Seeing Jesus and His Program Pt.5
II CORINTHIANS 3:14-16
14 But their minds were blinded (notice where their blindness was – it was not that their natural eyes were blinded, but it was in their minds, and your mind is your understanding, your revelation, so they were blinded to the revelation of God for that day, they could not see Jesus and his program): for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it (their heart’s) shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
Seeing Jesus and His Program Pt.5
MATTHEW 13:10-11
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Last week we learned that at the first coming of Christ, the difference between a disciple of Jesus and the general public was that the true disciple of Christ was given an understanding of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven exclusive to everyone else.
***In other words, at Christ’s first coming, the mysteries of the kingdom were only revealed and understood by the elect for that age, and so to the elect who saw Jesus when he came the first time, the mysteries were not mysteries anymore, but to the public, the mysteries remained mysteries.
**So everyone outside of the elected group of Jesus day were blinded from a clear understanding of the word for their day, and so it is to repeat again in this second coming of the revealing of the son of man. Only the elect will see Jesus for this day and understand His program for this hour.
Opening scripture:
II CORINTHIANS 3:14-16
14 But their minds were blinded (notice again where their blindness was – not with their natural eyes, but it was a blindness of their understanding to see the word manifest for their day, they were blind to the revelation of Christ for that day, they couldn’t see Jesus for their time): for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. That is why when you truly come into Christ under the revelation of this hour, then the veil that is blocking you from seeing the word for this hour is taken away. That is the evidence of the inner teacher dwelling within you - that is the evidence of the Holy Ghost, because when he comes into you, he will lead you and guide you into all truth.
15 But even unto this day, when (William Branham) Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it (their heart’s) shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
**What veil? – the vail in their understanding that is stopping them from seeing Jesus and His program for this hour.
There are many vails that can prevent us from seeing Jesus and His program for this hour.
- It can be the vail of our own private interpretation of the word, it can be the vail of tradition.
If we were raised and influenced by some denominational teaching as a child or even an adult, then we can unconsciously harbour deep concepts of scripture that block us from the understanding of the true revelation of the word for this day.
*Another vail is the vail of our own self-styled ways and ambitions and pride and general lack of interest in the things that God had done in this generation, Satan has conjured up so many distractions in this age.
In fact anything that blinds you from seeing the word presentence is a veil that is hiding God from you – it’s keeping you from seeing Jesus and his program of events and achievements for this day.
*The Seventh Seal is the revealing of Christ in this generation, it is the coming of Christ by the revealing of his word to you personally.
MALACHI 4:5-6
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
The heart refers to your understanding, your revelation of the word – It is the clear and correct understanding of the word that makes the difference.
LUKE 17:30
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed (The coming of the Son of man is by a revelation to an elected end time people – that is His coming in this hour).
MATTHEW 24:27
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
So what does the coming of Christ actually look like in this age – At His first coming it was a people that saw Jesus for that how and had the mysteries made clear to them, and so it must repeat again in the second coming of Christ, there must be a people that the mysteries are being opened to by the message of this hour – the same Jesus that taught them then is here again to teach us now.
The mysteries that have been made clear to us in this end time age are being made clear in the minds of the elect by the Son of man himself coming to us and shining light and illumination into our minds so that we can see Jesus and his program for this hour.
9-1 INTRODUCTION.THE.REVELATION.OF.JESUS.CHRIST - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.1
INTRODUCTION
…for out of the Ages come the Seals, and out of the Seals come the Trumpets, and out of the Trumpets come the Vials. Like the first burst of a Roman candle, the Church Ages come forth with a mighty initial illumination, without which there could be no further light. But once the brilliance of the Seven Church Ages is given by Divine revelation, light upon light follows, until the whole of the Revelation opens wide before our wondering eyes; and we, edified and purified by its Spirit, are made ready for His glorious appearing, even our Lord and Saviour, the One True God, Jesus Christ.
**God’s program for the bride and for you as an indervidual in this hour includes many things.
- Firstly he will revealed himself to you though his word and by the message of the hour for this day, then you will see Christ for your day.
