WHY
ESAU RECEIVED NOT THE BLESSINGS
CHAPTER SEVEN
<And it came to pass, as soon as
Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from
the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his
hunting.
And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto
his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's
venison, that thy soul may bless me.
And Isaac his father said unto
him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn
Esau.
And Isaac trembled very
exceedingly, and said, Who? where
is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all
before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.
And when Esau heard the words
of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto
his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
And he said, Thy brother came
with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.
And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for
he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold,
now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast
thou not reserved a blessing for me?
And Isaac answered and said
unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given
to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what
shall I do now unto thee, my son?
And Esau said unto his father,
Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even
me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
And Isaac his father answered
and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and
of the dew of heaven from above;
And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve
thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt
have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke
from off thy neck.> (Genesis-27:30-40).
I
thank God for His wonderful visitation tonight. O, my brothers and sisters, we cannot buy this
with money. And we cannot command this kind of anointing of the Lord through our
righteousness. No, it comes by His sovereign grace. I donÕt know where we could
find such a prayer meeting, such anointing, such songs
of Zion.
We
thank God for His grace, and all His blessings. Beloved, I believe that this is
a night of deliverance. Yes, I believe that song became a prayer, and we are
expressing our desire to live for Him, regardless of the weaknesses that we
have, we have a desire to live for Him.
You
will hear a little story tonight, of a man called, ÒJacobÓ who had a desire to
live for Him, and to receive the birthright and the blessing at all cost.
It is
a type of
the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. So you will see the pro and the con,
tonight. You will see the negative and the positive. These messages are not
preached to beat you down in spirit. It is showing you just two things: the attitude
that you must take to receive this promise and if you donÕt take that attitude
then you would not receive that promise. But, I believe that we have the right
attitude to the promise of God, and our desire is to live for Him. There is not
a better song that could have been sung for such a long time, before I ascend
the pulpit. I am feeling, so blessed of the Lord. When I come here, I look at
you as the saints of the living God. Your faults, your failures
does not matter. The Lord looks through the Blood, and He sees a perfect
church. I try to look through the grace of God and see you as my brothers and
sisters regardless of who you are. I thank God for His grace.
We want to
understand that the birthright and the blessing is a type of the Outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. A type of what took place on the Day of Pentecost. Esau is a type of
Judas that never made it up to Pentecost, though he had that privilege to do
so. That Old Testament type was playing out the coming of the Messiah, and the
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And the same reason why Esau never received the
blessings of the Lord, is the same reason why Judas
never received it. Both men had equal opportunity to receive that great
blessing.
The
birthright is a very important subject. I am speaking and trying to bring your
understanding up to the place to understand why Esau did not receive the
blessing.
Now,
this story of EsauÕs rejection is very pathetic. What we read tonight is going
to be the scene
at the time of the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. At that time, there will
be a time of disappointment for many, and there will be a time of rejoicing and
great gladness for others.
Just
like in Samaria, it was a time of rejoicing for many of the Samaritans, but it
was a day of sadness and gloominess for the sorcerer and others like him that
were in that prayer line.
Now,
this scene of tears of repentance, weeping and lamenting is exactly what is
going to happen when the great Token, Fullness, Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
comes in the last day.
Now, I
will use one scripture to prove that, and that is the parable of the foolish
and the wise virgins.
Matthew 25:10-12 <And
while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in
with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other
virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say
unto you, I know you not.>
And the wise virgins went into
the marriage because they had the oil.
And the foolish virgins did
not go into the marriage, the door was shut, and the Lord said
ÒI know you
not.Ó And it is written there,
Matthew
25:30 <Éthere shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.>
Do you see the comparison? There is a group of people that misses the
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and there is a group that receives the great
Outpouring. ÒAnd there was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.Ó Now that
weeping and wailing and gnashing are going to be greater than what was
manifested by Esau.
This
story, if you look at it from the face value, it could make you feel very sad
for Esau. And even now I feel sad for Esau, to hear that man lamenting in the
scriptures, even though I have the knowledge of the inside story, and how evil
that man was, which caused him this great disappointment. Reading this story
touches our hearts to know, how a man could weep, wail, beg and cry at the time
of disappointment.
The
time came for the blessings to be given out. The boys had grown up; the church
had waited long enough. The waiting was over, from that time of the little boys
growing up, playing together, wrestling together, coming to church together, eating of the same meal, born from the same mother and
father. The time had come when the father was about to pour out his blessings.
One
was desperate throughout life for the blessing, and his name was Jacob. And the
other despised the blessing and the birthright, and his name was Esau.
Now,
he even forgot
what he had done in time past that would cause him this great disappointment,
and he was blaming Jacob. He said that Jacob robbed him of his birthright; which is
not true. He was looking for somebody to blame. That was not true, he willfully
sold it.
