KOCOUREK’S HERESIES
RAPTURE, RESURRECTION STARTED - PAROUSIA
Heretical Articles Nos. 783 to 788
CHAPTER TWELVE
II Peter 2:2-19 <But there were false prophets also
among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily
shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and
bring upon themselves swift destruction.
And many shall
follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil
spoken of.
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words
make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and
their damnation slumbereth not.
… But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the
lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled,
they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
… But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken
and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall
utterly perish in their own corruption;
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as]
they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and
blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with
you;
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease
from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed children:
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone
astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness;
But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass
speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried
with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they
allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were
clean escaped from them who live in error.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are
the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he
brought in bondage.>
FOUNDATION
OF RAPTURE HERESIES –
PAROUSIA-PRESENCE
Many heresies have their
roots in the “Parousia” doctrine. Parousia simply means “Presence of Christ.” The word is
employed to make a simple doctrine mysterious, super-spiritual and to exalt
ambitious men. It concerns 1 Thessalonians 4: 16: The descending of the Lord
with a shout, voice and trumpet before the first resurrection, the changed body
and the rapture.
It is simply true and evident by the written Word and message of the prophet that the
Lord Himself descended from heaven at the event of the seals, His presence will be with His elected Bride
and the ministry of Christ who has the Word and revelation of the message of
Malachi 4: 5-6. Therefore, not all
who use the mysterious term of “Parousia” are identified with His presence nor
will Christ Himself identify Himself by His presence with those who preach
heresies.
To be spiritual and
experience the presence of God, it is not necessary to use the word “Parousia.”
If message believers sit under the
truth, be honest and sincere to God, they will experience God’s presence.
If they continue to humble their hearts, God will give them all that is
necessary for the next outpouring of the Spirit and the rapture.
Most message ministers who
preach Parousia have never experienced
the presence of the Lord. It is evident that if a man preaches heresies, he
automatically cuts himself off from the presence of the Lord. Cain rejected the
revelation of the blood, and was arrogant, angry and proud when God corrected
him, and he went out from the presence of the Lord. Likewise, His presence
departed from
Pastor Kocourek has
spiritualized the events before the rapture in his parousia teachings. (Pastor
Kocourek’s book; “Parousia - Presence of Christ.”) He preaches a heresy on the
actual doctrine of parousia, saying that it
is the appearing of the Lord. The appearing of the Lord was fulfilled in
the ministry of W.M. Branham. It was accompanied by signs wonders and miracles,
which made the coming of the Lord known, and it was also confirmed by the sign
of discernment, even like when the Lord appeared unto Abraham. Kocourek further
perverted the events before the rapture, namely: the first resurrection, the
changed body and the rapture itself. He is teaching that the appearing of the Lord is in a man, but is secretive and
tightlipped about that man’s identity. This heresy is bigger than any can
imagine.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
<For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise
first.
Then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.>
Heretical
Article No. 783: The Rapture is a process
that began in Luther.
Quote Pastor Kocourek: Notice brother Branham said the one makes
a way for the other. Look, he also told us in the Rapture sermon that the
Rapture is a process that began in
Luther, which was represented in the seed coming forth from the ground.
Notice under
E.O.D.H. Answer: Nowhere did the prophet say that the rapture is a process, and much
less that it began in Luther or in any other age, year or time. It is not a
process but the aftermath of such events. Reformation
could never be rapture. Even if you are making a type, it cannot fit. It’s
a dumb doctrine. The rapture follows
a changed body. Luther’s body was never changed. And this “aspect of the
rapture” that you are teaching, is a heresy, super-spiritual, heretical, and a
perversion of simple scriptures. It is spiritually dumb. How is it that you
never spoke of the rapture taking place with the apostles and the early church? Their souls were perfected by the
Word and presence of God. They were a hairline away from the rapture; and yet
for a man to say that the rapture started then, it is a heresy. That shows the
infidelity invested in this heresy.
The rapture cannot take
place until 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 is fulfilled. This takes place in the end
time, not in Luther’s day or any of the past ages. Therefore, your parousia
doctrine is erroneous and heretical, and a perversion
of the true revelation of parousia. The Roman Catholic priests spoke in
Latin to deceive the masses but you speak in Greek to deceive message believers
internationally. If the rapture began in Luther, then the shout, voice and
trump began with him. Impossible! It’s isolated to the loosing of the seals.
After such events, then shall the
catching away be.
Heretical Article No. 784: The resurrection has already started. We have already been resurrected spiritually.
