Seeing Jesus and His Program Pt.2
MATTHEW 23:34-37
34 ¶ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
(People always seem to hate and reject and even kill who God sends to them)
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar (2nd Chronicles 24:20-22).
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
(It was that very generation that was about to reject and kill the very God Himself, the very one who had sent all the prophets and wise men to them.
He was Emmanuel; He was God with them standing before them in human form. The great creator himself was standing right there in front of them and they did what they had always done, they rejected him and put him to death)
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Cont. subject…
Seeing Jesus and His Program Pt.2
God has a program for all things; he has a purpose for certain events to take place within a specific dispensation of time. We see that in nature with the seasons – there is a purpose for everything under heaven. In every church age we see that the purpose of God has been lived out to the dot, and so it will also be for this age that we are living in.
So as believers of the message of the hour, it’s not too hard for us to see Satan and his program of deception in this age. We just have to look around and we will see the program of Satan in every area of this modern age we are living in.
*He is in the music, he is in the fashion, he is in the culture, he has infiltrated the social life and the home life, he is on the television, he is on the internet, he is in the movie theatres, in the shopping malls, he is in control of the politics of the world, he is in control of the monitory systems of the world, everywhere you look you will see the work and the program of the god of this evil age, he has been very successful in carrying out his program.
***So we can see Satan, and we can see His Program. We cannot see Satan physically, but we can see him with our understanding because that is actually how you see things – you see by your understanding, and that is also how we are to see Christ in this age – we are to see Him by the revelation of this hour that has been revealed to our understanding.
THE.GOD.OF.THIS.EVIL.AGE_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0801M
74 …Now listen. For, Satan is not spoke of as a god of any other age but this age. He wasn't spoke of the god of the age of Noah. He wasn't spoke of--of the god of the age of Moses, the god of the age of Elijah. But, this evil age, he is the... Oh, don't miss it! He is the god of this evil age, worshiped by millions and billions of people, and they don't know it.
EVENTS.MADE.CLEAR.BY.PROPHECY_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-3 SUNDAY_ 65-0801E
36 And when you see the church getting worldly, like it was in the days of Sodom, see the church world all going into the... worship "the god of this evil age," and seeing that; then seeing a little minority group gathered out under the inspiration of God, producing again the Life of Jesus Christ, by the Scriptures that's supposed to happen, you know what hour you're living in.
37 This Bible foretells, by prophecy, what day that we're living, and what time we're living, and what kind of a events ought to be taking place. It foretells it exactly to the letter, and has never missed one age, all the time. Not one time had It ever missed, and It won't, for who are predestinated to see it will see it.
So we know that Satan is the god of this evil age and that he is worshiped by the people of this world as a god (as believers we understand that clearly), but also (as believers of the end time message), we are to also see Jesus and His program for this hour just as clearly. When the seals open it revealed both the work and program of Satan, and also the work and program of God.
Quote from last week…
THE.CONTEST_ JEFF.IN V-10 N-7 MONDAY_ 62-1231
37 …Heavenly Father, as we stand here, as many thoughts is dying out in our hearts, and of the mistakes of last year, and as we are approaching the death of '62 and the birth of '63, O God, may we be one step higher up the ladder, until we can see Jesus and His program. May everyone here, Lord, in prayer, while the old year is dying, and the new birth of the new year is coming in, may the old man's sin and unbelief die out in our heart, and the new birth come in with the 1963, like a rushing mighty Wind that might fill our beings and make us new creatures in Christ.
39 Make us fit servants. Forgive our past. Bless our future. Guide us, O Lord God, with Thy mighty hand, Jehovah.
***The Revelation of the word in this hour opens to us the opportunity of a lifetime to find the correct path of eternal life.
***We know that at the end of the seven church ages Christ leaves his mediatorial work to take us out of ignorance by the revelation of himself so that you can unite with him by coming into agreement with his every word because he is the word.
**So in this age our hearts are being turned back to the original faith by this end time message that God has sent to us, and that is the fulfilment of bible prophecy concerning this hour – there is nothing in the world that would come close to that opportunity of what has been made available to us as believers of this message, it is far greater than winning the 100 million dollar jackpot ten times in a row.
