Weapons of Deception Pt.3
ESTHER 1:19-20
19 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
20 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
When queen Vashti refused to come into the presence of the king (which we know is a prophecy of this last Pentecostal Church age refusing to come into the further light of the word of this hour), we find that there was a publishing system in the land that was able to convey information very quickly to the entire nation of people that lived at that time. And so this ability to convey information at such a mass level had power to influence and sway the thinking of the entire nation of people.
And so this was effectively a weapon of mass influence that could be used for either the good or for the bad influence of a nation.
REVELATION 12:9
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
**The technology of publishing information was the conduit that allowed Satan to be able to deceive the whole world.
Weapons of Deception Pt.3
ESTHER 1:12-20 (Pick this story up a little clearer)
12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
14 And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
15 What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
16 And Memucan answered before the king and the princes (notice how that he is the seventh of the princes which saw the kings face – a type of the seventh angel’s ministry of this end time age), Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
17 For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
18 Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
19 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
20 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
**This scripture is dealing with the problem of a woman of influence being placed as an example in front of the entire nation, and how that the way she acted would have the power to influence the thinking of the entire nation of woman with the result of changing their behavior towards their husbands and effectively breaking down the family structure and destroying the entire nation.
And so this seventh prince realized that this was a very powerful weapon of deception that would damage the structure of the family and in turn damage the entire nation.
**And so just as we see how this seventh prince was dealing with this problem (at the time of when Esther was about to come into marriage with the king), we see that in this last generation that the seventh angel is also dealing with this same problem of the influence of woman of them being used to influence and change the thinking of the entire world at this time of when the end time bride is coming into a marriage with the King also. This influence of the example of immoral woman in our modern society is why the ministry of Brother Branham hit out so often against this in so many places in the message.
THE.SERPENT'S.SEED_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-4 SUNDAY_ 58-0928E
4-2 So look here, if their mother was a chorus girl, and... Their grandmother, and her mother was a flapper, what's she today? A rock-and-roll striptease. What's her children going to be?
WHY.ARE.WE.NOT.A.DENOMINATION_ JEFF.IN V-11 N-7 SATURDAY_ 58-0927
137 …Boy, one ill-famed woman can send more people to hell than all the bootleg joints you could put in a city. That's right. Watch her go down the street with her clothes all stripped down, don't care who the man is, if he's a healthy normal man, when he looks at the woman he's bound to have something to pass over him. Now, just be honest. (He is speaking of the chemistry of the human species. The Holy Ghost presence in a person’s life doesn’t take away the human chemistry out of the person, or there would be no children born to message believers. And this is important for us to know, because at times over the years it has been taught to us by good intending preachers that the Holy Ghost baptism miraculously takes all of this chemistry out of us when according to the message it doesn’t, and this has caused problems over the years of people thinking that they don’t have the Holy Ghost because they still feel temptation in this way)
138 I don't care. I've had the Holy Ghost for years. You can't look at a woman and her half dressed... I--I carry a little cross in my car; many of you seen it.
So he is telling us how to deal with this problem – and that is to look away to the cross.
**We remember from last week that Revelation 13 is speaking about America – how that all the evil of the first beast of the power of what the Catholic Church had would be in her, and that she will influence the whole earth to worship the first beast, which is Catholicism. Yet, that was what they had fled from when they had become a new nation, but now they are running back to Catholicism because they rejected a prophet that God had sent to them.
**As a nation, that was America’s greatest indebtment, was when she rejected the most vindicated message that God had ever sent to any nation.
And so by her rejection of the message, it caused her to hold on to her organized religions, and organized religion is a very powerful weapon of deception in the religious realm.
*Then we spoke about deception in the scientific realm of what has been taught in our schools for many years, of what has often been false teaching – teaching our little ones lies that they will hold on to for the rest of their lives.
*So just like denominations lie to their people in the religious realm, the schools have told lies to innocent and impressionable children about Darwinism and all his ideas of evolution by natural selection, come to find out that that was all wrong, but like denominations, they still keep teaching it even though it has been proven to be false. It’s the same spirit of deception on both.