Quote Pastor Kocourek: …the apostle Paul said, and brother Branham taught as
well, that we have already been spiritually resurrected from the dead. That is
why we all do not have to die first. There is a group who will be living, and
we that are alive and remain to the Parousia
of the Lord will be changed in the moment, in the Twinkling of an eye, when the
Trumpet sounds.
… This evening we are going to look at this process of the body change. We know a
loud voice is a shout, therefore, I believe that the resurrection has already began. It is a process that happens over a
period. The living are spiritually resurrected or awakened from a deep sleep,
and then those that sleep in the grave. But the Living are quickened first,
then the dead come froth in Life. (Questions and Answers #19 - What is the new
Birth? Part 2 Brian Kocourek, Pastor September 29, 2007).
E.O.D.H. Answer: This is not far from the doctrine of Hymenaeus and
Philetus. They preached that the resurrection
is passed, and you preach that it has started. It’s the same spirit of
heresy. Their doctrine ate like a canker, and yours will eat like a cancer. They erred, thus you erred. It’s vain babbling
and ungodliness.
II Timothy 2: 16-18
<But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto
more ungodliness.
And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is
Hymenaeus and Philetus;
Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the
resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.>
The first
resurrection has not started. You are
not more spiritual than the prophet. If that was so, he would have declared it
when the seals were opened. You lied on Paul. If he was here, he will put you
into the hands of Satan that you may learn not to speak blasphemies. Brother
Branham used no such statements. You lied on the man’s wife, now you are lying
on him everywhere in your parousia heresies. Nowhere did the prophet spiritualize the resurrection of 1
Thessalonians 4:16. He knew more about parousia than all the parousia heretics,
and he never made such a dumb statement. This is misleading to the followers of
the message and is designed of Satan to overthrow their faith, even as
Hymenaeus and Philetus overthrew the faith of some of the people in their age.
And I am very familiar with
the quotations of the prophet which states that “we have the potentials to be
resurrected, when Christ rose we rose with Him, when we receive the Holy Spirit
potentially we are resurrected and we are already sitting in heavenly places
and are resurrected in him.” We believe those things and preach them, and
Brother Branham was correct in what he was saying. But that is in a different
light and concerns the redemption of the soul. That adds up to Romans 8: 30
which said that we are already justified and glorified.
Romans 8: 29-30 <For whom he did foreknow, he also
did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also
called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them
he also glorified.>
Quote
W.M.B.: 22-1
Let us now notice this quickening Spirit as it come upon other people,
like it did on the day of Pentecost… They knowed He'd died; they know He had
risen…But here on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit, the Abstract, fell
upon the believers that made them part of His resurrection… The Holy Spirit
came and confirmed to them that they would be raised up, because they were
potentially raised then from cowards to brave men. (Easter Seal 65-0410)
Quote: 19-1 It's the same Spirit that raised Him up that
quickened the true believer to Eternal Life. Now, remember, potentially now…Notice, the same Spirit... in Romans 8:11
now... But if the Spirit of him... (God, the Holy Spirit)... that raised up
Jesus from the dead dwell in you,...
Now, there you are: if the Bridegroom's Spirit dwells
in the Bride. (Rising Of The Sun 65-0418M).
Brother Branham never connected that to 1
Thessalonians 4: 16 because that is the manifestation of what is predestinated.
Who gave you the authority to
connect 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 to that? Show me where the prophet ever did such.
That scripture is speaking of the resurrection of the body. You by your parousia have
spiritualized the redemption of the soul
and heretically applied it to the resurrection of the body. The prophet did not
apply 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 that way, neither did Paul. Who are you? Certainly
not the appearing of the Lord.
Heretical Article No. 785: The
voice of the resurrection wakes the
sleeping virgins.
Quote Pastor Kocourek: …the Shout has already begun. The Lord has already
descended with a Shout. And that Shout is a Message quickly gathering His
people. Then the next thing is the Voice which if you will remember in the
Alpha Ministry of Jesus Christ, when He cried with a Loud Voice, the graves
were opened and many of the sleeping saints arose and came out of there graves
after He was resurrected. Therefore the Voice, the Loud Voice is to waken the
sleeping virgins as we also saw in Matthew 25, the Wise are awakened out of
there sleep.
E.O.D.H.
Answer: Pastor, nowhere in scriptures
and the message can you prove that the
voice of the resurrection awoke the sleeping virgins. It’s a cry that awoke all the virgins. The
prophet indicated it as the shout, and that was his message.