At
that time that fellow Esau, came in and his father told him, ÒItÕs about time
that I pour out my blessing upon you.Ó Understand spiritual things, type
out, the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the blessings that are to follow.
ÒGo my son, youÕre a hunter. I love you!Ó His daddy was a prophet. ThatÕs a
great privilege to be living in a preacherÕs house; but many times people miss
that blessing, and they do not recognize the presence of the Lord. The prophet
of God preached a message called, ÔThe Unrecognized Presence of the Lord.Õ Because people become so acquainted with fatherhood, brotherhood,
etc. and they fail to recognize the presence of the Lord. And Esau was
one of those fellows: Never let the presence of the Lord become common to you.
Never let our assembling become common. Never let our fellowship become common.
Never take it for granted that the ministers would ascend the pulpit, and
preach another mighty message. Human beings are like that.
Esau was
grown up and had known his prophet-daddy, and things became common to him. The
prophet loved him, as the prophet, Brother Branham, loved so many thousands of
people around him, and hunted with them, took them on trips. Esau was one of
those fellows whom the prophet loved.
Jacob
was a shyster, called, ÒJacob a supplanter, and a
deceiver,Ó but he had a desire to live for Him, and his mother loved him. The
two boys grew up in the same house and they fellowshipped. Something happened,
along their journey, that no doubt Esau forgot; Jacob never forgot that, but
Esau forgot. Then it came time that the blessing was about to be poured out
from the father. Now this is going to cause a great scene. It is going to cause
a great showdown,
and disappointment. Yes. And the daddy called him aside and said, ÒSon, I like
that deer that you cook, and you fed me throughout my life. Your daddy is
blind, but go, catch that deer, make venison for me, bring it, and when my soul
is happy then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon me, and then the blessing
will flow out by prophecy. And I will bless you as my firstborn son, because
that is what God commanded us, that the first son must have the birthright and
the blessing. I am just fulfilling the scripture.Ó
Isaac,
the prophet had no knowledge of what went on before. He had no knowledge of the
secret sinful life of Esau. He just took things for granted; he was blind for a
reason. He could not see certain things, but he desired to bless his firstborn
son, but his firstborn son had an evil heart, and his heart was not right within
him. Apostle Peter, I believe was willing to impart the Holy Ghost unto the
sorcerer, until he discovered that his heart was not right within him. Oh my!
Jacob
heard that through his mother, and you know the story, she made goat meat, put
on the skin upon Jacob, made him hairy like his brother Esau, made him smell
like his brother. He was desperate for the blessings, and he went unto his
blind daddy, and the old prophet said,
Genesis 27:21-22
<Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel theeÉ > <ÉThe voice is
Jacob's voiceÉ>
So he
felt him and said, ÒYes, this is my son Esau, youÕre a hairy man. Let me eat of thy
venison.Ó So he ate of the venison and his soul became glad and all the
blessings of the firstborn son were bestowed upon Jacob the second son. And
just as he finished blessing him, and walked out the door, Esau came with
prepared venison. And Isaac said,
Genesis 27:32
<Who art thou?>
And
the old man trembled and Esau said,
Genesis 27:32-33
<ÉI am thy son, thy firstborn Esau. And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and
said, Who? where is he that
hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea,
and he shall be blessed.>
O, it
was a real scene! Here was a man coming to receive the blessings of the Lord; I
type that out as the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the fullness of God. He stood before
the prophet, and when he heard the news he said, ÒHast thou but one blessing, my father? And he
lifted up his voice and cried with a great and a lamentable voice that filled
the camps of the Israelites. ÒThere shall be weeping, and wailing and gnashing
of teeth.Ó The only blessing that he got was to be a warrior; hoping that he
could rule over his brother one day. That war is still going on in Israel
today, trying to prevail over the Israelites and take back the old city. Esau
and Jacob are still fighting.
This means a lot to
us today in the end time. That was the shadow and type of the Old Testament;
but there is coming another time of weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Great disappointments, great distress, will be in the end time amongst
Christian people, because God has promised another Outpouring of the Holy
Spirit, and It is about to come upon the people of God. It is going to catch
many people that now follow the message unprepared.
The
foolish and the wise virgins are now gathered under this message. In this building
there are three kinds of believers, and everywhere the children of God are
gathered there are three kinds of believers.
Jesus
seen that two thousand years ago, that at the
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit some without oil would not enter in. He described
it in a way greater than the lamentations of Esau. The only words that our Lord
had to describe that disappointment of people who miss the Rapture and the
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit are: ÒAnd
there shall be weeping, and wailing and gnashing of teeth.Ó
Beloved, let us do our weeping now. DonÕt you think that is
wise?
[Congregation says, ÒAmen!] Like our little brother here, tonight doing his
weeping now. Let us do our begging now. Let us do our sighing now that we might
be prepared. We do not have to let that day overtake us. It was two thousand years
ago that our Lord spoke that prophesy. Men and women should have been preparing for a long
time that such disappointment does not overtake them.