*There are three things right now in this age that are in the process of being restored back to us again as believers of this message – this is God’s program for this hour.
1 – The corrected relationship between God and man is to be restored back and realise again in this hour – we can actually have that and walk in that relationship right now because of the revelation of this hour.
First your relationship with God must come correctly back again, then these other things will also come be restored to us.
2 – Eternal life – to know Him is eternal life, he that believeth in ME (the word for his age) hath passed from death unto life.
3 – Dominion over the earth by the power of the spoken word.
**Adam and Eve along with the entire human race lost these three things, but the program of God in this hour is to restore these three things back to man again, and this has been made available to us by the opening of the seven seals – the opening of the seven seals has unlocked to us the pathway back to Eden again.
**So this is the program of God for this age and for your life as an individual walking in the light of this end time message.
****You have to know what God’s program is for this hour concerning this age and you have to look for these things to be your own personal experience as you walk in the light of the word for this hour, because this is the program of God for your life, and it’s the greatest event that the believers of all ages have looked forward to – and so there must be a people on earth that understand and are walking into these things.
LUKE 19:37-48
37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen; (We are his disciples in this end time age, and we have also seen the mighty works that he has performed in this age in his public ministry of the first and second pull of the revealing of the son of man though the ministry of a servant at supper time, and we are also rejoicing in these things, so we can read ourselves in these verses)
38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples (In other words - stop them from confessing who you really are – “it’s alright to believe in Moses and the prophets or in any other thing that has become history, but don’t you dare believe the word revealed for the day that you are living in – because that is where you will find eternal life and fellowship with God and dominion over the earth”).
40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
41 ¶ And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
42 Saying (Notice - he is addressing a city - he is not talking to an individual – God deals with Israel as a nation but he deals with us gentiles as individuals), If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. (What made all the difference was in the Knowing “If thou hadst known”, they did not know that a greater than Solomon was right amongst them, and they couldn’t see him by the revelation of that hour.
*They didn’t know that a greater than King David was standing right there in front of them, walking around in human flesh.
They couldn’t understand that…
*A greater than Abraham was there…
*A greater than Moses was there…
*A greater than Jonah was there
*A greater than Jerimiah was there…
*A greater than Joseph and Boaz and Isaiah and all the prophets was right there walking right amongst them because they couldn’t see Jesus and His program for that hour, they couldn’t see the word that was coming to pass for that time. It is amazing how religious people can have the bible and read the scriptures but cannot see the word when it is made flesh.
*The two on the road to Emmaus walked with him for 6 hours listening to him preach, and even they failed to see him (it was only in the seventh hour that they saw him), these were some of his very own elect of that age.
*Many times believers of this message can sit under the teaching of the bible and the message of the hour for years and still fail to see who it is that is among us fulfilling his word for this time!)
43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. (There it is again, “because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation)
45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; (Notice how that the scriptures places this event of the monetary system being in a state of corruption directly at the time when they missed seeing the word made flesh for their day - this is showing us the same condition that the world is in today)
46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves (Look at all the pulling for money in the churches today – big TV ministries and mega churches pulling money out of the people and making big business out of religion).
47 And he taught daily in the temple (the message churches). But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him (notice that it wasn’t usually your common man that was against him, it was the leaders that had influence over the people, it was the high ranking and highly educated that couldn’t see who he was for that day – education usually takes people further away from God),
48 And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
*I trust that we are very attentive to hear him in this day, to hear what He is saying to us through the ministry of Malachi 4.
**God’s program for this hour includes the resurrection of 2000 years of church age saints – His program will cause our bodies to put on immortality, it will cause a people to be taken off this earth and put over into the new world in the millennium.
God has a great program that he wants us to understand and be a part of in this hour, He wants us to be interested and to see Jesus and HIS Program, not the television programs of the devil that the entire world is caught up in and deceived by - that is what is blinding them from the program of God for this day, they are so busy seeing Satan and his programs that they can’t see Jesus and his program for this hour.
**God’s great program for you in this hour is to reveal Christ personally to you so that you will see Jesus and his program for your day and season.
CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728
503 But all this mystery is revealed only, as He promised, to His Bride. Hell is against this Truth, of the revelation of this mystery. But the Bride is standing on it. That's Her stand.