Quote W.M.B.: 141 The first thing come when He starts descending from the heaven,
there's a shout. What is it? It's a
Message to get the people together. A Message comes forth first. Now,
"Lamp trimming time. Rise and trim your lamps." What watch was that?
The seventh, not the sixth, the seventh. "Behold the Bridegroom cometh. Rise and trim your lamps." And
they did. Some of them found they didn't even have any oil in their lamp. See?
But it's lamp trimming time. It's Malachi 4 time when you come... It's Luke 17.
(The Rapture 65-1204).
If that happens, it means that the foolish virgins are going in the rapture,
because according to your doctrine, the first resurrection will begin in them,
even as the wise virgins. So now, where is your theory? It’s wrong, it’s
senseless, unscriptural and not message based. All that hear the voice of the
resurrection are sheep, bride members and will go in the rapture, because it transforms their souls and gets them born again. The foolish
virgins were not Bride members, born again nor baptized with the Holy Ghost,
therefore they missed the rapture. This is another parousia nonsense that
cannot be backed up by the scriptures.
IDENTICAL
HERESIES
Heretical
Article No. 786: The Rapture is in
different stages. The three stages of the Rapture are the shout, voice
and trumpet.
Quote Pastor Kocourek: Apparently
you are aware that we receive our change under
the Shout, Voice and
trumpet which are three stages of the rapture. (Christ Revealed in His Own Word #111, Who is This Melchesidec #1 June 18,
1997 .)
…He descends
he will let forth a Shout. That is the first faze of the Rapture or catching away. (God’s provided place of
worship October 15, 1995).
…Now, we know the Rapture is already in Process
because a vindicated prophet told us that the Lord does three things in His
descent, a Shout, A Voice and a trumpet. And he told us the Shout is the
Message... The next thing is the Voice which Brother Branham said is the
Resurrection, the same voice that raised Lazarus from the Grave. And that was
not the voice of the Son of God, but God that was indwelling His Son. He said
Lazarus come forth and he did.
The last is the trump which is the catching away. And
that is what takes us out of here. So there is a time element to the three
phases of the Rapture. (Questions and
Answers no. 14 Return Ministry August
19th, 2007 Brian Kocourek, Pastor).
Quote Dr.
Lee Vayle: …and the Seventh Seal, that was to be broken to the
public. That was in a three-fold manner. Now you tell me if the Rapture is not in a three fold manner.
"Well, I
don't know if I've got the right to compare it that close, but I'm just
interested in knowing." I'm interested in knowing, if it wasn't on December 4, 1965 that the Seventh Seal was
broken to the public. At least the tremendous revelation of the Rapture was
part of the Seventh Seal. (Lee
Vayle Rapture Rapture #3).
E.O.D.H. Answer: From the above quotations of Pastor Kocourek and Dr. Vayle, their
heresies are identical. This heresy of Dr. Vayle was exposed as “Heretical Article No. 758, page 115: The
rapture is in a threefold manner.” The
coming of the Lord is in a threefold manner, but the rapture is not in a
threefold manner. And the fact that we did not receive our change under the
shout is evident. Here again you are falsely spiritualizing the changed body to mean the soul. The shout did
not change the soul. It was the cry to announce the coming of the Lord. The
voice of Christ converts the souls of the sheep by a revelation of Christ,
RAPTURE IS A REVELATION – BRIDE WAITING
Quote
W.M.B.: 65 But to the church, the
Bride, the rapture is a revelation to her. It's revealed to her, that the
revelation, the true Bride of Christ will be waiting for that revelation of the
rapture. (The Rapture 65-1204).
SEVEN THUNDERS
– RAPTURING FAITH
Quote: 128-2 {75} And then there's coming forth seven mysterious thunders
that's not even written at all. That's right. And I believe that through those
seven thunders will be revealed in the last days in order to get the Bride
together for rapturing faith; because what we got right now, we wouldn't be
able to do it. There's something we've got to step farther; we can't have
enough faith for Divine healing hardly. We've got to have enough faith to be changed in a moment and be swept up out of this
earth. (The First Seal 63-0318).
All can observe the suggestive manner in which Dr.
Vayle has presented this gross error concerning the rapture in three stages.
Pastor Kocourek has spoken about the same heresy in the positive and affirmative.
It shows how deluded he is in his perversion of the parousia doctrine. If Dr.
