisself hid from the world, and reveals Hisself to His Elected, like the apostles at that day.
*From last week were saw how that Enoch walked with God in fellowship all the way into the full revelation of the mighty God being unveiled before Him for his day, and this was how he was able to go on to write that revelation of what God had placed in his heart down in the language of the pyramid.
*That same revelation of what Enoch had in his heart (of what he please God by) has come back to us again in these last days by the message of the hour. **And so if that revelation of God (that Enoch had) is also in us, then it will also translate us – That is the secret to Enoch’s tranlation.
**Enoch knew about what was in the back part of God’s mind of the attributes of God as being the great redeemer.
*Enoch also knew that the secret of how to leave this world was to walk with God in perfect fellowship and agreement with the revealing of the word of God as it was being revealed to him by God.
**Enoch knew that it was eating something that had caused the fall in Eden, and so it required eating something again to restore back that which was lost in Eden.
REVELATION 10:9-10
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
*So, like Enoch, we are walking in fellowship with God by our agreement with the truth that He has sent to us in this day by a vindicated prophet. This was the secret of Enoch’s translation, and it is also the secret to our translation for this time.
JOHN 1:1-3
1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (A word is a thought that has been converted into another form, from the invisible realm of a thought into an audible realm of a spoken word. And so those audible sounds of words being spoken become a conduit for certain thoughts to be transferred to another person’s thinking and become the same thoughts in that person.
Words are birth by the seeds of thoughts, and then those words are able to be transferred back into thoughts again in the minds and hearts of others. That is why the new birth comes by the revelation of the word, it is not an emotion, it is a revelation of truth that has been anchored by God into your mind and heart.
*So a word that has been spoken by someone is able to transmit the unseen realm of the thoughts of that person into another person’s thoughts, that is why that in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to SOUND, the mystery of the thoughts of God would become known by being transferred by the sound of that voice into the minds and hearts of an elected people.
*Before there was the word, God dwelt alone with His great thoughts, nobody knew what God was thinking. Was He a mean and evil God, or was He merciful and loving, nobody knew.
*If we are able to imagine a time of when there were no atoms, there were no molecules, there were no flowers, there were no birds, there were no trees, and there had never even been any words spoken yet.
Nothing had ever yet been created into flesh by the spoken word of God, and God was a complete mystery because not one of God’s thoughts had ever been spoken into word form yet that could be understood by another, but yet all of these things of what God was and what we were to be we already in existence in His great thinking, and even all that would ever be throughout eternity was already in their entirety formed in His great thoughts then.
**And so the beginning (as we would know it) was when the word was spoken. But before that beginning, God dwelt with His thoughts of everything of what He was and what would be, but His purpose was to be known and to be understood by others, because for a person to be unknown and unexpressed is a very lonely thing – and this was God’s condition in that He was lonely, because nobody knew Him of who He was – there was no one for God to talk to)
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.
Before the beginning, God hadn’t expressed any of His thoughts about creation yet – he is just the eternal spirit that dwell alone with His thoughts. He hasn’t expressed about how many planets there are going to be, or the size of the universe, or how many species of botany life there will be on the earth, or how many species of marine life, or bird life, or animal life.
There is no expression of any of these things yet, but right back then before time had ever begun, in His great mind, the Lamb was already slain, and our names were already placed in the book of life to be revealed in the last days.
EPHESIANS 1:4
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
**So redemption is not an afterthought of God, it was a part of His thinking from the beginning – and so you and I were a part of His thinking then.
**Many people have the idea that God created the heaven and the earth and then man fell; so now God has to try to repair the damage of the mistake that Eve made, so redemption is a type of damage control as if His plan had gone wrong and then He has to somehow work out a way to fix it – but not so, it was all in His great thinking before the world began, but He kept the mystery of the understanding of this great plan a secret until this last age.
MATTHEW 13:34-35
34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
**The revelation of these hidden secrets that have been revealed to us in these last days is meant to govern and influence our lives by keeping us under the effects of this great love of which God has made known to us. Our faith is designed to operate from out of the knowledge and revelation of His love toward us and of who we are.
*Remember the story of the African slave who knew that he was the son of a king – it was this knowledge of who he was that caused him to conduct himself different from all the other slaves.
**Knowing who you really are will change the way you conduct yourself.
REVELATION 5:1-3
1 ¶ And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? This is a request for a kinsman redeemer, because the book pertains to the lost inheritance and posession of a lost world, and so this kinsman must be of financial wealth in order to be able to pay the redemptive price. An angel couldn’t do it, it has to be a human being, a kinsman who is able to pay the price by law to take back the book of the deed of the ownership of what had been lost - this was how the law in Israel concerning a kinsman redeemer was.
When it says, “And Boaz went up to the gate, and Boaz had to do this, and then Boaz had to say, “I have purchased such and such,” all this was a part of the legal process of redemption of the customs and laws of God. Boaz had to go in the gate of the city, and he had gathered the elders because there had to be public witnesses. This was the law and the custom in Israel – but God was showing us something far greater of the redemption of fallen man.