*Look at how all the different denominations propagate all their religious confusion among the masses of the people of the world when there is no further need to be confused in this generation because God has sent His vindicated prophetic ministry with the truth of the word that has straighten out all the crocked paths – so there is really no excuse to be confused in this age.
***All these things are Satan’s weapons of deception.
SATAN'S.EDEN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 SUNDAY_ 65-0829
27 …Then, people worshiping Satan in this day, thinking they're worshiping God. But they're worshiping him through a creed, a man-made denominations and creeds that's brought the people right down to the greatest deception that the world has ever knowed of. No matter how much the Word of God promised for this day, is preached and vindicated, they still won't believe It. They won't believe It.
THE.GOD.OF.THIS.EVIL.AGE_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0801M
96 Now, we know that Satan's gospel is a gospel of science and progress. He preached it in Eden; not God; Satan did, the science of progress. Science and progress is Satan's gospel. Look where he's led us to today, with it. See?
***Its leading us into more and more unbelief of the word so that this last age goes into total blackness.
**Scientists are now even beginning to have grave concerns against the Big Bang theory, because they have recently been finding scientific evidence (by the many galaxies that are being discovered by the James Webb telescope) of these galaxies that have mature stars in them that date back to before the big bang even happened. So now we find out that science has mostly been lying to us for all these years – it’s the same spirit.
Physicist Michio Kaku tells us plainly that everything they taught you in school about what they thought was the facts about science was wrong, and then he goes on to make this interesting statement –
“Now, my favorite quote from Einstein is that if a theory cannot be explained to a child, the theory is probably useless. Meaning that all great theories are based on principles and pictures.
There’s a picture behind every great principle of science. But we never teach it that way. That’s not how we teach it at school. We teach it by memorization, and we confuse memorization with science. Science is not about memorization. It’s about principles and pictures.”
**In other words, our public-school system has largely based their education philosophy on how well we can memorize and recall things, this is how they mostly measure and judge a person’s intelligence – if you can comprehend and remember and recall information well in a test examination, then you are smart?
*Yet some of the greatest achievers that go on to become (what we would call) great men, did not always show themselves smart in school, because their smartness was not recognized by the system of which man measures by.
***This is why God sent a prophet with only a seventh-grade education, but yet with an intelligence that could think in a different realm and at a higher dimension so that he could talk to us about before even time existed, and before there was even a speck of star dust, and before God was even God.
*And he could even tell us where we existed at that time of being in the form of God’s thoughts in the back part of His great mind as attributes of Himself.
CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728
102 Now, God's secret mystery, He had before the world began. Now, back in the back part of God's mind, there was something that He was trying and was going to achieve, and He had a motive in doing it, in order to let Himself be expressed. Because, first, there wasn't even a moon, star, atom, molecule, or anything. He was God. But He exactly wasn't God at that time, because God is an object of worship, and there wasn't nothing to worship Him.
103 So, in His great mind, He wanted these attributes to be expressed. And in Him was love; in Him was to be Father; in Him was to be Son; in Him was to be a Saviour; in Him was to be a Healer. And all these great attributes that we see already expressed, they were in God.
**So this is the measurement that God measures us by – he that hath an ear to understand the unveiling of the message of what God has sent in the day that you live in.
REVELATION 3:17-22
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. (The eyesalve is the revelation of the revealed word of this hour that has come through the mouth of a God sent prophetic ministry)
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. (Repent of all your false beliefs of all the lies that you have been told in this generation – that is how you overcome, by turning from lies to the truth of what God has revealed for the age – it is the truth of the age that makes you free for that age)
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. (We are to overcome the deception of this age by the truth of what God has made clear to us through the message of the hour)
22 He that hath an ear (an ear of understanding that can hear and recognize the truth for our age), let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
LUKE 17:25-30
25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
(Christ has suffered many things of rejection in this generation. This last age of Laodicea is the only church age where they have completely shut him out of His own church)
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. (They completely fail to see that God has sent a prophet with a message of mercy and judgement – and so because they had rejected the message, then this is why the judgement came upon them completely unawares)
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. (Again – they were completely unaware that God had come down in human flesh and revealed the secrets of Sarah’s heart)
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
***We want to finish by studying this dream that Brother Branham tells us of in this message “And Knoweth it Not” preached on the 15th of August 1965.