Vayle has stepped down in age and is not very alert as he used to be, I think
that a healthy, strong man like Pastor Kocourek should try to help Dr. Vayle,
instead of turning his suggestions into
vital doctrines and deceiving thousands around the world. Did he have the
permission to publicly advertise Dr. Vayle’s suggestions? I doubt it; unless it’s
under duress at his age.
Quote Dr.
Lee Vayle: …and the Seventh Seal, that was to be broken to the
public. That was in a three-fold manner. Now you tell me if the Rapture is not
in a three fold manner.
"Well, I don't know if I've got the
right to compare it that close, but I'm just interested in knowing." I'm
interested in knowing, if it wasn't
on December 4, 1965 that the Seventh Seal was broken to the public. At least
the tremendous revelation of the Rapture was part of the Seventh Seal. (Lee Vayle Rapture
Rapture #3).
E.O.D.H.
Answer: No Brother Vayle, the rapture
is not in a threefold manner, you
don’t have a right to compare it with the 7th seal’s three folds.
There is no scripture nor quotation which says that. This is to pervert the
message. The coming of the Lord is in
three phases, the seventh seal is in a threefold manner, but the rapture is
not. We shall be caught up to meet him in the air, period! Other scriptures are
to be fulfilled prior to the rapture-the catching away, but cannot be termed
folds of the rapture.
If we are interested in knowing about the seventh
seal, we should obey the instructions of the prophet. He said not to make any isms on the seventh
seal, go on and live a Christian life, be humble; don’t interpret anything, go
on with the plain message; and if we
would know anything God would send it. Your suggestion is an “ism”. Let us
obey the prophet. Humble your heart Brother Kocourek. Make no isms of the seven
thunders.
DON’T MAKE ANY “ISM”; IT ISN’T OPENED
Quote
W.M.B.: 577-1 {400} And now, if this tape would happen to fall
into the hands of some persons somewhere, don't
try to make any kind of an "ism" out of it. The only thing you
do, you just continue serving God, because this great secret is so great that
God wouldn't even let John write it. It thundered out, but He... knowing
that... promising us that it would be opened, but to this time, it isn't opened. (The seventh seal 63-0324E).
Quote: 459-5 {16} And so, but if the--the church here not
supposed to know these things, so don't
put no interpretation to anything. See? You just go ahead and just remember
what you're told; live a Christian life. Go to your church, be a real light
wherever you are, and just burn for Christ, and tell the people that how you
love Him. And just let your testimony be with love all the time with the people
(See?), 'cause if you don't you twist yourself out into something there, and
then you're--you're off the beaten track.
See, every-time you try to do it, you've done that.
See? So just don't--don't--don't try to
make no interpretation. And
especially tonight, when that Seal becomes up in front of you. See? Just don't
try to interpret it. You just go ahead and just
be humble and go right on with the same plain message. Now you say,
"Brother Branham, is that... we, being the Church of the Living God,
shouldn't we..."
Well, as I was trying... Look here, I want to say...
Say, "Why can't I? I ought to have..."
No, no. I... Don't... You remember, I'm saying this
for your good. See, I'm saying it so that you'll understand. If you believe me
now, listen to what I tell you. See, see? (QA. On The Seals 63-0324M).
Heretical Article No. 787: The rapture has already started.
Quote Pastor
Kocourek: He descends he will let forth a Shout. That is the
first faze. (God’s provided place of worship # 86, The Fulness. Brian Kocourek,
October 15, 1995)
Quote Dr. Lee Vayle: And he put the Cloud of Angels absolutely with the
Pillar of Fire that they caught in Houston-said, "the same thing"-the
seven mighty messengers embodying the Holy Ghost that came with the seven delineations of the Seven Seals, and
the Seventh Seal, that was to be broken to the public. That was in a three-fold
manner. Now you tell me if the Rapture is not in a three fold manner.
"Well, I
don't know if I've got the right to compare it that close, but I'm just
interested in knowing." I'm
interested in knowing, if it wasn't on December 4, 1965 that the Seventh
Seal was broken to the public. At least the tremendous revelation of the
Rapture was part of the Seventh Seal. (Lee Vayle Rapture Rapture
#3).
Lee
Vayle Rapture Rapture #4: P:50 We are not in the Rapture in
the sense of the dead out of the ground. We
are into the Rapture in one place-to the living, to the living.
Lee
Vayle Rapture Rapture #11: P:60 I want to tell you
something, brother/sister: either this is true, or forget it. Either the
prophet told us the truth and this is
the first phase, the Seals is the Message, and this is the Capstone, this
is it or else, brother/sister, I don't know what he talked about.
