The Great Redeemer Pt.6 – Enoch’s Fellowship with God
HEBREWS 9:11-12
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come (God literally become man’s high priest Himself by becoming a man, and remember that the job of a high priest is to represent the people to God for reconciliation. Brother Branham tells us that God is our Attorney, Jury and Judge, in other words, the same one who is pleading on our behalf is the same one who gets to make the decision on the outcome of the trial – so the case is settled in our favor), by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Notice the wording, an “Eternal Redemption” - a redemption that lasts forever, of what could never end or ever be reversed – God’s redemptive actions will stand for eternity.
**God was a redeemer in his character, that was a part of His great nature of that wanted to express of himself before the world was even created – and so all of creation was made for the purpose to allow God to express himself of what He was in his great character – so creation was made for the purpose to reveal redemption, because the lamb was slain in the mind of God before the first atom ever came into existence.
The Great Redeemer Pt.6 – Enoch’s Fellowship with God
JOB 19:14-27
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. (These are all a part of the things that fallen man has suffered from since the fall in Eden – so when we read this book of Job, we want to read it with the mind that God is using Job as an example of suffering for all humanity – 6000 years of man’s suffering is represented in the book of Job)
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth (a part from his physical suffering, he is also being rejected and disrespected by his own servants who were supposed to be assisting him).
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. (Young children hear what their parents say)
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. (You talk about rejection - when it comes from your closest loved ones, then it doesn’t get any worse than that – This is what Jesus also went through)
20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. (All this accumulation of suffering would cause any man to become deeply depressed with an overwhelming feeling of hopelessness and rejection)
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 ¶ Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: (Notice how that his suffering gave birth to a revelation of God as a Redeemer)
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Notice the outcome of these scriptures - Job knew that God was a creator, but it took a portion of suffering in order to reveal to Job that God was also the Great Redeemer because we know that all of these things were restored back to Job by God, and even more.
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22 …Thinking, last Sunday was preaching on how that Christ came to redeem us. And then today I want to speak on what is a Redeemer and how does He become a Redeemer? And remember, a Redeemer redeems you completely when He redeems you: from your sins, from your sickness, from everything that's wrong. He is a Redeemer.
The book of Job (of his suffering and rejection and being falsely accused), it represents the suffering of all humanity for the past 6000 years. There are 42 chapters in the book of Job, and 42 is 6 lots of 7. We also see how Brother Branham also suffered with his stomach sourness every 7 years for 6 times of suffering during his lifetime (42 years) of which also represents the 6000 years of man’s suffering. So we know that during our lives also, that we will also reflect and share certain portions of struggle to whatever level that God by his grace allows – yet there is no suffering or trouble in your life that God is not in full control of.
***And so when we observe Job’s sufferings, we see that the outcome of his trial was for the purpose of God being able to reveal Himself to Job as the great Redeemer, if Job had only lived out a prosperous and happy life, then certain parts of God’s great character could never have been made know to Job – and so the book of Job is showing us something on behalf of all humanity.
*Up to that point, Job had only known God as a great creator - it took a portion and a period of suffering for Job to further reveal God as “The Great Redeemer”.
*Last week we spoke a little on about the “The War for Worship” of how Satan offered to trade with Jesus all the kingdoms of the world just for the chance of having Jesus fall down and worship him.
*But we know that the worship that Satan desired was motivated by his own personal selfish pride, but the worship that God seeks is a very different kind of worship that is not motivated by pride or selfishness (because those two things are simply not a part of God’s nature), but is to do with truth, and it is to do with the acknowledgment and respect toward the true source of all greatness and wisdom.
JOHN 4:23
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
*Human beings love to acknowledge and to esteem and to praise greatness and talent and wisdom in whatever form of art it is expressed in, whether its in the form of literature or music or the many arts and talents or rhetoric.
*God has gifted each one of us with an intelligence level that is so much greater than that of the animal kingdoms, and so He made us like this for the purpose that we could recognize and understand and appreciate the talents and the great gifts of what God has expressed of Himself through the gifts and talents of man.
But the problem is, that when a man will take all the glory and praise from the people for the talent that God has gifted him with, and then refuse to acknowledge where that gift came from, and this was the big problem with Lucifer, he wanted the glory and praise to stop at himself.
