Our Pre-Existence, Earthly Journey, and Eternal Destination Pt.4
JOB 38:1-4
1 ¶ Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? (You can make things more confusing by trying to explain things that you don’t understand properly)
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4 ¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
This question was a completely new thought to Job, because up to that point, Job had had no knowledge of his previous existence and of where he was when the foundations of the earth were being laid, and so God begins to reveal this fact to Job that he had actually existed before he had come to earth.
**And in this day, this same revelation has been opened up to us in an even greater way by the opening of the seven seals, because a prophet of God in 1965 preached a message called “Who is This Melchisedec”, showing us that the same God that had appeared to Job at the end of his suffering has also come down in this day and appeared to us at the end of the 6000 years of man’s suffering on earth.
JOB 19:25-27
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: (This verse connects to Revelation 5 – because Revelation 5 is when the Lamb takes the book of redemption that causes His subjects to sing a new song – the song of the redeemed, because we know that the literal event of Revelation 5 took place in our end time generation after the dispensation of God dealing with the seven church ages had ended)
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: (A revelation of the glorified body has been opened up to Job)
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
For 6000 years, man has been trying to answer this same question “Where did I come from, and why am I here, and where am I going after I leave this earth?”
These questions have been a great mystery to man – but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, all these mysteries should be finished.
Our Pre-Existence, Earthly Journey, and Eternal Destination Pt.4
*From our studies in the book of Job, we noticed how that Elihu’s ministry of chapters 32 to 37 (6 chapters) was the forerunner to the ministry of the Lord Himself that came down in chapter 38, and that it was the Lord Himself that (after the ministry of Elihu had ended – which represents the end time prophetic ministry of this hour) He begins to open up this mystery of the pre-existence of Job’s life of where he had been before he had come into this fallen world to experience a portion of suffering for a season of time while on earth.
ROMANS 8:18
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Because God has a purpose for this earthly journey and the struggles that we suffer with, and we can be sure that they will not be worthy to be compared to the glory that will be revealed in us later of which will be eternal.
*But before this time in Job’s life of when the Lord Himself had come down and opened to Job the mystery of his pre-existence, all Job could say was, “A man born of a woman is of few of days, and full of trouble (Job 14:1)”.
Because even though Job had a prophetic gift, up to that point he had only been able to see as far back as his earthly conception and birth, he had had no knowledge or memory of where he may have existed before he had come into this world.
**And so this was a great mystery that God wanted to open up to Job’s understanding - of his pre-existence, and then the purpose of his earthly Journey, and then his eternal destination.
**And so Job 38 (Which is the Lord himself coming down to Job after the ministry of Elihu) is connected in type to 1st Thessalonians 4:16 and Revelation 10:1 of where the Lord Himself comes down at the end of man’s time of suffering on the earth (after 6000 years), just before the start of the Millennium.
I THESSALONIANS 4:16a
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout…
We have literally seen this scripture fulfilled in our day, because the shout is the message of the hour that has gathered an end time bride together around the revelation of the coming of the Lord and the resurrection and the rapture –because His purpose was that He needed to leave His mediatorial work of being our high priest for the last 2000 years and to appear the second time as Paul tells us in Hebrews 9:28 so that He could give us back the title deed of all that Adam had lost in order to restore the fallen kingdom, and this is what is taking place in this hour right now.
*And so the challenge for us now is to learn how to operate under this new legal condition and state of what the title deed has given us access back to again – and that is what the third pull that we are walking towards is all about, it is about us relearning and becoming confident in the power of the spoken word again of what Adam had operated in before that spoken word power left him after the fall in Eden.
REVELATION 10:1a
1 ¶ And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: We have seen this event take place in reality form in our day.
**And so this great mystery of our Pre-Existence, Earthly Journey, and Eternal Destination that is revealed in the book of Job is also shown to us in many other places in the bible.
In the story of the journey of Joseph’s life, we also see these three main stages of his life - from his father’s house, to the prison house of where he would suffer for a season, and then finally to Pharaoh’s house of where he was gathered with his family of which they all lived happily ever after for the rest of their lives – a type of eternity.
*We see similar patterns in the book of Ruth, of where at the end of the story, Boaz and Ruth and Naomi are all living together in Elimelech’s redeemed inheritance.
*And so when Brother Branham arrives at the end of his natural life on earth, and when he gets to the last sermon of what he would ever preach on earth titled “Communion” (12th of December 1965), we notice that he begins to open up about this subject of his pre-existence of what had become clear to him by the revelation of the truth of this day.
COMMUNION_ TUCSON.AZ V-8 N-4 SUNDAY_ 65-1212
44 Like in the Book here, and the spot there we was talking about the--the two Books being One, the Book of Life. The first Book of life coming up, was when you were born, that was your natural birth. See? But then one time, way back down in there, there was a little grain of Life as I was explaining to some of the young sisters at the house this afternoon. See, there's a little grain of Life laying there, that you wonder, "Where did It come from? What--what these strange things?"