Lee
Vayle Rapture Rapture #7 : Brother/sister, I just want to
tell you again: as far as I'm concerned, the
Rapture is going on. It's already started. People can do what they want.
You say, "They're going to laugh at you." They're laughing right now.
"They're going to fight you." They're doing it right now. What do I
care?
E.O.D.H. Answer: This expresses how faithfully taught is Pastor Kocourek. This is a duplicate of Dr. Vayle’s
heresy. The rapture has not yet started. It does not take place over a period
of time. The rapture is a catching away which takes place as the aftermath of the coming of the
Lord.
The Rapture never even
started up to the time of the death of the prophet. He said in 1965 that the
Bride will be waiting on the Revelation of the rapture. Dr. Vayle said that the
rapture has already started while the prophet was yet alive. Who should we
believe? The prophet never preached that doctrine. You are not more spiritual
than him. You are perverting the scriptures. The Bride has a changed body before she is caught away.
That is God’s order. Now show me, I demand of you, if you have any light in
you, prove to me how the rapture could start before the changed body, which is
in a moment’s time. I can clearly say that you do not understand that the changed body is different from the
rapture. Away with your parousia nonsense and come to the Word of God. You are
deceiving people. The prophet never even hinted this nonsensical doctrine in
any of his messages. You cannot show anybody that the rapture has started. To
apply that to the changing of the soul
by birth and baptism is wrong. You are misplacing the scriptures by your
misinterpretation of 1 Thessalonians 4: 16.
That revelation of the
rapture that the Bride is waiting for is locked up in the seven thunders,
because the thunders are to produce rapturing faith.
Heretical
Article No. 788: The doors of
mercy are still open… when the seals were opened Jesus stepped up onto His
Father’s Throne and is still making intercession for our confession.
Quote Pastor
Kocourek: … they believe that Jesus came off the Throne of God
and took the book and then came down with it, but that is not what happens. The
Lamb did not come down with the Book open. God did. What happened here is that
the lamb stood before God, and came forward to open the book, and then he gives
the book to the Father Who is sitting on the Throne of God. Then when God steps
off His throne and comes to earth. This is seen in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and
Revelations 10:1-7. At his time when
he Father comes, the lamb has
climbed upon the Father’s throne, which is the throne of God, and stay’s there until God finishes the
work.
…So you see, this one who
opened the book then gave the book to His Father, who then stepped down from
His throne and the lamb then sat down on the Father’s throne while God Himself
came down to earth to place all things under the feet of His son. (The Masterpiece 120 He’s Still on the Throne of Mercy
April
1st, 2007 Brian Kocourek)
Quote Pastor Kocourek: Notice that the doors of mercy are still open. Therefore when the seals were opened Jesus
did not step off the mercy seat. He stepped up onto His Father’s Throne of
Mercy and is still making intercession for our confession. (The Parables of
Christ no. 15 The Throne of Mercy and Judgment January 4, 2004 Rev. Brian
Kocourek).
Quote Dr.
Lee Vayle: But, let me tell you factually; the Son was placed
upon the Mercy Seat behind the throne. And, when the Book was called to be
opened from the hand of the One that sat upon the throne, which was Almighty
God Himself with a rainbow over His head, it was the Lamb that came and took the Book out of the hand of the One
that was sitting on the throne, (Two people are there.) and he opened the Book,
opened the Seals, and handed it back to the One on the throne. And the prophet
told us by revelation the One on the
throne got off and came down here, and the Son got on the throne. (Lee Vayle, Godhead #8 – Q&A God
Is in His Word, Key #3: Having the Petition You Desire March 5, 200077).
E.O.D.H. Answer: Both Dr. Vayle and Pastor Kocourek agree on the same heresy. There is
no scripture nor quotation to support this. I challenge them both to prove this
heresy. Yes, it is true that the door of mercy is still open but their
interpretation of it is wrong.
This heresy seeks to
justify the fact that the Blood of Christ's atonement is yet effective to
sinners, on the basis that since 1963 the bloody Lamb occupied the vacant seat
of God to continue His mediatorial
work. Another version of the same heresy states that He returned to the mercy
seat to continue His mediatorial work after He opened the 7 seals.
This heresy is saying that the Lamb left the mercy seat, came and took the
Book, loosed or revealed the Seals, and at the same time, the One who was
sitting on the throne descended from heaven and came down to earth according to
1 Thessalonians 4:16, and then the Lamb sat upon the throne of God, making
intercession for us.