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104 Now, in the beginning when God made the man to worship Him, and live, God taking care of him, fed him, man had a perfect fellowship with God. There was nothing wrong. God came down in the evening and talked to Adam and Eve. What a beautiful picture. No harm, nothing could harm them. No sickness could ever come to them. They didn't even know what sickness was. They didn't know what old age was. They didn't know what being hurt was. They couldn't be hurt. They was in the Presence of the omnipotent powers of God, which held them in control and guided them by His Spirit. There was nothing could harm them.
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And He wants fellowship back with His people again. His great majesty, His glory is now spreading forth. And He's desiring to fellowship again with His people like He did in the garden of Eden.
We know that the opening of the seven seals has allowed us direct access back to that same fellowship with God again in exactly the same way that Adam had before the fall.
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458 Notice, then, One like the first Adam and Eve, before sin separated them in death; now Christ, the second Adam, in Life, redeems His Bride from death; and now on His way back to the original Eden, restoring back His Bride in fellowship, back with God, as Husband and Wife, in the Garden of Eden, sure, Christ and His Bride.
Pick up from last week…
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. (Notice – this great level of relationship that Enoch had with God was that just before he was translated. God was able to fellowship at a level that He was pleased with the revelation (faith) that Enoch had of God as the “Great Redeemer”. How do we know this? Because Enoch showed the revelation that he had in his heart of God as being the great redeemer when he built the pyramid with an empty tomb. So we know for sure that he had already received the revelation of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.
*Enoch had built the pyramid with seven steps of layers showing that there were seven church ages leading before you get to the king’s chamber – so this is post church ages revelation, and this is the revelation that he had come into of what he pleased God with.
Enoch also showed that the capstone was rejected. In fact, the entire pyramid was displaying in symbol form all the redemptive characteristics of Christ of what had been revealed to Enoch by his fellowship and walk and relationship with God – this is what we are also experiencing in this age by the revelation of this hour.
*Enoch displayed the full revelation of Jesus Christ of what he had in his heart in the language of the Pyramid, it was the bible and the story of redemption written in the form of this great structure of engineering called the great pyramid. God also in part gave Noah the revelation of Christ in the form of the ark.
God has many languages that He can reveal Himself in. There’s the language of the stars, and also the language of nature and of the trees and the animal kingdom. The great lion in the animal kingdom is a language that reveals Christ, the little lamb is a language that reveals Christ, the eagle is a language that reveals Christ.)
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him:
**God is please with a person when that person is able to fellowship with God in the light of God’s true character, and that is true worship that is in the right spirit – this is what God is seeking, and this is the faith that He is truly looking for from the hearts and minds of his people. You cannot relate in the right way towards God until you truly know Him of His true motive and character, only then will you be able to give God a true appreciation from your heart and relate to Him in the truth of what His nature really is.
**That is why our maturity in this hour is to come into the fullness of the clarity of the understanding of what Christ has revealed of Himself to us of the level that He has been made known to us for this age.
**So Enoch walked with God in fellowship all the way into the full revelation of the full nature and characteristics of God being unveiled before Him for that time that he was living in, and this is how he was able to go on to write that revelation down in the language of the pyramid.
If He had written in down with ink and paper, it probably wouldn’t have survived the flood, so God used another way to write it, and so He had Enoch write it down in the form of the pyramid.
*That same revelation of what Enoch had in his heart (of what he please God with) has come to us in these last days by the message of the hour. And so if that same revelation of what Enoch had of Christ has been written into our hearts also in this hour by our fellowship being restored back to God again, then we will also please God in this hour, and we will be able to walk with God in the fellowship of this revelation until we are also translated.
*It is the revelation of this end time hour that allows us to walk in the same way of fellowship with God that Enoch walked.
Enoch had received this great revelation of God as the great redeemer – He saw the end from the beginning of what was in the back part of God’s mind, right forward to that eternal redemptive condition – the eternal redemption.
*Enoch knew the secret of how to leave this world and go into that other world by a translation – and that secret was to be able to walk with God in perfect fellowship and agreement of a full understanding of the person of who God really was. God was the tree of life Himself, and Enoch had been given access to eat from that tree so that he would never die.
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.
***Enoch was the seventh from the first Adam, and we are the seventh age from the second Adam (Christ), and just like Enoch, we are also walking in fellowship with God in this hour by our agreement with the truth that He has sent to us in this day by a vindicated prophet, and so therefore we are also eating from the same tree of life of the revelation that Enoch ate from, and this is why that we can be sure that we will be translated also, and be taken up in a rapture without seeing death.