Now, I
feel so sorry for this man, how that man lamented! How he cried! And how he
begged his father.
Genesis 27:38
<And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his
voice, and wept.>
Beloved,
people will be begging
for that Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, because without that Outpouring of the
Holy Spirit they will realize that they cannot go in the Rapture, and will be candidates
for the Tribulation period, and possibly Hell and the Lake of Fire. ItÕs a
serious affair. IÕm not trying to scare anyone. I am trying to show people they
should be more alert and be prepared before that day.
The
followers of the message fought the man called, ÒLambertÓ with all their might,
until he was even murdered when he tried to show them this vision of the
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that they
must enter into this Outpouring before the Rapture.
Beloved, there are people who
follow this message today with such unbelief in the promise of God, and in
another Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that they are lining up today to repeat what
Esau done in his day: weep and wail. Instead of one man weeping and wailing, as
in the case of Esau, we are going to have tens of thousands and yea, even
millions of people weeping and wailing. They finally will be convinced when
that great Revival breaks, and the Bride goes out on the field with that
revival. They will be convinced that they must have the Oil to go in the
Rapture. ÒScripture for that preacher?Ó
There came a time that the foolish virgins said that their
lamps went out, and they went out to the wise virgins and sought Oil, and when
she did the wise virgins said,
Matthew 25:9 <Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that
sell, and buy for yourselves>
On the basis of the written
word; I am prophesying
that there will come a time amongst the followers of Malachi 4:5-6 and the
whole Christian world that many would realize, that they need more of the power
of God to go in the Rapture. That will happen when they see the Bride
demonstrate the spoken Word ministry, by creative power. When they see the
great power of God manifested from the wise virgin, they would realize that it
takes more
than what they have to go in the Rapture. That includes the mixed multitude
that follows the Message today; it would draw them by the millions.
They will come around this
ministry, and when the Promise is preached to them, they will realize that the
Message called, ÒThe
TokenÓ was the highlight message of Brother Branham, which says that you
will receive the Token or perish. I speak of the Token in the light of the
great fullness
of God, the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Our efforts today with the publication of
E.O.D.H. books, and the tapes; and now they are requesting the songs. Some said
that they have never heard anointed singing, worshiping and praying, like that.
Others are sending messages to our song leaders to hold on, donÕt sway to the
left nor right. E.O.D.H books have gone out over several years to tell the
people from organization, and around the Message that they must of necessity receive
the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the final quickening for the Rapture. There is a
plan, there is a program for it, and if you miss it you are going through the
Tribulation. This is the signal and message that we are sending.
You cannot get that Outpouring
by sitting under heresies, by sitting under a heretic, by denying the Promise
of God, by denying that there will be another Revival, by despising the promise
that we are preaching, by despising E.O.D.H. books that propagate the Promise
of God.
If you despise the Promise of God that the
message is projecting you will end up like Esau: There are lots of sorcerers
today, around the world, and the message, who have the people bewitched,
telling them that they have everything, that they are ready for the Rapture, and the only
thing on the agenda for the Bride right now is the Rapture.
ThatÕs
a lie! ÒNo Outpouring, no Rapture!Ó You must have an Outpouring before you have
the Rapture! So the sorcerer is lying. Esau is lying. Judas is lying.
This is the signal that we are
sending; and this scene, as I quoted about Esau from the Bible is going to
repeat itself in a tremendous way, before the rapture takes place, and there is
going to be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, because people read
the Bible, they studied the Message, and they did not put into practice the Holiness Message.
They want to live what they want to, want to look at television, want to be on
the sports field, women want to wear the wrong kind of dresses, look like
mermaids with tight dresses. They want to wear paints. They want to wear high heeled shoes. On account of that, their preachers
taught them to deny
the Promise of the Outpouring of the Holy Ghost. They taught them to despise
the Outpouring. The same thing that they despise today, they have despised for
decades of time, and even killed the man called, ÒLambert,Ó a man with a true vision of the
Promise. They will be crying for the same promise in the days to come. They will
lament, they will beg, they will bite the dust, they would beg the preacher
saying, ÒIsnÕt there one blessing? IsnÕt there one hope for me to get this
Outpouring? IsnÕt there one chance for me to get this Outpouring?Ó
What a scene; let us lay the right foundation now. Let us
turn from our unbelief. Let us turn from our heresies. Let us turn, from that
negative attitude, saying that all is over and the only thing that is left is
the Rapture to take place. ItÕs a lie of the devil; the devil is trying to bring
you to that place
of Esau: make you commit sin, and believe that you could get the Promise.
The devil is trying to bring people into that place and make them use there
mouths, speak blasphemous things against their brothers and sisters; Speak
blasphemous things, that are directed to the ministry, and make them think that
they are all right. My beloved, these things are going to show up at the time of the Outpouring
of the Holy Ghost.