This heresy expresses gross
scriptural ignorance upon the subject of the
atonement and its simple plan evidently documented in the Scriptures of the
Old and New Testament. God has only one
ordained place within His temple, where the Blood of atonement is accepted
for the salvation of sinners, and that is upon the mercy seat behind the second
veil in the holiest place. The Old Testament temple was patterned after the one
in heaven. Christ Jesus, the lamb entered once into the heavenly temple within
the holiest place and offered his own blood upon God's mercy seat for the
redemption of sinners. If Christ enters twice to make intercession, He is reduced to the Aaronic High Priest and
is not the Melchisedec priest. Thus this heresy is a lie that has belittled the
great Melchisedec priesthood of endless life.
Hebrews 9: 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.>
It's the only place in
heaven that intercession by the Blood of Christ can take place. (Hebrews Chapters 8 and 9) Thus I
emphatically state that this heresy has no scriptural nor message foundation.
It has broken all the types and shadows of the old Jewish temple set up by the
command of God through Moses. It has totally disregarded the revelation of Paul
the apostle in the book of Hebrews where
he taught of the heavenly temple and the holiest place where Christ entered to
perform His mediatorial work as a High Priest after the order of Melchisedec.
There is absolutely no scripture nor quotation
of Brother Branham that even suggests, and far less to prove that the Lamb
ascended the judgment throne of God
after He opened the seven seal book.
In opposition to this
heresy Brother Branham taught that when the Lamb takes the Book and opens the
seals it's time for Him to claim the
purchased possession, “the Elected Bride” because His intercessory days are
over.
Quote W.M.B.: “[John]
never noticed [the Lamb] before. Why? He had been back there doing His
mediatoral work, for He was bleeding - intercessing for the people until the
last soul that was put on the Lamb's book of Life before the foundation of the
world come in. So then when that last soul comes in, then the time of
redemption is finished. Then the Lamb comes forth to claim His rights to what
he has redeemed." (Seals pg.
233-234)
Quote W.M.B.: “After
[the Lamb] had been slain, It had raised again and was sitting on the Throne,
way back in behind the Throne like
this interceding for all of those souls that would come. Then when the last one
was here and it was completed, God still held the book of
redemption." (Seals page 234)
REVELATION CHAPT. 4 – JUDGMENT THRONE
Quote W.M.B.: “Let's
speak of this throne now for a few minutes. This was not a throne of mercy's,
mercy throne is finished. No more mercy,
its without mercy… The white throne judgment is there going to be mercy then?
There is not one speck of mercy to be given. At the judgment throne you could
scream“mercy” till you couldn't scream no more, cause there's no more mercy”.
(Revelation Chapter 4, part 3 - Throne of Mercy and Judgment, 61-0108, par. 91)
Quote W.M.B.: “I
want you to notice that this was not a
throne of grace no more…There the blood had been gone... The blood was off
the mercy seat. And it was now a judgment seat, because thunders and lightening
issued off of it. Is that right?” (Page 662 - Revelation chapter 4, part
2, Twenty Four Elders, 61-0101, par.
207)
In essence, this damnable
heresy is saying that the lamb continues to do his mediatorial on the throne of
God, which is a judgment throne.
Scriptures speak of only one place within the
INTERCESSION TAKES PLACE BEHIND THE THRONE
Quote W.M.B.: “And
now, we found out that a slain lamb is a bloody lamb, bleeding all over. It's
been slayed. After It'd been slain, It'd raised again and was setting on the
throne, way back in behind the throne
like this, interceding for all those souls that would come. Then when the last
one was here and it was completed, the... God still held the Book of
Redemption. See? Now, He's just doing the Kinsman work now… Now, notice, but
then after it was all over, after the--His--His interceding was done, He comes
forth, takes the Book out of the hand of Him.” (Seals, 63-0320, page 234)
CHRIST DOING MEDIATORIAL WORK IN 1964
Quote: “He's setting at the right hand of God
tonight doing His mediatorial work. And when that last soul is saved that
was redeemed and seen and knowed by God before the foundation of the world,
when that last soul's saved, that closes the Book. Then the Lamb comes out and
takes the Book out of the right hand of Him
that sets upon the throne.” Christ Is Identified The Same, 64-0415,
par.E-5)
I believe that the door of
mercy is yet open until the last soul is saved like the prophet stated above,
but do not believe that He is upon God’s judgment throne interceding for those
souls. It’s a heresy and gross perversion of the plan of salvation.