Then you will begin to see His program which not only includes your resurrection but also includes the resurrection of 2000 years of church age saints.
His program for this hour will also cause our bodies to put on immortality, it will cause a people to be taken off this earth and be taken over into the new world in the millennium just like Noah’s group did.
- His program for you also includes restoring you back to the correct relationship with God as what Adam enjoyed before the fall.
- His program for you also includes giving you back dominion over the earth – the power of the spoken word coming back to man again because man was made in the image of God, and when God speaks, his word never fails to come to pass, and so man is to be in the likeness of that.
*God has a great program in this hour that he wants us to understand and be a part of, He wants us to be interested, he wants is to see Jesus and HIS Program, not the television programs of the devil that the entire world is caught up in and deceived by - that is what is blinding them from the program of God for this day, they are so busy seeing Satan and his programs that they can’t see Jesus and his program for this hour.
CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728
503 But all this mystery is revealed only, as He promised, to His Bride. Hell is against this Truth, of the revelation of this mystery. But the Bride is standing on it. That's Her stand.
504 Why do you hunger, Church, why do you thirst? It's the Father trying to reveal this hidden secret to you. But you let so many things get it out of you. You let your job, you let your wife, you let your husband, you let your children, you let the cares of the world, you let some pastor, you let somebody else get that out of you, when you know that way down in your heart you're thirsting, hungry. It's God trying to reveal it to you, see, the revelation. The last day is here. **God’s great program for you in this hour is to reveal Christ personally to you by the opening of the word of this day so that you can come into a oneness with God and have the right relationship with him – the same relationship that Adam lost before the fall is what God is wanting to restore back to the bride of this hour. That is why He in only revealing these things to his elected bride.
***We can all see Satan and his program for this day, he has had little trouble in revealing it to the entire world through his Hollywood teaching programs called the 20th Century Fox. A fox is crafty and cunning at catching his prey, and this 20th Century Fox has caught the entire world through his cunningness of deceit. ***To the Bride God sent a 20th Century Prophet, to the world Satan sent a 20th Century Fox.
**Satan’s program for this age is to deceive the minds of the people of the entire world and be worshiped as God; he is the god of this evil age.
But Christ’s program in this hour is to reveal the word to you so that the truth will combat the deceit.
***People (even religious people) are totally blinded to the fact that they are actually worshiping Satan in their churches. That is hard for many people (even some message people) to understand – but that is what the prophet of this hour has taught us.
SATAN'S.EDEN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 SUNDAY_ 65-0829
21 And, remember, they spewed Him out; and He was on the outside of the church, trying to get back on the inside, in that awful Laodicean Church Age. (The people have failed to see Jesus and his program in this age as they did in the time of his earthly pilgrimage.)
22 The god of this world today, the worshiped person of this world today, is Satan. And the people are ignorant of worshiping Satan, but it's Satan impersonating himself as the church, see, as the church. They worship Satan, thinking that they are worshiping God through the church, but it's the way Satan has done it.
SATAN'S.EDEN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 SUNDAY_ 65-0829
25 People, ignorantly worshiping Satan, thinking they are worshiping God; as we are warned by prophecy, in Second Thessalonians.
II THESSALONIANS 2:1-4
1 ¶ Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 ¶ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first (a falling away from the truth because they rejected whom God hath sent to this generation), and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (the revelation of the antichrist which has been made clear to our understanding by this message is the spirit of denomination which is man over man)
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
SATAN'S.EDEN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 SUNDAY_ 65-0829
27 That deceitfulness of the church of today! See, "the son of perdition," the devil. "The son of perdition," the devil. Then, people worshiping Satan in this day, thinking they're worshiping God. But they're worshiping him through a creed, a man-made denominations and creeds that's brought the people right down to the greatest deception that the world has ever knowed of. No matter how much the Word of God promised for this day, is preached and vindicated, they still won't believe It. They won't believe It.