Esau done what he done and
never thought that it will have such repercussions. He never knew the end
result, but the end result faced him that day. Suddenly, his father called him
and said: ÒMy
son the day has comeÓ. O, my
God, there will come a day, for the Outpouring of the Holy Ghost, our waiting
will be over. Yes, there will suddenly come that Promise of God. That day must
come, the longest rope has and end. And it is going to come to pass when the
Father, our God decides;
ÒI am ready to pour out My Spirit. Who is ready is ready; and
who is not ready is just not ready. I can no longer hold My
patience, I got to judge the world, but I got to bring these people into the
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that the Bride can receive the Fullness of God.
The Fullness of the Godhead bodily that dwelt in Jesus Christ I must now pour
this into the Bride to bring the rest of the dead from the grave, and quicken the
living Bride to go in the Rapture.Ó
Romans 8:11 <But
if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that
raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that dwelleth in you.>
ThatÕs the use of the
great Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and I tell you, my brothers and sisters,
here tonight and right around the world, that you do not have this measure of
the Spirit for the final quickening. Brother Branham looked for that, Brother
Lambert kept that vision alive, and we have kept this vision alive for decades
of time. It is going to be here, to be here it will be here, but we have got to
be prepared to receive it, and must not turn out like Esau.
Woe unto the sorcerers. Woe
unto the Esaus in religious circles. Woe unto these
men that are born unto condemnation and vessels of dishonor, when that
Outpouring comes upon the earth. This is not a made up story friends, read it
right in Matthew 25. There were two classes of people: one with the Holy Ghost,
and one without the Holy Ghost. When that group, the foolish virgins missed the
Rapture, Jesus said: ÒThere shall be weeping, and wailing and gnashing of teeth.Ó This is prophecy
for the end time.
Beloved saints, there in Africa and
India, Europe and the Philippines. I am not making up this thing, this is
in your Bible, and I am saying that you must of necessity receive the Fullness
of God for the final quickening of the Rapture! Yes, sir. We have the
Holy Ghost but not enough of It. Dozens of quotes prove that.
Quote W.M.B.: 189 ÒI'm persuaded that many of us, friends, have
received the Holy Ghost, but we just receive enough Holy Ghost in us to make us
to a place where we don't want to lie, we don't want to steal, we don't want to
do anything. But God wants to fill every fiber of His church; He wants to fill
your thinking; He wants to fill your mind. He wants to fill every bit of you,
just make you completely, totally dead to yourself or to your thinking, just so
surrendered in God till His Word's just living right through you. You don't
know nothing else but God's Word.Ó (Oneness 62-0211).
The
followers of Malachi 4 are heading for the same scene of EsauÕs great disappointment.
They are heading for that same spot. But, the elected bride is like Jacob, we
are after that Promise at all cost. Why this man received not the blessing?
From the face value, all of us could say that, Jacob took away the blessing
through defrauding his brother, with the help of his mother. There is something
deeper in this story. Esau committed a great evil in time past, and what he experienced that
day was the end result. And there are lives that people are living today,
wagging their tongues, spewing poison out of their mouths, accusing their
fellowmen. Men are leading their homes to destruction, showing them the way of
money, not caring if they come to church or not. They are left home to live in
fornication or adultery.
Some song leaders while leading songs, their wives and
daughters, come into the church long after starting time. There is an end result
of such things.
You would not be able to help your children on that day. You
got to keep your children under the Word. You got to keep that vision of the
Promise alive. You got to teach your children, to appreciate the Promise of
God. You got to drill into them from a tender age, that Eternal Life is the
most important thing; otherwise you have failed your duty as a mother, you have failed
your duty as a father. The most important thing in this life is Eternal Life
for your children. If you have not imparted that vision and continue to impart
that vision to your children, you are a waste of time on the earth. You are a
waste of time on the earth! If you live a hundred years, you have wasted your
hundred years, and at the end youÕre going to hell! Oh my! I hope people
understand what IÕm saying.
I preached a message, my
brother: ÒPreparation
for the Family Future.Ó Saying that you could prepare all the gold, all the
silver, all the houses, all the motor cars, bank monies in the bank expecting
to die tomorrow and hoping that your children are going to have something to
lean back upon. If you do not show them that the Word of God is the most
important thing, Life is more important, the Token is more important, you have
failed your duties, and you have achieved nothing on this earth. You have
achieved nothing.
If you do not teach them to respect the
Word of God, respect that ministry, respect their brothers and sisters, and to
remove the bitterness, the hatred, the malice, the land grabbing, the money
grabbing, the deceit to their pastor, the lies that they tell to his face:
their portion will be like Esau, and you would not be able to help them. A
prophet could not help Esau; he was unable to help him. His daddy was a prophet,
and he was unable to help his son, that he loved so much.