*We will notice as we read through this, that this dream is to do with the wisdom of science verses the revelation of the word, because science is simply trying to find the same answers to the mysteries that this message has revealed to us in this age.
**“How did it all begin and for what purpose?” and “Why are we here and for what purpose?” and “Where are we going and for what purpose?”
**All these great questions, the message of this hour has answered, but not by scientific study, but by a higher form of knowledge of a prophet having direct access to the mind of God.
*Science is trying desperately to find the answers to these same questions through their scientific studies of trying to unlock the mysteries of God outside of the realm of the revelation of the word, but they will never find the true answers, because God Has His way of revealing these things to man, and that is through a prophetic ministry. AMOS 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
AND.KNOWETH.IT.NOT_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-10 SUNDAY_ 65-0815
257 He said, "Mr. Branham, I realize I got to stand before God." He said, "I don't know whether I was asleep or what happened." He said, "I dreamed. I'm going to say I was asleep and I dreamed." (Remember - the title of this message is “And Knoweth it Not” – Brother Branham is showing us how that the people of this end time age don’t know the real truth of their own poor and sad condition.)
258 Said, "I thought my son, in the market, stuck his hand in a--a sack." And said, "When he did, it was a sack of apples, and they all turned over." Said, "When I went to pick them up, they was all green apples with one bite taken out of them. (A bite taken out of each apple would have effectively spoiled them – it’s like the person or people who took only one bite out of these apples were either not hungry, or else they didn’t like the taste of the apples) " Said, "I was picking them up, put them back in the sack." Said, "Some of them rolled out, and rolled down, so I went to try to get them, and under... on the grass." And said, "They rolled under one of these chain-lock fences. And there was a big super highway run in there (Notice - man’s engineering feats of this modern age of what he is so proud of included in this dream – all these things have a meaning). I looked back east, and," he said, "the--the--the chain was hooked against a--a big rock back in the east. And I went back there, and thought I'd let this chain down, then go over and get the apples for the man." Said, "I started to let the chain down." (All these things are symbols that only a prophet of God can truly interpret – but notice how that these are just like ordinary things of normal life that are going wrong in that these apples have spilt out and he is trying to retrieve them, just like how we would all experience these kind of things most days – we can get so caught up with trivia that we miss the real important things)
259 Said, "A voice shook the whole earth." Said, "The earth shook, from under my feet." And said, "After it quit shaking, I heard a voice." And said, "Brother Branham, it was your voice," said, "I knowed; there was something said that." Said--said, "It said, 'I'll ride this trail once more!'"
