Boundaries of the Seas
JEREMIAH 5:22
22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
This word “bound” means a border, a territory enclosed within a boundary. When God sets a boundary of protection around someone’s boarder, then nothing can get pass that boundary.
PROVERBS 8:29
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
So when you came into the world, God also set his decree upon your life of boundaries to protect you for the purpose he has appointed for you.
PSALM 104:9
9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
The sea would destroy the earth if it were not that God had set boundaries against the forces and power of the seas. I am so glad that God has also set boundaries around our lives also.
Boundaries of the Seas
George Whitfield once said – “We are immortal until our work is done”
JEREMIAH 5:22 read again…
22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
***All land has a coast line that meets with the sea – and that coast line is the boundaries that God has determined in his great knowledge to keep the sea from passing over to the land. And so each coastline is shaped different for each country and Island - in other words, all of these boundaries that protect the land from the destructiveness of the sea are different for each place of where it meets the sea in the way that God has shaped and decreed it, and so this is how God deals with every person individually and shapes every one of our lives independently by putting boundary’s around us that are different for each of us depending on the purpose that God has for us to fulfil a certain portion of His word.
**In the book of Job we saw how that God set boundaries upon his life so that Satan could only go so far and no further.
JOB 1:9-12
9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? (In other words, you have set certain boundaries of protection around Job that withholds me from getting him in a destructive way – like how the sea would wash away all the land if God had not set a bounder for the sea) thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD. (Notice how that Satan couldn’t touch Job’s life because of the boundaries that God had placed upon Job’s life. God is the one that sets the boundaries of our lives)
JOB 38:11
11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Remember how a few months back we spoke about Hitler and how with all the assassination attempts on him that it seemed like he was invincible and nothing could harm him, and so we know that God had placed a boundary on his life also like Job to protect his life because if any of those assassination attempts had been successful, then the scriptures would not have been fulfilled in that a third of the Jewish race had to perish in the holocaust according to prophecy, and that required Hitler to be alive in order for that scripture to be fulfilled – and so God set a boundary of the sea so that it could not pass and destroy Hitler before his time.
It is said of Hitler that..
“Few people have been the target of as many assassination attempts as Adolf Hitler. None of them worked out as planned. The fact is that there were many people living in Hitler’s time who wanted to kill Hitler the man, and simply failed. All his life, Hitler claimed he was protected by Divine Providence; the men who gave up their lives trying in vain to kill him could hardly disagree…”
Why couldn’t Hitler be killed? Every attempt failed regardless of how full proof the plot may have been – it was because there was a boundary set on him by God, and no angry sea could go pass that boundary and destroy him because the boundary of God cannot be passed, and Hitler was the man that had to live in order for that prophecy to be fully completed – he was invisible until his work was done because the prophecy of the word can never fail.
We all know the story of when Brother Branham tried to pull the trigger of the gun upon himself to commit suicide and the gun wouldn’t go off – we see here again that there was a boundary put on his life by God that not even he himself could pass that boundary.
If God hadn’t put that boundary there, then we would never have had the message that we have today, and then there would be no faith restored, and no resurrection of the sleeping saints of the past 2000 years – look how much depended on that gun not going off. When that angry sea of death threatened to take his life, God had already set a boundary so that it could not pass over.
59-0419A MY.LIFE.STORY_ LOS.ANGELES.CA FOOTPRINTS.BOOK SUNDAY_
265 I had been game warden. I reached in there and got my gun, pistol, out from the holster. I said, "Lord, I--I can't go this anymore, I'm--I'm dying. I'm--I'm so tormented." I pulled the hammer back on the gun, put it up to my head, kneeling there on that cot in that dark room. I said, "Our Father Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thine will be done," and as I tried, and I squeezed that trigger as hard as I could, I said, "on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread." And it wouldn't go off!
266 And I thought, "O God, are You just tearing me to pieces? What have I done? You won't even let me die." And I throwed the gun down, and it went off and shot through the room. I said, "God, why can't I die and get out of it? I just can't go no farther. You've got to do something to me." And I fell over and started crying on my little, old dirty bunk there.
Daniel in the Lion’s den – God had set a boundary on Daniels life so that not even hungry lions could pass that boundary.
DANIEL 6:21-22
21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.
22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
Abimelech, the king of Gerar from our study last week - God had set a boundary on him by giving him a heart of integrity.