How are we ordering our homes? You want to send your daughter
there to drive a taxi. You want her to drive a mini bus. You want her to have a
bigger bank account and do it at the expense of her soul. You want to teach
your children only to make money: you do it at the expense of their souls. You
want to cover their sins when they do wrong: you are doing it at the expense of
their souls, and donÕt you think that they have a good impression about you.
Anytime a child is wrong and you try to cover up their sins, and hide them from
the correction of the ministry, you are destroying them, and they know that you
are a hypocrite. Compromise will destroy you; compromise would destroy your family!
I feel sorry for Esau, and as
human beings when that hour comes, we must feel sorry for people, but we will
be helpless. ÒBrother Bruce, Brother Sam canÕt you do something for me that I
get this Promise?Ó And I could see Sam turn around with tears in his eyes, ÒNo,
go to them that sell and buy.Ó Why should that be the portion of anybody in
this church? Why? Why?
Why should that be the portion
of Esau growing up in a prophetÕs house? Think of the chance that man had, and
I will show you, the underlying factor. This man did a terrible thing in his
life coming down the road. Oh my Lord.
Genesis 25:30-34 <And Esau said to
Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint:
therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy
birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit
shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then
Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he
did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his
birthright.>
Brethren, God worked it out in such a manner that when the
blessing was going to come to the firstborn, God allowed Isaac to be blind,
that he could not see who he was giving the blessing to. He caused the prophet
to be deceived in order to fulfill His will that He had already revealed to the
mother, when she conceived the children that the elder shall serve the younger.
God, from the foundation of the world before the children were born, in His
great knowledge looked down and said that he loved Jacob and hated Esau. Do you know
why God hated Esau? He foresaw from the foundation of the world, that he would
despise his birthright. That is why God hated Esau. It was a terrible thing in
the sight of God.
Beloved, think of the seriousness of this affair. From
the foundation of the world, the children were not even born, Brother Paul
said:
Romans 9:11-13
<For the
children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the
purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that
calleth;) It was said unto her, The
elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau
have I hated.> For this deed, despising the
Outpouring, despising the Token, despising the promise of God, from the
foundation of the world, God looked down before the babies were born, God said:
I hate Esau with bitter hatred; Jacob, I love you, because Jacob had respect to
the birthright, which is the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, in type.
Do you honor that promise
of God tonight?
[Congregation says, ÒAmen!Ó] Do you long for that Outpouring of the Holy
Ghost? [Congregation
says, ÒYes!Ó] Do you respect It? [Congregation
says, ÒYes!Ó] Do you respect the preachers that preach It?
[Congregation
says, ÒYes!Ó] Do you respect the man called Lambert? [Congregation says, ÒAmen!Ó] Do you
respect William Branham that propagated that promise? [Congregation says, ÒAmen!Ó] Then God loved
you from the foundation of the world!
Somebody might rise up and
say, ÒI donÕt know if God loves me.Ó What is your attitude towards what I am
preaching unto you? What is your attitude towards me, and the men of God,
towards E.O.D.H. books, towards the Promise of God that I am waving, for
decades of time, what is your attitude? If your attitude is right towards the promise that I am
preaching, your name is upon the LambÕs Book of Life. If your desire is to live
for Him your name is upon the LambÕs Book of Life. God saw you from the
foundation of the world, and said: ÒI love you,Ó and called you by name.
But all that despise
E.O.D.H., all that despise the Promise that I am waving throughout the world,
with the ministers, and for what we are contending, if you despise that, have
unbelief, and you would say: ÒAway with that Outpouring, there is no Outpouring
to come.Ó God, from the foundation of the world, seen your hypocrisy and
unbelief and said: ÒI hate him!Ó And God hates a man that would deny the Promise of
God, and maintain a bad attitude to a BrideÕs revival, another Outpouring of
the Holy Spirit, a creative ministry that is coming upon the face of the earth;
God hates a man for devaluing that promise, and despising that promise.
Hold a minute, somebody may
not understand how Esau sold his birthright, and got God so angry that he
missed the blessings, when the blessings was poured out. Esau sold his
birthright, God foreseen that from the foundation of the world and said ÔI hate
him!Õ And when the child was born crying in a crib, He said
ÒI hate that rascal!Ó A cute little fellow.