3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
*All the Old Testament laws and customs in Israel were showing us of the one great redemption of which is the redemption of what was lost in the Garden of Eden.
*All the many types and shadows pertaining to redemption of all the laws of redemption was so that we would be able to understand how God was going to become a kinsman to man and to redeem back that which was lost.
And only the Kinsman who has paid the full price has the right to that book, because that book pertains to a purchased possession.
***So God was showing the mystery of Himself as the Great Redeemer all through the history of the bible, but then the reason God put the book of Revelation in symbols is because He didn’t want to give it to everybody - it was being written with the intent to only to be opened up in the last days to a special class of people because it was God’s hidden secret that had belonged to Him alone of that He was only going to share it with His Bride in the last days.
*So all of these scenes come together to form this symbol here in the book of Revelation. All the shadows and types through the bible, it was God slowly letting out the great mystery of Himself down through the ages, because the mystery of God is so great that if God give it all in one time, the human mind couldn’t receive it.
REVELATION 5:6-9
6 ¶ 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.
7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
*So this one scene here in Revelation 5 is a combination of many types in the Bible
We know that the Lamb of God was our high priest that was to do the work of a mediator and Intercessor, but you don’t find that detail written in the book of Ruth, you have to go back in the book of Leviticus to find that of where the high priest on the day of Atonement would go into the sanctuary and into the Holy of holies and would sprinkle the mercy seat with seven drops of blood, and then after he does his mediatorial work, he comes out.
*So when you look back in the Old Testament, you see the Redeemer (Boaz) in the midst of the elders in the book of Ruth of where Revelation 5 says, “And this Lamb came and stood in the midst of the elders.”
But then when you see Him taking this book in Revelation 5, you don’t see that detailed in the book of Ruth, it may be inferred there, but you don’t find it.
And you also don’t read anything about a scroll in the book of Ruth, all Boaz said was that “I have purchased this day all that Naomi had and all that Elimelech had and all that Mahlon had; I have purchased it”, but the book of Ruth doesn’t give the details of how the purchasing takes place. But when you go to Jeremiah, it describes the purchasing details and it describes the deed – and so this is why only a part of the picture is in Ruth, so then you have to look for the other parts that are in Leviticus and in Jeremiah and so on – and all of this was symbolized in Revelation CH:5.
**So God had a way that He wanted us to know Him so that we could start to see Him from the angle that He wanted us to see Him from. Because the way you see God is the way you are going to relate to Him, and if the way you relate to Him is not in the truth of His true character, then because of your wrong concept that you have of God, then you won’t be able to have fellowship with Him in the right way, and so you cannot please Him. But Enoch had this testimony before he was translated, that he pleased God.
Opening Scripture:
I PETER 1:18-20
18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
**When creation was being brought into existence by God, it was with the thought of redemption.
If God had not wanted the fall to happen, then He would have made it so that the serpent’s seed would not have mixed with the woman’s egg.
*When God made the man in His image and likeness, He didn’t first make Adam and Eve like the animal kingdom with both male and female created together separately. He did it different for man. Adam spent a certain amount of time alone and feeling lonely with Eve unexpressed within him, and so God then put Adam to sleep and took a rib and began to make the woman.
And so we notice that God built Eve from the feet all the way up to the head: the feet, the foundation like Paul; the calves like Irenaeus, the thighs like Martin, the belly like Columba, the chest like Luther, and the neck like Wesley, the mouth speaking in tongues like the Pentecostals, and then the eyes like the Prophet to this last generation. And so the Bride of Christ is built up in Seven Church Ages from the feet to the head.
**But when this woman that God presented to Adam fell, then we see how that Adam gave his life in order to redeem her back – it was the fall of Eve that pulled the redemptive character out of Adam.
**So we notice that it was the fall of the woman (Eve) that made the man Adam a redeemer. The fall of Adam’s wife pulled a redemptive nature out of him that was displayed by Adam giving his life for Eve.
**It was Ruth that pulled the redemptive character out of Boaz.
**And it was the fall of man that revealed God’s great character as a redeemer - The Great Redeemer.
***The fall of man drew and displayed the redemptive nature and character of God out of the heart of God.
**Sometimes we think we understand these things, but the reality is that the depths to these things are unfathomable.
The Bible tells us that if all the things that Jesus did was written, the world could not contain the books.”
That’s why we need to meditate on these things like Mary did in her heart in order to bring our minds and souls up into the presence of God of where we can fellowship with God in this realm of heavenly places. That is when the Spirit of God can teach us and guide us into all truth, and then the word becomes clear, and then that produces a faith and a revelation in your heart that pleases God, and then His great purpose of being understood is being fulfilled by you and in you. God is now being understood at the deepest level of His thoughts and character by His end time bride – and then your testimony will be that just before the translation of this hour, you also will have the same testimony that Enoch had, that you pleased God also.
**Enoch pleased God by the true revelation that he had of God’s character and purpose - that was the secret of Enoch’s translation, and that is the secret for our translation in this hour also.