GENESIS 20:3-6
3 ¶ But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
Remember when Brother Branham tried to take a drink of whiskey – there had been a boundary set upon his land in the way that God had shaped the coast line of his life for the purpose that he had for his life, and it was that boundary of the word of God that stopped him from doing it…
MY.LIFE.STORY_ LA.CA FOOTPRINTS.BOOK SUNDAY_ 59-0419A
97 Remember one day Dad was going down to the river with the boys. My brother and I, we had to take a boat and go up and down the river, hunting bottles to put the whiskey in. We got a nickel a dozen for them, to pick them up along the river. And Dad was with me, and he had one of those little flat... I believe they was about a half pint bottles. And there was a tree had blowed down, and Dad... And this man was with him, Mr. Dornbush. I had his... He had a nice boat, and I wanted to find favor with him 'cause I wanted to use that boat. It had a good rudder and mine didn't have no rudder at all. We had just old boards to paddle with. And if he'd let me use that boat... So, he done welding and he made the stills for Dad. So he... They throwed their leg up across that tree, and Dad reached in his back pocket and pulled out a little flat bottle of whiskey, handed it to him and he took a drink, hand it back to Dad and he taken a drink, and he set it down on a little sucker on the side of the tree that went out. And Mr. Dornbush picked it up, said, "Here you are, Billy."
I said, "Thank you, I don't drink."
98 He said, "A Branham, and don't drink?" Every one died with their boots on, nearly. And he said, "A Branham, and don't drink?"
I said, "No, sir."
"No," Dad said, "I raised one sissy."
99 My daddy calling me a sissy! I said, "Hand me that bottle!" And I pulled that stopper out of the top of it, determined to drink it, and when I started to turn it up, "Whoooossssh!" I handed the bottle back and took off down through the field as hard as I could, crying. Something wouldn't let me do it. See? I could not say I was any good (I was determined to do it), but it's God, grace, amazing grace that kept me from doing those things. I wanted to do them, myself, but He just wouldn't let me do it.
So we want to go a little deeper with this thought before we close…
We know that it is actually the power of the word of God that actually controls these things. Brother Branham wanted to drink and smoke, but the power of the word of the prophecy kept him from doing it.
I PETER 1:3-5
3 ¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, (you have a great incorruptible inheritance that God has to make sure you arrive at safely)
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
God has to make sure that you don’t come up lost, so he sets a coast line around your land that is shaped in a certain way to protect your life so that you don’t come up lost at the end, because if he just let you do what you wanted without any boundaries of the word to protect you in the way, then you would fail to fulfil the part that he has planned for you to be.
A.GUIDE_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-7 SUNDAY_ 62-1014E
14 Now, a guide has to know the way. He has to know where he's going and what he's doing, and how to take care of you along the road. See? He's got to see that you don't come up lost. A guide is a selected man. The state selects this man if he is a guide. And now, in going on a trip into the wilderness, where perhaps you're not used to going, it's not a good thing for you to go without one. Frankly, some places you can't even go without one, for instance, Canada. The--the guide has to sign your license to the game warden. He has to sign hisself in, and he is responsible for you. If anything happens to you, it's his responsibility. He's got to take care of you. He's got to see that you're not lost. He's got to be sure that he don't send you in somewhere that you don't know your way back. And if you do get lost, he's got to know the country so well that he can pick you up just any time. See? He's got to know all these things or he cannot be a guide; he cannot be licensed to be a guide.
***We all know that God uses people to bring his word to pass, and so he has to set boundaries specific for each person to protect each of us individually in order for each of us to fulfil the purpose and the portion that God has determined for our lives in order to fulfil his word.
***If the sea prematurely destroyed us before our purpose is achieved, then certain prophecies of the word would not be fulfilled that required our lives to be instrumental in those prophecies of the scripture, and because scripture can never fail, we are effectively invincible while our work on earth is not finished.
When that voice spoke out of the poplar tree to brother Branham when he was a 7 year old boy, it told him that he had a work to do when he got older, and not to drink or smoke – this was God setting boundaries to protect him, and not even he himself (as determined as he was) could go past that boundary.
***When your grandfather tells you the story of how he nearly fell off a the cliff when he was a child, and somehow he didn’t - that was because of a boundary that was set by God upon his life, because you had to be here to fulfill the portion of the word for this hour, God had to have you here so you could believe the message of the hour – if your grandfather had fallen and died, then you wouldn’t be here today, and your theophany that is in heaven now would have had no representation here on earth or a body to pick up at the time of the translation.
*Every theophany body that is in that 6th dimension right now has to have a matching terrestrial body here on earth that is in the image of itself be able to pick up that body to form the glorified body – that is why you had to be here in this hour believing this message, and that is why God has set boundaries of protection around the coastline of your life and the lives of all your predecessors to protect you and the fulfillment of the part of the word that he thought of you to be in this hour.
***If you are a believer in the revealed word of this hour, it is only because God determined you to be that, and he put boundaries on the seas of your life so that he could guide you to this place of faith in this hour.
Boundaries of the Seas
JEREMIAH 5:22
22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?