ÒGod loves everybody,Ó says these lying
preachers. God hates some people, and He loves some people. He hates you
when you despise GodÕs servant. He hates you when you despise the promise. He
hates you when you burn E.O.D.H. books. He hates your wagging tongue, when you would
side with backsliders against your pastor, the church and against your
brethren. That is the gospel. God hates certain people, and loves certain
people; that is played out in this story. I challenge the world upon that. Yes, but
hear these sweetbread preachers, ÒGod loves everybody.Ó God donÕt love
everybody; he hates some, and heÕs looking to kill them. Yes sir! When Esau was
born, the Lord looked down in that crib, saw Esau playing with Jacob as twins
together, and no doubt, Jacob looked like a sissified little fellow, a Crooked
nose Jew, and said ÒI love Jacob.Ó But, Òthat rascal
there, I hate him.Ó The little fellows grew up to about two years, saying,
ÒDada. Mama. Papa.Ó Yes, nice smiles. ÒYou rascal you, I hate you.Ó Seven years
passed and the Lord said, ÒI hate you.Ó Is God so cruel? ÒI hate you Esau.Ó
Brethren,
this has to be a terrible crime for God to hate that man from the foundation of
the world. Let me tell you how bad that crime was. God called Abraham, He gave him a
land, and He gave him a promise of the coming Messiah to bring salvation to the
whole world. He was going to bring those promises to pass through Abraham. It
was not fulfilled in Abraham; it came down to Isaac. And then, it was supposed
to come down to Esau, because he was the first born.
Out of Esau was to come forth the nation of Israel. Instead of the nation of
Israel being named ÒIsraelÓ, it supposed to have been named after Esau.
Out of the nation of Israel
was to come forth the Messiah. And from that Messiah through the lineage of
Esau was to bring salvation to all the gentiles. From that nation was to have
the millennium, and the kingdom of David, all out of the lineage of Esau. Now
this man knowing the purpose of Abraham and why God called him both for natural
and spiritual blessings, and how it passed on to Isaac, he was taught
faithfully in the house of Isaac all about GodÕs mission.
You are taught faithfully for years what this
is about! What you are hearing involves an Outpouring, it involves the Rapture,
it involves the millennium reign. It involves an
Eternal Kingdom! It involves Eternal Life. Esau knew that; he knew that there
was to be a kingdom of the Messiah, and it was going to come down through
Abraham, and through Isaac, and through the firstborn which
was Esau. It was both a natural and a spiritual promise.
After knowing all of that, the man got hungry, and hear the words that he
used: ÒWhat shall this birthright do to me? Man I am hungry to death, give me
food!Ó What was the crime of Esau? What was so wrong? The man swapped the
natural and spiritual blessings, the salvation of all the gentiles, the salvation of all the Jews. He swapped the millennium
reign of King David; he swapped an Eternal Kingdom to satisfy his appetite!
Tell me that it was not evil. Tell me, that God did not have reasons to look
from the foundation of the world and say, ÒI hate him!Ó
By this man doing that, do you
know what he had done? He despised the plan and program of God, that He had in His mind
before the foundation of the world to produce an Eternal Kingdom of sons and
daughters. When he sold that birthright, Satan, by him tried to interrupt the will of
God, the plan of God, the program of God, that God had in His mind before the
foundation of the world, and that is to bring forth a world of sons and
daughters to live forever. ThatÕs the crime that Esau committed.
Now let me show you how true
that is. When it was passed on to Jacob. Jacob became Israel; a nation came out
of Jacob. Out of Israel came forth the messiah; out of the messiah the gentiles
were blessed, millions of souls were saved, out of that came forth the
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit, out of that comes forth the millennium and then
we enter into the New World.
That blessing was to come
through Esau. When the man sold his birthright he sold everything, despised his
birthright, and counted it like dung. You know what he traded it for? An Appetite,
excuse me, - of sex. You say, ÒNo, Brother Bruce, itÕs pottage.Ó Every man that
goes to hell, goes to hell because of some appetite that he never
controlled.
This man sold his birthright
for a bowl of soup. Now this thing is coming again when men are going to sell
their birthright, and take the mark of the beast for food; I say for food,
buying and selling. ItÕs coming again; they will have a choice between the Outpouring of the
Holy Spirit, and a bowl of soup, like Esau. We are coming down to that mark of
the beast. If you have a lot in this world, you are gladly going to take the
mark of the beast to save it.
ItÕs a dangerous thing, my
brother, to go after this world. ItÕs a great temptation when that time comes. ThatÕs the truth, soldier. That is
what that man done. Was God righteous to look from the foundation of the world,
and say, ÒI hate a manÓ? Yes, because that man was going to interrupt the plan
that He had in His mind before the foundation of the world.
When Peter said, ÒLord, you
are not going to go to the cross.Ó Why do you think that the Lord rebuked him,
the man with the Keys to the Kingdom, and said,
Mark 8:33 <ÉGet thee behind me,
Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of
God, but the things that be of men.>
Do you see the seriousness, of
what Peter was doing when the Devil got upon him? He was trying, to cause Jesus
not to go to the cross; then all of us would remain in bondage. Oh my! IsnÕt
the Word sweet?
[Congregation says ÒAmen!Ó] Yes. You see the seriousness of what Peter
done? That is why He said, ÒGet thee behind me Satan, youÕre trying to sour the
plan of God here!Ó
Esau tried the same thing and
he didnÕt care anything, he sold it for his appetite. Friends, that birthright
is a type of the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Hear the word, ÔBirth-rightÕ.