504 Why do you hunger, Church, why do you thirst? It's the Father trying to reveal this hidden secret to you. But you let so many things get it out of you. You let your job, you let your wife, you let your husband, you let your children, you let the cares of the world, you let some pastor, you let somebody else get that out of you, when you know that way down in your heart you're thirsting, hungry. It's God trying to reveal it to you, see, the revelation. The last day is here.
Last week we saw Satan and his program for this day – his program is to deceive the whole world and be worshiped as God – he is the god of this evil age, and people (even religious people) are totally blinded to the fact that they are actually worshiping Satan in their churches. That is hard for many people (even some message people) to understand – but that is what the prophet of this hour taught us.
SATAN'S.EDEN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 SUNDAY_ 65-0829
21 And, remember, they spewed Him out; and He was on the outside of the church, trying to get back on the inside, in that awful Laodicean Church Age.
22 The god of this world today, the worshiped person of this world today, is Satan. And the people are ignorant of worshiping Satan, but it's Satan impersonating himself as the church, see, as the church. They worship Satan, thinking that they are worshiping God through the church, but it's the way Satan has done it.
SATAN'S.EDEN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 SUNDAY_ 65-0829
25 People, ignorantly worshiping Satan, thinking they are worshiping God; as we are warned by prophecy, in Second Thessalonians.
II THESSALONIANS 2:1-4
1 ¶ Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 ¶ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
SATAN'S.EDEN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 SUNDAY_ 65-0829
27 That deceitfulness of the church of today! See, "the son of perdition," the devil. "The son of perdition," the devil. 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.
28 Then why? We wonder why. Why doesn't it; why won't they believe It? When God said He would do a certain thing, and He does it, and still they turn their back from it and turn away from it. Just as Eve knew that what God said, God would do; but she turned her back on it, to listen to what he had to say.
29 Just remember, in other ages, it's always been the same thing. In every age, it's always been that Satan tries to pervert that Word to them, making them see some other age.
***So if Satan has tricked the whole religious world into not seeing what God has done and is doing in this age – then the opposite must be a people who recognise their day and its message.
RECOGNIZING.YOUR.DAY.AND.ITS.MESSAGE_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0726M
24 Now, my subject this morning is: Recognizing Your Day And Its Message.
We see from last Sunday's lesson, as we taught, The Feast Of The Trumpets. And I want to call to your attention, now, the time--time of Israel in God's timepiece.
25 We are dealing today upon a Sunday school lesson, that I want you to realize and recognize the time that we're living. We're just about to run out, as you see. And then, by this, you should know the very hour and time, and sign and Message that you are to receive.
Seeing Jesus and His Program…
When the first seal was opened, we saw that it was the enemy riding a power which was a false teaching spirit that had come upon that age through false ministries getting among the people – Paul called them grievous wolves.
ACTS 20:28-30
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 ¶ And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
How did he conquer? - by telling little white lies against the truth of the word -taking the peoples understanding away from the truth.
The white horse was the power of a saying that was just slightly off of the truth, and that was what brought death to the people of that age as it had brought death to the first woman Eve, and that is what cause the first church age to fail, and that is what will also bring death to an individual in this age when they compromise on the word for some man made interpretation of the bible.
**The mind of Christ is when the word is revealed to you.
You are blind until you see through the eyes of the revelation of the word. And when you see through the eyes of the word then you see Christ, you see the mighty God unveiled before us, you see him in plain view in this age – you see Jesus and His program.
II CORINTHIANS 3:14-16
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it (their heart) shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
There are many vails that can prevent the people from seeing Jesus and His program for this hour.
*The vail of our own private interpretation of the word, the vail of tradition, the vail of our self-styled ways, anything that blinds you from seeing the word presentence being made manifest is a veil – its hiding God from you.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
*Let us update this – But even unto this day when Branham is read, the vail is upon their hearts - But that vail is to be done away with in this hour by the revealing of Christ – that is our promise this morning. 16 Nevertheless when it (their heart) shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
“O God, may we be one step higher up the ladder, until we can see Jesus and His program.
**We need to ask God to give us a thinking man’s filter, to filter out our own thoughts and interpretations that are contrary to the word for this hour, until each one of us can clearly see Jesus and His program.