(Let’s see the picture here – the apples are now forgotten, and so while these trivial things of the problems of life were going on for this man in the dream – he heard this voice that sounded out and that shook the whole earth – to me, this can be nothing less than the voice of the message of this hour that we have heard in our day)
260 And said, "I started looking up the rock, like this, and looked on, in a past the clouds (So he is now looking into a heavenly realm that is past the clouds). And way up there, standing on a rock that reached from the east to the west (We know a rock is a revelation, and this revelation reached from the east to the west, the meaning of this is almost for certain the revelation of the message of the hour that has covered the whole world from the east to the west), in a pointed shape like that, like a pyramid (Like a capstone), run back here to the east, and," said, "there you were standing there, on a horse that I never seen anything like it in my life; great white horse, white mane hanging down (White is for purity, and a horse in the book of revelation is a power)." And said, "You was dressed like an Indian chief (showing that he was dressed by God to be the chief ministry for this age), with all the things the Indians use." Said, "He had a breastplate; them bangles on the arms, and all down around like that." Said, "You had your hands up like that." And said, "That horse standing there like a military horse, with a prance like this, walking," me standing still. And said, "You pulled on the reins, went riding off towards the west." (The west is where the sun sets – so this could mean that Brother Branham’s life would soon be ending of which we know that that happened in December 1965, around 18 weeks from this time)
261 Said, "I looked down there, and there was a whole lot of scientists." (Notice – the contrast of looking past the clouds to now looking down “there”, to wherever down “there” was) And the next morning... That was Saturday. On the next morning, I preached on scientists, you know, being of the devil. And said, "Scientists there were pouring things in tubes, and mixing it." Said, "You stopped the horse, raised up your hands again and screamed, 'I'll ride this trail once more!'" And said, "The whole earth shook. Them people shook," said, "looked up and looked at one another, like that, and looked up to you. They just shrugged their shoulders, went on with their scientific research." (When you shrug your shoulders, that means you don’t understand what you just saw – these scientists had no idea that God had spoken through a prophet to this generation – if they had, then this prophet could have answered so many of their questions for them, because he had a direct link to the fountain of all knowledge) And said, "You started going on towards the west.
262 "And when it did," said, "I seen this man that called himself a prophet, you know," said, "he come up on a horse that was mixed with white and black together. (So notice – first scientists, then a religious man on a mixed colored horse – first scientific rejection, and now religious opposition) " And said, "He got up behind this great big horse." Said, "It was," said, "way up above the clouds, and the road wasn't over about that wide." And said, "That horse just danced, to the wind blowing the feathers and everything on--on your garb," and said, "then the horse mane and tail blowing. Great master, big white horse, walking right in line." And said--and said, "This guy ran up behind you, come from towards Canada," and the man lives in Canada (Scripture has compound meaning, and so does the message of the hour, and so I don’t have to think very hard to know of someone from Canada who has been trying to knock the power of the ministry of the voice of the seventh angel from its path in this hour). And he said, "Come back, and," said, "he took his little horse, trying to knock your big horse off; turning him around; make his hips hit against the..." Said, "It never moved the big horse; he just kept walking."
263 Said, "Then, all of a sudden," said, "you turned around." Said, "That would be the third time you had spoke, but the second time you said 'I'll ride.'" And said, "You didn't speak like you did. You commanded." Said, "You turned around and called the man by name, and said, 'Get off of here! You know that no man can ride this road here without God be ordaining him to do it. Get off of here!'"
264 And said, "The man turned around." And said, "The man has wrote me letters." And said, "Across his horse's hips," that black and gray, and mixed up together, said, "across his horse's hips was wrote his name, signature just exactly like is on his letter. And he rode off towards the north."
265 Said, "Then you went on down; that big horse turned around, way as far west as you could." Said, "You stood and raised your hands up like that." Then he started crying. Said, "Brother Branham, to see that horse standing there; all that war bonnet and everything like that, and," said, "that breastplate and everything shine." Said, "You held your hands up a little while." And said, "You looked down again, picked up the reins, said, 'I'll ride this trail just once more!'" Said, "The whole earth shook back and forth, like that." And said, "There was no more life left in me; I just fell down aside of the rock. Then I woke up."
Said, "What does it mean, sir?"
I said, "I don't know."
**It is my understanding that the trail was the ministry of the word that would ride again in the hearts of the elect of this age of what was opened during the ministry that Brother Branham road of the trail of revelation in his life from 1947 to 1965.
***This same ministry of the trail that he had ridden of the opening of the word would ride its trail of revelation again in the hearts of the elect by the ministry of His voice that was recorded on magnetic tape, in that God would continue to use his voice again after he had gone into the sunset of his death in 1965.
**It is this very ministry that will conquer the lies of all the scientists and the religious denominational powers that have rejected this chief authority of the voice of God in these last days.