Are you hearing what I am saying? [Congregation says ÒAmen!Ó] I said,
Òbirth-right.Ó If you are born in a certain way you have a certain right.
Beloved that is why the new birth comes before the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit. You got
to be born in a certain way before you have rights to the Token, or the Outpouring
of the Holy Spirit. If you are not born again, youÕre not going to get the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit, because you have no rights to it.
Why do you think that Jesus
went down to the banks of Jordan and received the fullness of the Godhead
bodily in him? Because He was born right, and he was a
first-born son. And He went down to the Jordan, and, that was His
rights. If you are born again here the Token is your rights! If you have a revelation of the Son
of Man, the Rapture cannot leave you: thatÕs your rights. We are going to
enforce our rights against Satan. Yes sir. If you believe this revelation,
thatÕs your rights. You're a candidate for the rapture, you're a candidate for
the Token, you're a candidate for the Outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. ThatÕs your rights. [Congregation rejoices!]
Anything that tries to
interrupt the plan and program of God, God hates it. That is why He said,
Revelation 2:6 <Éthou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans,
which I also hate.>
In the early church there were
certain men of unbelief, denying Jesus Christ; denying the Son of Man; denying
the Token; denying the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit; and denying the gospel:
The Lord looked down there, and He knew that they were a bunch of Esaus, he said, ÒI hate this Nicolaitan
bunch. And, I know Church, Bride that you hate their deeds too.Ó
Esau did not receive the blessing because he
counted the birthright, (which is a type of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit)
as nothing. Counted it as nothing. He did not care to live for it. He loved his
appetite more than that outpouring; and you know what is going to cause people
to miss this
outpouring of the Holy-Ghost? Their appetites! Some
serve their appetites more that they love the promise of eternal life! ThatÕs
where the problem is.
But that was not going to
show-up in the first thirty years, forty years, or fifty years, of EsauÕs life.
No, beloved, he adopted an attitude from the time he was in the prophetÕs house
and served the Lord, and he was yet religious but he became a profane person.
Look at the word profane. He became a profane person. Although he was brought
up religiously, and he was told about how important this birthright is and what
it means to the whole world, friends, he was more concerned about his appetite.
I
am talking about appetite of pride, appetite of being looked upon as a popular
heretic; appetite of showing how much you know, you show off, how better you
could sing. How educated you are, how rich you are, what a great voice that you
have, like Satan; and in so doing Esau was living that kind of life, his attitude towards what
was being preached, was wrong. I am sure that man used to ÒcussÓ, I am sure that man used to speak
evil of Jacob. When you lose your vision of life, your tongue is going to wag
in your mouth and you would not care who say what; you would not care if your
pastor is leading you, or if a Jezebel woman is leading you or if your wife is
leading you, because you lose your vision.
And the bible said that Esau
was a profane
person. Hear what the word profane means:- Not concerned with religious purposes.
Esau was more concerned with the natural, he wanted the inheritance of his
father; the land, the house, the money, but was not concerned with the religious purpose, he
was impure, and Defiled; and he defiled that which was holy:
This man, lived that kind of
gluttonous life; and when he got hungry that day, he sold his birthright. He
already had a bad attitude to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; - A type of his inheritance. He did not care if it came,
he was sorry if it was going to come because he would not get married next
year; he was sorry if the rapture came because he would not experience sex; IÕm
speaking for certain Esaus.
ÒThey are talking about token every night; I donÕt care
anything about the token; I am hearing about an outpouring every night; I am
not concerned about the outpouring; I heard that for donkey years!Ó Your attitude is nasty! And
youÕll be weeping like Esau for despising the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
ÒThey say to prepare for this token but when people get me vex I must Òcuss.Ó
Only one thing that I do when I get vex, I say what I want to say.Ó God will
show you that you cannot say what you want to say; Every
idle word that a man speaks he shall some day give an account for it.
ÒI
donÕt respect anybody. Yes. I am not afraid of anybody at church. I am not
afraid of a deacon, I am not afraid of that pastor. Who is he?Ó A man that holds up the promise of God
and waves the birthright for decades. That is who I am. And if you respect the
birthright you will respect me. If you appreciate that birthright you will
respect William Branham; you will respect Lambert.
Luke 10:16 <Éhe that despiseth you despiseth me; and
he that despiseth me despiseth
him that sent me.>
I say tonight that if you are
guilty of wagging your tongue, repent, otherwise EsauÕs disappointment will be your portion.
The emphasis that I am laying is that people do things and say things and
maintain a bad attitude and think that nothing will happen to them. When Esau
sold his birthright, nothing happened to him immediately. Life continued
another decade or two decades but there came a final hour when he was going to reap
what he sowed.