45 I was saying this, taking for myself, like you was going to say, "William Branham, well, forty years ago, the William Branham, it isn't the same one tonight." If somebody back there would say, "William Branham, he was a rank rascal," see, because I was born of Charles and Ella Branham. In their nature I was a sinner, I came to the world, a liar, and all the habits of the world laid right in me. But down in there, too, was another Nature present, see, predestinated, was in there by God. In this same body, see, two natures in there.
46 Well, I only catered to one. As it growed, I gooed as a baby, "Dad-da." First thing you know, I become a liar, become everything else that's a sinner, because I raised up that way. But down in there was a little speck of Life all the time.
48…Where'd you come from?"
49 What was it? There was another William Branham. See? A little spot of Eternal Life down there, from the--the--the genes of God, the Word of God that was placed in there. Each one of you can think of similar things. See, It was working.
50 Then look up to the trees, and I think, "Leaf, I seen you fall off last year, and why are you back there again? Where'd you come from? What brought you here?" See, It was that Eternal Life working in the body.
51 Now, then one day as I walked on, that Voice talking, "Don't never smoke, drink, so forth." And the young fellows and all got older. See, there was Something moving.
52 But yet all at once I looked up, and I said, "I'm not the son of Charles and Ella Branham. There's Something calling." Like my little eagle, "I'm not a chicken. There's Something up yonder, somewhere. O Great Jehovah, Whoever You are, open up! I want to come home. There's Something in me, calling."
53 Then I was born again. That little Life was laying there, the life of water was poured upon It, then It begin to grow (That little germ of this spiritual life that was in him had been placed there from a previous civilization of his pre-existence in the mind of God). Now, that old life was forgiven, put in the sea of God's forgetfulness, to never be remembered against me no more. See? Now we stand justified (as though we never had sinned) in the Presence of God.
There are seven compound redemptive names of Jehovah.
Jehovah-Jireh: The Lord will provide (Genesis 22:14).
Jehovah-Rapha: The Lord our Healer (Exodus 15:26).
Jehovah-Nissi: The Lord our Banner (Exodus 17:15).
Jehovah-Shalom: The Lord our Peace (Judges 6:24).
Jehovah-Raah: The Lord my Shepherd (Psalm 23:1).
Jehovah-Tsidkenu: The Lord our Righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6).
Jehovah-Shammah: The Lord is there (Ezekiel 48:35).
**All these compound names of God are expressing different aspects of God’s great nature of what had always been a part of His great eternal attributes but that could have never been expressed in an eternity of where there could never have been any form of suffering or a lack of resources.
*God was always a healer, but how would we have ever known that He was a healer if there had never been a man that had become sick, and so if God had never allowed a man to ever become sick, then God could never have expressed to us that mysterious part of His great character - and then for all of eternity, there would have been this part of God’s nature that would have always remained hidden from us – and then the mystery of God could never have been revealed.
*If there had never been a man experience the emotion of sorrow, then God could never have expressed Himself as the comforter – and this is the same for all of these attributes of God.
*If a man had never experienced the reality of being lost, then we would never have been able to know Him as our Saviour and guide.
***And so the purpose of God was locked up in these things - of the purpose of Him needing to express these great attributes of himself to man.
**And so this is why that it was through these sufferings of Job, that God was able to reveal to Job the revelation of that, “I know my Redeemer liveth,” because to redeem is to bring you back to the condition of the state of where you had once been before, and because you fell from that place, then you needed to be redeemed back, but you needed a redeemer, one who could take the book and open to you the seals of the mystery of your life – of your pre-existence, earthly journey, and eternal destination.
***So from our Pre-Existence in the mind and consciousness of God, to our Earthly Journey into a world that was in a condition of a fallen state because of what had taken place in Eden, and then on to our Eternal Destination of our being fully redeemed back again to our state of fellowship with God of where we were at the beginning, and now with the full attributes of God having been fully made known and unveiled to us – the mystery of God is finished according to the prophecy of Revelation 10:7.
**And this is what Job’s three friends had failed to understand with all their arguments as to why these things had befallen Job, because they had not been able to understand this great purpose of God of the revealing of Himself to man.
**And we also notice interestingly of how these three friends of Job - that their arguments against Job had come out from their unique and individual backgrounds of their different worldviews and life’s experiences.
* Eliphaz come from the viewpoint of emotions, because he talked about this supernatural experience that he had one night that had made his hair stick up on the back of his neck.
JOB 4:13-15
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
He thought that by this personal and sensational experience of the supernatural, that this made him more superior and knowledgably qualified to judge Job’s condition.
*Then Bildad came from the angle of human tradition.
JOB 8:8 ¶ For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
*Then Zophar spoke from the perspective of human wisdom in that it made perfect human sense that God would not allow a man to be punished in this way if he wasn’t a sinner – because to his logical mind, that idea would put God’s justice into question, and it is surprising how many people in the world have this same viewpoint.
*And so all three of these friends of Job had had very good points of argument when it came to human reasoning and logic, but yet we know that they were all wrong in their application to Job’s situation.
*And this is why we have to be very careful not to judge other people of how God is dealing with their lives, because you can never fully know how God in His great wisdom is dealing with people by the trials that come their way, because His ways are past finding out.