28 Then why? We wonder why. Why doesn't it; why won't they believe It? When God said He would do a certain thing, and He does it, and still they turn their back from it and turn away from it. Just as Eve knew that what God said, God would do; but she turned her back on it, to listen to what he had to say.
29 Just remember, in other ages, it's always been the same thing. In every age, it's always been that Satan tries to pervert that Word to them, making them see some other age.
They see the program of God for another age but not for this age.
- We want to apply this principle to our own personal lives.
**We can see the program of God for Joseph’s life, Abraham’s life, Tamar’s life, Abigail’s life, Ruth’s life, Ester’s life, Jonah’s life, but what makes all the difference is when we can see the same pattern for our own personal lives. We must see how God is dealing with us in the experiences of our own lives according to the prophecy of the word.
***The modern events of our personal lives are made clear to us by the revelation and prophecy of the word that has been opened to us in this hour – that is how we know who we are according to the word, but the rest of the world is in darkness because of the rejection of the message of this hour.
***So if Satan has deceived the whole religious world into not seeing what God has done and is doing in this age – then the opposite must be a people who recognise their day and its message.
RECOGNIZING.YOUR.DAY.AND.ITS.MESSAGE_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-1 SUNDAY_ 64-0726M
24 Now, my subject this morning is: Recognizing Your Day And Its Message.
We see from last Sunday's lesson, as we taught, The Feast Of The Trumpets. And I want to call to your attention, now, the time--time of Israel in God's timepiece.
25 We are dealing today upon a Sunday school lesson, that I want you to realize and recognize the time that we're living. We're just about to run out, as you see. And then, by this, you should know the very hour and time, and sign and Message that you are to receive.
Seeing Jesus and His Program…
When the first seal was opened, we saw that it was the enemy riding a power which was a false teaching spirit that had come upon that age through false ministries getting among the people – Paul called them grievous wolves.
ACTS 20:28-30
28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 ¶ And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
How did he conquer the people of the first age? - by telling a little white lie against the truth of the word - leading their understanding away from the truth.
The white horse was the power of a saying that was just slightly off the truth to lead their understanding into darkness, and that was what eventually brought death to the people of that age as it had brought death to the first woman Eve, So if that is what cause the first church age to fail, then that is what will also cause any individual to fail, is when we compromise on the word for some man made interpretation of the bible.
**The mind of Christ is when the word is revealed to you, it is when you see the mighty God unveiled before us, you see him in plain view in this age – you see Jesus and His program for this age that you live in, you see your part in his great program, you know what he wants done with the word for this hour.
THE.CONTEST_ JEFF.IN V-10 N-7 MONDAY_ 62-1231
37 Let us raise our hands to God now and let us pray in our own way, as we make our confessions, and ask God to help us through this next coming year.
Heavenly Father, as we stand here, as many thoughts is dying out in our hearts, and of the mistakes of last year, and as we are approaching the death of '62 and the birth of '63, O God, may we be one step higher up the ladder, until we can see Jesus and His program. May everyone here, Lord, in prayer, while the old year is dying, and the new birth of the new year is coming in, may the old man's sin and unbelief die out in our heart, and the new birth come in with the 1963, like a rushing mighty Wind that might fill our beings and make us new creatures in Christ.
39 Make us fit servants. Forgive our past. Bless our future. Guide us, O Lord God, with Thy mighty hand, Jehovah. Bless these ministers here. Bless all the laity, all the visitors. Be Thou with us, Lord. We are Your servants, and we give ourselves wholly to You for 1963, that the power of Your Spirit might have more preeminences in our life and in our being. Help us, God, Forgive us and help us, we pray. Raise up mighty men. Raise up mighty warriors of the faith. Open this year, Lord, that hidden Manna, that Rock beneath the rock, that we might see the program of God. Cap off the pyramids of our life, Lord; put the Capstone, Christ Jesus, upon each and every one of us. May His great magnificent, holy blessings be upon us all. May the fire of the Holy Ghost come upon us. May the power of the resurrection be manifested. God, how we thank You tonight. We are Yours. We give ourselves fully to You, Lord.