Look at the inside life of
this man, see why God hated him. God hated him because God knew the poison acid
that was down in that man. He became strong, eighteen years, twenty years, thirty years. ÒEsau I hate you, you are an abomination in my
sight.Ó He was satisfying the appetites for food and sex and this world.
Hebrews 1: 16-17 <Lest there be any fornicator,
or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For
ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was
rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully
with tears.>
Apostle Paul had some
revelation, he discovered that this man was not only hungry for food and sold
his birthright, but friends, he was a fornicator, a nasty stinking adulterer living
in the prophetÕs house, and sitting in church.
When you get up and commit
fornication, you despise the birthright, when you are a hypocrite you are
despising the birthright. It is going to catch up with you one day. This man
was committing fornication with the very heathen women of the land. God said
not to go with those unsaved women of the Hittites, thatÕs the women that Esau
chose, and it troubled his father and mother all the days of their lives. You can
see the wickedness that was in this man, he became non-religious, he became unconcerned
with the vision of Abraham and Isaac, he became impure, profane, he became
defiled and he was willing to defile that which was Holy. When he got a little
hungry he said that he was going to die. Imagine that I missed one meal, ÒI am
going to die.Ó
ÒI canÕt fast, one meal, it is
going to kill me, I canÕt fast on Saturday, I canÕt fast on Sunday, I am going
to die.Ó Yes, but you are alive to fornication, alive to adultery, alive to your nasty
life, alive to your lying tongue. After you slander, you say, ÒI did not say
anythingÓ, you liar! All liars shall have their part in the lake of fire. After
you slander you lie, you gave the deacons trouble to prove the case, O my Lord!
This man Esau had an appetite problem, he had the unsaved women as wives, he was living in fornication otherwise. All those evil
things were inside of him, so when it came up to the birthright, the token
meant nothing to him, the outpouring meant nothing to him. ÒWhat is that to me?
What is E.O.D.H., what is the promise that they are talking about.
Nothing like that is coming;Ó Yes, because you want some more time to commit
fornication, preacher, you heretic you! You want more time to collect GodÕs money.
It does not matter how much unbelief is heaped up to the sky there will be an
outpouring of the Holy Spirit and there will be a showdown like EsauÕs upon
this earth before the rapture takes place.
Repent or perish! That is why
they cannot accept
what I am preaching, that is why they cannot accept E.O.D.H., because they are
lovers of money and they serve their appetites and their bellies more than God.
When you have those kinds of appetites you have to devalue the promise of God
and eternal life.
This man was a profane person.
The Bible warns you, not to be a fellow like that, profane person; no donÕt be
a profane person like that. There was another little man who was a brother to Esau, he was full of faults until his name was called Jacob,
supplanter, a trickster. He knew about all his faults
but he had one aim and desire and that is, ÒI want that birthright at all
cost.Ó
Do
you feel that
way tonight to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; do you feel that way to the
rapture tonight? ÒLord, above all, I want to go in the rapture, Lord I donÕt
want to miss that rapture for anything, Lord I want eternal life, Lord I want
it!Ó Then God loved
you before the foundation of the world children, he seen the sacrifice. There
was a little fellow sticking by his mother - the church. Isaac was a little dim
sighted, but this little shyster stuck to his mother, held her dress-tail,
ÒMama I want that birthright, I want that Token, pastor I want that token at all
cost, I want Eternal Life, I want to go in the rapture, I want to live in the
millennium, please tell me what to do, tell me what to do. Mama said, ÒWait, I
am going to tell you how to get this thing. I know my husband more than you.Ó
She had a revelation that the elder was going to serve the younger.
She had a revelation, and she
was going to work in the will of God. The church today, has a revelation of
the coming outpouring of the Holy Spirit and they are imparting it to children
of God like unto Jacob. I am going to tell you the secret, do so and so, stir
up the appetite of your daddy and then the Holy Ghost shall come upon him and
he will bless you. He went in there to his father and knelt down, and the
father put forth his two hands upon him - by the laying on of hands the Holy
Ghost came upon them. He laid his hands upon him and he blessed him. He blessed
him so bountifully, that there was only a little blessing for Esau. When that
token comes, when that outpouring comes we are going to receive the fullness of
the blessings of the Holy Ghost insomuch that it will change our bodies and
bring the dead from the grave. I am expecting it. How many are expecting it,
how many believe this, how many want it? [Congregation says, ÒAmen!Ó] We want this
outpouring of the Holy Ghost and God loves us.
Give Him a praise offering.
Praise be to God. Talk to the Lord brethren, repent
for all your shortcomings, we are not going to despise this birthright for
anything, we are not going to deny this promise for anything, we want it more
than life. Give us a song. [Ed. Song-leader starts singing ÒHold the Fort for I Am Coming.Ó]
Let us make a joyful noise unto Him, and let us sing. Amen.